Good Duo team to play through the game

Wife and I just bought this game and are loving it! We are both playing dual pistol/radiation corruptors. While its fun, we are only at level 17 and feel that we could be a better combo together! Like the title says, what Archtypes would you all reccomend us playing together as?

I appreciate any ideas, we are loving the Going Rogue expansion! Thanks in advance!!

Another sidenote, would my wife going brute and if i went controller would i be able to keep her healed enough or should i look at going fulltime healer? Any help would be great.. completely open to any ideas!

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First thing is there are no fulltime healer in CoH. So if your wife goes with the Brute then a Controller would be just fine, also a Corruptor would be good too and I think might be a little better because of a Corruptor does more damage at the early levels.

Anycombo of the two should make a great team. So I would look at the powers and see what you like.

For a Brute a SS/SD is a good one , the most fun I had playing a Brute, and if you pair it with a Any/Cold Domination Corruptor it will make that Brute much harder to kill and a great team.

There are a lot of good team combos and I sure other people will give thier favorites.

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Having a full time healer would really be holding one of you guys back. In this game, it's pretty easy to build up to the point where all incoming damage can be healed by a limited supply of green inspirations, your natural health regeneration, or just using a heal every now and then.

I'd say you should try out an earth/sonic controller, it'd synergize pretty well. Between the enemy controls and damage shields, you'll make her unstoppable. And with quicksand from earth/ and a few powers in /sonic, you'll make it easier for her attacks to connect and they'll do a lot more damage as well. Also as a brute she'll have a taunt aura eventually (and if that doesn't help enough, she could take a ranged AoE taunt power) to keep enemies focused on her since you can't most of the shields on yourself. It'll be a breeze.

If you find that you guys are having trouble staying alive still, you'll either need to watch your own aggro until she can taunt or if she's dying you can pick up Aid Other from the medicine power pool at level 6 or beyond.

Once you have the strongest enhancements, you'll probably find yourself using Aid Other a lot less but it's still not bad to have in reserve.

Thanks Broken! We've been a little overwhelmed with all the class choices we had to fall back onto the forums for help lol. I think my wife is sold on the super strength / stone defense brute (she likes the idea of throwing a giant piece of concrete) lol. Im torn myself between controller or corrupter, just dont want her having to spam the healing inspirations. I love the idea of the corrupter being able to dish out some damage, Also illusion controllers look to have fairly good damage.

If your wife is set on being a /stone brute, then you'll want to be a /kinetics corruptor or controller.

Stone has the greatest defenses, but it comes at the price of being incredibly slow. Kinetics has Speed Boost power that'll fix that right up.

The combo will be pretty strong defensively but not as strong as other combinations for a while. You'll need to use the heal pretty often for a bit and your heal can miss, but when she gets Granite Armor (the very last stone armor power, level 37 or 38, I forget which) you'll probably never need to heal her again for a while. You'll just need to keep Speed Boosting her because she'll move slow as hell otherwise.

Lol! thanks Kailure, does a corrupter produce alot more damage than say an illusion controller or a fire controller? (heard they are 2 of the higher damage controllers right now)

Dunno about illusion (its damage is okay, but I don't know if it's great) but fire/kinetics controller is one of the biggest damage dealers in the game and a pretty common set to see around, noticibly moreso around farmers.

But, it starts out as "mediocre" and takes a while to get to the point where you destroy everything in sight. I'd probably try something else first. I'm sure you could make it work though since you'll have your wife to back you up, but you'll both be getting your awesome powers really late.

Illusion is more ST damage they are the ones that can take out AV and GM solo with the right build, but if you do go with /kinetics I would stay away from Illusion. Nothing bad with the combo but your pets get nothing out of kinetics powers like Fulcrum Shift because Phantasm stays at range and Phantom Army can't be buff.

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Ok well im gonna go corrupter then, i like the idea of being able to help damage and keep the wife moving and buffed. Now for the main power of corrupter, in City of heroes are there some main powers that do more damage or are they all about the same? Sorry for so many questions guys, the game is soooo overwhelming at start. I cant thank you both enough for all your suggestions and help. thank you thank you

Some do more damage but it's not a lot more. Fire Blast does the most because it secondary effect is more damage If you want damage then fire blast is the way to go.

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I think the initial SS/SD was meant as Shield Defense rather than Stone. However, Stone, once it gets granite, is one of the hardest-to-kill defense sets in the game. Again, though, once she gets Granite at 38, if her Speed Boost drops, she'll be running slower than a 2 year old. That's why a pocket kin is a necessary evil to any granite, until you're able to stack on the run speed bonuses from IOs (way down the road).

A Sonic/Kin Corruptor is outstanding at higher levels, especially once you get into AV fights. A Rad/Kin Corruptor is nice for the initial levelling, mainly up until you get SOs because everything you'll be doing on your Rad primary will be lowering the defense of the enemies, making them easier to hit. It all depends on how you want to play it. You can do 1 of 2 things to make mobs melt quicker. Take a lower-damage debuffing blast set like sonic, rad, or ice. Or just go for pure damage and take fire. Fire/Kin Corruptors are great, and you wouldn't regret making one.

Doh yeah your right! We tryd playing the corrupter and brute, we got to level 10 and my damage felt so worthless (maybe should have went fire?). The brutes damage is incredible, wow! hitting for over 100s at level 10, while my best is 20-30? on my rad/kin corrupter.

The Brutes is going to do more damage, and at that level can do a lot more because of Fury. Once you get your attacks slotted with Damage SO you will be doing more Damage. Also Radiation is a good AoE set so don't look at how much damage your doing to one guy look at how much your doing to the group, you might be doing a lot more damage then you think. At level 18 you get Cosmic Burst which is rads big hitter.

One more thing a corrupter inherent power is scourge. Which mean when a baddy is below half life you will have a chance to do double the damage.

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