Without_Pause

Back in the day, Fire/kin and Ill/rad were the kings depending on what you wanted. My Ill/rad was the first support character which soloed on +4 while not being level 50(40 for that matter), and used nothing more than common IOs. Now, have any new sets made something which is better, that's up for debate. I think you can find a number of builds which will solo very well. I see no real issues coming from the Dark/dark I made.

The thing which makes Dark standout is it comes with a heal. Its AoE is "eh." It would be nice if Shadow Maul's animation time was closer to sane considering you have to deal with the cone aspect. I played Claws/regen to 50. I rerolled to Claws/sr when coming back, and there's little unexpected from it. I like it most from the ones you listed. The KB and KD powers recharge fast enough to offer nice mitigation as well and they have range. I loved using Shockwave as an opener since the KB put things on their butts. You in a sense could minimize alpha strike against you.

Haven't seen much posted on it, and comes across as incredibly ideal. Just wondering what the opinions are so far for the power sets. I've at least played around with Dark Melee on some characters so I have some sort of idea. I'm just kind of guessing on the blast aspect, and don't want to roll anything until I have a better grasp of where to take the build.