Rad_Avenger

Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus

While Defenders do get Fire Blast, they don't get Scourge.

Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord

I am suffering from ranged toon block. I want to make a new ranged toon, but am coming up blank on ideas. My two main toons are a level 50 Force Field / Fire Blast Defender and a level 50 Super Strength / Electric Armor Brute. I bring out a level 50 Dual Pistols / Dark Miasma Corruptor whenever debuffs are needed. However, I'm starting to get bored of them, since they are all I've played for months.

Honestly, I want to make a couple of new Brutes. But my home server is Exalted, where 80% of all level 50 toons are melee. No joke. So many PuG trials have failed because nearly all of the toons on it were melee. We even had to improvise our Hamidon raid strategy on Saturday 'cause we had three full melee teams and like one blaster and two Corruptors. So if I'm going to make a new toon, it must be ranged as I don't want to add to that.

The problem is that in my six years of playing the game, I could never get a Blaster above level 20. Just far too squishy, and I never liked any of the secondaries.

Someone recommended that I try a human-only Peacebringer. Any other suggestions?

Originally Posted by Crusherina

If they weren't murderous devastating corrupting beasts intent on your annihilation, you might consider one as a pet.

Originally Posted by Vauluur

I love the benefits of IOs as much as the next guy, and I use them on all my characters. However, they sure do make a lot of powers and ATs feel broken or obsolete. Part of me wishes that the invention system was only ever crafting temp powers. I love using craftable temps on my characters, and would love it even more if there were more options. Keep in mind, I'm in no way advocating that IOs be removed or anything like that. They've been around far too long to go back now. I was just wondering if anyone else ever longed for the good old days when teams ran around more often because it meant something more than "those people I need to start the TF".

Originally Posted by DreadShinobi

Indeed on going with a +recharge alpha, it makes a massive difference, especially if you know how to build around it. Though I would nod towards Agility over Spiritual now that it is out for the +def and +endmod values now that it is out, whereas the healing/stun from Spiritual don't really do anything for you.

My fire/cold still runs on Spiritual though I really want to switch to agility, as the +def will affect a ton of powers and the +endmod will be nice to have since I only run with base slot in stamina (meaning I would be less reliant on heat loss if I ever needed to save it to debuff a specific mob) and I could probably strip some slots from Heat Loss if I had agility.

Originally Posted by Airhammer

I need to do something Dom while waiting for new Dom stuff and I have never played a Mind character. I dont want /Fire because I already have enough Fire toons. I was thinking Mind/NRG would be a good combo especially since I already have a set of fortunata purples and a confuse set of purples on another toon I am stripping because I dont play him much.

My thought is to make a Mental/TK character and this combo seems to fit that concept well.

Anyone play one that can share some advice, tricks or tips?

Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by Granite Agent

I need to figure out what exp-leveling mishes to use for my SS/FA and a newbie toon (hello Titan Weapons). The "FIRE!" chain of ambushes sounds like it's been pretty nerfed. 70% nerf you say? So it's only giving 30% of the exp now? Ugh. Maybe it's time to back to Battle for TV?

Originally Posted by Fiery-Enforcer

Yeah, to run the chain seamlessly you'll most likely have to go Spiritual Alpha since Blaze needs to recharge in 2.7 seconds.

I was just messing around with a build in mids. If I was going for maximum damage I'd probably slot Char for damage with the purple hold proc, Apocs in Blaze and Decimations in FB with BU proc and Glad Jav proc.

Originally Posted by Fiery-Enforcer

Assuming you can get enough recharge to pull it off, Blaze > Char > FB is slightly better. You'll have to slot Char for damage of course.

Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord

I have a level 50 Force Field / Fire Blast Defender that will very shortly have Interface unlocked. However, I can't decide on which Interface to use!

The popular Interface is Reactive Radial, and the extra fire damage would fit the toon's Fire Blast theme, but since everyone and their mother seems to have Reactive Radial and it only stacks twice, it seems rather pointless to take to me.

I was looking at the upcoming Interfaces available in Issue 21.5, and the Spectral Interface seems interesting. Having a chance to immobilize targets would make Rain of Fire even more yummy. However, Diamagnetic Radial also looks interesting for the -regen.

Any suggestions?

Originally Posted by The_Bronx

Boogie Down gangsta. Castle Hill animal.

I really didn't want to. And, probably still won't. But, blame Web.

Originally Posted by Keplar

I was speaking more of Ageless though.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

... it breaks the balance between deterministic and non-deterministic rewards, and increases the probability that a player may not be able to achieve the level shifting incarnate powers at an appropriate time to be usable in the higher difficulty content.

Originally Posted by Silas

Hrm. While I would agree that if you can't build Dom any other way, you're bad at playing Dominators, I wouldn't call it a crutch. It's just a really nice convenience power. Of course you can build Dom up by fighting or snipe canceling or whatever, but Frenzy is just incredibly useful.

It means you're back in the fight at full power quicker.

Besides, you're hardly "spending" a power. You don't dedicate a power slot to it. You don't need to slot it. The only requirement is that you have the Villain alignment.

Return to Battle is an unnecessary ease. So are inspirations. So are IOs. So is basically anything that makes things easier in this game. Doesn't mean they're a crutch if you use them, unless you derive pleasure from making things needlessly more difficult for yourself.

Originally Posted by Boomie

Hey guys I know it's been a LONG time since I've posted anything in the dom section but I've finally dusted off on of my old doms and have been taking it through the incarnate trials. I've got everything but my destiny because I can't figure out what to take. The dom is perma hasten so Ageless and Clarion so I don't think those wouldn't help. I'm enjoying playing it like a blaster of old, drop them before they drop you, so not having any defense/resistance, I'm not sure about Barrier since the big buff doesn't last long. I'm thinking about Rebirth(+regen) would be best since I already have hoarfrost but I'm not sold on it just yet.

So is there any reason for me to take any of the other destiny buffs besides rebirth?

Originally Posted by all_hell

it said soft cap or equivalent

Originally Posted by Arbegla

Probably a claws/elec or claw/SR brute. Even at low levels you have decent resistance, very nice damage (spin and your lightning field) and a decent-ish single target chain (especially if you cycle in brawl)

Originally Posted by Obitus

I haven't run any numbers to compare Fire Doms with Fire Blasters, but it is worth noting that Fire Blast is better on Doms at the high end (shorter activation + more damage), and Embrace of Fire is potentially as good as or better than Build Up + Aim (in terms of over-time benefit, since you have half as much wasted cast time) at sufficient levels of recharge.

Sleet is also a pretty big deal; the more each build sells out to increase damage, the more important that -RES becomes.

I'm not sure the Dominator would win, mind, but at the extreme high end I think it'd be darn close.