softcap advice?

I just rolled a elec/nrg stalker and am sitting at lvl 22 at the moment. Could someone give me some advice on how to softcap his defenses along with IOs? Influence is not an option but please do not include purple sets right now as thats farther down the road and ill jump that hurdle when it comes. :-)

That was perhaps a little more abrasive than was necessary. For instance, it would be worth pointing out that with energy aura, you're using typed defense rather than positional. Therefore you should shoot for softcapping at least smashing and lethal, and ideally also energy defense. Getting those three will protect you from something like 90% of attacks in the game. Exceptions include pure psi, toxic, negative and elemental attacks, but those really don't come up that often.

At first I wanted to tell off Redlynne for posting without answering my questions. However I did find the links to be useful. Though I do think the post could be worded a bit more tactfully.

Pleaserecycle, thanks for that tip. I did go against a Tsoo boss that used fire attacks and it very nearly melted (pun intended) me. I do see your point and thanks for that.

Any build advice is appreciated however. A mids build that points out what IO sets to put where would be invaluable if not just for a springboard for my own build. Should I be frankinslotting or using entire sets in single powers?