Easy to Play Class

What would be a fairly straight forward build to play for someone with limited mobility and not very fast on the keyboard? Would like them to be useful in a group but not something the group would need to rely on it they need to go offline in short notice, (medical issues)

Hero side is preferable, but Villain is not out of the question.

I am thinking defender or tank with more focus on offensive size, might work well.

Travel power flight or possibly a hover/teleport combo. I can barely control super jump and super speed, I am sure they could not.

The class needs to be more powerful early since I doubt they will play more than a night or two a week and only a couple hours then.

Some sort of scrapper perhaps? Good soloer, good to have in a team but not irreplacable since damage can be found anywhere. I'd say a defender might not be a great choice since it can be hard to replace them if they have to leave unexpectedly but hey, play what you want to I say.

I would say Blaster. Focus purely on damage, and for most sets positioning isn't very important (although avoid Assault Rifle and Energy) so the lack of keyboard speed won't hinder as much. Additionally Blasters REALLY shine in the low levels where damage is the best form of mitigation. As others have said a scrapper would alos be good, but they tend to require more careful positioning.

For travel power I'd definitely take flight. I personally find teleportation very hard to use since the sudden disorientation caused by multiple hops makes me motion sick which may be an issue. Additionally with flight they can point the character in the right direction and use a key bind (/bind key "forward 1") to keep them moving with minimal input allowing for easy travel between missions.

A Force Field Defender with Sonic, Psychic or Dark secondaries

I'd recomend a Robotics/FF Mastermind too, but pets can get a little unpredictable sometimes, and if you're not quick on the fingers you may draw unwanted aggro and cause teamwipes

Perhaps arch/nrg blaster focused on range and hover/fly as travel.
Force field defender would probably work as well as long as you get the single target shields bind to easy accesible buttons.
No biggie if you are a few seconds late on rebuffing as you have your big bubble at 12 to provide defense for the team.

I'll recommend a scrapper or tanker. Willpower paired with Broadsword (for the scrapper) or War Mace/Battle Axe (for the tanker). Slower, heavy hitting, set and forget playstyle. The tank will get QR early on for extra awesome, and the scrapper would get Parry early on for added toughness.

Forcefields throw their buffs every four minutes and can be done anytime you have a sec. If you need a forgiving AT that doesn't need fast fingers, FF/* defender is your go-to hero. You can make binds so that you just press keypad buttons in sequence to shield all your teammates. On the flip side, avoid kinetics, as it's a constant buttonmashing targetswitching twitchfest, if it's played right

If damage dealing is your bag, I will second the scrapper idea. Either Willpower or Super Reflexes, because both involve toggling on your abilities and going to town. Regen would be the least desirable due to its reliance on timely use of click abilities.

Force Fields or Sonic Resonance.

I'd vote for Sonic Resonance.

A Sonic Defender at minimum makes everyone around 60% tougher and do 30%-60% more damage without having to do anything other than buff everyone every 4 minutes.
If you go AFK, the let-down on the team is noticable, but they can adapt.
Until 20 you have the perfect excuseto do nothing else, since Dispersion, Disruption Field and Shiedls will take all your endurance.

With Force Fields, you're making everyone 90% tougher and thats it. If the team get into the swing of this and you go AFK, it can lead to some pretty quick wipes.

With either set you'll definitely be appreciated just for turning up.

I'd also recommend picking up the leadership toggles, which will buff the team in addition to whatever else you happen to be doing, and don't require much maintenance/attention.

A traps / archery defender would be a thematic and easy to play character.

You'll do a lot less clicking with a traps defender than with just about any other character hero-side. You'll solo well (even if slowly most of the time) and be a good contributor on teams.

I'm going to say Ice/Ice/Ice Blaster. It has good damage and using the powers slows enemies down so you wont have to worry about moving around as much yourself. You are important to the team but not so critical that your disappearance would wipe people. You can freeze enemies in place if you find chasing after them challenging.

A Scrapper is another good one. My only issue there is you may finding constantly moving to enemies difficult, depending on how severe your issues with manuevaribility are.

I support: Forcefields/ or Sonic/ defenders for hero side

I suggest: Robots mastermind/Forcefields for the villain side. With some simple binds, the OP wouldn't have to move around the keyboard much either.

I would vote against the melee classes because of all the movement keys and such to attack.

Definitely FF/ Defender. Bubbling every four minutes and using Dispersion Bubble is about the easiest thing you can do in the game as far as how much RL movement it requires. As an added bonus, the set plays pretty well out of the box, and has most of its key powers fairly low.

We went with a Shield/SS Tanker and heavily used buffed the attacks.

A couple key binds helped:
tab to select closest enemy.
F = follow (default)
G = Target closest friend and follow.

We went with hover, will get fly at 14. I was a little concerned of using hover on a tank but it works well, the extra defense is a nice touch

combat consist mostly of hitting tab, 1,2,3 (attacks) and f to close in to target, with occasional F1-F4 for inspirations. between combat they just hit G to follow me. Very little mouse action required during combat.

For shields we are just getting toggle powers, to set and forget. we made level 10 in one three hour night (including about significant minutes in costume creator). I played a Traps/Rifle Defender, it was very different from playing a AR/Device Blaster, I think I liked it better. Since they are great setting up for camp and pulling in mobs (I had range enhancers on my burst and slug)

So far only to level 10, but the duo works great and they did had a good time. The battles took longer than they would have with a more offensive setup, but we we enjoyed the battles and even could survive patrol addons when already down on health and energy.