Dark Sux

If someone thinks Dark Armor isn't good they don't know how to build them. At least in my opinion. Having another Weave is really really powerful. To the point that for end game you don't even need OG or CoF.

Here is the magic formula:

~ For Broad Sword or Katana, build to 30% melee and 40% or more ranged, with a smattering of AoE which will hopeful get it to 30 or above.

~ For other sets build to typed defense and get S/L to 45 and E/N and F/C to 30 or more.

~ Make sure the +End is in your heal. Put a +End in both Stamina and Phys Perf.

Ok...

Just to ask the final question.... (if we assume - as I do now that DA doesnt Suck but in fact rocks)..

Which primaries work best with DA (Claws, Kat, Dual Blades...??)






Anyone....

I have a playing buddy who made a Dual Blades/Will scrapper.....and I like the "look" if nothing else of Dual Blades..

Just didnt know if it pairs well with Dark...(I dont have the time to level up multiple combos of power sets...need to try and get something that works well from the beginning).

I'm trying to think of a secondary I wouldn't like to play with Claws and the only one that I can come up with is regen cause of too many clicks in it taking me away from my attack chain.

But I think Kat/DA works out fairly nicely. Good ST damage, fairly good AoE, the Melee Def and you dont have to see the ugly katana animations (which is why I made it and I found out the other benefits later)

There's nothing wrong with Dark that IOs or a different primary can't solve.

Unlike something like WP, there's no great SO performance with any primary of your choice out of the box. But like WP, the set is only limited by how much INF ur willing to throw at it.
Unlike the rest of the resist sets (Fire, Elec), there is no end management built into the set, nor are there passives that give u an extra boost; so yeah Dark gets a triple whammy in terms of endurance management (costly heal, no passive, no end discount/booster). So you have to rely on your primary (Dark) or IOs to fill in that end hole.
Unlike the defense secondaries, u need a primary (swords) or IOs to give u defense to withstand hard single targets like AVs and GMs.

At the risk of sounding like a cranky old man, ur actually lucky u played Dark on a Scrapper, blueside. On redside, u would be playing a Brute, which means stopping attacks to recover endurance translates into lost Fury and dps, which makes endurance management a lot harder. In addition, you would be fighting arachnos a lot earlier, which means toggle juggling is sometimes impossible having to deal with night widows, bane executioners and tarantula mistresses. And even at -1/8, you would get chewed up by demolitionists, arachnos and longbow nullis.

Dark Armor is also the only melee AT armor set that includes fear protection.


ERM....WTF?

The only time dark armor sucks is when it is unfortunate enough to be played by a terribad player.

I cite this thread as proof.