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Technically we have Negative Energy channeled from the Netherworlds, and Warshades have Nictus Energy/Dark Matter/Gravity Control. Damage type is the same, but thematically and graphically they're completely different. The only actually "Dark" aspect of Warshade powers is the power names.
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There's nothing dark about using your enemies soul to make a pet? Even at anti-hero standards thats pretty low.
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Yeeesss, having your last opponents' extracted souls hovering around you, enslaved to your bidding, does slightly undermine the whole "I just knocked them out, and they've been safely teleported to the Zig" idea, doesn't it? 
Would it help to think of it as some sort of Karma-building community service thing for their next reincarnation? 
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Try to think of it as one of those buddy cop movies
"HE... was a man infested with a reformed alien parasite, cleaning up the streets one punk at a time"
"His partner is the luckless soul of a gang member caught jay-walking, torn out of his body and forced onto the side of law and order"
"Together they're fighting crime the best way they can, as purply blobby things firing bolts of pure dark energy"
Where are you all getting the "soul" bit from?
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Where are you all getting the "soul" bit from?
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Some power descriptions:
Eclipse
The Dark Nictus powers allow you to tap the essence of your foe's soul and transfer it to yourself...
Dark Extraction
Defeated foes are ripe for the picking. A Warshade can extract the essence from a defeated villain and infuse it with Nictus energy.
To my mind, the Eclipse wording strongly suggests that when they're talking about "essence" it boils down to souls...
yea i recon essence = soul in the case now weather that soul/essence is the same soul that religion is alkways going on about or just the sum of the energy held within the body thats up to the player
"Damn nicktus stole tha sole of mah shoe!" *shakes angry hobo fist*
... Hmm? What do you mean it's not "soles"? 
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Secondery effect wise -Acc to represent your target being blinded by your attakes seem's the most ovious but that effect is allready carried by the dark based power sets so it seems a shame to duplicate so maybe -tohit
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Btw the Dark Melee/Blast powers do actually have -ToHit on them - the tooltip is wrong in saying -Acc (just like the Kismet: 6% Accuracy IO is wrong in the description as that gives 6% ToHit).
Maybe the light-based powers could have a mix of -ToHit and -Perception, although that might make the set too strong for PvP (being energy/fire mix would probably make it a PvP favourite anyway) and I'm not positive if -perception has any effect in PvE after a target is aggroed (does it reduce range at which they can see you to shoot ranged attacks at?). Perhaps just give the ranged set low chances of low-mag stuns, like Energy Melee has.
I'm fairly sure the knockback and the smash damage component of Energy Blast is a legacy from beta when it was a Water Blast set. Although I still find it reasonable that a high enough power energy blast can knock a foe back a long way - that's certainly in tune with some comic book representations of power blasts (though not in tune with players wanting to use energy blast as a light blast).
it dose? Never new that and i've been playing dark based alts for a ages. Im not sure how -perseption works in pve it could have a small chance of confusing the target
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it dose? Never new that and i've been playing dark based alts for a ages.
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A lot of the tooltips are wrong - look at the real numbers in the delves for each power and you'll see.
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Im not sure how -perseption works in pve it could have a small chance of confusing the target
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Well it doesn't do that. But it doesn't work the same way that NPC -perception works on us (Night Widow smoke grenades, for example) - which is almost like an AE placate if you have no +per from powers/insps/IOs (lose current target, can't target enemies to attack them - in this case from not being able to see them).
On players in PvP and PvE -per basically reduces the distance at which you can see other players/NPCs (stacking with any +stealth they have). On NPCs a -per debuff BEFORE you aggro them reduces the range at which they aggro on you - so basically like having extra +stealth against the enemy with the -per debuff. I don't know if it has any effect AFTER aggroing them though - i.e. does it reduce their visible range to the extent that they need to be closer than usual to use ranged attacks on you?
Kinda hard to tell with NPCs having longer ranged powers than players anyway - and with me not having Smoke Grenade/Arrow on any of my characters so that I could test it. Maybe someone else knows for sure.
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"Damn nicktus stole tha sole of mah shoe!" *shakes angry hobo fist*
... Hmm? What do you mean it's not "soles"?
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Made me lawl 
@Lukas
I agree, a couple of Light powersets would be nice. Considering Light to be a counterpart to the Dark powersets, you should include some form of fear/terror protection buff.
An AE resurrection power may be suitable as well (stunning and temporarily blinding nearby opponents.)
A toggle aura which gives bonus to hit, +Perception, and negative damage resistance?
A fixed-place effect which provides a Regen bonus, healing power bonus, and maybe also causes DoT to nearby undead/demons?
Attacks could also have a small bonus to damage undead/demons.
The Intrepid's / The Institution - Union Server Hero / Villain Supergroups
Most undead already have -res to energy powers.
I really should do something about this signature.
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http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Peacebringer
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I think he just got this powerset from the Legacy Chain, thier light powers are similar to energy however, its just white and renamed. (another damn colour tint of powers yet we cant choose ours )
A total of 14 of my nerves have been harmed in the making of this post...
To reply to you all...
No, I'm not a physics teacher, no, I don't know what epileptics are sensitive to, no, I don't honestly see the ethical difference between using someone's soul and using a copy of someone's soul and no, I'm not in anyway INSISTING this was a totally amazing flawless idea that should be put into the game ASAP.
I just put a few ideas together, bored, and posted them here for comments. Thanks.
@Lukas