Lately I have been trying to think a lot about multi purpose hero teams. The usual racway, arkfenway, sabway and discordway is what usually comes to mind.
There are pros and cons to each build but it seems like out of all of them the physical style builds are inferior (from the heroes use) than the caster builds.
The use of racway is pretty limited and unless you use an imbagon or have good healers you can run into trouble in most hard mode areas. There isn't much change you can use to most builds it's basically all ranged physicals + support. Where as most of the caster builds can be loaded with just about any utility you may need.
With arkfenway, general aoe (if noone runs up and aggros) can get more spirits demolished at start. Also relies a lot on spirit damage unless your going to run like 2 high dps melee/ ranged chars. Definitely need an aggro gatherer to keep spirits alive for most of the harder aoe battles.
Sabway is a decent all around, though heroes use of spiteful spirit causes a lack of damage from that main part. It's basically a pressure build relying on damage from multiple sources which isn't that bad. But the spiteful spirit elite for a hero generally ends up being a waste since that target will be spiked usually.
Then of course everyone loves and hates discordway. It is easy c-space 1234 ap caller spike. Just prime a condition and a hex, spike, rinse and repeat. It is boring but effective and heroes can manage to use it well and have many utility spots to slap on.
I keep trying to think about how effective big physical groups are when you run them with other people. But it just doesn't seem like we can get that great effective build done with heroes. Melee heroes basically just will run around half the time if we switch targets. You could try running some spear chucker rangers or other ranged physicals but heroes still will usually lack some good physical dps.
I run with a paragon and if an area is hard I will bring my imbagon build to make it tons easier. But it just seems like for most general effectiveness discord/ caster builds constantly outshine any physical team based hero builds.
I was hoping that this thread would get some discussion going so there will be less "my char is x what heroes should I run". If we talk about the general usage of most of the "well known hero teams" then they may see the thread and pick and choose for their own.
My heroes are *generally* as followed: