Waaambulance

I recently came back to the game and over the last week I have made many new characters to try them out and I think I have decided on a Brute. The problem is every server I got on, villain side seems vacant and I do not have the "Going Rogue" expansion to level in the new zone.

With that being said I was wonder what type of brute would be good for solo mission runs that can possibly run at 0/+1 or +2 and have little downtime or risk of death. Take into account that I am dead broke and will be using training enhancements until I get to SO's and DO's.


Does a Brute like this exist or is there another class out there that I might have better luck soloing missions on a higher difficulty with?

Oh and Protector is where I started playing originally so I might just give my old defender a shot again.

Wow you guys are fast. Thanks for all the pointers I am going to look into server channels and figure out how to join them. I have one last question I think. I made a claws/elec brute the other night to try out and I enjoyed it, then I found myself on my tanker grouping with brutes in Atlas city. So my question is how do villains end up grouping with Heroes and vice verse and how do you get from villain areas to hero areas? Is that part of the "Going Rogue" Expansion?

I recently came back to the game after a very long break...3-4 years maybe. Max level character was 19 Defender prior. I understand that the population is not as high as when I was playing previously so I wanted to know which server I should play on in order to actually play the game without having to get free farms (although once in awhile I might). I really liked my defender but 1-10 is pretty painful and would prefer to be able to find a group for missions. So far I have tried Freedom because it seemed like a lot of people played there, but I found out Heroes side is farm nation and Villain side is a vacant lot. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


Also if any of you have a link to a beginner guide that would help. Not like simple mechanics or build guide but like where to find important things. I was playing a Tanker he is level 22ish and I was looking for new enhancements but I don't know the name of the SOs that I need so I have to right click info everyone which is tedious.


Thanks in advanced from a noob.