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First Corruptor! Arch/Rad IO Build Critique

Black_Plague

By Black_Plague,
Posted on: 2011-12-25 08:55 in Corruptors

 

Posted

Hey everyone, my first corruptor and I'm looking to make him solid. I've never played archery and played rad on my 50 fire/rad troller years ago. The build is fun but soloing isn't as great as I was hoping. But I'm sticking it out to 50 and going clarion and then see if I'm feeling the same. I went for Perma AM and Hasten and tried to get as much ranged defense as possible. Your advice is greatly appreciated as I tend to waste slots X.x Thanks for the help!

Edit: With Stealth, Hover and Maneuvers I am sitting at 32.6% ranged def.

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Level 50 Natural Corruptor
Primary Power Set: Archery
Secondary Power Set: Radiation Emission
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Flight
Ancillary Pool: Power Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Aimed Shot

  • (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage
  • (3) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance
  • (3) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge
  • (5) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (5) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  • (39) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 1: Radiant Aura
  • (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
  • (27) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
  • (27) Doctored Wounds - Heal
  • (29) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
  • (31) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
Level 2: Fistful of Arrows
  • (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
  • (7) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  • (7) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
  • (9) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  • (9) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
Level 4: Radiation Infection
  • (A) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Endurance
  • (31) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff
  • (31) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge
  • (34) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
  • (34) Dark Watcher's Despair - Recharge/Endurance
Level 6: Blazing Arrow
  • (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage
  • (11) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance
  • (11) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge
  • (13) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (13) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  • (37) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 8: Aim
  • (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  • (25) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 10: Enervating Field
  • (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  • (36) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 12: Explosive Arrow
  • (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
  • (15) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  • (15) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
  • (17) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  • (17) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
Level 14: Accelerate Metabolism
  • (A) Recharge Reduction
  • (19) Recharge Reduction
  • (19) Recharge Reduction
Level 16: Stealth
  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  • (43) Defense Buff IO
  • (45) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 18: Hasten
  • (A) Recharge Reduction
  • (21) Recharge Reduction
  • (21) Recharge Reduction
Level 20: Lingering Radiation
  • (A) Pacing of the Turtle - Damage/Slow
  • (23) Pacing of the Turtle - Accuracy/Endurance
  • (23) Pacing of the Turtle - Accuracy/Slow
  • (40) Pacing of the Turtle - Range/Slow
  • (43) Pacing of the Turtle - Endurance/Recharge/Slow
  • (43) Pacing of the Turtle - Chance of -Recharge
Level 22: Maneuvers
  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  • (36) Defense Buff IO
  • (37) Defense Buff IO
  • (40) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 24: Assault
  • (A) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 26: Hover
  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
  • (36) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
  • (37) Karma - Knockback Protection
  • (40) Defense Buff IO
Level 28: Vengeance
  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 30: Invisibility
  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 32: Rain of Arrows
  • (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
  • (33) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  • (33) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
  • (33) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
  • (34) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
Level 35: Stunning Shot
  • (A) Stupefy - Accuracy/Recharge
  • (46) Stupefy - Endurance/Stun
  • (46) Stupefy - Accuracy/Endurance
  • (46) Stupefy - Stun/Range
  • (50) Stupefy - Accuracy/Stun/Recharge
  • (50) Stupefy - Chance of Knockback
Level 38: Conserve Power
  • (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  • (39) Recharge Reduction IO
  • (39) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 41: EM Pulse
  • (A) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Hold
  • (42) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Recharge
  • (42) Basilisk's Gaze - Recharge/Hold
  • (42) Basilisk's Gaze - Endurance/Recharge/Hold
Level 44: Force of Nature
  • (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/Endurance
  • (45) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
  • (45) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection
Level 47: Ranged Shot
  • (A) Sting of the Manticore - Accuracy/Damage
  • (48) Sting of the Manticore - Damage/Endurance
  • (48) Sting of the Manticore - Accuracy/Interrupt/Range
  • (48) Sting of the Manticore - Damage/Interrupt/Recharge
  • (50) Sting of the Manticore - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 49: Power Build Up
  • (A) Recharge Reduction IO
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Level 2: Swift
  • (A) Empty
Level 2: Health
  • (A) Empty
Level 2: Hurdle
  • (A) Empty
Level 2: Stamina
  • (A) Endurance Modification IO
  • (25) Endurance Modification IO
  • (29) Endurance Modification IO
Level 1: Brawl
  • (A) Empty
Level 1: Scourge
Level 1: Sprint
  • (A) Empty
Level 2: Rest
  • (A) Empty
Level 4: Ninja Run
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Set Bonus Totals:
  • 5% DamageBuff(Smashing)
  • 5% DamageBuff(Lethal)
  • 5% DamageBuff(Fire)
  • 5% DamageBuff(Cold)
  • 5% DamageBuff(Energy)
  • 5% DamageBuff(Negative)
  • 5% DamageBuff(Toxic)
  • 5% DamageBuff(Psionic)
  • 3% Defense(Melee)
  • 3% Defense(Smashing)
  • 3% Defense(Lethal)
  • 3% Defense(Fire)
  • 3% Defense(Cold)
  • 17.06% Defense(Energy)
  • 17.06% Defense(Negative)
  • 3% Defense(Psionic)
  • 19.88% Defense(Ranged)
  • 3% Defense(AoE)
  • 2.5% Enhancement(JumpHeight)
  • 2.5% Enhancement(RunSpeed)
  • 2.5% Enhancement(FlySpeed)
  • 3% Enhancement(Stun)
  • 2.5% Enhancement(JumpSpeed)
  • 87.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
  • 4% Enhancement(Heal)
  • 50% Enhancement(Accuracy)
  • 8% FlySpeed
  • 52.21 HP (4.87%) HitPoints
  • 8% JumpHeight
  • 8% JumpSpeed
  • Knockback (Mag -12)
  • Knockup (Mag -12)
  • MezResist(Held) 2.75%
  • MezResist(Sleep) 2.75%
  • MezResist(Terrorized) 2.2%
  • 20% (0.33 End/sec) Recovery
  • 12% (0.54 HP/sec) Regeneration
  • 5.99% Resistance(Fire)
  • 5.99% Resistance(Cold)
  • 8% RunSpeed



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Posted

Wow, I thought I was the only arch/rad - I've never seen one about before! Mine's only 44, so I can't give you any final build advice, or anything. Just a couple things I noticed, though...

For myself, I respecc'd out of stunning arrow. It's not a bad power, but unless you solo a lot, you won't really need both the stun AND explosive arrow for mitigation, and EA does decent damage (plus KB), where SA doesn't. I found I never used SA, much as I really do love stuns.

Lingering rad doesn't need too many slots, unless you're after set bonuses. It comes up fast, and it's claim to fame isn't so much a slow, as a big, honking debuff, esp for AV's. On the other hand, EM Pulse has a long recharge time. I'd use some of the slots from LR for some recharge reduction IO's in EMP.

As much as I like the ranged defense, I would personally take out the t-strikes from blazing arrow, and use 4) devastations plus 2) centriole hami's, or just 2) common ranged IO's, due to the much shorter range on BA. It's really annoying to have to move forward to be able to use BA - I try to add enough range so it's on par with my other attacks, allowing for a smooth attack chain without having to reposition. (NOTE: centrioles are dirt cheap. I just bought 5 of them for under half a million each, though had to wait a few days for them to all come in. They do 33% damage, 20% range. A common range IO does 25% range increase.)

Good luck and happy shooting!