Blaster, Corruptor, or Defender for Solo Farming with Dual Pistols?

Greetings folks,

I would like to give Dual Pistols a try and while I intend to team 50% of the time. I do like to solo grind and farm as well. So I'd like some opinions and advice on which Archetype would best suit Dual Pistols for my needs.

Blaster, Corruptor, or Defender?

Also I would appreciate any suggestions as to which power set would best pair up with "Dual Pistols." I know that other archetypes are better suited for soloing and farming but I would like to give this a solid try so any advice will be very welcome.

Thank you!

-Arboris

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Dual pistols/Anything or Anything/Dual Pistols won't be a good farmer. The damage output, especially the AoE output is just too low.

That said your best choice will be a Blaster with a Corruptor as a close second.

To survive as a blaster you'll need a mitigation heavy secondary which means /Ice or /Dev. Dev is not good for farming as it's quite slow and lacks Build up. Ice is going to be the best choice.

You could also go with /Energy for Boost range which will help with survival but will be fairly expensive since most of your mitigation will have to come from defense set bonuses.

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The strongest Dual Pistols sets I can think of are:

DP/Mental Blaster - Drain Psyche and World of Confusion are nice powers that lend extra protection, and Psychic Scream is a micro-Nuke in and of itself that carries a pretty nice AoE Stun.

DP/Radiation Corrupter - You get a self-heal, a self-buff, and lots of debuffs that make enemies as weak as kittens. Cryo or Toxic Ammo will add even more debuffs, and Fire plus Scourge will help make up for the damage difference between a blaster and a corrupter.

DP/Kin Corrupter - huge damage boosting, plenty of heals and recovery, and built-in unrestricted Super Speed and Super Jump. Not much synergy here, but I guess there doesn't need to be.

Honestly, I wouldn't make a /DP defender, just because the damage output is so low that soloing can be a real struggle.

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Too many alts to list.

DP/Fire.

Bullet Rain + Fire Sword Circle gives you solid early AoE power.
Pistols, Dual Wield, Ring of Fire, and Fire Sword give you solid single target output.
By level 22 you can be farming decently on your own or remarkably well in duos. You will also be a great asset to a team.
HoB gives you a nice big punch every minute or so to stack on top of Bullet Rain and/or FSC.
By level 40, with Hot Feet, you will be AoE death.
Endurance use will be your main concern, solo (and early levels on teams unless you blow through the teens with a Kin defender). Even with Stamina and Consume, you will most likely have a want for a Miracle +recovery and probably the Numina or Perf Shifter proc as well (or all three).

Would Fire/Fire be better? Sure. Is it really all that much different? Nah.

If you want to shoot stuff and kill en masse, DP/Fire works wonderfully well.

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So, you want to be Mental?
What the hell? Let's buff defenders.
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For soloing I'd lean towards a corruptor. Blasters don't have enough damage mitigation/healing/debuffing for the harder foes. A defender would work too, but I'd rather have the attacks as my primary and scourge. I think DP/Traps would be interesting. You'd get some mez protection with it. I'd certainly prefer that over a DP/Devices Blaster even with the lower damage output. DP/Dark would be effective. Any/Dark is.

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Thank you for the feedback folks!

-Arboris

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