1) Dominators where changed to do more damage, while domination was changed to stop giving more damage, or a very small buff, I can't remember which. It worked out so that Dominators where doing better damage regardless of domination, which allowed them to perform better at all levels instead of having to rely on Permadom. Domination still doubles the magnitude of your mez effects, and still offers you mez protection, as well as refilling your endurance and breaking you out of mez effects.
2) It is still just as possible to permadom, and generally still worth it if you like mez protection and the ability to make bosses your plaything. It's probably easier too, given that there are faster ways of acquiring expensive IO's.
3) Hasten is still the same as it's always been. It's actually easier to get to perma-hasten status as well, thanks to new Incarnate abilities which allow you to ignore some of the effects of Enhancement Diversification and buff aspects of all your powers.
Warkupo is on the money.
One of the easiest ways to get the most expensive recipes - short of the purples - is to gain Alignment Merits, either blue or red side. First you do 10 missions to reaffirm your alignment, and do a morality mission. Then, every 10 alignment tip mission + the morality mission will award an "A merit" (2 days minimum). Who Will Die mini task forces also offer "A-mertis" as rewards. You can do a WWD TF twice the first time through on a character and get 2 "A-merits" After that first week, you can get an A-merit once a week per character for WWD TFs. They really do add up quickly.
Remember you cannot email A-merits to other characters, but you surely can email a Luck of the Gambler +7.5% recharge recipe/enhancement.
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Hey all,
I've been out of the loop for a while & I'm recently returned to the game. I stopped playing back in 2010, and about that time the big thing with dominators was to boost recharge to "PermaDom". Right before I left they did something to the recharge, and they boosted the damage of Dominators secondary, as well as making some changes to the Dominate power itself. It's a little less than 2 years later & I'm wondering where things stand now.
1) Is the Dominate power back to the way it was before all those changes? I don't see a difference from the way it used to be, so I'm confused by that.
2) Is it still possible to PermaDom these days?
3) Did the recharge for Hasten get a huge nerf?
I've run a few searches, but some of these questions are ancient history, making it a bit hard to track down.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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