Does anyone skip Soul Absorption?

Maybe its just me but of all the powers on my dark/dark I am just not finding myself caring much about SA. I admit upfront I don't have it slotted for healing or endurance modification mostly just recharge and accuracy. How does everyone usually slot it? Am I alone in feeling underwhelmed with it?

soul absorption is an excellent power, i have it mostly slotted for end mod to help keep my end up when im running 4-5 toggles and fighting and its a great team buff

i think i have it 6 slotted with an efficacy adapter set right now on my grav/dark

if i were to just frankenslot i would prolly put 1 acc, 2 rech and 2 end mod

the reason why i say not much acc is because its autohit vs dead targets and only has tohit check against living targets, i usually use it after the mobs mostly dead so we get most of the benefit

For the most part slotting depends on play style, Soul Absorption is one of those powers I rarely use on my Dark/Dark.

It's rarely needed but good to have so I have it slotted with two recharges but I am thinking of removing one slot and putting a level 55 Recharge in it.

If I were to slot it I wouldn't slot it with Heal though, IMO the +Regen isn't worth it unless you have other +Regen to stack with it. You'd do better health wise with TG and Fluffie's heal.

Depending on the number of targets it his it goes from about 30%-100% as much recovery as recovery aura and 24%-80% as much regen as regeneration aura, with potentially 0 downtime. Considering all the other mitigation /dark provides I'm not making slotting it a high priority, but I'm throwing what I can spare at it. Atm thats looks like 2 end/rec and 1 heal/rec (I have enough acc/to hit in my build that I don't need to slot for accuracy).

Thanks for the info I will try a different slotting for it but honestly its nice to see some folks not six slotting it. for a bit it seemed like a power everyone but me was in love with now its more nice to have but not a build breaker.

I skipped it on my Illusion/Dark, and don't miss it. I did however take Hibernate using an End Mod IO in the base slot, so I could get Ice Storm.

If you have end problems (even from time to time) is a great power to have. Remember that also buffs your team, so for me is almost in the same leage as heat loss

Forget about the regen. You have a healing power and fluffy

Just for quick comparisons, I used to have it two slotted with level 50 Heal IOs. On average I got about 27HP/Sec, I now have it two slotted with 2 Rech IOs and get about 21HP/Sec healing.

I have also found I have no endurance issues with no End Rec IOs slotted. I do however have Miracle and Numina uniques as well as one Performance Shifter +End so the few times I am low on endurance the base Recovery is good enough to refill my bar, I think I get around 4/Sec.

I had a teammate start raving about it when they looked at their buffs last night. Whether or not I "need" it: meh. Teammates may have a use and seem to like it.

Not saying breaking if you don't slot.....saying it makes you better if you use. That's all.

I couldn't see skipping it, on higher defense builds you can pretty much fire and forget it once every 30 seconds on large spawns. Between that and darks debuffs its enough to keep you and your team's HP capped off and removing any recovery woes they might have, without having to worry about eating up your animation times with Twilight Grasps.

Its a great fire and forget power that keeps you and your entire team trucking along. I think it caps out at a 600 ish % regen boost and 300% recovery which is pretty amazing for an easily perma power.

The power is delicious. YMMV.

Soul Absorption (IMHO) follows in the footprints of what Fulcrum Shift does. The more mobs you can hit with it the better it does. You don't need more than 1-2 Recharge in it. You might slot it more for End Mod than anything because the Regen is a little redundant with your own healing but the Regen can actually be pretty good at mending whatever wounds you took from the alphas.

I would agree with the sentiment that it is one of those powers good enough to not need much slotting.

One Acc/EndMod/Rech is good enough. Slot an additional Acc/Rech and get extra HP from bonus set (Efficacy Adaptor). The power is so great with just one-two slots.

Not a skip power in my book. It's a great team buff that will keep everyone topped out, it's not even a power that you have to put alot of effort into (both slot wise and due to it's long duration it doesn't have to be spammed).

what are the new numbers for soul absorption and fade?

Ice Ember

Ahh, thank you both.

Ice Ember