Mind/Fire/Fire Help

I completely agree. Holds is the mitigation and, well, your Primary powers should be...PRIMARY.

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Perma Hasten/Dom (well, technically .22 seconds from perma Hasten).
45% Ranged
27% S/L Resistance
Good Endurance management
Full slate of powers, AoEs, ST attacks.

Yeah, I have to say that my Dom is by far my most survivable squishy. I've been on many teams with timid tank in which I'm the one that does the alpha strike. That said, I like seeing creative character builds so I'd like to see a sample build of a Mind/Fire with high defenses.

Different strokes for different folks, but Defense is definitely worthwhile. When planning out my Mind/Fire, I ran into a dilemma of the indecisive-power-gamer kind to which I'm often prone:

One of the main selling points of Dominators is that they can get consistent status protection from perma-Domination. If all of my squishier characters (on which I miss status protection) have high DEF, then will my perma-Dom with no DEF seem a vast improvement by comparison? Will I, in fact, be taking full advantage of the Dom's status protection relative to those other characters?

After pondering that question for awhile, I finally decided the answer was no, but the answer isn't the same for everyone.

It is certainly true that Doms have enough proactive mitigation (in the form of control) to survive quite well through most content. In fact, I had a pure-recharge perma-Dom build by level 30 that I used for the last twenty levels quite happily. But ultimately, for me, in order for the Dominator to reach its full potential as (IMO) the most situation-proof AT in the entire game, it has to have some passive DEF to layer behind its control. The issue isn't whether or not I planned to do my job correctly; the issue was to what extent I could minimize the character's weaknesses so as to have an answer for almost every situation.

There are good sides and bad to that approach. For one, if you're going for ranged DEF, you have to sacrifice some recharge. Not a huge amount, and in my mind not so much that it makes a significant difference (more on this in a sec), but it is something. You're also probably going to have pay more for the build.

DEF also allows you to avoid a lot of slow debuffs, so there will conceivably be situations where the non-DEF Dom with uber recharge will actually have less than a high ranged-DEF Dom.

This is semi-offtopic in a Mind/Fire/Fire thread, but just for the sake of thoroughness it's also worth noting that Dominators who take the Mace/Ice Mastery pools can achieve the Smash/Lethal softcap and give up virtually nothing in terms of recharge. The only downside is that you don't have the extra resistance to layer behind your defense that, say, a Fire Mastery build would have (or the all-important Fire Ball ).

Anyway, this is the build I'm using now:

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.92
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Imperia: Level 50 Mutation Dominator
Primary Power Set: Mind Control
Secondary Power Set: Fiery Assault
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Fire Mastery
Highlights:

• ~4 seconds of downtime on Hasten. (95% global recharge from IOs)
• Ranged DEF soft cap.
• Mass Confuse/Total Dom alternatively available every ~35 seconds.
• Hovers at ~38 MPH. (Mid's is wrong on this one, dunno why exactly.)
• Capable of perma-Dom when exemped down to about level 27.
• Originally the intention was to go for the Spiritual Alpha, but after playing around with the build for awhile I decided to go with Cardiac (End/Range/Sleep/Fear). The effect on Fire Breath alone is worth it. Out-ranging the Pylons in Apex with Blaze is a nice perk too. In any case, one of the consequences of that decision is that I can run all of my scantily enhanced RES toggles for 51% S/L resistance. And Superspeed for the stealth, full-time.

As far as flaws go, the only thing that tweaks me sometimes when I consider the build is the under-enhanced Rain of Fire. Unfortunately, there's no good solution for that. I don't have an AoE immobilize, so RoF is pretty situational anyway (only consistently at its full potential when Total Dom is up, or when I have some sort of teammate support to keep mobs bunched together). Again, though, even an under-enhanced RoF fits the theme of minimizing weaknesses; the avoid effect it induces in NPC opponents is a nice fallback soft control for tight spaces where I can't otherwise ensure a ranged posture. Plus, it looks cool.

Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze Nice build