Granite Agent

Originally Posted by JuliusSeizure

Claws/WP is great, but end-game it's best to go with Claws/SR. Shockwave is amazingly powerful from a mitigation standpoint, and CLaws/SR blasting +3 spawns around a map to limit incoming damage is just more fun that a Claws/WP that's limited to Spin and Eviscerate.

With SR, you can use Spin and Eviscerate as much as you want, and when things go south just ragdoll the entire spawn. WP can pretty much never use this skill because of the detriments of scatter on WP and RttC, which is unfortunate becasue Shockwave is one of the most enjoyable abilities I have used in this game.

Originally Posted by Werner

I'd suggest that Super Reflexes' niche is soft cap defense plus capped defense debuff resistance. I can assure you from playing a soft-capped Katana/Dark that having no DDR is a noticeable Achilles' heel.

But with enough influence spent and a probably-unintended Hamio trick, I would suggest that Shield Defense can be made everything Super Reflexes is, and more. So perhaps Super Reflexes is obsolete for multi-billionaire power gamers kitting out an end game toon. Other than that, nah, not really. Super Reflexes is still a good set.

Originally Posted by Liliaceae

4.5 Fiery Assault

Overview

Fiery Assault is the overall highest damaging of the Dominator secondaries, with high damage ranged and melee attacks. It also has excellent AoE damage potential, with the significant practical barrier or optimizing the use of both its cone and PBAoE attacks. It has good endurance usage due to high damage output, and the very useful secondary effect of more damage. Its damage is all fire damage.

Essential powers: Blaze
Disappointing powers: Blazing Bolt, Consume

Its high damage makes Fiery Assault a very aggressive set, and a good contributor even on an effective team. Many of its powers do additional DoT, lasting up to 7 seconds for Combustion, and with no upfront damage for Incinerate. In order to not waste DoT effects, it's a good idea to use the longest DoT powers first in combat.

Fiery Assault is the most dangerous of the secondaries for several reasons, the higher damage means it generates more aggro, the damage over time effects interfere with sleep and terrorize effects from the primary, and it provides no extra mitigating secondary effects like the other secondaries. Fire resistant foes can be problematic because no alternative damage type is available.

Powers

• Flares is a typical first blast, see the Shared Powers section. It does less damage and has a faster recharge than the other first blasts, which makes it good for building Domination, but slightly less important for damage.

• Incinerate is a typical first melee attack, see the Shared Powers section. Its damage is better than the other first melee attacks, but is spread over several seconds, so it's best to use as an opening attack, and not a finisher.

• Fire Breath is a typical cone attack, see the Shared Powers section. It has a longish activation time, an accuracy bonus, and is one of the narrower cones. Its narrow arc can make it difficult to use effectively, particularly from close quarters.

• Fire Blast is a typical second blast, see the Shared Powers section. It has a nice short activation time, and good damage for its recharge.

• Embrace of Fire is an excellent self damage buff with a long recharge. It increases the damage of all attacks for 10 seconds, and the damage of all fire attacks by even more for 30 seconds. Suggested slotting is 0 - 2 additional slots with 35 - 95% recharge reduction.
  
  It makes a dramatic difference when active, although its long recharge time means it's often not available.

• Combustion is a typical PBAoE attack, see the Shared Powers section. Most of its damage is DoT, which means that it appears less effective than it actually is.

• Consume is an endurance recovery power with additional minor PBAoE damage. It has a negligible endurance cost, minor damage, long recharge, and recovers a medium amount of endurance for each target hit. Suggested slotting 3 - 5 additional slots with 40 - 80% accuracy, 35 - 95% endurance recovery, and 0 - 80% recharge reduction.
  
  Its negligible endurance cost makes it very useful in situations where endurance has been fully drained. When surrounded by many targets it can easily refill the endurance bar completely.
  
  It is only recommended to characters suffering from endurance problems who have already explored other avenues for endurance management because it is rather difficult to use, and requires the investment of slots to ensure it works even when there are only a few available targets.

• Blazing Bolt is a typical sniper attack, see the Shared Powers section. It deals the most damage of all the sniper attacks, making it more attractive.

• Blaze is a typical final blast, see the Shared Powers section. It has a short activation, high damage, and a fast recharge, making it the best of the final blasts, and the most important power of the set.

Originally Posted by Liliaceae

5.8 Mu Mastery

Overview

Mu Mastery is a defensive patron pool, with a healing pet, two personal shields, an endurance management power and a single attack. It has a secondary effect of endurance reduction which is useful when mixed with endurance drain from other Dominator sets like Electric Control.

• Power Sink is a PBAoE endurance drain and recovery power on a medium recharge. It is auto-hit, has a long activation time, a small radius, but a high endurance cost. It is a decent, if unwieldy, power. Suggested slotting is 0 - 5 additional slots with 0 - 95% endurance modification, 35 - 80% endurance reduction, 0 - 80% recharge.
  
  Since it's auto-hit, it is very dependable for refilling endurance in combat, but its high endurance cost reduces its utility against endurance draining enemies who tend to fully drain endurance.

• Charged Armor is a typical epic shield, see the Shared Powers section. In addition to good smashing and lethal resistance, it provides good energy resistance.

• Ball Lightning is a typical targeted AoE epic attack, see the Shared Powers section. It has a small endurance drain.

• Surge of Power is a self-preservation power which grants the user high resistance to all damage types except psionic, and greatly increases their recovery rate. It has a medium activation time, very low endurance cost, a very long recharge, and an endurance crash when it ends. It has an electricity visual effect which suppresses the caster's normal costume. Suggested slotting is 2 - 5 extra slots with 35 - 95% recharge reduction and 40 - 60% resistance.
  
  Surge of power is a dramatic increase to survivability, allowing a Dominator to survive a nasty situation and attack at the same time.
  
  Since it doesn't grant status protection, it is best combined with Domination or some other form of status protection. The weakness to psionic damage means that it's worthless against psionic enemies.

• Summon Guardian summons a typical patron pet, see the Shared Powers section. The summoned Mu Guardian has a single target heal and ranged attacks.

Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA

On the plus side Domis can get Fireball and Rain of Fire to make FE even more awesome now via the new Fire APP.


Because Fire Assault Domis always have a load of attacks to benefit from FE it makes sense for them to keep the old version.


For other ATs, who might only be benefiting their Fire Aura and Burn, the new version makes a lot more sense than the old one did.

Originally Posted by HelinCarnate

Good ------ Great ------ Awesome, ----------------------------------------------------------> way over there is SS/WP.

Originally Posted by CB_GB

I love mine. Strong solo, and clearly a huge help to groups.

But I'm new to them, and have just hit 40. Is Mu Mastery the preferred option for Mind/Fire?

And will other Mind/Fire doms smack me for skipping Total Domination? It's not a bad power - it just hogs so many slots to make it viable that I'd love to put them elsewhere.

Originally Posted by Cyber_naut

there are plenty of enemies that will make wp weep.

Originally Posted by Castle

Sunstorm worked on Electric Control as a training exercise when he first started working for us. The set is currently sitting in the spreadsheet I have set aside for such things. It was a good effort, but by no means ready for release, and there hasn't been any announcement of us working on the set at all.

I'm not ruling out Electrical Control as a set, but it is only one of several sets that are in the wings waiting for the thumbs up to proceed with.