Dark Sustenance - I want to talk about it.

[tjknight]

I’d been looking for a new build to respec my old tri-form Warshade. The original build was never all that effective, and I figured I could do better. That’s when I remembered seeing a post here about a very good Human-Form Warshade build that had been shared on the old City of Heroes forums during the live days. Doomrider posted an updated version of it last year on the Homecoming forums, so I thought, “Why not give it a shot?” Fortunately, I already had most of the necessary IO sets slotted, so finishing the build only required a respec and about 100 million Inf. in additional IOs. Once I started running with some teams, I noticed something surprising: I was hitting the damage resistance cap (85%)  most of the time—*without* even using Eclipse. The secret? **Dark Sustenance.** 

 

 

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• Your Damage Resistance will increase for each nearby Tanker, Mastermind, Corruptor or Defender teammate.
• Your Damage will increase for each nearby Scrapper, Sentinel, Stalker, Brute or Blaster teammate. 
• Each nearby Controller or Dominator teammate will grant you limited Protection from Control effects. 
• Finally, each nearby Peacebringer, Warshade, or teamed Arachnos Soldier or Widow grants you some resistance to attack time slow effects.

 

So far, I’ve *always* been teamed with at least two ATs that boost Damage Resistance. As a result, I’m consistently sitting at the damage resistance cap of 85% (or close to it, based on what I understand the cap to be)—and that’s without ever using Eclipse! Why isn’t anyone talking about this? All I ever hear is how underwhelming Kheldians are, but no one seems to mention how powerful **Dark Sustenance** can be. It’s especially effective for Warshade IO builds that focus on damage resistance, and also grants mez resistance and damage boosts on top of that varying on team makeup. 

 

I think this is incredible… or am I missing something here?

Edited Tuesday at 11:41 PM by tjknight

[tjknight]

Screenshot, but showing Eclipse w/Dark Sustenance... still crazy amounts of resistance for a not a high amount of investment. The issue mostly has been with mez, but I have a "break free" macro that helps with that. 

[Laucianna]

It's good for exemplering without a doubt, but at level 50 it's 90% useless and reliant fully on other people being on your team whereas a lot of inherents don't need to be on a team.