strongest powersets ?

is there such a thing as "Strongest powersets ?
i'm just curious what people consider to be strongest sets for melee or ranged ?
what is really good for solo and or groups.

before anyone asks by definition what i'm looking for by strongest powersets i meant by good damage,defense,surival, powersets that won't have targets that will resist alot of damage. things along those lines because i've played alot of powersets and still haven't found anything that completely fits.

past characters for me
ice/ice blaster
dual pistol/tech blaster
psi/grav dominator
fire/dark corruptor
bot/ff mastermind
dual blade/ninja stalker (only lvl 50)
ele/ele dominator (32)
thug/trap mastermind (12)

as you can kinda tell i'm not too big on melee however i managed to get one to 50 lol. anyway all of these tend to be decent but lack in defensive/survivability at certain points.

If you're looking something which has attacks which no one resists, I would suggest VEATs with leviathan mastery.

Spiders have pure lethal attacks, pure smash attacks, pure toxic attacks, combined smash/energy attacks, and from leviathan, pure cold attack and pure negative attack.

Widows have pure lethal attacks, pure psychic attacks, combined lethal/toxic attack, and from leviathan, pure cold attack, pure toxic attack, and pure negative attack.

hmm well thats something to keep note of lol.
someone told me awhile ago how alot of mobs resist fire at high lvls such as SF/TF
and some other types also mentioned lethal was high resist later on which bugged me because some of my favorite powers are lethal lol.
however my concern right now is trying to sort out what i can do alot with for ranged damage powers.

... So after seven years of balance, you're asking about the overpowered sets?

I vote Fire/Ice blaster and Rad/Sonic defender. But that's highly skewed by what I like to play.

Hands down, most awesome powerset combinations out there:

Umbral Blast/Umbral Aura

Robotics/Traps


That's it.

My most "powerful" character is my SS/Elec brute. The amount of devastation this guy dishes out both AoE and ST rivals the best of em, and Elec Armor's survivability is immense when you have a great build.

There aren't really any overpowered powersets, but certain powerset combinations are so synergistic you could call them overpowered. Good thing is, it's very hard to nerf powerset combinations without affecting either of the powerset on their own, so we're likely to keep those combinations!

Rule of the thumb is, though, that you get good results by pairing just about anything with just about anything. Any character will be powerful, some will just be even more than that.

There are some sets which are generally considered above average though. A quick sampling:

Defense: Shield Defense due to ease of softcap, some resistance, and general offense, Ninjitsu due to ease of softcap and versatility, Fire for sheer offense, Dark for all-rounded defenses (requires IO sets to shine), Stone for sheer defense (requires IO sets to remedy negatives)
Melee: SS due to Rage, Spines and Claws due to speed of AoEs.
Buff/Debuff: Traps for overall versitility, Dark for debuffs, Rad for buffs and debuffs, Ice for debuffs and shields, Kin for sheer offense.
Control: Illusions for PA and confuse, Fire for sheer damage and reasonable recharge AoE stun, Plant for versatility between damage and controls, both soft and hard.
Blasts: Archery for great single target damage with a fast recharge nuke, Fire for great AoE damage with reasonable single target.
Support: Mental for sheer versatility.
Summon: Robotics for self-sufficiency with good AoE damage (requires lv 32 to shine)

Tell me if I missed anything or if someone thinks something else should be considered instead of what I've listed.

These days I am starting to think Doms are just about the safest way to steamroll +4/8. I can do it on my tank, and even my scrapper is pretty solid at it w/inspirations. Doms just seem to do it faster and safer.

As far as fire being resisted... Resistance is futile.

It's also considering which sets perform best in the following situations:

Soloing at level 31 (So... close... to... tier 9)
SO'd at level 40
Reasonably IO'd at level 40
Reasonably IO'd at level 50
Level 50 with a billion-inf build
Level 50 with a seventeen billion inf build [I don't even know if you CAN spend 17 billion on a single character. If not now, maybe next week...]

An Elec/Shield brute doesn't hit its stride till level 38, for instance, and a Fire/Kin controller isn't much of anything till 32, and doesn't really take off till Fireball [level 41? 44? I don't play controllers.]

At least in one metric, ST damage, you can look over at the scrapper board's Rikti Pylon Times thread to see who deals out damage the fastest while being survivable "enough".

My most "powerful" toon is my Fire/Rad. Ultimately versatile, can solo AVs, etc (best 4:10 pylon time--hardly a record, but impressive enough), can solo or team, very safe (near capped ranged def, near perma-IW, etc), controls, deals damage, buffs & debuffs w/the best of them. Some control better, some damage better, buff/debuff better, etc, but as a whole, I don't think there's a better powerset combo out there.

Imo, there is no such thing as the "strongest powerset." At most there a powersets that are best at a specific task, and can fall flat on their *** for some other tasks.
But here is my my opinion:
farming/killing mobs within a matter of seconds, SS/FA(/mu) brute
Solo damn near any task in the game: mind/fire dom
tank damn near anything: stone/dark tank (i like SD/dark better though, being able to actually kill things is fun)
Melt AVs/GMs: bot/trap(or dark), ive seen cold/sonic defs and sonic/cold corrs do epic **** before though.
But, like i said thats just my opinion.

I also think it’s important to note that enemy resistant generally doesn’t matter, the only time it REALLY matters is soloing AVs or something.

ok so thanks for the info now on to more direct ideas lol
i've been looking at afew AT's and just can't decide on what would work for the way i play
i'm interested in Brute,Corrupter,MM

currently playing a Thug/Trap MM but wondering if demon or bot is better those being say my top 3 picks for MM but i heard from a friend mercs are decent.

in the past i've only played fire/dark corrupter so was wondering if there was a couple other strong choices for soloing and abit of grouping.

Strongest power sets? Umbral Blast/Umbral Aura.

Less you die the better.

• I would say traps.
• It allows you to obtain soft defense caps.
• It allows you to solo at very high mission settings of 0/8 to 2/8 or even 4/8.
• It allows you to fight arch villains.
• I honestly don't understand how Traps squeaked by its that good.

Like most have said already, its what you intend for your character to do that makes it uber. I know recently ive been working on my Elect/Fire/Fire scrapper that, with a little help on defense from IO sets, I can dominate most of everything in the game. Farming or pure massive damage, this toon has the ability to outdo many blasters, but you will suffer until higher levels and you buy those IO sets to help with defense.