Mind/Ice/Fire
Awesome control, good AoE damage, fairly cheap to Perma and can be done pre-50. Perma makes it a beast, Incarnate powers make it a minor deity. If you need defense at all you did something wrong.
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Generally, this is true of a lot of well-built, well-played Doms. My best defense is a crushed and mangled pile of bodies... |
Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
If you need defense at all you did something wrong.
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I would tend to agree, except that some Dom primaries do not gain the same benefits from Perma Dom and Power Boost. Mind, Plant, Earth, and Elec are strong primaries and I haven't found defense important even prior to Perma.|
Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker
Generally, this is true of a lot of well-built, well-played Doms. My best defense is a crushed and mangled pile of bodies...
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Ice, Fire, and Grav are weaker primaries and I have found that 25-35% defense to S/L or ranged can be a boon (or soft capped in the case of grav).
-Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein.
-I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
-When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. - Thomas Jefferson
I'd say be wary about choosing ice as your primary.
I have an ice/earth dom that is a lot of fun to play, but her effectiveness can really be dulled down to zero in a lot of cases. Especially in things like the ITF where nearly all the mobs have high KB resistance.
Any mobs highly resistant to knockdown will be really rough on you since the biggest control for ice is ice slick. Most of the time this is a great control, because the mobs have very few opprotunities to attack you when they're continually falling, but on teams you find that people will immobilze mobs which, most control sets, will cause the mobs to stop falling. Or someone will knock all the mobs off the ice slick. This can effectively neutralize you're most effective control.
I've actually found myself KO'd a few times, because I'm at melee with a boss that's falling all over ice slick, someone hits an immob and I take a couple of heavy shots that puts me down.
The redundancies of the slows in ice can be particuarly useless as well. It usually doesn't matter how fast a mob is moving if it dies in the first few seconds of a fight. This also tends to lower the average benefit of -recharge powers. If a mob only has one chance to attack, it doesn't really matter how fast or slow it's powers recharge. It's great on hard targets like AV's, but on average it's going to be less useful.
Unless Ice is thematic for you, I'd generally steer away from it.
so after some thinkin i decided on elec/ice/ice came up with this build some purples but from what i know thares "cheap" sets.
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Level 50 Magic Dominator
Primary Power Set: Electric Control
Secondary Power Set: Icy Assault
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Ice Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Tesla Cage -- BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(A), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(5), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(5), BasGaze-Acc/Hold(7)
Level 1: Ice Bolt -- Entrpc-Heal%(A), Entrpc-Acc/Dmg(7), Entrpc-Dmg/EndRdx(21), Entrpc-Dmg/Rchg(31), Entrpc-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(31)
Level 2: Ice Sword -- C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx(A), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg(42), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(43), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(43), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(43)
Level 4: Ice Sword Circle -- Oblit-%Dam(A), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(40), Oblit-Dmg(40), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(42), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(42), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(45)
Level 6: Jolting Chain -- Decim-Acc/Dmg(A), Decim-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(34), Decim-Dmg/EndRdx(34), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(36), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(36)
Level 8: Conductive Aura -- Efficacy-EndMod/EndRdx(A), Efficacy-EndMod(9), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(9), Numna-Heal(19), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(19), Numna-Heal/Rchg(21)
Level 10: Stealth -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), S'dpty-Def(11), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(11)
Level 12: Static Field -- FtnHyp-Sleep/EndRdx(A), FtnHyp-Sleep(13), FtnHyp-Sleep/Rchg(13), FtnHyp-Acc/Sleep/Rchg(15), FtnHyp-Acc/Rchg(15)
Level 14: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), DefBuff-I(17), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(17)
Level 16: Power Boost -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 18: Fly -- Frbd-Stlth(A)
Level 20: Chain Fences -- Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(A), Posi-Acc/Dmg(46), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(46), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(50), Posi-Dam%(50)
Level 22: Paralyzing Blast -- BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(23), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(23), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(31)
Level 24: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(25), RechRdx-I(25)
Level 26: Synaptic Overload -- CoPers-Conf/EndRdx(A), CoPers-Conf(27), CoPers-Conf/Rchg(27), CoPers-Acc/Conf/Rchg(29), CoPers-Acc/Rchg(29)
Level 28: Chilling Embrace -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 30: Invisibility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 32: Gremlins -- ExRmnt-Acc/Rchg(A), ExRmnt-+Res(Pets)(33), ExRmnt-EndRdx/Dmg/Rchg(33), ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg(33), ExRmnt-Dmg/EndRdx(34), ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46)
Level 35: Ice Slash -- C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx(A), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(36), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(37), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg(37), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(37)
Level 38: Bitter Ice Blast -- Decim-Acc/Dmg(A), Decim-Dmg/EndRdx(39), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(39), Decim-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(39), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(40)
Level 41: Sleet -- HO:Ribo(A)
Level 44: Frozen Armor -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), DefBuff-I(45), DefBuff-I(45)
Level 47: Ice Storm -- Posi-Dmg/Rng(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(48), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(48), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(48), Posi-Dam%(50)
Level 49: Hibernate -- Heal-I(A)
Level 50: Musculature Radial Paragon
Level 50: Reactive Radial Flawless Interface
Level 0: Freedom Phalanx Reserve
Level 0: Portal Jockey
Level 0: Task Force Commander
Level 0: The Atlas Medallion
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Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-Heal(3), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(3)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- P'Shift-End%(A)
Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Domination
Level 1: Sprint -- QckFt-EndRdx/RunSpd(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run
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Say that when you are trying to fight the PToD on a non Mind/ Dom
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Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker
Generally, this is true of a lot of well-built, well-played Doms. My best defense is a crushed and mangled pile of bodies...
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"Yes, winning all the time can be boring."
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"It's amazing how well you can put up with endurance issues if you hide them under a large enough pile of bodies."
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First, yes the sleep and confuse are two of the affordable purple sets. In fact the basilisk gaze will be more expensive than those. Try to run the Signature Story arc and some tips for Alignment merits or run iTrials for astrals to buy those and you can cut a huge chunk of the price out of your build.
Personally, I'd put the stealth in sprint not fly.
If you can spare a slot (haste maybe) putting the achilees heel proc in sleet is always nice.
For stealth, if you can put in the other two from Gambler rather than from serendipity, to get a much better bonus. They really aren't that expensive if you buy the recipe and craft it yourself.
I'd pull one from health and put it in tesla cage and drop in a dam/mez hammio. they are dirt cheap on the market and the cage actually has very good damage. Enough that it's worth augmenting and using as a single-target attack.
If you can, drop a damage proc in jolting chain, it does test on each jump like an AoE so definitely worthwhile. Another option given the set you chose is the chance to hold.
for Frozen armor, I'd want some end reduction. Consider at least the gambler def/end or a def/end hammi. But the hami is expensive.
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I made a elect/elect with perma domination. Pretty fun to play. Not sure what my next one will be.
Kill the enemy. Take their souls. Drink their blood.
So gf just hit 45 on the dom u guys helped her make. 700 mil latr shes perma domed now. She let me play for a bit. Was alot of funn. So deleted a few alts I ant
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So ill start by saying earth ctrl is not my thing.
Looking over the ctrls. Ice/ mind/ elec/ all look nice to me.
Assaults.. Earth/ psy/ ice/ and semi nrg/ all look nice.
Power boost is the main seller on them psy/ for crazy regain skill.
Lookin for fun char. What would be like 3/4 stromg combos from above. Plan on ice app for sheild. Plan on makin them all and lvlin to atleast 25 to find the one I like.