Help me build dark/dark.

I would skip Fearsome Stare for now. Assuming you're spamming TT along with DN and/or Nightfall..you should have enough damage mitigation..

just 6 slot TT when you can, and use it often, maybe slap some damage proc's in too..

I dunno, a whole lot of people have said FS is the most unambigous "you must take this the moment it's available" power in the set, except maybe Fluffy.

I really like it, just because it pretty much locks down a mid-sized crowd completely for a while, and even after the completely-crippled phase is done, they seem to be under some residual fear or something. Net result is, I have plenty of time to get everything nicely debuffed before anyone's allowed to take actions.

Advise strongly against skipping Fearsome Stare. DN takes too long to cast for most mobs in most door missions. Half the group is dead before it comes out. FS you can use every mob, and it has crowd control via fear and juicy -to hit. Plus, if you just cast FS, you can now cast TT and NF since you have the cone all lined up.

As always YMMV but FS is used much more frequently than DN in my build.

-MT

I think I'll pretty much keep the build as last discussed for now, possibly moving a slot off one of the low-tier attacks for Hover because the 2-piece set bonus for freebird is actually sorta nice for me, I think. But basically I'm covered.

We'll see how it works out. Hoping to get in enough time this weekend to get Fluffy, which I imagine may substantially alter my play experience when soloing.

Through a variety of lucky salvage drops, I now have petrifying gaze kitted out with three accuracy/hold/recharge and one hold/recharge, giving me a total of 52.6% accuracy and 74.8% each hold and recharge -- meaning the hold time is just shy of twice the recharge time now. Oh, very nice. And fearsome stare has 4/6 Nightmare in it, which gives me +5% accuracy to everything.

One more level to fluffy. And I even have one of the Cloud Senses recipes (yay random drops), so I can find out then whether he takes those.

My only advise from this point on is.... don't try to be everything for your team. You bring alot to the table as a D4, so don't think you need to cover all the bases (like having leadership or recall friend). Plug any holes you find in your build first, then worry about the rest of the team. No teamleader in their right mind is going to turn you away just because you can't stealth a mission or don't have the leadership pool (unless you're on a all leadership theme team).

Wow. Got 32, got fluffy... It's as though everything in the game just dropped a difficulty level. It's really pretty amazing.

I have noticed that when Fluffy disappears at the end of his alotted time, I nearly always get a message like "<Critter> has defeated Dark Servant". I assume that's just because he died and that was the last thing that hit him?

I did have to go see the tailor, though, to recolor him -- it was Very Annoying having his attacks and mine indistinguishable, and I really liked knowing which targets were in my TT, and which were in his.

Anyway, thanks all for the tips. Got distracted by a bots mastermind, and then a couple of other things, but I am expecting that my dark/dark defender will still be my first 50.

Ahhh, the fluffy, when the warwolves are rampaging, when steel strongman are looking to pound your head, when swarms of CoT are all around, remember to HUG your fluffy! The base -30% PbAoE tohit debuff around your fluffy is golden, or green, or pink, or whatever color you decide. And as a corollary, I always say, slot out your dark servant with tohit debuff enhancers, you will be glad you did.

It looks like he's getting a Cloud Senses set, at least for now, because I ended up with a couple of the recipes.