DS/dark: Which whip powers, if any?

Usually, I've been told that the mastermind primary attacks are pretty skippable -- not that they're worthless, just that you've nearly always got something better you could do. But people also tell me that the whip attacks in DS/ are more useful.

So. I'm looking at a respec. Should I pick up one or more of the whip attacks? If so, which one(s)? I'm planning to take everything from /dark but black hole, and currently I have TP foe, teleport, hover, provoke, tactics, and maneuvers. I'm pretty attached to teleport as my travel power, and to provoke for keeping my little babies safe, the rest is more negotiable.

I opted for Corruption.


Faster animation recharge and lower end cost than Lash... and it has a -res component.

Crack whip also has -res, does knockdown and is a cone AoE. However it has slower recharge and higher endurance. I find my pets eat groups up anyway. So corruption gives me a bit of a debuff to fling out to AVs and the like.

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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl [*]Watching out for the Spinning Disco Portal of D00M!*

All of them, the -res stacks (So having 3 on a single target...). Failing that go for the Cone one as it will speed up fighting groups.

Now with the Alpha slot I could probably look at including more of the attacks and still maintain softcap. But why risk it? when i know end redux will greatly affect me.

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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl [*]Watching out for the Spinning Disco Portal of D00M!*

I took Lash and Crack Whip.

I have also been using Crack Whip. The AoE can spread the -res to more than 1 target at a time. More importantly to me, being an AoE, it can draw more agro to me so I find it better compliments Provoke.

I wanna know this too.
Corruption is too low on damage.
Lash is too close.
crack Whip gives AoE= aggro on MM

Personally though I have lash since it has high damage, knockback, and I'm close becuase of my dark heal anyway

Corruption = Ranged = Something that we dont have other than our pets. It pulls decent enough and by the time enemies are close the pets in bodyguard mode eat them. = -Res is a bonus. I slot it with 1 damage and 2 res debuffs. It works good for me

Lash = long ranged melee with with good knockdown and ok damage. When or if my pets get AOEd or defeated, then I have to rely on something and this is good for that

Crack Whip = AOE cone, larger than most cones and wider too. = spreads debuffs which =more pet damage.

I use poison secondary, so I am a single target debuffer most of the time, and poison just makes all three attacks that much better,

In conclusion, take all of em. Depending on your secondary support power they will all be invaluable, and because demons needs you to be in the fray to gain supremacy, these melee type attacks really do help.

Dark secondary, mainly for the heal means you need to be up with the pets, So all of them are good, however if one had to be ommited then I would suggest corruption because darkness can pull to a certain extend with other powers.

Thats what Im doing. I totally messed up on the slotting system and said that you could slot defense debuffs. I just have procs on it....so that was definately my bad.

Proccing is fun though.

It's my poison that I have defense debuffs in.

Im new so forgive me for making that mistake.

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