Noob friendly as in "takes zero intelligence"? I went with Elec Melee if that's any indicator! 
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
Elec/Stone is a great combo as well. Plenty of mitigation in Stone Melee's knockdown powers to shore up any of the holes from being pure resistance. Also, it's just plain old smashy fun.
Do you plan on using IOs?
@Rylas
Kill 'em all. Let XP sort 'em out.
Everything works, as long as you like the concept.
Mains (Freedom) @Auroxis
Auroxis - Emp/Rad/Power Defender Pylon Video Soloing an AV
Pelvic Thunder - SS/Elec/Mu Brute
Sorajin - Elec/Nin Stalker
Neuropain - Sonic/Mental/Elec Blaster
so after close to a year of not playing hearing the game was goin F2P/mirco pay/vip set up i decided it was time(that and have the net agian lol0 to play CoH. i have always been a tank so figer start with one agian.
elec catches my eye sence its a) good with current EG stuff b) i like the look of it. its the 2nardy i donno about.
atm SS and WM seems liek good idea(my old chars were a sheild/WM inis/SS)
but idonno if thares a beter ill say noob freindly combo. i plan on being VIP unless i run into money problem if that makes any defrence.