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Tesla Cage is the cornerstone power is a hold with decent damage and it drains end. Conductive aura is the primary sapping tool. Locking them down with chain fences keeps the melee off you while you take down your foes in safety in the low levels. Static field, another sapping power is the AoE sleep patch (reapplies sleep to your foes) that is the signature electric control power. Static field not only boost recovery in the static field of you and your teammates, it also boosts regeneration! So most of your electric control powers are primarily dual purpose hold/sap, immobilize/sap, sleep/sap/recover/regen, etc. I love electric control.

Yes, it does get better. I thoroughly enjoy my demons. The utility you have are some subtle benefits from your 2nd tier demons. The ember demon will heal you. The ember demon has a resistance buff aura that is good for your team and allies. Ember demon has a single target heal he uses on the mastermind and other pets. At level 32, he picks up an AoE heal aura that he spams more frequently than he uses his single target heal. Your gargoyle has an aura that does toxic damage. The toxic damage the gargoyle deals from a number of powers is very effective.

The Demon Prince is a quite sturdy boss pet with chilling embrace and frozen aura. He can dominate the battle site. He is very much an ice brute. Hell on earth is great for grabbing aggro off your other pets and the team.

The scheme with the little guys, your first tier pets, is that they do three types of damage, so no foes resist all your attacks. It's a good mix.

The one aspect that is a bit of a weakness to your top three pets is they suck up the endurance. Because they have auras and heals that don't have damage components, you need to slot enhancements with endurance reduction that affects the broader base of their powers. Heal/end in your demons, slow/end in your demon prince or generic endurance reduction IOs will address the situation.


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When my interest in certain ATs sparked again with the promise of new sets with Going Rogue. I found that the Electric Control/Electric Assault dominator was very satisfying. EC doms have a new power in static field that is just amazing. I don't hesitate to suggest folks give it a try.

You have a ton of recharge bonus. I wonder why you didn't 5 slot decimation in neutrino bolt for a bit more. At first I thought maybe you had the devastation proc for hold in there. That's not a bad tactic either. You researched this build well. This has the potential to be a team-based juggernaut.

I agree with what anonymoose said. It's not a max defense build, but it should work. I have robots, and I have a demon/thermal. The AoE heal from thermal should have good synergy with the protector bots repairs. On my demons, just being able to top off health before each encounter means you don't have to slow down much for regrouping. Thermal heals are also very team friendly.

What forcefields can NOT replicate on thermal are forge buffs to your pets. I can only imagine a forge buffed assault bot. Heat exhaustion and Melt Armor are very fine debuffs, too.

Does thermal compare to /dark and /traps in total min/maxing? Probably not mathematically, but you still have the player involved and what you might like. The aoe heal will spoil you if you are familiar with the size of dark's twilight grasp. Traps has an immobile heal regeneration beacon, but it won't pull a minion back from the brink in a heavy firefight. Also, thermal has a 'clear mind' type power, thaw, for teammates which /dark and /traps don't have equivalents. (But I am not saying that /dark and /traps are helpless to counter mezzes either.)

I have become enamored lately with dominators again. I haven't tried it, but buzzing around in my altitis inflicted brain was an EC/earth assault. It just seems... different. On my list of sets to try.

I agree with most of the previous posts, except your buffs are for you, too.

Let's put a face on a few powers. Siphon power is a 25% damage buff per stackable cast for all teams in the AoE of you when casted. Where are you going to find a damage buff that is quickly repeatable? It's not coming from assault. The other side of the coin is that the target is debuffed in damage potential for all damage types including psychic and toxic by 25%. To get this on say a sonic defender you need 2 little sonic bubbles and sonic disruption on an anchor. Even with fulcrum shift, this debuff is the real deal! Base recharge time 20 seconds; duration 30 seconds, you can do the math on this.

Now for siphon speed, this, on the debuff aspect (straight form Red Tomax):
RunSpeed, FlySpeed, SpeedJumping -0.625 for 60s [Non-resistable]
JumpHeight -62.5% for 60s [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs] [Non-resistable]
RechargeTime -20% for 60s [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs] [Non-resistable]
Max RunSpeed -3.5 for 60s PvE only [Ignores Enhancements & Buffs]

Did you catch the part in brackets? NON-RESISTABLE, even by AVs.

Transference is the best endurance replenish available in the defender primaries, but it too is a formidable DEBUFF. You can sap bosses, AVs, even GMs (I have sapped the Kraken and Eochai down to NO endurance) on kinetics.

So, you can stack siphon power down to a 50% debuff on bosses (AVs do resist this debuff), you can gimp their movement and recharge, drain them down to no end, all without hitting speed boost and fulcrum shift. This is fabulous contribution, and you will still want to SB and fulcrum shift the team. The gravy powers, the "I win" powers that make steamrolling all the more fun between the chewy targets.

If you use tip missions to level up with, it isn't that hard to get one of the rare recipes every 4 days or so. You can only get credit for 5 tips per day, so it wouldn't be like you were locked into just that content.

If you solo a lot, your self-rez would be more useful to you potentially, unless you are a flawless player Melt armor is a really good AoE debuff. I tend to love the debuffs.

Welcome to the game Jericho.

I think the build is very doable. You can roll a random rare recipe for one merit, or if you do 10 tips and 2 alignment missions, you can flat out choose the rare recipe reward that you want. You are able to start the tip missions at level 20 if I recall.

Check out the guide on the Market board about how to gather influence on lowbie characters.

An AoE sleep power can be situational. If you are soloing, you will obviously be able to leverage the benefits in your favor since stray AoEs from teammates won't disturb the sleepers. It is true that certain harder targets are susceptible to sleep and especially immobilizes, also to your benefit. Confuse is the backbone of your controls. More recharge for seeds of confusion and then more recharge for perma-dom is the clear prioritization.

Straight off the bat, I think you need more endurance reduction in summon demons and demon prince. Summon demons has one demon with AoE heal that he likes to spam, and the gargoyle with a resistance debuff aura. Demon prince sucks down the endurance with his two auras. You did a good job of getting the pet bonuses in there. I like your focus on recharge on hell on earth; they don't really do enough damage to enhance.

You went for a lot of global recharge bonus which always helps on dark miasma. Do you have enough to get tar patch and howling twilight recharged for maximum debuffing?

Petrifying gaze isn't the best hold, but it does stack with your dark servant's holds. This leads to my next comment. I like the demon personal attacks for the mastermind, but I would have a very hard time skipping an AoE immobilize and a single target hold at that level. The single target hold stacks with your petrifying gaze and dark servant hold. Some hard targets such as AVs and EBs can be held with enough magnitude of hold applied. Also numerous AVs are susceptible to immobilize even if other controls are heavily resisted. The black scorpion AoE immobilize will also stack with the dark servant's tenebrous tentacles.

Of the three personal attacks available to the mastermind, I like crack the whip the most.

One other observation: I see you four slotted stamina to get the set bonus from performance shifter, but an Acc/Rec in a power that uses neither is a bit of a negative to me when all your other powers are so nicely slotted except the holds

Of my EC doms, I found the EC/fire required a lot more work to be successful. The biggest conflict is the long dot in some of the fire attacks. Fire breath isn't nearly as bothersome as the longer duration of the ticks in combustion. I can't recommend combustion on an EC/fire. Incinerate is ok since most of the time, spawns don't survive that attack . The fear from fire attacks, even though the spawn is slowed by static field, causes too much scatter. Fire is good damage though.

Some of the best innovative ideas are brought by people with a new perspective on things.

In my opinion, you don't have enough defense slotted in the little bubbles for team PvE. Miracle +recovery and Numina's Recovery/Regen is overkill on the recovery for a FF defender along with the +recovery in stamina. I like to fit in manuvers on my FF characters.

When CoV first came out, I tried all the ranged/control sets to give them a fair shake. I could not get into dominators. Stalkers would AS spawns that were held, corruptors would focus on immobilized mezzed targets. I got frustrated and threw in the towel.

When Going Rogue debuted, I wanted to give dominators another try just to prove to myself I could learn how to play them. I started at least 4 electric control dominators, thinking I would find the best secondary.

My first was EC/electric assault and I thought my EC/fire assault would be an improvement. EC/electric, to me, was the clear winner. I could group. I could solo. I didn't build for stamina and found with conductive aura and static field that I didn't need it. The progression of powers that opened with EC seemed more natural in progression of complexity to me also. I quickly discovered even at low levels, Tesla cage was as damaging as most single target ranged electric assault attacks.

Static Field is a signature power available to EC dominators which is like NOTHING before. It's a 'patch' that sleeps and re-applies sleeps to foes. Oh, it also transfers recovery and regeneration to allies within the 'patch' as well.

I haven't tried all the suggested Dominator primaries, and since nobody mentioned Ice, I guess it was a loser set to try with my very first dominator. In my opinion, returning to the dominator AT was an easy move on Electric Control. I don't know how it performs number crunching-wise to other dominators that like to perform at +4/X8, but I like my EC/electric just fine.

I go for the Black Scorpion patron set for the majority of my defense based mastermind sets. The extra defense from the shield means I can optimize my build without working on slotting for extra defense. The mastermind's personal defense, in my opinion, is more important than for the pets since tankerminding tactics usually involve the mastermind taking the alpha shot in battle.

Also, the Black Scorpion patron set has a nice AoE immobilize, too! You can take either the shield or the immobilize at level 41. Web cocoon is also a nice hold in the Black Scorpion set.

When I was new to MMOs and City of Heroes, I thought the holy trinity was Storm/*, Dark/*, and Forcefield/* defenders for that "Can't Touch This" motif. Of course in the modern CoH landscape, Colds and Trappers are extremely useful, too.

Not many people have said Forcefields, but even recently, my Forcefield/sonic blast defender joined a PI team doing a Malta arc. The team was grateful for the bubbles and remarked how much easier the missions were progressing.

Seriously, a Cold/* defender can do a big chunk of debuffing like his stormy cousin with snowstorm and sleet, do a lot of endurance management like his kinetic cousins with heat loss, and buff defense to a rarified level with the ice shields.

Electric Control for controllers and dominators provide for good AoE sapping. I have a newish controler EC/kinetic that I look forward to its sapping ability once it hits 35 for transference.