Heres something to ponder, I recently threw together a Corr build in Mids that took Sonic as its secondary. The build only takes sonic siphon and sonic dispersion. The concept was for an "armored" ranged character. It's currently sitting at S/L softcap and 75% resists to S/L while everything else but psi is at around 20%.
Its bad for an empath to not take attacks, but is it bad for a Corr to not take ally shields?
Depends. Do you team? Unlike defense, resistance is usually a welcome addition. Siphon and Dispersion Bubble are still useful on their own, however.
Characters like this are where dual builds come in very handy. Make a team and a solo/concept build. I have this on my Dark/Thermal corruptor, for instance. Has absolutely nothing from her secondary on her solo build from levels 1-35. Opens up a *lot* of choices and slotting. When she's going to a SF or something, though, she swaps over to the team build with a full secondary, and the more team-friendly attacks in the primary - primarily with AOEs (cones in her case) in mind, no nuke, etc.
Pretty sure I use her (earlier build) as an example in my Dual Builds guide, actually. It really depends on how you feel about the character on a team.
Its bad for an empath to not take attacks, but is it bad for a Corr to not take ally shields?
Characters like this are where dual builds come in very handy. Make a team and a solo/concept build. I have this on my Dark/Thermal corruptor, for instance. Has absolutely nothing from her secondary on her solo build from levels 1-35. Opens up a *lot* of choices and slotting. When she's going to a SF or something, though, she swaps over to the team build with a full secondary, and the more team-friendly attacks in the primary - primarily with AOEs (cones in her case) in mind, no nuke, etc.
Pretty sure I use her (earlier build) as an example in my Dual Builds guide, actually. It really depends on how you feel about the character on a team.