How do YOU think Going Rogue will affect Dominators ??

I like my doms even at low level, and even though I have more lvl 50 heroes than villains (because I only bought CoV much after CoH), I like the variety of playing both blueside and redside. I like redside especially when I get to St. Martial and those cool missions in Grandville, so I guess GR won't change that for me.

But, while I risk sounding like captain obvious... I keep seeing all these complaints about the black market... When it won't be an issue anymore come GR. I agree that the lack of SFs or more teams sucks for some people (not me, since I play almost entirely solo anyway), but the market will cease to be a problem once it's all joined... Just thought I'd point it out.

A lot of good stuff will happen for doms.

That was always my fear was that redside would become an absolute ghost town. All my villians are undercover heroes by design but now I wont need to ove them all the way to hero and back to vigilante. They can keep their " undercover " status by being a rogue ( which plays well theme wise for me ) and have access to the entire market.

I don't think doms will be having any problems...Actually they might get more popular.

I expect no problem with Doms. Many people I know NEVER play redside at all. Some of the AT's they see on TF's but thats about it. I expect that many people will be surprised at how effecient some of the villian AT's can be.

Doms are kind of thought of it seems as the ******* child of villianside and i think many people will have their eyes opened.

I'll be making a lot of Doms once the expansion releases.

There's going to be a massive amount of people starting in Praetoria the first week or so, so I'm going to join the huge amount of teams forming and soak up the exp while the getting's good. I really only get attracted to my Doms after their early twenties, at which point they're asfgjdfjgkl awesome.

There are a few Doms that I've been wanting to make for a while, Mind/Fire especially, but low level Redside keeps me away.

I think Dominators and Stalkers sort of suffer from the same two problems--"difficult" to use and content undermines their abilities. I can easily see the ability to switch to blueside as a massive "buff" to Dominators due to the decreased number of status resistant mobs.

I must just be odd in the Dom community. I easily leveled my grav/nrg to 50 back BEFORE the damage buff, and have several others ranging from the mid 20s to mid 40s. They are my 2nd favorite redside AT (after MMs).

Then again, it may have a lot to do with the leveling pattern I use with them, learned after a leveling crisis in the early 20s on my first (the aforementioned grav/nrg) and an inspired respec. In short, I stopped building them as doms in the 1-20 range, and built them more like blasters. I skipped the single-target immob Crush (forever), taking the other, generally more damaging soft-control (knockdown) power, Lift. When my single-target hold (Gravity Distortion) and AoE immob (Crushing Field) became available, I took those as well. And alongside the "usual" mix of fitness/travel/etc stuff, I took EVERY available ranged damage attack from my secondary. After that, everything changed for the vastly better, and I filled out my primary to supplement my now much more impressive damage-dealing, taking the other ranged damage secondaries as they became available.

Needless to say, YMMV, but this methodology has worked for every other Dom I've played since.

I would take a skilled Dominator over Blaster any day but it's just me. I don't know what they've done for Blaster after I quit but with Dominator's new damage scale, there is no reason why Dominator can't compete with Blaster on a team. Dom has aoe and decent melee attacks and the best controls during Domination and even better mez protection. The pets add damage too! Blaster has better burst aoe but Dominators are not that far behind IMO.

I've already decided I'm taking a few doms blueside, no matter what, just because I like the dom playstyle. I'm looking forward to a mixed Con/Dom team.

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I'm looking forward to some of the new app options that might open up. If all goes to plan we should get some more thematic matches for fire, ice, mental, and energy based characters.

I'm mainly planning on taking/making some doms blueside since I have plenty redside (just as I plan to take controllers redside). Elec/Psi, Plant/Earth are two heroic dominators I already have character concepts for.

I already have 7 doms at 50, but I doubt I will make anyone of them a hero, rather rogue or vigilante if I switch.

For new characters in general I will probably start on the "opposite" side with any of them and after that will see what happens. It will be at least one new dom for elec control.

My Plant/Fire is moving over ONLY b/c he's a Fir. He would feel safe with his 'lantern brothers ^_^. With the New APP he's deadly...I mean seriously Rain of Fire and Fireball! WOOOweee!