Fire/dark.... crazy for bothering with res? :p
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ArchLight,
Posted on: 2009-10-20 02:57 in Corruptors
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I've been playing Dark Miasma in many forms over the years (Defender, Corr, MM), and I never felt the need for Toughness on any toon. Dark has wonderful mitigation, and with Dark Fluffy out, you get even more to play with.
Epic armor toggle? Sure.
But unless you have power slots to spare, save the power pick and grab something else.
Personally, if it were me, I'd 4-slot Petrifying Gaze with Basilisks (or other IO set, your choice) and grab Hibernate for those SHTF moments (or to recharge endurance). Pet Gaze is great for removing annoying Lts.
Also, not sure if you are 100% sold on inferno, but I would get more milate out of Fire Breath myself. Depends on playstyle, however.
TL
R version: never found a need in 5 years of Miasma toons to use Fighting.
53 Bots/FF/Mace Mastermind | 53 NRG/FF/Electricity Defender | 50 Time/Dual Pistols/Soul Defender | 50 Demons/FF/Mace Mastermind | 51 Necro/Dark/Soul Mastermind | 50 Thugs/Time/Mace Mastermind | 50 Ice/Ice/Arctic Tanker | 50 Plant/Rad/Earth Controller | 50 Illusion/Trick Arrow Controller | 50 Gravity/Force Field Controller
Yes, I like Force Fields.
Here I was all poised to go off on another rez-less build on a Dark Miasma, and realized you said reS not reZ. Good job for taking Howling Twilight as early as you did. It's marvelous for stunning, debuffing and coincidentally raising fallen comrades. I mention as I always do, the debuffs are AUTOHIT as is the rez.
Now my wandering eye hits the selection of Fearsome Stare at level 26. It's a bit late for my tastes. With experience, I hope you agree on the nice big cone of tohit debuff and coincidental fear state.
Don't take fighting, your dark miasma makes you a debuffing machine. Share your shadowfall with teammates, it has a hefty resistance to psychic damage. Dropping boxing means you can get darkest night before level 30. Aim really shines in usage previous to two powers: Fearsome Stare and Inferno.
Finally, there are some patron powers worth taking if you wanted to plan around taking 3 travel set powers in the 40s.
Triumphant Defenders Forever
Psylenz FF/Psi, ArticQuark Storm/Rad, Symon BarSisyphus Bots/psn, Max VanSydow Thugs/Dk, Cyclone Symon Bots/stm, Blue Loki Ice/Cd, Widow 46526
HelinCarnate:OMG it is so terrible. I have the option to take 3 more powers but no additional slots. Boo F'ing hoo.
I have to agree with taking Fearsome Stare earlier as well. Fearsome Stare is a great power and one of the few that I will take at level 20 instead of Stamina when it becomes available. I always cheer whenever any of my /darks hits 20th and I can get that power. You run up to the spawn, glare at everyone harshly enough to put the fear of corruptors into them and then you can walk around them all as carefree as Hiro Nakamura across a busy highway at rush hour.
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Yeah, no way would I not take the rez :P I have a pvp rad/dark corr that I love fighting regen scrappers on mainly because of the -regen from it. Also when I run sfs on either that toon or my dark mm people ask for a rez and I have to tell them to wait because I never actually use it to rez people, but use it as debuff whenever it's up XD |
Originally Posted by Psylenz
Here I was all poised to go off on another rez-less build on a Dark Miasma, and realized you said reS not reZ.
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As for fearsome stare, I don't mind getting it a little later mainly because I'll either be doing 50 content or if I do run sfs, I'll always have lvl 30 powers or higher (don't plan on doing cappers :P).
The whole slotting for res thing was just kinda out of boredom. I have like 5 diff builds for the toon mainly because it's such a fun one. Few of my in game friends have already told me it's not worth it, just wanted to see what people had to say. I'll probably go back to taking breath of fire, and grabbing power sink. Thanks for responding though
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[QUOTE=theOcho;3409811]As to the REAL reason I'll be leaving, I'm afraid it is indeed because Tamaki Revolution dc'd on me during a RSF.[/QUOTE]
If I was building Resistance based Corruptor I would not got with Dark. Dark has a lot of tools that are just to much fun to play with.
Instead I chose Sonic. A friend of mine described my Fire/Sonic build as going the hardway. Since I did not take any healing powers. But other than a few oh$hit moments here and there as I leveled up things went smoother than I anticpated. Once I got a little armored up and Started my IO project the character really took off. So much so that getting to the PPP armor did not take to long. Since getting the PPP armor and its Resistance was a large part of the concept I could not wait and pushed on over the last two weeks.
Now that I am L44 the character has fully come into its own. I know its a very niche concept character. As the concept was to build out an Armored Corruptor. I also have this in the characters BIO. Few read it. Most cannot figure out how I am the last one standing on the team or that I have more S/L resistance than the average Brute.
This is not a concept for everyone but given how long I have played the game it was a fun diversion to try to build to this specific goal. While I had fun and am enjoying the rewards of the long wait its not a project or concept for everyone.
Concept and focus was getting the most useful resistance possible S/L and Energy with a secondary focus on ranged Defense.
Pinnacle
Arch light L50 INV/SS
Psiberia L50 Kin/Psi
Screaming Mentallica L50 Sonic/MM
Infinity
Arc Voltinator L50 SS/Elec
Mind Fire Kinesis L50 Fire/Kin
Flaming Screamer L50 Fire/Sonic
Up late working on random builds for random toons. I've never taken fighting on a squishy before, and I was wondering if it was even worth it? Made this build with decent s/l res, but should I just worry about ranged def? I looked at a few ranged def builds on the corr forum and the slotting/power choices were not my style at all.
Mainly would just use this toon for farming (wouldn't be a main farm toon, just something to use when I'm bored), or for running speed sfs. Inf isn't a big deal at all.... just bored and want something to work on. So back to the main question, should I even bother?
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Ashes To Dusk newest: Level 50 Magic Corruptor
Primary Power Set: Fire Blast
Secondary Power Set: Dark Miasma
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Leviathan Mastery
Villain Profile:
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Level 1: Fire Blast
(A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(46) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
(46) Decimation - Damage/Endurance
(46) Decimation - Damage/Recharge
(48) Decimation - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
Level 1: Twilight Grasp
(A) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
(3) Touch of the Nictus - Healing
(3) Touch of the Nictus - Heal/HitPoints/Regeneration/Recharge
(5) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Healing
(5) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Heal/HitPoints/Regeneration
Level 2: Fire Ball
(A) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
(43) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
(43) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
(43) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
(45) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
Level 4: Tar Patch
(A) Tempered Readiness - Endurance/Recharge/Slow
(9) Tempered Readiness - Accuracy/Damage/Slow
Level 6: Hasten
(A) Recharge Reduction IO
(7) Recharge Reduction IO
(7) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 8: Rain of Fire
(A) Ragnarok - Chance for Knockdown
(9) Ragnarok - Damage/Endurance
(37) Ragnarok - Damage/Recharge
(37) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(40) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Recharge
Level 10: Howling Twilight
(A) Absolute Amazement - Chance for ToHit Debuff
(11) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge
(11) Absolute Amazement - Accuracy/Stun/Recharge
(13) Absolute Amazement - Accuracy/Recharge
(13) Absolute Amazement - Endurance/Stun
Level 12: Hurdle
(A) Jumping IO
Level 14: Super Speed
(A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range
(15) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range/Endurance
(15) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
Level 16: Health
(A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
(17) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
(17) Miracle - +Recovery
(19) Miracle - Heal
Level 18: Blaze
(A) Apocalypse - Chance of Damage(Negative)
(19) Apocalypse - Damage/Endurance
(34) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge
(34) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(37) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Recharge
Level 20: Stamina
(A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
(21) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy
(21) Performance Shifter - EndMod
(31) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
Level 22: Shadow Fall
(A) Titanium Coating - Resistance
(23) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
(23) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
(25) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
(25) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +3% Res (All)
Level 24: Aim
(A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff
(50) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge
(50) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance
(50) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance
Level 26: Fearsome Stare
(A) Glimpse of the Abyss - Chance of Damage(Psionic)
(27) Glimpse of the Abyss - Accuracy/Fear/Recharge
(27) Glimpse of the Abyss - Fear/Range
(29) Glimpse of the Abyss - Accuracy/Endurance
(29) Glimpse of the Abyss - Accuracy/Recharge
Level 28: Boxing
(A) Accuracy IO
Level 30: Tough
(A) Titanium Coating - Resistance
(31) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
(31) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
Level 32: Inferno
(A) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage
(33) Armageddon - Damage/Endurance
(33) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge
(33) Armageddon - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(34) Armageddon - Accuracy/Recharge
Level 35: Darkest Night
(A) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Endurance
(36) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
(36) Dark Watcher's Despair - Recharge/Endurance
(36) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff
Level 38: Dark Servant
(A) Touch of the Nictus - Healing
(39) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Healing
(39) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Endurance
(39) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
(40) Dark Watcher's Despair - Recharge/Endurance
(40) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff
Level 41: Shark Skin
(A) Titanium Coating - Resistance
(42) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
(42) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
(42) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
Level 44: Combat Jumping
(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
(45) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
(45) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
Level 47: Super Jump
(A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range
(48) Blessing of the Zephyr - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range/Endurance
(48) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
Level 49: Acrobatics
(A) Endurance Reduction IO
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Level 1: Brawl
(A) Empty
Level 1: Sprint
(A) Empty
Level 2: Rest
(A) Empty
Level 1: Scourge
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[QUOTE=theOcho;3409811]As to the REAL reason I'll be leaving, I'm afraid it is indeed because Tamaki Revolution dc'd on me during a RSF.[/QUOTE]