Pyro_Master_NA

Yes. Jacob's Ladder is a great attack, and on a stalker, it will be involved in your ST attack chain, and will add in some splash damage as well. It is definitely better than Permafrost IMO. As others have said, drop permafrost and grab the winter's gift.

I know for the sake of this thread, those are the only ATs that matter, but just a note that EAT have 85% res cap, brute/tank are 90%, and everything else is 75%.

I forgot to mention that. This is also correct. Which is why you should always build for either types or positions, not both (except in very rare cases, usually with blasters going smash/lethal/ranged).

What? He didn't have any bogus figures. If you get +OVER 9000!!!!!!% recharge, you can really kill lusca and all 8 tentacles in about 30 seconds with defender psi blast.

It will cause aggro, and they will become aware of you, but until you attack or they attack, hide/hidden is still on,, and you get an auto crit. You probably got hit by one of them that didn't get the KD.

That is a very interesting chart there. Do the damage calculations apply scream's own debuff to the ticks after the first tick of DoT?

I like this analogy; it sums up my thoughts rather well.

While what you're saying here is "ture" it is still impossible in the realm of this game where hard limits are programed into the game. You cannot give a character more than +400% recharge at any given time. It's just impossible. You could have 1000 kinetics defenders hitting you with speed buff and after the first 8, nothing would happen to your recharge because the game prevents it. Your theorized numbers being called facts is like me calling what happened in a movie a historic event because the world ended.


There have been valid counter arguments, and they have shown that almost everything you have said is false. There has been mathematical figures pointed out to you that show you are incorrect. Anymore stubbornness out of you is going to begin looking a lot like trolling, and purposely feeding false information to the OP who asked for advice. Take a deep breath, read through what others have said, and admit you are wrong in this one specific example, then move on.

You could always solo hami.

Well old school pvp stalkers had a lot to say about it at least.

What? Something better than my precious controller? Blasphemy.

I say go controller just for the added survivability solo. Once you get hotfeet and add in containment damage, you're doing very nice damage, and with radiation infection (slotted for -tohit, NOT -def please) you won't be getting hit much. Add in flashfire, and you won't be getting hit at all. And who doesn't like burning chimps running around?

There's just so much wrong here, but I've stopped caring quite a bit about arguing with people on the internet, so I'll keep this short.


1- Fire blast, if built with the same goal and inf amount, will always deal more damage, ST and AoE than psi blast will. That's what it was designed to do. Psi can have it's exotic damage and recharge debuffs, but it simply won't out damage fire. It would call for either a fire blast buff, or a psi nerf.

2- In this day and age of CoH, any class is cappable of soloing AVs, and most can solo GMs if enough thought is put into it. That being said, corruptors are one of the best ATs for doing this, as Silas or Silverado will tell you (though I haven't seen a post by Silverado in a while).

3- I don't think you are grasping the math. The tohit from dark and ice(which has ONE power by the way with a tohit debuff) will be resisted by an AV by 85% up front. So -100% tohit is effectively -15% now (numbers given are for easy math examples, not real numbers achieved and kept perma by ice or dark blast). That is nowhere near the defense provided by the powers you listed. The resistance debuff from sonic, on the other hand is only resisted by damage resistance. Because as it is commonly said around the forums, damage resistance debuffs are resisted by damage resistance. That is to say, if enemy A has 50% smashing resistance, it will negate sonic's debuff to smashing damage by 50%, but not the energy damage portion of the damage resistance. It's the way the game is coded. So no matter what, you will always be doing 15% more damage after the debuff than what you previously did, because the resistance to that type was already there resisting your damage. So you always get the same % benefit, unlike tohit on high end enemies.

4- Sonic does great damage at any levels, but really only in ST damage. The stacked debuffs allow you about 60% resistance debuff all the time, which with a 95% tohit cap, will likely fall to 45% every once in a while because you have to miss eventually in this game. And it's highest ST attack chain will not include shout, because A)it's dpa on corruptors is lower than both shriek and scream, although barely, and B)it's long cast time means one of the debuffs stacked up will likely fade before the attack animates fully.


So to the OP, go with sonic if you want a non fire AV/GM killer, and realized as soon as Beauregard mentioned a chain with 567% recharge that he didn't know what he was talking about. If you choose to go with something else, that's fine, it really doesn't affect me in the slightest, but if you don't want fire, sonic is your next best choice.

*Yes, this was me keeping it breif, I didn't include many of the numerical information I could have because frankly, I don't enjoy spending the time looking up information just to tell a wrong person they are wrong.

No. It's 15% per attack, not total. And they each last a few seconds, and the same power can stack with itself. Not to mention, that isn't an attack chain, that's just 3 attacks. Most people who solo big game with sonic throw out shout because it hurts dps, and substitute and epic set power, usually electric fence for a quick animating attack that won't disrupt the flow of -res from shriek and scream.

Not to mention none of the listed sets show any attack chains, just 3 attacks from the primary without recharge times being factored in as to whether or not the 3 attacks can be cycled endlessly. Sonic IS in fact the best ST set after fire, although admittedly, it does that job slightly better on a defender than a corruptor.