Mind/Energy Advice and info wanted.

Hello all,

After trying several /Nrg doms, just by chance and lvling luck, the Mind/Energy has come to ther forefront and will be what Im going to work on. Im not even sure I think its the best, but I need to stick with one for a while, and he won.

So to keep my spirits and interest up, I have been thinking of builds and direction with guy. I have no real Dom experience. I have been reading everything I can and getting atleast a theoretical feel for them. Practical experience is coming slowly. Im suprised to find that the mind is both fun and effective at this point (lvl 26) both soloed and teamed. The team is what most suprised me, and that the group sleep is actually useful on fast moving teams.

I mostly play him like a ranged blaster, and is what I will continue to do.

On to the questions. It appears I have three general ways to go. Build for defense, recharge (heading for perma dom) and pure damage.

Considering my choice of Mind/Energy, what is the pros and cons of these plans for team, solo and cost.

My general guess.

I think I can fairly cheaply Perma Dom him at 70% or so recharge with use of the KB sets. This lowers my damage, as the set of six only gives 68% damage increase. This build seems best for soloing, fairly cheap, maybe second best team build.

Defense. Seems expensive, good solo, less needed on teams and maybe less valuable.

Damage. Always good. Best on teams, maybe middle of the road on cost and solo power.

These are just my guesses. I play blueside and until the last 3 weeks, had been away from the game.

So any advice, corrections to my assumptions. Is perma dom worthwhile if I lose out on damage?

Anyway, looking forward to any advice or input.

Robber.

Thanks Silas.

Since my present Villians bank account is a couple million, not sure the ways I see to get there are within my grasp anytime soon. So I can continue to just build with frakenslotting, getting the most bang per individual power, but no real set bonuses or go the KB set route, unless Im missing something.

I did use the sleep and confuse sets in the build I have been working on, but dont see any cheap alternatives to get the 7.5% recharge bonus. Cheap being under .5 billion.

Ill keep working and earning and see how it goes.

Im really struggling on which Mind powers to prioritize or expect to get mileage out of in the later stages. I just got Terrorize, which I love, as Im a fan of fear powers.

Total Domination is not giving me much of a warm feeling, the poor acc might be the present problem, as its poorly slotted for me now.

Not sure if its worth thinking about taking on AV's or even EB's with this combo, and if so, which of the single target powers, Confuse, Mezmerize, or Domination will prove most useful late game.

Teaming I dont use any of them, solo I use them all, and find each useful in its way. I even wonder if Lift might not be worthwhile, though I already have a decent single target attack chain.

Im comfortable with the Energy powers, as I have many hours on my lvl 50 Nrg blaster. The Mind powers, even after reading the guides, seem more a matter of taste.

Further opinions on them, and what types of hunting they are each good for?

One thing to keep in mind is that with medium to high levels of recharge you can alternate Total Domination and Mass Confusion to keep everything locked down from a third to half the time. I've been finding myself using Terrify less and less since I slotted some recharge.

I have a Mind/Energy on my own. Far from perma, but with a solid 63ish recharge.

So far:
5 x 6.25 (Two Confusion, Two Sleeps, Fear)
3 X 7.5 (Two holds, Power Bolt)
2 x 5 (Bonesmasher, Res Armor)

Currently level 43, and 3 other blasts are slotted with Thunderstrikes, which come in handy for extra accuracy for the AoE controls. I guess I could pick up an extra 15% recharge in the blasts, but concerned how that would hurt my DPS.

Outside of purples, KB on blasts, and LoTG, and burning way too many slots on defense powers, all of which I'm unsure I want to do. Anything else I could slot for more recharge?

All I'm thinking of is Lift, Sniper, and the Patron Pet.

I took out my DM/SR lvl 50 soft capped Scrapper. Havent played him a year or so. My god, he is simply unkillable against normal mobs, and he is a cheaply built version at that.

I did it because I wanted to see how good Defense was, as I havent played for a year. I had been getting owned by an EB in an Ouro arc on my Mind/Nrg and wanted to see if defense is worth it. Well, I think it is. I can soft cap range for a reasonble price without going perma dom. Im seriously considering changing my focus to that now.

The only thing that is holding me back is I did a quick and dirty look at burst damage, for both aoe and single target over several doms and corrs. Im sure dps translates roughly out about the same for rankings. I cried when I saw how badly Fire outclasses everything else I looked at. I think I could have nearly burned the EB Down in two cycles of the chain.

Hehe, the AE farms are fixed and Im really wondering if I should continue with my Mind/Nrg or start either the Fire/Traps or ?/Fire Dom.

Decisions.

I have a build that doesnt seem impossible to afford that gives me perma dom 1, at 77% recharge. It hits 42.6 Ranged defense and 27.4 S/L defense. Seems pretty good. I threw in Poison Ray for the -Resistance. Not sure if it stacks with itself, Im thinking it doesnt.

Still, all in all, it seems like while this build has zero AOE, it might be a fairy good big game hunter. Bosses and EB's probably easy enough, Im guessing my lack of a heal makes AV's undoable.

Im wondering if Aid Self along with that nice Ranged defense would be better than the Scorpion shield though.