The Corrupter is what the Offender was meant to be. 15% more damage than a defender, plus scourge. Your debuffing isn't QUITE as good, but the extra damage more than makes up the difference. The tougher the enemy mobs are, the better scourge gets, whereas most of your debuffs will be shrugged off by EBs and AVs.
My only advice: Have respecs ready to de-slot your old Defender. Once you get your corrupter to 50, you'll never look back.
Soloing with Scourge takes a little getting used to. Basically, you want to drop your opponents below 50% as quickly as possible, then let your smaller attacks scourge to help with finishing them off. If you're using a big attack, odds are that it'll kill them whether or not it crits, while smaller attacks let you leverage Scourge more. One of the big things this affects is rain powers (Rain of Fire, Ice Storm et al) - they have a chance of scourging with each tick, so you can throw one out, follow with your best upfront AoEs, and watch the Scourge ticks rain down.
In teams, not all that different. Throw out your best one or two debuffs, then follow up with AoE. Since everyone else will have used their alpha AoEs by then, you should see a few good Scourge hits. Then take to standard Offender behaviour, prioritising low-HP targets if and when you use ST blasts.
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Very little difference if you pick the same powersets. The powers you're used to as a trapper/stormie/dark miasma etc. have only slight adjustments to damage, buff and debuff. In practice you'll use the same tactics as a defender and barely notice the difference. |
Originally Posted by Madadh
If you play Defs really offensively (Offenders) how much should you expect your playstyle to alter when transitioning to Corrs? And I'm speaking in general terms, assuming similar powersets. If I went from Rad/Dark to Dark/Rad for example (which isn't really a pairing I plan to try, was just a handy example) wpould I need to change much?
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The scourge mechanics have already been discussed.
Corrs have fire as a primary, it's a pure damage/zero mitigation set that you might like if you enjoy AoE mayhem.
The new secondaries are /pain and /therm, I have no direct experience with them.
If you play redside you'll notice a somewhat different teaming philosophy. Everyone is a little more self sufficient and team roles aren't as rigid.
Good luck, have fun.
As previously said - its your attack order that differs - use your DoT attacks last.
Everything else is the same.
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In my experience, an offensive corruptor plays identically to an offensive defender. The increased potential rate of defeating enemies offsets the lower potential buff/debuff values. Meaning, you kill stuff faster, so you don't have to work as hard to protect yourself via other means.|
Originally Posted by Madadh
If you play Defs really offensively (Offenders) how much should you expect your playstyle to alter when transitioning to Corrs?
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| And I'm speaking in general terms, assuming similar powersets. If I went from Rad/Dark to Dark/Rad for example (which isn't really a pairing I plan to try, was just a handy example) wpould I need to change much? |
There's a difference in how you play if you're going from defender to blaster, or blaster to corruptor, but offensive defender to offensive corruptor is really just the same thing with slightly different numbers under the hood.
but a long time Defender fan. Recently jumped into Corrs with both feet (ie; I made several alts, as I'm an altaholic).
But, the question I want to ask isn't specific to a single powerset combo, but more to those that play both defs and corrs..
If you play Defs really offensively (Offenders) how much should you expect your playstyle to alter when transitioning to Corrs? And I'm speaking in general terms, assuming similar powersets. If I went from Rad/Dark to Dark/Rad for example (which isn't really a pairing I plan to try, was just a handy example) wpould I need to change much?
If there are changes one should expect, can you all Corr experts give some general advice to an assault Def type that's finally trying to join your ranks?