Is AR better on a Corruptor or Defender?

[Lockpick]

Is AR better on a Corruptor or Defender?  Planning to go Time for the second power set.

[Six-Six]

Depends. Are you Corrupting or Defending, solo or team?

Corruptors tend to have better AR (primary) values. So your attacks are more potent especially with Scourge.

Fenders will have a better support system (Time) which is their primary. AR as a secondary will be down almost half of what a Corr's would have. 

Fenders tend to be more useful in teams, and Corrs fend better alone.

[Lockpick]

Thank you!

[UltraAlt]

10 hours ago, Lockpick said:

Is AR better on a Corruptor or Defender?  Planning to go Time for the second power set.

 

I'm assuming the goal is to do more damage if you are focusing on AR. Your character is going do more damage as a Corruptor than they would if they were a Defender.

[skoryy]

Defender will make your Time powers like Farsight and Chrono Shift stronger with weaker attacks that you can make up with procs. One thing to note, though, is that Time is more PBAoE oriented which might not mesh well with AR being more of a standoff set. I run a Dark/AR/Dark myself to take advantage of that and its as fun as heck.

[Maelwys]

FWIW; Farsight, ED-Capped for +Defense aspect plus Power Boost plus Radial Clarion = about 29.6% defense to all on a Corruptor; and 41.9% on a Defender.
(and 28.3% on a MM and 33.7% on a Controller)
IMO the differences in Chrono Shift and Temporal Selection etc. are much more minor by comparison. Time on a Defender can softcap allies all by itself (with Maneuvers) but on anything else it needs a bit of help (the -ToHit from Time's Juncture can cope in most cases but becomes much less powerful vs higher-level AVs!).

That said, on a Corruptor you'll very likely be pushing >32.5% personal defense (with Maneuvers and/or other powers plus globals) without even trying; which it one small purple insp from softcap. So providing you take power boost and Radial Clarion you can realistically go "all in" on damage output for your attack slotting.