Broken Bits: Binder (III)

Broken Bits: Binder
1-Introduction - 2-General Powers - 3-Gloom Pact - 4-Star Pact

In today’s installment, we tackle the pact powers for the Gloom Pact. Gloom Pact Binders have a great at-will attack in Echoing Dirge, but that’s about it - the encounter power selection is mostly underwhelming, with plenty of mediocre single-target attacks that most warlocks wouldn’t bother to take, even with the Binder bonuses. Making competitive single-target attacks for a controller is always a challenging proposition, but I have tried to solve it by combining decent control and reliable effects. Note that the final versions of these attacks aren’t truly single, target, since they feature single-target damage and multi-target control. Compared with the more area-happy star pact binder, the gloom pact should provide more focused damage, as well as very reliable area control that doesn’t hinder your allies.

Shadow Warp - At-Will Warlock Utility
Replace Trigger line with:  You reduce a creature to 0 hit points, or an enemy in the burst drops to 0 hit points.

Hound of Dark Omen - Encounter Warlock Attack 1
Remove Hit(Gloom Pact Binder) line.
Add Effect (Gloom Pact Binder): You conjure a shadow hound in an unoccupied square adjacent to the target. The hound remains until the end of your next turn and occupies its space. The target is weakened while adjacent to the hound, and if it ends its turn adjacent to the hound, it takes psychic damage equal to 2+ your Dexterity modifier

Ebon Claws - Encounter Warlock Attack 3
Remove Hit(Gloom Pact Binder) line.
Add Effect (Gloom Pact Binder): Enemies adjacent to the target take necrotic damage equal to your Dexterity modifier and are knocked prone.

Pall of Darkness - Encounter Warlock Attack 7
Remove Hit(Gloom Pact Binder) line.
Add Effect (Gloom Pact Binder): Until the end of your next turn, your enemies are blinded while adjacent to the target.

Shadow Lurk – Binder’s Ally 9
Add Opportunity Action - At-Will; Trigger: An enemy adjacent to the shadow lurk takes an action that provokes opportunity attacks. Effect: The shadow lurk makes its standard action attack against the triggering enemy.

Binder’s Action - Paragon Path Feature 11
Add: …and one enemy hit by the attack gains vulnerable all until the end of your next turn. The vulnerability is equal to your Dexterity modifier.

Haunting Shadow- Encounter Warlock Attack 13
Remove Effect line.
Add Effect (Gloom Pact Binder): You conjure a shadow in in an unoccupied square adjacent to the target. The shadow remains until the end of your next turn and occupies its space. Your enemies are weakened while adjacent to the shadow. In addition, the target takes cold damage equal to your Dexterity modifier for each square it willingly moves on its next turn.

Devouring Tide - Encounter Warlock Attack 17
Remove Hit(Gloom Pact Binder) line.
Add Effect (Gloom Pact Binder): You slide each target 3 squares and knock it prone.

Umbral Radiance - Encounter Warlock Attack 23
Remove Hit(Gloom Pact Binder) line.
Add Effect (Gloom Pact Binder): Until the start of your next turn, you and your allies are invisible while within 3 squares of the target.

Umbral Swap- Encounter Warlock Attack 27
Replace Hit line with: 2d10 + Charisma modifier cold and necrotic damage .
Replace Hit(Gloom Pact Binder) line with: The target is removed from play until the end of your next turn.
Add Effect: Choose a square in the target’s space. Until the start of your next turn, any enemy that ends its turn in that square or adjacent to it takes cold and necrotic damage equal to 10 + your Dexterity modifier.

1-Introduction - 2-General Powers - 3-Gloom Pact - 4-Star Pact