RaikenX

just a quick comment before i gotta split for work...

Blew through a moonfire TF last night. Team composition comprised of a bubbler and a /cold troller. Heals? what heals? we rarely got hit at all! Wait...scratch that...i think i might have gotten hit with a heal one time...and my shields were down at the time. We were taking on entire big cave rooms full of Vamps and Puppies all at the same time and not even breaking a sweat. (tho admittedly...having about 3 controllers ALL being ill/ and my dominator contributing to controls, like wormholing guys back to us, might have been a contributing factor)

Personally...off top of my head...a good replacement for the pretty much universally hated DS could be something along the lines of Tar Patch and still be made to fit thematically with the set.

Increase Gravity

This power allows you to create an area of intense gravity, weighing down foes that try to pass through it. Targets will be slowed, unable to fly or jump while in its area of effect. Also, because the gravity is so heavy, your foes will not be able to react as quickly as they normally would, effectively decreasing their defense.

-Runspeed, -jump, -fly, -def to all

This could either be as a location aoe (click and stick like TP, OS Arrow, etc.) or as a targeted AoE.

EDIT: After i made this post and went to bed...it dawned on me...this is pretty much a gravity equivalent of earth's quicksand...which really isn't a bad thing.

After thinking it over, I decided against the damage proc in favor of range. Being able to yank groups from a longer distance is a bit more alluring than a few points of damage that'll just piss stuff off.

Thus far at lvl 29...WH is becoming a staple power for me, although part of that may just be due to me trying to find the best ways to use it. Love smacking guys up against walls and commencing the beatdown. It's even more fun when i stick them to a war wall....or more accurately...IN a war wall. hehehe.

After dinging 26 the other day and picking up wormhole for the first time EVER in over 6 years...i gotta say i'm really enjoying this power. Its just so darned fun to use. Anyhoo, i was thumbing thru my enhancements screen and checked to see what kind of IO's it could slot and it hit me. Is there a damage proc i could slot into it?

Sure enough, there was. Explosive Strike: Chance for Smashing Damage. Question is...would this really be worth it to slot into wormhole? I'm already planning for at least 2 acc, and 2-3 recharge, with the last 1-2 remaining slots for either the damage proc or the damage proc and stun duration.

any suggestions?

personally...i would avoid mud pots as using it would severely counteract your static field by way of constantly waking stuff back up, even tho SF pulses. Mobs that are awake, can hit you. Though you COULD take mud pots and simply use it for an IO mule. Pretty sure there are some decent sets you could slap into that puppy for some decent bonuses.

Alternatively, if you're going for perma-dom, there's always picking up something to slam in a LotG +7.5% rech. My Grav/Energy dom is right now @ 27 has combat jumping, stealth, and invisibility, and all 3 have the lotg 7.5. lvl 30 for him will most likely be grant invis for yet ANOTHER one.

Ninja/Anything MM with his hyperactive, ADHD, crack-head rabbits on speed pets on aggressive. Those things will chase anything! (...I speak from experience) "Oh look...he's running all the way to the other side of the map! GET'IM!" "Hey, that guy teleported somewhere wwwaaayyyy over there where we have not been and have no idea what might be over there that could cause all kinds of untold and unforseen troubles and complications. FOLLOW HIM NOW. HE MUST NOT ESCAPE!" (point of note...i learned really fast...keep a tight leash on those lunatics...worse than someone with scrapperlock. at least they have a chance to survive....sometimes).

Have you ever tried playing a toon borne of a concept instead of "x AT, y Primary, and Z Secondary with g Epic?" I usually find that most of the toons i really enjoy playing now days are the ones that I have a concept behind (though I am still a heavy sufferer of Altism).

A couple of examples are:

Rocky Martin. A former music sensation and popstar that mysteriously transformed into living rock, complete with the ability to manipulate the earth. Earth/Earth dommy.

Tel'a Jhin Va...aka Thorn Dragon. Plant/Thorn dom. An ancient dragon that taught the druids nature magic, but was sealed inside a tree by the very people he taught and protected. Needless to say...he's pretty ticked at humanity in general.

Teek Freak (my newest project). Grav/Energy dom. Telekinetic, with energy assault as kinetic force blasts (which really isn't that far of a stretch). I tried a grav/energy dom a couple of years ago, and just could not seem to get into it all that much. Then i read a post from another forumer that had the concept of a TK toon using Grav/Psi dom. I kinda liked the idea, and kinda sorta ripped it off (sorry...it was a good idea! hehe), save for that i went with /energy which had more of a -kinetic feel. This time around...he's been a hoot, though i'm sure some of that has to do with the revamp doms had way back when (i think my first try at the combo was before the revamp).

I have several versions of my namesake character Raiken, with most of them having electric powers in one form or another. All except one...my DS/Thermal MM version of him...and plan on taking Scirocco patron for the electric part. Theme is that he got blasted by friendly fire with an experimental Longbow power nullifier, went apesh*t and ended up in the zig. He was taught to summon demons and the fires of his rage to get his revenge, and plans to see Scirocco in hopes that he can get at least a portion of his old powers back.

I've got several more, but i'll save you from my rambles...LOL.

I've got a friend that practically NEVER deletes toons...even the ones he never plays. I'll delete one every so often...but those are usually toons that never make it out of the low levels. Normally though...I'll play a toon for a while, then he may sit parked somewhere for a time while i'm frolicking in-game with somethin else, or a couple of something else's, then go back later. If it's something i never really liked to begin with...that's usually when i hit the delete key.

Edit:

I really should read a little more thoroughly. Right after finishing my post...i looked up at Seldom's post and what was one of the first things he said..."Concept" LOL.

you think that's bad with an archery/ta corr? I ran that mission a while back ago with a DB/Regen scrapper and that titan gave me HELL! Capt. Castillo...i sliced, diced, and ginsu'd the everliving hell outta him. That Titan showed up...omgwtfthisSUX!!!! That thing put me down a couple of times before i finally got him. Completely emptied my tray, had to hosp, restock, and go at him again before i managed to beat that thing.

My KM/Elec scrapper on the other hand...beat...the SNOT outta that big bot.

I just skimmed through the first couple of pages of the Dominator Archetype Revamp-Feedback thread and man...i gotta say it's actually kinda funny reading that stuff. It's hilarious (to me anyway) to see that when they made the changes back then (removed +damage from domination, increased base dom damage, and the various changes to attacks...most hated being the change to PSW), there were a good number of people crying gloom and doom and even a couple of posts saying that dommy's were dead after this. Hell...a couple of people were gonna hang up their Dominator hats and go elsewhere, some without even TESTING changes.


Now...nearly 2 years later, we commonly read posts in the Dominator forum about how Dominators are Beasts, the amounts of carnage they leave in their wake, the safety in which they leave said carnage, and even soloing endgame TF/SF's. Dominator fever has never been higher than what it is now after those changes were implemented.

ALL HAIL DOMINATORS! LONG MAY THEY REIGN!!

Echoing previous comments...you really should not skip earthquake. That would be like an Icer skipping Ice Slick. This is one of your best powers in the set, and pretty damn close, if not being, set-defining.

Like AYB said...Earth trolling is all about layers...which is kind of fitting as the Earth itself has layers...but we'll skip that lesson. Though...i tend to Stalag+Cages myself and couple QS with EQ since things can sometimes escape the quake. QS keeps them there. But that's just how i roll.

Seriously...proc be damned...do NOT skip earthquake.

I haven't been messing with high level content or the new released rare alphas or anything but...there's a fairly large patch coming down the pipes as of right now (currently downloading it) that's clocking in at 100.5 meg. Hopefully the devz fixed the problem you guys are having. No patch notes as of yet.

Note: servers are still down...

Currently leveling an Elec/Earth myself and even at level 16 is doing remarkably well. Hopefully he'll be as good or nearly as good as my Earth/Earth dom.