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Melee Capable Dom?

AnElfCalledMack

By AnElfCalledMack,
Posted on: 2010-09-13 10:30 in Dominators

 

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Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA View Post
It does and it's wonderful, even just as an easy indicator that a Chance for a Stun happened (like with Bone Smasher). If I see Domination pop up I know they are out of the fight for 10 seconds or so and I can focus on taking someone else down.
Just another thing that mids never tells you about...(unless my mids are borked). I will def use power boost with Domination for some nice soft control. I think I will get this energy Dom past lvl 20 this time lol.


 

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Somewhat off topic, somewhat on, is there a problem with Mids? I tried downloading it again (I had deleted it a while back) and now many of the files are coming up as errors and not downloading.

 

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Originally Posted by SuperFerret View Post
Somewhat off topic, somewhat on, is there a problem with Mids? I tried downloading it again (I had deleted it a while back) and now many of the files are coming up as errors and not downloading.
Where are you downloading it from? The current version is at http://www.cohplanner.com/

 

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Yeah, that's the one. It's giving me an error for every file, stating that there was an "Error opening the file for writing". I'm generally computer illiterate, so I have no idea why this would be.

 

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Originally Posted by SuperFerret View Post
Yeah, that's the one. It's giving me an error for every file, stating that there was an "Error opening the file for writing". I'm generally computer illiterate, so I have no idea why this would be.

Oh, you may need to run the install as an Administrator to get it to work.

 

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Ah. It worked. Many thanks from someone who's far more comfortable treating the problems of biologicals over technilogicals.

 

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I know you've ruled out /Earth Assault but I just wanted to chime in on how much I'm loving my Elec/Earth Dom. First Dom and toon period that I've gotten over 30 (almost 34 now). I never liked any of the melee toons, this one made me fall in love with 'em. Even rolled a few Brute alts because of it hehe

 

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I'd personally just play a /fire in melee range. /fire does a lot more damage than any other secondary.

I'd do an earth or plant, /fire, with ice or fire app. The simple fact of the matter is you'll do a lot more damage than anything /earth assault,/elec, /nrg, /thorny, /psi while still having the flexibility to still do great damage from range in the situations where it may not be advisable to stand in melee range for w/e reasons.

Just depends what you view as 'melee capable'. I consider my plant/kin/stone to be a melee toon even though it only has one melee attack because I play it in the face of enemies the entire time.

 

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Melee Defense capped Fire/Psy/Fire or Fire/Psy/Soul Perma Dom.

It wreaks havoc and massive damage.

Ping me at @Psion or Psion2.

 

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Originally Posted by Negate View Post
You're right with the Super strength guys it's always been about the knock back!

Also...call me crazy...and I guess I should of expected this but...I had no idea Domination ups the chances of Stun in the Energy Assault Set lol. *blush*
Bone smasher and total focus will both get their stun mag increased by domination, but unfortunately, whirling hands doesn't.

 

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Bone smasher and total focus will both get their stun mag increased by domination, but unfortunately, whirling hands doesn't.
Ahh! Ok Thanks for the heads up!


 

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Another question: What would be the best way to ensure that my Dom can take a punch without folding into a crumpled heap with massive psionic powers?

 

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Another question: What would be the best way to ensure that my Dom can take a punch without folding into a crumpled heap with massive psionic powers?
always carry 3 lucks to use together when excrement hits the fan and AoE mez/domination is not quite up yet.

Some players also like slotting IO's for defense bonuses, I just find the survival/utility of +recharged control/domination to be more desirable.

 

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Some players also like slotting IO's for defense bonuses, I just find the survival/utility of +recharged control/domination to be more desirable.
And a combination of both is even more desirable.

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Well, I would benefit from being a more desirable person.

 

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And a combination of both is even more desirable.
Eh. I find it extraneous when nothing is capable of fighting back.