Silas

Rad and Dark are all around very strong secondaries that meet your criteria, with Dark having more control and Rad having more varied debuffs.

Sonic is great for high-end teaming, but can be awkward for soloing. Soloing my Fire/Sonic most of the heavy lifting is done by Fire and Sonic Siphon. Sonic really shines on a team, whereas Dark and Rad are less specialised but equally viable solo.

The Acid Mortar shots are also AoE, so put the Devastation chance for hold proc in there too if you can. That and a Lockdown +2 MAG proc in PGT = delightful.

I wouldn't bother with a Rag proc in Caltrops, put it in something from your primary like Fireball.

Edit: Apoc Dam/Rech get, plz to disregardink of post.

Back Alley Brawlers AoE Energy Transfer, Statesmans Lightning AoE, Mask of Vitiation, Chill of the Night.

Will think of more as the day progresses

Going down the roster:

Silas Banefire: SS/Fire brute
Darkstar Silas: Fire/Dark Corr
Penitente: Ice/Cold Corr
Lie: Fire/Sonic Corr
Radiokinesis: Rad/Kin Corr
Voices: Son/Rad Corr
Kingdom Red: Fire/Traps Corr
Nie Wieder Krieg: Elec/Therm Corr
Nie Wieder Las Vegas: Fire/Pain Corr
Skyshatter: Ice/Storm Corr
Discretion: Fortunata

All 50, IOd and accoladed, with the exception of the Fire/Pain who was recently rerolled from a Son/Pain to a Fire/Pain.

On the second page are characters I rarely play. Omnishred, my stripped Fire/Psi, Silas Midnight my DM/Nin stalker, Interdiction my Soldier, Heliostrike which is a EM/FA brute, Surrounded my DM/SD brute who will probably get the axe soon and Hard Six my Mind/elec Dom. Then my three surviving heroes:

Neuroblaze: Fire/MM Blaster
Hearthrall: Earth/Kin controller
Bonescythe: Spines/Regen scrapper.

I play almost exclusively redside and I uh, mostly play corruptors. The brute is mostly for farming/PLing and the Fort is basically a corruptor anyway Most of the characters on the second page don't get played more than once every month or two.

All of my characters are built both for theme and for performance. If a character is arguably the "best" for something but I can't get a theme/costume/idea that gels with me I'll go with something else. With a little creativity, (and Power Customisation certainly helps ), I've yet to have much trouble because of this.

I like getting the highest performance out of a character, but if I don't like the theme of a character it'll never get high enough for max performance to come into the equation

Fire for damage/AoE, Energy for helping with Endurance, Earth for control, Ice for control/AoE.

Target boss -> Heat Exhaustion -> Short Circuit -> normal attacks -> /e cackle

Don't mind Westley, he just thinks he's much cuter than he actually is.

Build looks alright but a few small suggestions:

The Dark Servant needs some acc slotting, while I'd say you're spot on about enhancing his -tohit since almost everything he does debuffs tohit, but he needs to hit to do so. He's very useful, don't be too quick to dismiss him as aggro bait

Slot Fearsome Stare for -tohit rather than fear. While the fear is nice, it lasts decently long enough at base and the -tohit value is huge. The fear will get broken almost instantly in teams so what counts is the -tohit.

Assault also uses a fair amount of end, you might want to put a second end rdx in there.

You might also want to swap the Centriole in Nightfall for a straight range IO. The Posi set gives good damage enh values by itself so you want to enhance the range more to get the most out of the narrow cone.

Last thing, your powers seem pretty well slotted for accuracy and you've got fairly good acc bonuses from sets. I'd say unless you plan on fighting +3s and +4s you don't need the Kismet +acc IO if you wanted to take a slot from somewhere.

t Energizing, I call it stupid because I feel it is stupid to have to completely redo your build if you want to swap out a single power or a few slots. I think it is stupid to only be able to take 10 enhancements out of a build per respec, given at 50 you can have well over 70 slotted. I think it is stupid that if you make a mistake somewhere you have to go back and redo all your slotting and power selections all the way back to right when you made the mistake.

It's an awkward, clumsy and stupid system.

You're correct, SD is better for scrappers than brutes. AAO buffs base damage and Scrapper base damage is high whereas brute base damage is low. This means with Fury in the mix the Brute is doing comparable damage but gaining significantly less benefit from AAO.

The thing about the pet caps is that pet damage caps at 400% (or thereabouts, I forget). So with 90-100% from enh, 170-180% from Fury BU alone will cap the damage on Lightning Rod/Shield Charge. Which is a shame for brutes, because its their 850% damage cap that allows them to do such obscene damage.

When it comes to Epics, ehhh I would probably give the nod to scrappers. Fireball is a better AoE than Dark Obliteration or Ball Lightning. Gloom is better than Fire Blast imo, but for all the other reasons I'd recommend you go with a scrapper.

Granted, none of this means that elm/sd brutes are gimp and elm/sd scrappers are godly, just that the scrapper is numerically the stronger choice. Elm/SD brutes are still very powerful.

Another factor to consider is Fury vs crits. Would you rather have potential higher damage on your non-SC/LR attacks but need to build/maintain Fury, or have more consistent damage with a lower maximum?

Precisely. If you're fighting Mynx and she hits Elude without Benumb on her, she gets fully buffed Elude numbers. If while Elude is up you hit her with Benumb, she still gets the full numbers for Elude because it was a click power and she hit it before she got Benumb'd.

So generally you want to hit AVs/Heroes with defense-based godmodes with Benumb as they're at about 1/3-1/2 health so it nerfs their godmode before they use it. Unfortunately doesn't effect resistance buffs so for AVs/Heroes with Unstoppable just hit Benumb as soon as it recharges for the -dam and -regen.

What Flechette said. Shield Defense, and especially the Elm/SD combo is much better for scrappers than for brutes. AAO buffs base damage, brute base damage is low, scrapper base damage is high. Brutes have the capability to outdamage Scrappers because of their high damage cap, but Shield Charge and Lightning Rod use the pet damage caps so its a wash.

FSC also has a slightly larger radius than most PBAoEs, (10 vs 8), but don't underestimate how much radius matters in dealing AoE damage.

I do agree that Kin Defenders aren't the only defenders with decent damage. While I generally think Defender damage as a whole is pretty anemic, relative to other Defender Primaries or pre-APP controllers there are several sets that offer Defenders decent damage.

Sonic Blast is one, with the -res stacking with the obscene Defender debuff mod, AR and Archery are pretty decent with Fistful/RoA/Flamethrower/Full Auto. TA also offers pretty high damage with OSA, even if its not an every-spawn power. I'm not sure how much worse the damage is on Defender Trip Mine, but if you can leverage it its pretty high damage for Corrs so I'm it does at least reasonable damage for Defs.

You'd be best off just putting an Achilles -res proc in Irradiate. Its not really worth the slot in any of the ST attacks since it doesn't stack from the same caster. If you want to proc out your ST attacks the Lady Grey proc is a good option.

As for Irradiate/PSW, I'd take both. They're both fantasic PBAoE powers and you'll be in melee range anyway for Drain Psyche. BU -> Aim -> Drain Psyche -> Irradiate -> PSW -> cackle insanely.