DB/MM help :)

Will give you this. AF annoys me sometimes but always either contributes or has something to contribute. Seems like Hopeling is just all about pseudo-modding, based on recent actions.

OK, so on beta currently (subject to change, etc), Sustain powers give +112.5% regen unenhanceable, and +112.5% regen enhanceable. With 95% heal enhancement, that's ~330% regeneration, which can easily enough be kept up at all times. The Sustain powers that do Absorb have different numbers, but they're also less directly comparable to Drain Psyche, so I'm going to focus on the regen Sustain powers here.

On SOs alone, Drain Psyche (slotted 3 heal, 2 rech, 1 acc) has a 72-second recharge and gives 146% regeneration per target. That means you need to hit 2 targets to get roughly the same amount of regeneration that Sustain gives, and 3 to do better. But that doesn't account for the uptime. Let's round up and say you use DP every 80 seconds, since you don't always have a nice cluster to drain right when it recharges. To regenerate the same total amount over time, you'd need 330*(80/30) = 880% regeneration from Drain Psyche. That's ~6 targets. High, although not impossible, and not much room left to hit more targets and outperform Sustain powers, averaging in the downtime. Fifty seconds of downtime is a lot, though, so surviving from the end of one Drain Psyche to the start of the next can be an issue. A Sustain power would regenerate ~70% of your health in those 50 seconds; that's a lot of damage to soak and hope that you can catch up during the duration of Drain Psyche. Under these conditions, Mental is definitely not looking so hot.

With basic frankenslotting, Drain Psyche can have 95% recharge enhancement rather than 66%. This brings its recharge down to 61.5s, the average number of targets needed to break even to ~5, and the damage you need to soak during the downtime to ~50% of your health. Still not looking very good compared to Sustain.

With frankenslotting and during Hasten, Drain Psyche recharges in 45.3s, you need 3-4 targets to break even, and you need to soak only ~20% of your health during the downtime.

And in a target-rich environment, or in short fights where the uptime doesn't matter, or as a panic button, Drain Psyche wins by a mile before adding any recharge set bonuses at all.

So, depending on the build and the situation, Drain Psyche can range somewhere from "significantly worse than Sustain" to "multiple times better than Sustain".

And of course, /Mental still has two good AoEs (including the only ranged AoE attack in any Blaster secondary) and a regen debuff. i24 /Mental is not clearly superior to everything like i23 /Mental is, and is not necessarily a great pairing for Dark/, but it's not on the bottom of any meaningful pile.

I would take and use both Tentacles and Umbral Torrent, and they both do solid damage. However, Umbral Torrent does KB as well, so it is not for everyone. Come Issue 24, Blackstar will recharge faster and will no longer have a crash, so it will become a staple power as well.

Come Issue 24 and the ability to color the epic powers, I would consider a dark colored Flame Mastery. Wreathed in dark flames is a great look and Rise of the Phoenix is a fabulous power that seems to fit someone being chased by ghost hunters.

Mental has one good AOE in Psychic Shockwave- The cone doesn't fit practically in a nice AOE chain at the high end. I did want to point out that WoC, especially w/ a Coercive proc and Cognitive Interface is wonderful mitigation on a well-built /Ment character and will continue on as such. Shockwave, as mentioned earlier, does more base damage than Foot Stomp. There is one more gem to mention, which is Mind Probe. It fits into my Fire/Ment's ST chain and is recommended for the best results. Concentration rules too... That gives us: Drain Psyche, Psychic Shockwave, World of Confusion, Mind Probe and Concentration. All wonderful powers that contribute their fair share to the awesomeness that is /Ment. I just wanted to point out that 5/9 of the powers in the set are awesome (and the first one you're stuck with) before anyone starts in on a "DP is all /Ment does" argument.

Excellent satire. Bravo.

Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze Nice build

This all the way, you have helped me in the past THB alot infact, especially with warshades, so i read this post, and now i am in the process of finding a suitable replacement for DB, for concept reasons i took this, but i can always pick fire

sounds amazing StratoNexus.
Appreciate the help alot, thank you.