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Well, a blaster is pretty easy to start with, basically throw damage at your opponents and then try to survive in case you ended up aggroing them. A tanker is also good, and every team needs one. Tankers are generally known as 'meat puppets' because they can take so much aggro and tend to distract opponents away from more delicate archs such as controllers and blasters. Tankers will usually take a taunt power to draw more badguys to them. Defenders can be tricky, as there are basically 2 types, healer and buff/debuff, both of which are very important to the team. Controllers and defenders can be frustrating for newbies; controllers because they are wusses and dont have extremely effectcive powers early on, and defenders(healing style) because the targeting interface can make it difficult and frustrating to be able to target your teammates and therefore heal effectively. Of those 2, defenders are likely the better option on early playability, considering that their secondary power set of ranged attacks is pretty powerful for team offense.

Scrappers are also relatively easy to play, up close and personal, dealing lots of damage.

If you are at all familiar with comic book characters, here are some equivalents...

Scrapper: Wolverine, Captain America, Spider-Man
Blaster: Human Torch, Punisher
Tanker: Hulk, Thor
Defender: Doctor Stange, Green Lantern

Controller: Magneto, Professor X

Those are some basic comparisons. Also, dont go into the game thinking about copying an existing, copyrighted character. The mods will change your costume, and they name of your char will become 'generichero2495'. Literally.

One more thing, meant for everyone but primarily for the experiecnced players. My controller will be a mind control/force field controller, but if no one decided to play an empathy healer, the party will have no 'real' healer, and I could take empathy instead of force field and perform some healing duties, but I figured that a controller named Karl Rove should be able to control the minds of his enemies and provide teflon style protection to his mates. Not that playing an empathy defender sucks or anything, but if no one wants to play one, I could alter my character plan a little...JFK