new to doms and need help on choosing a combo

as the title says im new to doms and having trouble choosing a combo. ive tried fire/fire (lv 16 ) and i keep getting killed alot solo( even after reading the guides) im not exactly the kind of person thats always one his toes but i like how the dom gets control and assult. I'm wanting a combo thats safe yet still does nice dmg. any suggestions would be helpful.

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Read the powers guide in my sig for my full opinion.

Plant/ and Mind/ are both very safe solo.

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Earth/fire. Earth is a very high control set. You won't notice much difference at 16, but you will at 18 and up. If you solo mostly, I'd go mind/elec, grav/elec, mind/fire, or grav/fire.

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Plant is good solo and is also a bit better for teaming later on (thanks to Seeds of Confusion). Mind is probably the premier soloing set. /Fire and /Elec are both good secondaries, with Fire boasting some great single-target and AoE damage, and Elec bringing some incredibly high single-target damage to the table.

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I agree with Vermain and Azucar! lol

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You've gotten pretty good advice. My two cents:

Plant/Fire or Earth/Fire are extremely useful combos on teams. Good AoE control and decent damage. Whether in or out of Domination you'll feel pretty solid on your contribution.

Mind/Electric (and maybe even plant/electric) is a very good and safe soloer.

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My level 50 Dominators:
Madame Mindbender 50 Mind/Energy
Fly Agaric 50 Plant/Thorn
Nate Nitro 50 Fire/Psi

If you're new to Doms, don't take Mind as it plays quite a bit differently from every other Dom primary (it is a solid primary, though). Choose anything but Grav instead (Grav is best played by experienced Dom players).

For secondary stay away from Psi and Energy. Once I15 goes live, Psi and Energy will be much better picks, but on live Psi is 37 levels of suck and Energy is 50 levels of suck.

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After seeing the new dom changes.

whatever primary you like (I recommend earth, plant for teaming and fire for solo)

paired with /fire (if you plan to have a high recharge build /fire's single target damage is going up considerably)
or /eng (overall buffed considerably, easy to build ranged attack chain, and two hard hitting melee attacks, great utility in pb and whirling hands actually looks decent now).

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plant is useful for anything, really, even if it doesn't have quite the aoe power of some of the other sets.

My only current dom is a plant/thorn and I love the combination. Seeds, several immobs, strangler, creepers and even a pet.

Thorn provides a nice set of poison focused abilities which complement the immobs quite nicely.

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If he's mainly just soloing, I'd say Mind's an excellent fit. I do tend to feel rather neutered on teams, though, because while Terrify is a pretty cool power, I always feel jealous when another Dominator with Ice Slick or Earthquake pops on the team and proceeds to completely trivialize everything.

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I like Gravity/Ice. I'm not even that experienced of a Dominator player and it works nicely for me. I solo pretty good if I keep my wits about me (and remember that I'm not a scrapper) and I contribute decently on teams.

Also worth noting, my characters are all concept based and I pick my powersets based on concept or what sounds like fun, rather than what other people tell me is the best set. In the case of Grav/Ice it was a combination of both concept and fun.

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