The Corruptor Primaries

[Snarky]

4 hours ago, JayboH said:

Nice, do you happen to know the answers to my questions regarding the proc?

….  Yes.  And i answered it.  
 

Dark uses both to hit debuffs, stun effect, and fear effect to mitigate incoming damage.  Adding to hit debuff to a stun aura increases the overall effectiveness of your to hit debuffs on opponents 

[twozerofoxtrot]

On 6/27/2025 at 3:54 AM, Wordsalad said:

Only thing I would change is Piercing Beam hitting more targets, wtf is a 3 target narrow cone?

 

I agree that would be superior but thematically the idea is the shot is piercing through two other targets.

 

It's a narrow cone because doing so is a mechanically simple way to evoke that idea.

[aethereal]

5 hours ago, JayboH said:

Nice, do you happen to know the answers to my questions regarding the proc?

 

To hit debuff from the AA proc lasts 10 seconds.  Not affected by enhancements.  7.5% to hit debuff, resistable.

Edited Friday at 10:30 AM by aethereal

[Maelwys]

4 hours ago, JayboH said:

Nice, do you happen to know the answers to my questions regarding the proc?

 

7 hours ago, JayboH said:

-speaking of Absolute Amazement, I never understood the proc.  If everything is designed around stunning your target, why would you care if they get hit with a to-hit debuff?  Does the full set stun duration outlast the to-hit debuff proc?  Etc.

 

11 hours ago, JayboH said:

I have tried to get Dark Pit some buffs a few times over the years.  It costs a lot of endurance, it has low base accuracy, it has a low mag stun, and the stun is short.  How do you slot yours up?

Dark Pit on a Corruptor inflicts a Mag2 Stun with a Base Duration of 8.94 seconds and a recharge time of 60s.
Slotting a full Absolute Amazement set into it will get the Stun duration to a 18.05 seconds (regular unboosted) and 18.54s (if they're boosted to +5)
https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=corruptor_ranged.dark_blast.dark_pit&at=corruptor

The Absolute Amazement Proc inflicts -7.5% ToHit (resistable) for 10 seconds; at an activation rate of 4.5PPM
https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=boosts.crafted_absolute_amazement_f.crafted_absolute_amazement_f&at=corruptor


So if you're putting the entire +5-boosted "Absolute Amazement" IO set into Dark Pit; you can expect:
+ Inflict a Mag 2 Stun with a duration of 18.54s (vs even-level enemies)

+ Capped Hit Chance vs +1 enemies (can become capped vs higher level foes with more Global Accuracy + ToHit buffs etc)

+ A Recharge time of 28.93s (this can be made lower with more Global Recharge + Hasten etc. getting it down to ~15s is often viable)
+ A chance to inflict -7.5 ToHit (vs even level foes) for 10s. At 4.5PPM with the above slotting this will have a 72.6154% activation rate.



Personally... I skip it.
Dark Blast is one of those powersets that only has about 5 powers that (to me) are worth taking.
I will sometimes take the T1 Dark Blast.  But Dark Pit, Night Fall and Torrent for me are always firm skips.
...and that's not a bad thing, because it give me lots of options for pool/epic/patron powers etc.
(On Sentinels it's a different story but Dark Blast there might as well be a completely new powerset!)

[Snarky]

9 hours ago, Maelwys said:

 

 

Dark Pit on a Corruptor inflicts a Mag2 Stun with a Base Duration of 8.94 seconds and a recharge time of 60s.
Slotting a full Absolute Amazement set into it will get the Stun duration to a 18.05 seconds (regular unboosted) and 18.54s (if they're boosted to +5)
https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=corruptor_ranged.dark_blast.dark_pit&at=corruptor

The Absolute Amazement Proc inflicts -7.5% ToHit (resistable) for 10 seconds; at an activation rate of 4.5PPM
https://cod.uberguy.net./html/power.html?power=boosts.crafted_absolute_amazement_f.crafted_absolute_amazement_f&at=corruptor


So if you're putting the entire +5-boosted "Absolute Amazement" IO set into Dark Pit; you can expect:
+ Inflict a Mag 2 Stun with a duration of 18.54s (vs even-level enemies)

+ Capped Hit Chance vs +1 enemies (can become capped vs higher level foes with more Global Accuracy + ToHit buffs etc)

+ A Recharge time of 28.93s (this can be made lower with more Global Recharge + Hasten etc. getting it down to ~15s is often viable)
+ A chance to inflict -7.5 ToHit (vs even level foes) for 10s. At 4.5PPM with the above slotting this will have a 72.6154% activation rate.



Personally... I skip it.
Dark Blast is one of those powersets that only has about 5 powers that (to me) are worth taking.
I will sometimes take the T1 Dark Blast.  But Dark Pit, Night Fall and Torrent for me are always firm skips.
...and that's not a bad thing, because it give me lots of options for pool/epic/patron powers etc.
(On Sentinels it's a different story but Dark Blast there might as well be a completely new powerset!)

Oh I take everything except the ST Hold and the abomination known as Black Hole.  
 

On my level 50 build i may have to drop one the T1 blast.  Which makes me sad.  But i want Leadership Tactics, which means Manuevers. And with Hasten and a Travel Power….   But I try to take them all.  I like the hold.  But no room, no options to stack in Dark^3 and therefore it is much less useful.  I have been on this Dark^3 running all content since March.  Every contact every mission Red/Blue/Gold.  The powers work wonderfully together once you realize the timing and opportunities.  Only against rare EBs do I start to get pressured solo.  Tons of mobs?  Debuff, Stun, Tar, Spirit Drain, Blackstar.  Even when i cannot kill stuff fast I rarely have issues due to all the mitigation Dark^3 throws out. 

[JayboH]

12 hours ago, Maelwys said:

Personally... I skip it.

Yup.  Such an odd proc choice, where the more pieces of the set you get on a power, the less effective the proc becomes.

[JayboH]

Sonic's been toyed with a couple of times recently right?  Pretty sure in the last huge patch it was altered again.  How is it now?

[Uun]

2 hours ago, JayboH said:

Sonic's been toyed with a couple of times recently right?  Pretty sure in the last huge patch it was altered again.  How is it now?

The blast set? They simplified the -res. There's just one type now and it's -11.25% (for corruptors) on all the powers, with varying durations. Powers don't stack with themselves, but they stack with each other. It's pretty easy to get up to 3 stacks.