BR is a fun niche set with redraw (that does slow you down when you alternate with other abilities) that does solid ST damage and is average otherwise.
Fire is a monster that does great AOE and ST damage.
You can decide based on what you want. I have both types of characters.
For what its worth, I have currently gone back to my Beam/NRG blaster. It is (somewhat) gimp but still fun.
"Hi, my name is Ail. I make people sick."
A partial selection from my 50's on Freedom: Ail = Ice/Traps, Luck = Street Justice/Super Reflexes Stalker, Mist = Bane, Pixy = Trick Arrow/Archery, Pure = Gravity/Energy, Smoke = Fire/Fire Dominator
So till now Fire/Cold seemed to be one of the most powerful combinations for a corruptor; considering Fire's crazy damage and /cold's crazy resistance debuffs.
Now BR is a bit less damage but more debuff. Also it has a ranged nuke which is awesome for my style of play since I hate getting too close.
My major concern with Beam Rifle is the redraw - so how bad is it?
The only weapons toon I played was a bane, on which I hated the redraw so much that I respec'ed into a crab. I've _never_ played a ranged toon with redraw.
Does the redraw cause a slowdown in the attack chain dropping DPS? Where can I get numbers on the redraw. Does it actually really effect gameplay enough on a /cold (considering sleet, heatloss and benumb will be the most oft used powers but they are all on at least 15-30-90s recharges).
The builds I have for both are very similar.
About 170-180% recharge.
Capped Ranged Def
40%+ to s/l/e resistances
Enough endurance to survive a HeatLoss miss.
Desperately looking for suggestions
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