Snake Character

[smnolimits43]

I'm looking to pair /Poison with something.  This will be my first Corruptor.  What primary would you choose, and why ??  Thanks in advance.

[Psyonico]

Water/poison could be a good combo. I've got the defender version.  Water brings with it a self heal and whirlpool which I believe works well with scourge.

[twozerofoxtrot]

Dark. Good coloring with greens can make it look like poison blasts. And Dark Blast is pretty nice on Supports.

 

Alternatively, Water. Same rationale on theming but personally the hyrdromancy/water bending animations of the set make it B+ at best for style. Maybe A+ for effects though. 

[Uun]

I wouldn't recommend Dark. Dark is all cones while Poison wants to be up close in melee range. In addition to Water, Radiation would work well.

[BazookaTwo]

I don't know why everyone hates cones. But I would say ice/poison for the fast dpa and all the slows you can stack into attacks. 

[Uun]

8 hours ago, BazookaTwo said:

I don't know why everyone hates cones.

There's nothing wrong with cones, but they're tricky to use with Poison (I've actually got a Poison/Sonic defender). Venomous Gas (the T9) is a PBAoE and works best if you're in melee range. Cone attacks require you to jump back 20-30 feet. AoE attacks don't.

[BazookaTwo]

19 minutes ago, Uun said:

There's nothing wrong with cones, but they're tricky to use with Poison (I've actually got a Poison/Sonic defender). Venomous Gas (the T9) is a PBAoE and works best if you're in melee range. Cone attacks require you to jump back 20-30 feet. AoE attacks don't.

 

Thanks for an explanation of the most basic aspect of the game. Been playing since live in '04. I get it, jumping is hard. Just like aiming, which requires so much...oh wait. You don't have to aim you just hit the tab key. 

[Carnifax]

Uun is bang on here. The issue isn't just "cones" but that Nightfall is the most ridiculously narrow, long going. You want to be a good ways back with it 

 

So you miss out on that lovely extra damage from the PBAoE -resist for almost all of your Cone AoEs lowering your AoE damage overall. 

 

The cones just don't play nicely with Poisons Tier 9 at all regardless of how good you are at moving about. You'll always move out of it's debuff range.

 

Radiation blast might be a better fit. That come is crap anyway and Rad feels "poisony" too, although I prefer water. 

Edited February 8 by Carnifax

[SeraphimKensai]

Seconding radiation blast. But fire blast works pretty well too, otherwise I really like elec blast too and that adds another debuff type to the mix.