I have another lengthy analysis of a Guardian, this time highly favourable!
The Kinetic Perpetual Motion Machine
Here's my breakdown of a Guardian that enjoy playing very much, and good examples of synergy.
My initial inspiration for a Kinetic Assault / Energy Composition Guardian was the thought of playing a melee-focused kinetic defender. Although this is was not the final shape of my Guardian, it happily grew into something I still enjoyed quite a lot. The key concepts here are synergy and recursion, and abusing the hell out of recharge.
Recursion
Everyone loves recharge, why wait for anything? Of course, there are good reasons things liking cooking meatloaf and baking bread take time, but those don't apply to superpowers. The limiting factor in CoH would be running out of endurance very quickly, but we can deal with that later. Energy Composition enjoys TWO inherent sources of +recharge: Inertial Siphon (drain the speed from foes you hit), and more excitingly Entropy Shield - an otherwise standard defensive toggle that ALSO PASSIVELY BUFFS RECHARGE. Incredible. Throw a Hasten (an extremely common choice in any build) and a Burnout on top of that, and you have enough casual recharge to stack a number of self-buffs, INCLUDING YOUR OWN RECHARGE BUFFS. Let me reiterate for emphasis: your recharge buffs will buff the recharge times of one another. This has implications beyond raw recharge speed, but more on that later. RECURSION.
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Let's look at Kinetic Assault. It enjoys an intriguing mechanic named Impulse - like several of the powersets introduced late in the game's publication history, some of its standard attacks build stacks of Impulse (Kinetic Bolt, etc.), and other attacks expend banked Impulse for extra effects (Mass Driver, etc.) - similar to Combo and Bleed in Street Justice and Savage Melee respectively). A side effect of Impulse is that using a power that consumes it with five stacks has a chance to instantly refresh Coalescence - a power in the fashion of Build Up, which buff your chance to hit and damage.
Synergy
So we have our first harmony: Coalescence buffs your damage and chance to hit. Your attacks hit harder and more accurately. Attacks that hit build Impulse stacks. At maximum Impuse stacks, you can expend Impuse for a chance to instantly refresh Coalescence. Your increased recharge shortens the refresh of your Impulse builders, Impulse consumers, AND COALESCENCE ITSELF. Coalescence's buff is always a fixed duration, so if you're fortunate you can proc the instant refresh before it runs out. Hit harder, more accurately, and faster, and if you're lucky, double hard and accurate. Build and consume Impulse like a machine. SYNERGY.
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I'm sure all this sounds great, but the weakness of increased recharge has always been that your faster powers will quickly outstrip your ability to pay for them with endurance. Fortunately, Energy Composition also enjoys Transference, a power that takes endurance from your foes and gives it to you and your nearby friends. It requires an accurate hit on a foe, but that's no problem with stacking accuracy buffs from Coalescence, and with your massive recharge bonus, it is available to use pretty much spontaneously. Your ability to generate endurance pretty much outpaces your ability to spend it.
All other powers in the two sets, Energy Composition and Kinetic Assault, are gravy. All the Impulse builders benefit from fast recharge and accuracy, and of course you build Impulse quickly. The same goes for the Impulse consumers, with the added benefit that you can pick the shape that best suits your situation: a cone, a straight shot, a point-blank explostion, whichever. Do you need even MORE damage buffs in addition to multiple stacks of Siphon Power and Coalescence? Well, you'll love that Fulcrum Flip recharge quickly enough to use in every single fight. Oh, by the way Coalescence has an Accuracy buff component, and Snipe-style powers become instance when you exceed 90% accuracy. Stacking Coalescence means you will also have the insta-snipe ready for every alpha strike. With all the buffs enjoying a casual 100% uptime and occasionly having your Accuracy, Recharge and Damage buffs stack with themselves, your new baseline is a cool +100% in all three of them, minimum. Sometimes more. SYNERGY. RECURSION. IS THIS WHAT COCAINE IS LIKE?
tl;dr: Buff yourself, your damage, your accuracy, your recharge, and YOUR BUFFS.