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Author: escosse
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I had tried all the classic Corr combos most up to lvl 20-22. Surprisingly, I have found my (currently lvl 40) Dark/Dark Corr the best all around toon. Surprising because I had not seen many or heard much in fora (yes I am a nerd and that is the correct plural of forum).
Basic Game Play
The reason I say this is the best “all around” Corr I have played is that once you have your build set up you will be able to be very flexible. I have had some Corrs that were great in a team, but bad solo. . . others that could AoE huge mob of minions but not handle a boss . . .etc. etc. etc.
Dark/Dark can be effective solo, teamed, against high lvl bosses or large mobs. Why?
Solo
Even on relentless you can Fearsome Stare or Dark Pit most of the mob while you put Darkest Night on the boss. Alternating between this cone effects (and keeping Tar patch down for the -res) you can AoE the minions while you use Gloom, Moonbeam, and Dark Blast on the boss. Often they die at the same time, which is very efficient.
I have soloed relentless mayhems regularly with this build after lvl 38, because Dark Servant will pretty much do the healing and half the effects while you attack.
Team
Really what I love about playing this toon is that I am fine with a good, bad or ugly team.
If the team rocks, I just debuff and attack. Honestly, with the 3 tohit debuffs in Darkest Night, I barely have to heal even on relentless with a good team.
If the team is mediocre or fighting foes +2 +3 higher than the average team member, I can debuff, AoE, and heal occassionally, waiting until the mob is weak to start attacking for the scourge factor. Btw, you will prolly enjoy seeing the screen fill up with orange scourges when you start hitting Night Fall and TT.
If the team is idiotic or fighting mobs with purple minions, I focus on debuffing, alternating effects, and spam heals.
Honestly though, after lvl 38 I have hardly been in a position where I had to spam heals, the debuff is so powerful, no one takes dmg. I have even had a brute complain that no one was hitting him (as to get fury up). lol
Powers and Slotting
Lvl 1
Twilight Grasp
Your group heal. Big Note: this differs from the MM version of Twilight Grasp. The Radius is much wider. You can be outside melee range following brutes/stalkers and still heal them. 3 acc, 3 heal
Dark Blast
One of your main attacks. Nothing special. Slotted 1 acc, 3 dmg.
Lvl 2
Gloom
Good Dmg. 1 acc, 3 dmg. You may be tempted (as I was) to get Moonbeam at this point. Don't you will be interrupted.
Lvl 4
Tar Patch
Go ahead and get it at lvl 4. Ppl will ask you to drop it for pulls. Nice wide AoE slow, but the real power of this is -res, you at the team will do much more dmg to everything in the tar patch. 3 recharge, slot for slow later on, it is pretty good as is.
Lvl 6
Darkest Night
Wide AoE -Acc and -dmg. Slot 3 to hit debuff and after you get SOs you can defeat bosses easily as they try in vain to hit you, landing weak hits even when they do. 3 tohit debuff, 1-2 end reduction.
Lvl 8
Dark Pit
This will save many brutes and stalkers lives more often than your heal will. Use it as to disperse alpha strike. 3 acc, 1 recharge, 1 disorient (optional)
Lvl 10
Hasten
One problem with dark/dark is that several powers are slow.
3 recharge
Lvl 12
Power to build up to Travel Power. Note: if you like Super Speed you could get hasten at this point and once you have Shadow Fall you will be invisible.
Lvl 14
Travel Power of your choice.
Lvl 16
Swift
End is beginning to be a problem at this point, so turn off sprint and get swift.
Lvl 18
Health or Hurdle
I know you want a stealth at this point but you wont have the end to run it and Darkest Night.
Lvl 20
Stamina
3 slot end mod
Lvl 22
Shadow Fall
group stealth, -res and – def. Sweet. I only switch it off if running low on end. 3 def, 1-2 end red.
Lvl 24
Fearsome Stare
Wide Cone, easily fear a whole mob, but not usually bosses.
3 acc, 2 recharge, 1 to hit debuff.
Lvl 26
Moonbeam
Why would I wait until this point to get high dmg Moonbeam? Because it will be wasted until now. At this lvl you can alternate Fearsome Stare and Dark Pit and use this at will with only rare interruption.
There are certainly other valid arguments for getting earlier, for instance if you are teaming and have good brutes/MMs (henchies) drawing aggro you will still get it off quite a bit.
Lvl 28
Howling Twilight
A nice rez, some players use it as a disorient/attack, but i am too afraid of it not being up when someone falls. 1 recharge.
Lvl 30
Petrifying Gaze
Hold the Lt you don't like, like the Council wolf that runs around trying to take out squishies. Sometimes can hold bosses, but I usually just put Darkest Night on them so they are ineffective anyway. 3 Acc, 1 hold.
Lvl 32
Tenebrous Tentacles
Why wait to get an AoE (actally a cone - just a wide one) until 32? Because you remember the dozens of Corrs have you seen draw AoE aggro that they can not handle and die leaving the melee teammates with no healer. At this point you have two AoE powers that can disorient and fear respectively. Drop those first and AoE the mob with this and (at next power lvl) Night Fall they will prolly be dead by the time your effects wear off.
1 acc, 3 dmg, 1 to hit debuff, 1 recharge, Dont slot for immob duration, it will recharge before they are out of the teantacles if you really want them stuck to the ground.
Lvl 35
Night Fall
Another wide cone. See lvl 32. 1 acc, 3 dmg, 1 to hit debuff
Lvl 38
Dark Servant
Grantz for getting to lvl 38. Once this guy is slotted you can sit on relentless and quit paying fortunatas.
Dark Servant has Twilight Grasp, Darkest Night, Petrifying Gaze, and Tenebrous Tenatcles. He does not seem to have Blackhole – (thankfully), Tarpatch, or Howling Twilight.
Dark Servant will follow you. He can not be controlled like the MM henchmen (since he is a pet of course), and he is always on aggressive. A great way to play in a team is to try to have him follow you to where the ranged teammates are standing before he starts attacking. You can hold or debuff the mob and follow brutes/stalkers pick off runners etc. and your servant will heal the ranged teammates.
If you get in trouble run to your servant, you can alternate heals with him, and he has a AoE accuracy debuff. I have often calmly waited for my end to come back up while a purple boss and even once a red AV tried to melee me while standing with Darkest Night in Dark servant's AoE -acc. I smiled while the boss could barely hit me.
2 acc, 3 heal, and 1 tohit debuff. You don't need to slot for recharge, even though it is very long, because it recharges the same time he dies.
Powers I would NOT take and why
Torrent
I don't like knockback and most of the time your foes will be held or immobilized anyway.
If you like knockback, get this instead of Night Fall, just be warned it is about half the dmg.
Life Drain
You have a much better heal in your secondary. And once you have a Dark Servant you can even alternate heals and heal almost constantly (which will really not happen since foes will be debuffed to hell)
Blackstar
Torn over not taking this 32 power. I had it and replaced it with Night Fall. It is too slow on the recharge even with slotting, the dmg is not amazing, and as a healer I need to be ready to follow ppl and heal and cant afford to be down for too long. However, you may want this instead of Night Fall because once you have Dark Sevant, he will pretty much take care of you once you drop this, provided you can get him to come into the mob with you. I may well get this instead of the patron pet power. Bottom line is that i replaced this with night fall because it is way more dmg per minute.
Blackhole
I only ever used this on the test server since all post I have seen have said terrible things about intangible. Have to agree with everyone else. You can't attack or heal off someone you hit with this. Poorly designed power. Please tell me anyone how they use this that does not piss their team off.
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