These are some cool ideas! I love ToM giving you taken powers. I was originally going to put Thorn poison on ToM but then I thought, Thorn is my baby, its a bit lack lustre in its current state, the last thing it needs is another gun doing its thing and stealing the lime light. But I feel poison just works thematically with the ToM, which is what lead to thought of the Cloud of Darkness! Chained explosions would help the range of the Cursebringer perk for sure, and more explosions are never a bad thing. I mean, you get this gun from Crotas End the least it could do is trivialise the Abyss and the Thrallway. Yeah I'm sold. 'Refills its clip after a kill'. You like those perks don't you XD Touch of Malice hits give back health... I dunno, I don't want to feel like I'm being rewarded for hitting stuff, I would rather the gun just do that reliably anyway. However, if you mean that on a hit I loose less health than on a miss, that's something that could help me get off more shots on a boss before my own gun kills me horribly. So for those Taken powers, here's my take on that idea. When the gun is on its last round and pulsating evilly, your melee is replaced with the phalanx blast, and your grenade could cycle through the others in a predictable way as you get kills, maybe to the tune of the Warpriests powers? So the Axion Dart, the Hobgoblin Retaliation Swarm, and, the Darkness Bolt? And it would last until u reload, and if you used the grenade ability it would rotate and start charging.