Worst of the Worst

I seen Tankers eat it in the same battle PBs/WSs survive. I don't recall the particulars, but I know I've seen it more than once. Then again, my squishy Fire/Rad troller has easily handled mobs that took the Tank to school.

I played a human PB to 50. Survived most groups and only fear the Carnies and the Malta Group (Sappers and Illusionists) because I don't have a work around for their powers. The glowing energy coolnest factor outweighs the faceplant syndrome (except for the aforementioned groups and Apex TF). However playing my SOA, I do notice an overall greater durability.

PBs and WSes can have 85% RES to basically all damage in dwarf form, along with a heal or two. If you're comparing to a less than optimal defensive Tanker like Fire or Elec who also mostly just has RES, and the team's buffs are less than compelling, it's definitely possible for a kheld to survive more. In general though I'd expect the Tanker to be more durable.

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My nomination would have to be a Psychic/Mental(Electrical APP) Blaster. First level 50 character I ever deleted. On paper, it seems like it should work well. Some nice AE attacks, Aim+Build Up, some control, Endurance recovery, etc. but it just never seemed to gel for me.

This combination was painful to solo and I often felt like a leech on teams but I kept expecting things to get better but they never did so at 50, I used all the respecs I had to unload as many IO sets as possible and deleted. Haven't regretted it at all.

My least favorite so far was my grav/FF controller. I have to keep him, as hes based on an awesome character from a superhero rpg I was in, but my rad/rad defender outmatches him both in useful control on teams, damage, and help with tough targets (which is where a lot of the end game is). The controller would probably work to keep a team alive in a wider variety of situations, but I'm on relatively few high level teams these days where dying is frequent unless its so full of fail I don't really want to be on the team anyway.

Throwing a Hold on a boss prevents me from using the knockback/knockup FF would provide, while not preventing the boss from getting to me until I stack a second Hold. Wormhole is a neat power, but fairly team unfriendly unless you are in just the right environment with a handy corner, which is about 1 in 10 fights. Aside from messing up melees, it messes up things like nukes, fulcrum shifts, etc. Its the only Grav AoE control power up roughly every spawn, but as far as I know its also the only every spawn Controller power that you can't safely use in LOS because you soak the whole alpha BEFORE it actually does its thing. I don't count the AoE intangible power, since as has been pointed out, it actually reduces most teams effectiveness.

Its a pity, because Grav does have some unique powers, I just almost never have a situation where its the most effective character to bring. I'm currently working on a PvP build, even though I almost never have time to PvP. . .

Worst IMO are Emps who label themselves "healers" and never use their blast. Just spam their heal aura even if the teams fine. Drives me nuts, I personally kick them from teams. Nothing against emp, but def blast secondary effects can be very helpful and shouldn't be ignored.

I think the big difference with the knockback in AR versus various Storm powers, or something like Torrent or Energy Torrent from the scrapper APPs is the reliability. If they hit, they do it, and plans can be made around this. For a power with 50% knockback chance, that seems harder. It's too likely to just ignore it, but not likely enough to rely on as a mitigation effect.

For such reasons, I might have expected Elec/Energy doms to be a major case of anti-synergy, but since all the powers with a chance of knockback are single-target, it looks far more manageable.

Worst powersets by AT:

Scrapper: Either dual blades (by the numbers; it looks very cool) or spines (while a solid powerset on paper, it can destroy any costume and requires a specific concept)

Tanker: Stone. I'm sorry, it's a powerful set, but your defining power makes you hard to kill but otherwise slow and dull.

Defender: Trick Arrow. I love TA, but it's terrible. Redraw, absolutely no buffs or heals, and a very confused collection of powers with outrageous recharges (maybe this is better since the newer patches?) makes it very hard to imagine why Glue Arrow+Disruption Arrow+Acid Arrow taking ten seconds launch is better than just dropping Tar Patch or Sleet.

Controller: Mind Control or Grav. Confuse is stupid. Stacking it 50 times on a PTOD AV is even stupider. This is not a rational argument against MC, just personal taste. As for Grav, it's just sort of bleh. Attacks in my control set? Wormhole? Seriously? Controllers are supposed to turn enemies into shrubs waiting to be trimmed into topiary, not make them intangible or spread all over the map.

Blaster: Psi is pretty bleh, both visually and mechanically. Electric blast is visually not bad, but fairly weak since its secondary effect (-End) is only relevant if you truly focus on it to excess.

Mastermind: Mercs. Mercs are one of my favorite sets, but damn, they are terrible. Easily resisted lethal damage makes up most of their attacks, the medic is suicidal, the Spec Ops are utterly chaotic in their use of "control" powers with excessively long recharge, and the Commando's powers all have different ranges. As for which one I don't like, that'd be Robots. CHOMCHOMCHOM feet plus fat 'bots blocking up caves make me annoyed.

Dominators: Same as controllers, pretty much.

Corruptors: Secondary here, since comments from Blaster sort of cover the rest. Pain is a really terrible secondary solo.

Stalker: All of them ever. Especially claws, though my claws stalker was during a low point for the set, if memory serves, so I may be excessively biased.

Brute: WM/EA is STRONG and PRETTY. So strong. So pretty. I never liked the feel of Axe/WM, though the numbers are decent. Same goes for Invuln.

I really, really hate Willpower. Yes, it's one of the best sets, and extremely easy to play. That may be why I don't like it.

By the way, this list is neither subjective nor opinion. Everything in it is absolutely true facts and serious business, so don't even begin to question the strong and pretty of WM/EA.

My personal "problem child" is an Illusion/Kin Controller... It's not so much that the set combination is bad (in theory, it works just fine-), it's that playing him absolutely bores me to tears.

I actually enjoy playing my "shield-bot" FF and Sonic defenders quite a lot, mostly because I DON'T find it mindlessly easy to keep everyone on a team shielded properly when they're bouncing off in seven different directions like a herd of hyperactive jack-rabbits. That controller, though? SB and Phantom Army might as well be the only powers the poor thing has. >_>

Warshades. DB/Traps corrs.