Fire_Minded

Its all in how you perfer to play.

A Dominator is a decently high damaging, and is a somewhat survivable AT because of its Primary set being Control.

It also depends on the role you wish to play.My self personally.I perfer Tankers, Defenders, Controllers, and Corruptors because I perfer good to excellent survivability when I play.

Also, the understanding of a build really depends again to the role you want to play for the specific AT.

Id suggjet you try many ATs and combos until you fit into one or feel more comfortable with a AT and exsplore from there.

From my Experiance with a SS/WP Brute I got to lvl 31.I can honestly say that Leadership, while a seeming good idea, isnt needed as itll make you run out of Stamina quick enough just being a Brute.

Also I never bothered with Tough or Weave, and Combat Jumping was more of a "Sucks that I have to have it." Power to gte to Super Jump for my brute, and was never used or put on my trays.

Your pretty strong without all the silly stuff.Fittness is really all you need to be powerful on a WP build because it adds to the capability of WP its self.

I get the Fittness pool, but why the leadership pool?Those powers drain massive Endurance, and they wouldnt really be worth it from my point of veiw.

Mind to clarify why?

No...your a Controller.

Theres no such thing as a "Healer" AT in this game.

Ever heard that song? "Anything you can do I can do better!"

Iv been on the Hero side of things alot due to a Biast of Villians, but now with the approuch of GR, its been easier to look at Villians because of the diffrence in some power sets I can get Hero side.

Now Im starting to re-roll my Defenders into Corruptors.My Scrappers in Stalkers.I even Plan on making my Controllers into Dominators.

Ill be keeping a few builds like my FA/FM and SD/Axe Tanker and a Energy/MM Blaster.Other then that, theres almost nothing a Hero can do that a Villian cant do better.

Iv listened to people in PvP zones tell a Hero thats getting completly destroyed by 1 or more people and stated that Villians where too strong get replies along the lines of "NU-UH!Heroes are stronger!"

Which doesnt seem to be true...At all..

Except maybe in the case of maybe a Blaster or 2.

Then again, a Dominator "Claims" that a Blaster will still beat them, even if they are Perma-Dom'd and holding that Blaster for 8 seconds because that Blaster can still fire while Mez'd.

Not once have I seen a Blaster beat a Dominator in PvP without ganking it or getting the surprise drop on it to get the first few licks in.

Blasters have to BU+Aim the majority of the time, and if they are the highly talked about Psi/EM Blaster (which iv still never seen by the way), they still have to hit there Increased Range power up.Meaning thats even more time for that Dominator who is like a Juiced up Blaster without BUs get the first hits.Mezing the Blaster and ripping it into shreads before that Mez'd Blaster can even target the Dominator.

Then I come to the forums and see a whole diffrent side of things.People swearing up and down that such and such build owns in PvP, and then they post up a Mid's build of a Character they are just as likly to never make.(Hence why I dont see these mysterious and elusive Psi/EM builds running around in PvP).

Its a diffrent ball game in game vs the forums entirly.

Villians seem to have the edge over heroes in a massive way, and to me, going from Heroes to Villians because I can switch there sides is like taking the training wheel off of a bike.

Im not sure how everyone else here ont he forums feels, but forum goers are prolly not even 10% of the games population, maybe less.

Im curious if anyone here on the forums plays the game more then hey do sit on these forums playing with builds they may or may not ever use.

Well, from personal Experiance, im learning that Stalkers are very useful on teams, no matter what there build is.

They are juiced up Scrappers on Crack!

you get a automatic 5-15% for all your attacks solo, but get a additional 3% crit chance for every team member you have in a team.

So in a 8 man team that Stalker get a Crit % of 26-36% (depending on Attack).

Id say they are already good on teams.

Id say it has alot of promise, however its going to take alot of practice on your half to make it work every single time.

Your in for alot of visual thinking with this build.However Energy Blasts is a great tool for higher survivability when I use it on my En/MM Blaster.2 AoE KBs allow me to slap a mob backwards and hit them with AoEs before they get up, and slap them back again to do it again and kill them.

Lets not forget Drain Psyche is easier to use when the mobs on its butt.

It would be a little bit more difficult to accomplish this on a Corruptor due to the lack of AoE damage.Debuffs are 1 thing, but killing the mob is another.

Id honestly recomend going with a diffrent Energy Blasts Corruptor.

One build comes to mind that would work well with it is Pain Domination.

Use a Energy Torrent to throw the mob back, then run in and nail them with your Scream dropping there resistance to damage and hit them with Energy Exsplosion.Heal when needed, was, rinse, repeat.

There more combonations im sure, but thats just one off the top of my head.

This is leather Tooling.

Aoe Lawnmowers you say?

Plant/Rad/Fire-Controller

FA/FM/Pyre-Tanker

Elec/Elec-Blaster

Cold/Ice-Defender

Elec/Dark/mace-Corruptor

Ice/Ice/Ice-Tanker (does ALOT more damage then people believe it will.)

Elec/Ninjitsu-Stalker

And the top number 1 AoE God of them all?

*Drum Roll*

Fire/Thorn-Dominator (With optional Kung-Fu Grip!)

I have 2 high level Tankers, im trying to decide on which one to turn into a farming build.

SD/Axe or a FA/FM?

Both have good points to them, and do a massive amount of damage with great survivability thus far with only SOs.

Im curious what kind of arguments could be placed agenst these 2 juggernauts of death and destruction on which would be a better farming build?