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The only reason I don't have Fire/dark is due to having a Fire/time.

While Claws is a easy entry point, the problem is FU isn't ranged so you don't have a good way to boost your damage. Have I gone into a ranged mode with a Claws character due to the situation? Absolutely.

If I made a TA again, I would do a Fire/ta Corr.

Nukes tend to be roughly every other mob type of things so I wouldn't consider them to be that problematic in terms of movement.

My initial thought was Thermal as well. A bit of a look at the current meta. People tend to cover their own Def as well as they can(whatever that might be). Res gets put to the side so offering Res shields can be deemed as more useful. While yes, healing is useful, teams steam roll more than ever so the odds of a team needing a heal is on the lower side. Add in shields from Thermal or where ever, and heals more of a nice to have then a requirement. Also, when a team doesn't feel like they need healing so much, those shields can make you still feel useful. I know FF got reworked. I just can't be bothered to use it when Time and Cold exists. The problem for you with Marine is there is a power which literally TPs you into melee, so you either have to skip it or likely deal with going in and out of melee which you said is an issue for you. For a Defender, I like /sonic due to Defenders getting the most -Res out of it and it is all ranged. Shockwave with a KD IO can offer some nice additional mitigation, and the recharge is decent enough. I have a Thermal/sonic who got on a team with a Cold and health bars really didn't move.

Odds are far greater you get on a steamrolling team versus a struggling one.

If you want info on Regen Brutes, I would seek out info from Spaghetti Betty. I know they have been credited with making Regen to be at least workable.

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The only time taken would be to do the build. Slotting is practically the same time as slotting an SO build. I would many times over test an IO build over an SO one.

You can pop a build in Mids and import it to Beta. There's no need to just try out an SO build.

This isn't a fair comparison. Elec Blast simply doesn't have something which can compare to Seeds. I would rather see two full Elec builds. I think the comment about Controllers being better for subpar teams feels like the correct answer. In terms of sheer support, I never felt like a Defender came close to my Earth/storm, and I played a lot of Defenders on Live.

One critical difference is that DP plays in melee as where BR plays at range. Emp plays fine at range, so I would lean BR. DP is also more AoE based as where BR is more ST based and then spreads into AoE. It has -Regen, so if something needs to be dead, it certainly helps. Since Emp doesn't offer -Regen, this can be a nice add.

I use the energy shield option on mine. I practically need to open up more costume slots so I can do more variations.

I never got around to an official build I mine. I kind of debate the Epic. I enjoyed the leveling process even if it felt a bit slow and End heavy just using common IOs with it.

It's an S tier armor with the fastest Trapdoor clear times based on the melee set used. Fire is second least resisted damage type so the damage is 'any' map consistent. It can clear faster than a number of Scrapper builds. Did I have all of one ST attack until 28? Yep. I used BoF as my other ST attack until I did a respec. Note, for Alpha I did Musculature. The build isn't even finished, and I'm basically down to basic smart play and not being able to die at +4x8. On low diffs, trash fodder is two clicks.

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People claim superhero fatigue and then something like Deadpool Vs. Wolverine hits. Fatigue is when the good stuff doesn't even sell.

My only complaint with soloing Tankers is their damage is on the lower side. They get a benefit against larger mobs, but you need to be able to survive those mobs, and the damage output can be a factor. My point is, I've soloed Tankers only to reroll them due to how boring they were. Brutes, 1-20, are essentially the best to solo due to Fury. I have soloed to 50 many more of those. The one Tanker build which did work for me in terms of soloing is Shield/fire.

I was essentially typing this out when you posted it before I did. Saying Sents are close to Blaster damage is sheer ignorance.

Buying the rights to anything Marvel doesn't already exclusively already have should be pretty easy for Marvel at this point. "You guys are losing money overall, so this would be an addition via subtraction." If Sony continues down their pathway and screw up what Spider-Man access they do have, Marvel might simply step in to prevent further tarnishing what Marvel is trying to do.

You can get to Level 50 and be fine with SOs or common IOs starting at Level 25. You only need to take the IOs to 35 if you 3-slot specific aspects. You can go higher if you are 1-slotting. You also get one free respec every 10 levels, so feel free to use them to work on builds. My super generic slotting for SO/IOs would be ST 1 Acc, 1 End Red, 3 Damage with possible 1 Recharge. AoE is 2 Acc then then the same as ST attacks with skipping the Recharge. Toggles tend to be 1 End Reduc and 3 for whatever it is meant for. ATs: Scrapper, Stalkers, Brutes, Tankers, and Sents would be the top ones. Basically anything which has mezz protection. One question to ask is what do you mean by solo? Do you care about soloing on higher diff settings, and if so, do you know the range? I ask because if you are willing to go the route of essentially the default diff setting then basically every build for those ATs work.

Rain of Fire should. Elec isn't purely ranged if you want to max out End Drain, which, to be honest, is one of the weakest forms of mitigation in the game.

Nope.

FYI, as mentioned before on this forum, I ODed on Kin on Live. My namesake is from my Claws/regen on Live. I have a Level 50 /bio Brute and a Level 30 /rad one. I just found I got lazier and older. I don't mind something which has a click, but I start to be less excited about ones with two or more. Even my EA builds I try to do where clicking is minimized. Since I have repeatedly stuck with Claws, I would simply rather keep clicking on attacks versus things to keep me up and running. I had a low level Claws/nin, but I couldn't figure out why it was really all that better than EA or SR, so I rerolled it to something else.

Pick a zone and go through its content. There are definitely some contacts which need to be played on a lower setting if you are doing them for kicks. I just got to the point of trying to T4 builds via Heather's arc and got to the point I just needed a break from the game. Most of my characters are Level 50. All but a few are at least Level 30. I'm getting close to where all of my characters will be Level 50, and I'm just finishing them off, whatever that might mean, and logging in when I just want to play a fun build. Honestly, popping a build onto Beta pretty much covers me wanting to level a build. I don't lack in unplayed Steam games, so I've honestly been more playing over there and doing token logins for CoH. That and playing board games online with people. That can essentially be done for free depending on the games. There's also reading of books which I need to get back to my old pace. I've fallen behind. Plus, a certain series has hit a breaking point, and I need to get started in it.