i need help with my dom!!!!!!

well i play as a dom most of the time,im currently lvl 13/14 and im a plant/fire dom and i do my mishes on malicious rating.
well the problem is that im find it really hard to kill anything above a minion,
im ok with a group of minions no more than 5 aslong as my attacks hit but for a leutenant i will have only a small chance to get out alive, im pretty sure this is to do with my holds not working too well or at all in some cases and i know that its very hard to hold a boss though it can be done for about 2 secs, and for most mishes i die about 2 times min but i dont want to play on villainous difficulty becasue it seems too much like cheating to me.
so does anyone have any tips of how i can be more successful as a dom cos im really struggling

thanx in advance

Don't be ashamed to drop the rep if you are struggling.
And i always try to keep my enhance optimised for accu first, i mean renew (or stack them to ++) them asap, so you hit more often.
And if you still got problems with your holds getting at them, bring yellow insps.
All in all domi's are great and very much soloable in the higher lvls, but when low lvl, it's slow and hard work to solo

I would drop the difficulty down for a while. Plant/fire should really rock though, with seeds to crowd the mobs together for your firey cones and AoE's. Even although I dont like the AoE holds much, they can be handy as a 2nd hold to get a boss almost insta-held. Oh and creepers makes a good pseudo tank pet or a speed bump when you want to cover your escape.

The question is, do you have seeds of confusion? cause when I was in the teens with my plant/psi, my damage output was so low that the mobs all killed each other.

well i have seeds of confusion and i use invention enhansments,

oh and btw should i have got spore burst because when i was making my powers list i thought sleep was [censored] but now i know its not and spirit tree kinda sucks so shal i respec him(when i get the chance)??

I've played a plant/fire myself and it can be really powerfull, both for control and damage.
Good plan to drop the sleep and the tree.
And seeds totally rock! They're bound for a nerf if you ask me, so lvl up this toon asap

What secondary powers do you have just out of curiousity?


I'd 2nd what has been said, and respec out Spore Burst and Spirit Tree - they're next to useles IMO.


Spore burst can be quite handy in PvP though.

AoE sleeps are a string to your bow but not needed. They can help when things go awry. The advantage of sleeps is they last a pretty long time, so dont need much slotting. On a team, they are of minimal use routinely.

Spirit Tree, again, is not routinely useful. However, it can tip the balance for hard fights e.g. AVs.

Seeds of Confusion is, IMO, the most over powered single power in the game. It effectively grants perma, almost complete damage mitigation for every spawn bar the bosses.

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It effectively grants perma, almost complete damage mitigation for every spawn bar the bosses.

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... until you get "Miss...", "Miss...", "Miss..." firing off - then you get instant debt.

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What secondary powers do you have just out of curiousity?

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Curiosity killed the cat , but he mentioned him being plant/fire.


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well i have seeds of confusion and i use invention enhansments,

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Don't waste your time and inf on IO sets before lvl 30 IO's at lvl 27 and maybe lvl 17 earliest for some regular IO's lvl 20. IO's are just not worth the effort before that imo. Better (and easier) to stick to DO's and SO's till then.

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It effectively grants perma, almost complete damage mitigation for every spawn bar the bosses.

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... until you get "Miss...", "Miss...", "Miss..." firing off - then you get instant debt.

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2 acc SO's / IO's should mean you hit 90%+ of the enemy unless you are fighting +5s or some other effect (like acc debuff has hit you.

yr i know what you mean about the Io's but i dont rly pay much attention to my enches so they normally go out of date real quick, plus i like the extras that come with the IO's the fact that the enchancment doesn't change according to level and the enhances regen or max hp etc that comes with the invention recipies and they dont cahnge depending on the level, so i'll stick with Io's for now but as soon as I 11 comes out im buying a respec recipy(sp)

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Curiosity killed the cat , but he mentioned him being plant/fire.

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I meant specifically what powers he had from his secondary set

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Don't waste your time and inf on IO sets before lvl 30 IO's at lvl 27 and maybe lvl 17 earliest for some regular IO's lvl 20. IO's are just not worth the effort before that imo. Better (and easier) to stick to DO's and SO's till then.

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This is good advice, oh and drop the rep. Expect to increase it at 32. There is a very real sense of achievement whilst leveling a Dom. Good luck.

Dont expect u will be "dominating" untill mids 30s, dominators are all late bloomers, and almost all of their secondaries get their best power at lvl38...

Instead, u can get a lot of control since lvl 8 (SoC are awesome) so here is my advice... Team a lot

Cheers.

tx 4 the help ill try teaming more

btw i have flares and fire breath secondary powers and im now lvl 15

My plant/fire went to 50 without stamina, so personally I'd suggest dropping the fitness pool and maybe bringing in Fire blast or incinerate for a bit more damage? Open up with seeds, then roots, then fire breath, then use flares/ blast to take out whatevers left.
Remember, if you damage an enemy even 1% you'll still a minimum of 80% of the xp. Toss your confusion out as often as possible.
Use domination and consume to rebuild your end when you need to. Building dom is so much easier than in the days I was creeping to 50.
Plant isn't the heaviest hitting of primaries, you are one of the best damage mitigaters though.

Team.
Dom's hardest levels tend to be between 12-22: mobs start to ramp up at little, and it suddenly starts taking longer to kill them, so you use more controls, which kills your blue bar that much faster....its not a pleasant cycle.
It gets much, much easier after 22 - SOs (or 25 IOs if you have the infamy) spike your control effectiveness instantly, and the extra damage sorts out the problems on that front as well. Hit 32, and you generally can solo almost as fast as any other AT in the game, and generally more safely as well (depending on specifics of build, of course).
Seriously, if you can get your dominator to 22, the hardest work is pretty much done.