Whats a good power set for someone who has not played in over a year.

Hello all,
So i decided to come back to the game recently after a year break. played for 4.5 years. i used to play tanks and scrappers. i may have a had a blaster.


what are some good fun power set combos to play?

To relearn how to play, picking a Scrapper or Brute is generally a good idea. Shield secondary is probably the most popular secondary at the moment next to Willpower, as Shield still feels sort of new, and has a great AoE attack, while Willpower is quite self-sufficient.

As for primary, try picking something you haven't used before to give it a try, just so it feels new. The new Kinetic Melee might be an option if you don't mind the fancy animations. :3 Failing that, go Fire Melee with Shields (regardless of AT), as that's a fun choice, I've found. And if picking Willpower... how about Electric Melee on Scrappers, or Stone Melee on Brutes?

Well, it depends on what you liked about melee types. If you loved the "Dive into a spawn and watch them fall over" gameplay, I'd say stick with Tanks, Scrappers, and Brutes - Mez protection really helps for this. Melee sets, you're looking for AoE, and probably early, so Spines, Electric Melee, War Mace, and (a little less so) Fire Melee, Broad Sword, or Katana with certain secondaries. For armors, you should consider something with good 1-50 survivability - Willpower, Regeneration, Invulnerability, and possibly Electric Armor or Fiery Aura. The defense sets, like Stone Armor or Shield Defense, have better end-game performance with very high defense, but until you get there, it's a difficult ride. And at the really high-end, a Willpower or Invulnerability character at the defense softcap is incredibly sturdy.

For Blasters, it's hard to go wrong, but Fire/Ice is a tried and true way of getting heavy damage and powerful survivability tools. If you want to use Sonic Attack, though, I'd suggest a Defender or Corruptor - the higher debuff values will more than make up for the lowered damage modifiers, because each hit is making the next hit much harder.

One last suggestion I might make is Dominators. They play a little like blasters, in that you have to proactively take out dangerous targets before they overwhelm you, but you get a number of tools to remove someone from the fight without just defeating them. As an added bonus, it gives you a strong mix of melee and ranged attacks in the secondary, and beating up a Held foe in melee is perfectly safe, so you can fight up close as suits you. Nearly any Dominator combination will work well, but many work best with a certain strategy - Mind/Energy leans on the sleeps and single-target damage, while Mind/Fire is much more about using Dominate and Levitate for control while your AoEs kill everything.

Sounds like you were primarily a hero so take advantage of GR and try out the other side of the AT list.

If you want something a little different but still familiar then try a brute; hard to go wrong as far as sets go on them. Plant/* Dominators are always fun. Fire/Dark Corruptors are nice especially once you get fearsome stare slotted. MMs have some very effective combos, but lately even the protector bot AI seems to have gone all This!Is!Sparta! it's probably not going to qualify as fun.

You may also want to have another look at your existing characters if your signature is accurate still. Fiery Aura and Martial Arts both got fairly significant buffs in the last issue.

For Tanks/Brutes/Scrappers, you'll probably want to give Willpower a swing. It's very "set and forget" and rather forgiving since it doesn't put most of its eggs into one basket.

For Blasters, give Energy/Energy a try. It's very iconic, a good baseline combination and has pretty high levels of (underrated) mitigation.

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