MrQuizzles

Its stats are pretty much identical to that of Explosive Blast (same damage, recharge, cast time, endurance cost), it just lacks any annoying knockdown. I quite like it on Blasters, even moreso than I do on Defenders or Corruptors.

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Maybe now the price of purples on the market will come down.

Warshade

Teleport in, hit eclipse, mire, switch to Nova, spam AoE death. All while your two kooshes are spamming their own attacks (AoE death included). Switch back to human, Stygian Circle, next group.

Dark Miasma is, in my opinion, one of the strongest defensive sets there is. It has considerable crowd control capabilities and very strong debuffs. It's a set full of very powerful tools for neutering enemies in a variety of ways. From my experience, it can take two roles:

Primary Defense- in which the user is the primary means of team defense. Fearsome Stare, Darkest Night and Tar Patch are often used in conjunction to effectively neuter a single group of enemies. Dark Servant simply makes everything easier.

Secondary Defense- in which the user is complementing other defense sets. Tar Patch and Fearsome Stare are often used on the group being engaged. Darkest Night is saved for tougher foes or additional aggro. Dark Servant is saved for additional aggro (plopping him in the middle of an unintentionally aggroed group will take them out of the fight). Fearsome Stare can also be used to deal with additional aggro. Howling Twilight, too, is useful for this. The main role of the set here is to suppress additional aggro, something Dark Miasma is exceptionally good at.


The role of primary defense is usually taken in teams, especially smaller ones. When groups of enemies can be locked down and debuffed many times over, a team can take on some very tough enemies.

The role of secondary defense is most often taken in TFs, especially speed runs. Dark Miasma can lock down and take out of the fight multiple groups of enemies by spreading its assets around. It has multiple ways to deal with unwanted aggro. This is also why I think Black Hole is useless; the set already has many ways to achieve such an affect.

I suppose I should post my build. I'm much too lazy to input it into Mids with all the IOs and whatnot, but here's a picture: Behold

I've also listed the enhancement bonuses on each of the powers for which it isn't obvious (those with IO sets) as well as any procs:

Neutrino Bolt (apoc, shield breaker, touch of LG, achilles' procs)-
Accuracy: 53%
Damage: 53%

X-Ray Beam (touch of LG, achilles' procs)-
Accuracy: 36.7%
Damage: 96.5%

Electron Haze & Neutron Bomb-
Accuracy: 47.7%
Damage: 99.1%
Recharge: 65.1%
Range: 15.9%
Endurance: 47.7%

Irradiate-
Damage: 96.3%
Accuracy: 66.3%
Recharge: 99.7%
Endurance: 18.5%

Proton Volley-
Damage: 91.8%
Accuracy: 47.7%
Interrupt: 50.9%
Range: 12.8%
Recharge: 42.4%
Endurance: 47.7%

Darkest Night & Dark Servant-
ToHit: 57.5%
Recharge: 47.7%
Endurance: 47.7%

Fearsome Stare-
ToHit: 22%
Fear: 73.8%
Recharge: 47.7%
Range: 15.9%
Endurance: 53%
Accuracy: 73.8%

Shadowfall (-KB)-
Resistance: 51.9%
Defense: 22%
Endurance: 21.2%

Combat Jumping (+stealth)
Dark Embrace (-KB)


Noteworthy set Bonuses:

HP: +52
Accuracy: +39%
Recharge: +41.25%
Recovery: +17%


The two slots in Health are reserved for the Numina's Convalescence and Miracle uniques. I know should upgrade some of those lvl 35 IOs to lvl 50. I'll eventually put 5 of the Apocalypse set into Cosmic Burst. Hopefully the price of purples will come down with the AE XP nerf. I was lucky enough to get the proc when it was only 60 million.

I've not tried soloing an AVs with it, so I don't know how it would go over. EBs are cake, though.

That build does not have Tar Patch in it.