So... when does a Corruptor actually get fun?

Personally, I've had a crapload of fun on my corruptor since level 1, and I'm at 33 now. I'm fire/pain domination - and much like the OP's power sets, it's team oriented. I pretty much suck when I'm solo, just like you. I picked team-centered power sets - and invested in skills and slots to further support team play; that's the price I pay.

When I'm teamed up though, I couldn't possibly have more fun, or be more useful. Best way to describe the corruptor AT is "a defender on pcp"; we get the attacks as primary, and scourge to boot. How does that not translate into barrels of fun?

As for solo pwnmobiles... I don't know if corruptors can make good pwnmobiles. We have support as secondaries, not personal defence; we are the main villain support AT, with only MMs as competition. We might never be up to par with certain other ATs as solo chars. We aren't designed for it in the same way. On the other hand, we provide things no pwnmobile could ever dream of in a team environment.

For me anyways Corruptors, Defenders, Stalkers, Peacebringers and Dominators have been the hardest for me to really find enjoyable. Getting better I think since I have a goal of getting one of each AT to 50 and IMHO Peacebringer was probably the hardest.

I have the corruptor I find fun now. DP/Kin I have lots of defenders in the mid 30s but that is where they mostly stall. I have a Traps/AR I am looking forward to trying out.

So basically what the OP is saying is that my Emp can solo much better than he can on a Corr? Incompetence?

If you dig yourself a hole at the starting line you probably won't get very far.

These are some of the corrs I've done and I note at what level they started really 'clicking' and could start blazing through solo missions.

-energy/rad (lvl 8, had 3 st attacks, 1 good aoe, and rad infection). Unfortunately this toon sort of got weaker over time, but started out with a bang.
-sonic/rad (lvl 8, full attack chain, good survivability)
-fire/rad (lvl 18, full st chain, great aoes). Just keeps getting stronger and stronger (like adding in LR+rain of fire in the early 20's).
-ice/rad (same as fire/rad, just less damage and more endurance burn, but very survivable due to freezeray)

-fire/cold (lvl 35, sleet)
-dark/cold (26 w/ lifedrain made things easy, but still slow. Sleet at 35 is again the ticket)

-fire/dark (lvl 10, all 3 aoes, tarpatch, dark night, and huge heal. Melting huge spawns like nothing).
-rad/dark (lvl 10)

-fire/traps (lvl 22 w/ SO's made this toon like a light switch in terms of solo'ing)
-sonic/traps (lvl 22 w/ SO's)

-dark/storm (16 w/ freezing rain)
-fire/storm (lvl 16 w/ FR+rain of fire)

-sonic/kin (easy at 18 with siren's song)
-ice/kin (35 with transference to feed the endurance drain).
-elec/kin (never clicked, took it up to 35 and quit it)

-rad/therm (never really clicked solo)

Anyway, I recommend for fun from an early level:
sonic and fireblast paired with /dark, /rad, /storm, or /traps.

Of the possible pairings from the recommendations I prefer fire/traps. It is probably the slowest starting of the bunch, but not that slow and is (imo) by far the most powerful (probably the most powerful solo corr you can make) once it is fully built.

If you want to solo a Corruptor (or Defender, for that matter), I am of the opinion that Kinetics is the only option for secondary (or primary, as appropriate). I have a 50 Kinetics/Dark Defender, and a Fire/Kinetics Corruptor sitting at 30-something. Both of them are awesome in their own way.

My Kinetics/Dark, even with my horrible IO'ing skills, has successfully brought a solo fight with:
Adamastor
Jurassik
Babbage
Clockwork Paladin
Eochai
Jack-In-Irons
Devouring Earth Monsters (the ones on the islands north of PI)
And I forget who else, to a total standstill. They can't kill me, I can't kill them. Maybe I could kill them if I didn't suck at IO'ing. >.> I tried to take out Chimera, but he(she? I forget) does too much damage per hit for Transfusion/Siphon Life to keep up.

From what I can tell so far, Fire/Kinetics (still speaking of Corruptors, mind you, not Controllers! ) is possibly unmatched in it's ability to destroy large spawns. And I don't even have Inferno or Fulcrum Shift yet, and haven't even considered IO's at this point. It needs a little bit of support at the lower levels to contain the aggro from what you DIDN'T defeat between Fire Breath, Fire Ball, and Rain of Fire, but... Hey, you can't be perfect at the low levels.

/Pain and /Thermal are primarily support sets. They really help a team, but they do little for you while solo (especially before you get your debuffs, which those sets only get at high levels). In addition, Energy Blast is only an average set and Dual Pistols is one of the worst blast sets in the game (performance wise, it looks great). Essentially you are playing a gimped Blaster with a self heal and a bunch of team-only powers until you hit the 30s.

I would suggest a high damage primary (like Fire) or maybe a high utility primary like Dark or Ice. Pair that with a good debuffing secondary like /Dark or /Rad, or /Storm if you like it (some love Storm, some hate it). /Traps can also be good... you lose the self heal and have slightly lower debuffs but you gain defense and mez resistance. Fire/Dark is probably the nastiest solo Corruptor... you get the highest possible damage plus massive debuffs and an excellent self heal. Or go Dark/Dark for so much stacking to-hit debuffs that you might as well be softcapped... though in that case I'd go Defender instead of Corruptor for even nastier debuffs. Honestly, the prime advantage Corruptors get over Defenders is that Defenders can't get Fire Blast... Fire plus a good debuff secondary is the way to go for a solo Corruptor unless you just want something else for theme.

20ish is where it got real fun for me.

I have two Corrs. I have an Ice/Rad and Fire/Kin and they're beastly.

All the debuffs you get from Rad combined with the damage from Ice is a great combo. You debuff npcs for your team and yourself, you can buff and heal your teammates and also still do tons of damage. Its a real versatile build.

The Fire/Kin is pretty much the same deal only not as much debuff but its got cool perks like a great heal for those near the enemy you anchor off of and the speed/stamina buffs are great as well.

And I agree with what most said, the builds you chose are going to be challenging.

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My DP/Rad Corruptor is my highest-levelled ranged damage character. It's completely soloable and pretty fun to boot.

However, DP is a little weak on damage to make up for the added soft-control that's so abundant in the set, which means that it takes an extra hit or two to take out your targets compared to other ranged damage sets.

You'll note that most everyone here is recommending you play Fire as your primary with Dark or Rad as your secondary. The reasoning is that Fire does the most damage of all ranged sets (and has good AoE, for taking out multiple enemies at once) while simultaneously debuffing your enemies (making them do less damage, take more damage, and/or move and attack slower), ensuring that you'll mop up every group with minimal effort.

But really, it just boils down to what you want to do and your definition of fun. Do you want to mow through enemies with little effort? That can be fun, sure, but it's not my cup of tea personally... (I prefer to handicap myself a hair and thus have more active battles. To each his own, right?)

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