Oppressive Gloom - Anyone use it ?

I have a AR Device level 50 and I am trying to find some unique ways of keeping mobs off him. I remember how much those Murk Eidolon would just keep me stunned in the sewers. I was praying someone would kill them so you could move.

I am considering Caltrops and Oppressive gloom running. Maybe even just using web grenade on the boss to keep them in place but out of melee range. Again I know its not the perfect scenario, but wonder if anyone is seeing a decent amount of mobs stunned with this power.

Use it on my Mastermind all the time and it works great for minions. It requires you to be in melee range for them to be stunned.

I use oppressive gloom on my Defender. As I use dark blast, I stack it with dark pit and can stun a whole mob (Bosses and Lieuts not as long, but they still stun enough for me to do what i need to). But without another stun power, you'll only be stunning minions and you'll have to be in the middle of the mob to be effective. I'm alwasy up close and personal with my blaster, but i've not played an AR/Dev blaster, I understand theres a few cone powers in it tho so may not work best being in the middle of the mob? Thats just my gut thinking, having not tested it.

I use Opressive Gloom on my Dark/Dark/Soul stalker. It works well to keep the minions stunned after the Assassin Strike. (It stays supressed on a stalker until you chose to break out of Hide)

There have been a few threads stating the (Purple)Absolute Amazement proc is not working at all in any power. Don't waste a slot in this power for this proc until it gets fixed.

I have a Fire/MM/Soul Blaster and I use Oppressive gloom with PSW and it stunns a few and it helps when I solo farm.

Step 1. Build Up/Aim
Step 2. Soul Tentacles
Step 3. Oppressive Gloom/PSW
Step 4. Drain Psyche
Step 5. Fire Ball/RoF/Fire Breath
Step 6. Repeat

I only set it for +1/+6 since anything higher they take longer to kill and they get unstunned and attack back.

I've found Oppressive Gloom to be a handy power to help survivability on every AT I've tried it. It's not going to take care of everything, but if you're swarmed by a bunch of minions, it pretty much shuts them down.

Haven't tried it on a blaster, though. Hope it works out for you!

The Ragnarok chance for KD proc works great in caltrops. If you can get it, I recommend it.

I used to think the -damage self part is very annoying and I find the radius is quite small on Stalker/Brute but my Necro/Pain MM picked up OG and man, it is amazing! I didn't know OG on MM, Defender and Blaster has 12' radius. It is quite large.

I like having some kind of healing to back up OG's damage-self. Not sure how well it works on Blaster but you don't have to run in to stun. You can just stay at range and stun those that get closer to you.


I've been wanting to run duo Necro/Pain build with a friend. I think it's going to be amazing. The beauty of OG is when you have more than one person running it.

My biggest problem with offensive auras on blasters is it seems sometimes I spend more time waiting on recharge and retoggling them then actually benefiting from them. I really wish offensive toggles just suppressed.

I didn't pick it up for my AR Dev and opted for Range Defense cap.. But I am going to try and test it with my 2nd build or on Test just to see what I can do with it.

OG would be great for a Mental Blaster, it would add another layer of mitigation for your PBAoE powers.