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Depends on what you want to do with the set.

Energy is melee range single target damage with short range single target blasts, and effectively no secondary effect - once you immobilize them your primary negates the secondary effect unless you're Grav/. Good single target damage, highly resisted damage types (smashing and energy). Energy also gets Power Boost, which can make it attractive to PVPers or people who plan to mez AVs during the LRSF.

Psi is neither bird nor beast. It's got weak single target melee, weak single target ranged, and weak aoe now that PSW was nerfed. However, it pierces through the armor of pretty much everything that isn't a robot, so the damage is more consistent regardless of what you're fighting. The secondary effect is -recharge, which can be powerful; an immobilized enemy with a lot of -recharge stacked on them will end up attacking with only their ranged weapon and only about half as often. It's also got Drain Psyche, which is very nice for boosting your regen and recovery, as well as powerful for draining an AVs regen.

If I were rolling another mind/, I'd go Mind/Fire. Skip Combustion, and you don't have to run into range; the fire ticks mess up Terrify, but you can slot it for damage anyway. This gives you a couple of the least resisted damage types on the same character, which helps avoid the robot problem.

Perma-Hasten is actually counterproductive for some builds, like Super Strength characters with their rage crash. It's also relatively pointless for some builds, like toggle heavy bubble defenders.

I find that around 90-100% recharge I start to feel like I don't need any extra. On a full team I can usually rely on one of my teammates to provide SB, AM, etc to push me to perma.

The issue is that pushing past about 100% you start having to either buy purple sets and LotGs or select @#$% powers and slot them with snipe and KB sets for big bonuses. You can get 93.75% recharge with 5 sets each of 5%, 6.25%, and 7.5%. That represents 15 powers, at least 60 slots, and probably a few build compromises to get all the 7.5% bonuses.

For most characters to reach 100% without big build compromises, they'll need 2-3 LotG or 2-3 sets of purples. Why 2-3 sets? Most purples replace existing 6.25% bonuses, so they're really a 3.75% increase.

So I did some experiments in Boldly Standing Around and the survival part needs a lot of work. I've got maybe.. 30 generic IOs to spread between all my powers right now, so I think tonight I'll drag Grace over to Atlas and see if I can get myself into an unsuspecting AE farm team.

Thing is, she's really got zero attacks now. Beyond providing bubbles, immobilize, flaming angry monkeys, and the occasional Flashfire or hold I'm not sure what I'm going to do with my time in an AE mission.

I guess tonight's experiment is Boldly Standing Around Next to Folks!

I'd say a corr can tank as well as a tank right up until you hit AVs. At that point it's going to take a lot of IOs or a lot of outside buffs.

Why? Agro cap. If the absolute maximum number of things you can hold agro on regardless of AT is 16, then the definition of a tank is someone who can:

Hold agro on 16 targets indefinitely
Survive return fire from 16 targets indefinitely

My corrupter does this, and she's not even built or IOed for it. As Rad/Kin I eat a purple and pop Fulcrum Shift, Irradiate, and Nuclear Bomb. That's enough damage to keep agro attached to me for a good long time. Transfusion is powerful enough to keep me alive, and that's with all of 10% ranged and 3% melee defense plus my resist shield.

Can I main tank Statesman? No, I go all chunky salsa when he hits me. I can't even solo +4 rikti bosses without a little help; but I can hold agro on 16 +3 bosses and survive. That's not me theorycrafting - I often run with teams that end up overpulling and my /kin ends up tanking the second pack.

If I actually set out to build a character for this, I'm sure I could tank 'normal' stuff without the occasional deaths I deal with now - just like a well built tank.

AlienOne, you're under arrest for cruelty to the common "quotation mark" and menacing innocent *asterisks*.

Other than that, good guide! Might have to roll one of these soon, though I'll probably take dwarf just for double mire.

The problem I see is that the build Milady proposes is at least a billion inf, probably closer to 2 billion. I'd be looking at the better part of a month, even with aggressive marketeering.

I'm hesitant to put that kind of effort into the character just to get her back to 'okay'; it feels like I could make just about any character play okay for that amount of cash.

I might try taking those power selections and reslotting them with things I can attain right now. The LotGs, Numinas, Miracle, and Zephyr are pretty much out of the question. The Basilisk's Gaze are probably going to be a late acquisition since they'll require about a day of work apiece to get.

I guess I'll start by using up my freespec and grinding for some Red Fortune set pieces.

Edit: Wait, wait, wait.. fire cages, ring of fire, hot feet... and that's it? You -stand- things to death? o.O

A single hecatomb in brawl.. wow, epic build failure that'll require Smurphish levels of cash and still suck.

I'd start completely from scratch, figure out what stats you want to focus on, learn which sets provide those stats, and determine how to put those sets into your powers in an effective way.

I skipped it on my Earth/Fire because I hate running in for combustion, standing still for a few seconds while it goes off, and running back out for fire breath. Instead, I slotted Fire Breath with 5 Positron's and 1 generic recharge. This gives me a standing still attack chain of flares, fire blast, fire breath, ST hold.

I could see taking it with other primaries though, especially Fire or Ice. If you're standing around using Arctic Air or Hot Feet on stuff anyway, it's just gravy. I'd really rather have Fire Sword Circle in that slot instead - more damage on a longer recharge would make it more worth the fiddly nature of the power.

So I'm looking for a review in a wierd enough sort of way that I thought I should start a thread.

I like AE farming. However, most AE farm maps are just terrifically bad. No story, bad / minimal writing, overall just low production quality that comes with rushing something out the door so you can farm it.

I think I can make a more entertaining farm mission, so I've given it a shot. I'm looking for people who're willing to review the mission with the understanding that it's a farm and tell me whether I've provided an improvement over the usual farming experience. If your comments are going to be limited to "the AE isn't for farming" and "you're abusing the system", you won't be helping much.

The arc in question is currently 322261. It's pretty much a standard slammers map with an attempt at curing boredom added in; I snagged a handful of limericks from an online database and plan to rotate new ones in daily to keep the other farmers entertained.

My first character, back in prehistory when Regen Scrappers roamed the earth, was a Fire/FF Controller. I swept through Bricks with many swarms of Fire Imps following me, six-slotted bubbles allowing them to rend through anything in my way unimpeded. These were the carefree days of flame and soap, and eventually I was fifty and a taskforce commander.

Time passed, and ED happened. Time passed, and the pet nerf happened. Time passed, and my controller became a shadow of her former self. Nostalgia and the vague notion that I may want to make another Kheldian one day are the only reasons the character still exists.

With Going Rogue in the works, I'm curious to know whether I can salvage the character into something worth playing. She's currently Fire/FF/Fire, and despite my efforts in Mid's, I can't come up with anything that looks like it would be fun to play. I enjoyed Fire/FF because it provided a combination of extremely high survivability and moderate damage. With no debuffs and half a dozen weak 'filler' powers, FF doesn't seem to fill either of these niches, and with the changes to AOE controls I don't expect I can permanently lock my targets down any more.

I'm obviously not going to be as useful as a fire/kin or fire/rad or fire/storm or.. well, really fire/anything, but I'm curious whether anyone can see something here that I've missed.

Here's the best build I've been able to come up with, assuming I can't afford purples, numina's, miracle, lotg, or other 100m+ pieces since I'm not playing very actively.



Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.401
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Level 50 Magic Controller
Primary Power Set: Fire Control
Secondary Power Set: Force Field
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Ice Mastery

Hero Profile:
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Level 1: Char BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(3), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(3), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(5)
Level 1: Personal Force Field RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(A), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(40), RedFtn-EndRdx/Rchg(40), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(40), RedFtn-Def(43)
Level 2: Deflection Shield RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(A), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(5), RedFtn-EndRdx/Rchg(7), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(7), RedFtn-Def(9)
Level 4: Fire Cages Enf'dOp-Acc/Rchg(A), Enf'dOp-EndRdx/Immob(9), Enf'dOp-Acc/EndRdx(11), Enf'dOp-Immob/Rng(11), Enf'dOp-Acc/Immob/Rchg(13)
Level 6: Hurdle Jump-I(A)
Level 8: Maneuvers RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(A), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(13), RedFtn-EndRdx/Rchg(15), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(15), RedFtn-Def(17)
Level 10: Assault EndRdx-I(A)
Level 12: Hasten RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(17), RechRdx-I(19)
Level 14: Health Heal-I(A), Heal-I(23), Heal-I(25)
Level 16: Tactics EndRdx-I(A), ToHit-I(19), ToHit-I(23)
Level 18: Super Speed EndRdx-I(A)
Level 20: Stamina EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(21), EndMod-I(21)
Level 22: Insulation Shield RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(A), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(25), RedFtn-EndRdx/Rchg(27), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(27), RedFtn-Def(29)
Level 24: Dispersion Bubble RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(A), RedFtn-Def/Rchg(29), RedFtn-EndRdx/Rchg(31), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(31), RedFtn-Def(31)
Level 26: Flashfire Stpfy-Acc/Rchg(A), Stpfy-EndRdx/Stun(33), Stpfy-Acc/EndRdx(33), Stpfy-Stun/Rng(33), Stpfy-Acc/Stun/Rchg(34)
Level 28: Cinders BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(34), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(34), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(36)
Level 30: Force Bolt Acc-I(A)
Level 32: Fire Imps C'Arms-Acc/Rchg(A), C'Arms-Acc/Dmg(36), C'Arms-Dmg/EndRdx(36), C'Arms-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(37), C'Arms-EndRdx/Dmg/Rchg(46), C'Arms-+Def(Pets)(46)
Level 35: Repulsion Bomb Stpfy-Acc/Rchg(A), Stpfy-EndRdx/Stun(37), Stpfy-Acc/EndRdx(37), Stpfy-Stun/Rng(39), Stpfy-Acc/Stun/Rchg(39)
Level 38: Force Bubble EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(39)
Level 41: Ice Blast Thundr-Acc/Dmg(A), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx(42), Thundr-Dmg/Rchg(42), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(42), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(43), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(43)
Level 44: Frost Breath Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(45), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(45), Posi-Dmg/Rng(45), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(46)
Level 47: Ice Storm Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(48), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(48), Posi-Dmg/Rng(48), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(50)
Level 49: Frozen Armor HO:Enzym(A), HO:Enzym(50), HO:Enzym(50)
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Level 1: Brawl Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest Empty(A)
Level 1: Containment
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Set Bonus Totals:
10% DamageBuff(Smashing)
10% DamageBuff(Lethal)
10% DamageBuff(Fire)
10% DamageBuff(Cold)
10% DamageBuff(Energy)
10% DamageBuff(Negative)
10% DamageBuff(Toxic)
10% DamageBuff(Psionic)
5% Defense
2.5% Defense(Smashing)
2.5% Defense(Lethal)
1.25% Defense(Fire)
1.25% Defense(Cold)
8.75% Defense(Energy)
8.75% Defense(Negative)
1.25% Defense(Melee)
6.25% Defense(Ranged)
2.5% Defense(AoE)
25% Enhancement(Accuracy)
3% Enhancement(Immobilize)
6% Enhancement(Stun)
75% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
4% FlySpeed
53.4 HP (5.25%) HitPoints
4% JumpHeight
4% JumpSpeed
MezResist(Immobilize) 11%
18.5% (0.31 End/sec) Recovery
1.89% Resistance(Smashing)
1.89% Resistance(Lethal)
9.45% Resistance(Fire)
9.45% Resistance(Cold)
1.88% Resistance(Negative)
4% RunSpeed

Just to cut directly to the chase, the easiest way I've found to gain an appreciation for being a low-level corrupter is to try and get an invitation to a team as a low level character that isn't a corrupter.

Alternatively, you could consider the optimal number of each AT on a team. You don't need a stalker or a mastermind. A single brute is enough to absorb alphas. A single dominator can keep a pack under control. Any number of corruptors continue to provide additional buffs and additional damage, up to and including an all-corrupter team.

I'd say that the problem is that you're trying to play with a Mind/Psi that's being played badly. Between Confuse and Dominate, she should be able to take two targets out of the fight with hard controls. Mesmerize can instantly remove the threat from any boss that's not on fire. A little planning and learning how to use the skills in her primary should let the two of you handle Villainous difficulty pretty easily.

If you're planning to duo exclusively, you may wish to think about taking a set that's more single-target focused - AR has 2 single target attacks, 5 AOEs, a snipe and a control power. Something like Ice or Sonic could be a lot more helpful on a very small team.

If anyone with a few blueside 50s on Virtue wants to try and farm these, drop me a PM

I play redside exclusively, but IIRC the timer's 5 minutes and just cycling through the alts I can get into RV would pretty much cover that.

I thought about trying this with the wife's account, but since we only play redside it'd be a ton of work to set up.

Once per target.

In my experience it's awesome in Foot Stomp, but terrible in Lift.

Thanks for all the feedback everyone! Sorry for the wall of text, but it beats multiple posts..

If I taunt, then phase out, does the opponent stay taunted to me?