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And yet it doesn't matter in the slightest. All 3 affect bosses in the same way anyway (which is what you want from Domination in terms of mez powers). Quake will make a boss fall over and apply the -ToHit in or out of Dom, Gasses can stack mez anyway to hold a boss and Quicksand is a debuff more than a mez so Domination is irrelevant there.


Stalagmites does Domination (just like Flashfire) and then you have 2 other controlling pseudopets to drop as well (and Quicksand).


Mind on the other hand is riddled with controls which do apply domination but also allow your opponent to attack back if attacked (Fears and Sleeps)


Mind you solo against fewer, harder targets Mind is superior IMO, on teams Earth is superior.

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A seed looks like this :
http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2011/06/seed_hamidon.jpg

Not Doms, just EATs, VEATs, Controllers and Masterminds.



Apparently if you're a long term player who allows their sub to elapse then you're likely to still have access (assuming you pick those characters as your one of two available characters)

My Achievement of the week : Managing to talk my 4 year old away from Barbie and instead to get Rapunzel from Tangled instead. So mine would be Daughter Control (which may well be a two way street)


My serious one would be Insect Summoning (or a Devouring Earth epic AT which can do something similiar and swarm enemies in hordes of chattering bugs).

Posi has replied to this point in the giant thread, I pointed out the same thing and he said if you've been a long term subscriber it's likely you'd have them unlocked automatically if you lapsed to Premium.

"likely" and "long term" weren't defined though, so no idea of the nuts and bolts of how it's going to work.

Posi clarified for me in the massive thread that if you've been subscribing a long time you'll likely still have access to them if you lapse.

Likely wasnt defined as a specific timeframe though.

In fairness with an Empath the Defense, Damage (and some of the Regen & Recovery) they can bestow isn't limited to one character. So a self-buffing Empath would be still able to give Mr Blaster his 31% damage and 25%/40% defense. But with this suggestion they'd also be able to give themselves perma-AB and perma-Hasten (and thus more Defense and Damage and Regen for the entire team to the team cos Fort and Regen Aura will be recharging much faster).

^This, with a liberal sprinkle of the Targetted AOE set Chance for Damage proc and the Slow set Chance for Damage proc.

You can slot it with Acc/Dam from Targetted AOE as well, the IO will propagate to all of the subpowers properly (at least the ones which make ToHit rolls). This was a fix introduced by Castle back in i14 or something.

No, you don't. You get a low HP Regen Scrapper with softcapped defenses, 50% S/L resistances, 75% all-but-psi resistances about half the time and decent single target damage thanks to the -resist you're pumping out coupled with all the damage bonuses you have.


And that's only one example. Emp/Archery is going to be able to RoA every 15 seconds.


And I assume Controllers would have the same ability to self-buff which would be amazing for Plant in terms of AOE carnage and excellent for Illusion.

Regen Aura doesn't give you anywhere near the Regen cap on its own. It'll give you 1000% when slotted with SOs. The cap is floating up somwhere around 2000% (it varies between the ATs), so AB + Regen Aura will probably net it.


Self-administred AB on top of Regen not only doubles again your Regen but it also allows you to have it up far more often. Normally you'd have Regen & Recovery less than 50% of the time with SOs and Hasten. With AB & Hasten, on an SO build, you get closer to up 2/3rds of the time, down 1/3. You also get perma AB and perma Hasten (well just about, there's about 2 seconds downtime on it). This is a prime example of force multiplication, you're not only essentially doubling the effectiveness of Regen Aura, you're making it available far more often.

Recovery Aura doesn't bring you anywhere near the Recovery cap, but the Recovery is total overkill normally, between AB and Recovery Aura you'll have infinite blue anyway, except for using Nukes. With AB on you you'll be able to recover through the -recovery part of the nuke. Recovery Aura on top is just gravy. Also a large chunk of your defenses (AB, Regen Aura & Fort) aren't clickies, so when you do crash it doesn't drop all of your defenses.

Fort doesn't only provide you 31% damage. It'll also give 25% defense to everything (no holes). Coupled with Power Build-Up that jumps to around 40% (force multiplication again). Power Build Up also gives you 80% damage to stick on the 31% from Fort (and then theres the solo bonus and Assault too potentially) which you can use with your Nuke (the one with the mildly irritating crash you're capable of Recovering through 2/3rds of the time: Edit : I'm wrong here, AB alone will let you ride through this with 1 End Mod SO in it). It'll also be recharged every 65 seconds.

Interestingly the same set which has Power Build-Up also has Force of Nature, capped Resistances to everything bar Psi. With your perma AB & Hasten you can again ride out the crash and it'll be up 120 seconds of every 270 (nearly half the time).

And you're fully mez resistant too.

A self-buffing Empath/Sonic/Power would be incredibly overpowered on just SOs, if you actually take the time to analyse the figures and how the powers will interact and buff each other.

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*Edit : Oooh, post #3,000. I wonder what that brings the grand total up to (maybe I don't want to know)

Actually, I think you *are* the one I'm talking about. I remember the TF reference from the Domi boards.

^This, basically. What would be the point of such a move?

Ice/Thorns is another option. I know someone on the forums made a Icy themed one of these by recolouring the thorns to be icicles. The combo has nice synergy as well, both sets like being in melee range.


Ice/Psi and Ice/Earth also have the same advantages (Psi's two standout powers are PBAOEs and Earth is the best single target melee set available to Doms and has the Crystal look).

Given these criteria (especially the last one) I'd suggest something like a Plant/Emp controller instead. Then you can focus on buffing your team, making the enemies hit themselves and make bits of them with Carrion Creepers and by stacking up Roots.

My Plant/Emp does have the AOE and single target heal but until the Inherent Stamina change didn't have the Rez at all (and I still avoid the fail that is Absorb Pain). I have the rez now because I also have Power Boost and Vengie (and have been known to "accidently" miss a heal on any idiots who start saying "Stop controlling, just heal", in order to get some use out of their sorry corpse). If you're doing it right no-one will even notice that there aren't many heals happening or needed.

Best bit is when you join a team and render "dedicated healorz" obsolete (as happened with me on a Citedal TF, the dedicated healer dropped two missions before the end and no-one even noticed. Then the Tank dropped at the start of the last mission and we still breezed it with the Warshade taking over Tank the AV duties).