Fire/Dark/Dark Critiques & Tweaks Please

[AngrySunday]

Hey y'all, this is my first Corruptor and I'm looking to get some feedback on how you might tweak the build.  She's level 50 and for the most part, well rounded IMO.  I prefer ranged and control builds and I'm wanting to squeeze that last few horsepower in there somewhere with this one.  I typically use the same choices from Leaping, Flight, Fighting, (Stealth) and Dark epic when building defenses.  On average, I get 22-25% before slotting and this has given most of my toons decent survivability.  I try to focus on regen-recovery-defense before damage.  That might not be a good practice but my rationale is if I'm alive and have juice, I can keep fighting.  I know most of the veteran players use 4+1 and 5+1 enhancement combos and that's what I'm trying to learn how to incorporate into my builds.  I've been experimenting with the D-Syncs & Hami's for the single slots but so far, I haven't really noticed any huge changes.  Anyways, take a look and tell me what you think should be changed.  Cheers.

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[Uun]

• You skipped the Steadfast Protection and Gladiator's Armor +def uniques and failed to slot any knockback protection. 
• Twilight Grasp requires accuracy. Should be slotted with Touch of the Nictus.
• Superior Scourging Blast should be split between two powers in groups of 3 to double up on the 10% recharge bonus.
• The def/end in Combat Jumping isn't really worth the slot. It's only giving you 0.3% additional defense.
• In Super Jump, switch to Blessing of the Zephyr and slot the KB protection IO in one of the slots.
• In Shadow Fall, switch the Impervium Armor pieces and the Gift of the Ancients def/end for Gladiator's Armor res, res/end and +def. This will also give you another 3 pts. of KB protection.
• Fearsome Stare should be slotted for -tohit, not fear. Slot Siphon Insight or Cloud Senses.
• Dark Servant should be slotted for -tohit, not heal. It also requires accuracy. I recommend 4x Cloud Senses plus an acc/heal in the 5th slot. Don't think the Theft of Essence +end proc will work in Dark Servant, as it requires the source to be a player.
• Slot Aim with the Gaussian's chance for build up proc.
• Oppressive Gloom should be slotted with an acc/mez HO, not dmg/mez. The only damage the power does is to you.
• Take Darkest Night earlier than lvl 38 if you ever plan to exemp. Also recommend adding a second slot.
• Why do you have a heal/rech HO in Kick?
• Add a slot to Tough for the Steadfast Protection +def unique.
• In Weave, replace the Gift of the Ancients def/run speed with LOTG def.
• Dark Embrace is overslotted. It doesn't need more than 3 slots.
• Stamina is overslotted. Drop the endmod/rech and endmod/acc pieces.

[AngrySunday]

I must say Uun, I'm very impressed with your build knowledge.  Thank you for your input.  I made (almost) all the recommended changes in Mids and the new numbers don't lie.  To answer your question about the heal/rech HO in Kick...it has never been slotted and I got that as a reward last night and stuck it in there for no particular reason.  I didn't change CJ, so I could keep the regen bonus and I reduced Stamina down to 3 and swapped a Perf Shift to an Efficacy Adapt end mod.  I figure it'll cost around 80-100m to make all the changes but that's not a big deal.  I'll report back once she's had a good test drive.  Thank you again.

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[WuTang]

@AngrySunday

You either need to toggle Evasive Maneuvers off or go into Options/Config/Effects & Maths and put a check by Attacked. What this does is gives you the real numbers for when you are in combat. Everything Evasive Maneuvers does turns off except the mez protection when in combat. Your defenses are highly inflated because of this. Also, I would suggest you change the Enemy Relative level to at least +3 for end game numbers. What this will do is show you that your accuracies are far too low in a few different powers, you want to shoot for a minimum of 95%. Edit: I didn't have Hover toggled on which also meant Kismet was not active. Only Blaze needs more acc.

 

Now with /DM you don't really need high defenses as the toHit debuffs make up for the mid 20% defenses you really have. But you'll need to reslot some stuff to get the accuracy up to minimum.

 

Now I'm curious if you are hard set on Dark Mastery? I would suggest going Soul and just picking up Dark Embrace and then pickup Howling Twilight. HT is an OP rez and an OP debuff. It really is a must have for me. But in Soul, if you could pick up  Soul Storm it's good for procs and a hilarious hold. It floats the bad guy up and rotates him in midair, great for laughs.

 

I do absolutely applaud the work you did for your resistances! With a few more tweaks your build will be damn good. An absolute beast!

 

Also....love your name!

Edited December 11 by WuTang

[Uun]

@WuTang good catch on Howling Twilight. I meant to mention that but forgot. Works great with just a recharge IO in the base slot.

[AngrySunday]

@WuTang@Uun

I checked attack and raised enemy level to +3 and what you see are the combat numbers you explained.  Thank you for suggesting Soul over Dark.  With Dark, I never used Oppressive Gloom so it was a wasted power just to get Dark Embrace.  I picked up Soul Storm which will give me a single target hold and slotted Entomb acc/hold.  I'm still learning where all the procs are hiding within the sets so didn't know what to put in there beside a hold enhancement.  As far as not choosing Howling Twilight, it comes down to being selfish.  I have the revive ally temp power if needed.  

 

I gave her a test drive yesterday with Citadel, Kahn, Zoe and BAF and was quite pleased.  I tried being first in a room and firing off Aim>Inferno>Rain of Fire to get the initial aggro and she held her own.  Came close to eating it a couple times but overall, not bad for a squishy trying to tank.  Being able to 2-3 shot oranges makes things a lot easier now.  I'm sure that with a couple more tweaks she would be a beast as you say but I go cross-eyed and get overwhelmed when trying to figure out peak numbers.  I'm more than satisfied with this build.  Thank you guys for your help.

 

AngrySunday was my first toon (Emp Def) on Live.  Backstory with the name comes from a neighbor who I used to party with in my early 30's.  We used to get so tore down each Saturday that all we did on Sunday was lick our wounds and complain about how hungover we were and thus, my handle AngrySunday was born.  Cheers!!

 

side note...I had to switch to Villian and complete Ghost Widows patron unlock to pick up Soul Mastery then have Null change me back to Hero.

 

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Edited December 13 by AngrySunday