BR: defender or corruptor?

Folks,

I be all sorts o' likin' my support characters. They're enjoyable, I have fun concepts to play with, and I'm useful by myself or in teams. To be support is good times...except when one is a mastermind (*glares*).

With the impending release of i21, I will make all kinds o' dirty with the beam rifle set. It looks delicious and I will make it mine. MINE! Only problem is, I don't know exactly which archetype I want to play as. I already know I want it to be a support character, so that immediately cuts out blasters (*spits*), leaving corruptor and defender as my choices. I wasn't playing the beta because of time constraints, hence my coming to you -- the people! I have yet to settle on a primary/secondary (currently debating between traps and dark miasma, although I'm leaning more towards traps), but between those two and the two archetypes, is there a combination that's going to superior in terms of overall utility and enjoyment?

Thank you!

Beam Rifle has lower base damage as a design consideration. Its bonus comes from Disintegrate, which is most effective if you spend more of your time shooting than buffing.

If you're into the buffing thing, be wary because taking the time to cast patches and heal allies and whatever else will get that Disintegration to wear off, meaning your attacks will end up doing less damage in the long run compared to someone who doesn't buff. For that reason, I'd recommend Corruptor over Defender.

Corruptor. Scourge. kthx.

Corr, Rad or Traps.

I have not spent much time on BR but from the little experience I have BR/Traps is probably one of the best combos with BR. I suppose most of good comes from Traps. But if you want a BR, Traps is certainly a good match.

Traps defender would have some good buff and debuff; and also rather click-free during combat - you set up most of the traps in advance anyway. Traps corruptor would play very similarly except with lesser buff and debuff. It has Scourge though. Both would do well soloing and teaming.

Personally, I would go for BR/Traps Corruptor. I would happily trade the differences in buff and debuffs for more damage.

I've been playing around with a BR/time-manip corrupter, i cant really say it has 'damage'. The disintegrate works pretty weird, majority of time you have no time to get it spread or make full use of it.

Not to mention.. redraw.

Thanks for the replies, folks!

Corruptor is what I'm leaning heavily to, along with traps as a secondary (although I hate having to take web grenade first...). Redraw has never really bothered me -- my first level 50 corruptor was DP/TA -- so set combinations that include a hefty amount of it haven't ever deterred me from playing them. I can definitely see how a combination like beam rifle and dark miasma/kinetics or any other really active set that you can't frontload with could be (somewhat) detrimental due to the mechanics of disintegrate, though.

One final question (for concept purposes): I've been scouring through video footage of beam rifle, and it's all very...bright. Are the animations of the beam rifle attacks similar to empathy in that they can only be bright, or can they be made darker, much like blast sets like rad blast and energy blast?

Storm will allow for keeping enemies tightly packed with both a -speed toggle power and hurricane.

Beam/Storm is definately on my to-do list.

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From what I understand about Beam Rifle's mechanics, it will be beastly on a corruptor once Scourge starts kicking in on a single hard target (AV or GM)

Looking at your dilemma, Sonic seems really end heavy.... am I wrong?

How many of those toggles will you take? (I've never played Sonic personally)

Looking at Traps, you get your -res plus some other toys without worrying about toggles. Is the redraw that bad with Traps?

personally I'm looking at Traps over Sonic.

Actually I'm taking a close look at Poison right now, and that does everything I can really see needing from a corruptor at least.

I wouldn't imagine there would be a redraw. The concept might be off the wall.... A poisonous alien with a big bad gun.... but the toys are there to make a very good Corruptor with Beam.

Clicky....?

I do recall feeling that when I played my Ninja mastermind with Poison. Played him from beta on.... and the 'clicky' part was just healing those stupid ninjas.