Get Mace Mastery like everyone else. Great +DEF and none of that blockhead stuff. Just a faint dark purple glow.
And Soul Drain is available to Dom's now as PPP? Its been a long time since I had a toon with Soul Mastery, but back then a Dom couldn't get that power (only available to Corrs).
Softcap to what? I posted somewhere in here the rudimentary slotting for softcap range and permadom. It is pretty easy to do range/permadom without resorting to ppps or apps.
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Hew in drag baby
I don't want to softcap range when my aoe is melee and Midnight grasp range is so short you need to me in melee also. I want to softcap S/L at the very least.
"I have always been a fan of science fiction. It all started when my parents forced me to go to church when I was a child."
after softcapping my earth/earth/ice dom, it's hard to look back. only exception being any /fire toon that goes for the fire app.
The thing about mace mastery though is it has no heal. I do not like the ice armor look, but it does not take away from the value of it. I also love the self +hp and heal for a set that only has drain life. You also get blizzard which is quite nice for AoE and even sleet if you want some more aoe fun.
I have been leveling now and I am L47 Dark/Dark/Soul and I often find that I forget to even use soul drain. I also have SO many attacks and dark control powers I am finding it difficult to have them all lol. So I think I am going to switch to Ice and see how I like that. I know I loved it on my Ice/Psi/Ice.
"I have always been a fan of science fiction. It all started when my parents forced me to go to church when I was a child."
It's not cheap but this is what i came up with.
Perma-Dom Ranged Def Soft cap.
Dark Grasp: 4 Slots Basilisk Gaze
Living Shadows: 6 Slots, SATO's
Posses: 6 Slots Coercive Persuasion
Fearsome Stare: 6 Slots Cloud Senses
Heart of Darkness: 5 Slots Absolute Amazement
Shadow Field: 5 Slots Unbreakable Constraint
Umbra Beast: 4 Slots Expedient Reinforcement
Dark Blast: 3 Slots Thunderstrike
Smite: 6 Slots Mako's Bite
Gloom: 3 Slots Thunderstrike
Gather Shadows: 1 Slot reachage
Engulfing Darkness: 6 slots Eradication
Life Drain: 4 Slots
Midnight Grasp: 6 Slots Mako's Bite
Dark Embrace: 1 Slot
Dark Obliteration: 5 Slots Posi's Blast
Soul Drain: 4 Slots Eradication
Stamina: 3 Slots Performance shifters
Combat Jumping: 1 Slot LoTG 7.5
Super Speed: 1 Slot
Hasten: 3 Slots
Boxing
Tough: 3 slots Glad Arm 3%, Steadfast 3%, Res/End
Weave: 3 Slots LotG
Maneuvers: 2 slots LotG 7.5
Puts you at 46.6 Ranged def If added every thing correctly. and 88.8 recharge.
I totally Miss Mids
The below is 63 slots out of a possible 70 total extra slots you get. I have a few problems with the build, but that is just my personal opinion.
I took both pets and 6 slotted 1 and 4 slotted the other for 2 6.25% rechs, moved the ATOs to the fear for a 100% proc fire instead of the REALLY CRAPPY proc firing in living shadows, cloud senses in living shadows, 6 slot stupefy in the stun, 4 baslisk + dam/mez hamio in grasp, and a wide mix of other powers to max my def including man/veng. Softcapping and permadoming my way (2 rech +3/+2, bunch of random other crap) gives you also perma veng. It is nice to have veng up all the time imo. I managed to get all 5 lotg +7.5s in the build without taking tough/weave/boxing, which was just an expenditure of 3 powers I thought could be used better elsewhere. The only purple set I have is the confuse, for the mad tight contagious confusion and 5% ranged def. 
There are so many +rech/+range def that it seems a mistake to overlook them. I did run into a problem of 6 6.25% rechs, and had to slot something else in there that was less than optimum. But I managed to get 98% rech before hasten. I lack tough, but if I ended up in a position where I needed it, I am probably dead anyway. And it is only good vrs s/l anyway.
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Originally Posted by Kadra
It's not cheap but this is what i came up with.
Perma-Dom Ranged Def Soft cap. Dark Grasp: 4 Slots Basilisk Gaze Living Shadows: 6 Slots, SATO's Posses: 6 Slots Coercive Persuasion Fearsome Stare: 6 Slots Cloud Senses Heart of Darkness: 5 Slots Absolute Amazement Shadow Field: 5 Slots Unbreakable Constraint Umbra Beast: 4 Slots Expedient Reinforcement Dark Blast: 3 Slots Thunderstrike Smite: 6 Slots Mako's Bite Gloom: 3 Slots Thunderstrike Gather Shadows: 1 Slot reachage Engulfing Darkness: 6 slots Eradication Life Drain: 4 Slots Midnight Grasp: 6 Slots Mako's Bite Dark Embrace: 1 Slot Dark Obliteration: 5 Slots Posi's Blast Soul Drain: 4 Slots Eradication Stamina: 3 Slots Performance shifters Combat Jumping: 1 Slot LoTG 7.5 Super Speed: 1 Slot Hasten: 3 Slots Boxing Tough: 3 slots Glad Arm 3%, Steadfast 3%, Res/End Weave: 3 Slots LotG Maneuvers: 2 slots LotG 7.5 Puts you at 46.6 Ranged def If added every thing correctly. and 88.8 recharge. I totally Miss Mids |
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Hew in drag baby
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After patron/epic powers got proliferated both Mace and Soul mastery became pretty obsolete compared to Ice and Fire mastery. Ice for Sleet and S/L softcap, Fire for RoF, Fireball, and a resist shield. I dunno about your server, but I pretty much never see anyone using Mace Mastery on a dom. Even Soul Drain isn't great anymore because it got nerfed from a 120s base rchg to 240s base rchg, meaning at best you can get 50% uptime with it instead of having it perma like you could before.
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Originally Posted by Crysys
Get Mace Mastery like everyone else. Great +DEF and none of that blockhead stuff. Just a faint dark purple glow.
And Soul Drain is available to Dom's now as PPP? Its been a long time since I had a toon with Soul Mastery, but back then a Dom couldn't get that power (only available to Corrs). |
I am playing Dark/Dark/Soul right now and I love soul drain, but I also want to get softcapped. Are you basically forced to take Ice armor to get softcapped? As much as I like the thematic value of taking soul I think I would like to live longer also lol.
"I have always been a fan of science fiction. It all started when my parents forced me to go to church when I was a child."