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I've noticed that if a power isnt recharged when hasten drops, the power's icon shrinks, as if its recharge time gets pushed back to what it is without hasten. Something to consider, although I'm not sure if this is a bug, intended, or if it even affects the recharge in the way it suggests.
And yep, this will be handy on the all dom team :O)
I just hope it doesnt ruin the pinball feel of the AT.
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that is normal with any recharge buffs or debuffs, it shows how close to full recharge that power is while it recharges at that rate, when hasten drops it gets smaller because it may have been 10 seconds away from recharging while hasten was up then goes to 15 seconds away when hasten drops, the same goes for -recharge debuffs you notice how small all your recharging icons are when fighting ices or rads etc. then when the fight or debuffs end they grow rapidly again.
Bha.. this buff is a joke..i hope we'll get something else...
This buff doenst help with AV at all, its just something you can notice on normal missions... bha --__--
We were ok on normal missions... we really didnt need this..
Bha, i think my dominator will remain lvl 35 for a loooooong time, until next buff (hoping it will be something good)
Let's roll a troller guys (i've already rolled 2.)
No, the buff is not a joke, it is improving the rate of domination LOADS. Domination up more = better damage output from Doms. And we have good damage output when Domination's up... And you're not Psi. 
I also hear that mental blast animation has been shortened. Is this true?
@Boerewors
All I want with my Dom, is a 100 Mag resistance, a inherent Unstoppable which is permanent and a HP regen very much like Instant Healing, and also a %500 increase in damage, then I'd be happy! I don't think that's too much too ask for.
The domination buff is impressive as far as domination and PVE is concerned. However I dont think it does diddly doo to Dominators in PVP.. And PVP buff was what I was hoping for.
From what Ive been hearing, I dont think it changes the AV fights either.
I still see nothing to make me usefull for a team in the 40-50 AV range. Vs anything other than AVs I was fine before, now I'm good, but I still cant really wade through the 40-50 content without a team carrying me the most of the way. I wont be a leach on AV missions so am sticking at 40
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
I have to say I'm a little disappointed. This buff was sold to us (by Posi, if memory serves) as "will help for the RSF and for other situations". While any sort of buff is always welcome, I don't see this helping the average dominator to find teams - they'll want to team more but then that has never been the problematic side of the equation.
Having said that, 6xDom, 2x /Kin corruptor and RSF farming we go... ok, maybe one taunting brute as well.
excellent post be lecxe over in the us describing how to do this btw.
Synaesthetix:if your mum wasn't already dead I would go kill her for bringing
you into the world
2 /cold corruptors 2/fire corruptors 1/kin corruptor 1/dark corruptor 1/dark corruptor and 1 dom tank
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
Domination is great in PvP - I think Domination gives you higher protection against status effects than a lot of Brutes' and Stalkers' Protection.
Plus it builds up REALLY quick. Oh yeah, the double MAG of the domination makes it really easy to break through a tank or scrappers' hold protection. THAT, my friends is DEAD HANDY FOR PVP.
I was hoping for something else, this does not help at all with the 50up'n'25down-issue.
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Domination is great in PvP - I think Domination gives you higher protection against status effects than a lot of Brutes' and Stalkers' Protection.
Plus it builds up REALLY quick. Oh yeah, the double MAG of the domination makes it really easy to break through a tank or scrappers' hold protection. THAT, my friends is DEAD HANDY FOR PVP.
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From what I've experienced is that 3 controller holds are enough to hold you, which is quite easy to do. Blasters won't however stack much stun on you to overcome with it, thus it's handy as it provides KB protection so you don't have to toggle up acro all the time.
Domination is good in PvP to a lesser extinct, in rather serious PvP there are plenty of buffs (eg. CM which gives a lot of protection to mezz and gives perception) and BFs are never left home, never, you only have your soft control and rather subpar damage.
Dominators rely on active defense, meaning that they have to distinguish each target seperately, Blasters have this too.
BFs and buffs and IoPs counter this defense to useless stuff, leaving your damage secondary. Blasters don't have this problem. There is no inspiration which negates all off the damage coming at you. Lucks you say? Doesn't help with all the ToHit buffs which pretty much all the Heroes have their hands on.
Yes, Domination does build very quickly, but it doesn't help much when the opponent can destroy you in 2-3 rounds while you need over 14, count in the need of Aid Self and it's even longer.
Holding my horses before final judgement... but....
Its all very well dominators getting buffs in teams, but until teams want dominators...
Holds are very very poor vs AV's. This is a generic issue. It effects Controllers to a lesser extent of course. A new solution needs to be found, or Dominators will continue to be completely unawnted level 40+, even if they had domination permanently up.
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I was hoping for something else, this does not help at all with the 50up'n'25down-issue.
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Domination is great in PvP - I think Domination gives you higher protection against status effects than a lot of Brutes' and Stalkers' Protection.
Plus it builds up REALLY quick. Oh yeah, the double MAG of the domination makes it really easy to break through a tank or scrappers' hold protection. THAT, my friends is DEAD HANDY FOR PVP.
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From what I've experienced is that 3 controller holds are enough to hold you, which is quite easy to do. Blasters won't however stack much stun on you to overcome with it, thus it's handy as it provides KB protection so you don't have to toggle up acro all the time.
Domination is good in PvP to a lesser extinct, in rather serious PvP there are plenty of buffs (eg. CM which gives a lot of protection to mezz and gives perception) and BFs are never left home, never, you only have your soft control and rather subpar damage.
Dominators rely on active defense, meaning that they have to distinguish each target seperately, Blasters have this too.
BFs and buffs and IoPs counter this defense to useless stuff, leaving your damage secondary. Blasters don't have this problem. There is no inspiration which negates all off the damage coming at you. Lucks you say? Doesn't help with all the ToHit buffs which pretty much all the Heroes have their hands on.
Yes, Domination does build very quickly, but it doesn't help much when the opponent can destroy you in 2-3 rounds while you need over 14, count in the need of Aid Self and it's even longer.
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Exactly.
Domination is amazing, yeah, you can kill a scrapper/tanker too with dom up (well, still not easy, but possible), but that's just theory... build up domination, in a pvp zone like siren call, its pretty hard... heroes will kill you again and again, that means domination will be rarely ready..
i8 buff will not help doms in pvp and neither for avs... 
hurray for trollers
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Domination is great in PvP - I think Domination gives you higher protection against status effects than a lot of Brutes' and Stalkers' Protection.
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Unfortunately status protection doesnt help you much when you are being two-shotted by a blaster.
Wham! Bam! Back to square one! Domination resets.
Other hero ATs can do this too, with more hits but they have mez protection to compensate. Scrappers for example.
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Dominators rely on active defense, meaning that they have to distinguish each target seperately, Blasters have this too.
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Except good Blasters will have to fire a lot LESS attacks to do their trick. Above I said blaster can two-shot a dominator without breaking a sweat. Care to think how many holds and attacks the dominator needs? Against scrapper then? Tank?
I have said before that the problem is not the holding capability of dominators, thats at least on par with trollers or even better with domination. Problem is that dominator holding ability isnt good enough to justify their incredible squishiness. Since they have no staying power they cant stack holds enough to make an effect. Trollers get useful secondaries to slow enemy down, self heals or something. Doms get zip. Don't mention their attacks. They need HP boost at least, preferably some other form of survivability too. Damage buff wouldnt be bad. Even with domination running their damage output is pretty pants.
Theres just too much mez protection in PVP to make dominators a threat the way they are. And if the holds are made even better, that will just make people cry 'cheat!'. Better to improve their survivability so that there is a fight going on when they try to overcome enemys mez-prot. Though I don't really have ideas how, except a flat-out HP buff of 50% would be a start.
Staying alive until Domination is a little minigame of it's own, you might need protection from Corruptor's buffs to do so on big PvP.
Because status protection is a big threat to Dominators in form of buffs and BFs, from the US boards I have had read the solution to it. (Been nagging this from time to time)
"What I can't command I must destroy!!omg"
Which would be very Dominator-ish, plus it would relate to Controllers as this would likely be a Containment of some sort. Based on how many holds the Dominator(s) have on the target without breaking the mezprotection would give the Dominator's more damage.
When against an AV/Hero/Triangle EBs the Dominator can land a lot of holds on the triangles-up-phase without still not being held, even with Domination mode on.
Now, when there's a lot of holds on the enemy and it isn't still held would yield on alot of damage which would make a Dominator a good recruit against an AV/Hero/Triangle-EB.
And thus arises the first of the European zombies!
This thread's still around, and my Dominator Issues List Discussion thread is gone. 
That's because dominator's dont have "issues" anymore,Lilli.
/esarcasm off
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I'm very happy with this domination buff, beans I can fire it off a lot more in regular missions and not worry too much.
ESPECIALLY good for big teams! Just need some kinetics friendlies and I'm rocking!
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Exactly! Dominators and /kin /rad corruptors should be best friends going forwards!