grav/thorn dominator issues


crazyhorse2

 

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Hi Dominator community!

I have no idea what I was thinking, but I have a lvl 41 grav//thorn dominator. I really have a good time on the toon, but I'm really not sure what I'm going for with her. I'm not sure what advice I'm looking for, either. I simply have no direction with the toon, other than wanting to "go straight" with her at some point. She's light rp, and I dig her story, but as far as how to synergize her powers, I'm kinda up in the air.

Originally, I conceived her as a position-based fighter--straight hard and soft control with some fair damage. I've even used D-shift and powers similar to Whirlwind in my past, to hamper and break up enemy movement. I've found that I can do decent amounts of ST and AOE damage, though the AOE has to tick for a few seconds before it has the full effect. I'm not sure if anyone has even attempted to touch such a power combo, and I've never seen anyone in game with the same combo on Virtue.

For what it's worth, here's my build. Bear in mind that I'm only 41 now, and it will take me a bit to build up the inf to get some of the more expensive purple sets in this build. I just made the build so I can have an idea of how to spend slots, I would be amenable to changes if anyone wants to recommend them. (I just went with the data chunk, because I'm never able to read the regular export.)

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I have a 50 grav/thorn.

It has few if any IO's and probably wont ever get any.
Its fun though. Its great at eating alpha's under the right circumstances, ie I have a place to lose LOS to use WH with impunity.

Other than that I used the toon as a "battlefield commander" type. Wormhole for mob placement and thorntrops as area denial.
But theres other dominator combinations that can do that stuff even better (lookin at you earth control).

As long as your havin fun with the toon Id think thats all that really matters.

I didnt look at the build, If I were goin to put IO's into it, it would be +recharge to get perma dom goin.

Just my .02 infamy.


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Well, thanks for your response.
I'm always looking for extra recharge. My newest build (not listed) hit's the "poor man's" permadom with non purple IO's. My real quandry, now that I look at it, is giving up some defense in favor of aoe's and some utility powers in either Soul or Mu. I can hit 20 some defense without scorp's power pools through enhancements and tough and weave and have some solid resistance to sm/l at least. Anyway, thanks again for the response.

-Bling


 

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To the OP - I am new to dominators and a return to the game after 3 years away so I don't have any advice but I would love to hear her story.