whats the must OP class now in game

my main going to be a MM, but am looking to make insane powerful alts
Any Primary/Secondary combination...

I am looking for the most overpowered class out there

People say to play whatever is fun to you

What’s fun for me, the most fun I can have in a game, is playing in the must overpowered class or FOTM that pwns everything.

I don't care if I have to just look at my character do all the work or be the most active character out there, I just want to know: What Primary/Secondary is the must OP vs PVE content.

Also, you can throw in an OP PvP if you want, as I like to compare things. Is whatever is the most powerful in PvE solo also what’s the most powerful in PvE when teaming? Is it a DPS setup, debuffing or a Tanker? I just want a character, that when I finish leveling it up to be that character that can defeat anything in this game.

Get my drift? And thanks for any helpful replies, ahead of time!

You seem new. You should know that in this game (and most others), the build doesn't really matter nearly as much as the person controlling it. The most twinked out, overpowered build in the game isn't going to do any good to someone who doesn't know how to use it.

And on teams, don't count on being the center of attention. You might find a few Defenders can make everyone else on the team nigh invulnerable and unstoppable.

Bots/Traps MM?
Sonic/Rad Corruptor?
Traps/Sonic Defender?
Fire/Rad Controller?

Agree with above posters about player skill and Invention Origin enhancements.

That said, I'll add a couple of my own thoughts on powerful builds:

Radiation/Sonic Defender
Robotics/Forcefield (or Dark Miasma) Mastermind
Dark/Super Reflex scrapper

I think what Prof meant was that if you have 2-3 defenders on a team, the combined buffs/debuffs begin to turn a team into a true powerhouse. 4+ defenders in a team and the team is nigh unkillable.

Personally, if you want to solo and group and kick *** at both, I'd totally recommend:

Radiation/Sonic Defender - huge debuffs on Rad, some heals, a rez, an aoe buff, etc. Plus sonic does solid damage for defenders, with a nice -resistance debuff on mobs that makes the whole team hit harder. And you have a nice AoE sleep for solo work.

AFAIK, this Defender is possibly the most powerful (I won't say broken, because its working as intended).

On the controller side, Illusion/Radiation is pretty much the same, though Illusion substitutes some pets and controls for sonic's -resistance and sleep. It is possibly even more powerful, though the radiation debuffs are not as potent as the Defender's (though still numerically useful).

There have been discussions for a long time on the boards about what these two builds can do, properly handled, including soloing some of the toughest critters in the game (Giant Monsters) and Arch Villains/Heroes.

Try one out, I think you may find it to your taste. Good luck and welcome to CoH.

The darky mcdarkdark build is known for being pretty powerful. Lots of stories around how a Dark Miasma / Dark Blast / Dark Mastery Defender completely blows away the enemies, is ridiculously hard to kill, and can easily pull a whole team from teamwipe straight to dominating.

Fire/Kinetics and Illusion/Radiation Controllers are pretty high up there, too, but they never really seem as impressive to me as a DarkDarkDark.

VEATs

This thread is OP!

Not...

Seriously, I have seen some pretty poor players sitting behind the wheels of some the prior mentioned "power builds" and they are just plain inadequate.

An "OP" power selection doth not a good player make.

It is a shame that I can't ever go out and make a fire/kin troller or SS/WP brute for myself and be taken seriously in the game. 7/10 times I run across these builds in the game, the person piloting the toon is a complete nut-job with no clue how to play efficiently. I suggest you pay attention to the mechanics of the game, read build guides, listen to veteran players, and get a feel of the game for yourself.

My advice to you...

1) Choose an AT with a powerset combo that seems interesting
2) Accumulate influence
3) IO your character to the gills
4) ???
5) Profit

Seriously, though, any proper build with a truck load of good IOs will be "overpowered" by the balancing standards of this game. The game is balanced around characters who do not have any IOs whatsoever...

I love the e e cummings style of your posts. Normally that kind of thing annoys me greatly, but you do it well and it does not interfere with readability for me.

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I'm going to talk about game mechanics a little bit here. Because that's the question behind the question.

First : survivability. This is a game where getting near the cap in Resistance or Defense (or the equivalent in ToHit debuffs) gets you a LOT more than being sort of in the middle. If you have 45% Defense, the last 5% of Defense gets you as far as the first 40% (in almost all situations.) More Details.

Second: the purple patch. Anything +1 to your level gets 10% more damage and you do 90% damage to it, as well as you having a reduced base chance to hit and it having an increased chance to hit. +2 is 80% damage. Seems reasonable, but +3 is 64%, +4 is 48% and +5 is 30% (!!!). The "increased chance for enemies to hit" is usually only relevant if you're trying very tough targets- AV's will often be capable of 2-shotting squishies.

Third: additive and multiplicative effects. If you debuff something's damage resistance, that effectively multiplies ALL damage done to it by ANYONE. If you add damage to someone, you will get less. Most people, for most of the game, have 195% "base" damage due to their enhancements. So +100% damage brings you from about 200 to about 300- not the "double damage" you might expect. A 100% resistance debuff will bring you from 200 to 400, and will work for EVERYONE ELSE ON YOUR TEAM ATTACKING THAT TARGET.

Fourth: some caps.
Softcap for Defense= 45%. Sometimes more is useful, but not very often.
Caps for Resistance= 75% (most guys), 85% (Kheldians), 90% (Tanks and Brutes).
Caps for Damage = 400% (most people), 500% (Scrappers, Blasters, Stalkers, possible others) and 850% (Brutes). Only in certain circumstances do you get close to the cap, and in the 5 years since City of Villains started, I've only been on a damage-capped Brute twice. It was great.
ED softcaps: 95% for most things, 57% for a few (defense, etc.)

Let me give an example:

A Rad/Sonic debuffs enemy To Hit by hanging Radiation Infection (a toggle) on a +2 enemy boss. Out of the box, that's a 31.25% To Hit debuff, as well as some semi-irrelevant to hit buffs for the good guys. With 57% enhancement (limited by ED) that's a 49% To Hit debuff- meaning the boss would be at the "To Hit" floor . However, against a +2 enemy (due to the purple patch) that is only a 39% To Hit debuff. Instead of 5% of the Base To Hit being unresisted (so around 7.5% of actual attacks landing) 11% is (so around 16.5% of actual attacks landing.)

If the team is small and the fight goes on a little while, the Rad throws down Enervating Field on the same boss. 25% Damage Debuff, times .8, means the boss is doing 80% damage to you; 30% Resistance Debuff, times .8, means everyone is doing 22.5% more damage to him. (numbers found [url=http://coh.redtomax.com/data/powers/power.php?id=Defender_Buff.Radiation_Emission.Ener vating__Field]here.[/url)

So, you may say, that's pretty good. 5 outta 6 of their attacks miss, your team is doing almost a quarter more damage, he's doing almost a quarter less damage, and the same for anyone in a radius of this boss. What else you got?

Sonic Blasts. Defenders get about -20% (or -16% against our +2 friend) Res Debuff for each one that lands, and with a good attack chain you can have about three of those stacked. So that's another 48% of TOTAL damage .

And then you have the other defensive and offensive tools- the slows, stuns, sleeps, direct damage and endurance buffs. It's pretty good. And, yeah, you can team with seven others of them.

... but people have already mentioned a powerset or two that's probably better.

Nice post fulmens. You have only been on a dmg capped brute twice? I am regularly capped. Just carry a kin with you and nearly full fury and ZAM- you will be at +750% dmg. I agree, however, tis a thing of beauty.

Elec/dev blasters.