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Defender or Corruptor?

Achilles6

By Achilles6,
Posted on: 2011-09-10 24:10 in Defenders

 

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Originally Posted by Vysires View Post
One thing worthy of note is that unlike Corruptors, Defender Fire blast got a AT modified Rain of Fire. So Corrupter Rain of Fire does significantly more damage then Defender Rain of Fire.
Well, technically Corruptors got an AT-modified version, too - it doesn't use the Blaster pseudopet like the Dominator APP version does. It's just that the Corruptor AT-modified version does the same base damage as the Blaster version (1.67 fire damage per tick), and Scourges for twice as much damage as it should (3.34 per tick).

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I prefer Def!!!

 

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Originally Posted by Kioshi View Post
Elec is lol, anything's better than /Elec. It's bad enough on Blasters, on Defenders it looks like you're tickling mobs.
concept. it's all about concept.

50 Inv/SS Tank, 50 Inv/EM Tank, 50 FA/SS Tank, 50 Shield/SS Tank, 50 WP/SS Tank, 50 Dark/Dark Tank, 50 EM/Elec Brute, 50 SS/FA Brute, 50 SS/SR Brute, 50 Fire/Kin Controller, 50 Plant/Storm Controller, 50 Earth/Therm Controller, 50 Necro/Dark MM, 50 Bots/FF MM, 50 Elec/SD Scrapper, 50 Arch/MM Blaster, 50 Emp/Psi Defender

 

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Honestly saying that either are better is silly. It entirely depends on the team, the build, and the power sets.

A corrupter is going to have minimal impact on a successful and quick killing team, as is a defender. A team in need of more damage is going to get slightly more help from the corrupter sometimes, slightly more help from the defender sometimes. Depending on the sets involved. A team in need of more survivability is ALWAYS going to get more help from the defender.


So you want a slight or possibly moderate damage advantage and the ability to "feel" like your contributing even more damage than you really are? Play a corrupter. You want to have a moderate defensive advantage for both you and your team but feel very lackluster in damage in most cases (regardless of how much your buffs might contribute).? Play a defender.

Defender has the definite advantage in survivability for themselves and team, Corrupter has a faster damage progression and normally contributes somewhere between slightly and moderately more damage. Additionally the more active sets erode the damage advantage. HOWEVER despite the larger overall advantage for defenders, thanks to the design of the game AND the influence of IO's and prominence of soft capping, corrupter enjoys the edge in most cases.


That being said few people are going to make a decision based on anything other than how fun it is to play. Play whats more fun. Offensive or defensive :P.

 

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So two men are standing in a room: one about 22, the other 50 years old. A woman walks in and says to the young man, "Boxers or briefs?" "Briefs" he replies. She turns to the older man and asks the same question. After a moment spent considering he says, "Depends."