new dark/ troller

Seen lots of dark/dark dark/time anyone made dark/kin or dark/rad? How did they go? I'm thinking FSed shades and beast would put out some damage and darks tohit debuff would make up for kins lack of survival. Rad mainly cause i havent made one in years and pretty much overused all the other secondaries

Dark Control seems to be a moderately low damage, fairly high control powerset. I have been having fun leveling mine up . . . but mine is Dark/Dark. (Call Me Awesome and I are actually teaming most of the time, but I'm at 33.)

The one build I would really like to make is Dark/Storm . . . except for the fact that I already have five */Storm controllers at Incarnate levels, and by playing Dark/Dark I get to try both new powersets. I think that there could be some really great synergy between the Dark Control and Storm Summoning sets.

• Imagine stacking PB AoE Stuns with Heart of Darkness (Mag 3) and Thunderclap (Mag 2).
• The cone AoE Immob has -knockback, so Tornado will be a great damage power.
• You want some damage? Imagine loading up both Living Shadows (the cone AoE Immob) and Freezing Rain with 4 procs EACH. Then you get Lightning Storm to help with your pets (Haunt and Umbral Beast). Considering the substantial -Resistance in Freezing Rain, and this combo should be able to deal a substantial amount of damage. I have been impressed with Living Shadows with 4 procs, but to have Freezing Rain with the Achilles Heel, Posi Blast, Lady Gray and Impeaded Swiftness procs, too . . . wow!
• Dark Control has ToHit Debuff, which would stack with the ToHit Debuff in Hurricane. You really wouldn't need defense, or you could focus on only Ranged Defense.
• The Stealth from Steamy Mist will help you get in position for the various powers in Dark Control that need positioning, like the cone AoE Immob or the PB AoE Stun. Then you can bunch up the foes with powers like Hurricane and even Gale. One advantage of the stealth is that you will get less ranged attacks, so you can get by without Ranged Defense. Combine Steamy Mist with Super Speed or a Stealth IO for full invisibility.

I'd make a dark/storm too except I'm in the process of leveling a bots/storm

That's true I never seem to tire of making time toons

In other news my dark/stormer is lvl 33 xD

Dark/Storm will be awesome I'm quite sure. I've been using Waterspout from Lev Mastery, and since it's a virtual clone of Tornado (though it's got knock up instead of knock back which is a big help), I can absolutely see how having tornado AND waterspout would just be awesome. Add in Thunderstorm and you've got a lot of fire and forget damage, just keep spamming Living Shadows (which you'd be doing for dmg anyway) to avoid the knockback.

Freezing rain with it's -Def is even better than Tar patch in many ways, though IIRC the radius on Tar patch is bigger? I *would* miss Fluffy, he does a great job of keeping all the melee pets alive and healthy. The -ToHit from Hurricane would certainly work beautifully with FS. and would provide an excellent positioning tool.

I know a lot of folks love the idea of stacking the stun from Thunderclap with Heart of Darkness, but honestly I've had a lot of luck just using the -ToHit as my primary mitigation and saying to HECK with hard control, so that's really not a big deal for me.

re: Dark/Kin:

I *love* /Kin. It was the secondary on my original main Argentae (Mind/Kin) back in I-2, and I've played it with just about every controller primary. Dark/ would go a long way towards improving /Kin's squishiness, esp with problem mobs that resist particular types of control.

With FS as an alpha eliminator for large spawns as well as sufficient mitigation (esp with Possess and the ST Hold), you should be able to run into the spawn and hit FS just like Mind can with Mass Hyp, the difference being Dark/ HAS an excellent AOE immob so containment will never be a problem for you, and with a few Dmg procs in it, Living Shadows does an excellent job at taking down large spawns.

Dark/Kin would be a total blast I'm sure.

Damn.

Now I totally want to play both Dark/Storm AND Dark/Kin.
::sigh:

Not enough hours in the day...

Arg

Love it! That's a good one...

I thought of the *perfect* Dark/DAff name too... Alas, too late as I'd already created Shadow Fallen and she's up to 45 now with her backstory fully fleshed out.

Daffy Dark. Darkwing duck themed character.

Arg

I created a dark/time and it is named Ides. Guess when it was created.

I also created an earth/dark and named it Nithera.

Ice Ember

I've made Dark Devouring the Dark/Kin (a reroll of an old Dark Blast/Kin I could never get into), Chronovore the Dark/Time, and Martial Artist the Dark/Dark (her "Dark" is brightly colored; she's supposed to have an enchanted paintbrush and is using "paint control"). The first two are still sub-20, Martial Artist is 32.

i called my Eric the well fed i think dark/storm goes well with an fat evil Norwegian pirate from the future