And your "out of the box" answer would then be no, not really. Especially considering that dark blast being mainly dot will not benefit from scourge nearly as much as other primaries. I suggest fire/dark for out of the box farming on a corr. Fire supplements enough aoe dmg, tar patch increases that damage and keeps your spawn where you want them while all the -tohit that comes loaded in dark miasma will keep you in relative safety. enjoy!
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Originally Posted by doomrider
And your "out of the box" answer would then be no, not really. Especially considering that dark blast being mainly dot will not benefit from scourge nearly as much as other primaries. I suggest fire/dark for out of the box farming on a corr. Fire supplements enough aoe dmg, tar patch increases that damage and keeps your spawn where you want them while all the -tohit that comes loaded in dark miasma will keep you in relative safety. enjoy!
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I tried a build i had found for fire/dark, and was frustrated!
1. Not enough single target....i used fire blast and fireball, but went almost out of endurance after killing a single target!
2. all around endurance issues made me abandon the toon
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1. There's your first problem, fireball is very end hungry and should only be used as an AoE. i suggest picking up flares. Fire blast's ST potential beats the sh*t out of dark blast. Flares itself is a pretty endurance efficient attack, coupled with fire blast and you should take out single targets pretty efficiently and definetly far faster than dark blast -> gloom.|
Originally Posted by Jonas1974
I tried a build i had found for fire/dark, and was frustrated!
1. Not enough single target....i used fire blast and fireball, but went almost out of endurance after killing a single target! 2. all around endurance issues made me abandon the toon |
2. Low level slotting priorities should always be acc then end redux, damage and recharge should come secondary or at least until you get into DO's and SO's.
Basically...
dark blast
end cost:5.2
recharge: 4 sec
41.7 negative energy damage
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flares
end cost: 3.69
recharge: 2.18 sec
42 fire damage
flares already beats out db for efficiency and is more spammable which should help enormously.
While gloom is fairly efficient because of its DoT nature, it fails in one area that because the damage isn't front loaded, it won't take full advantage of scourge like fire blast will.
and at nearly double the recharge time of fire blast, gloom will not help u in taking out ST's fast while low level with its whopping 8 sec recharge.
gloom
end cost:8.53
recharge: 8 sec
(9.18x8)=73.4 negative energy DoT
vs
fire blast
recharge: 4 sec
end cost: 5.2
(41.7+5x4)=61.7 fire damage
I love Dark Blast, but it would not be an efficient set for farming, it takes too long to kill things since aside from the first attack, it is all DoT, all the time.
You want Fire Blast, Archery, or maybe AR.
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I love Dark Blast, but it would not be an efficient set for farming, it takes too long to kill things since aside from the first attack, it is all DoT, all the time.
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If you play at -1x8 and run newspaper missions against easy enemy groups I bet you can get something going. You will not be the most efficient farmer out there.. by far... but I bet you can make some money. Get a few million influence and sell your drops. Maybe you'll even get super lucky and get a purple recipe. Once you have some starting money, start marketeering.
Buy recipes for high demand items, craft them, and sell the enhancement for twice what you spent. Even starting with almost nothing, at a lazy pace, you'll be swimming in money in a month or so.
One recipe I am working costs about 8.5m to buy, another 2m to get the salvage and crafting costs, and sells for 20-25m.
Actually, Dark/Dark/Dark corrupters would do pretty decent AoE damage. People forget that while Dark's AoE is DoT, both Nightfall and Tentacles are on a 10s timer, which means that with some decent +Recharge, you can basically spam those two cones over and over.
And with Soul Drain from the Dark APP, you get a nice +Acc and +Dam boost. Just make sure you go Dark, rather then Ghost Widow. For some stupid reason, the GW Soul Drain is on a 240s timer, while Dark Soul Drain is on a 120s timer.
wondering if dark/dark corruptor has the AoE, survivability, and efficiency to solo farm well.
it would need to be good to go "out the box", since it would be the toon i farm with to finance IO's