What meshes well with Dark Control?

For both Dominators and Controllers?

I have a concept that fits with Dark Control over... well, anything else. But I don't know Control sets as well as others, so I'm not sure how to tell what secondaries mesh well with it.

I am also not sure which AT I will use. While I am actually leaning toward a Controller at the moment (yeah, yeah... get your shock and amazement out of the way. It fits the concept I have, even if the secondary variable...) that isn't set in stone, so I'd like to hear what makes for good synergies on both Conrtollers and Dominators.

Thank you!

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For a Controller the answer is nearly everything, but possibly with a nod towards debuffs over buffing sets.

It has a Fear and traditionally Fears & DoTs don't go together but to be honest the best part of the Fear is the -ToHit, so it's not that terrible. So Cold and Storm are still both very viable options (Storm especially for leveraging Tornado and Lightning Storm)

Mine is a Dark/Time is which is a brilliant combo, loads of control to throw out and a decent amount of both buffs and debuffs.

I can't actually think of a really bad combo to be honest. I suppose Emp and Forcefields? Dark doesn't have huge amounts of damage (just above Earth, Ice and Elec or thereabouts) so solo they'd be very boring.

For a Dominator again DoT will interfere with the Fear effect slightly but again it's not the end of the world. However Power Boost is a very handy thing to have indeed (PB affects the -ToHit). I suspect Dark/Ice would actually be a decent enough "bubbling under" choice actually : Power Boost -> Fear > Cone Immob -> Frost Breath and then jump in for the PBAOE stun and Ice Sword Circle.

Thorns sounds a bit interesting too for Cone synergy but the DoT and the lack of Power Boost would make me think again.

(Obviously Dark/Dark works for both as well but I tend to avoid matching primary and secondaries, I prefer mixing them up)

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If inf is no object and you want to play a really aggressive controller, I'm talking beating the tanker to the AV alpha, dark/time is difficult to top. It's reminiscent of storm in terms of its power being accurately reflected by the visual maelstrom swirling around you but both sets involved are newer and thus shinier. Both of them also look a lot better using custom colors.

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