DarkCurrent

I'm going to weigh in on this point because I disagree with this concept that supply and demand is driving up costs.

While there is a limited supply, demand is easily 10x what it should be. And that's simply because any single player can have dozens of characters across nearly a dozen servers each with at least a dozen bid slots that can stack nearly a dozen high.

So ONE PERSON can place hundreds of bids for a single item, buy ALL of them and then list for whatever they want. I'm not saying that's easy or even fun, but it is possible and it is being done. I wouldn't call that 'demand'. It's control.

There a plenty of examples of salvage for which there are hundreds of them in stock and there are ZERO bids, yet the minimum price is thousands of inf. There's no way you can convince me that there are 1000 sellers out there all wanting at least 10,000 infamy for an alchemical gold. No, instead there are more like 10 sellers with 100 alchemical golds each that control that market and buy up any of the 'under priced' supply with the dozens of standing orders they have placed.

The problem is that any single player has access to way too many bid slots. Stacks of 10 are too many. I'd start there, cutting that number in half, to begin to curb the inflation. I'd also make it so replaced IOs can be resold. And I'd even make the crafting tables allow you to dismantle an IO to get back the salvage and recipe.

This is a pay to play game, so no, it's not acceptable that any server should be consistently and repeatedly crashing.

And yes, if my car breaks down due to a defect on their end (Toyota anyone?), then I would demand compensation.

This problem has been ongoing for weeks since I17 and its patches. Enough is enough.

Quoting wikipedia as an official reference... priceless.

Same.

Yeah, BaBs and the boys call me for suggestions all the time.

I've refrained from posting to leave room for the massive influx of new dominators we've seen since the revamp.

I would avoid ice control for a first-timer. It's very weak at controlling, especially at range. Gravity is weak early, so if you can't stomach 20+ lvls of single target juggling, avoid that, too. Fire control is a bit of a weak starter, too.

So I'd look at plant, earth, or mind control. They're solid sets from start to finish.

For assaults, your choice will depend more on your primary choice. If you go with a melee control set like fire or ice, then I'd pick up a melee assault set such as earth, ice, or late game /psi.

If you have a ranged control set, then you can go with most anything, although sets like early /psi, electric, and fire would fit better.

Last, think ahead to your patron set. Mu and Soul are nice in melee with powersink and soul drain, while Mace and Leviathan are better for ranged builds.

If you're wanting to focus on SFs, then I'd go with /earth assault for the extra hold mag from seismic smash. With 3 doms using that, their ST hold and AoE hold, PToD EBs and AVs will go down without being able to fight back. Exceptions are Statesman and Lord Recluse, both of whom cannot be held in any of my game experience.

For primary, I'd take fire or ice so you can stay in melee to maximize controls, although patch type controls found in earth and plant would serve well.

Listen to this guy. Flashfreeze is a great opener for Ice when you're talking about just charging in to melee. Better than Ice Slick in that scenario. It helps to then have mitigation help from your secondary like /earth's knockdown.

Ice is faster maturing (lvl 12 - 22), but doesn't do anything special. Arctic Air and Glacier mean you'll be fighting in melee. It has a lot of soft control in the form of slows.

Gravity is slower maturing (lvl 26 - 32), but has more tricks and uniqueness. The grav pet is better than the ice pet overall, although Jack does more dmg (he's squishy as hell).

Ice would pair better with /earth from the melee synergy (I'd recommend getting Tough). However, grav/earth probably would stack the most amount of hold possible for a dominator between the ST, AoE, pet and Seismic Smash combos.

I've never seen Statesman held AT ALL... perma or not. That was with 8 dominators stacking dominated holds on him, too.

He's the only reason an all-dom LRSF is a challenge (impossibility?) without temps. Although I haven't tried one in a year and a half, so who knows now.