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Wow, in before the million posts from cry-babies saying "fire/psi got nerfed to hell and can't farm anymore go play a brute". =)|
Originally Posted by SuperT
Hi guys,
Although I've been playing COH/COV for years, I've always been a melee guy (scraps, tanks, stalkers). Well, with double XP weekend here, I'd like to try out something new and was wondering what the best primary/secondary choices are for mainly AV killing, as well as farming a typical warrior map. I'm sure all the power choices are good but never playing a dominator I'd like to get some feedback from the experts. |
For AV killing Mind/anything is the top. For farming that's Fire/psi or plant/anything.
While Fire/psi isn't what it used to be a few issues back, it is still very capable and fun. Yes brutes can out farm dominators, but that doesn't mean dom's "can't" farm and can't be fun.
There are no warrior maps redside and I take my plant/ice mostly against the hardest enemies I can find rather than farming, but I was very happy soloing at +1/x8 against the snowman this winter event, against council, 5th column and even circle of thorns. I can't take x8 spawns of malta or carnies without the occasional death and since I prefer to fight them, I typically don't run at x8. But then I also am running with less than 15% defense and not only not perma-dom but I typically don't even use it except to get some extra endurance. An actual farming build would do a hell of a lot better than I do.
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If you want to be an AV killer, I suggest a Mind/Fire Dom. That seems to be the general consensus around here.
Now if only I liked playing mind control....
If you want to be able to deal the most damage, you'll probably want to roll up a Fire/Fire Dom. Fiery Embrace boosts the damage of your control powers as well as your secondary, and when you throw in the attacks from the Fire APP the damage is nearly as high as a Fire Blaster.
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Ok thanks for the info!! I've been cruising through some of the posts as well... I really like electric on my melee characters, is it any good for Dominators in terms of AV killing?
I don't really know that any of the Primaries are all that good at AV-killing, since Control is extremely limited by the Purple Triangles of Doom. Mind is only good at keeping an AV from fighting you before you're ready because of Mass Hypnosis and Mesmerize, since AVs have Boss-level protection against Sleep. Most of the other primaries don't have Sleep (Plant does, but it causes aggro and needs Domination to work on AVs). Unless Static Field stacks with itself or is affected by Domination, Elec doesn't have AV-capable sleep.
Don't pick your primary based on fighting AVs unless you plan on doing the LRSF on your Dominator, and want to do more than just attack the whole time. If you do, pick Mind as your primary and /Energy, /Icy, or /Earth as your secondary. Either way, once the fight starts, your Primary just straight up isn't going to work 66% of the time unless you're a really tricked-out permadom.
Hi guys,
Although I've been playing COH/COV for years, I've always been a melee guy (scraps, tanks, stalkers). Well, with double XP weekend here, I'd like to try out something new and was wondering what the best primary/secondary choices are for mainly AV killing, as well as farming a typical warrior map. I'm sure all the power choices are good but never playing a dominator I'd like to get some feedback from the experts.