So just came back need advice on toon

[Wuteva]

Just came back looking for something easy mode to play through. Just to get started be able to take a beating since im stooopid with squishy classes (well traditionally I am normally on my face with them)

 

I like to be able to do most if not all content while still not face planting too much

 

[Bill Z Bubba]

Want to stay ranged and not die? Sentinel.

Want to go heavy damage but stay solo? Scrapper.

Want to never die but be slower? Tank.

Team a lot? Brute.

[biostem]

Well, I find that a battle axe/bio armor or radiation armor brute can handle most content pretty easily.  You get additional end recovery from your armor set to keep you going, and all the knock up/down from battle axe is a great form of "soft control" against most enemies - enemies on their butts can't hurt you.

[Doomguide2005]

Welcome Home!

[Aurora_Girl]

38 minutes ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

Want to stay ranged and not die? Sentinel.

Want to go heavy damage but stay solo? Scrapper.

Want to never die but be slower? Tank.

Team a lot? Brute.

 

What the demon said. Powerset choices, at this stage of your return, should 100% probably be about what YOU want to play; with that in mind, don't worry so much about builds and anything like that. 

[Bill Z Bubba]

28 minutes ago, Aurora_Girl said:

What the demon said.

 

DEVIL! damnit.

[Wuteva]

4 minutes ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

 

DEVIL! damnit.

 

Angry spider monkey?

[Aurora_Girl]

5 minutes ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

 

DEVIL! damnit.

 

I said what I said. 

[Bill Z Bubba]

Just now, Aurora_Girl said:

I said what I said. 

 

Time for some arena, mang.

[Aurora_Girl]

1 minute ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

 

Time for some arena, mang.

 

YOU WANNA TAKE THIS INSIDE?!

 

Toxic Tarantula, I choose you!

[Doomguide2005]

      My very first character was a late i3 Claws/SR scrapper.  Hardly missed a day outside of computer issues playing at least sometime on some alt.  So that first choice certainly worked out well for me.

[Without_Pause]

Inv/em tank. Punch stuff with your Balls of Doom. Be damn near unkillable. EM has been fixed and is very legit now.

 

Also, I will nit pick by saying heavy damage and solo can also be done via Stalkers. They just can't go all-in on AoE like a scrapper can unless you are talking Elec/shield.

[Clave Dark 5]

To heck with all that - play what you want to play, eat carpet five times a mission, get stomped like a spider at a boot convention.  It builds character!  It also builds a healthy appreciation for foes' perception radii, knowing when to run, and ultimately makes you feel like a real god when you DO choose one of those tougher classes and wade into groups with no more concern than going out into a light rain.

 

Note: this foolish advice comes from someone who appreciates the squishie classes more and might not be relevant in this dimension.

[0th Power]

Play an energy/energy blaster.  The knockback and stuns help a lot early on until you get the hang of playing a blaster. 

 

Edited October 13, 2021 by 0th Power
Clarification

[Erratic1]

On 10/9/2021 at 6:31 PM, Bill Z Bubba said:

Team a lot? Brute.

 

???

[ZemX]

22 minutes ago, Erratic1 said:

???

 

I just imagined @Bill Z Bubba pondering that for a moment, perhaps first discarding: "Is it Thursday? Brute!" before settling on "Team a lot? Brute!"

 

[Erratic1]

16 minutes ago, ZemX said:

 

I just imagined @Bill Z Bubba pondering that for a moment, perhaps first discarding: "Is it Thursday? Brute!" before settling on "Team a lot? Brute!"

 

 

Ahh!!! Brutal Thursday.

 

Actually hosted a group of Brutes a few weeks back on Torchbearer, though it was a  Saturday.

[Bill Z Bubba]

49 minutes ago, Erratic1 said:

???

 

Brutes shine on teams more so than scrappers and tanks. This isn't to say they're in any way bad at soloing.

[Erratic1]

Just now, Bill Z Bubba said:

 

Brutes shine on teams more so than scrappers and tanks. This isn't to say they're in any way bad at soloing.

 

SSSSHHHHH!!!!!

 

Do not start another round of the Melee AT Wars!

[Bill Z Bubba]

Just now, Erratic1 said:

SSSSHHHHH!!!!!

 

Do not start another round of the Melee AT Wars!

 

We have ALWAYS been at war with Eurasia!

[A Cat]

1 hour ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

 

Brutes shine on teams more so than scrappers and tanks. This isn't to say they're in any way bad at soloing.

Why's that? I think it is functionally more or less about the same between scrappers and brutes (no high level tanks yet so I dunno about that one), but I'd guess scrappers are ahead on teams since they don't need to be attacked to hold fury and do more damage to begin with anyway. The real question is between scrappers and stalkers on a team. The team increase to stalker crit chance and the lack of danger for a stalker probably helps a good deal. It has got to be pretty close anyway. 

[Coyotedancer]

My favorites for soloing are Stalkers. It takes a little more care than Leeroy face-punching everything with a Scrap or a Brute, but not so much that it's annoying to finish some of the tougher arcs all on your own.  

[Dazl]

Sentinels would be the best “easy mode” toon for learning the basics and getting back up to speed. It may not become your main but it can be fun leveling one up.

[Aurora_Girl]

43 minutes ago, A Cat said:

Why's that? I think it is functionally more or less about the same between scrappers and brutes (no high level tanks yet so I dunno about that one), but I'd guess scrappers are ahead on teams since they don't need to be attacked to hold fury and do more damage to begin with anyway. The real question is between scrappers and stalkers on a team. The team increase to stalker crit chance and the lack of danger for a stalker probably helps a good deal. It has got to be pretty close anyway. 

 

Brutes are better for teams because of taunt and taunt auras, and punchvoke if that's still a thing. If you consider aggro management important for teaming. 

[A Cat]

35 minutes ago, Aurora_Girl said:

 

Brutes are better for teams because of taunt and taunt auras, and punchvoke if that's still a thing. If you consider aggro management important for teaming. 

Brutes do have punchvoke, but it is single target instead of AoE like a tank. If we are examining things from this angle though, then why aren't actual tanks better?