Most Useless Blueside Class?

My wife wants me to make her a class that's incredibly useless, just for fun. More concept than anything. She's a seamstress/pattern maker/jewelry maker/crafter IRL, and I'm thinking either Controller or Defender, but I'm not sure. What do you folks think?

Ar/fire blaster. Talk about useless >.>

Even an AR/Fire would have Build Up and a high damage ranged Immob to leverage Ignite with, and AR, being one of the sets with overpowered crashless nukes, needs no support from the secondary.

Well, as seems to be usually for this forum and any question about *anything* - most useless at what, exactly?

What does she want to be "most useless" at? Teaming? Soloing? PvP?

I'm thinking more so a pri/sec combo that it counter-intuitive. And also something that I can make really brightly colored in regard to powers and costume, too. Just a general overall crappy hero.

"Healer". And the most direct translation possible: Emp/Psy with the Medicine Pool. Nothing used but the direct heals and the Rezzes.


But even then, there is literally nothing in this game that is useless that isn't directly funded by the stupidity and/or ego of the player. It isn't EQ or FFxi. There are no low level Thieves here.

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*With your newly-added conditions, I present to you Kinetics/AR. Once the nature of the cones and their animations start showing up, Kinetics will become far less enjoyable.

"Most useless class" = none of them, honestly. If you want some sort of out-there challenge, or self-gimping, look into ignoring as many of your powers as possible and going pool-power heavy. Say, a blaster with Presence, Leadership (low numbers on it,) Fighting and Concealment.

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Another funny thing to do would be to make a healing tank, make a tank and get everything in leadership and medicine. that would be funny

Useless class? there's no such thing as a "useless" class, only useless players.

And for what it's worth, the most "useless" class blueside IMO is Scrapper (as in, they don't act as force multipliers or fullfill any crucial role in teams) so that should tell you something

I was only illustrating a point.

Scrappers are very powerful powerhouses of power by themselves, but as far as "usefulness" (in a team) goes, they're easily outshined by other classes, especially support.

You'll often hear "man we need a rad for this ITF!" or "we need a kin and a tank for this STF!" but rarely you will hear "man we can't start this without a scrapper!" from anyone who knows what they're talking about

I really am talking about pri/sec combos that really shouldn't be going together, but I do see your point.

Try a FF/Energy Defender and skip the shields

Hm. I'd say a trick arrow/energy blast combo would be pretty bad. All the debuffs would be location based, all the blast would knock things out of locations, and you'd have some redraw as well. that's off the top of my head, though. After Trick arrow, dark miasma and kinetics might be 'bad' choices as well. Miasma does its best work on packed groups and locations, so knock around might be an issue-kinetics benefits from being close, whilst energy blast knocks away. It could still be good for the team, but not as good for the defender.

Man build would be about it.

Using only brawl and power pools, as a controller and onyl teaming with other 'man' builds.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Peacebringers yet. As someone who has one of these at level 50 (my second level 50, in fact) I think they're the most useless AT in the whole game. Peacebringers don't have much to bring to the table. They have quite weak damage, a weak single heal, KB in just about every AoE attack which makes their team DPS even less feasible and they don't even get mez protection to compensate. Oh, I forgot, they can have an ok offtanking power, though.

To be honest, though, there's absolutely nothing a Scrapper can't do better than a Peacebringer can. DPS? Scrappers win. Survival? Scrappers win in most cases, it can be a close call with a good PB player, though. Buffs? Neither have any, if it's a /SD Scrapper PBs lose by far. Heals? Ok, PBs have one weak ally heal, it has never, ever saved the day for me because usually in teams there are either enough buffs, debuffs, proper heals or competent players going about the PB heal is only good for topping off people after fights.

I'm not saying here I hate PBs, I quite like their unique playing mechanisms, but their weakness sort of hurts the gaming experience for me. What I hate playing about them is the feeling that they're not actually good at anything... You can correct me on this if you want.