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Your post is a bit confusing. What are you looking for? You talk about making an Elec/Fire Controller, when there is no "Fire" secondary for controllers, but there is a */Fire for Dominators. Maybe you meant "Thermal" as a secondary for Controllers?|
Originally Posted by Tourettes
Specifically is it more advantageous to be Controller instead of Dom w/ the Elec/ Powerset? I took it on a Dom and got to 20 and the dmg was not there. (Elec/Elec). So going to re-roll and wondering thoughts of being controller vs Dom w/ this powerset. Doesn't seem I get many miles out of "Domination" power w/ this set. But the sleep is amazing.
Thoughts? Also, what would be a great secondary set to pair it w/ for pure dmg? I'm thinking /fire, but I miss a lot of the fine details. Thanks, Tourettes |
And which is more "advantageous" is really a matter of opinion. Do you want Damage? Do you want Crowd Control? Do you want to provide team support through a combination of crowd control and buff/debuff, or do you want to be able to solo or contribute damage to a team? Dominators have a secondary devoted to damage, so they will do a lot more damage than Controllers, whose secondary is a buff/debuff set. Controllers get Containment, but that doesn't make up for a damage set. Electric Control is one of the lowest damage powersets, so if you are looking for damage with Electric, then a Dominator is the clear choice.
Dominators control crowds and then kill stuff. Controllers are more varied, in that some Controllers make their teammates better by controlling and then making it easier for the teammates to kill stuff, but aren't all that great at killing stuff themselves (Elec, Earth and Ice are the lower damage sets). Some controllers are pretty good at killing larger groups (Fire Control and Plant), while some controllers are good at killing single targets (Illusion, Mind, Grav).
With Electric as a primary, there are several secondaries that have a lot of synergy. Time and Rad, in particular, plus Kinetics, all can have a melee focus that goes well with Electric's Conductive Aura. But don't expect to kill stuff very fast. There is a long thread about the wonders of Elec/Cold, but I'm not convinced that Elec/Cold has a lot of synergy.
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With a dominator, your primary really isn't intended to be your source of damage. If your damage seems a bit anemic, then you may want to point the finger at your secondary. Controllers, on the other hand, have to leverage their controls for containment and the debuffs from their secondary to deal heavier damage.
In regards to Electric Control for dominators, it is good but not mind blowing. Unfortunately, neither it's sleep or the chaining confuse really benefit from Domination (the confuse only dominates on the first target). I consider that a considerable downside when many other control sets' bread and butter controls, e.g. Seeds of Confusion, Stalagmites, or Flash Fire, do benefit from domination. It's still a formidable sapper for both dominators and controllers, so I wouldn't rule it out entirely because that's a good bit of control as well. It just doesn't have the immediate lock down you'd find with a perma-dom plant dom, for instance.
If you want damage, a Controller's not exactly the best way to go. I'd say just reroll your Dominator with a different secondary.
I have both Elec/Psi and Elec/Energy Doms. The /Energy Dom deals very good single target damage, which allows you to really leverage the sleep field. Keeps the spawn nicely contained while you mow them down 1 at a time. Energy's not the best for AoE though. (Possibly the worst.)
I play the Psi more or less the same way, Sleep>Single DPS. The fun comes from combining Conductive Aura's -end and +Regen/Recovery with Drain Psyche's -Recovery and +Regen/Recovery. Not as good at single target damage as the /Energy, but better AoE and endless endurance/good-very good HP recovery while Drain Psyche is up.
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I have to agree with much of what has been said here.
The Controller gets its damage from its primary, pets ( if it has one ) and eventually its Ancillary pools. The Controller focuses more on Control and Buff/Debuffs. Of course this can vary depending on the Controller. Fire lends itself very well to damage..
Dominators get the majority of their damage from their secondary which is an assault secondary. They do what i can the Lock it down.. Take it down...
Electric as a Controller primary is low on damage. Having an Elec/Rad I can debuff and lock stuff down very very well. I just wont defeat it as fast as a Dom will.
While Electric might not benefit from Domination as well as others it still does benefit.. And perma dom as we all know is Chocolate Awesomesauce...
Elec/Psi will probably do a little more damage than an Elec/Elec Dom..
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Specifically is it more advantageous to be Controller instead of Dom w/ the Elec/ Powerset? I took it on a Dom and got to 20 and the dmg was not there. (Elec/Elec). So going to re-roll and wondering thoughts of being controller vs Dom w/ this powerset. Doesn't seem I get many miles out of "Domination" power w/ this set. But the sleep is amazing.
Thoughts?
Also, what would be a great secondary set to pair it w/ for pure dmg? I'm thinking /fire, but I miss a lot of the fine details.
Thanks,
Tourettes
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