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I'll make a Bubbler once Corrs get it, haha. Fire/FF Corr for the win. Massive damage, huge def buffing for the team and trivially softcapped defenses pour moi.

Do want.

No, it got changed recently. No longer causes mobs to run and has a significant portion of its damage upfront like Midnight Grasp.

It's an interesting article and a pretty good explanation of some of the concepts in simpler terms, but its worth bearing in mind that Cracked is first and foremost a humour site. Not a news/scientific resource.

Human beings are, by their very nature, social animals. While I do think that what those social needs are or how they are met can and do vary greatly, I would argue that human beings need social interaction to function healthily and happily.

I'd be interested in reading the full article if you have a link, Angie. While I don't neccessarily agree with the value judgement implicit in the starvation analogy, I do think the virtual/social interaction topic is interesting.

I think MMOs and online gaming are still a very new (and therefore scary :O) media and so there's a lot of overhyped scaremongering going on. Yes, it is scary that some kid can play for 72 hours straight and then die because they never ate, drank or went to the bathroom. I'd say thats more a failure of the parents than indication of evils of gaming.

The thing is, those stories never talk about the millions of gamers who just, you know, game. Who still eat, drink, socialise and function as human beings. It's not mentioned because its not interesting or newsworthy. Tonight at 11: everything going just as smoothly as yesterday, business as usual. That's not news, unfortunately.

Er, I went off on a bit of a tangent there. What it comes down to for me is that anything in excess can be bad for you. Game all day, drink all day, sleep all day, watch tv all day, whatever. I don't think there is anything about gaming which exempts it from being unhealthy in excess.

Regardless, I think its an interesting topic, just a shame that so much of the information and media out there seems to be scaremongering. It's certainly a topic worthy of discussion and so it was a little disappointing to see some of the dogpiling here.

Yeah, you'd think most would go for forum PMs but apparently not always. I've gotten a lot of messages (positive and negative) in offline tells about my guides and/or builds.

To each their own, I suppose.

That said, I've ignored almost every single negative offline tell I've received whereas I've gladly entered into discussion with almost every negative PM

This is a good point and one I forgot to mention, cheers Shin. While you can build a Blaster as ranged only and still do loads of damage, you'll pretty much always do loads more if you incorporate the melee attacks.

Especially for ST DPS. Sup, /Energy.

The main culprit is probably SF. While DN and SF both use the same end/sec, SF isn't crucial to run midfight if you're having end problems. I'd run SF for the stealth while running around and getting into a fight, but once you start I'd shut it off. Not running SF will hurt you far more than not running SF.

Another slot of end mod in Stamina will probably help too. IMO the P.Shifter proc is best when you're already in ED territory for Stamina.

Freeze Ray probably isn't the problem since it doesn't cost a whole lot of end but if you can spare a slot it'd help to chuck an end rdx in there too.

Bitter Freeze Ray is probably the problem if you're using it a lot. It uses a lot of endurance (more than Bitter Ice Blast) and honestly isn't that good. I'd just stick with Freeze Ray to hold stuff. Freeze Ray is almost perma by itself right out of the box and is much faster activating than BFR.

Do you have Bitter Ice Blast? It's your best blast so if you don't have it that might explain why your offense is feeling a little slow.

Ice Storm could use an end rdx, it also costs a fair chunk of endurance. So does Frost Breath, if you've got it.

For Tar Patch, I'd 3 slot it. 2 End/Slow/Recharges and a generic recharge. That'll give you decent end rdx, slow and good recharge. Later on if you don't have a lot of global rech you could put in a second recharge enhancer. It really doesn't need a lot of endurance reduction, the recharge is the main priority. The advantage of using the 2 triples and the recharge enh is that you get far better numbers for the slots than you could with SOs. Plus the slow sets are all dirt cheap.

Frankenslotting other sets for recovery is also a great idea. You can pick up small recovery boosts all over the place and they really add up. Frankenslotting also helps you get much more enhancement out of the slot investment.

Hard to tell without knowing a little more information. Ice/Dark is generally a pretty end-heavy combo. Fire/Rad can be too, but Fire doesn't have to shoot quite as much because it does more damage and /Rad gives you AM for an additional recovery boost.

While attacks are usually the main culprit for high end use, how are your toggles slotted?

As to whether things get better, I'd say so. At 38 you'll get the Dark Servant who will do a lot of your debuffing for you so you can focus on blasting. In the 40s you can get any of several PPP or APP powers that will help with your endurance. I'd recommend going with Dark Mastery. It's got Dark Consumption which will help with your endurance, Soul Drain which will turbocharge your damage and Soul Transfer should you ever die. Oppressive Gloom is also pretty nice, but I've not found room for it in my build.

Since Lingering Radiation is your main -regen power, you want to max out the accuracy and recharge on it. Definitely 2 acc 2 recharge, optional end redux if you need/want it.

Yeah, -tohit on RI. I went with 4 Dark Watchers for the recharge bonus and an Achilles -res proc.

I've actually often thought about making a Bane or Huntsman. Leaning more towards Bane because while both Huntsman and Bane can have all the debuffs, the Huntsman would have more redraw.

Once I'm done with my current projects I'll have to give it another look Cheers for the feedback, glad you liked the guides.

We should try that again now I've got my Fire/Rad. Double Rain of Scourge ftfw.

Optimal is a difficult choice. If I had to choose something, it'd probably 2 Fire/Rads. Double AM, double Rain of Fire, delicious.

Huh, well cool. Cheers for the info. I always shy from KB powers anyway so yeah, never really tested it much myself

I think Traps might be just what you're looking for then. You can approach any fight in several different ways with Traps, its a really cool set.

Yeah, the Corruptor Inherent power is Scourge. What that means is all Corruptor attacks have a chance to do double damage (like a Scrapper critical) for every percent of health the foe is below 50% health.

So once a foe is at 50% health, your attacks have a 2.5% chance to crit. At 40% health, they have a 25% chance to deal double damage. At 20% health, they have a 75% chance to deal double damage. This is often overkill on minions, but its great on bosses and awesome against big health targets like Archvillains and Giant Monsters.

It also adds a little more strategy to your fights, because you're rewarded for using lower damage or DoT attacks on foes with low health rather than always going for your strongest attack which can often be overkill.