EricHough

On my fire/dark corruptor I slotted 4 cloud senses (to hit debuff, acc/to hit debuff, acc/rech, to hit debuff/end red/rech) and a siphon insight (acc/end/rech) for the global recharge in cloud senses (6.25%) plus the accuracy that the regular to hit debuff sets do not have. This gives me 60% acc, 57% rech and 44% to hit debuff plus some end reduction. However cloud senses are not cheap these days, so psylez's suggesions are not bad although the lack of accuracy might be an issue - you might consider 5 dampened spirits plus an accuracy IO. I don't know if mm supremacy affects pets in secondaries or not - if it does, then you won't have to worry about accuracy as much as a corruptor.

Blasters solo amazingly well up to the late 20's because they get all their best attacks early on, have the highest ranged damage modifier of any AT and get the added boost of defiance which generally provides a 20%-30% damage boost most of the time. In the late 20's the mob HP start to catch up to blaster damage and soloing becomes a lot more difficult unless you play one of the more defensive secondaries, go with a hover blaster or can get into a do or die mentality - i.e. you have to be willing to get in, unload all your best attacks and hope you don't die/take too much damage before you kill things. If you want to play a defensive blaster do one of the following:

- Take ice or devices as your secondary. Between ice patch and shiver you can get a lot of damage mitigation. Devices gives you caltrops, cloaking device and trip mine. Use cloaking device to get into decent strike range for all your best attacks (plus it gives you a decent base to start stacking def), caltrops to keep mobs out of melee range and trip mine at your feet so that if they DO close to melee range they get blowed up.
- Go with a more defensive primary like sonic, the sleep you get at 18 was made for a cautious blaster.

Corruptors start out a lot more slowly as they need to leverage their secondary to stay alive and increase their damage, which means that they will tend to burn more end at lower levels than blasters and so level slower, at least outside a group. However, when a blaster starts to slow down a corruptor will finally have a good array of offense + defense and be ready to go to town plus they add more to a group then a blaster. If you want a good solo corruptor though you probably want to stick to one of secondaries that helps you out as much as a group, which means that the best ones are dark and rad, with traps and storm right behind them. The other secondaries are not going to be as much help solo - while many people love to push certain secondaries because they allow you to solo AV's or GMs, keep in mind that this is like 1% of the game and usually the sets that do well at this are late bloomers, like cold, which doesn't help you out much solo until you have benumb, sleet and heat loss - which means you are not a good soloer until L35 at least. Thermal and pain have similar problems - you get nothing but heals and shields until 28 or later on both sets.

For primaries, you want one that puts out a large amount of damage - fire and sonic are the best here. Archery is nice once you get RoA and decent until then and ice blast starts out slow but picks up once you get bitter ice blast (plus it has two of the best AE attacks for corruptors - ice storm and blizzard, which do awesome damage provided you can keep the mobs inside the area of the rains). Dual pistols, energy blast and rad blast are all good, middle of the road sets with nice gimmicks (multiple damage types for DP, huge amounts of knockback for EB and -def and lots of AE for rad blast). Dark and electric blast are kind of the outliers - dark has great controls and debuffs but its damage is kind of anemic, electric blast is probably bottom of the barrel for primaries.

My recommendations for the best soloing corruptors would be: Fire, Sonic or Archery / dark, rad or traps.

A defender is going to be roughly similar to a corruptor but start out a little more slowly solo, until the full damage buff from vigilance kicks in at 20. At that point I expect the two to be very similar except the defender will add a little more to groups and the corruptor will be better at killing hard targets where scourge can really kick in. The same powerset combinations will work for both.

Will likely bring my tank, Andromache, as usual, although I could bring my widow these days since she is a vigilante so she can do Hami's on both sides. Any plans for EoE farms ahead of time?

The only problem I see with making fitness an inherent is the thought of having to respec 50-60 characters - not looking forward to it.

I also wonder about the mechanics behind it - are they going to give us all 4 powers for free, or just pick one of swift/hurdle for us? Will they be slottable? Are they just going to give us stamina? If the powers are not slottable, then where am I going to stick my miracle/numina unique's.

Seriously though folks - do you really think it makes sense for the dev's to design this bright, shiny new set of starter zones and then, after 20 levels of bright and shiny, tell new players that they have to go through all the old, not so shiny, frequently painfull content to unlock the 2 special AT's?

I think its a HUGE mistake to force them to do this. Considering that its only the new players that are going to be hit by this - even someone who has been playing for just a little while prior to GR will already have characters on either or both sides its the new folks who picked up GR with the promise of the cool, new zones as an improved starter area that will then have to go back to the old, sad zones.

Also, for these new folks, the 1-20 ride is also NOT going to be the 'fast' 'easy' ride that all the folks praising the dev's for yet another silly decision like to claim. They are NOT going to have a large community of in game friends to PL them, they are not going be familiar with all the easy ways to level, especially through things like the old, stale blueside content. Redside won't be as bad at least, it is still a fairly nice ride although I expect a lot of folks will be turned off by the dingyness of the zones, especially after the bright shiny of Praetoria.

Well, I don't badge at all but I love to try new things - so I will try to be there with my widow, who usually has nukes - although the current ones will probably be used in the villainside hammi on saturday.

Does anyone know what IO sets Sleet in the Ice mastery APP takes? Mids shows it as taking ranged damage and slow - which can't be right.

The best: a merged market and being able to email items between characters of all alignments.

I do actually quite like all the praetoria content but the enjoyment is tempered by the lack of access to the rest of the game while you are in praetoria (no SG's, no going to the other zones until you hit 20, no task forces until you hit 20) and the fact that the merit rewards for the stuff in praetoria are so pitifull I don't see any reason to run the content much more than once, maybe twice. Often enough to take all the possible branches at least.

A vigilante is a hero who cares more about punishing the guilty than protecting the innocent.

A rogue is a villain with just enough empathy to care who they hurt but to much greed to stop committing crimes for a living.

I just got my bane to rogue status yesterday and today starting working on hero tips for a full round trip. I got a tip in peregrine, accepted the heroic option version (which was the only one offered) and ran the tip. When I finished it I did NOT get a point in my hero alignment bar and the little circle in the public fame section shows as a vigilante action: specifically, when I mouse over the public fame icon for that tip it says "you have gained fame for your actions as a vigilante"

Anyone else see this? Is this just an odd quirk or am I blocked from going to full hero until they get the system working correctly (which is kinda stupid, since this is at least 1/3 of the GR release).

My huntsman, Midnight Renegade has already gone Rogue, just entered paragon city for the first time this afternoon.

I was going to leave him at rogue so I could use him to run both TF's and SF's but with the travel options being limited to visitors, I may go all the way to hero then to vigilante, as travel is harder in paragon city than the rogue isles.

I am in - I will probably bring Andromache, my shield/SS tank. She has all 3 nukes, originally for this saturdays hammi raid but I can burn them on this and get more.

EDIT: Global is @Midnight Mystique