I don't think there's much synergy between mind and energy, to be honest. Really, your secondary does 2 things for a Dominator:
1) Damage. This is the no brainer, most every secondary can bring it here.
2) Stacking magnitude with your primary.
For Mind/Nrg, you've got Confuses, Sleeps and Holds in your Primary, and stuns/knockback in your secondary. No stacking effects to speak of.
Fire doesn't have any secondary effects at all, but it DOES deliver the most damage of all the Dom secondaries, and dead mobs don't need to be controlled. If I were you, I'd definitely go with Mind/Fire over Mind/Energy. Mind has an embarrassment of riches in the control department, so really, damage is mostly what you need out of your secondary. Earth/Fire is also a strong pairing.
IMO, the only primary that synergizes really strongly with /Energy is Gravity. With Wormhole, you can teleport a boss right under your feet, then set up an immediate Total Focus, safely delivering a Mag 6 stun to any one target, while putting Mag 3 on all his escorts.
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Sure there is; you can easily perma-Sleep a whole group with Mass Hypnosis and kill them one by one in complete safety. And all of Mind/'s powers benefit from Power Boost.
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Originally Posted by Magentrix
I don't think there's much synergy between mind and energy, to be honest.
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Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth
That's not synergy. Any secondary can do that. /Fire will, in fact, do that a lot faster than /Energy. Yes, power boost makes any dom's primary controls better for a short period, but as you say, you can perma-sleep a whole spawn as Mind/ anyway, so what's 15 seconds of +100% base duration on your controls if you've got everyone perma-snoozing to begin with?
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No they can't. Many are more AoE oriented; as for /Fire specifically, the DoT breaks sleep.
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Originally Posted by Magentrix
That's not synergy. Any secondary can do that. /Fire will, in fact, do that a lot faster than /Energy.
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Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth
Thanks for the replies guys.
I came up with a concept and made an Earth/Fire called Terra Strike; great fun so far.
Thanks again
L50s: Tanks: Cryofission - Ice/EM - Dr Celsius - Fire/Ice - Saint George - SD/SS | Controllers: Psichosis - Ill/Kin - Major Chaos - Ill/Stm | Scrappers - Neutron Crusader - DM/SR
Currently Levelling: Angelic Blade - BS/WP Scrapper | Seeds of Destruction - Plant/Kin Controller
Hi all,
I'm pretty new to Dominators, currently I've got a low level Mind/Energy partly for concept and partly due to all the good things that I've read.
Recently I've seen alot on Mind/Fire and how good they are, so my questions are:
How does a Mind/Fire compare to a Mind/Energy are they equally capable?
How does an Earth/Fire compare to a Mind/Fire, as I'm considering keeping the Mind/Energy and making an Earth/Fire - dependant on feed back?
Thanks
L50s: Tanks: Cryofission - Ice/EM - Dr Celsius - Fire/Ice - Saint George - SD/SS | Controllers: Psichosis - Ill/Kin - Major Chaos - Ill/Stm | Scrappers - Neutron Crusader - DM/SR
Currently Levelling: Angelic Blade - BS/WP Scrapper | Seeds of Destruction - Plant/Kin Controller