Fire / Dark Slotting

Hoping to garner some opinions on my Fire/Dark build – mostly on the slotting of the Dark side (insert SW joke here!). It’s currently sitting at L42.

I currently have: -

Fire: Fire Blast, Fire Ball, Rain of Fire, Fire Breath, Inferno, Blaze
Dark: Everything except Black Hole
Leaping: CJ, Super Jump, Acrobatics
Patron Pool: Power Sink

I’m pretty much happy, but it does need some tweaking. Power choice wise, I’m considering dropping Petrifying Gaze and replacing it with Aim; it’s not often I solo and the single target hold is only really used then. Aim will be helpful in the odd occasion I do chuck out an Inferno, and to up my damage against bosses and upwards. I’m then looking at (in this order) Patron Armour, Blazing Bolt and Hasten for my last three power picks.

Slotting for the dark powers is: -

Twilight Grasp – 2 acc, 2 heal, 2 recharge (happy with this)
Tar Patch – 3 recharge, 2 slow (again, pretty happy with this)
Darkest Night – 2 end red, 3 de-buff (no problems with this either)
Howling Twilight – 1 recharge (happy)
Fearsome Stare – 2 acc, 2 recharge, 2 debuff (unsure weather fear duration would be better?)
Shadowfall – 2 end reg (would like to get some res in here)
Petrifying Gaze – 1 acc (might lose this)
Dark Servant – 1 recharge, 3 debuff (might lose the recharge, maybe acc or heal?)

Again, I’d love to hear from people with experience on slotting these powers as I’ve been applying a lot of what I used from my dominator (a lot of 2/2/2 slotting) to the corrupter.

Hey Moon; Fire/dark--> yummie!

Looks like you got a nice build there. Few things i'd like to bring into the light about this set

-HT: is not only a res, but a very nice (autohit!) stun + slow/-recharge/-regen too. Giving it 3 recharge really gives it the credit it deserves and making it a pretty good control power. Maybe put in a stun dur in there as well if you got a slot left.
-SF: does very well with 3 dam resis
-FS: slotting looks good. Before the duration is over the mobs should have 3rd degree burns anyway.
(Also the fear gets broken quite a bit by all the DoT you do (RoF!!) not to mention other people attacking)
-DN: might drop 1 endredux and slot it elsewhere (-->SF or HT)
-fluffy: swap the recharge for an accu and then all is well. You want her to hit, don't you?


To have both AIM and hasten in your build is very sweet, but theres no room in your build early on really and better take hasten over AIM dropping PG (which is a nice power though), especially when you don't have recharge in your attacks. Fireball/firebreath/RoF (and Inferno ofcourse) recharge pretty slow and hasten adds greatly to your damage output. Aim you can compensate by burning those red and yellow insps. Also can take it late in place of where you've planned hasten now.

You also might wanna consider taking black scorpion epic and get Web Envelope for that bit more controllerish style. At least thats how I like it The shield also doesn't do bad with yor massive -to hit either.

Hope this helps. Have fun!

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To have both AIM and hasten in your build is very sweet, but theres no room in your build early on really and better take hasten over AIM dropping PG (which is a nice power though), especially when you don't have recharge in your attacks.

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Just echoing what Blue said (and btw, nice teaming with you the other night Blue ). My fire/dark is only 27 but I ended up using a respec to drop PG and get Aim along with the 3 AoEs and Hasten by 26. PG is a great power (love it on my MM), but probably less critical for the fire/dark herdin' n' burning' style (although I plan to take it at 35, after HT, Blaze and Inferno). I also prefer slotting ThT_Debuffs in FS to limit any incoming damage once the mobs are on the patch of d0000m.

Twas nice teaming indeed Okt. Gotta love that herd and burn game
But, but.... lvl 28 (i know you dinged last night and also were conscientiously working on those debt badges ) and still no Blaze? It's so creamy it'll make you drewl scourging that one! Really ace to [censored] those surviving the patch of doom


Edit: Ooooh since when is '[censored]' censored?

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Twas nice teaming indeed Okt. Gotta love that herd and burn game
But, but.... lvl 28 (i know you dinged last night and also were conscientiously working on those debt badges ) and still no Blaze? It's so creamy it'll make you drewl scourging that one! Really ace to [censored] those surviving the patch of doom

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Yup, doing very well with debt badges, TY (fire blast without debt badges??? that would be soooo wrong!) . I actually did have Blaze in my pre-respec build and although the damage was indeed yummy, I decided to focus on the AoE side first (with Hasten and Aim). Anyway, it's the next one on the list .