Decisions,Decisions,Decisions!!!

Hai all been PvPing for a while now, while small teams arena and zone PvP are my favorite passtime. I've decided to get into 1vs1 a little more, but during the recent week there's some few stuff that made me raise my eyebrows. Unable to come up with a answer on my own I turn to you guys for help.

I made my Dark/Rad corr before i13, but never arena it until last week and so far the results are pretty bad. For example today vs Fire/EM blaster, the minute demonic drop I was getting tag like crazy. I phase to avoid death came out of it with 4 purples to try to keep the preasure on him, but even with the rad debuffs the amount of damage I was taking was pretty ridiculous. The match ended 5-0 in favor of the blaster and a little less deaths then the previous 3.

So my questions are, should I even bother bringing purples vs blasters since so far they seem rather pointless would oranges give better result? I took mace mastery for the web nade and defensive shield but it seem alot squishier then my other corrupters that have levi mastery. Should I even bother with this toon, while it's fun it seem that DR is gimping the -tohit pretty hard.

If I shelf this toon I was thinking of making a Rad/Dark corr already lvl 20 to take it's place, but Solo One is the only one I've seen pimping **/dark like no other lol. Would you take tar patch over black hole? Soul mastery or Levi mastry? Heard some decent stuff about Dark/Psy defenders, but have yet to see one are they worth it? And last question I narrow my next PvP toons to Ice/Cold troller, Rad/Dark corr, Dark/Psy defender and Earth/Fire dom, yay or nay. Thanks in advance for the help.

I wouldn't bring purples to the arena, especially vs a blaster. They can crush what bit of defense you can come up with quickly.

Did you fight anything other than blasters with the Dark/Rad ? If so, how did it go ? Four purples was too much, they will get hit very hard by DR. I`ve been bringing greens but you already have two heals already so it would be different...i think it depends on what your patron shield is as to what would help more.

I am finding my Ice/Cold troller (Messiah Magus) one of the most fun toons I have ever played. I`m sure there are better options out there but i enjoy the play style. That is the only one of the four toons you have narrowed it down to that i have experience on. Rad/Dark corr sounds kinda fun though.

DB/Rad vs any fotm blaster you'll need to use a strategy where you can use attrition to you advantage. dark blast is not good on a rad since you have a heal already. oranges will work better than lucks but use one at a time only. Use any cover and hit and run and heal while keeping him naded and debuffed. eventually he'll have to use hiber after he's running low on greens. count to 20 pop 3 reds, but don't go to town he still has more dmg than you no matter how many reds u used lol. once again use cover nades and debuffs heal after every attack that hits u and use LoS to make sure he cant chain attacks on you. Blasters have only a long recharge heal and hiber so this is why you need the reds for that very important 60 sec. Ur main advantage over him is that you can naturally regain more HP than he can. so once you killed him once nade debuff heal run and make sure you survive the rest of the round. this strategy doesn't work on every AT though kk GLHF

i've seen that dush oneaboveall on his dark/rad (fought him on test back at the beginning of i13), and the way he works it is by power boosting both the toggles and the blasts. i know crap about that, but i do know pb healing can be pretty annoying.

from my dark/cold i do know that carrying greens is not a matter of whether or not you have a heal, but rather a matter of whether or not you want to get your *** rooted (life drain) and spend end on a heal. just keep in mind that when packing a tray.

finally, dark/* is really hit or miss. if you get an opponent with poor kb protection, you're set and he's screwed, if you don't, it's a bit of an uphill battle. also, don't neglect the fact that torrent has a -to-hit component to it. when fighting certain builds (specifically regens with focused acc), spamming that as if it were a -to-hit will slow the pace of the fight enough so that i can win through attrition without having to waste half a tray on survival insps.

i really wanted a dark/rad, and i almost started leveling one, then i decided that i wanted to get around to finally leveling downie (ma/regin) so yeah, it's on hold.

I didn't even read most of the words on this thread but I'm just gonna butt in and say that generally:

Blasters wreck debuffers by killing before debuffs are off

Debuffs wreck regens because they debuff to where they cant heal/regen damage.

Theres probably more comparisons like this but when it comes to duel toons you have to know your weaknesses.

ummmm...my fire/rad has no problems against lolz blasters. The problem with dark nanu is that you cant do enough dmg by the time they get the toggles off them. That's why fire is better because you want to get fast constant dmg and kill the before they get them off of them (proced flares and fire blast). I would not go the PB route is because you get a res shield. You will get the same effect and it being perma as going with the defense shield. Also that life drain is your heavy hitter, so if you use it in zone heal suppresion is going to wreck you. Also it's nearly impossible to beat a decent elec/therm on a rad. Trust me ive tried. Also dont fight forts....they have so much acc you might as well just put on your -res toggle and not worry about the other one.

I have a sonic/dark too...sonic is just not as good as fire. I wish i would have went fire instead of sonic on mine. But o well. The only thing bad with /dark is that defense based toons I.E. Shield/SS tanks, Forts, EA, and SR are going to give it hell. That heal misses too many times, might was well call for the casket.