StormyDarkness

Each support set is rather unique in it's play style, all of them are great in capable hands.

Secondaries are less unique, but offer quite a variety of different things via secondaries.

Almost every combo is great in its own right.

Well, the endurance stuff of elec blast is (typically per power) low except Short Circuit. As such, I slotted all of my stuff for damage and then short circuit for endurance mod and a bit of damage (3 eff adaptor & 3 eradication).

Elec blast is typically considered as low damage anyhow, why not counter act that. Otherwise while soloing your mobs won't be able to touch you, but it'll take you several minutes per mob to kill them (assuming you can keep your endurance going long enough to actually kill them).

Depending your play style, the following a "skippable"

Storm Summoning: Gale, O2, Snow Storm, Hurricane, Thunder Clap, and Tornado.
Elec Blast: Short Circuit, Aim, Zapp, Tesla Cage, and Thunderous Blast.

Personal choices of skippable: Snow Storm, Thunder Clap, and Zapp.

Why? I dislike anchoring enemies for Snow Storm, and I dislike PBAoE disorient, but since you'll already be there for Short Circuit, you may consider it more useful. I dislike snipes.

I'd also suggest Dual Pistols, but that has been one of my GR concepts that I've been working on.

Also, anything that gives good chances for positional defense is always good as Arctic Fog only raises positional defense so you'll be able to capitalize on that.

I agree with the Dark epic ideology. Soul Drain does wonders for dps.

As far as attack chains, my Archery/Sonic Corruptor used the following for most of his leveling up

Sonic Siphon -> Snap Shot -> Aimed Shot -> Snap Shot -> Blazing Arrow -> Snap Shot -> Aimed Shot -> Snap Shot -> repeat.

However, once I got Explosive Arrow with the +rech proc, I tended to try to toss that in there as much as I could.

AoE wise... umm...

Rain of Arrows -> Explosive Arrow -> Fistful of Arrows -> Insert ST chain with explosive for grouped enemies or fistful if they are in a cone when recharged.

For my Archery/Sonic, I hit Liquefy -> Soul Drain -> Rain of Arrows -> Explosive Arrow -> Fistful of Arrows and 3/4s of the mob would be dead or just waiting for another fistful to be dead. However, I've been highly contemplating changing it so I can get my corruptor to softcapped Smash/Lethal defense. 20% defense to smash/lethal or 25% resist and soul drain. Not exactly an easy thing to figure.

I like my Dark/Elec Defender; however, I just have a couple others I like a whole lot more than him. Of my 12 50s, he's probably my 3-5th favorite. That being said, I've made a mids build that I really like for him, I've just not sat down and made it quite yet.

Notes on the build:

-41.7% Smash/Lethal/Neg/Energy, 37% Ranged, 34.2% Melee, and 31.4% AoE defenses
-62% Smash/Lethal, 54.8% Neg, 34.3% Psionic, 31.3% Energy, 23.5% Toxic, and 1.6% Fire/Cold resists
-275% Regen, 186% Recovery (~3.48 end/sec with accolades), 2.04 end/sec upkeep with darkest night and every other toggle on, 43.8% Recharge
-Lowest accuracy is 128.4% and the straight up damage is respectable, but the build isn't designed for damage (specifically, but it's not slotted just for to-hit debuff and endurance drain)
-I call this my "Tankfendtrollmind" build


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Eldritch Green v2: Level 50 Magic Defender
Primary Power Set: Dark Miasma
Secondary Power Set: Electrical Blast
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Dark Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Twilight Grasp -- Nictus-Heal/HP/Regen/Rchg(A), Nictus-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(3), Nictus-Acc/EndRdx/Heal/HP/Regen(5)
Level 1: Charged Bolts -- Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx(A), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(42), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(42), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(43)
Level 2: Tar Patch -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(3)
Level 4: Lightning Bolt -- Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx(A), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(5), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(40), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(42)
Level 6: Ball Lightning -- Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(A), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(7), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(7), Posi-Dmg/Rng(40), Posi-Dam%(43)
Level 8: Shadow Fall -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(9), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(9), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(11), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(11), RctvArm-ResDam(13)
Level 10: Short Circuit -- Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(A), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(33), Efficacy-EndMod(46), Erad-%Dam(46), Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46), Erad-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(50)
Level 12: Fearsome Stare -- SipInsght-ToHitDeb(A), SipInsght-Acc/ToHitDeb(13), SipInsght-Acc/Rchg(15), SipInsght-ToHitDeb/EndRdx/Rchg(15), SipInsght-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(17), DefEgo-RecDeb%(34)
Level 14: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 16: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-Heal(17), Mrcl-Rcvry+(19), Mrcl-Heal(19), RgnTis-Regen+(31)
Level 18: Boxing -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx(31), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(33), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(33)
Level 20: Stamina -- P'Shift-End%(A), P'Shift-EndMod(21), EndMod-I(21)
Level 22: Tough -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A), S'fstPrt-ResKB(23), Aegis-Psi/Status(23), ImpSkn-Status(27), S'fstPrt-ResDam/EndRdx(27)
Level 24: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(25), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(25)
Level 26: Howling Twilight -- TmpRdns-EndRdx/Rchg/Slow(A), P'ngTtl-EndRdx/Rchg/Slow(29)
Level 28: Darkest Night -- DisWord-ToHitDeb(A), DisWord-ToHitDeb/Rchg(29), DisWord-ToHitDeb/Rchg/EndRdx(31)
Level 30: Tesla Cage -- BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(A), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(45), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(50), BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(50)
Level 32: Dark Servant -- SipInsght-ToHitDeb(A), SipInsght-Acc/ToHitDeb(34), SipInsght-ToHitDeb/EndRdx/Rchg(34), SipInsght-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(36), SipInsght-Acc/Rchg(36), DefEgo-RecDeb%(36)
Level 35: Voltaic Sentinel -- BldM'dt-Acc/Dmg(A), BldM'dt-Dmg/EndRdx(37), BldM'dt-Acc/EndRdx(37), BldM'dt-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(37), BldM'dt-Acc(39), BldM'dt-Dmg(40)
Level 38: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(39), Zephyr-ResKB(39)
Level 41: Maneuvers -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(43), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(45)
Level 44: Oppressive Gloom -- Rope-Acc/Stun/Rchg(A), Rope-Acc/Stun(45)
Level 47: Dark Embrace -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(48), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(48), RctvArm-ResDam(48)
Level 49: Soul Transfer -- RechRdx-I(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- ULeap-Stlth(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Vigilance
Level 6: Ninja Run

Oh by all means, I prioritize my buffing.

If the tank is having a hard time give him a fortitude, or anyone else catching aggro for that matter. Usually by mob 3 I know who I need to fortitude for defense purposes. However, defense wise, it's typically 2 maybe 3 people of the 8 man team that needs the fortitude, otherwise other mitigation can catch most of it (My Empath is Emp/Psi so Psi Tornado +rech and knockup ftw).

After that, I move to damage ideology. It's most important to keep people on their feet, but because of my mindset of everyone should be self-sufficient, I move to damage, which means the blasters/scrappers are the first to get it and typically are the ones that fall into your category of going "all out".

I'm not going to simply ignore the team needs for my silly ideologies. That'd be a silly ideology within itself!

I say recharge first. This will allow you to get it on more people and spread the love to more of the team. A reminder, there's three parts to fortitude: Defense, To-Hit Buff, and Damage buff. The more people that have it on your team, the more things will die.

As for final slotting suggestions:

Luck of the Gambler: Def/7.5%
Luck of the Gambler: Def/Rech
Membrane Exposure: Rech/Def/THB HamiO
Membrane Exposure: Rech/Def/THB HamiO

That slotting with lvl 50 LotG and nothing else in your entire build associated to it, you acquire the following: 57.78% Defense buff (71.88% pre-ED), 90.17% Recharge (93.1% pre-ED), and 40% To-hit buff. Actual numbers (with only this slotting and nothing else in your entire build: 30.4 second recharge, 23.7% defense buff, 26.3% THB.

On the scale of importance when slotting: Recharge, Defense, then To-hit buff.

A friendly reminder that I believe that everyone should be self sufficient and thus the damage buff is what I consider to the be the most important buff of the three that it does buff.

That's what us Defender forumites do.

Either we'll give you great insight or we'll ridicule you and you'll never get an answer.

There's two major flaws with recharge debuffing as a viable tactic.

First: It has a minimum of -75% recharge debuff. That's fairly easy to hit with either Cold Domination (Snow Storm/Sleet/etc.) or Psychic Blast (Psionic Tornado/Psychic Scream/etc.), which means the synergy of those stacked recharge debuffs comes in handly in really only two ways, maintaining the -75% recharge debuff and the purple patch. This slows your enemies (at cap) to a quarter of recharge (if you maintain the 75%), but they can still recharge. Also, on most teaming you'll find your mob dead way before they get a 2nd attack, though that's part of the draw of recharge debuffing.

Second: They still get their first attack with any already charged power. So that means all the enemies will be able to use their ranged attack right as you confront them. After that, it goes down to how many different powers the enemy has. If they have 4 different attack powers, they can use those four on you before having to even worry about their recharge debuff you just tossed on them. This is *the* major flaw of recharge debuffing as a feasible tactic. The enemy starts off with all their powers fully recharged and ready to go, so you have to survive their onslaught before your debuffing takes effect.

So between the numbers of attacks and the enemy having to go through all of them in order to be fully debuffed by your recharge debuffs and the fact that on teams, most mobs typically don't last too long after they get their powers recharged, I find the value of recharge debuffing lessened. Still helpful? Why sure! It's a debuff, but when you have only a couple of powers that can stack on normal mobs before they get capped (Sleet or Psionic Tornado + Snow Storm or Psychic Scream = capped), you might find yourself hitting the cap often. Just as a forewarning before you think Sleet + Psi Tornado + Snow Storm + Psychic Scream = they never recharge, ever.

Well, I see Dark Servant mostly being a debuff machine than anything else. You *can* slot it for damage (Blood Mandate?), but on my Dark/Elec Tankfendtrollmind (patent pending >.>), I have Dark Servant slotted with 5 Siphon Insight (All but the proc) and Deflated Ego proc. I've got fearsome stare slotted the exact same way. Why the Deflated Ego? To have a proc that has synergy with Electric Blast. This way, not only is Fearsome Stare helping in the Fear and THD, but also has a chance to help my sapping. Since almost everything of Dark Servant is THD, that mean almost everything will have a chance to do the Deflated Ego proc.

However, you being a Dark/DP... I dunno. I see it as four possible slotting ideology.

THD -> I'd say Dark Watcher's possible, unless you want the 2% damage, in which Dampen Spirits is your choice.

Recharge -> Go with Clouded Senses. You can use the neg energy proc to help out the damage, since any attacks or heals will make a proc attempt... assuming the proc doesn't work on any THD power for Dark Servant (Not tested, so I dunno). Clouded senses will also give Dark Servant some accuracy, which will be good for it's heals and attacks. Also, for the same amount of slots, you can get the dmg proc and 1.25% better set bonus recharge. This would be my personally choice for nearly anything but my tankfendtrollmind build.

Damage -> I personally like Blood Mandate for the defense set bonuses; however, to each their own. Overall I don't believe that fluffy does that much damage, so you'd be better off with one of the other ones.

Honestly, my personally suggestion would be 4 slot clouded senses and then go from there. It gets fluffy hitting most everything and still helping fluffy's great THD to become great. Also, that means you can instantly have Dark Servant fully IO'd out by level 33 if you chose to do so (and had the money). Just a few more ideas out of the box.

That's funny.

I'm a fan of joining the team, do my usual Defendery goodness and go "Oh wait... I was supposed to heal? Why didn't you say that specifically?"

It's usually that type of happening that turns "Need Heals" to "Need Support" and that's always a plus, though there's usually 2-4 steps between those.

It could be one of those people who believe that "Heals" or "Healer" means anything buff/heal/non-debuff related terminology.

I hate those type of people.