One character to rule it all. What would you choose?

I'll also vote for SS/fire brute. To me, "doing everything" means not only being able to completely carry a team, but also keep that team alive. While solo, a MM or something else may keep pace with the brute, but on a team, they would have a much harder time holding aggro and keeping everybody else safe.

I don't have one myself, but my main is a fire/SS tank. He's much more powerful than any of my other toons, and I can only imagine how godlike he'd be as a brute with infinite influence.

Fire/Fire blaster.

I just always come back to setting stuff on fire is so much fun.

A Warshade can do everything but solo Giant Monsters... And that can probably even be done with temp powers/lore pets. Either way, that's my choice.

edit: Also, my Tri Form build does 54x8 Fire Farms.

SS/Fire.

MMs have too much luggage and thus come across as too high of maintenance for my own personal taste. In terms of ATs, I would likely go with a brute. Just about any SS/* works. I do rather like my Dark/elec though. While not one to really farm, Ill/rad is about as good an all-purpose that you will find.

I would probably go with my first toon: Kat/DA Scrapper. She is IO'd out for defense. Enough to survive and perform rather well but not completely max'd out.

Why that toon?
She's a lot of fun and I really enjoy running on teams but she can also solo most missions easily.

I enjoy both my DM/Invuln scrapper and Illusion/Cold controller. Both do a good job at Soloing AVs. My DM/Invuln can tank just about everything and kill most stuff as well. My Ill/Cold is a little trickier, relying on PA and soft-capped Smashing/Lethal/Energy defense from dying. But this toon can also solo GMs.

Once i get on today i think in going to take a look at how good SS/fire takes down GMs

Mmk, it can kinda sorta do it (mine at least, iggy's does have more DPS that might be just enough to REALLY do it) without lore. AVs with no smashing resistance, like adamastor or babbage, can be killed without lore. But AVs with smashing res can not be killed without using lore. So its not the king of taking out GMs, just damn near everything else.

Storm.

Any time I spend explaining is time you're not rolling a storm already. Go!

Stone/SS tank.

Why? I already have him for about 6 years now, he never let me down. Yes, clockwork king and Ghostwidow were nasty, yes psi and -recharge are painfull.. but at the end, he's the one standing there taking tons of damage and still going strong.

I've tanked pretty much everything with him, TF's (even pre-granite), trials, STF (no Mo), Eden trial, Hamidon (Hami tank of the turtle team), i even farm with him (pre-IO's on Eden and the famous freak's map).

True, he cant solo much, or slow. But i dont mind, he's my favorite tank, he always will be.

Over the years he only became stronger, and seeing the current IOsets, he only can become more stronger.

I'd go play a different game if I only wanted to play one character. I think some builds can do a lot of things very well, but no alt can do everything better than any other possible AT choice.

Even if one could, I'd probably still choose to play several alts over just one.

This is the build I soloed a Master ITF on (t3 reactive, t2 ageless, t2 lore and t2 judgement IIRC):

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I was typing a long post and hitting the wrong key made my browser eat it, so meh. I'll just go with the following - yes, incarnate powers are good and useful. Again, tools are available, I use them, and I build around them.

I also feel pretty confident I could solo a MoITF with all incarnates unslotted, although it'd be much slower (and no way I do that to prove a point unless people show up to fill for me).

If I had to pick only one character, it'd have be one that's the most fun for me. I mean, sure, my FA/DM tank can demon farm with relative ease, but I find that to be pretty boring. Currently, my most fun toon is my Claws/FA scrapper, so I'd probably vote him.

Of course, I'm a heavy altoholic, so you can't really take what I say worth squat.