GavinRuneblade

Earth/Ice
Earth/Fire
Earth/Psi
Earth/Earth

All three are pretty decent. Earth/ is one of the most control heavy and damage-light primaries so you want a hard secondary. That gives fire the edge. /Psi is your safest secondary. Ice I've found is a good middle of the road: decently fast attacks, hits hard. /earth is the most melee heavy set, hits very hard.

I have no experience with /elect yet.

I'd stay away from thorns. I have an earth/thorn and while fun it is a bit slow-blooming. Thorn is also slow on the attack side. May not be the best option for you, but it is cool for your second or third domi later on. =)

From Leviathan:
Artic Breath with 1 Acc is still adding -20 Res.

From Soul:
I'll also copy the crowd, Darkest Night.

From Mace:
Again, copy the crowd, Web Envelope. Also not mentioned it has -fly.

Earth Mastery:
Stone Prison: 1 Acc gives -def, -fly. Alternatively if you have tons of Acc, because it is -def you can slot achilles heel proc.

Energy Mastery has a few:
Superior Conditioning
Physical Perfection


I will argue against Focused Accuracy on 1 slot because the end cost is so high. Go with Leadership in that case. Focused Accuracy is technically better because it gives -tohit defense, that leadership doesn't, but the end cost isn't worth it with just one reduction in my opinion. Unless you're drowning in Endurance. Which might make energy Mastery the way to go since it has Superior Conditioning, and Physical Perfection to help with the end costs. Still .79/sec is brutal!

My BS/Regen went from 47hp/sec base up to 52/sec. And my top went from 150-something/sec to 170-something/sec (top means both IH and Dull Pain running).

So I can confirm in game that it does help regen values.

I'd recommend either plant or earth primary, and any of the secondaries.

But do be sure to take the melee powers. Trust your combo of control and high damage to keep you safe in melee without defenses. It's a weird AT, but I love my doms.

Well my /dark stalker has always done just fine on Mothership Raids against +4 enemies and she relies heavily on the -tohit.

My plant/ice dom still gets protection from the slow and immobilize and knock in her powers even on +3 enemies. I haven't taken her against +4s except on teams so not so sure how much was me and how much was the group.

I have befitted greatly from having the patron summon. They are solid damage (some of them add up to 65 dps over time), they don't put aggro on you while you're hidden, they come in dang handy during escort missions when you can't be hidden or you lose the idiot hostage, and the set bonuses are both awesome and affordable (but not cheap) if you can spare 4 slots.

Now if you're slot starved, some ideas are:
Leadership: Maneuvers and Assault are both decent with just 1 Def/End slotted into Maneuvers and 1 End into Assault. If you have a space Luck of the Gambler and can afford the end, that's good too.

Teleport Friend is great on stalkers who team. Even for vets with assemble the team since it has such a long cooldown.

Hibernate is handy even with nothing slotted.

One accuracy into spirit shark jaws and it still works as ranged -fly. I really appreciate it for that.

I took fighting on my spines/nin but I had slots for tough and weave. Not sure if they're worth it worth it if you can't slot them.

I like to use a jet pack (or fly power) and go along the roof over them. Usually works.

Yup that's very true. With patience the low end of the pricing you can buy any of them for under 20k and often as low as 5k.

I have nothing meaningful to contribute, but I just have to say that threads like this are why I love you guys.

=)

Just to be clear are those ToHit or Accuracy?

Because 13% ToHit is Ginormous. 13% accuracy is pretty good.

The difference:

ToHit is a straight bonus to the % chance to hit the other guy REGARDLESS OF THEIR LEVEL OR DEFENSES. Accuracy goes into the formula earlier and is modified by their level, your level, their defense, AND YOUR TOHIT bonus.

So ToHit is not only more powerful in and of itself, but it also makes all your accuracy bonuses work better.

a 90% ToHit bonus means you have a 95% chance to hit anything at all, even a level 100 enemy with perma elude. (won't hurt him worth a darn, but you won't miss often either).

I have the knockdown in caltrops on a few characters. It is nice when it kicks in, but isn't reliable enough by itself. I don't have any math, but from observation I think a damage proc would be more effective. However, I can't bring myself to swap out because I like the idea of them falling onto spikes. And similarly falling around in the fire patch.

Only single-element I've made is a fire/fire. I'm enjoying it greatly. Lots of damage. Almost a blaster but with better survivability from the controls. Need to be up close and personal with hotfeet, combust and the melee attacks.

Low point is that better survivability than a blaster is like saying stronger than tissue paper. I still die a lot more than any of my other doms.

Other lowpoint is endurance. Hoping stamina changes that, we'll see. On my others I can build enough cheap sets with recovery bonuses to get by without stamina. On Fire/Fire it's still painful. I spend a lot of time holding back on attacks and sucking down blue inspirations.

Cole Clones actually exist in game by the way. If you do one of the new Praetorian arc in PI when you go to rescue Statesman from Tyrant the second time there is a clone present at the end of the arc instead of Tyrant himself. I think they are these guys.

So bonus points for linking to actual lore =)

I just solo'd the Ramiel arc with my BS/Regen scrapper and my Plant/Ice Dom. My Scrapper is loaded with everything but purples and has a 3+billion build with two full obliterations, 3 gambler uniques, miracle, numina's etc. 152 hp/sec base regen with DP and IH up, 28% S/L defense before parry. My plant/ice is packing pure crap. I'm not only not a permadom, I have only 1 slot in haste and it is a level 35 common IO, not even a level 50. My only protection is underslotted Maneuvers and Scorpion Shield, and the Gaussian's set I have no other protective defense bonuses. It was way easier with the dom. As in finished in half the time "way easier".

What you should expect is to compare your dom more to a blaster than a controller. Yes Doms have controls, but we aren't locked into Containment to deal damage, we have bada** attacks and lots of them. Doms play way more aggressive than most controllers, hence my comparison to a blaster. No need to setup then kill like a controller does, we can move right in and kill things, using controls just for defense or for fun. I will admit to enjoying holding things and watching the carrion creeper tear them up slowly.

I made my plant/ice two years ago when I wanted one of each AT. I now have 5 doms and I'm still thinking of one more I might make. Expect to get addicted.

To answer some of your questions, Doms are generally welcome on teams, I have had great success with most of mine.

Some tips:
Don't open with your AoE immobilize. You should already know that one from your controller experience though =).

Your best friend is recharge. Don't build like I do, go for permadom it doesn't require pruples and hardly even requires expensive sets. This gives you mezz protection, a full endurance bar every 90 seconds, and immense magnitude on all your primary powers. The tip part is that it isn't hard and you can do it well before level 50 if you want.

All the primaries have multiple long-recharge powers that are solid. For example, on my plant I can open with creepers, confuse, or the AoE hold. Between the three of them I always have 1 or 2 up. My fire/ has smoke, AoE hold, AoE stun. Mind/ well mind has too many options to list. Even when you're levelling, look at all your options. Ice/ is the one that has the hardest time with alphas. Still we have a ton of tricks, don't fall into a single routine.