Corruptors get some Love

I see a good powerset lingering around in the mastermind sets, Poison of course, its not used often so I think it should be placed for corruptors too, to componsate for the lack of force fields.

Also, a poison blast set would be a nice replacement for the other lacking power, psychic blast which corruptors dont have either and add a powerset which is just poison damage. The poison blast could have a DoT effect on certain powers and others that effect defense, speed or resistance.

Have long wanted to see /Poison ported over to Corrs and possibly Fenders.
/Signed

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

Here you go, some Corruptor Love.

I like poison, but I can't think of many compelling PvE reasons to play it with /Radiation Emission available... Rad does most of the things Poison does and almost as strongly, but as AoE instead of single-target. A lot of it would come down to how Noxious Gas was ported over or what replaced it, though.

I'd want to see poison ported over to corruptors with faster recharges and lower end cost.... have Noxious Gas be an ally targeted AoE. Then up all the debuff numbers on the single-target effects. Turn poison into a single-target slaying set. Radiation Emission has good numbers and AoE effects. Make Poison GREAT numbers and single-target.

As for a poison blast set: I wouldn't mind it. I imagine it'd have damage values similar to Psi Blast or Rad Blast, which wouldn't be that bad.

Though, to be honest, I'd probably make a Dual Pistols/Poison as my first and probably only poison corruptor >.>

-Rachel-

Poison blast won't happen. Toxic is considered an "unbalanced" damage type, with no matching defense. It's the elephant in the living room of damage types, and why no single player attack in the game deals primarily poison damage.

And Poison... there is not really any reason to take it over Radiation Emission. The two anchors are not much weaker than the single target debuffs and are AoE (hell, they pack more -tohit), especially when you realize that Poison debuffs are still subject to Ranged defense. AM is a powerful and highly desirable ally buff. Antidote is... decent, but not that good. Alkaloid is horribly overpriced for its effect and (especially) recharge time. Neurotoxic recharges faster than LR but in return doesn't have the much-desired -regen. The whole set has absolutely no alpha strike reduction capability. Poison Trap is a joke. The only AoE debuff that would help is on a 5m timer and often dies with its carrier.

So, yeah. I think Poison needs some work before it's good enough. For the lack of alpha help I have no solution, but I do believe Alkaloid needs to be retooled. I'd start by cutting the duration in two or four but adding a +regen component to the heal. The heal that keeps on healing, like the new (and awesome) Energize.

Looking at /poison's numbers, and having played it, I'd have to say it has two powers going against it: poison trap and noxious gas. It has one big hole as well: little regular mob mitigation, so aside from the enemies weakened so badly, you'll have a crowd bearing down on you/your team full throttle. Making noxious an ally toggle, the consistent -res helps as quicker death=mitigation.

Poison trap's sleep is not applied to newcoming mobs, but it's actually not the sleep I'd tweak. I'd have it do a pulsing, continuous -end that could completely drain endurance from a mob after some time. As there'd be no -recovery with this, they could do a few counter-attacks between drain ticks, but it would still help reduce damage.

If you can tweak those up, you'd have a more viable solo AND team performance, something very important when you don't have minions to take hits for you à la corruptors.

Frankly, I disagree. The debuffs are strong enough as is. I'd rather affect more targets than one more. Most mobs die fast enough as is already to bother debuffing them one by one.

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It's a great set, but too exclusive.

If you still care for them, posted my Poison suggestions.

I love this suggestion. I'd love to see poison proliferated to Corruptors, to blasters and defenders too. I know it's not a "heroic" set, but since heroes can go vigilante and villain now. (Well soon thy will.) And since from what they've said at the cons it seems like praetorians will be able to pick any AT and be either side, Defenders and Blasters don't have to be strictly heroic anymore.