I have a L41 DDC that I'm enjoying, although it's a little light on the damage from the primary (if that's the part that sucks for you). Honestly, the big orange numbers simply aren't there, just lots of little ones.
My suggestion is to practice with your two cone attacks, Tenebrous Tentacles and Nightfall. Once you can nail the same group of enemies with both, the damage starts adding up because these AoEs recharge so quickly.
Also, with your Dark Miasma secondary, you should be able to cripple the opposition to give you more time for your DoTs to work them down. Early on, Darkest Night and Tar Patch kept me going.
Unfortunately, Dark Blast lacks a big hitter, but I eventually picked up the snipe. With the amount of to-hit and other debuffs the secondary brings, I can usually fire off a snipe mid-combat without getting interrupted, even solo.
Hope this helps.
Considering the low damage and whatnot, I don't understand the need to have dark pit's accuracy suck so much.
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Dark Blast is one of the best at AoE damage out of all the blast sets. For Defenders it is the AoE king. I haven't run the numbers for Corruptors, but I suspect Fire and AR would pull ahead.
Regardless, Dark Blast does not suck. It has a solid 1-2-3 chain in Dark Blast, Gloom, Life Drain, and one of the best AoE chains in the game with Tentacles + Nightfall.
I've rarely slotted the snipe, and only use Dark Pit when I have another disorient to stack with it. Focus your slotting on the five attacks mentioned above, and the nuke if you like those. The -acc component of Blackstar is great to protect you from everyone who isn't dead.
Suck? I'll have you know my Dark/Dark's soloed most of his stuff.
Dark/Dark is an extremely strong combo, yet we seem to get posts here from DDCs who are having trouble soloing, etc. semi-regularly. I don't understand it. I don't think it's particularly complicated. ;shrug
They fail to realize that the majority of Dark Blast's power comes from its two cones.
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=P Dark does not suck, Period. There is only one thing bad about dark, its one big end-killer.
Otherwise.
1)After 2-3 attacks you have the effective defense of stone\ tank in granite form.
2)If Fire imps are Titans of Offense then the darkservant is the god of support.
3)if you use Twilight grasp well you will effectively have the same regen as a /regen scrapper. ((100 hp/sec easy))
4)The attack chain of win. Fearsome stare>Tarpatch>spam TT and NF as needed>repeat> Kill off boss's and other stronger badies with Dark blast and Gloom and Moonbeam. Not to mention that that Dark/Dark has a HUGE potential for Set bonus junk and procs.
5)Lots of other things I could not even hope to list without going into TL;DR teritory.
...Did I mention I Soloed a pylon on my dark? Yes, yes I did. :> Sure you cant kill as fast as say a Fire/ or Ar/ or...well alot of primaries but you can do things they could not even begin to hope to do.
D: Toss me a hai @DarkNat My Fify glory: Renzer Dark/Dark Corr., Renzro Dark/Dark Def., Amartasu Dark/Dark Scrap.Less important ones: Fire/Fire Blaster,Ice/Ice Blaster,Ele/Ele Brute, Mind/Storm Troll,Fire/Kin Corr.,Bots/FF MM., DB/Regen Scrap.
I dusted off a 3 year old dar/dark cor and updatd its enhancements... and dark blast still sucks. It has been years since I looked at dark blast. Has something happened that I missed or is there some way to make dark blast not suck?