DarkCurrent

Gravity is not a 'run in and control' set. It's a set up control set.

To contrast, compare gravity to fire (the latter is a run in and control set).

Fire also has a stun AoE, but it's a line of sight power. So you have to run in to range and unload. Stun what you can, then charge with hot feet and imps. Attack attack attack. If there's still a bunch left, you pop Cinders.

Gravity isn't that and never will be. Gravity uses Wormhole as its up every spawn control power. This power takes advantage of hiding out of sight and dumping a spawn into a corner. That takes time to line up you central target, find a good place to dump him and surrounding foes, then executing the teleport and dealing with what you hit and what you missed. Typically, you place singy between where your targets are and where you're putting them to intercept anything you missed.

Gravity is a thinking man's control set. It requires patience and strategy. With a standard low level spawn of 3 foes, you need to plan who you're hitting with Lift, who you're hitting with GD, and who you're tagging with your assault powers. When you get your AoE controls: Wormhole and GDF, you have to plan WH's execution as mentioned above being careful when teaming because if you toss the mobs away from your mates, they'll get upset. If you position singy too close to mobs, they'll starting getting repelled and your team might get upset. You only have GDF up once in a blue moon, so you have to plan on when you use that.

And if you were foolish enough to take Dimension Shift, you better plan on using that one in only very special circumstances and you probably created a macro to warn your teammates.

Solo it's one of the safest control sets out there though. Not fast, but rock solid.

Yeah it was cool have a dom team together again. Trapdoor was a little upset though .

It lives!

WB Vidz. Send me a PM in game @DarkCurrent if you want to hook up some domi action on Pin. Running some alpha unlocking and TFs for shards these days. I can show you the ropes if you need some help.

HTTT consolidated into one base with just 3 regulars holding down the fort. Let me know if you need an /sgi (your doms were probably /kicked if you were absent that long).

Look for me tonight around 8 PM eastern.

This.

After hating on dominators for so long, they needed a new red-headed stepchild.

Yes. Build for range.

Crush, Grav Distort, Propel, Lift, Charged Bolt, Lightning Bolt are all ST ranged attacks available in the first few levels.

Easy to build dom and cycle attacks.

How does someone going for the crafting badge eat up a supply in the 100s? It only takes a dozen or two of a particular salvage to get the badge, and then you're done.

Yay

Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it. Correct slotting will come with some nerfing to recharge and end costs I'm sure.

I really hope they rearrange the order of these APPs, though.

I'm ok with most of this except your PPP picks.

The shield is fine. But then you go with God Mode. Not sure why. You should already have all the protection you need with controls, 2 shields and pet. Then, you go and pick the healing pet on top of that. Overkill if you ask me.

I'd take the shield, power sink for the instant end recovery/drain and ball lightning to give you some more AoE and up close dmg potential.

I just don't think you'll get enough mileage from the god mode and healing pet to bother.

WAI:

Ya or nay?

Do NOT take cages.

Based on your desire for melee, I'd do this with my 24 powers available from lvl 1-50:

Controls to take - fossilize, QS, EQ, Stalagmites, Volcanic Gases, Stoney pet [6 powers]

Assault powers to take - charged bolts (you have to), charged brawl, havoc punch, thunderstrike, BU, voltaic sentinel (it's another pet, it does damage, you can summon it in melee, and you're not focusing on range, so why not?) [6 powers]

Pools - fitness (hurdle, health, stamina), travel (which one will depend on your account's status and willingness to use temp powers... you might want to toss Air Superiority in here for a melee attack, or go toward SS because of next power), Hasten, fighting (Boxing and Tough). [8 powers max]

Epics - I'd lean toward either fire or ice if you don't have a theme in mind. Both have a pair of targeted AoE attack/debuffs that'll work in melee or range, both have an armor. Fire gives you a rez in case you die. Ice gives you hibernoob to phase and recover. [4 powers]

Oh, it's coming, don't you worry. Just let the blasters complain for a bit about how they're not the damage kings and all that, and the brutes about how they had fury nerfed and now aren't as powerful. They'll start pointing at doms and saying it's not fair a CONTROL AT has as much or more dmg and that we're stealing team slots... blah blah blah.

I'd pay money to see him solo hold a GM.

GMs can be held. It takes about 4 doms as I recall from the HTTT glory days. We've held Big Sparky and the Ghost plenty of times.

I don't disagree. This has been the argument that many of us who are against homogenization have thrown out time and again. This came up a lot before the whole dominator revamp.

The more you try to balance everyone around the concept that everyone should be able to do the same thing, contribute the same amount, solo the same, team the same, have the same powersets available, etc... the more you get watered-down vanilla.