Patron for a Dark/Pain?


A_duck

 

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Hey folks, I have a Dark Blast/Pain Domination corruptor that needs a patron. I've tentatively picked out Soul Mastery. Soul Drain, Power Boost, and Soul Drain all look darn interesting.

However, I wanted to make sure I'm not making some horrible mistake. Does anyone have thoughts on other Patrons? Any free form discussion, hints, or screeds are welcome.


 

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For Corruptors I think you can easily justify any of them, except for maybe Black Scorpion. Scirocco's shield deals with the three most common damage types and the pool also gives Power Sink (which is really useful if you go for +recharge builds). Ghost Widow's shield has toxic resist, which is pretty nice, and Power Boost and Soul Drain are definitely solid utility powers. The only problem I have with Soul Drain for Dark (from experience) is that your cones are going to keep you a ways out of combat. If you want to do a boosted AoE chain you'll have to jump in, SD, jump back, TT, jump back, NF. It's a lot of moving around to land your attacks properly.

Personally, my favorite patron for Corrs is Mako. His shield is actually the least useful out of all of em, but Hibernate has saved my bacon so many times that it's more than earned its power selection back. Black Scorpion is probably nice for PvP, and there is some good synergy between Web Envelope and the rain powers, but I just don't think that set offers tools for PvE like the others do.


 

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Thanks, Duck.

Pain already has me jumping in and out of range, so another one won't hurt. And the Soul Mastery fits well with the character concept (Scirocco would too) and I like the big hold and the fact that one power is also a cone. Should be fun times.