You only really need about 80% global rech+hasten to have perma dom. 85% is very comfortable ime. Extra recharge beyond that protects against debuffs (which shouldn't be much of an issue cause you mez them first) and will bring up aim/heavy attacks faster.
So you may want to consider loosening up your build a bit and getting your attacks better slotted.
If you decide to go with a recharge based ranged set then decimation is much better than entropic chaos.
Slot earthquake with achilies and 4 pieces of dark watcher. You REALLY don't want to slot it for knockback, or be prepared to ruin your own fun.
4 pieces of recharge intensive pet set in animate stone is nice. He's a beast and needs to be slotted up.
Red fortune > kismet if you want to overslot any defensive powers. With aim and the crazy -def of earth/thorn you have no need for the kismet unique.
So, several months later I've gotten back to my earth/thorns and I'm closing in on 50. I'm looking now to put something together that maximizes both recharge and smashing/lethal defense, and I feel like I have a decent build for that here:
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Any thoughts on this? I wouldn't mind eking out the last couple percent of smashing/lethal defense to hit the soft-cap, but I'm not going to be obsessive about it, either. Obviously, if I added a few purple sets I'd have an easier time of getting the recharge I need and could perhaps change some slotting around, but I'm not sure this guy's going to have that much inf to play with (I plan on getting the LOTGs off of merits). Feedback is welcome.
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In case anyone cares, I did figure out how to eke out 45% S/L defense in this build, which is, I will admit, a little overslotted in recharge for perma-Dom (3s Hasten downtime, 75s Domination recharge). I could definitely work out a heavily purpled build that dropped Hasten entirely and still had Perma-Dom, but I'm not sure it'd be more fun. Among potential issues... Skewer is underslotted, since it only has the 4 pieces of Kinetic Combat. Earthquake is underslotted for recharge, since it only has the crappy Discouraging Words set for a little bit of S/L defense, though with 26s recharge on Stalagmites, I don't see that being a major concern. I don't think this is a build to which I'll be adding purples, but if I did I'd need to move slots around since I could not slot 5 pieces of melee single target or immob.
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I have a level 26 earth/thorns dom which I started recently, and he's been enough fun that I'm looking ahead to what I can do for him when I hit 50 with him. On a Silver Mantis strike force today, I discovered that 2x Speed Boost can give me perma-domination, and WOW, that was fun. So, it would be pretty awesome if, in the future, I can manage that on my own. I went through various IO sets and tried to find a non-purple build that can manage perma-Hasten and perma-dom without being broken in some other way, and this is what I came up with: