Dom Damage Buffs


Blind_Minotaur

 

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Quick question about Dominators and damage. Am I right in my understanding that when in Domination the buff that you gain is based on your base damage and any enhancements you have aren't taken into account?


 

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Exactly.




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So if I'm playing a dom who teams all the time and usually a full team at that, it feels like I almost have perma domination, is there much point in slotting for damage?


 

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Domination is a 75% damage buff. It stacks with all other damage buffs and enhancements. So if you're, for example, 3 slotted for damage (Giving you around 95% boost), and have a +30% damage buff on you, with domination your damage will be (Base Damage) * (1 + 0.95 + 0.7 + 0.3)

So slotting damage is still useful.


 

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So this means that slotting damage only helps you OUTSIDE of domination? Sounds like a really screwed up way to do things. Is this common for damage buffs, like if i have a thermal buffing does it work the same way? In that case I would seriously consider slotting something else like recharge over damage in situations where domination is often on the go (big teams & pvp).

EDIT: nm, max to the rescue


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Edit:

Thanks to Max for putting my question/idea better.

I'll get back to what I SHOULD be doing .


 

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Yeah, Max explained it completely right. Basically, all damage buffs are calculated based on an attackĀ“s unenhanced damage, but they do stack until you reach the damage cap.




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So this means that slotting damage only helps you OUTSIDE of domination? Sounds like a really screwed up way to do things. Is this common for damage buffs, like if i have a thermal buffing does it work the same way? In that case I would seriously consider slotting something else like recharge over damage in situations where domination is often on the go (big teams & pvp).

EDIT: nm, max to the rescue

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That's exactly what I was worried about and was considering changing my slotting for my Doms.

Thanks to Sin and MaX.


 

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That's exactly what I was worried about and was considering changing my slotting for my Doms.

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Yep, my Plant/Fire has had her AoE attacks slotted 2Acc/2Rec/2Dam ever since the last changes, given she has Dom up more often than not (usually teaming in a duo or trio) - which I find works much better.


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