Dark_Dom

Hi,
Have been thinking about this myself as have just started entering sirens for fun.
Firstly at this level warshades are not uber at all (cant wait for eclipse and the high lvl pvp areas though) and my current build certainly is not tailored for pvp.
BUT I have detoggled a brute with dwarf-held him in human and then it was nova FTW .Stalkers are however owning me at the moment-BUT again I have a plan. The +perception on shadow cloak picks them up just in hide so when I respec will add in assault and tactics to cover hide and stealth combos. To prevent AS I will pick up orbiting death and slot 2 Accs in itAnd finally tp foe to bring them to you and your friends for hold and some nova love (or thats the plan lol)
DD

GRATZ AGAIN-Was nice to be there and great fun
DD

Eureka (as they say) I think I have it, a build I am pretty happy with. The concept is too be very annoying with lots of to hit debuffs and the psychic mastery series until I get put out of my misery lol. Hopefully in a team with vengence at the ready to enhance our offense while decreasing the opponents ability to attack.Tp foe into tarpatch and pet should be fun to . As I said I fully expect to be stomped on hence the quick escape route of the jump series and teleport.
Please have a look especially at the slotting and give me some opinions.
TY DD

PS ignore the slot numbering just stuck them in-will do it in some sort of logical order with the build itself


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Name:
Level: 50
Archetype: Defender
Primary: Dark Miasma
Secondary: Dark Blast
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01) --> Tar Patch==> Rechg(1) Rechg(3) Rechg(7) Slow(11)
01) --> Dark Blast==> Acc(1) Acc(3) Dmg(7) Dmg(13) Dmg(19) TH_DeBuf(31)
02) --> Gloom==> Acc(2) Acc(5) Dmg(9) Dmg(11) Dmg(21) TH_DeBuf(31)
04) --> Moonbeam==> Acc(4) Acc(5) Dmg(9) Dmg(17) Dmg(21) IntRdx(31)
06) --> Darkest Night==> EndRdx(6) TH_DeBuf(13) TH_DeBuf(15) TH_DeBuf(29)
08) --> Shadow Fall==> EndRdx(8) DmgRes(33) DmgRes(33) DmgRes(33)
10) --> Combat Jumping==> EndRdx(10)
12) --> Fearsome Stare==> Acc(12) Acc(15) TH_DeBuf(17) TH_DeBuf(19) TH_DeBuf(25) Fear(50)
14) --> Super Jump==> Jump(14) Jump(23) Jump(23)
16) --> Hurdle==> Jump(16) Jump(25) Jump(50)
18) --> Health==> Heal(18)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(27) EndMod(29)
22) --> Petrifying Gaze==> Acc(22) Acc(34) Hold(34) Rechg(36) Range(46)
24) --> Teleport Foe==> Acc(24) Acc(36) Range(36) Range(37)
26) --> Tenebrous Tentacles==> Acc(26) Acc(27) Immob(34) TH_DeBuf(37) TH_DeBuf(37) TH_DeBuf(39)
28) --> Assault==> EndRdx(28)
30) --> Tactics==> EndRdx(30)
32) --> Dark Servant==> Acc(32) Acc(39) Hold(39) TH_DeBuf(40) TH_DeBuf(40) TH_DeBuf(40)
35) --> Acrobatics==> EndRdx(35)
38) --> Vengeance==> TH_Buf(38) TH_Buf(42) TH_Buf(42) DefBuf(46) DefBuf(50)
41) --> Dominate==> Acc(41) Acc(42) Hold(43) Dmg(43) Dmg(43) Dmg(45)
44) --> Mind Over Body==> EndRdx(44) DmgRes(45) DmgRes(45) DmgRes(46)
47) --> Telekinesis==> EndRdx(47) EndRdx(48) EndRdx(48) Range(48)
49) --> Teleport==> EndRdx(49)
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01) --> Sprint==> Run(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Acc(1)
01) --> Vigilance==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Rechg(2)
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you run out of end or his friend decides to pummel on you.

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lol very likely with the amount of toggles going here-seriously ty for input

Agreed on that one-plus signature power for dark blast and dark defender of course

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Take the tentacles attack! Really, a cone immob is s great asset in casual PvP. Not everyone takes the leaping pool powers

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Lol my thoughts exactly overnight-heres the new build (and I haven't taken leaping-does anyone think I should instead of the flight series and the extra attack in air superiority+hover)

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Name: DARK DOMINATOR
Level: 50
Archetype: Defender
Primary: Dark Miasma
Secondary: Dark Blast
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01) --> Tar Patch==> Rechg(1) Rechg(3) Slow(7) Slow(27) Slow(31)
01) --> Dark Blast==> Acc(1) Acc(3) Dmg(9) Dmg(27) Dmg(34)
02) --> Gloom==> Acc(2) Acc(5) Dmg(13) Dmg(29) Dmg(36) Range(46)
04) --> Darkest Night==> EndRdx(4) TH_DeBuf(5) TH_DeBuf(13) TH_DeBuf(29)
06) --> Moonbeam==> Acc(6) Acc(7) Dmg(17) Dmg(31) Dmg(37) Rechg(37)
08) --> Air Superiority==> Acc(8) Acc(9) Dmg(19) Dmg(31) Dmg(37)
10) --> Shadow Fall==> DmgRes(10) DmgRes(11) DmgRes(11) EndRdx(36)
12) --> Fearsome Stare==> Acc(12) Acc(17) Fear(19) Fear(40) Fear(40)
14) --> Hover==> Fly(14) Fly(15) Fly(15)
16) --> Swift==> Run(16)
18) --> Health==> Heal(18)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(21) EndMod(21)
22) --> Petrifying Gaze==> Acc(22) Acc(23) Hold(23) Hold(40) Hold(43)
24) --> Teleport Foe==> Acc(24) Acc(25) Range(25) Range(50)
26) --> Teleport==> EndRdx(26) Range(46)
28) --> Assault==> EndRdx(28)
30) --> Tactics==> EndRdx(30)
32) --> Dark Servant==> Acc(32) Acc(33) Hold(33) Hold(33) Fear(34) Fear(34)
35) --> Vengeance==> TH_Buf(35) TH_Buf(36) TH_Buf(50)
38) --> Tenebrous Tentacles==> Acc(38) Acc(39) Dmg(39) Dmg(39) Dmg(43)
41) --> Electric Fence==> Acc(41) Acc(42) Immob(42) Immob(42) Immob(43)
44) --> Thunder Strike==> Acc(44) Acc(45) Dmg(45) Dmg(45) Dmg(46) DisDur(50)
47) --> Charged Armor==> EndRdx(47) DmgRes(48) DmgRes(48) DmgRes(48)
49) --> Fly==> Fly(49)
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01) --> Sprint==> Run(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Acc(1)
01) --> Vigilance==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Rechg(2)
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Have changed to electric mastery epic pool on this one-Whats more of a pain to people-someone with dominate and telekinesis or someone with another immobilise in electric fence, an epic armour with resistance to energy and of course thunder strike.
Thanks DD

Right had a think about this Max is of course right about life drain and I was never really happy with it as it is widely regarded as useless-so could go for Nightfall-cone attack/Tentacles for immobilise and damage (U never know someone might of run out of bfs)/Fly or recall friend from the pools at this point or if anyone thinks a target dependent heal is invaluable twilight grasp is always available Think looking at the numbers manuvers is pretty useless to. Cheers DD

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Life drain? Come on, there must be a real power there somewhere you can pick...

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Ermmmm for pvp not so sure-thought about torrent for knockback and decreased acc. We have disorients in for example howling twilight and immobilise in tentacles but pretty crappy in PvP when I have tried to use them in past.
Cant get into another pool-suppose could take manouvers?. Any suggestions

Hi all,
Generally my lvl 50 dark defender only sees the light of day in the arena/base raids when snhs take it into there heads to take on art of war lol. At present DD is very much a PvE build but post I7 with the likely respec and the new high lvl pvp zone I thought I might try to respec her to a PvP build.If you can stop laughing at this point and check out the build, constructive comments would be welcome

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Name: DARK DOMINATOR
Level: 50
Archetype: Defender
Primary: Dark Miasma
Secondary: Dark Blast
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01) --> Tar Patch==> Rechg(1) Rechg(3) Slow(7) Slow(27) Slow(31)
01) --> Dark Blast==> Acc(1) Acc(3) Dmg(9) Dmg(27) Dmg(34)
02) --> Gloom==> Acc(2) Acc(5) Dmg(13) Dmg(29) Dmg(36)
04) --> Darkest Night==> EndRdx(4) TH_DeBuf(5) TH_DeBuf(13) TH_DeBuf(29)
06) --> Moonbeam==> Acc(6) Acc(7) Dmg(17) Dmg(31) Dmg(37) Rechg(37)
08) --> Air Superiority==> Acc(8) Acc(9) Dmg(19) Dmg(31) Dmg(37)
10) --> Shadow Fall==> DmgRes(10) DmgRes(11) DmgRes(11) EndRdx(36)
12) --> Fearsome Stare==> Acc(12) Acc(17) Fear(19) Fear(40) Fear(40)
14) --> Hover==> Fly(14) Fly(15) Fly(15)
16) --> Swift==> Run(16)
18) --> Health==> Heal(18)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(21) EndMod(21)
22) --> Petrifying Gaze==> Acc(22) Acc(23) Hold(23) Hold(40) Hold(43)
24) --> Teleport Foe==> Acc(24) Acc(25) Range(25)
26) --> Teleport==> EndRdx(26) Range(46)
28) --> Assault==> EndRdx(28)
30) --> Tactics==> EndRdx(30)
32) --> Dark Servant==> Acc(32) Acc(33) Hold(33) Hold(33) Fear(34) Fear(34)
35) --> Vengeance==> TH_Buf(35) TH_Buf(36) TH_Buf(50)
38) --> Life Drain==> Acc(38) Acc(39) Heal(39) Heal(39) Heal(43) EndRdx(46)
41) --> Dominate==> Acc(41) Acc(42) Hold(42) Hold(42) Hold(43) Dmg(46)
44) --> Mind Over Body==> DmgRes(44) DmgRes(45) DmgRes(45) EndRdx(45)
47) --> Telekinesis==> EndRdx(47) EndRdx(48) EndRdx(48) Rechg(48) Rechg(50)
49) --> Fly==> Fly(49)
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01) --> Sprint==> Run(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Acc(1) Acc(50)
01) --> Vigilance==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Rechg(2)

Thanks DD

Will be going with ghost widow BURN AND TENTACLES FTW. Can't wait. Plus would imagine fury will ramp up glooms damage and IMO it does about 2/3 DOT damage of moonbeam on my dark defender as it is.
DD

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When I made my PB first off a lot of my friends were still in Peregrine fighting AVs and naturally they asked me along. Nothing wrong with that.

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Dark_Dom:
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These people want to team with me and I want to team with them.

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Just out of curiosity... If you had rolled a scrapper, say, would you still have joined them with it, or changed back to your 50 to actually be able to help?

I, personally, wouldn't take any of my toons that were so far removed from the levels of the team into a mission with them. Granted an SK solves that, but there's no way that you're there to help with the mission, right? Your powers would be slotted with trainings, maybe DOs, which (AFAIK) don't scale up to SOs, and you have far fewer powers that can be of a great deal of help.

If I had dinged 50, and then taken my PB/WS in with my old 49 team, I would have felt like a leech. No I'm not saying that you should or would, but that's how it would have felt. Not only that, but if I had instead kept my 50 out we could have worked on dinging their 49s,

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Hi again-Great points-I did team with my 50 and help toons ding from 49 as u suggest and I did that with my brute as well. I do not personally ask for this favour in return but if a friend invites me and is prepared to sk me in nova or tank form AND I think I can survive and help without being a liability then I will mish. As I stated I do not think that a lvl 6 sked to a 49 is a particularly satisfying or easy way to get xp, and therefore if u and FRIENDS freely agree to participate in such an arrangement for fun and enjoyment-sorry but fair enough. I am in full agreement with you if however you ask for sks and generally become an annoyance to everyone in an sg/coalition/world and affect there game. Then I agree you are becoming a leech and are not a team player.
Just out of interest and to widen the debate do you support influence transfers or any other perks between your high and low alts to speed progress?

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As a kheld, do you need to powerlevel the first 20 odd levels before things start getting fun? Is that why we never see kheldians in the hollows LFT? (ok they might avoid the hollows, but you know...)


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Hi-Firstly I personally found the first 20 lvls essential to learn how to play a kheldian and great fun to. As stated before pre 20s-nova form is great for damage, and fantastic for hunting mobs in the hollows. Teams seem to me very appreciative of the damge output u can provide at those levels and consequently I found I shot up the levels without the requirement of a powerlevel. Again post 20 and post dwarf I personally find it much more effective and fun to team with others on invicible for example for xp.
I think you do however find more khelds sked up in high lvl teams. There is I think a generally good reason for this. If other khelds are like me there are about 10 people on global friends that are very good mates (a few that I have teamed with now for the 25lvls on coh and 40 on cov). These people want to team with me and I want to team with them. We dont farm mishs we dont try to power lvl but I do admit that my warshade may have some badges that she shouldnt have lol.
DD

Gratz radio

Thanks for that-nice info and as you say for concept dark/nijitsu rocks. I love the leaping pool for travel in cov and pvp so that choice is fine by me

Hi,
Waiting for I7 to roll a dark melee stalker for concept reasons. On the information we have does anyone have an idea of a good secondary with this. My first thoughts were dark/nrg cos quite synergistic in brutes. But now my thoughts are definately with dark/SR or dark/dark.
Opinions from the cleverer people with more practice at pvp and or stalkers would be appreciated.
Thanks

HI all, Anyone free to carry out the 2nd respec tonight. Will try and do it in an hour in the usual way. Toons with stealth and tp friend would be really useful. I am lvl 34 brute by the way in desperate need of respec lol.

Twisted-Sister lvl 34 dark/fire brute
Dark Dominator lvl 50 dark defender
Dark Ascension lvl 24 warshade

HI again, Follow up since my respec to my stamina less build.
Firstly wait until you have access to and can afford end red SOs, as found it very hard until got these into attacks and shielding. As I said before, I think early on you are better going with the fitness pool until the respec as it will just be easier to get there pre SOs. Although the build is very manageable now in terms of end recovery and useage (especially in teams-no probs as mobs are so huge) POST SO, I can still have problems that are life threatening when DARK COMSUMPTION misses and I have not had the foresight to gets some blues. If I do respec back to stamina in the future (which I think would be better for PvP) I will drop dark consumption as often misses (even with 2 acc SOs in it) especially if fighting above your weight Consume is much better.
Hope this update of the last weeks play helps.
DD

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holds and knockbacks are infrequent following the leaping pool to acrobatics.
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I only turn toggles on when necessary-e.g. if knockbacked-acrobatics gets turned on

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I know you were mainly talking about Acrobatics' knockback protection, it just bears mentioning that you can't turn on Acrobatics to cure yourself of a Hold (like you can with Combat Jumping and immobilises) - iirc the only power/insp you can use when Held is a Break-Free type insp (oh and pet command powers if you're a Mastermind). Personally I leave Acrobatics up all the time (admittedly I don't have End probs) - I'd hate to forget to activate it going into battle against a mob with Hold powers, only to find myself toggle-dropped, held, with no break-frees and a whole spawn beating on me

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Good point. I did mean if I was worried about knockback I would turn acrobatics on eg freaks. Don't know if I am right about this but thought most of a dark/fire brutes status resist was plasma shield

Hi am currently at lvl 26 with my dark/fire brute. I have found while not having the most powerful attacks a good attack chain is possible that builds fury very nicely, holds and knockbacks are infrequent following the leaping pool to acrobatics. I chose this combo for all the utilities available to you in terms of 2 heals/2 end recoveries and self rez as well as control. All your attacks debuff the enemy as a bonus and this aspect is enhanced by me. Have just respeced to stamina less build and although cannot say that I will not decide on stamina in future, am currently soloing with few end problems (even easier with team a s larger mobs to launch into to use consume for example on and by doing so increase fury ). I have hasten which obviously helps with the access to the end recovery powers like consume, have end red in all powers (I let fury deal with damage) and 3 recharge sos in the recovery powers as they are critical.In addition I only turn toggles on when necessary-e.g. if knockbacked-acrobatics gets turned on/only when fury up do I turn blazing aura on to maximise damage. AS you can see some strategy is required to run totally stamina less but it is very possible and binds help.
I do agree that it is hard at lower lvls with this build which is why I have only just respeced to stamina less build after I had access to all powers and sos.
In terms of heals-love both-nice to have healing flames as click heal and siphon life actually does great damage (fury remember) and is great at the end of an attack chain and builds fury well. Often lead with it as well-cos it is a great accuracy debuff IMO.
Anyway hope this helps if this doesn't soz-Have you considered dark/energy if the above doesnt appeal.

YAY WOOT etc…….. HEAL AND DD ARE AT LAST AT LEVEL 50. Many thanks to all of you. But special tys to the following: The 1AT coalition of course. And special thanks to Manf , General Ice, Loss-Adjuster, Armidillo Freak (turned to evil now ), Patmian, Henke, Heal Lady of course, Sentinel Star, rotten, combat girl, tufty (nice to have another dark around), Black Mark and Peanut (sadly left for WoW-great healer always remembered). All these toons have kept me debt free long enough to be here today.

Great team tonight and thanks especially to Radiotherapy and Electrify who were there to keep me alive lol along with heal of course. DD will come out of retirement for any SNHS events of course but will concentrate on my WS (YAY) for the time being. I don’t want to leave the coalition though- Please invite me to Cosmic Justice Radio

Congrats to Radio on reaching 50. Hopefully Heal Lady and myself will be reaching you soon and getting our squids

Dark Dominator-SNHS-lvl 48 dark defender

GRATZ to CG and rotten who I have teamed with in the 40s. Great players. Only problem now-harder to team now all you guys got your squids lol

DD (Dark Dominator)
Level 48 dark defender

Twisted-Sister-Lvl 23 brute-CoV

plus various other alts