Tiny Bolt

I might actually be interested in showing up once or twice.

So....when you gonna make the official "I'm the Mids guy" post on Infinity boards? Seeing as our sheer awesomeness, lulz and addicting dramarama kept you from drifting back to Freedumb or whatever server it was you were on...

See, I love almost all /kin powers. Transfusion has let me solo EBs. Siphon Speed makes me go fast, without the end hog of SS, and it helps me get Hasten up redonkulously fast without slotting for a recharge build. Siphon Power has none of the pizazz of Fulcrum Shift, but you get a consistent damage buff at a low level, and you can help speed up everyone else on your team with it. ID, when used right, has saved teams. Hell, I've used it to help out brutes tanking more than they could chew. IR is fantastic if you don't take a vertical travel power. Repel is more useful as a 'fun' power, but I have run into one or two people who used it to keep themselves safe when things get sticky.

They're all useful, just to different degrees, and in different scenarios. Just because some kins don't use more than 3 powers in their secondaries doesn't make the other powers bad. I was being useful and helpful to teams long before 20.

And I play my buffers and debuffers offensively (people shake their heads over how often I'll be sitting next to the melee toon on any toon, with or without status protection), but I'm also a complusive buffer/debuffer. I get the most use out of my corruptors by using both sets equally, or by realizing that "Hey, this team needs damage. FS, SB and blast, don't bother with the other powers" or "Hey, this team is a damage machine, they can be helped more by me keeping them going nonstop" or "Hey, this team needs everything. I can debuff, buff and damage. Wheeee!"

Honestly, I'm not really sure AR/Kin is what you're looking for. I'd really suggest looking into other set combos. Maybe Ice/Dark? Lots of single targets, soft holds, good debuffs, the works.

And I have no idea why HK008 would suggest M30 if you're duoing with a mind. That's a bit...bizarre.

Don't take ID yet! She has Dom, which is like a breakfree. In addition to that, she's a mind dom, and you say she's not getting hit much. Take either the snipe (I don't normally take snipes, I'm too impatient to wait for it, but if you're dying THAT much, snipes can really up the damage potential, and help with pulls for big groups, especially if the group is sleeping). You could start on a travel. Hover is good for hover blasting, combat jumping is good for immob protection and extra defense....etc, etc. Also, constantly keeping ID up will mean more redraw for you. Irritating, to say the least.

If she starts getting held a lot cause Dom is down, explain that she needs to spam attacks to build dom, or just to combine three insps into a breakfree.

Then take Flamethrower at 18, Stamina at 20 (trust me, your end bar not running out every fight will help more than keeping her end bar consistently full), and then SB at 20. Flamethrower ups your killing speed, so while it's end hungry, it'll kill mobs faster, thus helping your end bar in a backwards way (mobs dying faster=less end used overall).

I would actually like something like this for one of my corrs, but she's far away from being able to do anything about it...

And honestly, may be a better response on either the rp sgs personal websites or Virtue, just because this does involve more rp-oriented things, and Infinity tends to take a "SRS RP IS COOTIES" approach.

For your AR/Kin woes, I'd recommend respecing out of TP Friend, and just holding off on travels if possible, and rely on temp travels. Pick up Beanbag. Help the dom out, and stun the bad guys giving you problems.

Also, after a while, you'll learn that Slug kb's (if I am remembering right) and Burst doesn't. For right now, kb is your main mitigation. And learn how to move around. On my kin I'm always moving. In and out of combat range (it helps give you a bit of breathing room if things are iffy cause it can trigger the switch between melee and range attacks in the NPCs, though this takes getting used to...), and always spamming slug and beanbag if it's a hard fight. Heck, take repel if it'll help your playstyle. And as a side note, your end is going to suck pre Stamina on AR/Kin. There's no helping it, and no avoiding it, even if you slot only end reducs.

Basically...on some corruptors, you have to be more proactive. Only good enemy is a dead enemy. Insps are your friends. Using kb and the stun are your friends. Running like a chicken with your head cut off...also, your friend.

And if it's still giving you THAT much trouble, roll a fire/dark. Take tar patch, the toggle, the heal and eventually fearsome stare and fluffy. Take RoF, Fire Breath and Fireball. Maybe flares. Viola. Lotta damage, very safe. Take hasten, and you'll be kinda fast at it too.

*hands Gabby a cookie*

*pats her on the head*

And that's what *I* get for posting before coffee. Mmm, coffee. It runs through my veins...

And sounds good to me concerning IO changes. *thumbs up* If I didn't have so many dark blast toons already, I'd consider rolling a dark/dark. I've heard it's a sick combo when played right.

Er, just so you know, in my version of Mids, you are waaaaaay over the soft cap in multiple powers. While I understand that a lot of NPCs have a lot of def debuff...you may be able to speed up your leveling speed a bit if you pull out a set or two and focus more on damage? Or end reduc, if end problems are that bad.

Think he dropped the Mids' link, seeing as he was recently promoted to Official Mids Guy.

He's working with the Titan Network now to actually update the builder to i16...from i13....wheeee.

Ok, see, I took a look at your list of controllers...if you ever die on all but the fire/kin, you're doing it wrong.

For the rest of us, rezzes are useful on squishies.

The end.

Just gave it a quick skim, but no thorough read...looks pretty good to me, at least powers-wise. Looked at the slotting, but that's really my weak point, so can't comment on it much...but unless recipes are vastly different than they used to be, that's a bit of an expensive build.

...also, may want to try stocking up on those now, seeing as with new drop rates, the market may get borked come i16. ...just saying.

I'll look at it more closely later, to see if I can spot any glaring problems.

Marvel vs Capcom 2

Evidently we're just going to have different opinions about him, which is fine. He was mostly paired with Cable to show the differences between two guys doing the same job, to be honest. But, anyways, this is off-topic from the original topic, and I'm pretty sure neither of us are going to agree with the other no matter how many points we both bring up, so...I'll bow out of this debate.

As to CO, not really interested, but maybe if it seems more appealing down the road I'll look into it.