Crysis Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 (edited) So during the dark years between Live and HC, I kept using MIDS when I’d get bored to theorycraft some builds and whip up some character bios/backstories along with drawing some character sketches to match. I have literally over a hundred of these in my sketchbooks. At any rate, Marine Affinity is the perfect powerset choice for this character, but I have two/three choices to make: 1) DP/Marine Corruptor 2) Illusion/Marine Controller 3) Fire/Marine Corruptor cuz everyone has one it seems In general, I’m kind of leaning towards Corruptors as I just like direct damage. I’ve just about wrapped up the six different MM’s I made for /Marine Affinity and I have slotting for that powerset down to a science. I also love the flash/look of DP, have a DP/Kin and a DP/Time corruptor and have that down to science, so a build is easy for me to make. But I’ve not seen a single post on here about DP/Marine for Corruptors and frankly it surprises me. Checked Discord also and not much mention over there either. Whitecap + Tide Pool + HoB just seems like a no-brainer combination to me, especially if I can softcap Melee Defenses (which I can with one of my builds, quite easy with the temp +DEF boost from HoB ). To do this, however, requires me to go easy on the Procc’ing of Dual Pistols, which I know from experience reduces DPS. I’ve seen much talk about Fire/Marine for Corruptors and that appears, like everything Fire, to be a solid DPS set. But I can’t easily work Fire into this backstory like I can Illusion or Dual Pistols. So….anyone tried DP/Marine on a Corruptor? Anything obvious I’m missing when I look at the synergies between the two sets? Edited November 3 by Crysis Words Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auroxis Posted November 3 Share Posted November 3 The main reason you don't see a lot of DP/Marine is because the combo is arguably better on Defenders. More -res, more -damage, tankier, and since DP uses a lot of procs the damage difference isn't vast. However you can just grab Defender builds and you won't have much to change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crysis Posted November 3 Author Share Posted November 3 6 minutes ago, Auroxis said: The main reason you don't see a lot of DP/Marine is because the combo is arguably better on Defenders. More -res, more -damage, tankier, and since DP uses a lot of procs the damage difference isn't vast. However you can just grab Defender builds and you won't have much to change. I actually wondered about that. See a bunch of these in game and thought that was likely the case, as any IO +DEF/+RES/+REGEN bonuses I lose from procc'ing out the attacks is offset greatly by the bonuses for those same values by playing a Defender. "Defender" makes just as much sense for the actual backstory I have in mind anyways, so perhaps it's time to dust off my Offender spurs. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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