APP's the final fix for Dominator issues?

I was chatting with another long time Dom player a few days ago. Which brings me to pose this question to other old school Doms. It seems like with the introduction of the APP's almost of the issues the Dominators had have been addressed. Sure there are minor power issues (animations, activation times, etc..). But every AT in the game faces those.

But since APP's now give decent aoe damage, debuffs, and shields. Dom's seem pretty much one of the most well rounded AT's in the game. What does you guy's think? Do your Dom's pretty much play the way you've always wanted them too? Or do a few of you still find the AT is lacking something? For me, my Dom's feel pretty much perfect. Especially, after I get to level 41 .

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My level 50 Dominators:
Madame Mindbender 50 Mind/Energy
Fly Agaric 50 Plant/Thorn
Nate Nitro 50 Fire/Psi

When City of Villains first came around, I tried my best to love an Ice/Ice dominator. There wasn't a huge backlog playerbase experience shared on the boards yet. I leveled by the seat of my pants. I notice that Ice sword circle had a lot of damage and was confirmed on the boards it was the highest damage attack. Then, I learned through experience and other observative doms that you could take the power but most likely would fail with the power since the doms at that point couldn't handle the aggro they created by using ice sword circle.

Now Going Rogue comes out, and I convince myself I can tame the savage dominator. This time I try EC/elec. First, I notice that neither short circuit nor ball lightning are in the toolbox. Second, I get Conductive Aura, and I don't care about those silly powers at all. With Conductive aura, Jolting chain, chain fences, and good old Tesla Cage, my EC dom is an end drain BEAST. My take on it is, prior to building domination I can still end drain hard targets, whereas holds, sleeps, confuses, immobilizes require double application. EC is a big success.

I don't have a lot of experience with APPs. As such I took Link Minds at level 41 on my first dom the EC/elec. I might respec. Psychic, Fire, and Ice APPs are VERY enticing. Even a dominator sleet should be an amazing tool in the dominator tool box.

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Triumphant Defenders Forever
Psylenz FF/Psi, ArticQuark Storm/Rad, Symon BarSisyphus Bots/psn, Max VanSydow Thugs/Dk, Cyclone Symon Bots/stm, Blue Loki Ice/Cd, Widow 46526
HelinCarnate:OMG it is so terrible. I have the option to take 3 more powers but no additional slots. Boo F'ing hoo.

Two of my doms are level locked below 41 and will never have an APP. My 50 will never give up her second pet and will never have an APP. I'm leveling another now that I don't know if I will use an APP or not.

So it was a completely worthless addition for me: Something I haven't used and possibly will never use. But looks good on paper and it seems other people love them. If they had pets I'd be all over them like stink on a monkey.

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"Hmm, I guess I'm not as omniscient as I thought" -Gavin Runeblade.
I can be found, outside of paragon city here.
Thank you everyone at Paragon and on Virtue. When the lights go out in November, you'll find me on Razor Bunny.

Well, I swapped my ice/ice from lev to the ice app, and it's been quite nice. Still have hibernate, and swapped out shark skin and waterspout for sleet, hoarfrost, and ice storm. Hoarfrost is helpful for soloing, and ice storm/sleet really up my contribution on teams. I do miss shark skin and waterspout a bit, but no way would I go back. Sleet alone is worth the change, and ice storm's extra dose of AoE death fills in a hole I never really realized I had.

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@MuonNeutrino
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