Looking for assistance with Elec/Dark

[MrMonkels]

Played tanks and brutes for the most part, never really tried building anything else.  Was hoping I could get some guidance.  Took both holds, my first 50 back in the day was an emp/elec defender, and being able to throw a clutch single target hold was something I enjoyed.  That said, I don't want to gimp my build for it. 

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[MrMonkels]

Adjusted build, Have everything slotted except the purple sets and a couple of HOs, so far it's working out pretty well.  No end problems, still working on the Incarnates.  Any input to improve would be appreciated. 

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[Camel]

A few things:

-This is more of a personal preference, but slotting the Guassians Build Up proc in Charge Up would give you better control over the timing. This would help you get a Spirit Drain off, hit Charge Up and then use your nuke to decimate mobs. I would highly recommend. It's okay in Tactics, but I believe it's better in powers like Aim/Build Up (Charge Up). I would recommend the build up proc and one level 50+5 Recharge IO, the Hami-O in there is really not worth it. Especially if you are only slotting one of them.

-The slotting in Spirit Drain would benefit from the chance to knockdown IO, the flat Damage IO is wasted and does nothing for the power here. Also consider putting in the Annihilation -res proc in there if you can, it's pretty decent in Spirit Drain!

-Enhancing the defense values in Hover is pretty meaningless, at best you will get less than 1.5% extra defense. Hover is typically used to mule slot things like LoTG 7.5% recharge IOs or the Shield Wall/Reactive Defense IOs. Definitely move them into there instead of your higher defense value powers.

-The Leadership pool is great! Assault, however, is pretty average. I would recommend abandoning it for something like Evasive Maneuvers from the flight pool. You also are missing an opportunity to slot an LoTG 7.5% recharge speed in Vengeance.

-You should most definitely swap the slotting for Ball Lightning and Thunderous Blast, your recharge values are very low for your nuke, the full ATO Corrupter set is best placed here given the build that you showed me.

-Voltaic Sentinel is not affected by the resist bonus in Expedited Reinforcement, I would 4 slot this at most, take one of those slots and add it to Fearsome Stare, this gives you that 3.75% ranged defense still and the slotting is technically more useful that way, you could add the other slot wherever you wanted.

-Your defense and resist values for Shadow Fall are not very great, the Aegis Psionic/Status resistance IO is pretty bad on a Corrupter. I would botch that completely and instead focus on only increasing the Defense, Resist and Endurance Reduction values.

-You didn't put the Chance for Negative Energy damage proc from Apocalypse in your snipe, always, always put the damage procs in. Drop the Damage/Recharge IO and put the proc in. It will do more damage, a lot more... and you won't notice the difference in recharge values at all.

-Speaking on damage procs and purple sets, I would switch the slotting on Short Circuit to five pieces of the Armageddon set. You'd save a slot and it would just be better in general. Use the same slotting advice I mentioned above in regards to the damage proc and not using the Damage/Recharge IO.
 
-Incarnates are all personal preference, but consider using the Intuition Alpha! The Agility Alpha isn't bad, it's quite good, actually. But I believe you would get more bang-for-your-buck using the Intuition Alpha that enhances damage, -to-hit debuff, range, slows, etc. You'll be fine with either Alpha though, but you will do significantly more damage with the Intuition Alpha because it wouldn't affect your damage proc rates like Agility does.

-The debuff resistance from the Ageless you chose is situational, I would highly recommend choosing the Ageless Destiny that increases your endurance recovery, /Dark Miasma is incredibly end heavy and having near unlimited endurance is amazing! 

-The Assault Hybrid that gives you a 'chance for double-hit' is much better than the one that boosts damage. At least most of the time. They are relatively even, but if you ever team with a Kinetics user and are already at damage cap, then the one that gives +damage is completely wasted. But the one that does chance for double-hit is buffed exponentially the more damage you are doing in the first place.

That about covers it! I attached a build that pretty much has all those modifications anyways if you want to check it out!

Cheers!


 

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Edited Monday at 01:20 AM by Camel

[Wimbochismo]

One thing to go over with this combo is the attack chain.

 

For single target attacks there is usually Zapp and Lightning Bolt. On a Defender I'm more inclined to use Twilight Grasp for the third "attack" in a chain to stack the -50 regen. Not sure how to parse the stacking -regen vs an attack. In order to maximize Scourge on a Corruptor you should probably be using attacks more often. Ball Lightning procced out can potentially but used as filler but it still has a somewhat long recharge.

 

Once all debuffs/buffs are applied and you're burning a target <50%, you may experience gaps in your chain. This is mainly to point out that it may be useful to pick up Charged Bolts or another attack as filler.