Cynic

Doesn't Stone Melee have a nice hold? (though noting not a toggle dropper like brawl but will drop if no mez protection)

I'd think that it would depend on how you use your secondry. If you're going to use the melee attacks more EN can be an end burner (have mind/en) Not sure about grav, but doesn't seem THAT heavy.

Great idea that one, like it, might even enter

I normally hit power boost, then AoE hold. After that I'm using attacks like mad. Blaster? Hell no, I'm there face to face, serving up pain in person, no cowards way out for me. Nothing feels better than Greater Ice Sword on a prone held target......... wait, no it does, Greater Ice Sword on a confused, slowed target.

I observed the Femmes dancing, I was researching something or other that would give me a good excuse to stare, and you're right.........


Also congrats to all three costume winners, there were a lot of people on that boat, to be considered the best 3 of them is worth something

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And by the way, Min/Maxers own PvE too.

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But they dont directly effect the level of dificult and enjoyment of others in PvE. Of course balancing is often done on min/maxed builds but people can see the effect directly in PvP.

Guild Wars covers PvP and PvE well, you dont have to have one "build" for both. If its in one game you have to decide what you're going to be good at, or try to do both well (and most likely be second best, not the worst).

I think that was the OP's point, but I dont know his mind.

£ slots in the passives? Its takens me from I5 till last week to come up with a build that includes the passives and doesn't lose me too much of my primary. I already feel like I'm an SR/DM.

Mind you I did find slots to put into quickness and swift to give me enough run speed to get away from trouble, my unsupressed travel is almost as good as my flight now. This wasn't for PvP but was for Nems so if I see one and can be out the mission before anyone notices, why is the AoE defence 35 when the AoE foes come into play at 30s? I cant afford to attack anything that blows up, if I kill it, I die, if I dont, then it kills me.

Anyway that was a gripe at SR, not your guide, which is pretty comprihensive. If you 3 slot PB with recharges then with quickness running it is doubled up almost half the time, giving you the best status protection money can buy (cause you dont have to face longbow as a scrapper their mag 100 stun wont be an issue)

Got two brutes on the go at the moment. My Stone/Inv brute seems to build more fury and do better on suicidal than any sort of planned attack. My Fire/DA brute.......... well I like to switch targets a lot so they're all burning around me, and therefore attacking me. Do it with even levels and builds fury nicely. This plan falls apart when Cremate one shots people

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great event, it was cool to see some old friends back.
And i had a lot of fun throwing snowballs around.
Thanks for organizing this mr. Greek.

Next event - valentine's day ?

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Dont bring that up, is coming too soon.

Was a great party, thanks TG, not giving the full rundown of thanks again, as did that on our forums. But yeah, just thanks

Ah that explains how I met you twice and you didn't recognise me the second time............... which one uses Caps all the time? *scratching head*

But hey i'm cool with it anyway

Black Orchid Plant/Thorn Dom

Deathkeeper MM

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Dark / Kinetics is a real support build to be honest.

However I'd say that Support != Healer. I always let people know at the start of mishes that :
(a) You're going to get Speed Boosted unless you tell me not to
(b) Shout if you get mezzed or slept
(c) My heal is an AOE centered around MY target. So if you want healing you need to stand beside my target. Plus it misses occasionally.

Of course my target tends to be the one the rest of the meleers are on anyway so it rarely comes up but I don't tolerate "HEAL FFS". I'll either leave at the end of the mish or plonk you to the bottom of my priority list for healing and buffs in the future.

In big teams I focus on buffing people, containment with Tentacles, DP and Nightfall and healing, in that order.

Stick with Dark Kinetcs. Once you hit 20 you won't be able to move for Team offers and if you find some decent Brutes you'll be gods together. I've played with some great team-minded Brutes and its a blast.

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IMHO buff > healing, I'd rather have a support character making it so I dont need to be healed than healing me. The damage taken badges may be shiny but I'm happy to not have them all, honest.

Nice idea, Forst has to stay in Insanity Inc. to sate his nurse fixation but will be nice to see more wolfies out there

Good point, can the patrollers stick to single target enforcement please? There will be inocents in the area and we're not in the US, so civillain deaths aren't acceptable

With my ice powers if I try to kill something with just my hold and blasts even with stamina my end crashes, its only if I enter melee I can survive. I do however have the melee slotted for damage, but even before stamina and SOs (had no enhances in anything till level 27) I could only build domination with melee and holds the ranged attacks alone made hardly any difference.

Chilling Embrace doesn't break sleep.

Having every single secondry I can build domination at an all right rate, but Ice seems slower than other doms (fire's nice damage gives them an edge for a start)

I'll probably be lagging at that point, so I think I'll type mocking comments instead. 5 Days to come up with something good, I'm sure I'll manage

My DM/Regen I use to jump into the middle of groups and provoke, to keep squishies alive, sometimes I kill some of them but spend more time provoking and fearing than actually fighting these days.

My DM/SR I kill bosses, let the Spine/Regen kill the mobs and hold the agro, cause I cant. But I can kill bosses fairly well, so that's alright.

I mean arrest, not kill, obviously. Negative energy has been proven to cause no permanant harm and is actually the government recomended way of subduing iconoclasts.

It is a very good power, doesn't mix well with the slick though but does the same sort of thing. Considering the duration and recharge on the AoE holds these powers are the bread and butter of the dominators crowd control

Find a group of people you like, and join theirs, mostly that will happen through teaming, but I supose you could get one through people you get on with well on the forums

Maximillion Zero lvl 40 Necro Dark MM

Brutes are about the best thing to team up with for attitude, cause fury and domination mean not resting too much.

Stalkers and corruptors are the best to team with tactically, one of each is superb. Dominator holds, stalker criticals, corruper scourges, rinse repeat.

Lady Dark are us non 50's gonna get to see the purple leather?

I dont have clear mind but I will always try to keep the other defender alive by any mean necesary, in hopes they'd do the same for me. We have the lowest hits these days so it doesn't take much to kill us.

Not a first, but a possible exception *laughs* Is just my thoughts after talking to some people about dominators. People who have played controllers tell me they lack control. Which I guess is true, but for a few seconds they can have the ultimate control which makes up for it