Dark Energy manipulator - Darkness Build

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• flowcyto Posts: 12,742 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  Summon Shadows are always nice (and theme-fitting here), but a Res isn't a bad idea either (at least imo, unless ya have a celestial become or something).
  
  Nice shadowfeind build.

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• flowcyto Posts: 12,742 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  gradii wrote: »

  its actually not. she's a dark energy projector/energy drainer. a hero of SCIENCE not magic or anything magic related

  
  doesn't make sense to me, given the abilities already listed, but hey if it does to you then more power to ya. Res Serum for SCIENCE! it is.

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• helbjorn Posts: 678 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  If you switch CON and END, you would find significant utility in the END tree for Darkness. Readiness, Hardened, and Outburst are great. Readiness negates the need for REC and Hardened is a significant health boost to couple with CON. You'll find yourself keeping Dark Transfusion on cooldown to take advantage of Outburst - it makes a noticable difference.

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• kallethen Posts: 1,576 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  gradii wrote: »

  I'm using shadow powers as dark energy, you can look it up if you havent heard of it. just because a power is in the mystic set doesn't mean it can't be used as something else if it looks like it. and dimensional damage is hardly something which should be confined to magic.

  
  I very much agree. My toon that uses the Darkness power set (with a dash of Celestial) is RPed as a cosmic being. She's manipulates cosmic energy, not supernatural magic.
  
  And I've got a nature-power based toon that has Shadow Embrace and Grasping Shadows both colored-hued green and are RPed as vines.

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• raighn Posts: 2,339 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  kallethen wrote: »

  I very much agree. My toon that uses the Darkness power set (with a dash of Celestial) is RPed as a cosmic being. She's manipulates cosmic energy, not supernatural magic.
  
  And I've got a nature-power based toon that has Shadow Embrace and Grasping Shadows both colored-hued green and are RPed as vines.

  
  I've got a Darkness/Celestial hero as well who is not "Magical" either, her powers are RP'd as manipulation of life energies.
  
  
  Your build looks pretty well made

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• chemk Posts: 42 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  gradii wrote: »

  I'm using shadow powers as dark energy, you can look it up if you havent heard of it. just because a power is in the mystic set doesn't mean it can't be used as something else if it looks like it. and dimensional damage is hardly something which should be confined to magic.

  
  
  My concept.... Dr. Ink (octopus in a power suit) uses darkness powers as 'INK'.
  
  To the OP: Take a look at this thread Darkness Freeform. There has been an on going tweeking of a Darkness build. There are a lot of good tips and info.
  
  
  
  
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• flowcyto Posts: 12,742 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  gradii wrote: »

  I'm using shadow powers as dark energy, you can look it up if you havent heard of it. just because a power is in the mystic set doesn't mean it can't be used as something else if it looks like it. and dimensional damage is hardly something which should be confined to magic.

  
  I never said dimensional dmg should be 'magic-only' or anything of the like (that's a vague terminology anyways)- just that I didn't understand why the shadows would have to be disqualified necc. If you can use ur imagination to accept dark magic as dark energy manip instead, then its not such a stretch to have energy manifest in cohesive forms (instead of being ritualized summons).
  
  At least imo, but again, ur the expert of ur own character's theme (and I dun mean that w/ sarcasm). I was just trying to help w/ a last power idea- is all.

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• helbjorn Posts: 678 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  flowcyto wrote: »

  If you can use ur imagination to accept dark magic as dark energy manip instead, then its not such a stretch to have energy manifest in cohesive forms (instead of being ritualized summons).

  
  My Darkness build is science-themed and I include Summon Shadows using this justification as well. Works for me.

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• raighn Posts: 2,339 Arc User

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  flowcyto wrote: »

  I never said dimensional dmg should be 'magic-only' or anything of the like (that's a vague terminology anyways)- just that I didn't understand why the shadows would have to be disqualified necc. If you can use ur imagination to accept dark magic as dark energy manip instead, then its not such a stretch to have energy manifest in cohesive forms (instead of being ritualized summons).
  
  At least imo, but again, ur the expert of ur own character's theme (and I dun mean that w/ sarcasm). I was just trying to help w/ a last power idea- is all.

  
  I got a light manipulator who uses summon shadows under a similar principle... for her they aren't actually manifested entities though, but the illusion of manifested entities created by devoiding an area of all light and giving solid form to the light that surrounds them.

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• therakiel

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  Posts: 4 Arc User

  May 2015 edited May 2015

  ds/DARKNESS.jpgGood build

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• rykus83 Posts: 337 Arc User

  June 2015 edited June 2015

  I was wondering if you filled that last power slot and or made any change to the build?

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