What's your favorite character archetype/power combo?

WP/Mace is my favourite. Hands down. It's fun to play, and it was my first character. Willpower would likely be my favourite individual powerset. I have 4 of them.

Tanks/Scrappers would be my favourite archetypes.

I've just started my first defender (emp/psy) that I'm enjoying, and a Mind/Fire Dom that I'm having a lot of fun with.

Thank you, Champion.

I greatly enjoy stalkers although I'm not running them quite as much as I used to. I like Corruptors a lot as well, I could probably make one of each possible build for those ATs and enjoy them all.

I got a real kick out of leveling a Bots/Dark MM. She's currently around 43rd level and I will probably be taking her all the way to 50 and then the GR ultra-epic-levels-thing, whatever that's called. That's pretty rare for me as I've only taken two toons all the way to 50 before, one of which was, yes, a stalker. Back before stalker buffs. And uphill both ways.

Currently I'm not really playing too often, I'm mostly working on MA arcs, but I'm always having fun pulling out some inactive toons to test them with. Like someone said above, it's funny how I can do that and think "wow, I'd forgotten how much fun this toon is".

So many alts but my Warshade wins I think. Mostly because it was like playing 3 alts rolled into one. If I got bored tanking a spawn I could just decide to nuke em instead. I could open by SSing into position invisibly and mezzing the lot or TPing in and buffing myself up before switching to Flying Purple Death Mode and flying straight up to AOE them or sticking in Human form and attacking one enemy with melee and blasts and then making the corpse explode. Or switch to Tank-Scrapper mode and focus on making things attack me while my pets AOEd them. Options, options, options.

Awfully fond of my Grav/TA character as well.

Red Side my Dark/WP Brute, just doesn't die (I remade him as a Dark/Energy Aura US side over the weekend and it's not the same).

Fire/Fire Dominator. It's my favorite by a mile. My DM/Ninjitsu Stalker is in second place.

That said, I do like me some variety in playstyles and sets. Other favorites include anything with Kinetics, my Shield Defense scrapper, and basically any Brute combination.

Far too many choices. Gah.

BEST FOR DEFENCE: My original Emp/Psi still rocks when it comes to team buffs, but Rad/Rad has a lot more versatility.

BEST FOR RANGED OFFENCE:I'm currently loving my Dual Pistols/Energy blaster, but Elec/Energy is a ton of high-voltage fun as well. AR/Dev is also quite keen...

BEST FOR CLOSE-UP ACTION: MA/Shield and BS/Shield scrappers can tear through most enemies like paper and also be a pretty decent team anchor.

BEST FOR VILLAINY: Night Widow epics - love, love, love 'em.

BEST FOR ANNOYING OCD HERDING TANKERS: Gravity/Storm troller. No question :P

My favorite will be FF/Fire when Defenders finally get Fire Blast.

Ho man, that's tough...

I think first place has to go to my Warshade at the moment. Never have I cackled so much while levelling. He's just great fun.

Second has to go to my namesake, Alpha, the Bots/Traps MM of doom. Still my highest diff setting character, who chews up large mobs under a hail of firepower. Great fun.

Then anything with Shield in it. Shield Charge is just so destructive its incredible, especially on my scrapper

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Stone/Stone - Dmgless Tanker
Fire/Shield - Dmging Brute
Elec/Kin - Mob Nerfer

Probably my DB/SR scrapper. I enjoy all sorts of characters, but for just sheer mindless fun, I can't stop coming back to her. With softcapped def to all, plus Aid Self and pretty much limitless end, I can just sit back, relax and kill stuff

that's a toss up between MA/SR scrapper and SS/Inv tanker. But I've only 1 MA/SR and I've made 4 SS/Inv, so...

Hard to pick just one, so....

Blaster: Fire/EM
Controller: Fire/Kin (I know, I know.)
Corruptor: Fire/Dark (an incredible combo of offense and utility)
Tank: Ice/Stone (stone hammers, so smashy, so fun)
Brute: SS/Shield (only uber if you have a BIG budget)
Scrapper: Fire/SR (much, much easier to softcap than the brute)
Dom: Mind/Fire (invest in absurd amounts of recharge, get absurd amounts of fun)

My Fire/Fire Blaster and Electric/Electric Brute were so fun they raced to 50.

I also love my Dual Blades/Willpower Scrapper -- lethal poetry in motion.

Warshades and Masterminds. Currently bots/dark but in a few days demons/dark.

My Fire/Ice/Fire blaster, who would've been my first character except I rolled a rad/rad defender first to get the hang of the game.

I love Fire/Ice/Fire so much. Shiver, RoF, Fireball (with added Ragnarok Chance for LoLs) Fire Breath, Blaze, mmm, so much firey goodness. All topped off with Rise of the Phoenix, best power ever.

I hope when GR and side switching hits, I can persuade Archie to resub for a while, so I can team up with his Fire Brute, crank the difficulty up high and rampage through redside content.

Controllers blueside, Masterminds redside. Apparently I have a thing for /kin and /dark also.

Two words: Dual Pistols.

I will choose 2:

Trick Candle (Invuln / War Mace / Body), tanker : Great, sturdy tank. Slowly chews through large groups. Has the style to match.

Aquilia (Storm / Archery / Power), defender : Can do everything. ST damage, AOE damage, debuff, buff, stun, heal and fly. That's everything right? Right.

Controllers.

Probably Earth/Fire Dominator, with Rad/Rad Defender a close second.

Brutes are my favorite AT, Masterminds a close second. I solo a lot, and Brutes not only let me solo with higher mob sizes, but also let me feel rewarded for attacking/playing the game. Masterminds are great because I like playing classes with pets, and none of my powers feel wasted when I'm soloing.

Blueside, I think I like Controllers and Scrappers best. My Ill/Rad is my main on heroside because he can solo almost anything besides AVs/GMs.

Necromancy+Dark Miasma+Ghost Widow's Patron Powers=WIN!

Also, gonna try Dual Pistols/Devices Blaster and Electric Blast/Kinetics Corruptor.

Tough call really.

Scrappers have the feeling of being a superhero to me. Playing a scrapper is like playing a superhero who actually warrants their own solo comic (even if they dont have one).

Sadly, my favorite powerset is handsdown, Dual Pistols! The animations don't give the feeling of staying in one position.

Pistols has multiple animations that get used on it, and the other attacks don't have you using the same basic stance and just pointing and shooting, which I get the feeling with alot of other sets.