Sovera

As someone who has not touched CoH in a decade, what is the biggest difference between Defender and Corruptor versions of this build? I do like teaming, but in the down times I'm soloing and the more damage the quicker that goes.

I'm personally fine with the backpack. Was turned off by the character creation lack of customization, but it turns out all other tailor slots don't have those limitations while still getting to sport that sweet backpack. There are so many concepts of son/daughter of villain using dad's tech to do good that it is easy to go with. Everything is a slog compared to a Brute though. I need to push to 24 so I can get started with the build and stop whittling away with my little rifle.

For something with the AoE of a blaster, pets of mastermind and toughness of a scrapper there is a big fat zero of Crabs being mentioned whenever someone talks of their favorite/strongest builds.

This guys seems to know what he is talking about.