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I did last night. Bloody useless random Pain Dom MMs. He did have Rez though, which is was awfully proud of (and 3 of the heals which he never used. Rezzes happened instantly though).


Of course you don't need a healer much in the game. You do need someone to be actually using their primary and secondary and not just sticking everything on Aggressive and doing bugger all else though.


*deep breath*


Ok, I'm good now.

The Rogue Islands is going to be awash with Demons mid April isn't it?



Maybe that's one drawback to this early release mechanism they're doing for GR, rather than teams being made up of say Demon MMs, Dual Pistol Corrupters, Elec Doms and wavy handy brutes in June/July we get massive gluts of each one released beforehand for a week or two and then they die down again.

Hopefully nothing. Doing it once out of the blue, funny and unexpected. Doing it every year, tired and predicable.*


Freem was a mildly amusing but overrated joke / meme (please no more memes. Please). City of Heroes 1980 or whatever it was was rather crap.


Stupid Mirth Day. Bah Humbug!

Hmmm. Cheers folks. The point about needing to slot for End with slots being so tight (seriously, it's like my Warshade all over again) going Fitness would probably be the better route alright. Don't want to be spending my precious slots on -End if I can help it.



Now how am I going to manage to squeeze it in?*

Hi folks,

*In my quest to get a domi going beyond the teens I've turned to Ice/Psi. It's been a bit of a struggle but finally went click yesterday when I DOed it up. I've made a Mids build (not available at the moment since I'm in work) and have a few questions.

1) Planning to avoid the Fitness Pool. With Drain Psi up at least 50% of the time I figured I don't need it at all. Instead I'm looking at Aid Other/Self for levelling and then Tough for stacking with a Patron shield. Good idea or silliness?

2) Patron Power pool. Normally I'd say Dark without hesitation, Soul Drain & Psi Shockwave and Psi Scream and the Patron AOE seems like an amazing combo. But Mu Mastery looks like it could suit him even better. A very good Resistance shield, an excellent AOE and then a God Mode whose crash can be overcome by Drain Psi. Plus a pet with a heal. Have people tried this (I assume they have), did it work well or did the Doms relatively low HP total mean that even with the stacked Resistances and massive Regen they were still a bit squishy?

3) How is Jacks AI at the moment? Fly Trap is really annoying me with its cowardliness, does Jack still suffer from the same reluctance to get in close and use his big hitters? If so should I just plan to include Recall Friend into the build to corral him?

4) Set bonuses. I know people usually say "Recharge, recharge, recharge" but those sets are expensive. Would it be worth aiming for +HP, +End and +Recovery bonuses instead to give extra ooomph to his defenses? The build I made had +25% HP, have others tried this approach with their Dom and how did you get on (no idea of the costs mind so could still be a non-runner for me).

I've also found myself being a bit bossy on teams and asking non-plant & non-Grav doms to try to avoid using Cages on Ice Patch. (Gravs don't matter and Plants can't really help it since so many of their pets have -knockback patches). What's the best way people have of broaching the subject?


Edit : Quick Suckerpunch SO build:
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+ http://planner.cohtitan.com/planner
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Archetype: Dominator
Primary: Ice Control
Secondary: Psionic Assault
+----------------------------------------------------------------

01: Block of Ice => Accuracy(1), Hold(3), Hold(9), Hold(15), Accuracy(43)
01: Psionic Dart => Accuracy(1), Damage(3), Damage(43)
02: Mind Probe => Accuracy(2), Damage(5), Damage(15), Damage(34), Accuracy(43)
04: Telekinetic Thrust => Accuracy(4), Damage(5), Damage(9), Damage(34), Accuracy(42)
06: Hasten => Recharge(6), Recharge(7), Recharge(7)
08: Shiver => Accuracy(8), Recharge(36)
10: Mental Blast => Accuracy(10), Damage(11), Damage(11), Damage(37)
12: Ice Slick => Recharge(12), Recharge(13), Recharge(13)
14: Super Speed => SpeedRunning(14)
16: Psychic Scream => Accuracy(16), Damage(17), Damage(17), Damage(31), Recharge(31)
18: Arctic Air => EnduranceDiscount(18), EnduranceDiscount(19), EnduranceDiscount(19), Confuse(23), Confuse(31)
20: Drain Psyche => Accuracy(20), Recharge(21), Recharge(21), Recharge(23), Heal(37)
22: Aid Other => Heal(22), Heal(40)
24: Aid Self => Heal(24), Heal(25), Heal(25)
26: Glacier => Accuracy(26), Accuracy(27), Hold(27), Hold(37), Recharge(46)
28: Subdue => Accuracy(28), Damage(29), Damage(29), Damage(46)
30: Boxing => Accuracy(30)
32: Jack Frost => Accuracy(32), Damage(33), Damage(33), Damage(33), Accuracy(34)
35: Tough => Res_Damage(35), Res_Damage(36), Res_Damage(36)
38: Psychic Shockwave => Accuracy(38), Damage(39), Damage(39), Damage(39), Recharge(40), Recharge(40)
41: Charged Armor => Res_Damage(41), Res_Damage(42), Res_Damage(42)
44: Ball Lightning => Accuracy(44), Damage(45), Damage(45), Damage(45), Accuracy(46)
47: Surge of Power => Recharge(47), Recharge(48), Recharge(48), Res_Damage(48)
49: Summon Guardian => Recharge(49), Recharge(50), Accuracy(50), Damage(50)

+----------------------------------------------------------------
+ Inherent Powers
+----------------------------------------------------------------

01: Brawl => Empty(1)
01: Sprint => Empty(1)
02: Rest => Empty(2)

Excellent, detailed guide, good work.

Don't we have these already? I believe they're called Kheldians?


I know it's a slightly snarky answer but it is true. A Warshade (I've only played a WS) can flit between being a controllerish blapper, a scrappy tank and a nasty floaty Blaster (with ridiculous resistances) in seconds.