Sonic Blast: Blaster or Defender?

Now that we have some other choices for emanation points on Sonic Blast, I really want to create a character with that set. My casual goal is crazy damage so a Blaster seems like a good choice, but a Defender has greater debuff potential (compromise with a Corruptor?).

Which one has more overall damage potential? Which is more fun? For a Defender, what's a fun/cool/uber pairing?

Opinions, please!

Rad/Sonic, traps/sonic, dark/sonic, or traps/sonic. All are awesome on a defender.

Technically, the blaster has more damage potential, but the defender will give you more team damage.

Corruptor would be a decent compromise, but I like defender buff/debuff values. Especially for traps.

Lots of people are going to tell you to go Defender. That's ok, because it's a nice set on a Defender and the res debuff is higher.

However, if you decide to go Blaster, I can tell you from experience that my Sonic/En Blaster is the most reliable and sturdy Blaster I've ever played. You may find yourself overshadowed in terms of AoE damage but as a single target specialist, you'll be awesome.

Sonic is lovely as a debuff set but it's no slouch as a blast set either. In terms of secondaries, I'd either go Mental for more AoE or Energy to stack stuns.

My dark/sonic is my best character. It's a great powerset combo. But if you're looking for damage, agree with the above: sonic/energy for massive damage and stuns, sonic/mm for two great cone attacks.

Defender.

I hate the set on a blaster. Absolutely hate it. The set feels slow, much slower than it actually is.

Love it more on a blaster than on a defender. Sonic/Elec is what I have now, pretty good combo.

If you team a lot with your blaster, Sonic may give you better overall team damage contribution than Fire, depending on the situation.

I have a Sonic/Dark Corruptor and a Rad/Sonic defender. Both very very solid.

Personally speaking, when I think of my stable of characters (I won't e-peen by giving a number, but rather just say, a lot of non-PLd 50s) about 3 or 4 stand out as being able to transform any team, two among them are: Cold/Sonic and Kin/Sonic. Which is more transformative depends on team makeup.

A high recharge Cold can put out 2 Sleets no problem and with Heat Loss, put a 90% resistance debuff (prior to purple patch) on a whole spawn. Then, it just gets silly when he starts blasting.

The Kin/Sonic takes advantage of the Dmg * Resists formula by upping the first part and lowering the second. This causes much fun as teammates begin to think they're uberer than they really are. Scrappers critting for 2000dmg, Controller holds hitting for 800 dmg, you get the idea. One of my favorite comments I've ever gotten in game was a Scrapper that asked "What are you doing to me???"