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Originally Posted by TheXor

Dark Armor - +Acc for low acc attacks (like Cloak of Fear, or Melee attacks slotted with Kinetic Combats), -End for all the toggles, +Heal for Siphon Life/Dark Regeneration. It's what I went with on my brute, anyway...and it's a perfect fit.

Originally Posted by Black_Assassin

Is there anyway we can have a look at the toxic mids build? Im so interested in making one

Originally Posted by Supernumiphone

To put it more simply, what it seems to me it does to the mob AI is the same thing that fear powers do, like Fearsome Stare for example. If you have experience with fear powers you know that although the mobs do get to attack occasionally, most of the time they just stand there cowering. So it lowers their rate of fire.

Caltrops does the same thing, except instead of standing and cowering, the mobs are running very slowly. They occasionally stop and take a shot at you, then go back to running.

Originally Posted by Snow Globe

The design intent is to have players build multiple powers/trees. There is no expectation by the developers to allow a player to break down an already made Incarnate Power.

Originally Posted by Kioshi

That has nothing to do with the fact that the two sets are almost anti-synergistic, the best thing about blaster's DB is the cone chain and one of them does a ton of KB, which the other cone doesn't prevent (TT). A fire/dark can skip Breath and never jump back to maximize the AoEs (and then KB mobs with Torrent, uh, now it's hard to use shadow maul), neither a rad/dark since rad blast loves being in melee. Dark Blast has no targetted AoEs (ok nuke is a PbAoE but who cares, you'll never use it often) so you'll keep jumping back and forth to use the cones and all the melee goodness from the dark secondary. And Torrent, unlike the def/corr version, is a great power for damage and survivability.

Sure anything's playable and can be made good in this game but I see dark/dark on blaster almost on the level of an energy/fire in terms of synergy.

Originally Posted by magikwand

Rodion beat me to the punch- but clarion is a MUST on my defenders and corrs these days. I would strongly advise you to grab this, and put it on auto cast possibly. This is also one area where T4 is a good thing and completely worth it.

Originally Posted by mauk2

I recently posted this ma/wp/mu build, see what ya think:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...40#post4048440

Originally Posted by Kioshi

It's not because of the damage, SD has a 120 sec recharge time and does less damage than Whirling Mace.

The reasons are:

1) There are no accurate tohit buff sets.
2) The bonuses from the newer PbAoE sets are highly desirable in most secondaries, like e/n def and +hp from Eradication, +rech and melee def from Obliteration. And these sets provide everything Soul Drain needs which is accuracy and recharge and being on a long recharge it doesn't need much end reduction. And dark melee can only use two of these sets, in Shadow Maul and Soul Drain.

Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight

I would, at one point, have said Dark Melee for the -tohit it applies to the mobs (a dark/regen is one of my signature toons). The only problem is that your AoE attack that hits several targets with a to hit debuff has a target cap of 5, is hard to line up to hit 5 targets, and has a 3.07 second animation time. Against a large number of mobs being locked into a long animation with a click heavy secondary is not good.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

Signature Story Arc.