Dark Dark 2nd attempt

[Snarky]

After levelling a Dark Dark Stalker and listening to the good advice here I have revised the build.  I find The Cloaks do HEAVY lifting for my survival.  I knew they were important on my Tank but they really slow the pace of incoming attacks and allow me to murder the people coming in one at a time.

 

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Level 50 Magic Stalker
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Dark Armor
Power Pool: Sorcery
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Smite

• (A) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage
• (3) Touch of Death - Chance of Damage(Negative)
• (3) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage
• (5) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (5) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
• (7) Superior Blistering Cold - Recharge/Chance for Hold
  

Level 1: Hide

• (A) Kismet - Accuracy +6%
  

Level 2: Shadow Maul

• (A) Armageddon - Damage
• (13) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge
• (13) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy
• (15) Armageddon - Recharge/Accuracy
• (15) Armageddon - Damage/Endurance
• (17) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage
  

Level 4: Dark Embrace

• (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
• (17) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Recharge
• (19) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
• (19) Titanium Coating - Resistance
  

Level 6: Assassin's Eclipse

• (A) Superior Stalker's Guile - Accuracy/Damage
• (21) Superior Stalker's Guile - Damage/Recharge
• (21) Superior Stalker's Guile - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
• (23) Superior Stalker's Guile - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
• (23) Superior Stalker's Guile - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
• (25) Superior Stalker's Guile - Recharge/Chance to Hide
  

Level 8: Build Up

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
• (11) Recharge Reduction IO
  

Level 10: Shadow Dweller

• (A) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All)
  

Level 12: Murky Cloud

• (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
• (25) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
• (27) Unbreakable Guard - Endurance/RechargeTime
• (27) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance
• (29) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime
• (29) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP
  

Level 14: Shadow Punch

• (A) Superior Assassin's Mark - Accuracy/Damage
• (31) Superior Assassin's Mark - Damage/RechargeTime
• (31) Superior Assassin's Mark - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime
• (31) Superior Assassin's Mark - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
• (33) Superior Assassin's Mark - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
• (33) Superior Assassin's Mark - RechargeTime/Rchg Build Up
  

Level 16: Obsidian Shield

• (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
• (33) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
• (34) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance
  

Level 18: Siphon Life

• (A) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage
• (34) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance
• (34) Touch of Death - Damage/Recharge
• (36) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (36) Touch of Death - Chance of Damage(Negative)
• (36) Theft of Essence - Chance for +Endurance
  

Level 20: Dark Regeneration

• (A) Touch of the Nictus - Healing/Absorb
• (37) Touch of the Nictus - Healing/Absorb/Recharge
• (37) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Healing/Absorb
• (37) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Healing/Absorb
• (39) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
• (39) Touch of the Nictus - Chance for Negative Energy Damage
  

Level 22: Touch of Fear

• (A) Multi-Strike - Accuracy/Damage
• (39) Multi-Strike - Damage/Endurance
• (40) Multi-Strike - Damage/Recharge
• (40) Unspeakable Terror - Accuracy/Recharge
• (40) Unspeakable Terror - Accuracy/Fear/Recharge
• (42) Unspeakable Terror - Disorient Bonus
  

Level 24: Cloak of Fear

• (A) Cloud Senses - Accuracy/ToHitDebuff
• (42) Cloud Senses - Accuracy/Recharge
• (42) Cloud Senses - Chance for Negative Energy Damage
• (43) Unspeakable Terror - Accuracy/Fear/Recharge
• (43) Unspeakable Terror - Accuracy/Endurance
• (43) Unspeakable Terror - Disorient Bonus
  

Level 26: Midnight Grasp

• (A) Hecatomb - Damage
• (45) Hecatomb - Damage/Recharge
• (45) Hecatomb - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy
• (45) Hecatomb - Recharge/Accuracy
• (46) Hecatomb - Damage/Endurance
• (46) Hecatomb - Chance of Damage(Negative)
  

Level 28: Mystic Flight

• (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
  

Level 30: Soul Transfer

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  

Level 32: Boxing

• (A) Touch of Death - Chance of Damage(Negative)
  

Level 35: Tough

• (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
• (46) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
• (48) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance
  

Level 38: Superior Conditioning

• (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
  

Level 41: Focused Accuracy

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  

Level 44: Physical Perfection

• (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
  

Level 47: Oppressive Gloom

• (A) Absolute Amazement - Stun
• (48) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge
• (48) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge/Accuracy
• (50) Absolute Amazement - Recharge/Accuracy
• (50) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Endurance
• (50) Absolute Amazement - Chance for ToHit Debuff
  

Level 49: Weave

• (A) Reactive Defenses - Scaling Resist Damage
  

Level 1: Assassination 

Level 1: Brawl

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[Yomo Kimyata]

I made a Dark/Dark stalker long ago as a fear/fear experiment.

 

HOs are your friend when it comes to the Cloaks.  I almost never 6-slot purples if all I get is toxic resist.  Split Assassin's Mark 3-3 and put the proc in an AoE.  Put Gaussian's proc in Build up and you won't need a recharge if you have Assassin's Mark proc in an AoE.  I'd put a lot more slots in your defenses than in your offenses.  I actually skipped Shadow Maul, but that may have been mostly in protest about changing the arc from 30 degrees to 120 degrees.  I generally get KB protection from 3-slotting Fury of the Gladiator and/or Gladiator's Armor and use the 20% slow protection proc.

[Snarky]

5 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

I made a Dark/Dark stalker long ago as a fear/fear experiment.

 

HOs are your friend when it comes to the Cloaks.  I almost never 6-slot purples if all I get is toxic resist.  Split Assassin's Mark 3-3 and put the proc in an AoE.  Put Gaussian's proc in Build up and you won't need a recharge if you have Assassin's Mark proc in an AoE.  I'd put a lot more slots in your defenses than in your offenses.  I actually skipped Shadow Maul, but that may have been mostly in protest about changing the arc from 30 degrees to 120 degrees.  I generally get KB protection from 3-slotting Fury of the Gladiator and/or Gladiator's Armor and use the 20% slow protection proc.

On a resist armor I do not like any Resist below 50.  This takes my toxic to 53%.  My defenses are heavily reliant on Resist, Fear, Stun and ToHit debuffs.  I do not know how well that will fare in 2star+ content but I am relatively happy so far.  I need to run some 50+4 content at this point to see about that.  My thoughts are it will be fine if I play smart.  I doubt it will handle anything tougher than that easily. Shadow Maul at this point is an old friend, having run it on Brutes and Tanks.  I find 3 pts KB prot a bit light, and would need to do advanced rebuild to squeeze on two PvP partial sets for -3KBx2

 

Assassin Mark in an AoE.  Hmmm.  Would that work in Touch of Fear???  (to fire the proc?) 

[Grimm2]

11 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

ISplit Assassin's Mark 3-3 and put the proc in an AoE. 

The proc is global, any attack will trigger it once its slotted. And agreed,  AoEs are great for fishing for a Build Up refresh... makes me want to get back to my Spine/Stone/Dark...

[Thrax]

How does all the fear stack?  I'm on the fence of really trying this or not.  

[Nostromo21]

I was looking for a fun, relatively strong solo stalker. I had a lvl 12 elec/energy, which I went back to for a few levels and didn't really grab me - long power inception times, mediocre single dmg, etc. Long ago I had a rad/rad stalker 'Roentgen' (pretty proud of that!), which I parked at 15, must play her a bit more.

 

So I've also tried dark/dark dom (very nice), D/D defender (so so), D/D Sentinel (ok, needs more time) and more recently a D/D stalker, which I also need a bit more time with.

BUT, I've now rolled a D/D Troller 'Styxia' (don't ask me why! I think I have an unhealthy affinity with the dark...), and am going to give her a fair shake :

 

Edited Thursday at 06:07 AM by Nostromo21