Most Fun Dark Build?

I've been wanting to make a character who has some kind of darkness power, but I haven't been able to find an AT to use. So I am asking, what AT and build is best and/or most fun that utilizes darkness powers?

Warshades are pretty dark and really fun. I also like my dark miasma defender.

Dark/shield scrapper, Claws/dark brute, Dark/dark defender, Fire/dark corr, Dark/nin stalker, Dark/stone tank.

If you want to talk about fun, storm has to be mentioned. Storm/Dark/Dark defenders are great fun and I am sure a corruptor would also be cool.

If you like ranged damage but storm is too wild a ride, give a Fire/Dark corruptor a shot.

If you are the kind who likes to get all stabby, a Katana/Dark scapper sounds fun. Or Broadsword or Dual Blades or maybe Claws.

If you want to punch people to death with darkness, a Dark Melee/Energy Aura brute is fun, and Dark Melee/Shield makes a good scrapper.


Lewis

A birdie told me Dark/Dark Blasters were coming....
Just saying...

Fire/Dark Corruptor or soon Dark/Fire Defender are fun, effective and visually appealing to me also. If control and mitigation is more your thing, then Dark/Dark/Dark Defenders (D3) are very cool.

Dark/Ice Tanker. ♥

Or being able to switch to lobster form while mezzed works, too.

Or a break free.

Since 'fun' is hard to quantify, i'll give you a couple I'm familiar with.

(Note: I'm passing the dark/dark brute, scrapper, stalker, defender, corruptor combos to get to some of the less obvious pairings.)

Sonic attacks/Dark miasma corruptor. (Or reverse for Defender)
Huge numbers of soft/hard controlsl, debuffs in everything. debuffs. AoE stun. AoE sleep. AoE Knockback. AoE fear. Single target hold. Single target stun. More damage with every attack dealt. An AoE -res effect to pair it with. Tons of -tohit, some nice healing, -dam, and a pet.

Fire blast/Dark miasma corruptor.
This is especially popular due to a bug that has left rain powers at blaster damage- and rain of fire still scourges for corruptors. AoE debuffs/control with the best available AoE/ST damage attack set with scourges. This is for the ranged offense dark player.

Energy melee/Dark armor brute. The ST stun king for melee, with great single target burst damage. High endurance, high mitigation. Great if you like downing a target, and don't mind weaker AoE.

Stone Melee/Dark armor brute.
This takes advantage of the oppressive gloom stun toggle/ fault AOE stun combo. Fewer stuns to stack than energy melee, better AoE.

Fire Melee/Dark Armor brute/scrapper
This uses dark armor's high/diverse mitigation to help with fire melee's lack thereof, thus letting you survive well while destroying things.

Katana (Ninja blade)/Dark armor scrapper/stalker
Quick attacks to allow healing where needed, defense to add to all the dark mitigation. Scrappers get a negative enrgy toggle to help with lethal resistant foes, stalkers appreciate the defense that can help them avoid losing their hide at bad times in combat. Cloak of fear stacks with the assassin strike fear effect. (Note: for those out of the loop, both mez auras now properly suppress while hidden.)

Stone Armor/Dark melee tanker. (Or reverse for brute)
The Toughest armor set, with a endurance recovery tool and fast self heal. Perhaps capable of being the toughest self-reliant survivor in the game possible. Not that great on damage, particularly AoE, but you get a good, nonstop string of punches for a single target. The -tohit helps stone's defense too.

Dark melee/Fire brute.
Two heals. Two endurance drains. Two buildup-ish powers. Two rare damage types, and fiery embrace is one of the few boosts that stacks with fury, and can put you over the damage cap. This is a click-heavy combo, but gives you many valuable tools, and the secondary helps make up for the primary's lack of AoE.

One of the busiest/fun toons I ever played was a Kin/Dark defender. It was partially based off of "Electron Girl's Guide to Kinetic Scrappers". Mind you I can't argue against the other suggestions here, but check out the guide.

I'm very excited to finish leveling my dark/dp/mace defender.

Dark Melee/Electric Armor/Soul Mastery Brute with properly colored electricity is AMAZING.

I'm rather fond of my Dark/Dark/Dark defender, one of the oldest toons that I still actually play.

Might also be worth your time to wait for Dark/Dark blasters just to see how they turn out, could be interesting.

I think this is the best is not mentioned yet Dark miasma/Dark blast def

Electric/Dark Brute.

I'd go as Katana/Dark Armor/Mu Mastery and get into a Sith warrior theme or something similar, personally.
Dual Blades might be good too.

Other than that, I believe most of what I can think of has been mentioned.

plus its GW's sets

Just a quick question - why does Dark/Dark get so much mention as a Defender combo but not as a Corruptor combo? Is there some reason that the Defender version is intrinsically better than the Corruptor one? Is it related to Dark/Soul mastery choices or something?

I24 Proc Chance = (Enhanced Recharge + Activation Time) * (Current PPM * 1.25) / 60*(1 + .75*(.15*Radius - 0.011*Radius*(360-Arc)/30))
Single Target Radius = 0. AoE Non-Cone Arc = 360.