Great Duo team for just starting out

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!!

PS: We are very new to the game but have alot of MMO exp.... Thanks again all!

Long run I say 2 empathy/sonic defendeers will be the best bet. They are on par with other players up to about 12, and at that point, they pick up a bit with the power fortitude. At 18, they pick up the pace again with Recovery Aura. Using it as a cycle between you two will be better than stacking them both at once. At 32 is when the combo really shines, because you can both get Adrenaline Boost, which will increase your recharge rate, regeneration, and recovery substantially. If you both get the leadership pool powers, and get Weave from the fighting pool, you will be able to cap your defenses as well.

IMO, the best way to make that particular combo work is to grab the Fighting, Leadership, Speed, and Leaping pools. Hasten and Adrenaline Boost will make each other perma, while Combat Jumping, Weave, and Maneuvers will cap your defenses and Assault and Tactics increase your damage and accuracy.


If you haven't already, I would download Mid's Hero Designer, as it will let you plan out what powers you get and when, as well as what enhancements you can use.

Dual Pistol/rad corrs, as a pair, will actually be hideously powerful. The thing to realize is that debuffs and buffs in this game are TREMENDOUSLY powerful compared to most games.

Enervating Field, for instance, adds 22.5% [a little less for higher-con enemies] to the TOTAL damage EVERYONE does to the badguys in a reasonable radius around the enemy. Your buddy's Enervating Field will add another 22.5%.

Radiation Infection, if properly slotted once you get to level 22 or so, knocks their chance to hit down to about 1/5 what it was. Two radiation infections will knock the enemies down to the legal minimum against nearly anything you will fight in the game.

(There's a lot of complexity in the to-hit equation. As my high school physics teacher used to say, "I've only lied a little bit here." )

So while two emp/sonics are ridiculously good and you can do what Pyro Master mentioned [it's called a "Green Machine" build and it doesn't work in any other context than multiple empaths], the characters you have should be able to rip up damn near anything the game throws at you .

Go forth and shoot people.

We were toying with the idea of going maybe two masterminds also? We have been playing the dual pistols/ rad alot and feel incredibly squishy.. but thats cause we didnt take that area affect -hit debuff. The dual pistols are flashy and cool but, seems kinda to be a let down lol (maybe we should have went fire) Doh! Again, we are open to any and all recomendations. Thanks so far for your help guys

I figured out why everyone goes with emp....its a drooling mans Powerset....even complete morons can figure out that low powered set......

I suggest you push your characters up to 20 to unlock the Soldier of Arachnos villain epic archetypes, they're always fantastic to team with their Tactical Training abilities, they'd go great with each other, or with MMs, who would take particular advantage of it on their pets.

Edit: Although, now that I think about it, up until Lv 24 SoAs are fairly difficult to play...

Not sure what the rules are. If you want matching toons I would say:

Fire/Dark Corrupters
Rad/Dark Corrupters
Fire/Rad Controllers
2 Crabs (Villain epic archtype)

Dark Miasma is a nice set, you only have one anchor to contend with as opposed to 2 with rad (3 if you're using lingering rad on a regular basis). Those anchors can seem to take forever to set up while you could be killing. Tar Pit & Rain of Fire is a nasty combo from just one corrupter, from 2... silliness. Personally, I think that scourge (corrupter passive ability) gives them an edge over defenders in a small team/duo setting.

Fire/Rad controllers are a stand by for regular teaming. Accelerate metabolism is available early for +Recov and choking cloud gets better and better the more you pile on.

For contrast sets, I would say:

Anything/Anything Brute & Anything/Kin corrupter

A brute is still the only AT that can eat a saturated fulcrum shift and ask for seconds, even with the adjustment to their damage cap.

The toons you are playing now though (DP/Rad) are a solid option. The only problem I have with DP as a set is the redraw. I always feel stuck in modes while playing sets with redraw. I try and do all my supporting, and then all my attacking, as opposed to playing to the situation at hand. Sticking with those 2 is a good option as long as you enjoy the animations.

I would also second the mids hero designer advice, it's priceless. http://www.cohplanner.com/

Feel free to look me up in game if you like. I generally run on freedom, would be glad to answer any questions you might have. Forgot to add my global it @Krukut

I would Highly recommend:

A Rad/Dark Corr and a Spines/Dark Scrapper.

With lowered defense from the Radiation, lowered resistance from the dark and adding to that the ungodly aoe spray from the scrapper its a pair made in heaven.

How about fire/dark and fire/kin corruptors.

The debuffs will be great and all the fire aoes will decimate groups.

The area -tohit debuff from rad would have made all the difference in the world.

But if you want to try masterminds, I'd recommend thugs. The tier 2 pet (enforcers) have a leadership buff that only affects nearby thug henchmen. Meaning, you'll both have two enforcers and all of your pets will have four leadership buffs without counting any you two decide to take for yourselves.

Wow! thank you all for your great ideas!! Its been awhile since we have been apart of a great community (WoWs is pretty brutal). We are currently level 21 with our Emp/Sonic defenders and are having soooo much fun! We just finished the praetorian quest area. We basicly played all day yesterday leveling them we couldnt stop lol. We are both looking forward to trying all those are combos out.

thanks again all, we both really appreciate it

/rad static teams are very popular and the two of you could do very well with /rad toons. I might suggest maybe doing a fire/rad and a dark/rad. Fire has insane power and crazy AoE, and dark blast has a nice cone immob to keep the baddies in the rain of fire. Not to mention the -tohit from dark would help survivability.

As someone else suggested, any kind of brute paired with a fire/kin, or any /kin for that matter would be awesome. Or maybe even a spines/fire scrapper with a kin corr. There are dozens of combos that can work well together if played right.