DarkCurrent

Dominators were always mini-blasters. That was the problem. Too many people thought they were redside controllers and played them like that. Then cried and complained on the forums. I'm glad you figured it out in your first go.

I can say for certain that the explosive strike kb dmg proc fires on jumps. Skipping or hitting back-to-back. It's quite nice when you hit a large group with it.

Put it on auto. You can spam attacks to delay it firing if you need to wait a few seconds to take on a special target.

I'll echo the teaming suggestion, but not so much because it gets you leveling faster, but instead so you can see a lot of other sets quickly as your teammates use their powers. If you see something you like, ask them about it. You might decide their AT and power sets are more to your taste.

Mu Guardian will heal not just you, but any other pets you have summoned. This can be bad because generally your pets take a larger beating than you do, so they end up getting the bulk of heals. This seems to happen more often than you'd like and at terribly inconvenient times. Like when you're about to die and he's over there healing your imp.

To me, the guardian is more like a stormy with O2 boost than an empath with Heal Other. He's good at patching you up after the battle than an in-the-fight healer.

He has other powers and uses them in a chain that may or may not include his heal, depending on if you're hurt, your pets are hurt, how far away he is, is he in LOS, etc.

So in a nutshell, he's not your go-to guy for heals. If you rely on him to save your bacon, you'll end up in the frying pan alone.

In an effort to keep this from derailing, I'll answer for Ditzy. Remember when domination's dmg boost used to stack 2x and 3x if you had enough recharge? That's the amount of dmg output Ditz is referring to, which was greater than what dominators can now do.

The point that's brought up against this is that 2x and 3x stacked domination was a rarity that most players never enjoyed/experienced. And that the 'average' dominator was improved with the revamp. My testing on the matter way back when was the boost amounted to about 15% more XPM.

Anyway, you'll never get the two sides to meet. I for one don't care. I was never a major permadom player, so overall I've gotten more mileage out of my 'average' doms. However, I can see Ditzy's point that the revamp nerfed the permadom output potential.

So back to the APP/PPP discussion. I like the fact that there are some meaningful AoEs added here. The PPPs each had one, with Mako only having a cone and a skittish AoE. Now we're looking at 2 targeted AoE with fire, a cone and targeted AoE with primal forces, an aura and targeted AoE with psi, and two rains (one a hefty -res debuff) with ice. Compared to the PPPs, the APPs are easily twice as good with regard to AoE potential.

I love AoEs, so I'm ecstatic. I don't like the order of the powers is all.

I ended up going elec/earth. The SMASH is a nice combo of control and damage to boost elec's potential AoE control issues.

I got to lvl 9:
1 Tesla
4 Jolting Chain
8 Conductive Aura

1 Spears
2 Hammer
6 Fissure

Despite the bad rap Jolting Chain took in beta, I'm liking it. Nice fast recharge and the jump is lightning quick, too. With slotting it'll be perma knockdown.

The aura has a nice side effect of paralyzing mobs so long as you don't attack them. It seems the sap timer with responding mob writhing interrupts their attack chain nicely.

Another thing I'm liking is that the holds and immobs don't have that stupid -kb that the controllers were crying about. It makes them much more useful as they don't nullify Jolting Chain a' la ice slick and ice holds/immobs.

/Earth is till a major end hog though, so conductive aura is a great pick up at lvl 8. Will make the teens bareable until stamina.

• Burn – changed power substantially:
• Added initial hit damage
• removed Fear effect
• reduced tick damage by half (to scale 0.03)
• decrease tick rate by 4 (now ticks every 0.8 seconds, instead of 0.2 seconds) (1/8th total damage from DOT, replaced by initial hit)
• Burn – further adjustments
  • Increased Initial Damage from scale 0.84 to scale 1.6
  • Increased Damage per tick from scale 0.3 to scale 0.6
  • Added To Hit check for Initial Damage
  • Fixed the issue with Fire Manipulation Burn not having an Initial Hit portion.
• Burn – further adjustments
  • Fixed an issue which could result in Invalid Target messages appearing when attempting to activate this power.
  • Fixed an issue with Burn spamming the Combat log with Immobilize Buff messages when multiple targets were hit.
  • Fixed an issue which sometimes caused the Initial Hit damage to affect the caster as well as the targets.
• Burn - Reduced Damage to 20s equivalent (Scale 1.6 reduced to Scale 1.44)

I'm trying to think of a reason not to go elec/psi... could do some nice -recovery. Toss in Mu for Power Sink.

But that seems so cliched. I've run three other /psi (ice, fire and mind) already. And have taken Mu on more doms than I can count.

So what else would pair well with elec control? Yeah, I know elec/elec... but what else?

I figure it'll be a melee toon with the drain aura, so what about earth, energy or ice? Maybe even thorns?

For ice, I'm looking at Hibernoob, myself. What the heck is that doing at lvl 41? Mako's is 47 iirc. That should be one of the last powers imo. Put ice storm and the armor in front. Sleet and Hoarfrost in the middle. Noob at the end.

Fire's set up pretty good I think.

Primal Forces is completely backwards. I could even live with conserve power if the AoEs came first.

Psi is scrambled pretty badly, too. Same with primal forces, I could live with IW, but please move it later and bring psinado up front.

/earth assault as the AV killer got a lot of talk when it first was released. I remember... I started it.

Go here for my initial musings on the idea.

Then go here for Hirsh's solo performance vs AVs.

Here's the basic info on the set you were looking for (excerpted from Peacemoon's post on the controller forum):

1) Electric Fence - Single target immobalize, Moderate DoT. Also grants knockback protection, endurance drain, chance for -recovery.

2) Tesla Cage - Single target hold, Moderate damage. Also does endurance drain, chance for -recovery.

3) Chain Fences - Area effect immobalize, Minor damage. Also does endurance drain, chance or -recovery. Does not grant knockback protection.

4) Jolting Chain - Chaining knockdown power, Minor damage. Also does endurance drain, chance for -recovery. The chain jumps from target to target quickly. Fast recharge.

5) Conductive Aura - Self +Recovery, +Regen buff per nearby enemy. Foe -Endurance(about 12.5 endurance per 2 seconds). No endurance cost. Max of 8 targets.

6) Static Field - Location AoE effect, pulses a sleep every few seconds. If the sleep breaks targets get a slow debuff. 40s recharge.

7) Paralytic Blast - Standard Aoe Hold, endurance drain, chance for -recovery. 4 minute recharge.

8) Synaptic Overload - Chain confuse power. Causes no aggro. 20 second duration, 60 second recharge. The confuse jumps slowly from one enemy to another with a 1-2s delay.

9) Generate Gremlins - Summons 2 Large Electric Fiends. They have 3 powers, a pulsing PBAE aura that deals minor damage, jolting chains and also a charged brawl.

From the Beta boards it seemed several controller types were a bit concerned with the set's shortcomings. From a dominator perspective, I think the set can pair nicely with the assault sets and provide some good fun. Discuss!