Sleeping holds


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Posted

Hello ^^

I have both a Stalker and a Dominator and was playing with the Dominator today when I recalled, "Hey wait, held/sleeping enemies get criticals!"

So of course I started to sleep lots of folks only to see ... nothing not a single critical :/

Now this is just likely as it was a _really_ low level group I was in and being slept only ups the chance of critical, not guarantees one.

Soooo the short question to this long post is do you when grouping notice a significant increase in criticals when grouped with a dominator?


 

Posted

Are you talking about Containment for Controllers? only they do double damage with Holds.


 

Posted

Nope, hide for stalkers, if you click on the inherant power and ask for info, you'll notice there's a "slight chance to cause critical on sleeping/held targets"


 

Posted

As far as I remember it's something like a 5%-10% chance to crit a held mob with a stalker yes, don't think the percentage is much higher than that even though I am estimating.


 

Posted

Stalkers have 20% chance of crit'ting an enemy that's either held or slept, doesn't work on any other mezzes though.


 

Posted

I notice the difference when they're held. Never noticed anything against a sleeping enemy though.


 

Posted

In my experience, dominators are my stalkers best friends: the hold/sleep crit thing is very very efficient.

However it takes a little teamwork, and slept enemies are very often AOE spammed before my stalker can get to them. ALso, stalkers tend to concentrate on bosses, and usually it is the minions that stay slept the longest - besides, many stalkers will let sleeping dogs lie, you know.

So - I think this is WAI, but not a lot of people are expereinced enough to take advantage of this. Give me a dominator + curruptor + stalker team, spend 1 minute discussing tactic, then we should be able to burn through almost anything and get loads of XP.


The tactic would be:
Stalker AS bosses first, corruptor helps finish them off
Dominater mostly locks stuff down for the stalker
Corruptor uses scourge when he can - focusing on finishing mobs off. And healing stalker if possible.
Stalker (mostly) attacks held/slept targets when not fighting to save his life

If applicable, the stalker could try to get multiple AS's in in multiple boss/lieutenant scenarios.

An MM would just screw things up, and a brute would not really be very helpful either.

If there should be a fourth member, I would vote for another dominator, but one more corruptor or stalker should also be useful. But that's it, full team, no more than 4 members (hard to maintain any sembalnce of teamwork and tactics after 4 members, especially with pets.

Comments? Am I off my heid?