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My theory: Praetoria is actually a tiny protected area & the Hamidon rules the rest of the planet. Cole lost or simply fought Hami to a standstill. Then spun a huge web of lies to hide the fact from the remaining human populace. Hami won..Praetorian Earth mostly belongs to it....the only remaining humans are behind the shields and as long as Cole keeps them there...Hami won't destroy them. This is why Cole keeps such an iron grip on the populace. He doesn't want people to get curious and wander outside the shields and discover the truth. The other Praetors are in on it as well...

Hopefully the future Hami Raid is Primal Earth's super-beings showing up to Praetoria and putting an end to Hami's reign.

I understand your play-style concern. The good news is you can have some that back again..but you're going to need to let go of being strongly dependent on PSW.

My Suggestions:

Add Psychic Scream into your attack chain. Yes it's a cone..but with practice you master effectively positioning yourself to hit as many mobs as possible.

Consider dropping Soul Mastery and picking up the Ice APP instead. Get Sleet (30% resistance debuff) It's going work really well with you AoE immobilize, as I believe it doesn't mitigate the knockdown.

My suggestion for an attack chain.... Drop Sleet, Wormhole mobs on to the debuff patch, slap down your AoE immobilize (so they can't run away)...fire off drain psyche...initiate Ice Storm finish off the mobs with Psychic Scream.

If you go with the Fire APP instead..then you can combine Rain of Fire with your AoE immobilize and pepper with Drain Psyche, PSW, Psychic Scream and Fire Ball.....

Hope this is helpful...


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What are you bringing to the team....
+ Regen debuff
+ Resistance debuff (if you go ice)
+ Massive Slows (Grav/Psi/Ice will be a -movement -recharge monster)
+ Damage...damage...and more damage.

I'm with you on this 100%. I'm still at a loss on what to do with my Mind/Energy Dom and my Plant/Thorn...

But my Fire/Psi/Ice is just incredible right now. I'm thinking of Fire/Psi/Fire on a 2nd build.

I'm also thinking about Mind/Energy/Fire....but still a little unsure.

I have a lvl 50 Fire/Psi/Ice Dom. I've had it for close to 5-years. I hated..and I mean hated the initial revamp of PSI..overtime I learned to love it.

But only because of what we got in trade:

- Increased damage in Psychic Scream. Yah it's a cone..but if you leverage it right w/PSW you will do some respectable damage.

- Villain APP's: Most notably the ICE and FIRE. Those two APP's alone do a great deal for an AoE oriented Dom. Ice gives you a nice resistiance debuff (Sleet) and AoE dmg (Ice Storm). Fire Gives you tons more damage (Rain of Fire) and (Fire Ball).

- Incarnate Alpha Slot: Musculature is a very noticeable damage increase. Seriously, you'll notice it as soon as you slot it.

In short if you want an effective high damage Dom go Fire/Fire/Fire, Fire/Psi/Ice, or Fire/Psi/Fire and get the Musculature Alpha slot.

Branching is an awesome idea. I don't know if we'd get that kind of revamp for mercs though. At this point I'd settle for the medic actually being useful and special ops having leadership abilities.

You don't see many earth/psi's but the potential is pretty awesome. If you really want overkill pick "Ice" when you get to Epics. If you got that route you will be a solid debuffer of:

- Regen
- Resistance
- Recharge
- Defense
- Movement

All that plus a very hard to kill pet, great Cone & AOE damage, and controls. Be prepared for most teams not to realize what your contributing. But you won't care you'll be too busy making mobs dead.

Earth/Psi/Ice is probably a very good task force build. One of many Doms I've been meaning to try myself.

Plant/anything.....especially after seeds of confusion. You can solo easily and pretty much have a utility power for just about any non AV situation.

Vidzi!

Nice to see one of the old HTT doms back in the game. I actually wouldn't mind hanging out with HTTT again. If I can get this old klunker of a computer going again. Or better yet get a new computer for X-mas!

APP's are awesome that and the Dom revamp pretty have turned most Dom's into what they should have been all along.

Gravity/Fire and Gravity/Electric offer some interesting ranged power choices. You'd have a solid ranged attack chain by level 8 or so.

If you're not afraid of "squishy melee" Gravity/Stone is a very smashtastic combo. A bit of rough ride before you get Seismic Smash and Singularity...but worth it.

It is fair to mention that the Alpha slot does effect "Hasten"...which in turn effects Domination (and all your other recharging powers). So while not directly affecting Domination it certainly can contribute significantly.

I.E. if Hasten is up more frequently, Domination will be up more frequently. I'm thinking of Going Recharge/Stun on my Fire/Psi/Ice Domi.

The problem (as I see it) is that Ninja/Poison combines one of the weaker Primaries with a very specialized secondary..without a lot of synergy between the two.

Thugs/Poison would probably be a better overall choice. You get defense from the pets, damage, and the Bruiser is the best anchor you could possibly get for Noxious Gas. Thugs/Poison actually starts getting darned powerful as you level up.

Bots/Poison isn't bad either for many of the same reasons. Plus the -regen, defense, etc..from the bots are synergistic with poison.

I'm not sure of any way of making your life easier as a Ninja/Poison mm.....leadership might be useful if you don't have it..and grabbing the medicine pool (or maybe stealth for def..and phase) might help out.....

There was Ninja/Poison guide out there but I'm not sure how good it was...

Fire/Fire and Earth/Earth are the best bets for "single element" combo's IMHO...

Earth/Earth is going to demand that you get up close and personal. (Drop controls first, melee mobs while they are helpless..). You'll have a nice combo of debuff/control/ and damage. Seismic Smash will stack with your Single Target hold. That plus powerboost and You can easily hold a boss or two. Earthquake, Volcanic Gases, and Quicksand will keep mobs coughing, flopping, and slowed.

Fire/Fire is light on control (but flashfire + firecages = a fast recharging AoE hold) but heavy on damage. Fire/Fire is also more forgiving if you want go for a ranged build.

Ice/Ice looks intriguing, but I don't know enough about the combo as I've never played it. Ice Slick is a great soft control however..but from what I understand this is a very heavy endurance usage combo.

Sleeps are very underrated.

Leadership Buffs, while hot on the forums, are not so well understood by many in-game players.

Combat Jumping, another power that helps you out, but because it's doing it's job you never really notice =D.

I live in NorCal so I've had he opportunity to meet some CoX staff in RL. I've also met quite a few folks in my SG in RL as well. We even call and email one another form time to time. I started playing the game while in chemotherapy for cancer. So it was my main social outlet. Once I was recovered and feeling better, I met some of the folks I'd been chatting with. Was a great experience. It's always great meeting other 30+ folks who like gaming and comic books as much as I do. :-)

I don't like sword and sorcery, not even a little bit. And I love super-heroes..so this game is a perfect match for me. And the community is awesome. Just got my "City Traveler" reward!!!

I was chatting with another long time Dom player a few days ago. Which brings me to pose this question to other old school Doms. It seems like with the introduction of the APP's almost of the issues the Dominators had have been addressed. Sure there are minor power issues (animations, activation times, etc..). But every AT in the game faces those.

But since APP's now give decent aoe damage, debuffs, and shields. Dom's seem pretty much one of the most well rounded AT's in the game. What does you guy's think? Do your Dom's pretty much play the way you've always wanted them too? Or do a few of you still find the AT is lacking something? For me, my Dom's feel pretty much perfect. Especially, after I get to level 41 .