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Gravity is not a 'run in and control' set. It's a set up control set.|
Originally Posted by Blue_Centurion
Okay, 50'd spent a few truckloads of influence, raided most of my bases for treasure, took a few hours and the Respec is done.
Tonight i will be teaming, running ITF and LGTF (I hope). i do not think there will be any problems there, i have been running him on these since 45 and I got him dialed for that. last night I did the mender thing, and encountered a problem with the Honoree room. Just to much to Dom for me, I got a friend to help, and we ended up pulling, but still, without help i do not know if i could have finished that one. I plan to try some soloing for badges, and quick A merits. Mostly this is a team player, and i know my rolle there pretty good, control agro when things are ugly, and blast when things are good. But soloing is not something i have excelled at with Doms. The pet helps a lot, but my AoE hold is not up quite often enough (I feel) and I love wormhole, but it has a small AoE. I am mostly running him as a Blaster solo, with tricks. Do I just need to relax and let everything recharge, or is there something I should be doing different to speed through stuff? Have full stealth power for speed running. 130% global + Hasten. Does anybody have insight into how to quickly pop a tough room when I have to? If there are too many I really worry my hold will deplete before the killing is done, then I am standing there with a bunch of people at 25% health, and they are really irritated. i would love to figure out how to use dimension shift better. Maybe Wormhole a few, shift the big group, kill, hold the ones coming out of DS and then kill? Is that to complex? Will it even work most of the time? |
To contrast, compare gravity to fire (the latter is a run in and control set).
Fire also has a stun AoE, but it's a line of sight power. So you have to run in to range and unload. Stun what you can, then charge with hot feet and imps. Attack attack attack. If there's still a bunch left, you pop Cinders.
Gravity isn't that and never will be. Gravity uses Wormhole as its up every spawn control power. This power takes advantage of hiding out of sight and dumping a spawn into a corner. That takes time to line up you central target, find a good place to dump him and surrounding foes, then executing the teleport and dealing with what you hit and what you missed. Typically, you place singy between where your targets are and where you're putting them to intercept anything you missed.
Gravity is a thinking man's control set. It requires patience and strategy. With a standard low level spawn of 3 foes, you need to plan who you're hitting with Lift, who you're hitting with GD, and who you're tagging with your assault powers. When you get your AoE controls: Wormhole and GDF, you have to plan WH's execution as mentioned above being careful when teaming because if you toss the mobs away from your mates, they'll get upset. If you position singy too close to mobs, they'll starting getting repelled and your team might get upset. You only have GDF up once in a blue moon, so you have to plan on when you use that.
And if you were foolish enough to take Dimension Shift, you better plan on using that one in only very special circumstances and you probably created a macro to warn your teammates.
Solo it's one of the safest control sets out there though. Not fast, but rock solid.
Please buff Ice Control.
Okay, 50'd spent a few truckloads of influence, raided most of my bases for treasure, took a few hours and the Respec is done.
Tonight i will be teaming, running ITF and LGTF (I hope). i do not think there will be any problems there, i have been running him on these since 45 and I got him dialed for that.
last night I did the mender thing, and encountered a problem with the Honoree room. Just to much to Dom for me, I got a friend to help, and we ended up pulling, but still, without help i do not know if i could have finished that one.
I plan to try some soloing for badges, and quick A merits. Mostly this is a team player, and i know my rolle there pretty good, control agro when things are ugly, and blast when things are good. But soloing is not something i have excelled at with Doms. The pet helps a lot, but my AoE hold is not up quite often enough (I feel) and I love wormhole, but it has a small AoE. I am mostly running him as a Blaster solo, with tricks. Do I just need to relax and let everything recharge, or is there something I should be doing different to speed through stuff? Have full stealth power for speed running. 130% global + Hasten.
Does anybody have insight into how to quickly pop a tough room when I have to? If there are too many I really worry my hold will deplete before the killing is done, then I am standing there with a bunch of people at 25% health, and they are really irritated. i would love to figure out how to use dimension shift better. Maybe Wormhole a few, shift the big group, kill, hold the ones coming out of DS and then kill? Is that to complex? Will it even work most of the time?