Dominators are playable in PvP.
For zones, Fire/Nrg ain't half bad. Fire/Ice works a bit better (and yes, I'm biased in this opinion). Mind/Ice and Mind/Fire are the FOTM for Arena fights. In team arena Domis have to play the sad part of "ooh, that's the squishiest target of them all" and die a lot.
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Anything /Psi with PermaDom is pretty much FOTM on the US-side at the moment.
Perma Drain Psyche is scary. The -500% Regen is bad enough, but -500% Recovery?
Add in the normal PermaDom mez protection and +damage and even an Ice tanker's in real trouble.
Costs a packet in IOs though, and there's no guarantee that PermaDom will be allowed forever... (Castle's looking into developing code to make Willpower's tier 9 "unaffected by recharge buffs" at the moment...)
a Dominator should mean that any Tanker (incl ice) is in real trouble.
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Well, most Tankers anyway. Assuming that the Dominator is accurate enough to hit them.
But in the case of Perma Drain Psyche, even a mobile Ice Tanker with Hibern00b, Phase shift, BFs/Strength of Wills and Teleport can't do much when they're not recovering any endurance even whilst Hibern00b'ed.
So would an ice/psy work well as a specifically pvp dom?
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In team arena Domis have to play the sad part of "ooh, that's the squishiest target of them all" and die a lot.
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Domies aren't that squishy when they reach domination, do they get any resistance buff or so?
Domis should get a +maxhp, +res and +def buffs for reaching domination.
But these days that's not yet reality.
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Domies aren't that squishy when they reach domination, do they get any resistance buff or so?
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No lol, domination gives u mez protection and not a res buff. If domination would give a res buff domis would be monsters in pvp(well, they allready are without it)
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So would an ice/psy work well as a specifically pvp dom?
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Ice/psi would work fine as a slighty less fotm combo for a dom and would do well in casual zones and duels pvp wise. If your serious about teamed arena then you'll probably need a perma dom build to get by unless you like getting farmed 
If u want a fotm pvp dom then its either fire/mind primary with either fire/ice/psi secondary
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In the arena my ice/psi domi, even though badly specced for pvp (ie just in fun duel) can stack enough slows and -rch to make even regens cry, giving you plent of time to kill them at your will, but you need to get to at least 38 to have any real DPS, otherwise Jack is doing most of your work for you, though he does it pretty well. No experience with this toon in the zones though.
Ive seen mind/fire or ice domies do very well in the arena, watching an MM get creamed by his own pets is always entertaining, even had to laught when my own assault bot blew me away.
I think domies can be scary in the arena, especially 1v1, in teams, yeh I agree with the above, you have a very large target on your back that says (squishiest of squishies, vill side at least)
Hiya,
Being a dominator is a really frustrating experience if u cant rely on a team healing/buffing/supporting you...
IMHO actually i cant imagine a /psi good pvper dominator, since his both *star* powers are close range (drain psy, PSW)...
Im more agree with the idea of /ice or /fire as assaults sets, and here are the reasons:
* /Ice: nice ranged chain, u dont need to get in melee to kill enemies, best dps, it slows.
* /Fire: THE ONLY toggle droper ranged (this could be the only reason why I could play with a /fire), and also, fiery embrace, for that bit of burst dmg.
For primaries, I have played all of them, and the best for single target control is mind/ (also, it checks psi defense).
Of course, all this info is for pvp, that is what we are talkin bout.
Cheers, and peace.
Thanks guys, thats nice advice. might try to make a pvp mind/ice then, see how he does.
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Although I have a lvl50 mind/ice, and i can pvp fairly nice in WB, RV and arenas, i think a mind/fire would outperform my dominator in pvp, just from my knowledge from union server and which are ur enemies...
Well, in fact, u r making me lvl up a mind/fire and see how it goes... I got a fire/fire in the mids 30s and it really hurts in dmg, so I must try this out...
Well if its that good i cant miss out now can i! I think he may end up on Defiant though, i'm now in the process of movin my villains there so i have villains on one server, heroes t'other 
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Not to sound silly but..
FOTM?
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Thanks 
i did guess that after. *feels proud*
Hi all, i have myself a young dominator, currently sat at lvl 23 of the fire/nrg variety (picked that cos i liked the idea of domination + power boost) and am rather enjoying him. I would quite like a toon that could pvp but dont want to go for the standard stalker or blaster so was wondering how pvp capable dominators are and whether this combo would work for that. If these sets arent ideal, which would you suggest? Anyway back to work i guess.
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