So, I have been playing as the Elf Physical Adept that Hobbes made for me and he is a badass. However, one of the guys in our current group has thus far been playing as the Starter Set pre-made, Rude, and now wants to make his own character, which will be a Physical Adept. This means our crew will have 2 Physical Adepts in it now. We also just picked up one new player that is playing a Street Samurai that loves grenades. The rest of our crew consists of a Dwarf Decker, a Human Rigger (the pre-made named Emu), the pre-made Ork Combat Mage (Frostburn), the pre-made Elf Covert-Ops Specialist/Face (Yu - occasional player).
With another Physical Adept coming onboard and the new Street Samurai I fear that my character might be kind of redundant now and there will be too much physical combatant overlap.
I'm now considering switching to a new character type but have no idea what to play. I really want to melt faces in combat. Do you feel that maybe I should switch to a magic type character and if so, how can I distinguish myself from Frostburn? Do any of you have a BADASS combat and/or magic build that would be a beast and not necessarily be redundant in a group like this?