Idris

You're right, at the moment I certainly don't need Stamina. My end regen is riduculous compared with what I actually use, but it's a nice luxury to have. Makes me look like I'm not doing anything, though, since my endurance bar hardly moves

I actually respecced into Fitness pool for i6 because I wanted Health (trying desperately to compensate for the loss of 3 slots in Integration by slotting Health and Fast Healing. It's not the same but it's something). But I think Stamina might be useful later when I get Tactics and FA and drop ACC in my attacks for recharge. That means more Soaring Dragon and Golden Dragonfly, which means more endurance usage. Not to mention the drain from toggles themselves. But basically I just like the idea of being a never-tiring duracell bunny.

Regarding DA, I don't usually even bother double-stack it unless I'm dying. Even now with 2ACC 1 DEFBUFF it gives a very noticeable buff and doesn't cut into my DPS that badly. But if I'm taking a lot of damage I start spamming it until I have thinned the crowd a bit. A great power, it is.

Haha, so what's the initiation? As long as it wouldn't kill me, I guess. I don't have Revive yet.

You do have a cool name...

Mmmm, interesting. I only have one PBAoE and one cone, and I wouldn't mind having more. I have no idea what Energy torrent is like. Does it look blasterish? Is it a melee move? That's the reason I'm not taking LBE - laser beams from my eyes is just not something my scrapper could ever have, no matter how handy it would be.

Also, would it cause me to redraw my katana?

Conserve Power is sounding better and better. I might end up taking it even if I don't take Energy Torrent.

Thanks! I'm not sure yet if I want to go mixed or 1 AT way, so I'm gonna think about it a bit.

Hey Larac, I think I've teamed with you before (as Dagar)

I'm interested if you still have room and if the RL schedule allows. Is it ok if I send you a tell if I'm in game, Dr Gullible?

Idris, lvl35 scrapper

Here's my Kat/Regen build until lvl 46. I'm pretty sure that's the way I want to go but any comments are welcome, I might still change my mind. Slotting in attacks is still up in the air, I might change 1 of the recharges back to ACC (the way it's now at lvl35) or ENDRED.

But it's the last 2 powers I can't decide on.

Boxing & Tough?
Acrobatics for some extra hold protection?
Stealth?
Resilience
Conserve Power? My end bar hardly moves now at lvl35 but it might be different when I have all those extra toggles.
Something else? I guess those Laser Beam Eyes would be useful but they could not fit worse to my concept.

This is a PvE build but who knows, I might want to PvP someday as well so it'd be good if it didn't entirely suck at it.


Exported from version 1.5B of CoH Planner
http://joechott.com/coh

Archetype: Scrapper
Primary Powers - Ranged : Katana
Secondary Powers - Support : Regeneration

01 : Fast Healing hel(01) hel(34) hel(40)
01 : Sting of the Wasp dam(01) dam(3) dam(5) recred(7) recred(23)
02 : Flashing Steel dam(02) dam(3) dam(5) recred(7) recred(23)
04 : Reconstruction hel(04) hel(9) hel(15) recred(15) recred(36) recred(36)
06 : Combat Jumping jmp(06)
08 : Divine Avalanche acc(08) defbuf(9) defbuf(25) defbuf(37) recred(40)
10 : Dull Pain recred(10) recred(11) recred(11) hel(45) hel(45) hel(45)
12 : Build Up recred(12) recred(13) recred(13)
14 : Super Jump jmp(14)
16 : Integration hel(16) hel(17) hel(17)
18 : The Lotus Drops dam(18) dam(19) dam(19) recred(25) recred(36)
20 : Quick Recovery endrec(20) endrec(21) endrec(21)
22 : Hurdle jmp(22)
24 : Health hel(24) hel(40) hel(43)
26 : Soaring Dragon dam(26) dam(27) dam(27) recred(29) recred(29) recred(31)
28 : Instant Healing recred(28) recred(37) recred(37) hel(46) hel(46) hel(46)
30 : Stamina endrec(30) endrec(31) endrec(31)
32 : Golden Dragonfly dam(32) dam(33) dam(33) recred(33) recred(34) recred(34)
35 : Assault endred(35)
38 : Tactics thtbuf(38) thtbuf(39) thtbuf(39) endred(39)
41 : Focused Accuracy endred(41) endred(42) endred(42) thtbuf(42) thtbuf(43) thtbuf(43)
44 : Revive hel(44)

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01 : Brawl enhancement(01)
01 : Sprint enhancement(01)
02 : Rest enhancement(02)

Half a woman, half a magical regenerating blue killer animal with an EXTREMELY stylish tail and a great shiny katana is looking for a new supergroup after her mates from the old, tiny one either turned evil (sob) or have apparently started farming carrots.

She is currently at Security Level 34 and hopes to find people around her level to team with. She doesn't really PvP or roleplay, although with the roleplay it's a thin line and maybe someday she should give PvP a try. She likes small cosy teams and little downtime. She's often happiest when duoing with another scrapper but she's not picky.

Any takers?

Take Ice Slick at 12. It's your best power and everyone will love you. 3-slot it with recharge.

I also think that the endreds in Ice Slick and Power Boost are a bit of a waste, but it looks like you have plenty of slots to go around. Still, I'd rather put them even somewhere like Health.

I held an elite boss for a good while yesterday courtesy to Power Boost and three recharge DOs in Block if Ice, without Domination or Hasten. Took three applications of BoI, the 1st one powerboosted. I wish I knew how long it would have lasted but unfortunately he died

I am now a convert

Dominator secondaries are not identical with any other powersets but rather combinations of mostly blaster primary/secondary and defender and tanker secondary. That's why it's sometimes pretty difficult to find out information about them and make informed choices. Here's a list of all dominator secondary powers. If you've had any of these powers on any of your toons, please comment and tell us what the power does and what you think of it.

All powers are obviously not shared by any other ATs but I'll put them here anyway. Maybe some of the more advanced dominators can comment.

If we get a decent thread going I can then compile the answers to a list. I think that would help us a bit with the information shortage, until people get further in the game and start writing guides.


Energy Assault

Power Bolt
Bone Smasher
Power Push
Power Blast
Power Boost
Whirling Hands
Total Focus
Sniper Blast
Power Burst

Fiery Assault

Flares
Incinerate
Fire Breath
Fireblast
Fiery Embrace
Combustion
Consume
Blazing Bolt
Blaze

Ice Assault

Ice Bolt
Ice Sword
Ice Sword Circle
Ice Blast
Power Boost
Frost Breath
Chilling Embrace
Greater Ice Sword
Bitter Ice Blast

Psionic Assault

Psionic Dart
Mind Probe
Telekinetic Thrust
Mental Blast
Psychic Scream
Drain Psyche
Subdue
Psionic Lance
Psychic Shockwave

Thorn Assault

Thorny Darts
Skewer
Fling Thorns
Impale
Aim
Thorn Burst
Thorntrops
Ripper
Thorn Barage

Ooh! Then it's going to be very nice indeed

Thanks

I have a baby Ice/Ice dom and I see that later on I'll have Power Boost available in my secondary. Now I think it's just my inexperience with this power, but I can't think of many uses for this power for my dom, personally. Please tell me I'm wrong.

It ways that ot boosts the secondary effects of a power. Does it, for example, not boost Arctic Air's Slow effect but boost it's confuse effect? Does it do this if I hit
it whenever I start Arctic Air, or whenever I'm running Arctic Air when hitting power boost, or does it just ignore toggle powers? Does it boost damage for my holds, or hold duration?

I guess most of my attacks in my secondary have slow effects that it could boost but I'm getting better slows from other places so I'm not sure how useful that would be.

Idris

Me too. It fits the concept so well that I just can't not take it.

It does free up at least one inspiration slot though

Idris

I'm not really complaining because I love my Ice/Ice but I was getting slightly jealous yesterday when that Plants dom was hitting Domination so much more often than me. But she was also using AoE imob, which I've usually found just gets me killed. I'm still on the fence about Chillblain though because sometimes a single target imob can be useful and I'm a bit underwhelmed by Ice Sword Circle, which I took instead. At the moment it grabs more aggro than I can handle and does subpar damage, and the animation is long and has a stupid end where my toon just stands there doing nothing for a while. Maybe I'll start loving it more once I get Ice Slick. My scrapper certainly loves her similar katana attack, although a lot of people dislike it.

BTW, Arctic Air is slowing things down really well but boy does it suck endurance. Can't wait to get a few endred DOs for it.

Now I'm really rambling but it's fun to hear about others' domination experiences since there's still so little info out there.

Yeah, I too noticed that I was getting domination much more slowly than the plants/ice dominator i was teaming with today. Might be mostly because I haven't got chillblain or frostbite, though. I guess arctic air doesn't do much for domination.

Since i couldn't play today like I had planned (maintenance break again!) I thought I'd post my planned kat/regen build. Idris is currently at lvl33. I haven't had the chance to test it out yet because character copy isn't working so suggestions are welcome!

Next on the agenda is I'll probably 3-slot fast healing and health and add some more recharges to attacks. Fitness pool is an addition I didn't have in i5.

Exported from version 1.5B of CoH Planner
http://joechott.com/coh

Archetype: Scrapper
Primary Powers - Ranged : Katana
Secondary Powers - Support : Regeneration

01 : Fast Healing hel(01)
01 : Sting of the Wasp acc(01) dam(3) dam(5) dam(7) recred(23)
02 : Flashing Steel acc(02) dam(3) dam(5) dam(7) recred(23)
04 : Reconstruction hel(04) hel(9) recred(15) recred(15)
06 : Combat Jumping jmp(06)
08 : Divine Avalanche acc(08) defbuf(9) defbuf(25)
10 : Dull Pain recred(10) recred(11) recred(11)
12 : Build Up recred(12) recred(13) recred(13)
14 : Super Jump jmp(14)
16 : Integration hel(16) hel(17) hel(17)
18 : The Lotus Drops acc(18) dam(19) dam(19) dam(25)
20 : Quick Recovery endrec(20) endrec(21) endrec(21)
22 : Hurdle jmp(22)
24 : Health hel(24)
26 : Soaring Dragon acc(26) dam(27) dam(27) dam(29) recred(29) recred(31)
28 : Instant Healing recred(28)
30 : Stamina endrec(30) endrec(31) endrec(31)
32 : Golden Dragonfly acc(32) dam(33) dam(33) dam(33)

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01 : Brawl enhancement(01)
01 : Sprint enhancement(01)
02 : Rest enhancement(02)

Has anyone tried slotting Short Circuit 3 enddrn, 3 dam?

I don't actually mind the loss of damage all that much since it's an across the board thing. As long as my damage is ok compared to others I'm good. I don't really need to be able to fight invincible, I just want the fights to be fun and challenging. And I think I'll be slotting 2 acc, thus hopefully missing less, thus actually doing more damage.

IMO the problem is that some things were hurt unnecessarily much by this. For example /dev blasters who don't have build up and used to 6-slot their attacks with damage will lose more than other blasters who still have build up. For example controllers who had their AoE holds' recharge times nerfed obscenely long in i5, making perma-hasten a must, and now the perma-hasten is taken away those nerfs don't make sense anymore. And, for example, elec/ blasters's Short Circuit, because endurance drain is a binary thing. You either drain them dry or not. Elec is a relatively low damage set anyway, endurance drain was what made it worth it for me. It's what made it different and interesting. Now I'll be same as all other blasters, only less effective.

I am still devastated by the hit that elec/ endurance drain took. At this point I don't feel like even trying my blaster out in i6. I'll probably stick to my scrapper who got noticeably weaker all around but at least didn't get any of her main characteristics totally ruined.

Oh, and I know we got thrown a little bone in the form of endurance recovery but I didn't need it anyway and would much rather have my drain back