Oppessive Gloom = DEATH!

I finally finished getting my spines/dark scrapper to level 50 and used a respec to make sure he was slotted to farm.

Got all my enhancements slotted in for all the good IO set bonuses.

Set up my farm mission and go in... jump into the first mob, get their attention then run for the next. I get all the vills in melee range then my health bar goes down to nothin! I think... "that's wierd" let's try that again.

Repeat above another 3 times! lol

I couldn't figure it out then I thought about the health drain from oppressive gloom. Turned it off and sure enough.... I made it through every mob double stacked with NO deaths.

That power is dangerous when farming! lol

The self-damage is the main reason I switched to Cloak of Fear. Because yeah, if you're farming on IO'd out Dark Armor, I bet it's common to take more damage from Oppressive Gloom than you're preventing.

The second reason I went with Cloak of Fear is that I want my enemies to stand still, dammit! Not particularly applicable to Spines, of course.

I'll take a look at that. Thanks for the input.

What do you think about swapping combat jumping and oppressive gloom for maneuvers and assault?

Hm. I play a /dark brute quite often, and find that for the foes affected, the little ticks from oppressive gloom are better than the bigger ticks enemies give when they aren't stunned. But then again, I didn't go for defense in my IO's, just recovery.

Point taken about the wandering, though. (Note: I do have good luck with OG with the chance for immobilize+chance for -tohit purple. Those two can help performance.)

Brutes also have more HP than Scrappers, so they can take the damage better. Does Oppressive Gloom tick for the same amount on a Brute as a Scrapper?

I think Scrapper damage from Oppressive Gloom vs. damage from minions is mostly a matter of how much other damage mitigation you have. I took both powers on my Katana/Dark while I was leveling to see which I preferred. And which I preferred varied. At a medium level, before I had my endurance under control, and before I had a lot of mitigation, Oppressive Gloom worked better for me. It definitely prevented more damage than it caused, and I could afford to give up a few hit points more than I could afford to give up a lot of endurance. But at a higher level, as everything else in the build was coming together, Cloak of Fear became the power of choice for me.

At this point, my defense is soft-capped to melee and about 40% to AoE and Ranged, and I'm farming +0x8 for drops to finish up my build. I've dropped Oppressive Gloom so I can't experiment, but I'm almost certain it would do a lot more damage to me than I would otherwise take from the minions it stunned.

Hijack!

Does RWZ at level 50 missions have a chance to drop purples?

I thought slotted healths regen counter-acts OG's health drain.

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Well... Just to make it easy for everyone to see what I'm planning this is the build I'm thinking about using. I have everything on here now except of course combat jumping in place of maneuvers and oppressive gloom in place of assault. Slotting of the powers is a lil different from what I'm running now but very close.


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I prefer Oppressive gloom since the damage can be mitigated with greens and your heal.
Cack of Fear drains way too much end and has low base accuracy so i don´t like it

Yeah, the high endurance cost and low base accuracy are definitely factors against Cloak of Fear. Another thing to watch out for is that it only ticks every 5 seconds instead of every 2 seconds.

It looks cool though

Just thought I'd point out the foes level relative to you matters for how much damage OG does to its user. The damage from farming something 3 levels lower (such as lvl 47's) if Werner is recalling it correctly at 6 damage per tic is about double the damage you'll take from even level foes (and perhaps 3 times as much as vs lvl 52's). Startled the heck out of me when my Emp at level 50 jumped into a mob of low level Hellions in Atlas Park. The tics floating up off her from OG were coming in at 17 per Hellion.