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I joined a low level PuG last night with my ice\earth dom and just by chance everyone ended up being a /earth dominator. What was funny is at one point we invited another person to the team who was a corruptor and I think he was new because he said something like 'why do you all keep punching the ground?....it looks awesome!'. I have to admit it was kind of funny seeing a whole team of people all punching the ground and repeatedly hitting tremor.

So far earth assault is turning out to be a lot more fun then I thought it would be...and that's the most important part right .

I guess you're saying that when I color my sewer themed dar\kin corruptor with dark greens and browns...that when i create brown TT's...that isn't funny? bummer...sure does entertain me though.

What is wrong with someone wanting to focus on healing? Frankly there are times where I wish there were more people who'd heal me (who have heals) while I'm SMASHING.

Are you off your rocker? In my opinion...yes. Could i team with a corruptor that only healed...absolutely.

Isn't part of the advantage of fault + will power the disorient that applies to minions? So that if you are surrounded by a lot of minions you would buy yourself more time then just the time it takes them to get up from the KD to regen via Rttc. My thought with having both was to open with fault, kd and disorient...fire off some single target attacks and when they are back up and wobbly...hit tremor to knock them down again and then rinse and repeat. This would seem to buy a lot of regen time. When patron powers come into play, combining a fully slotted fault with a patron immob make this even easier to accomplish and keep them in rttc range. I'm still new to will power, but that is what i had envisioned and it seems to be working so far (although only lvl 33 right now).

I dont know what it is, but on my 2nd build where I have both fault and tremor, it actually does seem to flow much better, to my surprise. Will have to see how it can be tweaked...thanks for nudging me towards taking it and trying it out.

Hey all,
I'm half way through with a side project of mine (sm\wp) and I'm one bubble away from 32 and i decided that I wanted to repec him a little at 32. My current attack chain, which has served me relatively well from lvl 1 has been stone mallet\brawl\heavy mallet\brawl\air sup and then toss in seismic smash where necessary. I've done some searching and I've seen a number of people recommend doing away with stone mallet and use stone fist instead.

So, for a lvl 32 stone melee\willpower brute, is there a better attack chain for ST damage\fury building (obviously endurance is less of a problem for this toon...as I have both stamina and qr).

Thanks for any suggestions!

I've tried quite a few times to get an electric corruptor going, but the damage always seems to get in the way (i.e. lack there of). The secondary effect of electric seems nice on paper (-END\-END recovery), but it seems like an awful lot of work to really make that work as an effective secondary effect..especially early on. Most other primaries have a useful secondary effect (slows, -def, -res, more damage, kb, -tohit) right out of the gate. Low damage + -END as a secondary effect really doesn't do much...at least for me personally. I will keep trying eventually though...as I really want an elec\dark corruptor, but it's a really....really slow road so far and it's actually quite painful (could be my playstyle though).

So that's probably why...at least that's what I've chalked it up to when I've gone and looked for a guide for electric corrupting.

that's what i figured...thanks for the feedback!

Aren't MM's getting thermal in i16? Is that what we're talking about here?

So I'm building a paper dragon MM (ninjas\pain) and I'm wondering, when it comes to power pics, should I pick up provoke or maneuvers first? I'm leaning towards provoke, but it doesn't seem to last long at all (at most 1 mob attack before they redirect). Would I get more mileage out of maneuvers with Ninjas early on?

I've been itching to make a dominator for some time. The thing is that there is something about earth that I love...so What would pair really well with it (solo and teams)?

I'm DIRT poor, so lets not go down the road of "this + 6 billion inf would make an awesome build".

fire - on paper this seems like it'd go well. lots of damage output (aoe, cone, pbaoe, fire embrace)
ice - -slows and -rechg, cone, PBaoe, and power boost
elec - seems single target oriented for the most part...and melee..but seems like the damage is high.
energy - has the mack truck known as power push...pretty good ranged chain + power boost
psi - psi damage, cone, aoe, and drain psyche
thorns - toxic damage (and redraw...ugh), -def seems to go well with earths -def, thorntrops + quicksand + procs?


I actually like the idea of thorns, the the redraw drive me NUTS. Why are we at i15 already and still things require redraw repeatedly?

I'm kind of torn...I know I want earth (and don't want to wait for earth assault)...any suggestions on which mixes well with earth and has been fun to play (team + solo)? Seems like thorns would be a good mix and I'm leaning that way.

Thanks for any input.

Could you perhaps post your build? I think that would go a long ways to helping you.

could you post your current build? That might help.

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For what its worth, Containment doesn't work like that anyway.

If what you're seeing is 18 dmg on one activation and 36 dmg on the next, that's definitely a resistance thing. If it were a containment buff, you'd see 18 18 dmg over the enemies head.

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I actually saw this yesterday...it was not consistent though...but I was definitely getting double damage (where I saw the damage number twice above the head of the mob i was attacking). This was solo..on a mission...maybe it's some kind of bug that fires under certain circumstances....I'm pretty sure I was under the affects of domination at the time it occurred.

I've been trying to figure out just 'what' makes these two so good together (beyond cosmic burst + howling twilight). Is it irradiate+tar patch (with maybe throwing in electron haze afterward)?

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Yes; combining the two will stun even bosses ( Defenders were doing that well before Corruptors even got Storm, actually ).

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Well I figured that ...just wasn't sure if it was worth the wait (to get to 28 to use the combo).