Personally, I'd slot the holds for holds and stun for stun but everything else for damage. The set is control light compared to the other sets and you need to end a fight as fast as possible. Mitigation is at a premium until you get you pet.
What level do you get pets at? Never had a troller this high before, lvl 16 only, I know, not very high.
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What are you doing? Are you going solo? Then you need as much damage as possible. Only teams? Then you can focus more on control.|
Originally Posted by thgebull0425
Should I slot for damage in my Gravity powers? Or should I be going for sets? Please help, first troller at lvl 16, and I have to admit, not sure how I want to slot him.
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Gravity Distortion: Slot for Accuracy, some Recharge, and then depending upon how much you solo, you can slot for Damage or Hold. Good all purpose slotting, assuming you solo some, would be frankenslotting with Acc/Hold/Rech from 3 sets, plus an Acc/Dam/Rech and a couple of Damage.
Crush: This should be used as a damage power. 1 Acc, 3 Damage minimum.
Lift and Propel are also damage powers. I like 2 Acc, 3 Damage minimum in these (I take Propel for a more solo build, Lift for a team build).
Crushing Field: Accuracy and EndRdx are your first goals. It doesn't do much damage, so damage procs are better.
Dimension Shift: Ugh. Never take it.
Grav. Dist. Field: 2 Acc, 2 Hold, 2 Rech is standard slotting. You can do better with sets and Frankenslotting.
Wormhole: Acc, Stun, Rech and some Range if you can fit it in.
Singularity: I max slot Singy for damage, then try to fit in some control. Acc/Dam and Dam from Blood Mandate, Acc/Dam and Acc/Dam/EndRdx from Brilliant Leadership works leveling up, with two slots left for Hold and maybe a Resistance proc. You don't get your pet until level 32.
If you want to learn a lot about controllers, take a look at my Illusion/Radiation guide, linked in my sig. It has a section in the beginning for people new to controllers.
My Grav/Storm is a really fun controller to solo. Not fast, but fun. I really enjoy making strategic uses of my mix of powers. Things really get more fun once you get Wormhole and Singularity -- you will become a LOT more effective -- but Wormhole doesn't come until 26, and Singy comes at 32. It's a long time to get there.
By the way, don't limit yourself to one controller. Controllers are very different depending upon the primary and secondary -- much more varied than other ATs. Even different primaries with the same secondary -- my Ill/Rad is very different compared to my Fire/Rad. Ice/Storm and Earth/Storm are very different.
I had trouble getting into Gravity until I paired it with Storm. But the combo has become one of my favorite solo controllers.
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Mostly teaming, but I like attacking, don't always want to be supporting. So I will build powers accordingly. But I want to make sure I also provide the most support possible. So a tweener build I guess.
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On teams, Propel can be very frustrating. It is very common that you will be shooting off your (very slow) single target attack chain of GD-Crush-Propel, and some teammate will come in and kill off your target before Propel can finish animating. In spite of this, I much prefer Propel over Lift -- I just like throwing stuff at the bad guys, and Propel hits HARD. It is especially nice against Robots who are weak to smashing damage.|
Originally Posted by thgebull0425
Mostly teaming, but I like attacking, don't always want to be supporting. So I will build powers accordingly. But I want to make sure I also provide the most support possible. So a tweener build I guess.
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I don't have access to Mid's right now. Try playing around with Mids to make up a build following as much of the outline I gave above as you want to.
What is your secondary, by the way? That can make a difference.
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I'm all for controllers and dominators. Gravity is the last one that I don't have a pet for and it's killing me. They are very hard to play. Propel is great for damage but it needs accuracy slotted bad. I just dinged 26 on my grav/fire dominator over the weekend and discovered the joys of wormhole. A great game exploit is to tp the mobs into the side of the wall. Sometimes they get their heads stuck and can't get out, but you can still wail on them 
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I got a good laugh when reading this.|
Originally Posted by Epimethius
... A great game exploit is to tp the mobs into the side of the wall. Sometimes they get their heads stuck and can't get out, but you can still wail on them
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So, wormhole turns mobs literally into wallflowers? You should water them to see if they grow ...
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Originally Posted by Epimethius
I'm all for controllers and dominators. Gravity is the last one that I don't have a pet for and it's killing me. They are very hard to play. Propel is great for damage but it needs accuracy slotted bad. I just dinged 26 on my grav/fire dominator over the weekend and discovered the joys of wormhole. A great game exploit is to tp the mobs into the side of the wall. Sometimes they get their heads stuck and can't get out, but you can still wail on them
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you sir, have won an internets! that's awesome and must be tried post haste..........
Oh yeah, that was the time that girl got her whatchamacallit stuck in that guys dooblickitz and then what his name did that thing with the lizards and it cleared right up.
screw your joke, i want "FREEM"
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Tried and true. Been doing this for months. You know those blue energy walls around open-spaced instance missions? I call them "flypaper".
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Originally Posted by Traegus
you sir, have won an internets! that's awesome and must be tried post haste..........
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Should I slot for damage in my Gravity powers? Or should I be going for sets? Please help, first troller at lvl 16, and I have to admit, not sure how I want to slot him.