Ultimate Buffer ?
What's your friends build? It's better to pick buffs/debuffs that synergize with their build.
If your friend is a regen scrapper or Granite tank, being a healbot isnt gonna help them much.
Now, If they are Regen or willpower....FF is nice, Sonic just a bit more since it debuffs as well (it has some problems)
Granite and Dark love Kin, Shield would Love sonic or Storm (- badly used herdicane) in fact, for raw damage...shield with sonic almost sounds like a demolishing combo.....Less clicky than Fulcrum and not prone to Acc failure. Almost, Quick calc shows Fulcrum pulling ahead by alot but meh....
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Empathy is the powerset that specialises in giving very powerful buffs to a select few. Its the ideal accompaniment for a Blaster - giving them defence, mez protection and huge recharge and all the endurance they can eat! And heals when they do get hurt...
Kinetics is good for Scrapper support, giving less survivability but insane damage boosts.
The newer support sets (Cold, Thermal, Pain Dom) tend to scale better to big teams. Empathy is still unbeatable for small teams and duos.
If you want to experience real power though, roll up a pair of Empathy Defenders and buff each other. It ramps up to some ridiculous power levels by the early 30s.
Who said anything about a Healbot? He said he like Empahty because of Fortitude and Adrenalin Boost which are great buffs. Fortitude gives you +defense, +Dam, and +tohit. Adrenalin boost gives you +100% recharge! If I'm playing a Regen I would like a Emp over a FF because of Adrenalin Boost and Fortitude. Fort doesn't give as much +defense as FF but I would like the +recharge and the +Recovery more for my Regen.
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Personally i would suggest an Empathy/Sonic with Leadership in a duo.
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Emp/sonic would fit the bill I think
Emp is great at turning a small team into unstoppable defeating machines.
The /sonic adds some significant -res from your attacks

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Long story short I want to make an ultimate player buffing toon. Gonna run in a tandem with a friend of mine and want to be able to buff him into a juggernaught of pain to our enemies.
What would you recommend ?
One of my old favorites has always been empathy because of fort and adr boost. However is there a better setup nowadays ?
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