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So Im thinking about making a Dominator to team with a Bot/Pain MM and I can't decide on Ice/Psy or Earth/Psy. Earth and Ice are so similar I don't know which one to go with.
I was thinking ice/psy would fit together better due to some melee powers in ice and the couple melee attacks in psy.
Any thoughts?
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I've tried Ice Control to lvl 42 and 41 (twice) and I think Earth control (to 47) is a much better control set. While most of the powers in Earth can't benefit from Domination, they are still top notch.
Ice Control is kinda meh... you really have to watch out your aggro as you have very few hard-controls. ST hold, aoe hold (super long recharge) and that's it.
However, I would rate Ice/Psi as the best Ice combo simply because two good powers are pbaoe and they sort of help each other.
What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.
I love my ice/psi, the PBAoE nature is really nice. And since you mostly only have soft controls you might as well maximize them by having -recharge in the primary and secondary, not to mention drain psyche will take care of endurance issues in arctic air.
Here is a video made by a very VERY talented dom that I one day hope to be as good as: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4de2AJnwC0E
Arctic air can also be turned into a damage aura helping with the low damage pre-38 of /psi.
I have made a earth/ice dom to play wih my friend and her elec/pain corr and I am happy with it so far. Never got a psy dom pass level 14 so not sure how it is. There are times when it gets rough but with earthquake,quicksand,stalgmites combined with the area root we laugh at most ambushes. Helps they tend to shot me and not her so she heals me then preceeds to drain them of all there endrance :P
Even though I have read domantion does not help most of the earth powers they do help the powers I need it to the hold and root. After that I just drop volcanic gases and quicksand then slice them with my nice ice sword. We are just levle 28 now so things may get harder later on but we ran into burccuda last night and she almost got me a couple times things went better then I thought it would. I have seen 8 man temas wipe on something like that.
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So Im thinking about making a Dominator to team with a Bot/Pain MM and I can't decide on Ice/Psy or Earth/Psy. Earth and Ice are so similar I don't know which one to go with.
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I have played an Ice/Fire to 40 and an Earth/Psi to 41 and Ice/Psi to the mid-teens (didn't like the concept so she got deleted).
Earth really isn't more than superficially similar to Ice. Earthquake and Ice Slick are certainly comparable, but the similarity ends there. Earth gets two more very good AoE Control effects (Stalagmites, Volcanic Gasses). Ice gets Shiver and Arctic Air, which while ok, just aren't in the same league.
The differences are very noticable in gameplay. An Ice Dom always seems to attract aggro to some extent, making the Medicine Pool quite useful, but my Earth Dom very rarely has to deal with aggro issues at all. Additionally, Jack Frost is far inferior to Animate Stone.
I disagree about the Animate Stone being better than Jack Frost. Dealing Ice Damage is certainly an advantage over Smashing Damage, and you also get more control with Jack.
Rocky is a good tank (not nearly as good as Singularity, though) and little else.
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I disagree about the Animate Stone being better than Jack Frost. Dealing Ice Damage is certainly an advantage over Smashing Damage, and you also get more control with Jack.
Rocky is a good tank (not nearly as good as Singularity, though) and little else.
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I disagree, Pooman is a great tank and is better than singularity (he has taunt and can actually deal good damage to get attention). I disagree about pooman being better than jack, I think they are about the same (yes, I have both of them and had all 3 of them).
Thanks for responding guys. I ended up making an ice/psy. So far it seems like a really good combo.
So Im thinking about making a Dominator to team with a Bot/Pain MM and I can't decide on Ice/Psy or Earth/Psy. Earth and Ice are so similar I don't know which one to go with.
I was thinking ice/psy would fit together better due to some melee powers in ice and the couple melee attacks in psy.
Any thoughts?