Trick Arrow is excellent in pvp, but pairing it with AR in PvP would be a death sentence. Most of ARs' decent powers have horrible cast times, and would leave her rooted for far too long, which is a No-No for those who wish to have less frequent trips to the hospital. Travel suppression would also wreck her beyond belief. Not to mention the annoying redraw of arrow to rifle and vice versa. I'd leave that paring to PvE.
For PvP, If a TA defender is preferred, TA/A, TA/Sonic, TA/NRG(Power push sets up for tasty spikes on well coordinated teams), I'd even go as far to say TA/Ice blast.
*Edit*
Read too fast, apparently she wasn't looking for a TA/AR hehe, to redirect, AR Stinks in pvp, Trick Arrow is much better as far being the team enabler and the enemy dis-abler.
That's exactly what I thought in regards to Assault Rifle. I knew Trick Arrow had some useful abilities to bring enemies to the ground like entangling arrow and glue arrow, but assault rifle has always been sub par in pvp, and just generally everywhere. I was just wondering if there was anyway to make this work, since they're set in stone about making it with these two powersets.
I really don't see AR being good in PvP (and I love AR). It's got two problems. First it's primarily an AoE set which isn't as useful in PvP as in PvE. Secondly a lot of it's single target damage is based on leveraging Ignite which requires you to keep the target immobilized or held (not practical in PvP). Add in the long animation times for Full Auto, Flamethrower and Ignite and I just don't see it working.
Okay so a friend of mine decided to create this toon. Is there any hope for it? She wants to use it in PvP. I've never played Trick Arrow or Assault Rifle, and I don't hear good things abut the latter. How effective would this be in RV?