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Gloom Sabre wishlist- and req for recs for alt builds
 
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A little bit of history to explain my view might help give some perspective. dp was not my first toon on red side. My first toon was a MM on Freedumb which is
stalled in the mid-20s. That MM was part of the Headstart for having pre-ordered CoV. But it was a matter of weeks, if that, that dp first appeared in Virtue.
So she was around before IOs, before pain corruptors, before lvl 50, and after the initial wave of powergamers were pushing to 40. She was also there before
Thermals were 'discovered'. She focused on healing because that's what everyone at the time was screaming for: We need a empathy set on red-side.
And between cycling her support powers, and the stacking of the to-hit debuffs inherint on them, and firing off the heal, she bearly had any time to fire off
any attacks. She would be following the brutes and targeting through them... I was learning the toon, and people were learning how to play. dp basically got
"lackey-leveled" from 0-20 on the basis of her heal and the debuffs alone.

How did dp play? She would charge in on the heals of brute or one particular stalker that thought it was a brute (EM/Nin), running shadowfall, and then as soon
as they fired off an attack, fire off a heal and plant my Tarpatch and start cycling my support powers and heals. The equalivilant would be tailing the tanker
and firing off the heal after they aggro a mob and take a hit. But that was my playstyle then and its changed since I got Fluffy. Then I went back and mal-ed
down to help some friends level up their toons.

What was dp's role? She was there to provide Heals and debuffs, to keep everyone upright, and moving forward. She was not there to do damage - that's
what everyone else did, since she was almost always lackeyed or malled to a brute or stalker.

That is why dp is built the way she is... she comes from a time when there is nothing else out there on redside that healed, and that sorta shaped my opinion a
little of Dark Miasma in relation to Corruptors and thus by extension, Defenders. The debuffs aren't visible, but they stack, and are basically
preventative. It protects the entire team from that mob while the debuff lasts.

But times have changed. And what is appropriate for Corruptors is not quite right for Defenders. Dark Miasma still is all about to hit debuffs and negative
energy damage. You just have to find the mix that suits your playstyle, the role you chose. There will be those that say Defenders are HealerZ, that Defenders
should be Buff-bots, that Defenders should do Damage, should be able to rez, should do this, should yada yada yada. Ignore them. Play the toon you want, how
you want. Pick your role and stick to it.

For the record, I do agree with what those above say regarding Rad, Sonic and like... just I -highly- doubt that you'll be able to get a Gamma out of Dark
Miasma, its a different animal to Radiation. (And I stand in awe at what sweno has been able to do on Gamma)

As for dp? She'll remain a dark healer, that's her role. But thanks to the second build one day I might work on a end game damage build.

(My apologies if the above is a little in-coherent, its late and I've just had a long day)

Shader
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