Regarding Darkness mastery's Soul consumption:
I really like the idea of giving more archetypes more options for self sustain. I was a huge fan of the first two ideas (the health/end over time and the +regen/recovery) but that certainly doesn't mean they were the best simply because I liked them, hahah.
The current idea just doesn't feel very impactful to me (i'm sure there are a lot of reasons under the hood that I don't see). It sorta makes this set feel like "Ice mastery but- (insert comment here)" to me.
To summarize, the noteworthy powers feel like: tar patch (like sleet but- without the -def) and soul consumption (like hoarfrost but with more steps). And ice mastery's defense ability has a boatload of def and some resistances. It's a pretty great power all around.
What I'm getting at here is that the previous two iterations of darkness mastery (and i'm mostly looking at this from a controller/dominator perspective) had something unique to it but this just feels more and more like a 'lesser ice mastery' with the soul consumption triggering +max hp/end. (again i'm not a game dev so it probably has some balancing i'm just not seeing)
All of that said:
If you really want to make it a sustain power (because many of these sets AFAICT are aimed at plugging weaknesses in ATs rather than doubling down on a strength) Is it worth considering changing the idea all together and making it something that triggers off of defeated enemies like a togglable aura of some sort (like a +health/end per death that's very small)? Or dropping a capstone sustain(like parasitic aura) power and reskinning it for the theme (like in mu-mastery for dominators that's just a capstone resist power with a crash at the end) and giving it a longer cooldown or a weaker effect?
I really like the overall goal of making the process of adding more powersets like this more streamlined and I can't wait to see what else you all come up with. Thanks again for all the hard work and I can't wait to see how this irons out! And if you read all of this thanks for taking the time with my two cents, haha.
