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Ok. I have CoV, and I have CoH. I'm waiting for my PC to come, and I've been looking at all the ATs deciding what I might want to start with and Dominators have taken my fancy. I like the look of going Plant/Energy. I want to be able to hold stuff down well so I can get some good damage in melee, too. Plus, I like the look of Creepers, Spirit Tree, and Fly trap. I'm thinking of playing this AT mostly in melee once the enemies are locked down.
Is this a good build for doing that? I'd apreciate any info.
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| 02/14/06 16:25 |
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Hello? Please may I have a reply?
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Crickets? Well, I've only started a Dom, and then i think he went the way of all things. I'm a MM type myself. If the Energy set for Doms is like the CoH Energy sets, I'd figure they have some knockback potential. Again, I am not familiar. BUT I've heard some good things about Plant/Fire. Honestly havent looked at the powerset closely, but fire usually has DoT. This could be helpful. Lock a group down, and smack em with some DoT, and pick em off as they weaken. Again, I dont know a lot about the AT or those sets, but Ill step up to the plate with a suggestion instead of letting you swing in the breeze.
Another interesting set IMHO, is Kinetics. My favorite Dom that I team with has kinetics, and he has a blast with it. Plus it looks cool in action. I'm not sure which I like better; picking up foes and slamming them around or throwing forklifts at them. Both look funny.
Now, I'm just hoping I've riled up some Dom-type out there to back up his build. In any even, good luck. You get to play with Firespray; lucky dog.
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| 02/18/06 05:08 |
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i think that'd be gravity sapir. Kinetics is for corruptors, defenders, and controllers. I personally love gravity, have a 17 on COH and throwing forklifts is way fun. Lots of fun control. I have a wee little Plant Fire under 10 yet and he was fun so far. the MM and Brtue have been hoggin my attention span
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| 02/18/06 07:38 |
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I'm a Dominator and I have to say that it's great. I'm Mind/Energy which I chose for the same reasons as you chose Plant almost, just to hold people while I destroy them. I've noticed that Melee doesn't really tend to work with us Dominators mainly because once we're surrounded we may as well give exp debt a big ol' hug. So I would get real friendly with you ranged attacks, just makes life a lot easier. Good luck,
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| 02/18/06 10:18 |
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The wierd thing is, I've been searching around numerous places and not really seen anyone talk about Plant/Energy. Seems like a very good idea. Anyway, I've come up with a build. Can I get some feedback on it? I have no clue what I'd do about slotting though.
1: Strangler/Power Bolt
2: Bone Smasher
4: Roots
6: Swift
8: Seeds of Confusion
10: Power Blast
12: Hover
14: Fly
16: Power Boost
18: Vines
20: Health
22: Stamina
24: Stealth
26: Carrion Creepers
28: Total Focus
30: Boxing
32: Fly trap
35: Tough
38: Power Burst
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Muahahahahaha! This is why I am a MasterMind! You have all fallen into my trap. I know as much about Dominators as a hen knows about dentistry (ie; not a whole lot). BUT this guy has been looking for help for 4 days without reply. I figured if I could throw out some sort of info, you smart people would come to the rescue. AND YOU DID! Darn, I'm good...er...evil. Thanks guys. Keep it coming.
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Excuse me, my hen is a perfectly fine dentist ;)
Anyway, can I have some feedback on this build?
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Like I've said before, I'm just tryin' to prime the pump. BUT not sure about the Fighting pool there towards the end. I'd think as a Dom youo'd put more emphasis on the holds amd such, but that's just me. I know that most times I am looking for a Dom is for the holds. For holds; there's nothing like a Dom. Hehehe. Sorry, that was an ancient play on words there, but I bet Firespray gets it. (Very smart, that Firespray. Almost too smart. Hmmmm, he will have to be watched....CLOSELY!)
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*keeps pumping the well, but nothing comes out*
Guess the well of knowledge is dry
I have a Gravity/Psy dominator..lvl 23 Sintramos Nebuloid
All dominators are mainly ranged folks. The energy set you want as a secondary is going to mess with your control aspect of the dominator. When you knockback someone that's held/immo they're still held/immo, but they're about 30 feet away from where they were. For group holds/immos, you want them as close as can be. The energy set isn't really a great set unless you're going to use the knocback effectively.
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I'm so lonelly... I'm a mind Psy dom, and *pouts* we're so useless, ok I am it's great for small solo things, but teams screw up the mass mez, gotta get the total domination thing, other than that we don't do alit of damage, and take a hit like a waterbaloon, SPLAT
anyways, just tossing my 2 slugs in, ... what you think I'm giveing you money?, forget it, MINE =-)
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I don't really want to be a helpless kindof dom... I want to get in there and to a little bit of damage myself. Oh, I've made a possible Plant/Fire Build too.
1:Strangler/Flares
2:Incinerate
4:Fire Breath
6:Hover
8:Seeds of Confusion
10:Swift
12:Stealth
14:Fly
16:Fiery Embrace
18:Health
20:Stamina
22:Vines
24:Combustion
26:Carrion Creepers
28:Consume
30:Fire Blast
32:Fly Trap
35:Blazing Bolt
38:Blaze
I think that is good ish. Did I make a mistake leaving Fire Blast till later? I had alot of stuff to squeese into the teens, so I t seemed like I was gunna replace it with swift.
Any changes I should make?
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| 02/23/06 02:10 |
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You said something before about the character being kinda Melee based. Regardless, Hover is going to be mostly useless after you get Fly. SO, your best bet is going to be to take one of the best Pool Powers in the game, Air Superiority, as the opener for Flight. Decent damage, nearly 100% knock down so it fits with the control concept of a dominator, knocks down flying characters, quick animation.
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| 02/23/06 04:55 |
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Okay, I have 4 Doms, 2 plant thorn (l40/L17) a Ice/psi (L7 or so) and a fire fire (L5). As far as travel with a plant I like the SS set, haste+Domination is wicked, can hold about anything, and SS is nice to "sneak up" and line up a good shot for seeds of confusion. I like thorn secondary, but fire does a lot of damage so it would be a good choice as well. Gonna look closer to your build and comment soon. Just wanted to give you my first thoughts on the sets.
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Okay, by taking SS you reduce the need for stealth (depending on your plans) I cant comment much on the fire powers, but I do like the sleep power if you are planning on teaming. With plant you can get a lot of attention from your enemies with your area of effect powers, and by using sleep whoever hits them next gets the attention, nice way to shift the attention of the mob to the brute, or split it between a MM's pets etc.
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| 02/23/06 06:55 |
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Ok, I'll either be replacing Hover with AS, or switching the flight pool for speed pool. Personally though, seeing as this'll be my first character, I think I will go with fly, to me seems more fun.
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Fly will be safer if it's your first time running through these city walls (per say). Once you get the feel for the game, then you can always respec out of fly (at level 24, after completing the respec SF) and add SS. Just remember when putting a build together, fit it to your desired specifications and what concept you want to play out. If it doesn't work out, do the respec and change whatever does not fit into your scheme.
Besides, by the time you hit lvl 24, you should have a good concept of what you want and what you don't want, what you need and what you don't need.
This is all the help I can provide as I have not played the Dominator AT. I can tell you that every Dom that i've teamed with, incurred lots of debt trying to stay in melee range. Keep your distance, that appears to work best for Doms.
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| 02/23/06 11:14 |
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As far as melee range my plant/thorns do great. SS in hit confuse and "go to town". This can be more dangerous in large groups and should be used after a brute goes in (when possible) and (at least) followed up with sleep to allow others to pick up your aggro. (just my style, works great my 40 runs relentless)
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