Is there a point to anything but fire?

It's worth noting that the type of logic used here to defend Fire as the overly best option for corruptors can also be used to argue that everyone here should be playing SS/Fire brutes instead.

I don't feel gimped using a corruptor over an SS/Fire brute for the same reason I don't feel gimped using anything other than fire/ on corruptors.

In my experience on trials, I've never seen one corruptor massively outshine every other combo. Some are more useful than others, but that usually comes down to skill, and being in the right place in the right time, hitting the right target.

If anything, the difference of primaries doesn't matter nearly as much as the difference a /Kin brings to the team than a /Poison.



I'd also agree with ClawsandEffect. I feel I contribute a lot more on my ranged toons than melee toons, for the simple reason that I get more attacks in while the melees have to run around everywhere.

Clearly the set with the most point is Archery. *ba-dum-tish*

Fire does a lot of damage. Ice does good damage and some decent ST control. But a large part of their AoE depends on keeping things in rain patches. Archery does good damage, but the redraw can quickly become annoying if paired with an active set. Sonic is good for hard targets and has a lot of control. Dark has good AoE, gets you hit less, keeps stuff out of melee and adds a heal you might not have in your other set. Psi has decent damage and it's hard to find a power in it that doesn't have significant mitigation attached.

Blast sets are like cars: they all have the goal of getting from A to B but top speed isn't the only thing worth looking at.

Who knows, maybe water blast will have good AoE and ST damage as well as some decent mitigation. Then we'll have a "Is there a point to anything but water?" thread.

Well, water blast is officially on beta now and it's a beast. It's got the 3 standard single target attacks, but they're all 80ft range. It's also got a single target attack/heal over time, similar to life drain, also with an 80ft range. So that makes a 4 attacks available for a single target attack chain. On top of that it has a cone attack, a targetted aoe, a crashless nuke that's also a targetted aoe, plus a location damage skill like rain of fire. The animations are pretty smooth and fast as well for the most part.

My guess is it will be nerfed some before it makes it live, but even then it will probably be one of the top, if not the top, ranged attack set.

Alternatively, maybe if they like that powerset layout, a case can be made for extending the range of the "hard-hitter" attacks and the range of things like Life Drain.

Fire is great and all but many power sets have additional effects that stack very, very well will the corruptor secondaries.

Elec/Dark for example gets double holds for a mag 6 hold. That is actually quite powerful even against AVs

Ice's slow and holds are very nice as well

Dark's Immob is it's signature power that is actually very, very useful

Damage isn't everything in this game. Some say that at 50 it is and that is possibly true but thats only after incarnate.. and eve nthen Sonic is possibly better than fire in that catagory due to -res stacking.

The simple fact is that the extra damage from fire is as neglible as the secondary effect from most other powersets... it comes in the form of a DoT anyway, which is usually not left to kill off the foe, someone will come in and kill the enemy before the DoT finishes making that extra damage overkill.

Fire's real power comes from the super fast animation of Blaze. Serious single target damage with average AoE damage. Fireball carries fire's AoE weight as Firebreath really slows down the set and Rain of Fire is a DoT so it rarely does it's full damage anyway due to enemies moving out of it, getting killed too fast etc.

Scourge sounds nice with fire but honestly, I have found scourge on fire to be no more effective than any other set.

The real 'firepower' set is Sonic at the end. Radiation, with Achille's Heel proc can also hit some nice numbers. Archery's Ultimate make it an amazing contender for burst damage. People underestimate Rain of Arrows so much. There are other examples. Don't let Fire's slightly over exaggerated numbers trick you. It's not as powerful as it seems to be.

Ice doesn't 'Super Scourge'. That's pretty much why Ice Storm and Fire Blast aren't directly comparable. Also, Rain of Fire's 'Super Scourge' isn't a bug, but simply how it's damage is handled.

Also, as someone who plays an Archery Corruptor... it's really not that great. I tribute it to my inner masochist.

Fire: Has the best AoE damage and fine ST chain.

Dark: Has notverygoodbutberable AoE and kick *** ST (notably a wide choice of damage procs, and thats a lot of damage itself).

AR: Is not great overall but it becomes godly AoE combined with TA.

Sonic: Is the best ST damage on earth as soon as you arent solo.

Energy Blast: Is only good to stack recharge procs but I would only advice that on a Defender with a recharge intensive support power set.

Rad and DP: Stands in between Fire and Sonic for both pure damage and indirect damage.

Archery and Beam Riffle: Look cool. But thats it.

Elec and Ice: Has a top ST chain and a Hold. AoE arent amazing.

Psy Blast: Is kina crap unless your goal is to kill AVs under Unstoppable.




So if you want only direct damage with good AoE and ST, yeah go Fire.
If you are willing to trade direct for more indirect damage or AoE for control... than it starts to be a more complicated choice.