A few Poison questions.

With water coming next week..I am thinking of making a water blast/poison corr.

Last time I did poison was on an MM, before the recentish changes..and I was not impressed.

Can anyone with experience with it comment? And yes, I know a LOT of pvp builds use it..but I am pretty much only thinking for pve. Not that a pvp persons comments wont help also..

I am poking in Mids, and seeing the rez and mez prot as very skippable. The heal I'd take..even if it is hardly amazing. Does Poison Trap still suck? I know it is faster placing..thats it..

The cone slow..I did not mind that on my MM. Would most likely skip the hold too.

Venom Gas..best to slot that for -to hit and end red?

Last thing..if I do decide to build him for some defence (ranged +scorp) then I could not take power boost too. Is that a 'must have' for poison?

Thanks Zal.
Still not sure about power boost. Even on my doms and blasters with it (of which I have a lot) I dont really use PB as much as I could/should.
Depends also on how many Water power I pick..if it goes the way of tw, stj, and stff..I'll be taking them all...lol

If you plan on mainly soloing, the rez and mez protection can be skipped, but both are nice for teaming. Would you skip clear mind or clarity? I also picked up vengeance and like firing it and then giving the dead guy a rez with a little boost. Plus, making your teammates vomit is priceless.

Poison trap needs a few procs slotted into it to go from terrible to fantastic. Luckily, it can take about eight or nine different procs, so you have a lot to choose from.

And I put two Dark Watchers and an Achilles Heel in my Venomous Gas.

I play a Plant/Poison Controller and I love the character often times because the fun of Poison rather than Plant.

The biggest disappointment about Poison is that the AoE is a very small radius for some of the powers, but luckily they are on super fast recharges (even without bonuses) so you can spread the debuffs quickly.

While the rez and the mez protection can be skipped, both of them take damage resistance set IOs, so they make great 1-slot placeholders for those procs such as Steadfast Protection's +3% def or KB protection!

I don't think Poison Trap sucks, although I use it as on my Controller for additional hold-stackng. If you don't plan on getting that close and personal, maybe you can skip it - but it does make a decent placeholder for slotting a Basilisk's Gaze for 7.5% more recharge. You can also slot it for damage, but you probably won't need that on a Corruptor.

I slotted Venomous Gasses with 4 Dark Watchers, focusing on -tohit and -endredux for 5% recharge.

I have thinking of creating a Water/Poison myself - Water has a diverse damage typing (smashing, fire, and cold) and AoE, while Poison has a great amount of AoE -resistance to all.

Also, for Incarnate abilities I recommend Intuition Radial Paragon as your Alpha. This alpha increases Defense Debuff, To Hit Debuff, Slow Debuff, Range and Damage. With this, I believe by stacking Envenom, Weaken and Venomous Gasses I was able to get defense debuffs to about -60 and tohit to -45 or so (been a bit since I looked at the numbers - they were high!). Also it increases your damage, which is always great!

I would agree with the previous posters. I have a Beam Rifle/Poison corruptor. Poison trap is greatly improved from awful to modest. As Bionic Flea stated, the proc'ing in the slotting can add a lot of oomph. It's not a Fulcrum Shift/Adrenaline Boost kind of power, but I wouldn't skip it.

I like the mezz protection, antidote. You can slot some resist damage special enhancers in it for your own status protection. Please note, unlike clarity from Sonic, it does NOT provide +perception for fighting blind. This alone is enough to pick up leadership to get tactics.

Paralytic poison in my opinion is a great hold. It animates quickly, 2 sec cast time, mag 3, and you can knock nasty spawns out of the battle like sappers, skyraider engineers, rikti communication officers, et al.

My experience with Poison has been before and after buffs. Once on an MM and once on a Beam/Poison corruptor.

One trick that the AoE debuffs allow you to accomplish is stacking them on a target. For example, hit your target with the debuff, then hit a target next to him. He'll have 150% of the debuff because the AoE is half strength.

I find the slow cone to be extremely useful for the -recharge.

Power Boost typically does not affect your debuffs, though, so I wouldn't recommend that.

In addition to -Dmg -ToHit, Weaken is also everything Power Boost is, but backwards. -Mez Duration, -Heal, -Defense mods, etc.

Not many people know that.

I played a Water/Poison Corr on Beta. I haven't had that much fun with a Corruptor since Beam Time, my Beam/Time. ((>_>))

The animations and concept flow well together (ha) and Water's -Def and -Speed stack beautifully with Poison's -Everything.

I've been playing a Dark/Poison controller lately that's a lot of fun (only the second controller I've ever gotten above level 20) - as long as there's a team around to dish out damage. Between the two sets, I've always got something I can do to influence the fight (admittedly Dark Control plays a big part in that, but the poison debuffs are helpful too and how can you not like a rez that makes your allies puke? C'mon, it's a game, laugh a little!).

Alternately, I have a Ninja/Poison MM that I just wasn't having a lot of fun with. But, I blame the suicidal ninjas for that more than Poison. He could do a ton of damage if the cards were right, they had to fall exactly so to get it to work. I eventually abandoned him. Right now, he's stripped of IOs and waiting for his recipies from his villain merits to sell before I dump him altogether.

Your mileage may vary, I'm a fan of misfit toys- there's something about taking a set "everyone" says is underperforming and making it work and work well.