I am relatively new to this game. I played a bit back in live but not a great deal. I don't even think I got to level 20. I enjoyed the game back then but I couldn't convince any of my normal crew to take it up with me so I stopped playing. When I heard about Homecoming, I decided I wanted to try it again so here I am. I have tried out brute, corrupter, MM and stalker but I wanted to try a more support oriented character so I made a defender.
I went with trick arrow/archery for flavor's sake and I have noticed since I hit about level 7 that my time to kill on a single mob has gotten really long. While I can solo most stuff safely, it's very slow because I kill so slowly. No problem thought I, I'm a support class so I will just start looking to join groups. Well, the night before last I grouped up for the first time with my defender and I was pretty disappointed with the experience. There was one other defender in the group but that wasn't a problem, we weren't stepping on each other's toes or anything. It just seemed that with a full group, the content became laughably easy. I felt like I was contributing little to nothing to the team because my debuffs weren't necessary for 8 people to kill orange/red cons.
There's my back story, and here are my questions:
Is running missions in a full group always that easy? (because honestly, even if I were one of the DPS classes, I would have found that boring)
Are debuffers ever 'needed' to do group content? (I don't want to invest a bunch of time leveling a character that can't solo and isn't wanted in groups)
Thanks in advance for taking time to answer.