electric\psi?

I've never really been able to get into dominator's for some reason..been trying since opening day and just not my cup of tea. That being said, I thought I'd give electric control a try. It seems like it would mesh well with psi due to electric control being more of a melee range set and Psi seems to do well in melee range as well please there seems to be a lot of +recovery, +regen, -recovery, -end between the two to really slow down\sap spawns.

So the general\broad question is how does these two pair up in the big picture? Anyone taken one the distance have any anecdotes to share?

My Elec/ dom is too low to give full, in depth analysis on, but my /psi dom has seen a ton of use, so I can give some of a rundown on that end.

/Psi is one of the best defensive secondaries, in my book, but is distinctly average on the offense front. Its cone and PbAoE attack are both good against crowds, psy shockwave being a 16 target attack rather than the average 10 with a pretty reliable stun to boot. Many attacks do a pretty good -recharge to slow down incoming damage, and a reliable immobilize and KB is in there too. You have a decent array of ranged attacks, and two slowish melee ones that still hit pretty hard. That said, the burst damage is not there. Also, when something resists psionic damage, it really resists it. In such cases the damage output can become frustrating.

All in all, the attacks from /Psi will never wow you. But they're still decent. The biggest draw for me is still the +regen, with 10 targets you can bounce to full health in seconds...and -regen is a great tool vs. Av's.

In theory, a Elec/psi would be devastating vs. an AV. Most av's don't resist immobilize, which you have 3 of, you have a ton of sapping powers backed by a strong -recovery, and some -regen to boot. But that's paper, I don't have experience in practice. But note that by 50 the AV sapping becomes significantly more difficult as their resistance to that effect goes way up.

Yeah...it's one of those 'on paper' things. I don't really need to be wowed on damage as I see electric\psi being more strong in the lockdown\mitigation department. I don't need to blow everything away with a single sneeze. I do that just fine with my brutes . Just looking to see if it's an 'effective' combo to really lockdown\sap\mitigate spawns.

Ran my Elec/Psi on a Synapse, with Conductive Aura poorly slotted, I was able to take out and keep babbage at effectively no END.

I find even PSI resist foes aren't that bad. The -regen helps alot, and most are dry within seconds. I also have never really been fond of sapping in general.

I skipped Jolting Chain and both Fence powers. I really soley on conductive aura, and man its brutal, with minor sloting. Can't Imagine if it was tricked out fully. Sleep the mob, drain psyche, use the melee attacks and the scream.

I have a 50 Elec/Psi/Fire on Justice and I'm loving it. She's my new favorite toon, my old favorite being a 50 Ill/Kin troller...poor neglected Controller.

My goal in most long fights is, "Can I drain this AV/GM's end before my team can kill it?" Don't get me wrong, I do my part to unload as much damage as I can on the mob, it's just a lil game I play with myself. =P

Last night I was in an ITF, and on the last mission (defeat Rom, kill 300 cims), I got to play my lil game, and actually got some compliments on my end draining abilities. After Rom rezzes the first time, I don't know what it is, but it seems easier to drain his end, so, pretty much, after his first death, all he did was stand there with no blue bar. He'd die, I'd pop a break free (break free + Domination = no stun from rez), he'd rez, and then just stand there as his blue bar disappeared.

It's a fun combination. The first 31 levels were slow solo, I ran a whole buncha TFs. Gremlins at 32 helped, be ready to recast them often tho, they're one of the dumber pets (I've only played with Illusion and Fire Control, and I've got to say they're dumber than both the Phantasm and Imps.)

At 41, I actually picked Ice Mastery first, kept it til 50, then at 50 tried Psionic Mastery, and finally settled on Fire Mastery.

My first thoughts were to try to softcap S/L with Ice Mastery, but the more I played the toon, the less I felt I needed the defense.

I feel safe using Electric Control, between it's sleep, confuse, AE hold and knockdown, and Psionic Assault's Drain Psyche and Psi Shockwave, I can usually sap a group before they can do anything to me.

So, I switched to Psionic Mastery, took Link Minds, World of Confusion, and Psionic Tornado. I came to realize something, I am way too lazy to keep casting Link Minds. On my troller, I buff all day long, but on my Dom, well, there's a reason I made an Elec/ Dom instead of an Elec/ troller, no chance of picking a secondary with buffs. =P

Fire Mastery doesn't really play well with Electric Control, the dots from Fireball and Rain of Fire don't mesh well with Static Field's sleep pulse, but the dmg...if things are dead, they're not attacking you, right?

Well, I hope I helped, if you have any questions, feel free to ask in game, private message, or here...I'm not an expert by any means, but I've played the combo extensively.

A friend told me I couldn't level a toon from 1 to 50 without making a new alt, I proved her wrong, and the thing is, I'm still enjoying the toon. =)

Awesome feedback..thanks! I'm up to 12 on this toon and he is indeed a lot of fun and even at 12 doing quite well at sapping. I normally play brutes and I have to keep telling my self that dominators play differently and to let the meat shield go in and get some aggro first, but I've noticed that once I picked up conductive aura and then the gem static shield...things changed a lot in terms of how I can play this guy.

Still haven't quite decided on where exactly I want to take this guy (build wise), but I can say that so far it's a riot. Can't wait for lvl 20 and drain psyche to combine with my other drains and -recovery.

i have an elec/psi dom at lvl 39 currently, right now hes a freaking beast in terms of sapping due to 3 SOs in conductive aura for end mod

his dmg is a little light however, but with his pets to absorb aggro, he can sap a whole mob in like 5-10 sec and then take is good old time to kill everything