What DOM to go with...

I've tried some different dominators and like the class, but never gone all the way with one.

The other day, I was on another toon and the team was like "We really would like to find a (insert class combo) or a (insert class combo)" and it made me think.

If you were going to build a dom to the following specs, what combo would you choose:
1. Doesn't require huge money to be effective (at least in end game until you play enough to get better enhancements)
2. Not only helps medium to 8 person PUG's as you level but at lvl 50 will have people saying "Sweet, SoAndSO just joined and they are a */* dom...". Kind of like when a Kin or Rad joins a team.
3. Will never PvP.
4. 57 month vet - so lots of vet goodies but no ability to take the early travel power yet.

I really appreciate any feedback you may have, been trying to decide for a month with no luck so far

Thanks!

Hmmm. Perhaps an Earth/Fire dom. Loads of AoE control and slow/def/acc debuffs which are helpful on teams. And you'll put out enough damage to help on teams and do well solo too. Plus, everyone on the team will notice, Earth/ isn't exactly subtle. And it has really nice power customization options too.

second the vote for earth/fire with a strong nod for plant/fire as well.

Both are phenomenal from a control standpoint and are easily able to turn a crappy team into a streamroller. Both are visual enough to ensure that people know you are doing great things. Both are still very strong with just SO's and extremely strong with IO's.

That and /fire just brings a heap of damage. A lot more than other secondaries.

Mind/Whatever.


Earth is all fine and dandy, but Mind brings something that no other Dominator brings. They can sleep Arch-Villains. With the Lord Recluse Strike Force, this is *huge*.

Furthermore, Mind is one of the cheapest sets to Permadom, thanks to the sleeps, fears and confuses.

Meh sleeping AV's* is useful in all of one encounter and while it is likely the safest way to tackle it it is also one of the slowest. Most pugs I've done LRSF with have had no need to sleep them all anymore than most pugs need to pull romi away from the nictus. Which is to say you still see a fair number of teams relying on the method.

Not saying it doesn't work well, but unless you are specifically building a dom for MOLRSF runs (totally unnecessary for normal runs) then mind makes a pretty mediocre dominator compared to the other primaries.

Granted being a mediocre dominator is still pretty great, so if you like mind then go for it.

*I've seen other doms (including earth, ice, and plant) do a decent job at sleeping the AV's at the end. Not with 100% immunity like mind, but easily keeping the majority of them out of the picture for most of the time. The fight just ends up taking place within aggro range of them all as opposed to a half mile apart. But the results (safe albeit slow completion) are roughly the same.

Fair enough. I'm of the opinion that several other dom sets are top notch platinum, while mind is top notch gold.

Which if you adjust said scale where the platinum rating is the best then mind does indeed fall somewhere in the middle quality rating.

Taken in context my words were essentially that mind is middle of the pack, but that is still excellent. Just like how gold is still great, just not as good as platinum.

Plant/Fire is a decent choice too. Plant basically makes spawns eat themselves and Carrion Creepers is incredibly noticable.

Plant/Anything really. Plant/Thorns would be interesting too, if you don't mind being covered in spikes. Thorns can look less ridiculous nowadays. Plant/NRG is more single target focused but you can hit hard, and Power Boost seeds and the ranged AOE hold which is nice.

Earth/Fire is the bomb as well though. As is Mind. Can't really go wrong with any of those 3 in terms of silly amounts of Control (Earth has more hard AOE, Plants is mostly focused in Seed and Mind has silly amounts of soft control and single target control).

Have to say, I really appreciate the great feedback on this post. Thank you for taking the time to give me such great answers.

I'm currently torn between an Earth/Fire and Mind/Fire, so will give both a try and see how I like it.

Again, much thanks all

i've tried a lot of dom combinations, and the one that stands out to me is earth/fire. its not frustrating to level, you get good powers at early/mid/ and end game, it can help out a duo just as well as an 8 man. just really fun, useful, and survivable(for a dom)

Can I step up and Say Electric/Earth??

Relatively easy to Perma-Dom with a sleep and confuse set, as well as many of the secondary powers being able to take Force Feedback proc if your willing to rely on that.

Elecs Static Field is awesome for solo, makes every encounter trivial, especially with Conductive Aura going, afraid of a group? Static Field, Wander in and lay out your heavy hitters until the group is fully sapped, then bring on the AoE, it may be slower than quick killing, but you can alteratively to having big groups, have smaller higher leveld groups with relative ease.

Statif Field also buffs your team with endurance during protracted fights.

You get 2 Mag 3 holds, so you can really ramp up the mag, and you hit big targets pretty darn hard. /Fire may make teams steamroll against soft targets, but its eually fun to run in as /Earth and layout a nice attack chain thats just held and or knocked down the hard target and done more damage than the scrapper also wailing on him.

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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl [*]Watching out for the Spinning Disco Portal of D00M!*

Have gotten on well with several higher-level (40+) Doms:

A level 50 Grav/NRG/SM - can throw a lot of control around with Domination, Power Boost, the Megalomaniac accolade and a Singularity chipping in. Even good on melee-heavy teams if you have the foresight to lock down your own KB, and Wormhole, despite all the dissing it gets, is a great alpha killer AND herding/cornering tool, as long as you let folks know what's going on and where.

A level 43 Plant/Thorns/SM - most of the folks here have already said everything I would about both Plant and Thorn. The combo has been a blast to play, for me.

A level 41 Elec/Elec/Mu - can be an eyesore for some folks. Avoiding garish power colors will make teams like you a lot more, and Static Field will make you almost as popular as a Transference Kin, once your teammates know that standing IN the field along with the slept mob gives them End... a LOT of it.

For myself, I'm still "patiently" waiting for Dark Domination / Dark Assault. Hey, I can dream, can't I?

I strongly suggest psionic assault as secondary. Just for the -regen component in Drain Psyche for AV or GM fights.
A welcome addition in the world of debuffs