Plant Doms in BAF

Have been running the Incarnate trials and have discovered that my Plant Dom with permadom is surprisingly helpful in BAF. Specifically, just me and 1 or 2 other damagers can hold back ALL Reinforcement Spawns while the rest focus on the AVs.

With permadom and roughly 160% recharge (total), I can hit the spawns as soon as they materialize with Seeds of Confusion(Confuse Proc helps a bunch to ensure the whole mob gets mezzed) followed by immobilizing them. As a /Fire dom, and with assistance from a scrap or blaster, we can clear each spawn before the next comes up. Rarely do any mobs even get to the grass area. As long as I'm on a BAF with more than 12+ players, it very rarely fails when I'm focusing on the Reinforcements. Only fails occur when we have trouble synching up the Av deaths.

My question to others is whether you've also discovered your Dom can have a huge impact in the Incarnate Trials or any other TF/Trial.

I'm not sure the mass confuse for Mind Doms has fast enough recharge to spam on each mob. Plant doms truly rule in this niche specialty for BAFs and to a degree in the LAM due to the low confuse resistance of the mobs, excepting the Lt. prisoners.

I don't play a dom but I can say from a scrapper's perspective we love you mezzers on that part. Holds and immobilizations on those guys sure makes it easier to clear them quickly. Especially if you can hit them while they are all grouped together so our AOE attacks can hit them all. Very frustrating when those guys get scattered because 1-1 hunts take longer and are very dangerous since those guys get tougher the longer they are on the map.

One side note. These spawns are a big source of iXP in the BAF, to maximize it you should have members of every team participating (even if you don't really need them) so that all teams get iXP. And don't be two quick to kill off the AVs so you can get more spawns.

Good point and as a matter of fact I broadcasted in the League window to team captains to ensure that we had roughly equal damage represented from all teams. Only once was there 2 teams and just me and a scrapper held back the mobs. Typically, on a '24' BAF, there are 4-5 of us wiping out the reinforcement mobs.

I could tell that the AOErs were loving how tight the mobs were. Interesting side effect of confuse is that the mobs immediately aggro on each other and with my immob second in my chain, most mobs were very tight. The experience did not seem to suffer due to quick disposal of each mob.

Advice to other plant doms.. don't use creepers. While it adds extra damage, it also raises the potential of a boss aggroing on you. I did that only once and died... by the time I got back from the hospital, the Reinforcements had gotten out of control.

Mine's not permadom, a bit less than 1/3 of the way there. But still had only occasional issues with confusing the spawns. The trick is that confusion is not the only tool in Plant's box. Creepers, vines, chance to hold slotted in roots, etc. and I was able to lock down all of the spawns with the help of some scrappers and a traps corrupter.

On a later run with a permadom plant tag teaming them it was much easier. So yes it is helpful. But by no means necessary.

The most surprising aspect of plants on that TF is actually on the second phase. With Sleet, my creepers kill off entire waves of spawns, including lieutenants. Every time a new enemy enters the patch I get another vine, and the vines last for several spawns, so it seems like I'm building up 12-20 vines, each of which is hitting for 10-20 damage, and then proc'ing for another 60 damage fairly frequently. It's great.

For a change of pace I'm thinking of respec'ing. How good is the Mako pet compared to the lore pets?

I love creepers. How do you have yours slotted?

I went two Acc/Dam Hamios, two generic recharge and two damage procs (Slow set and Posi's blast).

my fire/psi perma dom is brutally effective at locking down the spawns of convicts, with one exception. my recharge is so high (205%), that because of sever side lag i never know what power is ready to use.

my fire cages recharge in a tad less than 2 seconds, and I have had it take up to 10 seconds to become usable again after the icon has refreshed. the same thing happens with all my powers, so I hear the "this power is not ready" sound alot durring that phase. once that phase is over everything goes back to normal.

I have a plant thorn that is close to perma, but hav not runn it on trials yet, I think I might soon though

The BAF makes my Ice/Fire Dominator really jealous of... every other set. It's gotten a lot better with some level shifts, but this is one part I just can't handle alone, mainly because all boss spawn = immunity to Arctic Air's confusion. He still rocks the prisoner part though. It seems that -Jump isn't resisted by the lieuts, so if you block their path while standing on an Ice Slick, they'll go nuts trying to pathfind and buy you a little extra time.

I LOVE playing my plant storm controller on BAF's . Creepers and freezing rain is pure win at the doors. Also, any persistant damage/mez powers do wonders for that phase of the trial!

Sign me up on the test server. Plant/Fire/Fire Here on freedom.

A bit on an aside, but I'm finding my doms are also top notch for the Lambda trial. Built for perma-dom and a bit of stealth, I can go in neutralize the mobs surrounding the vats or crates and take down the objective. (Bonus points to Mind for doing this with little to no aggro.) Heck, even mezzing mobs on the way makes it easier for others to navigate the corridors.