What AT do you not play at all

[Apogee]

I was looking over my spreadsheet of characters and out of the 200 or so characters I have, a few ATs I simply do not enjoy playing.  I've tried all ATs at one point since 2004 but these are the ones I currently steer clear of for reasons ranging from how they play to a complete dislike of the class as a whole:

 

Controller

Dominator

Mastermind

HEATs

VEATs

 

What do you avoid playing and why?

[Snarky]

Defender, never

Matermind, not my thing.  very very rare

Controller, no DPS, very rare

Dominator.... rainbow Dom power effect.  wonky monkeygrinder permadom.  rare

Sentinels.  fun when they came out.  No DPS, never again

Stalkers, Blasters out DPS them.  and you gotta be right in it, very rare

Scrappers, not my thing. Almost never

Brutes and Tanks.  Homecoming put me off Brutes by buffing Tanks to the 9s.  I stopped playing them.

Tanks, not my thing.  i have a few.  I almost never play them.

Khelds, never

Soldiers, pretty rare

 

So, i play My Dark Dark Corr, and a variety of Blasters.

 

 

Edited 12 hours ago by Snarky

[JKCarrier]

About the only AT that's a hard "no" are the Kheldians -- they're just too fiddly and labor-intensive for my casual style.
I mostly solo, so I tend to avoid "support" types like Defenders and Controllers. But I'll roll one up once in a while, just for the change of pace.
Scrappers and Blasters are my defaults.
 

[lemming]

My current characters

Blaster	12
Brute	16
Controller	7
Corruptor	4
Defender	3
Dominator	2
Mastermind	4
Peacebringer	1
Scrapper	11
Sentinel	6
Soldier	1
Stalker	5
Tanker	18
Warshade	1
Widow	1

 

As you can tell, a heavy melee bias

Dominators for the longest time were not my favorite, but Arsenel/Arsenel turned out to be fun.   I have one on deck I may level up, and a third is placeholder

I never play my Khelds or Soldier

I tend to play my tanks the most, then brutes & scrappers.  Stalkers I like playing thru to 50, but don't play them as much when they get there.

Sentinels I enjoy playing off and on.  I just have six I enjoy running around with, and the others got retired.

 

[biostem]

I just can't seem to enjoy playing dominators.  Controllers, I can have fun with.  Blasters and melee ATs I enjoy, but the combination of ranged, melee, control, and seemingly no sustain or other such buff powers just makes dominators feel like a slog for me.  I've even forced myself to get one to 50 and do the whole "perma-dom" thing, and still, it just isn't my cup of tea...

[Paradox Fate]

Stalkers - That you can whiff on a Assassins Strike, their signature move, in Hide even with capped accuracy felt like a Dealbreaker for me. And it goes on cooldown if that happens.

Sentinels - I just prefer Blasters. 

[mistagoat]

Defenders and HEATs

I don't dislike fenders I just prefer their Corruptor cousins. I have lots of issues with HEATs but maybe one day.

 

[kanga]

Defenders. I made one back in issue 6, never touched them again. 

Peacebringers. As much as I love the peace bringer power set, the lack of any defense or mez resistance just kills it for me. I have 2 that are just sitting parked, including one with perma everything and all knockbacks converted. its competent soft control and SOOOO flashy 🙂but likely never to be used again

Widow. I just don't know about them, Not had a theme for one yet but will be happy to try it out

Soldiers. I have one, but its stalled out in the 30's One day I'll push for it, i like the concept

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by kanga

[MoonSheep]

i feel like the outlier here, i tend to only play defenders or dominators

 

now starting to play stalkers more. as a heavy insp user i tend to stay away from melee ATs as the secondary set of defensive powers is a waste for how i play alts - total contribution (damage, debuff, lockdown) is the most important aspect for me, survivability is provided by a few insps instead

[BazookaTwo]

Largely I avoid

Controllers

Tanks

Heats

Veats

 

All feel slow or low damage to me 

[Scarlet Shocker]

Scrappers and Stalkers

 

 

[MonteCarla]

I sense a pattern...

The only AT I haven't got to 50 is Warshade, and my Peacebringer was human-only.

 

After that it's Scrappers and Sentinels (3/2 out of 101 level 50s). I mainly lead Task Forces, and they're the best solo classes, so that makes sense.

 

And very cool to see your stats, @mistagoat!

Edit: adding my AT distribution in for my 101 level 50s
Defender 22
Blaster 16
Controller 12
Tanker 10
Corruptor 9
Dominator 8
Brute 7
Stalker 4
MM 4
Scrapper 3
Sentinel 2
Arachnos 2
Peacebringer 1
Warshade 0

Edited 1 hour ago by MonteCarla

[UltraAlt]

8 hours ago, Apogee said:

What do you avoid playing and why?

 

Both of the VETAs.

 

I have some villains but I have no reason to play a archetype that is that much under the thumb of Lord Recluse (regardless of what a character conception would have to say about it)

 

I probably did make one of each before the Sunset, but I don't remember any enjoyment from playing them.

[Jocantaro]

Kheldians - Just no.

Sentinels - Secondary powerset seems wasted, someone wanted to make tankmages the easy way and got it all wrong,

Masterminds - They're fun at the beginning but then the micromanagement bores me.

Corruptors - I spend half of the time wishing I rolled a blaster and the other half wishing I rolled a Defender.

 

These I still play but less and less

 

Brutes - Fed up of keeping my Fury bar full

Tankers - Fun to lvl up but pretty much useless at higher levels due to the speed most teams kill everything plus, if memory serves, their dmg was nerfed recently so losing interest in tanks very fast.

Controllers - Same as above, fun to lvl up but useless on high lvl teams because, cc is usually wasted at the speed high lvl teams plow through mobs, by the time your aoe hold or aoe immob activates, most foes are dead.

 

Basically I play Defenders, Dominators, Blasters and Scrappers. Some Stalkers too since some melee powersets are much better on Stalkers than on Scrappers

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Jocantaro

[Logansan]

My current characters by Archetype:

 

Arachnos Soldier	1
Arachnos Widow	1
Blaster	13
Brute	9
Controller	9
Corruptor	7
Defender	6
Dominator	9
Mastermind	13
Peacebringer	1
Scrapper	5
Sentinel	4
Stalker	8
Tanker	14
Warshade	1
Total (* Torchbearer only)	101

 

On live my preference was Scrappers at first, later it was Masterminds. On Homecoming I started mainly with Brutes, Masterminds and Blasters but over time I learnt to also enjoy all of the others. Currently my favourite archetype is Tanker, two months ago I had less then 5 Tanks, now I have 13 with most being level 50.

 

So far I haven't found a Archetype, Power Set combination I hated, but some are obviously more fun then others. When I start a new characters I normally start with a Power Set combination that I haven't already used and then look for the best Archetype for that combination (except when I got a clear favourite, like I currently do with Tankers).

 

As for which I avoid, none really, but I just don't see much point in having more then one of each of the Epic Archetypes. 
 

Edited 3 hours ago by Logansan
Forgot to answer the actual question

[Ghost]

Love my human only WS and my human/dwarf PB

 

As for what I don’t enjoy.

Trollers and MMs.  
I’ve made a few of each.  Run em through 2DFBs and both Posi’s before usually becoming really bored and deleting them.