First Dominator - Ice/Psi
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1) First of all, is Ice/Psi a good choice of primary and secondary for the purposes I explained above?
[/ QUOTE ]Can't see anything wrong with it
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2) Stamina. After reading the forums a bit, I noticed that some people agree that with Drain Psyche, I won't need Stamina. It could be true, but I'm certainly getting Arctic Air and slotting it with 3 endredx. Is DP enough or do I still need Stamina?
[/ QUOTE ]I'd still get stamina
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3) Chain of attacks. I'm planning to take Psionic Dart, Mind Probe, Subdue, Psionic Lance and Psychic Shockwave. I heard Mental Blast is really bad because of its activation time and Telekinetic Thrust seemed useless to me. Also, I'm taking Hasten.
[/ QUOTE ]Those, combined with your ST hold, should be good.
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4) Psychic Scream. Since I can get Shiver from my primary, do I need PS as well? Shiver seems to be a lot better and, used with AA and Chilling Embrace and other powers, enough to debuff my opponents with -recharge and -spd.
[/ QUOTE ]PS does damage, shiver doesn't.
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5) Travel power. Planning to take Leaping in order to have CJ and Acrobatics. Super Speed after lvl 40, probably at lvl 49.
[/ QUOTE ]Personally not a fan of acro, all villains I build nowdays either get SS (For hasten, and use temp powers for vertical travel), or fly (For air sup). But all travel choices work fine ^^
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6) Aid Self. Worth it? I think so, but I'd like to hear your experiences with it.
[/ QUOTE ]Definitely a worthy power.
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7) Patron. Mako fits my concept and Water Spout and Shark Skin seem to be very useful. Any thoughts?
[/ QUOTE ]I'd never build dom with any patron other than scirocco, power sink is just that good.
I would still get Stamina, even with Drain Psyche. Arctic Air is really end heavy even with 3 endurance reductions. Worth it, though.
I disagree with MaX about patrons. Yeah Power Sink is really great but with Stamina and Drain Psyche you'll probably need it less than some, and it's not like the other pools aren't valid choices too. I've heard good things about Water Spout.
Can't really help much when it comes to Psi questions. Hasten is always a great choice. I think I'd go for the Psi Scream since it does AoE damage, with Arctic Air and all the slows from attacks you can probably go without Shiver.
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Heyas!
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1) First of all, is Ice/Psi a good choice of primary and secondary for the purposes I explained above?
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Sounds like a great set. I was just thinking last night that shiver + psychic scream is enough -recharge to keep anyone happy.
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2) Stamina.
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I dont have stamina on my mind/psi and I only JUST get past with drain psyche and getting domination up fast. With artic air running I doubt you will get away with this though.
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3) Chain of attacks. I'm planning to take Psionic Dart, Mind Probe, Subdue, Psionic Lance and Psychic Shockwave. I heard Mental Blast is really bad because of its activation time and Telekinetic Thrust seemed useless to me. Also, I'm taking Hasten.
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I'm not sure about lance and subdue atm, however, I havent got to a point where I have many slots in those yet so they might be fantastic later. With fast recharge and good range, dart is excellent for building domination and pulling mobs.
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4) Psychic Scream. Since I can get Shiver from my primary, do I need PS as well? Shiver seems to be a lot better and, used with AA and Chilling Embrace and other powers, enough to debuff my opponents with -recharge and -spd.
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An ice dom might be able to give you better advice there than me. I know that when the CoT use psychic scream on me my recharge is almost non existant. No idea if the player version is as effective but I'm hoping to test that with a friend soon in the arena.
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6) Aid Self. Worth it? I think so, but I'd like to hear your experiences with it.
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yup
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7) Patron. Mako fits my concept and Water Spout and Shark Skin seem to be very useful. Any thoughts?
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I'm picking mako purely because I think he looks cool.
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8) Anything I missed? Anothe Power Pool I should take?
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Normally I would say hurdle from fitness, but with SJ and SS you prolly wont need it.
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Heyas!
Having only tried Brutes and Corrs (and loving Brutes ), I decided to try a different AT and Dominators seemed to be a nice choice. But I know almost nothing about them and how to play effectively, so any tips are welcome.
Anyway, I wanna level a Ice/Psi because of all the -recharge I can stack and because I wanna PvP in RV after teaming a lot in PvE, and Psi is not so resisted.
So, here are some questions:
1) First of all, is Ice/Psi a good choice of primary and secondary for the purposes I explained above?
2) Stamina. After reading the forums a bit, I noticed that some people agree that with Drain Psyche, I won't need Stamina. It could be true, but I'm certainly getting Arctic Air and slotting it with 3 endredx. Is DP enough or do I still need Stamina?
3) Chain of attacks. I'm planning to take Psionic Dart, Mind Probe, Subdue, Psionic Lance and Psychic Shockwave. I heard Mental Blast is really bad because of its activation time and Telekinetic Thrust seemed useless to me. Also, I'm taking Hasten.
4) Psychic Scream. Since I can get Shiver from my primary, do I need PS as well? Shiver seems to be a lot better and, used with AA and Chilling Embrace and other powers, enough to debuff my opponents with -recharge and -spd.
5) Travel power. Planning to take Leaping in order to have CJ and Acrobatics. Super Speed after lvl 40, probably at lvl 49.
6) Aid Self. Worth it? I think so, but I'd like to hear your experiences with it.
7) Patron. Mako fits my concept and Water Spout and Shark Skin seem to be very useful. Any thoughts?
8) Anything I missed? Anothe Power Pool I should take?
Phew! Sorry for so many questions, but I'm a n00b when it comes to Dominators.