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It's fair to say that an 11pm shutdown is a pain in the butt as well. Fortunately, most weeks it's only Mondays and Fridays.

I'm in agreement with this. I've been levelling a Mind Dom since the changes (I've never really got one past L20 or so before) and I find I'm missing the pet for dealing with PToD EBs, and an Immob even more so.

Incinerate is a good power, but it's skippable for Plant/Fire. Plant has no need to be in melee and Fiery Assault can get along fine at range. On a team Incinerate rarely does its full payload of damage.

Pets are ok for Doms, but they'll never be much more than a small fraction of your damage output, particularly with Fly Trap.

I doubt you would need either. Plant is all lockdown all the time. Consider using your Power Pools for +recharge IO set bonuses.

There's a lot of good stuff in the PPPs now and an xtra pet is always useful.

True. Thorns has good AoE. Personally, I exclude it because of the redraw and the effect on your costume, but others may not have the same distaste for these relatively cosmetic effects.

If you don't mind those issues, Thorns can bring the -def as well. Not quite in the same category as Earth, but the effect is quite noticeable when playing with a Thorns Dom on the team.

I want to highlight that first quote above because at some point the actual use of a situational power becomes so constrained that it goes from situational to just plain bad.

Given the list in that second quote, I reckon that Dimension Shift cleared "situational" and pushed far enough into "bad" that it's threatening to head into "Transformers 2".

Simply put, a situational power that is too narrow is indeed bad. Look at the old Temperature Protection in Fiery Aura for instance.

Actually, I think you could make an argument that Gravity could use a big hand in the Control stakes, in which case, having a long duration Sleep would be a good bone to throw.

I still think the power is so universally reviled that you could just dump the Cottage Rule on this one though and deal with the fallout from the half dozen or so players that actually like it.

Brutes could farm a lot faster than Doms before the buffs and a lot more safely. The situation hasn't really changed.

Ignore Southern Comfort, he has no idea what he's talking about. It is still quite possible to farm with a Dominator; especially with a Fire/Psi. I'm not sure that a Dom is as good as a Brute for farming in general though, but that was still the case before the changes.

The Liberate TV mission still works, it just doesn't provide quite as much XP as it once did since Family XP was reduced. The Black Scorpion Nemesis platform mission still works as well, but that's not a good farming choice for any sort of Dominator. Eventually the Nem vengeance just stacks too much and your controls stop hitting.

I would recommend you wait until I16 - with the new mission difficulty settings, pretty much any mission can be a farm.

Of course it does. A 1 second intangible would not be perceptible and might as well not be there.

OTOH, a 20 second Sleep effect where the targets are intangible for the first 15 seconds and the Sleep duration is enhanceable might do the trick. It's not a fundamental change to the power and it adds some actual utility to it. (Although I still wouldn't take it, Intangibility still sucks as an AoE game mechanic).