Ice Control/Psychic Assault


Kusac

 

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I'm looking at respecing my dominator now that he has his Incarnate unlocked and was wondering if anyone has some build tips. Currently he's built to slow the baddies down to a crawl and nerf their recharge to all hell.


@Kashini Aldatan
Victory Server

 

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Could you post your build. I have mine almost at 50, and IO'd out for what his goal was. Also what are you looking for in a build? (Hopefully rech is #1)


 

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Funny, I was coming to the Dom forum to talk about exactly this kind of Dominator...



I'm looking to rebuild her from Ice/Psy/Mu to Ice/Psi/Ice. I've been assembling a bunch of inf for this and I have a budget of roughly 2 billion for it, plus I already have a lot of sets slotted (unfortunately, I changed computers and in my haste to covert my boxes, deleted her Mids file :/ ). I have a few goals in mind:


* I love love love Arctic Air. This power alone really makes me feel like a Dominator. Everybody around me in lost in a snowstorm, slowed to a crawl and shooting their friends. The few that seem to realize what's going on have to stumble slowly out, only to get shot in the back by their own pals or Jack Frost. I need to keep this. It could be 5 slotted with the Confuse purple set.

* Ice Patch. Against many many foes, this is a game changer, both solo and on teams. You can keep a whole spawn flopping like landed fish, and you can do so around corners. What's not to love? Slot this with 2 lvl 50 +rech and voila.

* The AOE immob. It ruins Ice Patch so I specced out of it ages ago and never looked back.

* The snipe and first Psy Dart stink. Ignore the first, didn't slot the second. It's not even on any of my bars any more. I have better things to do. My build must avoid these.

* Ice's AOE sleep and AOE slow/recharge powers are great. The sleep is a dream when soloing - and the purple set was cheap. With some set bonus +recharge and a Spiritual Alpha, Shiver is awesome with just a singe acc enhancement. You can keep it perma and even-con enemies are mostly at the -recharge floor with one cast. Stack this with Arctic Air and the -recharge from Psy attacks and even high level AVs are attacking at a third of their usual rate. Soft control FTW. I'd like to keep my purple set in the sleep and just an +acc IO in Shiver.

* Drain Psyche is cheating. Drain Psyche + Perma Dom + Psy Shockwave in the middle of a howling self-made blizzard is distilled HAX. Those few enemies able to function in the middle of all that confuse, -rech, -movement and stuns will barely dent your up to 80 hits a sec regen. Not to mention capping end recovery is a snap. I've found that it really doesn't need end mod enhancements, so I should put a good Heal set in there. Heck, I don't even need the +recovery IOs because of this. +45% recovery? Pfft, try +450%!

* What will soon be my newest toy: Sleet. Holy cow, is this good. AOE slow, -rech, a bit of damage to show them who's boss, and monster nerfs to their defense and resistance. Two of the few ways that I hadn't been messing with enemies in one AOE package! (I already stun, hold, sleep, knockdown, knockback, slow, -recharge, confuse, -regen, -recovery, and immobilize mobs.) Sleet was actually the reason I was posting for build help - I wanted to include it and disagreed with some major choices in a couple builds I had checked out (I am not a fan of aoe immobs. They screw up my Ice Patches).
I'm not sure what to do with it yet except for the Achilles' Heel -resist proc and a bunch of -def bonus.

* TK Thrust. I like it and have to have it. It has high damage, and a little knockback can be good for positioning purposes, getting that boss off your case purposes and "Throw fools helluva far" purposes. I don't get builds that don't take this if only to make beating bosses and EBs much faster.

* I won't be taking Hibernate due to Drain Psyche, though I'd miss the "Oh crap" button that it is.

* However, everything else in the /Ice Epic pool is sooooo tasty. With Frozen Armor, I could probably get my smash/lethal defenses to 25%, which nicely deflects half of the usual attacks that would land (more would be great). Hoarfrost is not just a nice heal now and again, but the +30% hit points means that Drain Psyche becomes that much better. Woo to the hoo! Ice Storm would be fancy, too. Even with a lot of +rech it is probably not up *every* spawn, but it can get a decent amount of AOE damage to stack on Psy Shockwave and Psy Scream. Not to mention it make enemies try to scatter realllly slowwwwly. Which is nice because then they are not attacking you. Plus, it's all thematic and stuff. Each of these are probably going to need to end up with 3 to five slots.


Anyway, I love this character and I am looking forward to really min-maxing her. Now if only Perma Dom could be made easier with Alpha slotting...


tl;dr version:

I want some build help, too. Here are my wants and thoughts in a somewhat organized wall of text. Any help or thoughts would be grand. Happy recharge nerfing!


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