Can't decide! Plant/Cold controller or Plant/Ice dom?

What the title says. I'm having an extreme difficulty in picking one or the other. Any feedback or pros and cons would be appreciated. lol

Either is good. In the scheme of things the Dominator is possibly safer due to Domination and Power Boost in the Ice set. The Dominator definitely has much much better single target attacks. But the Controller's limitless endurance may make it eventually the better "farmer" if that is an important factor to you, and have more overall impact against AVs and so on.

I think this is a pretty clear-cut playstyle choice. If you play a controller, you're going to spend a significant amount of time controlling. After your initial confuse you'll need to follow up with holds on bosses if negating their damage/abilities is important. When you use sleep on an incoming ambush you'll need to follow up on the heavy hitters to make sure they're out of commission. To operate at full capacity you're going to need to get Sleet out before you start doing damage, and you'll be maintaining buffs/debuffs.

If you play a plant dom you'll pretty much hit one button on most pulls - Seeds of Confusion with domination will confuse everything and 90% of the time everything is dead before you need to recast, but even if you do, that's still just one button. Sleep with Dom dead stops just about any ambush, you can single-shot hold most bosses that you miss with Seeds.

A plant dom is going to spend far more time doing damage than a controller, though it's possible their net damage for a team won't exceed a controller's in spite of it - the controller's debuffs are quite good.

That being said, as a dom you could get Sleet to debuff a bit if you'd like to help with that role. As a rule of thumb I would recommend a plant dom over a plant controller any day of the week, but ice is kind of the one exception, simply because it's such a strong set and will play so nicely with Creepers. It's one of the few sets where I really think you could get away with not following up with holds on everything the confuse is too low mag to hit just because you'll have debuffed the few remaining threats enough to ignore them in most cases. In a +4 TF you'll probably need to control them though.

You can't go wrong either way, but it's up to you: Do you want to spend the majority of your time controlling and debuffing or dishing out damage?


*one other note: it's probably easier to get a TF spot as a controller still. I get the impression a lot of people don't quite understand the hard control advantage doms have