Energy Blast Hero

[Texman]

In all my years playing CoH I've never once made an energy blast hero.  I think it's finally time and I have a concept in mind.

 

My question is, which off the following would feel the most powerful overall once built out?   

 

Sentinel - Energy/Invuln

Blaster - Energy/Energy

Corruptor/Defender - Energy blast/Force Field

 

I plan to solo/team/badge with this character and have plenty of inf for builds.

 

 

[Maelwys]

If you can cope with being mezzed occasionally until level 50 (Clarion Destiny)? The Blaster.
If not? The Sentinel.

Leaving aside the whole "bad knockback" issue... almost any Corruptor can be a very effective teammate; but IMO those two powersets don't have a huge amount of synergy (FF's Repulsion Field tends to be best at knocking things DOWN and Force Bomb's PBAoE -Res and FF Proc activations doesn't like Scatter. So unless you slot Explosive Blast and Nova with KB>KD you'll likely end up clashing with yourself). Energy Blast also doesn't have any rain/patch powers to best leverage Scourge. You'll also end up effectively locked into either the Energy Mastery Epic Pool or the Soul Mastery Patron Pool (for Power Boost/Build Up) which may or may not mesh with your theme.