I appreciate the input, now I have a couple more archetypes to try. It's been fun but a tad slow becuase I am jumping around a bunch of archetypes. I'll try to give feedback off and on as I progress. I have died 2 times, both scrappers , one was a claws/bio and he other was a spines, both I was being too aggressive and attacked a too large of mob with an orange boss.
So far a katana/regen brute is the strongest/fastest starter character. We will see if it hold up mid and high levels. The fire/rad tank is doing well too. Makes me a bit too reckless and might be my first death, not yet but soon.
Trying out 6 different chars. all are between 6-10 now, all doing ok, btw I am doing hard core, if they die I start over with that char, so far no deaths. Most of the ideas come from this topic but a couple are my own ideas. So far so good albeit, a bit slow.
I had a weird idea, which archetype and primary and secondary powersets would it be possible (best) to go to 50 without being power leveled, that uses no enhancements at all. It would be a challenge to play but would it be possible and if so, which would be best? Solo of course.