Honest feedback about the Dominator changes
By
Brawlnstein,
Posted on: 2009-07-13 13:22 in Dominators
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The tier 1's still aren't worth slotting
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Absolute bunk. Slot and use your tier 1 blast. Anyone who says it's not worth using has poor math skills.
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Day late and a dollar short?
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A good, if over exposed, Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives song. A terrible bit of advice for giving feedback in ever evolving MMOs, IMO.
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The driveby comment was directed at Clouded. I cannot read his posts and have no desire to do so.
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You should, I regularly give good advice whether people agree with it or not.
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I've no idea what your goal for giving good advice is but, if it involves getting it out to a larger amount of people then I heartily endorse a change of tact. If you just want to dispense good advice with backhanded jibes and put people off then, stead the course.
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The tier 1's still aren't worth slotting
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Absolute bunk. Slot and use your tier 1 blast. Anyone who says it's not worth using has poor math skills.
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Actually, my math skills are fine. :P It's just that I have better dps chains on my characters.
Feel free to see some calcs at the end of the page on
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....ue#Post13706803
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"Hi, my name is Ail. I make people sick."
A partial selection from my 50's on Freedom: Ail = Ice/Traps, Luck = Street Justice/Super Reflexes Stalker, Mist = Bane, Pixy = Trick Arrow/Archery, Pure = Gravity/Energy, Smoke = Fire/Fire Dominator
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The tier 1's still aren't worth slotting
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Absolute bunk. Slot and use your tier 1 blast. Anyone who says it's not worth using has poor math skills.
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Actually, my math skills are fine. :P It's just that I have better dps chains on my characters.
Feel free to see some calcs at the end of the page on
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....ue#Post13706803
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The reason you slot up the tier 1 is so you can use it as a useful filler attack on things with low HP. Without slots, you end up wasting a lot of end if you come against a low HP mob.
It's not always about the DPA. Your overall DPS gets cut short if you run out of end, and that's why you slot up Power Bolt: less overkill.
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The tier 1's still aren't worth slotting
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Absolute bunk. Slot and use your tier 1 blast. Anyone who says it's not worth using has poor math skills.
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Actually, my math skills are fine. :P It's just that I have better dps chains on my characters.
Feel free to see some calcs at the end of the page on
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat....ue#Post13706803
for /energy
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The reason you slot up the tier 1 is so you can use it as a useful filler attack on things with low HP. Without slots, you end up wasting a lot of end if you come against a low HP mob.
It's not always about the DPA. Your overall DPS gets cut short if you run out of end, and that's why you slot up Power Bolt: less overkill.
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Also, unlike energy assault, not every set has 4 single target attacks you can take by L10 either so if they HAD left all the tier 1 attacks as slower, higher damage attacks at low levels you have would either live with a gappy attack chain made up of slow, high damage attacks (with subsequent overkill and huge end costs when you miss ) or fill it up with area attacks that cost even MORE end. Not everyone spends all thier time at 40+ (heck - some of us rarely even make it past 30 with most characters).
Back during the beta I definitely thought that castle could have kept power bolt at the 5 or 6 second recharge value and the set would have worked out ok but that was due to the changes to power push. However the 5-6 second recharge times they put on the tier 1 attacks for psychic assault and thorny assault felt really ugly at low levels. I do agree that he cut them back too far - charged bolts/lightning bolt in electric assault has always felt about right and I think that 4/8 second ranged attacks for most sets would have worked out as a nice balance.
Globals: @Midnight Mystique/@Magik13
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Day late and a dollar short?
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A good, if over exposed, Honest Bob and the Factory to Dealer Incentives song. A terrible bit of advice for giving feedback in ever evolving MMOs, IMO.
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The driveby comment was directed at Clouded. I cannot read his posts and have no desire to do so.
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You should, I regularly give good advice whether people agree with it or not.
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I've no idea what your goal for giving good advice is but, if it involves getting it out to a larger amount of people then I heartily endorse a change of tact. If you just want to dispense good advice with backhanded jibes and put people off then, stead the course.
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Did you want to contribute to the thread at all? I'm flattered you find the time to comment on my posts. Next time, avoid a threadjack and PM me. Cool, thanks.
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How much damage did the attacks do at lvl 1, 5, 10, 15 before? (ie iceblast, bolt, sword, ISC, hold, immob)
How much damage do they do now at lvl 1, 5, 10, 15?
The answer is the first clue.
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I wanted to post this here. One of my friends that I play World of Warcraft here I recently got back into the game. Due to his job, new baby, and wife he only plays at very oddball hours. Thus, he has a hard time finding a group.
His main is an Ice/Ice Dominator that is currently 11. Since the dominator changes he says he has a REALLY hard time leveling or soloing. His exact words were "I run out of endurance every fight and can barely complete a mission." -- I made sure to ask if he was on the lowest difficulty setting and he was.
Now granted the guy isn't using any IO's or anything yet and I haven't exactly seen his slotting. I do know his power choices and his only "mistake" was taking the AOE immobilize in Ice. I asked if he was using it in solo play and he said he did at first but quickly realized it was too endurance draining and didn't use it.
Ultimately, he was feeling very frustrated at low levels as a Dominator and said he wasn't having very much fun. I would definitely describe him as a "new" player even though he played the game around Issues 7-9.
Just wanted to post feedback.
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Does he use Ice Sword much? Ice Sword does good damage and can save a bit more endurance than spamming ice bolt/blast. He is lvl 11 which means it's before DOs. I think that is a pretty big difference. If he has no money, why don't you transfer some to him?
As for endurance management, my friends and I think it is much easier now than before because Domination is no longer required for more "damage". We can save Domination for endurance usage and boss fight(s).
He may need more +acc than +damage at lower lvl. Having more +acc actually saves more endurance at 11 IMO.
Oh, Ice Sword Circle is now costing A LOT of endurance. Do not use it when you solo. It's not worth it..not until you've fully slotted it with good -end. It's costing around 18-20 endurance which is 1/5 of your bar just for one attack.
He is not doing it at relentless is he?
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.