Are elec dom's any good?

I love my Elec/Ice Dom. I loved leveling it so much that I went and made an Elec/Psy Dom for fun.

I have only two problems with the set. Synaptic Charge seems to have a relatively short "Jump Range" while taking a longer time to jump from enemy to enemy than Jolting Chain. This can lead to you getting far fewer enemies effected than you planned on. Second, knockback can DESTROY your enemy grouping. While being able to use Jolting Chain on immobilized enemies is a huge plus early in the game, when teaming you'll find that blasters and brutes who are reckless with their AoE will send each and every enemy flying out of your Stasis Field.

Electric Control, due to its combination of Endurance drain, soft control, and hard control, is one of the better sets in the game for dominators and controllers alike. It works extremely well on teams, but due to the delay in the activation of Synaptic Charge and the set's weakness to KB I think you'll find that solo will be easier at times.

Maybe it has to do with playstyles, though I do prefer to play controllers/defenders/corruptors, but I just can't get into Elec/Elec. Now I currently have a lvl 26 that, while the character itself is one of my favorites, the powerset just feels lacking to me. Maybe it's just me and I am going to do what I can to get past the hump, if there is one, but it's taking me a bit to enjoy him. Going through Praetoria felt like the longest time I ever had on a toon just to get him to 20, let alone getting him past 30.

Now, granted I did feel the same about Illusion until I got him past 35 and now he is one of my favorite toons so maybe I am jumping the gun a bit. I do know or at least feel like since one of electric's benefits is the end drain, I am doing something wrong because I find my blue bar bottoming out quite often, even with Dominance up.

As Airhammer said, Electric Control is really more about layered powers. Static Field is a key part of the set, but the most effective use is by combining powers. In low levels, Jolting Chain helps to occupy foes just long enough for Static Field to pulse its sleep. In upper levels, Jolting will likely become less useful, but I still think it is a fun power to make an entire group look like popcorn.

I have an Elec/Rad Controller at 47. Unfortunately, he's not on my main server or he would have been 50 long ago. I leveled him up all on PUGs, and have just started playing him solo. He is a safe, but not fast, solo controller. Adding Choking Cloud to the variety of controls in Electric makes him effective at shutting down groups continually. As Mr. Grumpums said, knockback becomes an issue since the set relies heavily upon Location-targetted control and chains.

As I said earlier, I'm working on an Elec/Earth Dom, mostly teaming with my buddy on a Mind/Fire. His DoT from his Fire set can sometimes be a problem for Static Field, but other than that, it is a really good combo. Electric Control is great at shutting down a group with Sleep and Endurance Drain. The Earth Assault set lets me take out individual foes while the rest sleep. (I plan to skip Mud Pots.) At low levels, I am far better at AoE control than my buddy's Mind Dom. Even with DOs, Static Field recharges quickly. It looks to me like a Dominator that I can stick with.

I've been running Living Electron (Electric/Energy Dom) for a few months now, just recently hitting 50 and reworking her build. As many others in this thread have already said, the control afforded by the multiple soft controls is excellent. Synaptic Overload is great if you throw it at the next mob while cleaning up the last stragglers in the prior fight, or even as a single-target confuse for annoying mobs (Sapper, I'm looking at you) just before jumping into a fight. Plenty has already been said about Static Field, all correct. And don't knock the end drain component, it can be very helpful in longer fights.

With the Energy secondary comes Power Boost, which means I can drop Static Field on a mob, hit Power Boost, jump into the middle of them with Conductive Aura, drop a Chain Fences, and the whole mob is completely end drained within seconds. Not a great solo strategy since they typically have enough End for one attack, but excellent in teams where someone else takes that first attack, especially if that someone else is squishier than a tank. Unfortunately you also get quite a bit of knockback with Energy, but the main attack I use is Bone Smasher which doesn't KB.

I can verify each jump has a chance to proc. My Devastation: Chance for Hold is well placed.

This is what Kraken thinks of Electric Doms:

He's seems to think they can beat him down as well as any team. Elec/Psy/Mace
[Note: This was the second attempt]

My Elec/Earth/Mace dom is a joy.

SLE soft cap, Permahasten/domination, does excellent Single target damage and OK aoe.

I haven't had a problem with too much agro, and even if that should occur, I have PFF to fall back on!

I have an Elec/Elec I find this great fun to play on teams also since I picked up my 2 Gremlin mates I can happily solo to my hearts content.I am up to lvl 43 at the moment and have not slotted it fully yet still have some IO,s to sort for it ,gets my vote as a fun dommi to play

I wrote a guide to my times with an elec/earth/Primal dom here.

Elec is a very powerful primary in terms of soft control. However, the soft control it provides is less apparent than the control provided by Earth and Mind, but the abilities you provide are invaluable to a good team environment. Your chain confuse, if you can slot the purple Confuse proc, will easily confuse groups of bosses, making you great for picking out adds and taking out groups in Incarnate Trials. Why kill them all when they can kill themselves? The chain knockdown is easily converted into a very cheap, decent AOE with the Reactive damage proc. However, the problem with the set is the same problem you find with Earth: pseudopet controls. Your controls, such as your chain knockdowns, and your chain confuse, only gain an increased mag or beneficial self-proc on the first hit, because you are the source of that power. The next bit of code says it creates a pet from that point, invisible, intangible and untargetable that targets the next enemy in range*. These do not gain the benefits of domination, but makes offensive procs very powerful in them, as each bounce has a chance to proc each effect.

*I think this is how it works. Someone feel free to correct me.

I have found something interesting out....

If you have massive rech, enough for permadom/permahasten, you can make a single power attack chain out of chain fences w/ pyronic? interface. I currently farm _with just that one power_. It is boring as hell, but I kill spawns of +2s in no time flat. When you mix in another power, you can flatten spawns in two to three seconds, excluding bosses.

Lame tho it may seem, slotted with interface chain fences is stupidly useful.