Fire/Ice Blaster vs. Dominator vs. Corruptor

In your opinion, among Fire Blast/Ice Manipulation Blasters, Fire Control/Icy Assault Dominators, and Fire Blast/Cold Domination Corruptors, which one will get from level 1 to 50 the fastest doing equal amounts of soloing and teaming?

Secondly, in your personal opinion, which one is the most fun to play?

Fire/Ice is a good blaster combo.

/icy is a really, really slow dom set to solo with. I was doing mind/icy but I'd expect fire/icy to be even worse since mind/ has some extra attacks to help out.

fire/ is a good corruptor set, but /cold is bad for soloing until you get sleet. Really really bad. 'You might as well be playing an /ice blaster because then you'd at least get ice patch' bad.

And on a team... what set you're playing is not the main consideration for levelling speed. So, I think the fire/ice blaster wins here.

For me it's also the most fun but... YMMV. fire/icy dom is by far the safest of the three. I guess mostly I just hate /cold. SO MUCH.

Fire/Ice Blaster will have very strong and consistant dps throughout it's career. Survivability will become tougher around 35+ when more mezzes come into play, learning to get maximum use out of your inspiration tray is a large portion of what it means to being a good blaster.

Fire/Icy Dom will have great survivability all the way to 50 and good damage, especially once you get your t8 and t9 attacks. At lvl 41 you can pick up Sleet which is AMAZING for doms, and it's easily like having a whole nother secondary powerset alongside your other 2, it basically turns you into a corr with huge control. You can get Sleet earlier but that means delaying your 2 best ST attacks from Icy.

Fire/Cold is an anomaly. It will easily be the weakest of the 3 until lvl 35 when it gets sleet at which point it will be keeping pace. Fire/Cold is something you definitely want to level up on teams more than solo, both before level 35 (because you will be rather squishy without damage modifiers) and after level 35 (because you will make teams steamroll with sleet, HL, and Shields). Fire/Cold will unarguably be the strongest of the 3 at lvl 50 with IOing.


Essentially:
lvl 1-35 Blaster>Dom>Corr
lvl 35-41 Corr>Dom>Blaster
lvl 41-50 Dom>Corr>Blaster
lvl 50 IO'd Corr>Dom>Blaster

Fire/Cold Corr is my absolute favorite toon to play, but before lvl 35 they're pretty ick.

DreadShinobi covered this one pretty well.

If you want to play much if any of the endgame content I'd go with a Fire/Cold Corruptor. Fire Blast is a strong enough primary to carry you through the leveling process (plus teams are always looking for support anyway), and Fire/Cold will be leaps and bounds more powerful at 50.

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Thanks for all the thoughtful answers!