Radiation, Dark Miasma, Trick Arrow, Cold Domination, Kinetics *, Storm* all have the tools to keep you safe solo while providing damage boosts. All Defenders make good additions to a team IMO anyway but for help while soloing any set that debuffs is never a bad thing.
Secondary sets, depends more on your primary: Sonic Attack will help with extra damage, Dark/Psi/Energy/Ice all help to keep you safer. Really the only one I would think twice about is /Archery, as lethal is heavily resisted in the late game and it has no secondary effect besides extra accuracy.
*with practice...
Defiant EU
Quaver: Kinetics/Sonic Defender
Semiquaver: Sonic/Kinetics Corruptor
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Originally Posted by yoinker
Hello defender board, I recently decided i wanted to roll a defender, but i dont want the over used empath that is attracted to AE. Would anyone make a suggestion on pri and secondary powersets for me? Im lookin for something that can solo really well, as well as team just as well, please respond and let me know. Thank You Defender board, and hopefully you arn't all empaths by now.
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*/Sonic is just awesomely potent and by far the best blast from a sheer damage and functional contribution standpoint. Cold/*, Dark/*, Rad/*, TA/* and Storm/* are all excellent solo'ers.
after taking in your suggestions i got to thinking, maybe a storm/dark? how would that work, bear with me as i am new to defenders plz. 
Storm/Dark could work nicely, you get a Minion-only stun in the primary *and* the secondary which stack to affect up to (most) bosses. Tenebrous Tentacles will keep things inside Freezing Rain without stopping them from being knocked down, which is pretty funny to watch! Adds a bit more personal safety too. Dark's -tohit will also stack with Hurricane's huge -tohit.
Storm is tricky but powerful, in my experience. Should be fun!
Defiant EUQuaver: Kinetics/Sonic DefenderSemiquaver: Sonic/Kinetics Corruptor
Storm/Dark is great. You'll have a learning curve on how to utilize Storm's knockback, but other than that, it's great potential. You have the extra survivability between all the -to-hits and extra damage with Freezing Rain. You also have a self heal and some "hard" control via stuns in both primary (PBAoE) and secondary (Target Enemy AoE). The tentacles also will keep your enemies within Freezing Rain/Snow Storm and it still allows for soft control via knockback of Tornado, etc.
Overall, my Storm/Dark is still my favorite character to play, regardless the task at hand.
50s: Bla- Arch/Mental Cont- Mind/FF, Earth/Cold, Ill/Therm, Earth/Rad Dominator- Plant/Psi, Elec/Earth Corr- Fire/Storm, Arch/Sonic, Rad/Kin, Beam/Sonic, Psi/Time Stalker- Elec/SR Def- Storm/Dark, Emp/Psi, Dark/Elec, FF/Arch, TA/Ice, TA/Elec, Kin/AR, Cold/DP, Traps/Psi Scrap- Fire/Shield Tanker- Dark/Mace, Ice/Kin Brute- Claws/WP, SS/Energy, BS/Elec
My experience with Storm is very limited [I followed a friend around while trying to figure out what did and didn't work in the set] but I remember being startled to notice that Lightning Storm tended to knock people out of its own AOE. I've always used Dark Blast for the two overlapping cones- tentacles to keep 'em in place for the other one, and I don't use Torrent.
... I guess what I'm saying is that I'm fussy about positioning, so Storm isn't the set for me.
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thx for all the help guys, i rolled a storm/dark, and its workin out pretty nicely, definetly considering all my friends like to play their melee and blater toons, the support is nice for them
the defender is goin great, ty all for the help. I hate to ask this, but does anyone have a good build for storm/dark? or just one half of it? so i can use on my toon? it would help alot, ty
This guide should help you out:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=115974
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I don't have Mid's handy, but here's some recommendations:|
Originally Posted by yoinker
the defender is goin great, ty all for the help. I hate to ask this, but does anyone have a good build for storm/dark? or just one half of it? so i can use on my toon? it would help alot, ty
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Don't take Gale, once you get hurricane it's usefulness goes down, and it takes a power slot early on that you need.
Get Stamina at 20 or 22 at the latest.
I prefer Hasten on my build. Once you've got Hasten up most of the time it helps alot with effectivness of stacking TT, Nightfall, Lightning storms, Freezing Rains, etc.
Dark Blast and Gloom will be your 1-2 attack punch. The snipe in Dark is ok, but I find that the playstyle of storm/dark does not mesh with snipe usage. TT and Nightfall are your Cone attacks. Use a Range in TT to get it to be about the same length as Nightfall to make things easier.
Take these powers as soon as their available: Hurricane, Freezing Rain, Tenabrous Tentacles.
Powers my current build passed on: Gale, Thunderclap, Torrent, Snipe, Blackstar. I used the Psy Master epic pool for Dominate and the armor.
Have fun, but try not to overuse Hurricane around melees. It just kinda makes their life more difficult to chase things around. Use it to create a blaster/defender no mob zone behind the melees. Works great.
Hello defender board, I recently decided i wanted to roll a defender, but i dont want the over used empath that is attracted to AE. Would anyone make a suggestion on pri and secondary powersets for me? Im lookin for something that can solo really well, as well as team just as well, please respond and let me know. Thank You Defender board, and hopefully you arn't all empaths by now.