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In the time I've spent playing this game, I've spent the majority of my time blue side, but I do dust off my villains occasionally and play them. I have a Grav/Psi Dom that I made a long time ago, who is only a lowbie currently, but I spent some time in Mid's and came up with this for his build, with the goal of achieving perma-domination. So I'm asking the more experienced Dominator players here : would this build work for this purpose? Am I making too many sacrifices/compromises? Any major mistakes or oversights? Keep in mind I play an hour or two a day at most, and purple sets are not an option for me at all.

I've got a 50 claws/regen scrapper (My first 50) that I've been trying to IO out for awhile now without much success. I know the first advice that's usually given to people who start threads like this is something along the lines of "It depends what your goal is, and what you want to be able to do," but that's my whole problem. I can't really figure out a good point of emphasis to work on with him.
So essentially I'm just wanting to know what some other people have done with their claws/regen toons, with the notion that hearing some of these ideas might provide me with some inspiration.
Thanks.

On my Emp/Sonic I have 2 builds I'm currently slotting out, with a different main emphasis on each one. I use a solo build (with powers from the primary that only affect me, no team buffs), and a more balanced teaming build.
The teaming build emphasizes +Recharge over all else, to get those key buffs back up faster, as well as cycling the mezzes in my secondary faster. I choose sets for this build based on +Recharge benefits, while any other bonuses that come with it are just gravy.
The solo build (which has all the powers from the secondary, as well as the Fighting pool) is being built with a large emphasis on +Defense, primarily Ranged, and any +Recharge I can get.
I'm sure it's been mentioned, but IO slotting and set bonuses are entirely dependent upon AT/power sets and what you want to accomplish with the toon. There's really no best way to do it, IMO, it's mostly preference.

I have dual builds on my Empathy/Sonic, with a solo build that uses only Healing Aura, and the RA's from the primary. My teaming/general purpose build is a balanced build with both primary and secondary powers slotted effectively. I mention this because were I in the OP's position with this toon being the one in question, I would never consider playing on a team with the solo build, as it's just missing too many key powers to be effective for that purpose, even if the team build was unslotted.
However, this is a FF we're discussing, and as such I don't really think it a major concern if they don't have the individual bubbles. Sure, FF's are mainly invited for those powers primarily, but they can contribute in other ways too. If I had been the TL of the TF in question, I'd rather have the fully-slotted solo build rather than the unslotted team build. 15% +Defense is nice, but what else is the FF'er going to do for my team after those bubbles are applied? With an unslotted build.. that's right, absolutely nothing.

Adding the caveat that I do agree the best course of action was to probably not join the team at all, but that's a matter of opinion.

The idea has some merit, I think, but here's a little snag. What if you're mezzed from range, and you're out of the nuke's effective range to deal damage? At that point it essentially becomes just an endurance-crashing purple pill alternative, and not a very favorable one, in my opinion.
My thought is the only way defenders might use nukes more is if they did more damage than they currently do. As the system works now, the damage a defender does with a nuke isn't worth the End. crash by a long shot, so a boost in that department might make people consider using them at least.

Never mind.

I wouldn't say you're making any mistakes, as it's really more a matter of playstyle and preferences, but I can give some advice based on my experience with my Fire/Fire/Electric.
First off, having both Flares and Fire Blast is much more useful after the changes that were made to Defiance and to the animation of Flares itself. They both can be used while mezzed, so might as well have both is my opinion.
Fire Sword is optional, but my blaster has it for when a single mob gets into melee range. FSC just isn't practical in that case. I would agree with Fireball and Build-Up being ASAP powers, but I would get Blaze before Build Up. Blaze is worth more to you at that level than the brief few seconds of +Damage Build Up gives.
Air Sup and Fly are fine, that's preference again. Mine has the Jumping pool for Combat Jumping, and Acrobatics, simply because my blaster is built with almost soft-capped Ranged Defense (which CJ helps with), and I hate using Knockback Protection IO's. Anyone else is entitled to their opinion on that, but I'd rather just take a power than spend oodles of influence on a single IO that doesn't do anything besides protect against KB.
Blazing Bolt is optional, but would be considered another preference thing. Consume I would classify like that as well, but it is useful. Just keep in mind you need to have at least some End to use it.
I personally don't have Burn or Hot Feet on my blaster's main build, and I don't really have much experience with them honestly.
You could live with just Teleport as a travel, I just prefer Jumping for the Immobilization protection, and try as might I just don't like Teleporting again and again and again through a zone.
Anyways, that's my .02 on Fire/Fire. My apologies if I said anything you already knew.

I'm not at all sure if I'm posting this in the right place or not, but I've been curious about this so here goes. Do your set bonuses get shut off when you get mezzed? I'm curious because I was playing my Fire/Fire blaster last night, who has over 30% ranged defense from set bonuses. Does he lose that when mezzed, or is it an 'always on' kind of thing?

I'm a 31 year old male, and I'd say my characters run about 65/35% male to female ratio, but a great deal of the new ones I make are female. I'm not really quite sure of the reason for this, but I heard a decent explanation in-game once, which was : "If I'm gonna be staring at someone's butt for 2 or 3 hours, I'd rather be looking at a woman's butt."
Can't say as I can entirely rebut that statement..
My wife, on the other hand, has mostly female characters.

Absolutely it's worth taking. And like the others are saying keep Hasten, as they work very well in concert with each other.
As for the travel power question, this is exactly what I do with my Mind/Kin, who doesn't even have a travel power because Siphon Speed/Inertial Reduction work well enough that he doesn't need one.