QuiJon

Basicly to achieve perma dom, you will need hasten 3 slotted for recharge, and then atleast 72 percent bonus on recharge from IO sets. And that is a very small margin of error to make sure you click it on time.

However earth fire, i would just first look at how much you have to spend. Then what IO sets could you use that offer the best return for Recharge. I have a perma earth.fire, its not that terribly expensive. I think i have 1 LotG +7.5% in it, and two cheap purple sets. That is once nice thing with earth is both the stun and sleep purple sets are not that expensive and both can be used if you want to. Otherwise its a buncha small buffs. Basilisk Glare offers a nice bonus for 4 slots on holding and can balance out the level 30 set with other common IOs. Expediant reinforcements also gives a nice bonus at 4 slots on stone pet.

It really is just a matter of what your willing to spend, what powers you have taken, and how many slots you will need on a power to reach the set bonus of recharge.

Also though keep inmind with changes perma dom isnt AS needed as it was before. Its really nice to have perma status protection and mez bonus, but even if you dont reach the 72+% to get perma you feel alot nicer even at 40-50 percent which is pretty easy to reach.

Just noticed this last night. I hadnt noticed it on test when i was playing. So i did try and and ever pet i could spawn from a dominator or controller spawned -1 level.

feed back thread : http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=189312

Hadnt seen any mention of it in here for discussion, and that was the first notice i saw of anyone even noticing it.

I understand the fire pets got this treatment because they were considered better then other pets. However i dont think its fair to do to the rest of the pets, and doesnt it just make imps that much better again? And i cant imagine imps being even worth it going to -2 levels to keep it equal on a dom with no buffing or debuffing to speak of to help acc/dam potential.

I went ahead and leveled up with the level bump they gave us, and slotted up fully with SOs. I basicly took every primary and secondary power for an earth.earth dom. I didnt find earth assualt to be all that bad, accept it does seem a tad end heavy, but then having no patrons for end regen, and no IO sets, my perception of REAL endurance usage might be kinda skewed in that i normally have my heavier attacks with an IO set that reduces its end, and have something like power sink by the time i am 50.

Overall the perception most people have is correct. Range damage IMO is acceptable, but not outstanding. But melee damage is nice. It would be nice if the animations were a bit faster, but being i have lived with gravity and energy before, they are not terrible in my opinion.

I personally find the biggest hole in the set to be mud pots. It originally sounded like a cool idea on a dominator, but frankly even spending so much time in melee range, I kinda feel like the damage it does is insiginificant in that i am still killing things faster then it really matters to have that AOE going. So I prob would be skipping it on my live build unless there is something i am missing. For some primaries it probably would be ok, like taking hotfeet, but when you already have something like quicksand it seems like overkill and isnt worth the end drain.

I was running a couple radio missions on +2/=3villians and i seemed to be doing fine so long as i played with the normal dominator "smartness" and didnt expect to just run into mobs and tear them appart. So basicly IMO for a smart dominator player, it should be a solid set to have. Less range potential, but frankly i think that is what makes it feel more unique. Its not just a copy of another set with different effects like electric was to energy etc.

Oh and its called stone SPEARS with a 's' because you create multiple spears to hit your target, not because it is suposed to hit multiple targets. Its using the Stalagmite effect so if you watch 3-4 spears poke up from the ground and hit the target, hence it being plural.

The quickest way to get a mission changed with a timer or a AE slot locked is going to be advertising that its a farm. (note the old wolf missions, dreck, TV etc)

A player would be absolutely stupid to advertise in the public forums of which the devs read that they have either created a farming mission, or that they intend to for the devs to watch out for it.

My intention is not to change farming or peoples access to it, its to say "dont be a fricken retard and ask people to tell the devs where to go looking."

If your runniing hot feet pre stamina then yes you are definately sucking down end.

My process on most toons that offer toggles prestamina is to skip them until i have my end mitagation going. In fires case that is stamina and consume.

I think the thing to think here is first your correct, your not on SOs, so much of that might fix itself at 22. And also your 20, your not supose to be a power house yet. However at 22 i would slot some SOs in what you can and then also i would say franken slot some of the more expensive attacks with something that offers either damage/end or acc/end reduction from the cheaper IO sets. It helps more then you can believe. But kinda like SOs i dont suggest doing it until your 22 and can get 25s or even 27 and can get 30s.

I can understand the cool factor in a whip set, but frankly i dont see potential for it. Were talking super heroes and villians, unless it is some kinda cool laser whip i dont picture it doing a ton of damage, and at that probably leathal damage (yuck). As far as chains go, i would much rather see either a dark control set, or a totally new but cooler option like a true water set. Not ice water. As far as an assualt set goes, now that they have said the blasters are getting dual pistols, i would like to see a hybrid of like dual pistols and Super strenght attacks made into a natural assualt set.

I guess there are just so many things i would rather see then whips and chains in the game that even the prospect of it being true is really underwhelming.

The problem here is i never got totally worked up off numbers. I did pay attention to the "feeling" of the character.

Pretty much all my doms "feel" better now. That is a grav/nrgy 50, plant/thorn 50, fire/fire 50, mind/ice 35, ice/elc 38. And my one perma dom a earth/fire 50, really feels about the same, but i think i am not watching the dominator clock as close as i used to. I let it slip a couple times.

Sorry i dont have numbers, perhaps one of the reasons i always felt ok with dominators is i never researched to much the numbers and compared to other ATs.

Ya i want the old forums back, these new ones kinda.... whats the word... suck.