Dominators Are Beasts

I've been respeccing and playing with my old lvl 50 doms with the release of GR and I19. Free fitness and alpha slotting for everyone.

I haven't played doms that much in the last year (been working a lot with brutes and cors and defs). So I gotta say I forgot how totally dominating they are. In fact, with the new builds at our disposal and then IOing them to match, they're absolute beasts.

I was playing my Earth/Fire the last couple days. I respecced him for the Fire APP, moved slots around to accomodate the free fitness, and switched him from frankenslotting to IO sets. Then I ran him through the Alpha unlock (have Cardiac slotted now), two SFs (Lady Grey and Imperious), plus the Lady Winter (solo 0 x8 no AV).

I gotta say he absolutely tore it up. Screw the brutes and tank on the SFs, I was charging into huge spawns and unloading Stalagmites followed by QS, RoF, Fireball and Fire Breath. Stuff was just turning to ash. For the winter hordes, they were simply melting.

Same deal with my Ice/Psi/Ice (Nerve), Fire/Psi/Fire, Plant/Fire/Fire, Mind/Thorn/Mace, and Earth/Thorn/Soul. I haven't done my Grav doms yet, so I don't know if they're still gimp

Also need to run the Apex and Tin Mage SFs at some point. But as a whole I'm having a blast with the new life my dom beasts are living. Good stuff if you haven't dusted off your lvl 50 in awhile.

I know what you mean, I have been working on my Elec/Ice/Ice Dom and hes just insanely fun to play. If have haven't tried the ice pool all I have to say is Electric Cages>Sleet>Ice Storm So much fun to see'em still bounce with the electric cages on em :X '

As for the TFs, I will not spoil them for you but expect some big surprises!

Baroness von Zorn (grav/nrg) and I (earth/fire) are about to run a LGSF for more shardy goodness and carnage. Should be a cake walk.

I am now re-re working my Elec/Elec dom and i have a Fire/Psy dom that I absolutely love and I am looking for a third. I might never play a controller again. Or a blaster for that matter.

I agree wholeheartedly. My Ice^3 Dom has become my main and my namesake, and it gives me everything I love in a single character. Mezzes that can take even a boss out of a fight in one shot, plenty of ST and AoE damage, lots of survivability thanks to the new Ice epic and some set bonuses, and even debuff with Sleet.

The only thing that makes me sad is that it took me until the launch of GR to give the archetype an honest go. Now life feels empty if I don't see "DOMINATION" flying above heads.

I'm with you on this 100%. I'm still at a loss on what to do with my Mind/Energy Dom and my Plant/Thorn...

But my Fire/Psi/Ice is just incredible right now. I'm thinking of Fire/Psi/Fire on a 2nd build.

I'm also thinking about Mind/Energy/Fire....but still a little unsure.

It took a long time for me to return, but this is the best I've ever felt. Dominators truly fit the namesake now. You can tell how good life is just by coming to the boards--no one's here, complaining about anything, everyone's playing the game (I'm out of town, so I'm here complaining, just not about Dominators >.>)

We made it to the top, guys. It's been a long time in the making, but we made it.

Stupid Dominators. Stop being so fun. Made another Domi alt last night, an Ice/Thorn sea urchin which seems like it could be chaotic fun.

Was playing my Earth/Fire solo during the week. Wasn't really feeling it too much until a Tip mission I was running decided to throw 3 ambushes at me one after the other almost instantly. Then I remembered why I like him so much.

I haven't been feeling much motivation to play any other character since my Earth/Fire/Mace dom hit perma-Hasten levels of recharge. Having Embrace of Fire up half the time is delicious. And nothing my brutes can do compares, as far as fun goes, to seeing 'DOMINATION' flying above the heads of a x8 spawn.

I actually got told that Doms are "too weak" the other day in game. I laughed. I have one of every Dom primary except Fire, and multiples of a couple of them. Weak my rear end. Doms are one of the most powerful AT's in the game. I've pulled things off on my Doms that would make a Brute turn and run the other way.

Seeing as how most of my Doms are perma, I skipped Fitness to add more spaces for recharge mules. So once inherent fitness came out, it buff most of my Doms now they don't worry too much about their end bar, or waiting that couple of seconds for Dom to come back up, they stay in Beast mode constently now. But my Mind/Energy has always been a beast and can solo the RSF, now even easier than before.

I respec'd my fire/psi/fire and got the alpha slotted today. I put Spiritual in there. Going for Spiritual Core. I figure the +rch will be nice for PSW, DP, RoF, Hasten, Fireball, etc. Then, the +stun will be nice for Flashfire and PSW. I can finally get Heal in there too once the rares come out and that should boost Health and DP regen.

I used her today to trash the Lady Winter mission 3x in a row for canes. Was carrying around some lowbie pugs for fun.

My ice/psi/ice got Nerve Radial slotted (+Acc is nice without having Aim or BU, and the +Def helps ice armor, CJ, maneuvers). She's going to go for the Radial Revamp rare and get +hold (BoI and Glacier) and +confuse (AA).

Dominators are one of the few ATs I feel is at the same top tier of power that Scrappers and Brutes are, but in a different way. It was a real swine to get here, but now we're here...

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Im gonna make an Earth/Fire/Fire when I get home. I love Earth but my Earth controller is on Justice and I am playing a lot on Virtue right now.

My dominator, who's now also my new main, absolutely can't wait for the level shift in rare and ultra-rare alpha abilities...Oh the punishing!

OK enough already, you guys have convinced me to create a dom. Now the only question is, which one do I roll with? I have no experience with a dom. In fact I have limited experience with anything other than tanks and scrappers. I like to be in the middle of the action. I love playing my spines/fire scrapper with all of his AoE. I solo for the most part but I do like to team up for TF's. With all of this in mind what kind of dom should I go with?

thanks for the suggestions

There are many good combos. I think Earth.Fire would be one of the easier ones to start with because Earth has good hard and soft controls and Fire is excellent damage especially if you take the Fire Epic pool.

Confuse the AV/Heros, they won't attack you and they will attack the others.