GavinRuneblade

Ah, but the question is, which has higher damage? The whole point of Frosticus' build was to try and make the highest damage dominator possible. survival is not as important so PFF I don't mind losing.

=)

The build is in my original post. It was created by Frosticus last year sometime. It's more of a thought or build experiment to see just how much damage can be squeezed into a single build. According to his tests only an Illusion/Cold Controller and one specific build of Bane Spider could out damage this baby. And both of them only by a very small margin.

Since it is originally before alpha slots and inherent fitness and before APPs for villains, I was asking if there are any ways to squeeze out even more damage. As built it runs, If I recall from his tests, 400-410+ dps sustained.

To quote Jayne Cobb: "Let me check. Nothing, divided by nothing,... carry the nothing..." Then trails off into random muttering and hand waving.

I'm not actually even sure what this is referring to. Is i20 coming out already I'm guessing based on the other posts mentioning releases.

I just log in, if there's a new patch, woohoo new stuff. If no new patch, woohoo I get to play!

Win-win.

So, why not let purples drop from any foe via the same argument?

As was recommended, one of the best ways to handle this is to have a dedicated alt parked by the registrar to make payments (atlas city hall blueside, arachnos building marconeville Port Oaks, redside). then, in a worst-case scenario you have to log into the character and log back into the one you wanted to play.

Not nearly as bad as travelling usually, though blueside with the o-portal access might be faster depending on your load screens =)

The beauty is that you do not need to use any respecs at all. The third build starts out empty.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work on the crashes I get. If I talk to an NPC, any NPC except for a store, if I open my contacts or tips windows, etc. the game hangs. At that point nothing works except power off. Even CMD+ALT+ESC.

the confusion comes in because volcanic gasses summons pseudo pets. Just like a click power with a really really fast recharge, they can trigger the proc more than 1/10 seconds even though the caster will fire volcanic gas and think it is a long duration power. Behind the scenes the pseudo pets are using click powers that trigger it way more often.

As for the bosses thing. I feel the fact that you fire off the second hold before you know if the proc worked is irrelevant. The proc triggers and stops the boss from moving or attacking. that is what counts. then the second hold lands and adds duration, even if magnitude is no longer needed, you often need a bit more time to kill a boss before an initial AoE hold wears off. Those ST holds are where that duration comes from. Therefore I slot the proc very commonly.

I also like the gravitational anchor chance to hold in my AoE immobilize, and I have at least 1 attack power with the devastation chance to hold.

This is probably because I slot neither for permadom (I think the highest recharge I have on any of my doms is 80% including 70% from haste), nor for defense (the highest defense I have on any dom is 22% s/l). All of my survivability comes from holds and kills, and I can say the proc works just fine =)

every 10 seconds, but otherwise yes. Health is one of the best places to put it, but keep in mind that it is not very powerful. The advantage lies in the fact that it is a proc and not an enhancement. So it lets you exceed the ED cap, and it works when you are debuffed etc.

Still, most people don't consider it worthwhile. I bought one myself, because I wanted to exceed the ED cap for my /regen character =)

They aren't empty handed. First off they get an Ancient Nictus Fragment which is worth 4 shards, and is 100% guaranteed, all you have to do is select it upon completion of the ITF. Additional sources of Guaranteed shards are the weekly strike force. The notice of the well can be broken down into 6-8 shards. Run Manticore this week, and walk out with minimum of 6 shards, guaranteed, nothing random involved (except for those who might get 7 or 8 instead of six).

And if that wasn't enough you can also buy G'rai matter for vanguard merits.

Now, what if you don't need G'rai Matter or Ancient Nictus Fragments? Well, there are other task forces that give other common components, and additionally all of them can be broken down into shards.

It's not all random. There are guaranteed ways to get them. Just not necessarily as efficiently. But still available.

Acc/Dam HO. Its base damage is quite high and unless you're tossing around fulcrum shift, a damage IO is worth more than a proc in my experience.

I run 2x recharge, 2x acc/dam HO, and Posi proc/Impeded proc. With no recharge needed, I recommend:

2x acc/dam HO
Posi Proc
Impeded Swift Proc
Javelin Volley Proc
Trap of the Hunter Proc

Edit: always slot accuracy in this baby. You really will appreciate it.

This is the key. Also, you always get the full drop =)

The key factor is bosses are (very roughly) 10:1 over minions in drops, and about 3:1 over lieuts. So if you can kill a whole pack of minions and lieutenants faster than the boss, turn 'em off. Most AoE can easily accomplish killing 3 lieutenants or 10 minions faster than 1 boss.

Oh no, I know all about that. I've actually warned people about it in other threads. But the question is, if the goal is pure DPS numbers, what can you do with that one slot that adds more than 2.5% damage?

Extra endurance is not doing it. Extra recharge is not. Where else can you get more damage with that 1 slot?

Sorry, I'm on a mac and as such they are useless to me so I don't usually save them. Let me see if I can find the original post...

Yup here it is.

I think this is officially the first time I have ever found a single thing I have searched for. wOOt.