Earth/Fire Dominator and how I slotted

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I played blasters in the beginning and then melee and got hooked on tanks/brutes. Then one day decided to roll a Dominator. 1-50, easy stuff solo. Since it was the first of my earth/fire doms and one of the only other non-melee and only other toon to even touch IOs, this is one of a kind in the stable.

As far as powers go, I picked up all powers of the primary besides stone prison and all of the secondary even though salt crystals and combustion wasn’t used or even assigned to the tray. They was picked during those times nothing else I wanted was available and or used as a mule for a few IOs. This toon was built before players could switch sides and before fitness was inherent and have not been respeced up this point due to the semi-retirement of it and only come out of retirement to try out the alpha content on a non-melee toon and then back on the shelf thus far since the third day incarnate stuff went live.

Primary-
Fossilize was the first power I picked up and eventually slotted it SOs and 5 slots. 2 Accuracy Enhancements and Three Holds.
This probably was the power I most commonly used. The hold lasted a long time and easy to stack with the current 5.52 sec recharge.

Stone cages- Used sometimes, if ever but only 2 Acc SOs

Quicksand- It was used fairly often. Two Slow Enhancing SOs and called it a day.

Stalagmites-Fun stuff, good stun, fairly good recharge so it got six slots. 2 Accs SOs thee recharge SOs, and 1 Stun duration SO. This leaves a bunch of the mob stunned for up to 20 secs without domination, which is enough time to dispatch them.

Earthquake-Fun stuff to watch do its stuff. Six slot with Kinetic Crash IOs. It increased the knockback effects plus I got some extra regen, kb protection, and recharge. Probably some other stuff I hardly noticed.

Thermal Vents-Another good power. It's good off the bat for me so I only 4 slotted it with one Acc, two recharges, and one hold duration, all SOs.

Animated Stone-Another good power. It's like having a built in tanker without bothering with teams. So I popped in 5 Expedient Reinforcements and called it a day. Never had problem with him before IOs and never had problem with him afterwards. This is a very useful pet.

Salt Crystals-A "meh" power to me for solo so I let it stay off the trays with 5 slots for Call of the Sandman. I had the whole set drop in the 40s and couldn’t sell them for even 1 inf so I decided to use them and delete one. This made two things that I didn’t care for somewhat useful.

Secondary-

Flares-One Acc one damage SOs. Not used much but good in a pinch when somehow recharged was much slowed and didn’t have a choice in skipping this one.

Incinerate-Good stuff, three slots 1 acc and two damage SOs

Fire Blast- 4 slots 2 accs two damage SOs.

Embrace of fire- 3 recharge SOs

Combustion- Another power that didn’t have must usefulness for me but became somewhat useful for two Sirocco’s Dervishes I had laying around for 10% regeneration.

Consume-Wasn’t used often but when it was needed, glad it was there. Three slots two end modifications and one acc SO.

Fire breath-One of my favorite fire powers for this one. 5 slots two accs three damage.

Blazing bolt- Had three devastations hanging around, just wanted one more but accidently bought two, thus five slotted with it.

Blaze-Also good power. 1 acc. three damage, 1 recharge all SOs.

Of course there was the standard three recharge slotted hasten and Stamina with Health full of IOs of the Num. and miracle type.


Patron powers-

Charged armor-5 slotted 2 end reductions and 3 resistance.
Surge of Power-Gremlin mode. Just three resistance. Rarely used but fun stuff.
Mu Guardian-For those few times that the living stone pocket tank needed someone to drain some endurance from the mobs. Three recharges.


Alpha-Spiritual Core Revamp-for the recharge and stun duration as a side effect.
Judgment- Fire of course.


This was one of the easiest to make survive non-melee toon I played thus far. Pre 32-drop down earthquake and or quicksand, fossilize one and then destroy them with whatever power I choose. After 32 air drop the pocket tank rock soldier into the middle of the mob, stalagmites, quicksand and or earthquake and then go to town. If boss is involved might pop domination might not, but if domination is used, a fossilize worked and let the rock go to work. If not, volcanic gases fossilize and kill the boss one by one while the rock keeps the rest busy or the mob is too busy running in slow motion while falling down and or stunned from stalagmites. So many different tactics work with this toon it was never a boring monotonous day. But alas, her storyline ended and after coming out of retirement for the DA arcs, murking them and going back to retirement, there was no purpose for her until the next big thing comes along.

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