Most Fun Dark Build?

I have never been able to get into Dark Melee, but Dark Armor and Dark Miasma go great with anything.

I will go against the grain and say: don't do a Dark/Dark defender (or corruptor). I'm a big fan of both sets, but they just don't go well together. Dark blast's strength is in the form of control, debuffs and healing as opposed to raw damage, yet dark miasma provides all of those three things in far greater amounts - sufficient to cover all a corruptor's needs, let alone a defender's - leaving DB wasted. If you want Dark Miasma, put it with something like Fire, Ice, Archery or Radiation (the first and last can easily be recoloured to look like darkness if necessary), while Dark Blast goes best with a set like Storm, Ice or maybe Traps.

I would like to recommend a Dark/Dark/Soul Brute. A highly versatile combo that makes you a rampaging box of tricks. A Jack-of-all-trades that can fill almost every niche to a greater or lesser extent. It specializes in single target melee, but is capable of ranged assault, debuffs, mob lockdown, stealth, tanking and soft control. Add incarnate abilities to the mix and you get ally buffs, pets and a nuke.

The combo can work just as well with Scrappers and Tankers, though the specialisation is damage and survivability respectively. The Brute is a happy medium.

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there I said it, and I'd say it again if I had too

If you're going with Dark Miasma I'd actually recommend pairing it with anything but Dark Blast. Dark Miasma has huge debuffing power on it's own, a great self heal and several control powers.

The advantage of Dark Blast is the debuffing, utility and control it brings. Dark Miasma doesn't need any more of any of those things. What it needs is damage to take advantage of the debuffed/controlled enemies. Fire Blast is perfect for this and if you prefer Defenders they'll be getting it soon too.

Dark Miasma goes very well with Sonic Blast in my experience. Almost freakishly survivable for a squishy AT and Sonic tends to lead to very large damage numbers.

I also really like my Martial Arts/Dark scrappers. The damage aura goes a long way toward making up for MA's lack of AoE and the stuns all stack. Plus MA animations are just plain awesome to watch.

/Dark Masterminds are fairly ridiculous.

I run Thugs/Dark, but if you want something more dark-oriented in the primary, Demon/Dark seems very highly rated too.

I'm enjoying my DA Tanker, and I just started up a DM Brute not too long ago that's pretty darn effective (thus far). I never got into HEATS, but I've seen some very effective Warshades. With Proliferation though, I'll have to see how Dark works out on a Blaster. I'm just happy we are getting a new Manip set, our second(!) addition since launch!

I'd have to toss my vote in for necro/dark mastermind.

You get the dark secondary and zombies. Who doesn't love zombies?

Besides enjoying the perks of the dark secondary this combination is stupidly powerful even on SO's.

With this combo you can effectively pretty much floor an AV or GM's tohit.