For all around fun and effectiveness, I'd go Dark or Rad for your primary. Both sets solo well and also are very useful on teams. They are well-rounded, you have a heal but also have a variety of buffs/debuffs and soft control. A lot of their powers are pretty darn good straight out of the box, they just get *better* when well-slotted.
Dark would be my first pick if I rolled a def these days. I really like TA's atypical approach to being a defender, but I just feel like I have to pair it with /a and I would like options so I go Dark first. Traps is a pretty good set that you get to be left alone as well. Traps/dark filled with procs in both sets has potential.
Note: a TA/Sonic would light its own OSA, or at least I've been told by a person with said combo.
Something deadly I've considered, but I didn't know if OSA would officially light or not. By this point, I already have a TA/Elec and a TA/Ice Defenders, so I don't feel like rolling another TA atm to fill this interesting nitch. That and I'm finally getting a home for my Sonic Blast character with a Sonic/Pain Corruptor. One of the few support sets that I still need a 50 of >.>
50s: Bla- Arch/Mental Cont- Mind/FF, Earth/Cold, Ill/Therm, Earth/Rad Dominator- Plant/Psi, Elec/Earth Corr- Fire/Storm, Arch/Sonic, Rad/Kin, Beam/Sonic, Psi/Time Stalker- Elec/SR Def- Storm/Dark, Emp/Psi, Dark/Elec, FF/Arch, TA/Ice, TA/Elec, Kin/AR, Cold/DP, Traps/Psi Scrap- Fire/Shield Tanker- Dark/Mace, Ice/Kin Brute- Claws/WP, SS/Energy, BS/Elec
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It's basically anything with Fire based or energy based damage can light OSA. So even if you're like...TA/Ice you can still light your own OSA with the origin temp power if you were Magic or Tech origin since Apprentice Charm and Taser Dart do Energy damage.
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Originally Posted by StormyDarkness
Note: a TA/Sonic would light its own OSA, or at least I've been told by a person with said combo.
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That's exactly what my TA/Ice does. Tech origin, still a very powerful combo, just have to set a bind to set it off instead of using a cone/aoe of fire/energy to light it.
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Originally Posted by Wanted_NA
It's basically anything with Fire based or energy based damage can light OSA. So even if you're like...TA/Ice you can still light your own OSA with the origin temp power if you were Magic or Tech origin since Apprentice Charm and Taser Dart do Energy damage.
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50s: Bla- Arch/Mental Cont- Mind/FF, Earth/Cold, Ill/Therm, Earth/Rad Dominator- Plant/Psi, Elec/Earth Corr- Fire/Storm, Arch/Sonic, Rad/Kin, Beam/Sonic, Psi/Time Stalker- Elec/SR Def- Storm/Dark, Emp/Psi, Dark/Elec, FF/Arch, TA/Ice, TA/Elec, Kin/AR, Cold/DP, Traps/Psi Scrap- Fire/Shield Tanker- Dark/Mace, Ice/Kin Brute- Claws/WP, SS/Energy, BS/Elec
Lokking to make a new AT because I'm getting bored of all melee toons. I'd like a primary that will keep me busy, but no kin or emp, as for secondary it pretty much seems like Sonic or Ice is the way to go.
Thanks