black_barrier

[QUOTE=Commando;2437115]

i forgot to add this one:

- don't use the term "gank" around experienced pvpers; teaming is not an exploit.

the fact that i13 made phase or hibernate a necessity when playing a squishy in zone makes hybrid builds even harder than in i12.

i am here to make people angry.
this is common knowledge.

Ok here we go, my experience so far on my corruptors;
hopefully this will provide a few ideas.

- dark/cold - good toon. pretty challenging when it comes to 1v1ing, as it relies a lot on that kb. i went /mace, but should have gone /hibernate to to deal with those bad SR scrappers where i have to wait til elude drops. i mainly use it to farm for pvp ios (ie, get on regin ignore lists). anything with really good burst that forces you to pack anything other than 90% greens is a challenge.
- fire/cold - pretty beastly. one of my favorite toons ever. yes, it is only a shadow of what it was in i12, but it is a really fun zone toon and it can destroy many things in 1v1s which my dark/cold can't; good SR scrappers, good fire blasters, etc (also use it to farm pvp ios from bad regins). still gets destroyed by every psi/em even if they're bad or half-afk.
- elec/therm - nuff said. playing this requires 3 brain cells and can be done while eating a sandwich; but the same can be said of most of the toons played in freedom arena.
- sonic/therm - played it from i10 to i14, then rolled an elec/therm. good team buff/debuff toon.
- rad/storm - constantly wish it were an elec/storm, but shreds through melee more reliably than any of my other toons. psi/em and sonic/ems destroy it because my build is not as good as it should be; it can stand up nicely to a fire/em though. pretty strong toon overall.
- fire/sonic - shelved til further notice.
- ice/kin - shelved til further notice.

Adding a Few More:
- Never EVER EVER EVER delete a toon unless you have the same exact power sets on another toon. I cannot stress this enough. Throughout the years, CoH Devs have shown an affinity towards reshuffling what is an what isn't a fotm. A year and a half ago we laughed a /EM doms and Fire/Darks, Sonic blast was third-rate in blasters. Elec/therms were bad because the lolzy damage meant forts would kill you before running out of end or blues. Don't ever delete a toon.
- Do not PVE too much. If you need money, Market PVP, then go PVP some more. You're not gonna get better at PVP by killing Lord Recluse 25 times a week.
- Practice your survivability. This is the one thing we're lacking in the community right now; and while it is partially the system's fault; back when I played for UJL, there were matches where my dom was put in just so that the opposing team would chase me around and leave other, less survivable players alone (syph).
- Don't play a regin. It makes you see the game in black and white if you haven't played another toon more extensively. That is my main quarrel with the set and why I make fun of people playing them; it removes insp management as a skill from 90% of encounters (therms being basically the only exception to this), and becoming actually good at using it requires that you stop thinking like the toon you may have PVE'd for 50 level and begin thinking of yourself as a blapper with infinite greens.

there should have been pvp purples an pvp common ios, with the common pvp ios having something like a 1:10 drop rate and the pvp purples having a 1:100 drop rate.

best advice i could give would be this: don't let anyone ever ever ever tell you how to play. it's your 15 dollar a month, you can tp foe people to drones if you like it, you can pop 50 reds and trow shouts if it makes you happy. push the mechanics of the game to their limit, it will make you a better a player.

indomitable will does nothing but add a pretty ornamental aura around your head when used in pvp.

change apps.

get hibernate.

get frozen armor.

get sleet.

drop superior invis.

get artic fog.

you seem to either be a bit new to the cold thing, or trying to reinvent the wheel. i hope you're just new.