Defense for a dominator (Mind/Psi)


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Coming from Blasters/Scrapper/Warshade I'm curious on if I should build for defense by taking weave, maneuvers, hover, indomitable will, ect. Or if I should ignore those and take things like recall friend and telekinesis. Assuming permadom after level 27 from purple and pvp IOs would it be better to go for +hp bonuses to mesh with Drain Psyche in the case of mind/psi?

Or should I build it like my blaster and scrapper where getting to that 45% is before other things.


 

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For a perma Mind/ Dom all recharge is a fine way to go. If you need defense you are doing something wrong.


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Sounds good, thanks for the advice, I built for defense then realized they wouldn't be attacking me. So it didn't have a use.


 

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Go Ice mastery and get to 45% s/l defense. It does help. You don't really have to sacrifice anything to get there (mine has 128% rchg+hasten on top of 45% S/L). The Defense is very nice to have so you don't have to use your long recharge controls on every spawn so that you can save them for when you need them. Plus as a Mind dom your controls wont always be up.


 

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only time i'd suggest not going for defense is when you have a fire secondary. in which case the fire app is ideal. other than that, defense is the the truth. notably ice mastery. it's not like you have to sacrifice permadom. you can have both. and defense really does help a lot. and with the melee attacks in /psy, it should be hard to get.


 

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Originally Posted by B_Nix View Post
Coming from Blasters/Scrapper/Warshade I'm curious on if I should build for defense by taking weave, maneuvers, hover, indomitable will, ect. Or if I should ignore those and take things like recall friend and telekinesis. Assuming permadom after level 27 from purple and pvp IOs would it be better to go for +hp bonuses to mesh with Drain Psyche in the case of mind/psi?

Or should I build it like my blaster and scrapper where getting to that 45% is before other things.
If a perma mind dom needs actual defense outside of rotating hold, sleep, fear and confuse AoEs, then something isn't right.


Please buff Ice Control.

 

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mind/psi should either go defense or pure recharge for perma DP.

if you have enough recharge for perma DP, chances are all of your long recharge controls are practically perma, too.


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I ended up rerolling as a mind/fire and built for +damage and recharge. I ended up with 25% s/l/e defense. Not capped but it was an afterthought in this case.