TheStarscreamer

Oooooooh shiny things. Time to frenziedly start planning the crazy colour scheme for my night widow

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is DB good without the combos?


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Without combos, DB has not even a build up ^^

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Without combos Dual Blades has a copy of Followup from claws only with a faster recharge. The empower combo only gives them an extra 8% damage and is not one I'd ever use when you could be building for a better combo (IE any of the other ones)

8% damage boost is nothing to a brute.

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Being lethal dmg only its worth it for the acc boost, especially when fighting veng'd up nemesis troops at 50 - only so many attacks you can have get deflected before you want to do 1000cuts on your own keyboard lol.

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Hey star, looks like i got one up one you this time

Static discharge is the blaster elec mastery cone attack, one of the better cone attacks in the game.


IMO replace zapp with short circuit, replace voltaic sentinel with a neato new elec tier 3 and viola, a good dom set.

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Ah soz to dissapoint lol Looked it up in mids the day after the post

Personally I like the idea of the set as it is now. Worst case voltoic doesn't work in my plan how i want and I get something better - as it stands the build I rolled has the voltoic in it but if sucks once slotted I have the alternative already planned. I for one actually like the look of this new set. Was teaming with an elec hero in RWZ recently and was impressed with what their voltoic was dishing out. Plus theres a concept reason for it. Roll on i12.

Just roughly looking at ya build overall - only things I would bin would be weave weave and conserve power for aid self. Just a suggestion really. From what I've seen theres a few primaries that go well with /energy - stone, dark, elec and I also used to know a really powerful db/energy as well.

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i dont want to be a double agent!

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Thern you could be a triple agent, pretending to be a member of the 5th Column infiltrating Arachnos whe you are really working for Arachnos infiltrating the 5th Column to sabotage thier infiltration of Arachnos.

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What if your overall mission was to remove the 5th Column from the face of the Earth?
...then you'd be a triple-action cleansing agent (shoot me now)

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Sort of the villainous equivalent of "Cif"....

Sorry.... couldn't resist.

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Cool thanks for the info guys - I must admit on most alts I bind Numpad0 to my self heal - my pinkie is usually well employed throughout a night of CoH lol

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Sooooooo many disgusting ways I can misquote this lmao

And regarding the buildup procs - put one in my corr's tier 1 blast and due to being a spammable attack fires really often never tried the gaussian one.... til i12 that is...

I love doms and corrs. So many people make the mistake of trying to play a dom like a blaster or controller though and its soooooo wrong. Remember most blasters have some decent defences and better HP than doms. BUT a good dominator can lockdown a whole room of foes with the massive aoe controls. Best method is to attack everyone at once! With a corr you have to juggle attacks and buff/debuff only really but many of them get heals like my energy/rad corr specced mostly for offence. Whereas my dominators are slotted for very high amounts of control and have their best attacks highly slotted only.

PvP wise its down to personal taste, I do most of my pvping in teh arena and either can work really well imo more down to personal taste, playstyle and really what you're fighting. Some things my lvl 50 dom can eat for breakfast snap my corr in half, and vice versa some stuff my dom cant handle my corr can smack down. Zonal pvp wise I think my corr has the edge but only due to being a lot closer to being a pvp spec and build. But in a pvp team, my dom is always very popular.

I'd say flip the idea mate - do what appeals to YOU and what you find FUN. Its what I do and I'm working on 50 number 4 right now solely becaause I make fun builds

Oh and mind/fire and fire/rad both rock but in very different ways and require extremely different playstyles. I've personally tried a ton of dom combos and all play differently. My current 2 are gravity/thorns and mind/fire - with a plant/elec coming in i12. All designed and tailored differently.

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Edit: **DAMMIT STAR!!!** I'm keeping what I wrote..just on principle.

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Well everyone has the long version to refer to now lmao

And I have domi actually on zero normally in my 1st powertray for ease of use

Domination is an additional bar that charges as you attack from primary and secondary, ya assault powers make it charge more, when at 90% you can activate domination which basically doubles the duration of all controls, increases damage overall (secondary melees most of all), makes you highly resistant to controls and replensishes all end. Lasts 90secs but rech is approx 200secs. Also in larger teams domination inherently builds faster.

Now the info portion is done.... I was in the same place when I first started playing and my 1st char ever was my gravity/thorns dom who then went all the way to being my 1st 50 as over every lvl it got more, and more, and more and more fun. Doms require a very high amount of skill and you generally have to spread attacks widely - control most of the foes then isolate one - muller him - repeat. ofc its NEVER that simple which is why I love the AT so much. All down to what ya want from your dom. Few random fun combos I've found - gravity/thorns, plant/ice, mind/fire are the ones springing to mind. One of my esteemed colleagues also has THE be all and end all of ice/ice doms and fairly certain she'd endorse mind/thorns too

I've tried too many other combos and even have a uber fun plant/elec planned for i12. If you want any more info or to have a chat about the ones I have/have had then contact me ingame @Starscreamer

My dual blades/elec dinged 50 last week and I have to say in many ways it is inferior. No control, no massive burst dmg attack blah blah blah... BUT I made a concious decision to do what most dont and have every combo. Making him so unbelieveably versatile. Weaken is an awesome weapon for AVs! Plus he's /elec so got every power there except lightning field as I slotted power sink with a taunt set to use as a taunt/end replenish on every other group which is roughly how long conserve power lasts. All in all I have to say I love dual blades as its so different and you ride that wave of "will this combo hit??? I so need it to! Go on! Go on! YESSSS! DIEEEEE" that its a real thrill ride to play. And 1000 cuts has one of the coolest animations ever!

Aye more doms agent! Lets get a picket line going to get more control carnage! We all know my overbearing love for the AT for every sadist out there Which is why I have 2 still in use atm with my new i12 MM/brute dom - Starsunstorm plant/elec on the way ^^ Only dom I've ever not took melee is my mind/fire and thats for a specific concept reason. But screamer would both suck and blow if he didn't have Skewer or Ripper. Gimme Thunderstrike for my new dom muhahhahaha

And yeah any more dom faithfuls can holler at me too on @Starscreamer as agent and I are insane for doms and together it gets really silly sometimes ^^

DOMINATION = HEAVEN

Doms are an AT that requires a very active and manic playstyle which most people can't handle. Best way to play is attack everyone at once! Thing is after the 30s the dom becomes one of the most diverse and extremely powerful chars. My 1st 50 was a dominator and I suspect my 4th will be too (my mind/fire is creeping up and a plant/elec is on the way).

I've tried a stupidly high number of dom combos and all play differently so its an AT thats also really malleable. Live it, love it, crowd control ftw!!!

Ok boys and girls, children of all ages, and Cylon.

After a little impromptu get together last night with some representatives with our coalitions The Horde, The League of Villains and The Ghost Shadow Clan - an idea of mine is coming to light. Also to those that came on what was no notice - THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.

So for the UD faithful and the above SGs I have decided to organise an uber pylon raid in the RWZ for all of us to get to know one another, get a great number of merits and an enormous amount of carnage. Plan is to do this probably midweek in approx 2 weeks time (will post official time here once set in stone). This looks set to be approx 8pm on a Weds to allow as many as possible to get in for it with an 8:15 sharp start. If highly popular may even run again the following day too.

But thats not all.... I have an alterior motive for conceiving this....

As many of you may not know I run The UD Chronicles comic series based on UD, its chars and dark exploits. Recently I had to do a massive rewrite to allow me to continue the Usurper story arc (current story arc) and intend on grabbing a ridiculous amount of screens for all this event as I want to use it as a part of the finale to the whole arc! So all our coalition pals can even get a bit part in the comic! Will your char make the cut of the screens? Who knows? But gonna be huge fun finding out

Naturally anyone involved that expressly doesn't want their char featured need only say All existing comics are availble via the link in my sig.

And one final note - VIOLENCE FOR THE PEOPLE!

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Sounds like a really nice bunch of people in this SG so good luck finding people =) I'd have a go at joining myself if it wasn't for the fact I'm level 9 and a total noobie to the game

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Only darkness knows what your future holds....

But yeah if you'd like to get in touch with UD can just drop me a gloabl to @Starscreamer, its the case that if we have room we'll always welcome new people - veterans and newbies alike Or just collar one of our numerous peeps wandering around (try the BM ever so often too lol)

Nah got my mind/fire Starshockwave and ofc Starscreamer himself for those days ^^ And always more decepticons for my army! Plus theres a concept reason why its Starsunstorm ;P But gonna have to hunt him down and read his bio in i12 to find out! nerny nerny ner!

And the mental picture of domi then seeds then creepers then buildup and thunderstrike while being flanked by the fly trap and a sentinel is just too fun a mental carnage to not do

Ah continuing my ever so obvious and present theme with the coming of my new Night Widow - Starsixshot - multichanger decepticon assassin ^^ Sounds like a perfect Night Widow to me!

I was a bit wth when I first read it but after a bit of musing I actually really like that set. I want a plant/elec for part concept part fun. This new set looks to do just that for me. One query though - does anyone know what Static Discharge does? As I have no idea.

Oh and I'd say dmg output won't too bad really with Thunderstrike buffed with Buildup and Domination - I'm drooling already.

As far as the melees go its gonna be damned fun, but I agree with others on the total lack of a decent upper tier ranged attack. I would assume the sentinel would have to be a really good pet to trump that. The only advantage here is if it does suck I can always avoid it. But the idea of having an uber summoning vill dm makes me smile a lot - creepers, flytrap and sentinel! Thats just awesome! Could even get a patron pet too and go totally insane

tbh I was expecting a ranged attack with an effect like chain inductions jumping as the tier 9 (similar to the blue blobs on LGTF's hami) with Short Circuit at 35. But an additional pet could make this a truly unique set.

Can't wait for this ^^

Aye And once I'm not so busy job hunting every spare second - the site will have an overhaul too.... Stay tuned...

I've been uhhming and ahhhhing over this for a while and had some much stroking of the beard over it. I think lightning rod isn't likely (sadly) and lightning field seems unlikely due to being a dmg field. Not to say either won't turn up in the set, I just don't think it will personally. Had a muse over existing dom secondaries, and came up with the below list. Just my 8peneth worth, and is loosely based on the other sets unlocking order, and the fact it may be a shade different.

Charged Bolts
Havoc Punch
Lightning Bolt
Ball Lightning
Aim
Thunder Strike
Short Circuit
Zapp
Shocking Grasp

in that case if its pve loads of fun to have!!!

The ESSENTIAL thorns attacks are skewer, impale, ripper and thorn barrage. Aim can be taken later in the build imo.

As for fire, poor control but good dmg so overall your dmg output should be bloody good. Couple of stacked holds, then let loose with ya melees and the imps to be a nasty tanky-dom but as you are fire I would recommend some survivability in the build like aid self and/or tough (weave is pointless for doms). Another thing I did on my old fire dom was get stealth, SS and the blind power to allow real good ghosting and sneak attacks to hit and run and force the imps to charge in.

Oh and I don't care what people say - /thorns is really fun in the arena as is fire control

Doms higher up are godly and my gravity/thorns can happily solo relentless mishes in his sleep now. I've even managed (via a lot of insp munching) to solo 2 Heroes in the past as well - Ms Liberty and Numina. Nothing I ever wanna do again, very, very, very, very hard and stressful rofl

Actually /thorns is darned good in pvp as it happens. My gravity/thorns has given some people more of a slap than he should have and he aint remotely specced for pvp.

But more info in what ya after for the char would assist in advising what route to take. Only thing to remember is your controls in fire are generally not "hard" controls so have to watch out, but with careful design can overcome that and tailor more on the offense side of things I'd say.

As it happens, I've been musing over this a bit. Always wanted to do it, but has always been ruined by an onslaught of leet hero pvp teams not leaving us alone to do it. But, I'll see what the members of our SG fancy and whether we can get a big number of people to just splat them all I've got an unsettled score too that must be addressed...

Hit me up ingame @Starscreamer so we can chat and muse over this, and if interest is high I'll see if our coalition wanna get in on the action too.

That 2nd revision looks more sound, however, the slotting on Gravity Distortion is 100% wrong. Its dmg is pitiful - you NEED your hold to be godly or you will be ineffective as a dom even with permadom. Please stop my mental anguish lol

Plus if you do achieve permadom, slotting the hold well will mean you can lock them down and just rip them to bits. Ideally with SOs I slotted with 3 holds, 1 rech, 1 end and 1 acc. However, something like Ghost Widows Embrace or the purple hold set would do the power the world of good, and still mean lots of shiny bonuses. A dom not slotted for control in any single way is utterly broken imo. Trust me - try it and you'll see what I mean

LOL Thanks mate - nice to know my insane rantings and devotion to doms helped ^^

I look forward to getting my proverbial handed to me in the arena by that frankly scary dom

I'm one of a very rare breed in that I have a lvl 50 gravity/thorns and I am quite confused by that build. That will be hell to lvl and you've nerfed Wormhole and Impale real badly and haven't even got Gravity Distortion Field! Also, why've you got Dimension Shift AND Phase Shift? Its incredibly wasteful. Plus everyone you ever team with will hate you for phasing whole groups. Health is also way overslotted for a minor set buff increase really. Those slots would be better to put on Impale as its like one of THE corner stone attacks. As slots are tight overall I'd move the Devastation IOs to Impale. I'd also get rid of the 2 uniques on singy as well - singy is so tough its totally pointless. Its better to slot for holds in their place so singy will stack til next year along with you. I'd also recommend taking the dmg slot off of the single hold as its wasteful - put it on aid self and chuck an Interrupt IO in there to save some heartache.

I know you're going for a purple set mega build, but you'll have a nightmare leveling that build due to a total lack of any aoe control to lockdown the enemy. I'd also take the patron shield before stealth as you WILL need that extra resistance then.

Its also worth noting those purple sets dont seem to be as good as I thought for this build - I have 85%regen, 46% acc with about 5%def to everything on my not even 100% IO build with no purples at all (he's still 30% SOs and most likely will stay that way).

If you want to chat about the build in depth or want to see how effective anything is - PM me or contact @Starscreamer in game (on Union). Starscreamer was my very 1st character over 18months ago and still gets more use today than any other char about 7 months after dinging 50 because he's so good and such fun.