Domination is an additional bar that charges as you attack from primary and secondary, ya assault powers make it charge more, when at 90% you can activate domination which basically doubles the duration of all controls, increases damage overall (secondary melees most of all), makes you highly resistant to controls and replensishes all end. Lasts 90secs but rech is approx 200secs. Also in larger teams domination inherently builds faster.
Now the info portion is done.... I was in the same place when I first started playing and my 1st char ever was my gravity/thorns dom who then went all the way to being my 1st 50 as over every lvl it got more, and more, and more and more fun. Doms require a very high amount of skill and you generally have to spread attacks widely - control most of the foes then isolate one - muller him - repeat. ofc its NEVER that simple which is why I love the AT so much. All down to what ya want from your dom. Few random fun combos I've found - gravity/thorns, plant/ice, mind/fire are the ones springing to mind. One of my esteemed colleagues also has THE be all and end all of ice/ice doms and fairly certain she'd endorse mind/thorns too 
I've tried too many other combos and even have a uber fun plant/elec planned for i12. If you want any more info or to have a chat about the ones I have/have had then contact me ingame @Starscreamer
Welcome to the AT of Tomorrow......TODAY! If you've looked into some other threads of this part you'll see in Dominators a rare commodity?, we've spoken of our playstyles and to get the most out of a dom you need to understand that they can become many things, all suited to situations as and when you need them, but most of all you have to be prepared to play the maniac, Mez-Melee-Destroy!
Depending on what you pick for a primary and secondary can alter your way of play. Plenty of combos have been tried and tested, but I think you can make any work to your pleasure. Have you had any thoughts on a Primary or Secondary? Be able to give personal experiences of the choices and how we've played them in the past.
Just to get it out of the way Domination is your Inherent, but unlike the rest it isn't not an 'auto power', there is a Domination Bar under your End, this orange bar builds as your dom attacks -- there was a change that means more teammates you have the faster it builds, 8-man teams make it to be full in 10 attacks if that, when you don't attack then the bar slowly falls back to zero, but this is much-much-much slower than Fury falling -- but this is only part of it, on a Dom you'll probably see a power icon on your power tray that is greyed out and looks like a silver Power Boost.
This is your Domination clickie when your Dom bar reaches 90% the icon becomes active and you'll see a sparkle aura around your Dom, any period between 90%-100% the icon can be clicked and you'll explode with domination for 90secs, not only does this increase your damage by 75%, but it fully recharges your End.
Domination also doubles the mag of your own Disorient, Hold, Sleep, Immobilize, Fear, and Confuse effects for their normal durations, then keeps them going at normal magnitude for half that amount of time longer. This where you've seen 'Domination' appear over enemies hit during a Dominating Dominator, not just your primary either any Mez in your secondary (like Psi's Subdue Immob causes Domination and increases it's mag, as well as the Disorient in Psychic Shockwave with spout out Domination powered Disorients), but Debuffs and other secondary effects are not improved.
To make it easier I generally bind NUMPAD0 to Domination so as soon as I want it I click with my right-pinkie and get to work.
Oh and Domination has a love extra piece I almost forgot, whilst in Domination you are protected from Knockback/Knockup, Repel, Disorient, Hold, Sleep, Immobilize, Fear, and Confuse effects, if you are under any of these effects and have Domination ready, click it and it gets knocked off, its your very own break-free.
Once 90 seconds is up your Dom bar falls to 0 and its back to building, but the Domination clickie has a cool down of 200 seconds, this can be cut down by recharge reduction powers like AM, SB, Hasten and also IO bonuses help shorten the cool down period (quite a few Doms have 'Perma-Dom' builds thanks to Recharge bonuses).
You can just shorten this to 'Domination is fjorking fun', but I thought it best to maybe over explain it.
Edit: **DAMMIT STAR!!!** I'm keeping what I wrote..just on principle.
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Also - when teaming with Doms I have seen 'Domination' randomly appearing above mobs - what exactly is that and what does it do for the Dominator?
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'Domination' over the heads means 'Attack that target for extra critcs'...
Go for doms, m8, you will feel powerfull and squishy at the same time.
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To make it easier I generally bind NUMPAD0 to Domination so as soon as I want it I click with my right-pinkie and get to work.
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Glad to see I'm not the only one that does this!!! Nothing quite like using your lil finger to activate your Happy Button!
One of my esteemed colleagues also has THE be all and end all of ice/ice doms and fairly certain she'd endorse mind/thorns too
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Aww be all and end all, i feel honoured 
But yeah doms are really fun to play and unlike other AT's just wen ya think ya end is going to run out wam and your end is restored with the domination button
Aiming for permadom myself at the moment, expensive but i figure more than worth it, as u do feel all popwerful wen its active hehe.
My first dom was mind/thorns as star mentioned and it was cool. I wouldnt say its as powerful as my ice/ice but confuse is so dam funny and im figuring it in with artic air atm. Telekinesis and fear together is an awesome combo lolz.
But having fought a few doms with my /ice its all about the slows baby. The -recharge element is great and so peeps find it hard to hit back while waiting an age for their powers to recharge ^^. Makes is so much easier to fight brutes etc wen they on a go slow. lmao
But any powerset on a dom is fun, just gotta find a combo that u enjoy then its domination all the way 
bye for now
Agent xxx
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Edit: **DAMMIT STAR!!!** I'm keeping what I wrote..just on principle.
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Well everyone has the long version to refer to now lmao
And I have domi actually on zero normally in my 1st powertray for ease of use
I have domination on auto, and hasten in perma too :P
Hehe, I remember making a /regen scrapper nearly cry cos of the sick amount of -rch and slow i could stack on him on my ice/psi domi. After one full attack chain, he had nothing left, including all of his heals, Hasten ect. Brutes are even funnier
And yeh, Perma-dom is well worth it! With stacked domination, and 2 chance for build up procs, I can put myself near the damage cap everyso often. But its the constant mezz protection that makes him a real rikti bashing machine. Standing up to Famine longer than the Brute (till my end went and I had no attacks left, and I legged it), will always be one of my fave achievements. Shame you dont get a badge for it.
Cool thanks for the info guys - I must admit on most alts I bind Numpad0 to my self heal - my pinkie is usually well employed throughout a night of CoH lol
Golden-Phoenix - Lvl 50 Fire/Fire Tank
Oodja Nikabolokov - Lvl 50 SS/WP Brute
Baby-Phoenix - Lvl 50 Peacebringer
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could Chuck Norris?
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2 chance for build up procs
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2 chances for BU procs?? decimation and which one?? Anyways, im usually at the dmg cap with my /fire dom, but I would like to know the second BU proc...
Cheers.
Gaussians in tactics and Decimation in subdue (which doesnt seem to fire very often).
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Cool thanks for the info guys - I must admit on most alts I bind Numpad0 to my self heal - my pinkie is usually well employed throughout a night of CoH lol
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Sooooooo many disgusting ways I can misquote this lmao
And regarding the buildup procs - put one in my corr's tier 1 blast and due to being a spammable attack fires really often never tried the gaussian one.... til i12 that is...
Yeah, i got the decimation proc in fire blast, is the spamming power... Ah, yeah, I had that one on tactics, but it just a bit 'waste of a slot' for my taste...
I mean, it procs whenever it wants, u can be in the middle of a fight, or traveling between mishes, or whatever... And also BU procs last only 5 secs (AFAIK), so it was a bit 'meh' when I had tactics... Actually went to concealment and im pretty happy with it.
I pretty much put it in there as I had a spare slot and that was about the only place I wanted to put it. The one in Subdue is my spammable power, when I can fire it off every 2-3 seconds
Whilst my normal 1 - 0 refers to my tray 1 with my attacks, mez/attackmez powers first to Shockwave at 0. I have very few toons wherein I don't use NUMPAD along with my regular 1 to 0, usually the NUMPAD refers to Tray 3.
My numpad for my Fire/Psi is:
0 - Domination
1 - Fire Cages
2 - Cinders (used between mobs on Dom team to alternate who is mass-mezzing)
3 - Flash Fire
Enter - Fire Imps
+ - Drain Psyche
/ - Assault
* - Tactics
- - Scorpion Shield
Means I'm able to work two trays worth of powers at once. Though I may drop Assault/Tactics for Concealment and possibly Recall as she was originally set to be an infiltration agent.
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I think the best way to bind ur keyboard is using the typical wasd for moving, and binding all close keys for activating powers (also u have very near the 1-6 numbers to active the first tray)...
All these keys should be used with the left hand, while with the right hand, u can have it in ur mouse, and if it has 5 buttons, u can bind too buttons 3-4-5, which should be ur most used powers or the faster u want to have (I have phase shift in button4 for the faster reaction... whenever im hit hard, i active it, and then I can survive a burst from a blaster...)
I got them binded, but im doin it since i6.. I was used to that config with CS-source 
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I am currently amusing myself (NO - not in that way) with a lvl 20 Stalker, and am considering rolling a Dominator. I would like some kind of concensus as to which Dominators are most fun to play. I play purely for enjoyment and relaxation and the only way I can level an alt is if i find it good fun to play!
Also - when teaming with Doms I have seen 'Domination' randomly appearing above mobs - what exactly is that and what does it do for the Dominator?
Thanks as always
Golden-Phoenix - Lvl 50 Fire/Fire Tank
Oodja Nikabolokov - Lvl 50 SS/WP Brute
Baby-Phoenix - Lvl 50 Peacebringer
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could Chuck Norris?