Bubbles !!

While grinding my Dp/Cold Corr (after my 2nd faceplant ) i started thinking what can i do to minimize my end use an stay a live at the same time an it hit me .. Nothing !!!!! lol . an i figured out what would be a great secondary for a Dp cor . bubbles !! they would allow me to wade in to mobs an use my teir 9 ( i think ) but since corrs dont have FF i will never know. I was wondering Does any one know why Corruptors dont have FF ?

The theory I've seen banded about is that with Corruptors the devs are deliberately only giving them sets with strong -res debuffs or +dam buffs in order to try and minimize the problem Defenders have where the soloing ability of different defenders varies wildly. No clue if that's true or not.

Other possibilities are simply that it's low on the priority list for proliferation to Corruptors since it's less compatible with their team role than it is for other ATs with buff sets or simply that Devs hate villains.

If you want a secondary that gives you a strong defensive bonus I recommend Traps. Traps' Dispersion bubble is actually more powerful than the one in FF.

Before powerset proliferation, I would have said that the reason Corruptors don't have Forcefields was because the Devs seemed to only want them to have sets that were both buff and debuff, not one or the other (which is why they lacked Empathy, FF, and TA). But my current theory for Corruptors not having Forcefields after powerset proliferation is that it would be almost a duplicate of the MM version. I mean, they would be more similar than Corruptor and MM TA is.

Corr Personal Force Field
63.75% +Defense(All)
30% +Resistance(All but Toxic)

MM Personal Force Field
67.5% +Defense(All)
40% +Resistance(All but Toxic)

Yes, the MM version would be better than the Corruptor version


Corr Deflection Shield
11.25% +Defense(S/L/M)
30% +Resistance(Toxic)

MM Deflection Shield
11.25% +Defense(S/L/M)
30% +Resistance(Toxic)


Corr Force Bolt
8.34 Damage(Smashing)
14.96 KB

MM Force Bolt
6.12 Damage(Smashing)
14.96 KB


Corr Insulation Shield
11.25% +Defense(F/C/E/N/R/AoE)
69.2% +Resistance(Recovery)
69.2% +Resistance(EndDrain)

MM Insulation Shield
11.25% +Defense(F/C/E/N/R/AoE)
52% +Resistance(Recovery)
52% +Resistance(EndDrain)


Corr Detention Field
4.77 Untouchable/Only Affect Self/Immob

MM Detention Field
4.77 Untouchable/Only Affect Self/Immob


Corr Dispersion Bubble
7.5% +Defense(All)
6.92 Protect(Hold/Immob/Stun)

MM Dispersion Bubble
7.5% +Defense(All)
5.2 Protect(Hold/Immob/Stun)


Corr Repulsion Field
4.99 KB

MM Repulsion Field
4.99 KB


Corr Repulsion Bomb
41.71 Damage(Smashing)
0.67 KB
9.54s Stun(Mag2)

MM Repulsion Bomb
30.59 Damage(Smashing)
0.67 KB
9.54s Stun(Mag2)


Corr Force Bubble
10 Repel
0.1 KB

MM Force Bubble
10 Repel
0.1 KB

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Originally, it appeared as those they wanted to keep at least one unique powerset for each AT. I suspect it is merely a coincidence of it remaining on the 'to be proliferated' list and held back until it's needed to spice up an issue.

My theory has always been that FF is an ill-formed powerset and they wish they had never created it.

It's an ill-formed powerset that I have run up the levels four or five times, but it's not for everyone. It's for almost nobody, actually.

Goofy though FF may be, I want a Fire/FF Corruptor. FF is still a great buffing powerset but I can't stand it with low defender, controller or mastermind damage.

On a fire corr however, buff the team every 4 minutes, spend the rest of the time running around as a softcapped, mez-protected Fire-blasting Corruptor.

Do want.

Force Fields suffers more than any other buff/debuff set in going from Defender to Corrupter/Controller values.

For a Defender, its pretty easy (Manouvres and SO's) to soft cap your entire team. For a Controller doing the same you get to around 33% Defence on everyone, which is letting in over 3 times the damage. So you could argue that instead of being 3/4 as effective, its 1/3 as effective. That's not entirely true, but sort of correct...

So maybe that's why FF hasn't been ported? Personally, I don't think that argument is a complete deal-breaker, I think they just haven't got around to it yet. A /FF Corrupter would still provide better team safety than any other existing Corrupter, at the expense of not bringing much else to the table with their secondary.

And yes, it would be easy to soft-cap yourself to a few positions and play tankmage. In a balanced way.

The "not bringing much else to the table" is what I meant by ill-formed, yes. It's so good at Defense and so bad at anything else- my belief ("theory" implies some sort of rigor that the idea does not possess) is that they want to, if possible, make LESS force fields instead of more.

Yeah, I know. I agree that it is an ill-formed set in that way.

Force Fields has a niche, but it's a kind of small one.

It would be nice on Corrupters as a visually neutral (compared to Traps or VEATs) way of building an effectively protected (compared to Sonic Resonance) more solo-able (compared to Defenders) blast-defence character. You know, with Iron Man 2 coming out soon...