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If I yell RUN when I'm tanking its usually because i'm about to die or Hibernate to run myself.

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Is reign of fire frowned upon? I know my blasters got that but slotting wise not sure. Ive got it 3 slotted at the mo with 2x dmg and 1 x acc (still got training enh at the mo). Im guessing slotting reign of fire with damage is probably a waste of time (due to not really doing that much).

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It's the indscriminate use of Reign of Aggro that is frowned upon. Its definatly a situational power.

It is due some love in issue 7, in that build up and similar buffs will boost its damage (they don't atm).

I left out hastan originally because of my endurance problems, but now I am finding my domination bar is often full but I'm still waiting for the power to recharge. I wouldn't mind having glacier available more often too.

Given my experience, when I get my next respec (whenever that is) I'm going to pick up Hasten and SS, dropping stealth.

That looks almost exactactly like the build I am playing with Yeti. Unfortuatly I am finding life quite difficult with him at the moment!

Underling 50% BTH
Minion 50% BTH
Lieutenant 57.5% BTH
Boss 65% BTH
Elite Boss 65% BTH
Sniper 65% BTH
Monster 75% BTH
Giant Monster 75% BTH
Arch Villian 75% BTH
Pet 75% BTH

My Phantasm adds a fair portion to damage, but having a resistance debuffing secondary helps a lot.

Yup, all pets seem to con as lts (I know my phantasm does).

It probably reflects them having higher base accuracy (75%?) than your typical minion.

A speed buff might be just what he neads. A superjumping boulderman might be useful too.

This is why you play illusion/TA, so your decoys can field all the aggro.

A couple of /TA tips. Use Flash Arrow to pick out indiviual mobs (it's also useful to signal "attack" to a group). Use acid arrow on mobs standing a little away from the rest so as not to aggro any others (the AOE is qute small).

I guess they are supposed to be small and light.

Not if they haven't played Stratego.

My Ill/TA Controller is the most devestatingly overpowered character I've had. Now I've not played /rad, so they may be stronger, but there is certainly nothing weak about /TA.

I'm level 30, so no pet. McGowin was level 31.

Another classic illustration of the dominator's flaws just now. I was soloing on Malcious and my mission was to defeat Agent McGowin, a Longbow officer boss. My hold failed to take first time, and in the 2 seconds before it could recharge he one-shotted me.

[NB the combat text seems to be bugged, since it didn't record what attack he used or how much damage it did.]

I expect it will most closely resemble fire, but at it's best vs Energy rather than Fire, and with better protection from enddrain and without the gaps in mez protection.

Well, that has so far been my solution to the boss hp vs end problem: only use Ice Sword (with the occasional BoI) on them. It's very slow but it seems to be the only way.

I usually focus almost completly on control when teamed - there are always far better damage dealers on the team.

That's ther problem really, a secondary that is of little use. Defenders and Blasters have weak secondaries too, but at least for them thier primary is the best at doing what they do.

I don't run artic air much at all, it usually generates far to much aggro. I'm still running out of end with all by toggles off (and I don't even have Ice Sword Circle).

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The main difference between domination and containment is I get domination on at best 5% of attacks and containment on 95% of attacks.

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That's an unfair basis for comparison - largely because the containment you can do is due to your secondary, and very little to do with your Illusion primary. Most Ill 'trollers will be lucky to get a 60/40 split in the course of normal gameplay, with only Blind and Flash setting up containment (and even then Spectral Wounds only does partial containment damage, and the main source of Ill's damage - that of pets - isn't affected at all).

I may just be imagining things, but I've noticed that the secondary effects of the secondary (stay with me) get buffed by being a Dominator too - /Energy's stuns and KB, /Ice's slows. Maybe I'm just more appreciative of soft-control, but you can't fail to take that into consideration when making comparisons.

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Okay, I confess, /TA is the secret butt-kicking containment king, but even a regular controller gains containment far more often than a dominator gains domination.

As for the soft contol, yes slow is nice, but it doesn't keep me alive solo when using any aoe will get me killed in no time flat. MORE HP PLZ.

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The main difference between domination and containment is I get domination on at best 5% of attacks and containment on 95% of attacks.

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That's an unfair basis for comparison - largely because the containment you can do is due to your secondary, and very little to do with your Illusion primary. Most Ill 'trollers will be lucky to get a 60/40 split in the course of normal gameplay, with only Blind and Flash setting up containment (and even then Spectral Wounds only does partial containment damage, and the main source of Ill's damage - that of pets - isn't affected at all).

I may just be imagining things, but I've noticed that the secondary effects of the secondary (stay with me) get buffed by being a Dominator too - /Energy's stuns and KB, /Ice's slows. Maybe I'm just more appreciative of soft-control, but you can't fail to take that into consideration when making comparisons.

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Okay, I confess, /TA is the secret butt-kicking containment king, but even a regular controller gains containment far more often than a dominator gains domination.

As for the soft contol, yes slow is nice, but it doesn't keep me alive solo when using any aoe will get me killed in no time flat. MORE HP PLZ.

Personally I would always bubble my henchies, particually with ninjas, since the +def from the bubbles will stack with the ninjas built in +def. It'll be significantly more effective than with bots.

The main difference between domination and containment is I get domination on at best 5% of attacks and containment on 95% of attacks.

What level are you at? The FF shields only really come into thier own when slotted with SOs, and if you only have the first one remember it only protects against S/L and melee. With your ninjas fully bubbled you should find they don't often get hit.

Nah, Abominable Yeti is on Union.