Point the new guy in the right direction!

I plan to have 4 character slots on Infinity. I am also VIP till Thanksgiving so have access to Everything atm. In the future I plan on grabbing Going Rogue & Architect Edition for 3 months of VIP goodness and enough points for those 2 other character slots. Currently I have a Dark/Dark Corruptor Hero, a Nin/Nin Stalker Villan and (While VIP) a Demon Summoning/Time Manipulation Mastermind. In Traditional fantasy RPG's I gravitate towards Rangers, Bards, Monks and Rogues. Generally I don't play a lot of PvP I'm not against it, just really don't go seeking it.

So what i'm looking for is suggested combinations of Archetype and Powers, but there is one catch! One of the things I have to do is take advantage of the Going Rogue powers, whats the point of having the expansion (eventually) if you don't use the powers right? So the eventual two alternate unlocked characters must incorporate these powers.

Dual Pistol (Blaster, Corruptor, Defender-2)
Electric Control (Dominators)
Kinetic Melee (Brute, Scrapper, Stalker, Tank-2)

I am not asking for level by level builds, just combinations and why you think it could be something I might enjoy (and why they're fun for you!). I don't even need a theme as I got a decent imagination to make up solid inspiration for anything really.

@Dogahn
Thanks!

First of all, welcome to the City, Dogahn!

My favorite characters in MMOs, as well as tabletop, are also Monks, Rangers, Bards and Rogues, although a certain most-played MMO in the world has turned me off the Rogue class forever.

I have a Dual Pistol/MM blaster that I enjoy, but he's not my favorite character of all time.
I think it's more from my enjoyment of melee DPS than the character. I want to be Chow Yun Fat in a John Woo movie, not faceplant boy in a comedic role. But, I have seen people with the same powerset dominate groups of mobs set for +8, so your mileage may vary.

As for Dominator, again with the ranged DPS vs melee, the only one I liked playing was Earth/Thorns, which I have tried again and again, only to get bored with in the late 20's. I have no call on Electric at all.

And with Kinetic, I tried it as well. A couple of times. It's melee dps, which I love, but Kinetic didn't do it for me. But I have read that several people love Kinetic/Shield, so you may want to try that out, depending on what others who respond to this say.

Anyway, again, welcome to the game! Always glad to see new people stopping by!

Thanks! I went to sleep thinking about this (currently burned out on previous MMO while waiting for a good reason to blow the points I have left there) and came to the realization that my Dark/Dark Corruptor plays an awful lot like a Bard. A little control, a little healing, a little dps one of those jack of all trades master of none things. I think my Nin/Nin is basically a Rogue... sneak attack nuff said

So I guess i'm looking for a Ranger and a Monk... Blaster does seem to compliment the Ranger mentality rather well. Shoot things and if it gets nasty you have decent close in fighting ability as well. Dual pistols is a given considering I want to take advantage of Going Rogue. Mental Manipulation looks like it could be fun, reminds me of the "active defense" style I read in Dominator guides. I am curious to hear from people who have tried dual pistols as a secondary power.

Would a Electric Control Dominator or Kinetic Melee Brute/Tank have what I like in Monks.

Dogan
Costumes anyone?

Monk = MA/STJ + SR/WP
Bard= Crab spider for ranged, Widow for melee
Ranger= Arch/EM, Arch/Devices

For your ranger role, I think I'd go Dual Pistols (since you sorta narrowed it down to that)...

I'd either go Blaster (2Gun/MM), or maybe Defender. 2Gun Rad would be pretty fun and potent. 2Gun/Traps, 2Gun/Storm, or maybe as an outlier, 2Gun/Time. If you prefer the more offensive mindset (and want the 2gun powers earlier) you can easily make any of these as a Corr, too.
The Blaster will obviously push out most raw damage, but if things get nasty or in close, you don't gain much melee skills from MM. The tier 9 is quite nice, and the one pure melee attack is good, too, but you'll be more fragile than if you went with a def or corr. Both Defs and Corrs will have better survivability, especially in melee. So I guess it all depends on how tough you want your ranger to be, and if you're willing to give up some damage for it.

For your Monk-ish alt, SR/Kin Melee if a Tanker. Kin/SR and Kin/Energy Aura both could be played as a scrapper or Brute. I'd probably go with the Brute for this one. Kin/Energy seems like it'd be awesome on a Brute.

PS: Oh, and welcome to the game! Have fun, regardless of what ya end up picking.

PPS: Seeing as you've got a Corr already, I'd lean toward Blaster or Defender for your Ranger, just so you have greater variety of ATs available to you. I still think 2gun/mm is the way to go if you choose blaster, and if you pick defender, I honestly can't narrow your choices down any further. All 4 of those sets will be fun to play as a 2gun def.

I have a miniguide on playing Blasters in my sig if you go Blaster. There's a trick to it.

More generally: What you have to realize about this game vs. other games is that buffs and debuffs are HUGE.

Your Dark/Dark Corr was described as "A little control, a little healing, a little dps one of those jack of all trades master of none things. "

You left out the part where your ToHit debuffs make +2 enemies miss 4 out of 5 times. Or more. The math gets ugly fast, but if you look at your Debuffs it will say, for instance, under Fearsome Stare "ToHit -15% for 20s"
1) With slotting (three SO's or the equivalent) that's -21% .
2) That stacks with all your Defense-giving powers, your Darkest Night debuff, and all your attacks that also have ToHit debuffs.
3) That's out of 50% .

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So if you debuff a particular critter by 42%, and they normally hit 60% of the time, 42/50 of those hits will become misses and only 8/50 will actually land. So 8/50 * 60% = 9.6% . It will hit people less than 10% of the time.
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... so really, you're DPS/Control/Support/Tank. And, as long as your End bar holds out, you are master of ALL of them.

This is a game where Defenders can tank, Tanks can do good DPS, Controllers can single-handedly beat up Giant Monsters... it may not have been DESIGNED that way in 2003 but it is a happy accident of superpowered insanity.

Go wild.

Dual Pistols is kind of a mediocre set (mind you, that doesn't stop it from being awesome to look at, but, its damage isn't great), but can slot Force Feedback +recharges into all three of it's AoEs, making it good with support sets that have powers which benefit from stupid amounts of +recharge. I would avoid it on a Blaster in favor of something that plays to that archetype's strength more (read: HURTN STUFFZ).

Kinetic Melee is great with Shield Defense on a Scrapper for crazy +damage stacking, Ninjitsu on a Stalker for... basically just being the two best Stalker sets, and I have heard it plays nicely with EA on either as well.

Electric Control I would strongly suggest you avoid on a Dominator, because Domination does almost nothing for the set. Meanwhile, it pairs amazingly well with Time Manipulation (my pick), Radiation Emission, and, Poison.

Also, if you want to use the last Going Rogue set, Demon Summoning, it goes great with Thermal Radiation (my pick), Dark Miasma, and Time Manipulation.

I24 Proc Chance = (Enhanced Recharge + Activation Time) * (Current PPM * 1.25) / 60*(1 + .75*(.15*Radius - 0.011*Radius*(360-Arc)/30))
Single Target Radius = 0. AoE Non-Cone Arc = 360.

Kinetic Melee could quite easily be a Monk's chi. Combine with Willpower, Electric Armour, Dark Armour or Super Reflex/Ninjitsu and you've a solid character for the concept. I would suggest going Scrapper or Stalker for Kinetic Melee, if Stalker then Kin/Nin, Scrapper Kin/Elec.

Electric Control works with a multitude of things, my favourite combination being Electric/Earth Assault Dominator. No real reason, I just find it fun and can't really comment on other combos off the top of my head.

Dual Pistols is nice with Traps for a Defender/Corruptor thematically, Blasters can be great with almost any secondary. If you like to solo, Devices works nicely thematically though isn't generally the best number-wise in a team, or you can go back to the Monk concept and have Pistols/Energy saying it's chi and they're a modern Monk, or a modern Ranger with /Mental or /Devices, they all work.

Thanks for the information guys.
First I want to say that it was not my intention to try and replicate a Monk or Ranger. I'm really looking to capture the playstyle... essence so to speak. Take your D20 Monk, Flurry of Blows, Evasion, good saves and resistance to ill effects. Ranger is harder for me to Peg and could probably be summed up as a Fighter with a knack for staying hidden and a Pet. Least this is what I think I get out of those classes.

I've been tinkering with a couple characters. A Radiation/Dual Pistol Defender since the dual pistol seems to be more flavor than substance. Its fairly high maintenance (target based AoE toggles), not necessarily bad just requires a different approach (which is good) and it has been pretty awesome to watch! I had one situation with a named lieutenant who hit my guy with a knockdown attack but the pistol shot went off during the backflip of the animation and killed him... sick.

The other one I went and took for a test drive was an Electric/Electric Dominator. I looked at the Electric/Earth and came really close (literally going back an forth between the two in the creator) but settled on attack speed and mobility of the Ele/Ele. Oddly, this makes it feel very monk like especially with Domination's mez effect resistance and the Conductive Aura encouraging melee. I've found a certain glee in obliterating foes endurance with every attack biting into it and the aura transferring it to my character. It leaves them quivering in place as they don't have the endurance to attack anymore. I don't know how long this is going to work through higher levels.

This brings me to my most recent revelation... I might need that 5th spot, LOL
It seems that the game is rather forgiving when it comes to characters. Such as if you have a concept you have a playable character. Which I assume is one of the core values, more about what you create n all that fluff. I'm off to go look at Blaster and Brute some more, I really like their inherent power.

Dogan
Fulmens... You've made it hard to avoid my main while VIP.