Hey Guys

I made a freeform pure darkness build the other day and took ego (ranged damage) as my primary superstat. I intended to take constitution (health) and dexterity (crit) as my secondary superstats.

After consulting the CO wiki, i noticed that the advised superstats for darkness are constitution and endurance. Can someone explain the reason for this? Or has the wiki not been updated after the recent changes? I'm so confused...

Thanks in advance!

The Con/End recommendation has been in since launch. In fact, the stat recommendations are now defunct, as of the F2P launch, when many powers were changed to scale off your super-stats. Iirc the only powers that scale of specific stats are toggles (like Concentration or Enrage) and secondary energy unlock powers. The Darkness energy unlock, Spirit Reverberation, scales with Con and Rec unless it's changed in the most recent patch.

I guess i'll stick with ego as primary stat, since i want to maximize my damage output. Having constitution as a secondary stat will be enough i think...

Thanks for the info :)

Everything over 70 EGO really dont give you that much damage that it is worth it, in my opinion. So if you
want to make a crit-build DEX / CON and as third an energy stats would be totally fine.

Picking up a couple of the +5 EGO talents and having +EGO on your three secondary gear pieces is usually enough to get you to 70 without difficulty. Unless you are making a ranged knockback build or just want the Ego primary spec tree, there's not a lot of advantage to superstat'ing it.

SS EGO is great, especially while levelling. The talent that gives you cost reduction based on EGO alone is worth taking it. EGO will also give you more crit and crit severity, which is also very useful even at 40, since that will let you skip DEX as a ss in the end.

If you see you have plenty of energy management, you can actually skip END as well until 40.

EGO, Con/Dex is my personal choice to level a Darkness toon. At 40, I would change to EGO Con/End to make full use of Dark Transfusion.

The addition of Concentration makes this possible adding a ton of energy management as well as a really nice damage increase. With Spirit Reverb and Con early on, your energy issues will be nearly non-existent.

The Dex is there while levelling due to there not being much crit gear on the way, however, at 40, you can stack a ton of crit with just gear, so Dex becomes less important to the build.

If you get to 40 and still think End isn't needed, then go Int to maximize cost reduction.

However, the same amount of Ego as a super stat will always give more total damage bonus than Con as a super stat. So if maximizing damage is what they're all about, then super statting ego is the way to go.

If you dont need ego for pushing Concentrration then going from 70 to 200 Ego gives you maybe
1-2% more real damge. If you just have to Block one more time because of your low HPs then
you don'r really do more damage.

My Darkness toon has PSS end SSS con pre. End and pre because a key combo for this set is Dark Transfusion and Life Drain. I have con as my other SSS because Spirit Reverberation scales on con.
I almost never use my e-builder.

If you have to block, you might as well build a tank.