Anyone playing a corr */kin with no travel power?
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Carnifax,
Posted on: 2006-04-01 08:46 in Corruptors
It is very doable as long as you are in a "safe" area, while mob's are yellow or lower to you, you will rarely miss and rarely get destroyed for attempting to fire it off. try sapping speed from a Pink Lutenant and his friends could very well destroy you before you have taken another step.
I would say that if you are planning to not take any travel powers at all, then Inertial Reduction will have to be on your shopping list too.
I hear a lot of people say that they have sucessfully pulled off a Kin template with no travel powers, at least you have 2 respecs to look forward to if you change your mind
With my /kin troller i took fly at lvl 14, then at lvl 28 i did the 1st respec and took siphon speed and IR as my travel powers, it works great!!
I'd think about taking one (I took superspeed as I wanted hasten anyway) and then respeccing out at 27 (to save yourself about 1.1 M INF and put up with no "real" travel power for one more level...)
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I took my /kin corruptor to 40 using just siphon speed and IR. If I were to try another /kin I would take a travel power then respec it out later.
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I got my energy/kin to lvl 36 right now (and will easily get him to 40 or even 50 later on) with just siphon speed. Inertial Reduction was (in my eyes) a waste.
True, when you enter new zones where everything is purple, you may take a long time travelling (get a TP teammate then :P) but most of the time you wont have issues. Especially once you reach SOs it's not very hard anymore. I 3-slotted for recharge and 2 slotted for acc. This way it hardly misses, and even if it does its back up in 30 secs. Ofcourse, my reasons for this slotting were combat-related, but it also makes it more usefull for travelling.
I say take advantage of the kinetics set, and only get the powers you REALLY want. I skipped Inertial Reduction because Energy/Kinetics has so much awesome powers, I just couldnt get a travelpower (even IR) when I essentially already had one in siphon speed.
Just one small addition: get hover. It protects you from knockback, which you really REALLY need and the only other way is acrobatics, which means getting 2 other powers from the leaping set, while hover can be taken instantly. It's not as good as acrobatics, but with siphon speed you still move at a great speed with hover (its actually easier cause otherwise your TOO fast in battle) and it does a good job of defending from knockback. Also, it helps you get up those ledges you just cant reach with jumping.
Sorry about the huge post. I just love */kinetics :P
Seeing as I have hasten in my build I took Super Speed and respeced it out later.
No travel power here 
I took Combat jumping/SJ (it's my fave travel power ) then respecced out at 28 for IR.
No Complaints, I just took Hover for the KB protection and it's great, Once siphon speed is running 2 or 3 stacked you are faster than fly with excellent precision control
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I have a ice/kin corruptor, she's only level 11 but i'm looking at the power and i'm wondering if its doable?
I got Syphon Speed at level 10 and its really fun, of course its annoying when it does miss. If i don't take travel power now, i will but after a respec in later levels.
Now we are looking at PvE, Port Oaks isn't that big, is it doable on other maps with only Syphon Speed as your only mean of fast travel?
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It's "doable". Its not a lot of fun though, the 12-28 grind to get IR is painful with just Siphon Speed.
I managed it mainly thanks to the goldbrickers jet pack and the jingle jet. Level 20 when you go to Sharkshead is a complete pain without these.
Basically i wouldn't bother. Get a travel power, hit 28, respec it out for IR. Save yourself a lot of irritation.
I disagree. lvl 37 still with just siphon speed!
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I disagree. lvl 37 still with just siphon speed!
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Erk. Fair play to you. I think Nerva would drive me mad with just Siphon. Sharkshead certainly did.
Actually St Martial is worst
I agree, if you're a corruptor the best travel power is flight because you'll be using most ranged attacks, and siphon speed alone jsut won't cut it.
It depends. Actually, as a */kin I don´t see the point in flying high above things, because many of your powers require you to be close to your target and/or teammates to get the most benefit (like healing yourself for example).
So flying is fine for almost any corruptor, but for my */kin it would be a wasted power slot.
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Actually St Martial is worst
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I'm sure it is. Happily by then I plan to have IR at least.
Having done this in CoH (with a defender) I can tell you now, Atlas Park and Galaxy City late at night are the worst. The problem is when you find an area where you are two high level to spawn mobs and there is noone low level around. Then you discover an entirely mob free zone and you have to run across the zone really slowly.
I used to head for city hall or Galaxy girl since there were usually people (and hence mobs) around there, but it was always a pain.
Having said that, when in zones around your level Siphon speed is very usable. Having said that taking hover is a very good move as Toughguy pointed out, and Siphon Speed plus Hover equals slotted fly (with no supression).
I have a ice/kin corruptor, she's only level 11 but i'm looking at the power and i'm wondering if its doable?
I got Syphon Speed at level 10 and its really fun, of course its annoying when it does miss. If i don't take travel power now, i will but after a respec in later levels.
Now we are looking at PvE, Port Oaks isn't that big, is it doable on other maps with only Syphon Speed as your only mean of fast travel?