Darkest Night would ramp your survivability against tougher enemies and make regular survivability that much easier. LBE is alright; I tried it on my Shield/Axe and it wasn't so helpful.
My guides:Dark Melee/Dark Armor/Soul Mastery, Illusion Control/Kinetics/Primal Forces Mastery, Electric Armor
"Dark Armor is a complete waste as a tanking set."
Also, gloom does significantly more damage than LBE according to Mids.
Comrade Smersh, KGB Special Section 8 50 Inv/Fire, Fire/Rad, BS/WP, SD/SS, AR/EM
Other 50s: Plant/Thorn, Bots/Traps, DB/SR, MA/Regen, Rad/Dark - All on Virtue.
-Don't just rebel, build a better world, comrade! Unless Mids' and City of Data are both wrong, Darkest Night only appears to debuff for .75 seconds. That's not enought to consider for survivability.
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Darkest Night is a toggle.
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Originally Posted by Syntax42
Unless Mids' and City of Data are both wrong, Darkest Night only appears to debuff for .75 seconds. That's not enought to consider for survivability.
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Comrade Smersh, KGB Special Section 8 50 Inv/Fire, Fire/Rad, BS/WP, SD/SS, AR/EM
Other 50s: Plant/Thorn, Bots/Traps, DB/SR, MA/Regen, Rad/Dark - All on Virtue.
-Don't just rebel, build a better world, comrade!
You should get gloom, darkest night and dark obliteration.
Those powers rocks.
For end redux, you can always go slot Alpha slot with Cardiac :P
Also, it fits with the concept for dark melee.
I don't believe the -Damage component of Darkest Night is resistible so its like a ~20% boost to your resistance across the board.
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-Damage is a little different in that it is resisted by the corresponding type of damage resistance. That is to say, smashing damage resistance on the target will make -damage debuffs less effective when applied to the target's smashing damage (and only smashing damage) attacks.|
Originally Posted by Nicro
I don't believe the -Damage component of Darkest Night is resistible so its like a ~20% boost to your resistance across the board.
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This gives the following scenarios:
* Enemy has no damage resistances at all - damage debuffs are unresisted.
* Enemy has damage resistances, but they are of different types than the attacks they deal (e.g. lethal/smashing resists, but energy attacks) - damage debuffs are still unresisted.
* Enemy has damage resistances, and attack damage types to match (e.g. energy resists and energy attacks) - damage debuff is resisted by an equivalent amount.
This also means you can boost -damage debuffs by applying -resistance debuffs to the target.
Also, while it's unaffected by Purple Triangles, it does still scale by relative level like any other debuff (i.e. lower values vs +4s than +1s).
On a softcapped Invul/Dark Melee Tanker, what are the pros and cons of taking Energy Mastery or Soul Mastery? Would such a Tanker be so survivable that Darkest Night would be redundant? Would Laser Beam Eyes with an Anchilles proc be a better choice?