Draeth Darkstar

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have lasted much longer in the City than it took for IOs to come out before quitting forever if they hadn't.
CoV had its moments for me (One of my original villains is still my favorite character), but it wasn't really the breath of new life I was hoping for from the game, and coming along with ED, it really watered character power down a tremendous amount. I was getting bored.
IOs gave CoH a level of depth and complexity that, I think, it badly needed to sustain long-term interest.

If there's ever a version made of the female costume that doesn't include the hideous stripes pretinted into it, I'll buy this pack - not for use as a gunslinger, mind you, but to have the option of a waistcape that isn't attached to a trench coat/bolero.

I'd never use any of this as-is though. The entire male costume is hideous excepting the pants (what were the artists thinking with the skulls everywhere?), and I, personally, hate hate hate hate hate stripes, which ruins any potential the female version could have for me as mix-n-match pieces.

The only things in the pack I particularly like are the female hair style and the beltcape, but I won't be buying any of it unless the striped pre-tinting goes away.

Attuned IOs always act as if they're equal to your current, effective level, as long as that happens to fall within the possible level range of the set. If you're above the maximum level of the set (EX: 35 for Kinetic Combat) they will act as maximum set level enhancements (35 in this example). If you're below the minimum level of the set (20 in the case of Kinetic Combat), they will act as minimum set level enhancements (20s in this example).

So, if you slot a set of SBE Kinetic Combats in your Brawl and then do Positron's Task Force Part One, your Kin Combats will act as level 20 enhancements. They'll be reduced in enhancement value by the Exemplar scaling system and will lose their set bonuses because you're more than 3 levels below the enhancement levels.

I bought.. quite a few of the 7.5% +Recharge proc... 30 I think... Almost all of my characters use at least 3 of them, and they're annoyingly expensive in time invested in-game for what amounts to like $1.40.
I got a couple of the Kin Combat Tris as well.

Well, hello invention sets.

This is a MUCH better way to entice me to blow a bunch of money on the Market than those stupid super packs.

If there is nothing exclusive to Super Packs, I can deal with their presence. That is about as much support as I will ever be able to muster for this idea, because I do not spend my money on anything that has indeterminate returns.

I really don't like a couple things about the Dark/Dark combo for Controllers, as detailed.

On Dark Affinity:
I really, really dislike that Dark's niche of being one of the control-heavy support sets is going to be removed almost entirely. Why? Is this really being viewed as overpowering? Time Manipulation retains a single target (Mag 4!) hold with a rare debuff attached to it, and has an AoE control field which serves a very similar purpose to Fearsome Stare (reducing the attack frequency of a large group of mobs).
Furthering that, I also don't particularly care for either of the powers Dark Affinity is getting to replace, to me, what is/was the beating heart of the set. Neither one seems particularly useful to me, honestly. A short burst +defense effect is going to have a similar result as just using Twilight Grasp in optimal circumstances and will leave the intended target dead anyway if they get unlucky. Furthering that, how exactly will the defense numbers even compare to traditional buffs? Are we talking, suddenly soft-capped to everything? How long will this last? I ask because it wouldn't surprise me to see something that looks like Farsight but neutered.

+Regen/Recovery for defeated foes doesn't sound like it will be practical in a combat environment, because they won't have noticeable effects until the majority of the enemy is dead unless the buff magnitude is extremely high, due to the nature of the beast with those two attributes, and by the time the majority of a spawn is dead... they're not really helpful attributes. Sure, maybe it will reduce down-time at low levels when everyone is sucking wind due to poor slotting (assuming this even ends up available at low levels?), but towards the higher end of the game it sounds pretty useless to me.

Meanwhile, why are we keeping the one power in the set that is almost universally hated by the playerbase: Black Hole? If anything should be outright replaced (and I mean, for all archetypes, not just Dark Affinity), it's this.

I'm sorry if I seem overly critical of these ideas, but I have been waiting a very, very long time to see Dark Miasma make it to the Controller archetype, and, as it stands, it's not only not even the set that I wanted anymore, it doesn't even look like a very good set anymore, which is very disappointing considering how powerful and versatile the most recent addition to the Support lineup is.

On Dark Control:
The Immobilize being a cone will be very, very annoying, especially when paired with the secondaries that require you to be in melee range to utilize well.

The Disorient being a PBAOE will make that problem even worse because of the classic problem of "jump out, target for cone, angle character correctly, fire, jump back in, PBAOE," that already plagues sets that mix and match cones with PBAOEs. It's very annoying, and in a Control set, it's not just lost DPS as it is in most sets affected, it's potentially losing you enough damage mitigation to get killed before getting that Disorient off.

Edit: As a piece of constructive criticism, maybe you could put Fearsome Stare back into Dark Miasma, and make an Area version of Possess in Dark Control instead? It could be very cool and thematic. Maybe an Anchor style power, you flood a target with nether spirits, Possessing (Confusing) it, and causing it to pulse a wave of Confusion (non-stacking from same anchor, like the debuff anchors), to all targets within X range every Y seconds. Toggled controls are very under-utilized material, in fact, the only one I can think of is Telekinesis, which is also extremely annoying due to the nasty Repel effect.

I've never deleted a 50, even my very first character, who I retired years ago due to frustrations with the archetype and powers, is still around.

Of course, I have two servers with all 48 slots unlocked, so... that was kind of an investment... and a testament to my potentially unhealthy feelings on this game, but, hey, no one here can judge me, at least. XD

When in Mids, on the left hand bottom side, click the Totals tab.
This will highlight all of the powers you currently have marked as Active for the purpose of your characters' stats.
Make sure Hasten is highlighted in bright green as Active on the right hand side where you see what powers you've picked at each level (if it is not, single-left click on it and it should activate).
Click the Info tab on the left hand bottom side, where you clicked Totals before.
Mouse over Hasten.
Look in the bottom left hand side under the Info tab and you should see a box describing the Hasten power, with the following numbers below it:

Recharge: XYZ (450) Duration: 120s

Cast: ?
+Rechrg: 70% (Self) End:

If the XYZ value for Recharge is less than or equal to the Duration (120s), congratulations, you have perma-hasten. You can then experiment with changing the enhancement slotting and see what the recharge on the power ends up as.

You can also mouse over Domination on the bottom half of the powers window to compare its current Recharge with its Duration the same way.

Citadel: "UNEXPECTED END OF FILE."

For Lore pets, I almost always take the Core over the Support branch, because what I've found is that in practice I only ever use them when I need to kill something dead yesterday (that means, really fast).

On a Scrapper or Brute I might take a buff pet, but for a support character I don't think they're worth it. The Cimerorans are well known for their ridiculous single target DPS. Warworks and Phantoms are also quite high, and Warworks benefits from some -regen debuffing, while Phantoms can fly and have a decent AoE as well.
The Storm Elementals are great debuffers on the Radial branch and have great AoE on the Core, but neither is much good for Single Target. Vanguard is also pretty strong AoE and has several exotic damage types, but, again, lacks in ST situations.
Arachnos and Longbow are both pretty versatile and Longbow has excellent -regen.
Realistically, each of them offers some benefit over the others, but those previously mentioned seem to be the most popular. If you're curious what each Lore Pet can do, you can view their powers by right-clicking any of the Lore Powers in the tree, then clicking Detailed Info and scrolling down to the lower portion. Each pet's powers will be listed and you can expand them for full effects.

As for Alpha, I would personally probably either go Musculature or Cardiac Core for that build, depending on how you feel about your endurance consumption rate once you hit 50 and get a better idea on if you'll need Cardiac or not - the exception here is if you intend to go with Ageless Destiny, unless you're really really sucking wind, you won't need both (I don't think you'll have that problem with this build, I've only needed both on an Ice/Storm Controller and Fire/Earth Dominator, both of which are notoriously end heavy set combos).