Mind/Energy Dom attack chain question...

I just began PvPing on my mind/energy/mako dom and I was wondering how people begin the attack chain. I have been starting with Dominate + Mez + Confuse + Power Burst + Power Bolt + Power Push +Total Focus... Well I think my problem is my timing on the total focus because most of the times I died I was stuck in the TF animation. My question is should I keep TF and use it sooner? Drop TF and pick up Bone Smasher? Drop TF all together?

I do like the TK + Snipe + TF combo; however I seem to have trouble placing TK at the right time.

If anyone has some Attack chain advice I would like to hear it and if anyone has a good PvP build would help too.

from my experience on an earth/nrg, in zone, i'd start with power push while moving in for a TF, hit TF while the target is kb'd. hold. bone smasher and followup with the t9 blast.

Versus a /fire, or fire/ (melee types only) and defs, controllers, lead with power push (count to 10 in your head, that's when you can knock'em back again).

All others, probably levitate then dominate. This has the funny combination of hitting nearly the same time due to levitates travel time. Next comes damage until they are no longer mezzed. After that, hit PB and confuse. Damage damage damage.

I have been PVPing my Mind/Nrg for years now and the playstyle has much changed due to the mez system change but my love/hate relationship has not allowed me to drop TF. It's crazy that /fire's 3 ranged attacks take the same time to animate and do much more dmg combined but TF can be devastating if used right. TF should always be second in your attack chain *unless you have the mace* so as to not get caught animating.

On Mezmera I power push them to test their kb resistance. If they can be then it's easy times. Most times you will have to deal with blasters and the only real way to mez them is to kb and confuse them if they cant be kb'd you're in for a long day. Either switch targets or go after them harder OR just make a /fire dom. I start it off push/tk depending on their kb resist, TF for the hax stun if you can kb them, dig in with your best attacks, dont forget a confuse, and lastly push them again if they can be to get more attacks in.

Someone asked how to slot their push so I replied, sorry you're so butthurt about my comments, you saying I have been kb'd by you with blaster melee push is false when i havent been kb'd by anything other than gale since i13, so please keep your thoughts to yourself. Tell you what, you make a mind/nrg or any /nrg dom for that matter and beat my mind/nrg and you can spout whatever advice you want about it. As far as kb goes most "good" players will have high enough kb resist anyways. Did you even read my post? I know some of them are big words. If you can make your TF into a wicked stunner and can actually land it before mezzing that would be the best you can hope for but they will be chucking rocks at your face as you're rushing in if you can't kb them.

I am not even sure I would take levitate on a mind ea tbh. Power push gives you everything it can and so much more.

Man now I know why I never came to the forums, too many of you live on here like it's your job. Do you get paid to troll other peoples advice? Never once did I say TF is skippable. And yes do take levitate, I had to decide between a range nrgy attack or psi attack that goes through peoples defenses AND brings flyers down unless they have hover so I chose the latter and slotted it with javelins. But do let the king ea player himself tell you how to do since he's been playing doms since all but what? the dom buff? GL with your selection hope some of these trolls don't sway you wrong.

Would the best slotting for Dominate be 2 acc/dam HO's, 1 Apoc Proc, 1 Glad Jav Proc, 1 Unbreak Proc, and 1 Glad net proc? I am trying to come up with a Mind/Energy Build and have questions about slotting. I was also wondering do I slot Levitate and Power push with 6 Kinetic Crashes each? I like the KB protection from the bonus and the 7.5% increase to recharge.

I think its more about slotting for accuracy in power push. If you slot a full set of kin crash you come in at 47.7 which, imo, is far to low for such a key power. With a full set slotted out the numbers for acc dam and kb come in at 47.7/68.9/173.9. The slotting I use is 4 kin crashes (all but the r/e and d/e/kb pieces) and two nucs. This bring the a/d/kb numbers to 97.1/97.1/168.2. You still get the +3 kb protection bonus and lose the 7.5. Though on doms picking up global recharge is not much of a challenge. While not the most damaging power in your arsenal you will use it enough that you do want the most out of it.