Ghost Widow - Dominator or Corruptor?
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Alvan,
Posted on: 2008-12-14 05:59 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Dominator 'cause Scirroco's the Corruptor 
I am the Blaster, I have filled the role of Tank, Controller and Defender
Sometimes all at once.
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Paragon Wiki labels her as a Dominator, as Commander Beet also said. Going by her powersets though, I would have thought she was a Corruptor.
She is a officialy a dominator, but she mostly uses patron and signature powers.
In reality NPCs don't have ATs. None of them have inherents for one thing.
To fight against her, you will find she mostly mezzes.
I really should do something about this signature.
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To fight against her, you will find she mostly mezzes.
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Apparently only when she feels threatened...when I came up against her she just contemptuously swatted me and my imps.
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To fight against her, you will find she mostly mezzes.
[/ QUOTE ]So does my Dark Miasma toon.
Yeah, they don't have ATs, but the closest you can get with her is a Dark/Dark Corruptor with signature powers, Phase Shift, Flight, and a random Dark Regeneration thrown in for good measure. Corruptors have access to a weaker form of her infamous mag 100 AoE Hold, as a mag 3 single target Hold. Her other controls are all present in Dark Miasma/Blast.
Scirocco is also closest to an Elec/Storm* Corruptor.
(*Sandstorm Summoning? Scirocco and Malaise show that even a simply restyled regular powerset can make a cool signature powerset.)
Black Scorpion is closest to a Brute, I'd say. He likes to punch things and has Taunt. Sure, he has cannons too, but Brutes have access to ranged attacks as well.
Mako is pretty much a Claws/SR Stalker with a random Sonic nuke and some of his silly ghosty-sharky signature powers.
Recluse is pretty much a Mastermind Incarnate, since he keeps summoning Bane Spiders like crazy as you fight him.
So I guess, yeah, we're missing a proper Dominator. If Recluse were to take on a fifth lieutenant, it'd totally have to be someone fire based though. None of the Patrons match fire based toons currently.
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To fight against her, you will find she mostly mezzes.
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Apparently only when she feels threatened...when I came up against her she just contemptuously swatted me and my imps.
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Minor spoiler:
In the new mission where you have to rescue her from longbow, I did wonder who was rescuing who.
I really should do something about this signature.
The most important thing is to know her attacks and how not to be effected by them.
Half of the problems people have is down to giving themselves to certain powers and/or loss of taunt control.
Seriously Trick Archers and Firetanks are effective team mates around the real Pros of the game.
The whole business of get this set and need one of those (tools for the job) is for people who need to live in a comfort zone.
I was tanking her without defenders or controllers a long time ago.
I think that in terms of how devs define soloing, many different types of characters have a good chance of soloing her in RV, it maybe a onetime opportunity and not just with the hope that you wouldn't get pvped either.
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
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The most important thing is to know her attacks and how not to be effected by them.
Half of the problems people have is down to giving themselves to certain powers and/or loss of taunt control.
Seriously Trick Archers and Firetanks are effective team mates around the real Pros of the game.
The whole business of get this set and need one of those (tools for the job) is for people who need to live in a comfort zone.
I was tanking her without defenders or controllers a long time ago.
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So, which would you say she is?
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The most important thing is to know her attacks and how not to be effected by them.
Half of the problems people have is down to giving themselves to certain powers and/or loss of taunt control.
Seriously Trick Archers and Firetanks are effective team mates around the real Pros of the game.
The whole business of get this set and need one of those (tools for the job) is for people who need to live in a comfort zone.
I was tanking her without defenders or controllers a long time ago.
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So, which would you say she is?
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Corrupter but she isn't even one of them or a dominator in respects to what we have.
He will honor his words; he will definitely carry out his actions. What he promises he will fulfill. He does not care about his bodily self, putting his life and death aside to come forward for another's troubled besiegement. He does not boast about his ability, or shamelessly extol his own virtues. - Sima Qian.
Did someone mention Soul Storm? Someone need me?
She's a dominator as she specialises in holding then killing you I would imagine if we ever get dark dominator sets they'll be similar to what Ghost widow uses
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She's a dominator as she specialises in holding then killing you
[/ QUOTE ]Again, so does my Mastermind. Who can also stun you, fear you, immobilize you...
Course but that's dark miasma for you its always been pretty control heavy.
Its basically a control set that's missing the AOE hold and has a heal instead
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She is a officialy a dominator, but she mostly uses patron and signature powers.
In reality NPCs don't have ATs. None of them have inherents for one thing.
To fight against her, you will find she mostly mezzes.
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I'm pretty sure Cimerorans have Scrapper's inherent (critical hit). Wretch apparently has Fury inherent, thought I'm not sure if Black Scorpion does...
But anyway. NPCs probably will never get access to Domination because it will probably be broken in their hands, haha, so you can't really measure it by that alone.
However, it could be said that to simulate the domination, they just gave her mag100 Soul Storm, to pretend that she's constantly using domination...
Can Scirocco or Ice Mistral use Scourge? If so, then you could always check if Ghost Widow can Scourge opponents...
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This recently came up in badgehunters or union chat in-game. But anyway, we all know Ghost Widow is most famed for her mag100 Soul Storm hold move. However, her powersets are Dark Miasma and Dark Blast!
What are your opinions on Ghost Widow's archetype? Dominator or Corruptor? Would be nice if we could get some redname opinions too!
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