whats the must OP class now in game

As others have said, there's no single overpowered class in CoH that can do pretty much everything really well. What it comes down to is what aspect of your character you want to be powerful - do you want to be good in a team, or on your own? Do you want to be great at fighting one incredibly tough foe, or mowing down hordes of weaker ones? Do you want to be unkillable, or do you want to have planet destroying levels of offense?

It's also dependant on how much inf you're willing to invest in the character - some builds are easy to make great, others take massive investment, but become hugely powerful.

I'm a big fan of Bots/Traps Masterminds. They start off slow, but by the time you hit level 32 you are mowing down just about anything. They also do very well without expensive crafted enhancements... many power sets can be great with enough investment, but unless you want to spend more time playing the market than you do actually fighting bad guys (or good guys, as the case may be) you'll need to play a long time (or keep playing a level 50 character for a moderate amount of time) before you can afford those fancy IOs. Masterminds are probably the best characters in the game with only basic enhancements, and Bots/Traps is one of the best Masterminds.

Heroside, I'd say go with a Regen or Willpower Scrapper (pretty much any primary) if you want a good solo character without expensive IOs. Plus once you do get those IOs, Scrappers tend to become extremely tough. For teaming, Defenders and Controllers are the way to go... they're painful to level up solo, but they massively boost a team's effectiveness and if you can afford to really trick them out some of them can solo almost anything.

My picks for the best powersets for a new player:

Villains
- Any Bots or Thugs Mastermind (/Traps and /Dark probably the top picks)
- Any Willpower Brute
- Fire / Rad Corruptors
- probably some Dominators, but I don't know enough about them to recommend one

Heroes
- Katana / Regen or Katana / Willpower Scrappers
- Fire / Kin or Fire / Rad Controllers
- Rad / Sonic Defenders
- Plant Controllers (you don't have the raw damage of Fire, but you have an AoE confuse that is usable every fight so you're pretty much immortal)

Blasters can be very good too but require expensive IOs to get good survivability. Illusion / Rad Controllers are unstoppable with unlimited inf builds, but you need about a billion influence to make one really good. Likewise, Storm Summoning can be very powerful but it's not a beginner friendly set... it's tricky to master and requires an expensive build to really get the most from it.

Of course if you just want to feel immortal, make a Stone or Willpower Tank. You won't do a ton of damage, but you'll stay standing when everyone else doesn't. If you also don't care about AoE damage, try a Shield / Dark Melee Tank... high defense, to-hit debuffs, and a nice melee heal means you pretty much don't die. You also don't kill things very fast (at least not without a high end build), but you don't die... Stone / Dark is probably the absolute toughest build in the game, but be prepared to either spend 2-3 billion influence on IOs or have time to go eat dinner before a fight ends if you try to solo. You'll still be alive when you get back from dinner though...

I feel like I must say something... but what?

I guess I just don't like those who seek the most OP'ed thing in the game, but if you succeed, I will be waiting with my popcorn to watch the nerf bat swing its mighty power on you.

But...If you want power, research, and look into +Damage IOs. If you can, look into -resist as well.

But really? You can only have fun by being OP? That just doesn't sound right...

But for what it's worth, the most OP'd combinations for every AT in PvE are (IMO)

Fire/Ment or Arch/Ment Blaster
Fire/Rad, Fire/Kin or Illusion/Rad Controller
Rad/Sonic or Kin/Arch/(Psi) Defenders
Dark/Shield/(Blaze) or Spine/Elec Scrapper
WP/SS or Shield/Dark Tanker

SS/WP or Dark/Shield Brute
Fire/Rad Corruptor
Fire/Psi Dominator
Dark/Nin Stalker
Robotics/Traps Mastermind

Fire/rad controlling is amazing, I prefer it to Ill/rad.

"Able to defeat anything in the game" depends a bit on what you are trying to fight, Joshx.

If you want fast defeats of lots of minions and lts, which is ideal for farming lots of drops, the best combo is almost certainly a fire/kin controller. This is not an ideal character for soloing "hard" targets like AVs and Giant Monsters, though.

The best heroside combo for hard target soloing is probably Ill/Rad controller, there was one awhile back who soloed Lusca, who is essentially 9 Giant Monsters in one. It took them 6 hours or so, but I doubt theres another heroside AT who can do that. You already mentioned having a MM, which is the best villianside AT for hard targets.

And if you want the most powerful *team* aiding character for high end content like TFs and such, a rad/sonic defender or, with the right build, cold/sonic is probably best. Rad will tend to be more popular/well known, cold is arguably better with a really maxed out build, but check old defender forum threads for both sides of that debate, its fairly fine hairsplitting so I'd go play preference on that one. Flip that and make that a corruptor for villianside, as MMs don't tend to be popular on teams.

Is it really necessary for everyone to take swings at him?

Keep in mind that many "over powered" builds will not FEEL overpowered until you've leveled them up AND invested signficant sums of money.

But once you do that, the admiration and respect just pours in.

I'm just gonna go ahead and say it...

I never really agreed with FOTM players. Why? Because most of them are only "good" because of their class. If they were to play any "normal" class most of them would be horrible, yet because they play the current god-mode class they think they're hot stuff when they really aren't.

Essentially I see it as earning something without really earning it, ya know?

Personally I believe most of the nerfs and buffs classes receive in every MMO are unnecessary, because they aren't adjusting class' strength, they're adjusting to individual player skill. You can never truly have perfect game balance in an MMO because everyone has different levels of playing skill, and for most players instead of accepting the fact that they just suck at the class they've chosen to play they blame the class itself and cry at other classes for being "OP" and for their class sucking, when in actuality it's them that's the problem.

Someone mentioned the warlock class from WoW. I played WoW for 3 years. I played it back before any expansion, and I have never thought the warlock class was OP. Why? Because instead of whining about it on the forums and yelling for nerfs or rerolling one as all the "FOTM" players did I actually determined why they were considered OP and found a way to counteract that strength. I'd wager that if more players had taken that path instead of crying to the devs then a lot of the buffs/nerfs classes received would never have needed to be done, or would have been done to a lesser degree.

Anyway, this is starting to turn into a rant so I'll just end it at that. It's just that this is one of the topics I've always had a very heated opinion about.

Most of the alts discussed aren't so much overowered as better equiped to deal with certain tasks.

Fire/Kin - great farmers due to AoE damage (hotfeet, cages) and Fulcram shift. Weak against strong single targets so IMO balanced.

Ill/Rad - great at grinding down hard single targets using pets and debuffs. Little AoE damage so bad farmers - balanced.

Going through the list most if not all are like this.

If I was going to name a couple of alts that are potentialy overpwered I'd say Fire/Shield Brutes and Scrappers.

Good survivablilty
Good AoE damage (Shield Charge adds to this)
Good Single target damage.

One of theses IO'd can farm, solo AV's as well as survive high level spawns.

Other */Shield could do the same and probalby be better at certain tasks but I think Fire would have the edge across the board.

Do your own legwork dude.

We can tell you what the FOTM combos are all day, but if none of them mesh with your playstyle you're going to suck.

I play scrappers, I have a Spines/Fire, supposedly one of the best farming builds in the game. If that's true, why is my Broadsword/Dark Armor better at it?

My Fire/Fire blaster should be my best blaster by normal convention....but my Sonic/Devices blows it away.

Nothing in the game will kill everything with ease, some ATs do very well in some situations and horrible in others. My aforementioned scrapper can do the RWZ Challenge with no worries, but he has trouble on Invincible ITFs (which technically no longer exist).

My Sonic/Devices blaster can solo an AV, but large groups area headache for him (he's not in any more danger, it just takes longer to kill them with all ST attacks)

In short, play what sounds like fun and make your OWN OP character.

My most overpowered are my BS/DA scrapper and Sonic/Devices blaster. If you were to ask, no one will tell you they are overpowered, or FOTMs. But MY BS/DA and Sonic/Devices are that good.

I just took what I had and MADE it good.