DP / Sonic or Sonic / DP
Do you want the sonic powers earlier or the attacks earlier? To you prefer defender APP's or Corr PPP's?
Seriously. Even factoring in scourge they are dead even vs minions and the corr does a small amount more damage vs luts and higher.
The sonic defender is considerably more potent than a sonic corr when it comes to buffing and debuffing in a team setting.
If you mostly solo it might be worth thinking corr for the ppp pets, pick leviathan or mace as those pets will close to melee. That way you get to use your buffs a bit and more importantly the -res anchor.
The two questions I posed are the only things I'd be asking myself if rolling one as the difference is really small in terms of damage.
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Corr:
Dual Wield = 55.1 base dam, 95% enhancement, 22.5% -res, ~7% scourge rate vs minions
=131.6(no scourge)
=140.8 (with scourge value over time against minions)
=146 (with scourge value over time vs luts)
=153.9 (with scourge value over time vs bosses)
Def:
Dual Wield = 47.7 base dam, 95% enhancement, 30% vigilance, 30% -res
= 139.5
The gap is further closed if you were to take soul mastery and dark on each of the respective toons. Defs get much higher value from the buff than corrs. If saturated the def will outdamage the corr the entire time it is up even including scourge (over time of course).
You didn't really mention teams, but where the def is superior in buff/debuff the corr has a higher damage cap and scourge, but generally the higher debuff values of the defender outweight the extra personal damage contribution of the corr on teams, but again the difference is pretty small.
Long story short, pick whichever you feel more attraction to. They are very similar.
to add one other consideration to Frosticus' list -
do you intend to IO out this character? usually going to be much easier to do that on blue side, unless you plan on getting GR when it comes out and move your Corrupter over.
It's really, REALLY hard to not warn someone of the perils of Sonic Resonance for a soloer.
It's not solo friendly. IMO, it has one power that's great for a soloer - Sonic Dispersion. After that, something like Sonic Siphon could be useful, but may not help your DPS against regular mobs (better for hard targets). I haven't done the math to prove it, but it "feels" right. Liquefy is on too long a timer. I suppose you could save it for the Boss at the end. Sonic Cage could be decent for a soloer. The other 5 powers will be unusable for a soloer.
In the back of my head, I'm thinking of making a Sonic/DP to combine +Res with - Dmg. All the cool kids have lots of +Def these days so I'm thinking lowering damage taken when teammates do get hit is a valuable commodity.
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With the upcoming Vigilance 2.0, which would be better for someone that mostly solos - Dual Pistols / Sonic Corruptor, or Sonic / Dual Pistols Defender?
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