Dominators Are Beasts

Dominators are Beasts :-) Over the weekend, I was trying to create some new characters for 2011. For the past few weeks, I tooled around with a Mastermind, Scrapper, and Tank but the Villain Dominators have that crowd control and assault. It's just a lethal combo. I have a main Grav/Elec Assault Dom and she is my best producer. She has about 2 billion infamy and I was able to get all 12 Alphas(270 shards) over the holiday week(Last week in December) on NA Freedom. I just love the Dom's.

So here's what my new goals are for 2011. On my EU Union account, I created

6 Doms:

Earth/Earth Assault, Praetorian Loyalists
Fire/Fiery Assault, Praetorian Resistance
Ice/Icy Assault, Praetorian Loyalists
Psionic/Psionic Assault, Praetorian Resistance
Thorn/Thorny Assault, Praetorian Loyalists
Electric Control/Energy Assault, Praetorian, Resistance

I'm hoping to take the Dominators to a new level in 2011. I have Controllers but they just don't cut it. By creating Praetorians, I'm hoping to create some Hero Dominator so I can kick @$$ on the Hero side. On the Villain, I want to run my doms through the rest of the Patron Mishes( Mako, Ghost Widow, and Black Scorpion). Look for my posts during the year. Also, I do love the initial new animations. I hope more animations are on the way.

Also, the Doms should be easier to maintain compared to my Controllers. I'll be lucky is she can get all 12 alpha slots in 2011. She has no teeth. The first 30 seconds of this video accurately captures my feelings towards controllers,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cNKF1gdlTY

One more thing, you know how everyone was complaining about Trapdoor? With my Dom, I used the holds and prevented him from splitting, ranged him with Electric,Lightning bolts, and static discharge. Then I hopped the rail and beat him down with the combo Thunderstrike, Havoc and Charged Brawl solo. That's versatility for ya :-)

The Dominators Rule!! See ya during the double XP weekend.

I play plenty of controllers and enjoy them.. Dominators are simply a different breed.

My Doms are steamrollers! I love 'em!

My Controllers, on the other hand (other than Fire or Plant/Kin)... This is the sort of steamroller that they are, and it sums up my feelings about them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLlUgilKqms

Edit:
Dominators, for being a 'Villain' AT, at least have the decency to give their opponents a quick arrest. Controllers, on the other hand, seem to be much more sadistic in that they force their opponents to stand around in agony for a small eternity.

I try to experiment with other AT's but dominators are truly epic. All my mains are pretty much doms. My ice/fire/ice absolutely tears up everything I love it. Mind/nrg is a lot of fun too. I'm thinking of finishing an elec/elec as my tank experiences are dull.


Make it stop... Too many doms.

The two are very different. Controllers are Control/Buff-Debuff and Dominators are Control/Damage. Therefore Dominators in general tend to do more damage. However Controllers can be quite powerful in their own right.

I updated the results of All Dom SF Saturday. Quick summary:
ITF: 1 hr 5 mins
RSF: Failed
LGTF: went with a mixed group and did a shard run. 2 doms participated.
Silver Mantis: not enough members
Ice Mistral: not enough members


Long Story:
ITF -
We did the sybils at a fair pace. The cysts took a while and resulted in some deaths. For the PC, we did the PC first and then pulled Rom and Req. The generals and the EBs with them took a while to kill. For the last mission, we cleared the bridge and went down the left side until we killed to 120. Then we cleared the court before Rom. It was easy to mez Rom but it took a while to chip at his HP. Finished at 1 hr, 5 mins.


RSF -
The doms that originally wanted to come for RSF didn't want to do it anymore after the 1 hr speed ITF. Hiru thought that an all dom ITF would go fast, but in this case, it didn't, so he decided not to come to RSF.
So only 4 of us were left and it took 20 mins to gather 3 other doms. It was an almost dom team except for 1 kin corr that agreed to fill in.
Crimson was routine. For the Malta, we grabbed some breakfrees for those damn gas holds. In the Future FP, I fired off Enchantment of Serafina to protect from Numi and Sis' mez. We tried to pull one by one, but Sis and Bab came at the same time. We tried to focus on Sis, but Bab kept killing folks, so I popped Surge of Power and kept him busy until Sis went down. Then it was off to the Vindicator base. This is where it didn't work out. First and second pull for Mal resulted in everyone coming over. For the 3rd and 4th pull, the mind doms tried to sleep them, but eventually they woke up and attacked. We had Mal down to 10% HP, but over time, the other heroes took out team members one by one. After the 4th pull, one of the doms said he had enough of debt and took off.


LGTF -
After disbanding RSF, 3 of us were left, so I asked the team if they wanted to do an all dom run. We decided to go with a mixed team and do a shard run. We finished in 1 hr 13 mins.

For the lowbie SFs, I asked around if any dom was interested, but I didn't get any responses. *shrug*

So there you have it. Judge as you will. Feel free to try all Dom runs. It can be an interesting experience.

Rolled a new dom yesterday to celebrate my purchase of Going Rogue. It was Elec/Fire, and I knew little about Electric Control when I made it. For the first 11 levels or so, I mostly thought, "Well these powers are look cool together with the Omega Aura, but I'm not seeing anything worth being excited." Jolting Chain was neat, but that Conductive Aura wasn't doing much to keep my character alive and the Immobilizes weren't worth picking yet because I didn't have any reason to hold the enemies down and lose the knockback from Jolting Chain.

Then I hit level 12.

I was told my my friend on skype about three minutes later that if I wanted to keep cackling, I should mute my speaker.