Fantasy Pairing Defender Sets (Primary/Primary)

[r0y]

Defenders do OK damage-wise solo thanks to vigilance, however, things are always better in teams for everyone.  Therefore, assuming we're in a nice big team, meat-shield, pew-pew, etc. and as a defender we do not need a blast/attack secondary...

 

If we could pair defender primaries, what would you pair and why?

 

For me, it would be Trick Arrow and Dark Miasma.  How much would you bring to the team with THAT?  Basically TA and anything else.

 

Runners up were:

Storm Summoning / Dark Miasma (double AoE stealth, defense, complimentary resist toggle!) - but the endurance consumption would be FRIGHTENING!

Traps / Trick Arrow or Poison / Trick arrow - because mobs don't need to do damage, hit, regen, recover, or anything really.  Just stand there and die. (or get arrested)

Storm Summoning / Trick Arrow - because I *truly* believe I could solo with this.

Trick Arrow / Thermal - If I can't shoot you with a healing arrow, the least I could do is set you on fire to heal you up!

 

Probably more helpful would be:

Sonic/Nature or Thermal/Time for some all-around buff/debuff.

 

OK, there are far too many to imagine...

 

Oddly, I can't think of another AT that I would want to pair primaries... maybe control/dom but everything else would be mostly unplayable.  Corrupter/Blaster would be total pew-pew, but without a secondary, they'd be not just a glass cannon, but an empty glass cannon requiring constant attention from buffing teammates.  Similar with Scrapper/Brute/Stalker (pow-pow only) or a Taunt-Bot Meat Shield tank (but an SR/REGEN tank would be interesting, or Dark Armor/Regen!)

Edited March 23, 2020 by r0y

[Knottewe]

5 hours ago, r0y said:

 

Oddly, I can't think of another AT that I would want to pair primaries... 

 

Mastermind, double ninjas. Constantly summoning an infinite swarm of Ninjas for the win.

[Auroxis]

Nature+Time would be a pretty powerful combination, both sets are really strong and have almost no overlap, covering each other's slight weaknesses nicely.

[Redlynne]

[r0y]

1 hour ago, Knottewe said:

Mastermind, double ninjas. Constantly summoning an infinite swarm of Ninjas for the win.

Well, I didn't say it, but I was assuming one wouldn't double-up on a primary (e.g. Storm/Storm); but a Ninja/Thugs would be nice.  Or a Bots/Demon...

[Peacemoon]

Mind control/illusion control

or 

Mind control/mercs (these soldiers were sent to arrest me.. now they fight for me!)

 

Storm/Empathy might be fun. Although you’d be killing things with gale, lol.

[oedipus_tex]

I think Storm/Cold would be beyond anything the game could handle. 

[Force Redux]

Force Field/Force Field.

 

/Checkmate 🙃

[Psyonico]

 

9 hours ago, Force Redux said:

Force Field/Force Field.

 

/Checkmate 🙃

I was thinking Force Field/Sonic Resonance

[Nayeh]

Radiation/Cold or Radiation/Storm, call it a Nuclear Winter theme.

[Seigmoraig]

Storm/Storm

[Marshal_General]

On 3/23/2020 at 4:10 PM, Knottewe said:

Mastermind, double ninjas. Constantly summoning an infinite swarm of Ninjas for the win.

One thing the 80's taught me, was that a horde of ninjas is easy to beat, but one ninja is unstoppable.

Edited August 14, 2020 by Marshal_General

[Rumors]

Empathy/Pain Domination, just for the sake of having all the heals.  All of them.

[Psylenz0511]

The fantasy can be yours if you play on an all defender team 🙂

[Xandyr]

I'd have to go with Dark, Rad, or Cold.

 

Then DARE anyone to hit me or my team.

[Psylenz0511]

On 8/13/2020 at 1:57 PM, Xandyr said:

I'd have to go with Dark, Rad, or Cold.

 

Then DARE anyone to hit me or my team.

When the Triumphant Defenders roamed the triumph server back in the day, the theme song that ran in my head, when the forcefield bubbler, the doubly dark defender, and the stormy grouped, was MC Hammer's Can't Touch This. (Does the constipation dance side to side in my imagination)