gameboy1234

With respect, I think it would be better to post your build in the dominator forum, and for other specific builds to be posted in their respective AT forum. Trying to find a build on this thread is soon going to be a mess, like looking for a needle in a haystack. There's a reason we have separate forums for each AT, it's so you can find stuff.

Go make a guide for your build, and title it "High End/Unusual Electric/Mind Dom", and ask for it to be posted in the guide sticky at the top of Dom forum. That way folks will actually find it.

I think a thread for discussing what makes a good build in general would be ok for this forum. Anything more specific is going to be too hard for folks to locate later when they need it, I think.



General aspects of a good build:

Slot attacks for accuracy, damage and then recharge/End-redux as needed. However, don't ignore the secondary effects of your attacks either.

Don't ignore your secondary, or pool powers. A "pure" anything is a bad idea. No pure healers, or pure support please.

Solo if you must, but plan on at least some team powers. The benefits to being on a team are enormous. XP is much faster, if nothing else, and the social interaction is more fun too.

This.

Never skip your pets. That's like making a blaster and skipping all those annoying "attack" powers. If you don't need a pet, don't use it or unsummon it. But you always want to have the power and the option to summon it.

And protector bots would be the last pet I'd skip. Heals and bubbles are very useful things.

Coincidentally, most Masterminds have three attacks and the devs just gave us three "free" powers when they made the Fitness pool inherent. Why not take your pets AND your attacks?

As other have said it depends on the circumstances. Have your friend open his combat attributes (Powers->Combat Attributes up on the top of the window he just opened.) Ask him to monitor some attributes like Last Chance To Hit, Damage Bonus, To-Hit Bonus, etc. (Right click on the attribute and pick "Monitor".)

These are super important to be aware of when fighting on a melee toon. When your To-Hit suddenly goes from 85% to 5%, you've just been debuffed. It's no good just swinging away, you're going to burn all your End and not hit anything. You have to figure out something else (Taunt and let ranged damage finish off the debuffer, Hold the debuffer, wait for the debuff to ware off, etc.).

This goes double for Rage, which has a crash. When your Damage bonus goes to -999% with Rage, stops swinging and wait the crash out.

OTOH if your To-Hit Bonus is fine but your Last Chance To Hit is hovering around 65%-85%, you probably could use some more accuracy in your build. Focused Accuracy and slotting will help that.

I'm pretty sure I have too, but I hadn't tried to actually test it. It's good to have your report at least. Anyway, Def seems more powerful, so it isn't a large concern, at to me personally.

I had a similar issue, I think, building a Dark/Pain corruptor for solo play. She teams fine but solo she was too squishy and low damage to kill at a reasonable speed.

The secret was to ignore the guides about which were good powers and take ALL the powers in Dark Blast. Even powers that you are told universally to skip like Dark Pit and Torrent make a noticeable increase in survivability and kill speed. I think I skipped only Moonbeam (the snipe) and Blackstar (the nuke). Every other attack is useful and helps fill in your attack chain, does damage and provides some form of mitigation. Take 'em, slot 'em and use 'em. Don't forget to add one Stun IO to Dark Pit and one or two Heal IO to Life Drain, it helps.

I haven't played much with this on my Bots/FF, but I also have a build with all the FF powers you get told to skip. Detention Field is actually kinda fun solo and will take one enemy out of a fight. Repulsion Field is still kind of iffy but Repulsion Bomb looks like it might also provide some more mitigation for you. Force Bubble of course provides mitigation against most melee attacks solo which is very nice since melee often does the most damage. Most enemies aren't resistant to both Repel and Knockback so having both Repulsion Field and Force Bubble will give you two choices for melee mitigation.

Basically I'm recommending here that you take a bunch of powers you probably don't have and use 'em. They probably won't work well at first but after a while you learn what works well and when. Take your time and learn when to use these powers.

With inherent Stamina you can now take a lot more powers. Don't be afraid to try weird stuff out. At worse you blow a respec and have to redo it. At best you find something that works for you, even if some guide writer didn't like it. It's all about fun and doing stuff that no one has thought of is kinda fun for me. Good luck.

Even so, the algorithm seems... dunno... chaotic? Not robust? Easily perturbed? It doesn't yield predicable, intuitive results. I think there's a class (or several classes) of algorithms that work this way. It might need some poking and prodding.

Maybe just increase the range where you check for participation to allow people who scored a little lower on the "participation score" to still be considered participants.

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Dear Devs: no butt powers please. Thanks.

Regardless of what lengths the designers went to, the result seems a bit borked. Or rather more than a bit, actually.

There's plenty of content where my participation is limited it to "let the pets whale on it" and I consider that plenty active. Managing those guys is a chore, and that management is a big component of what a MM does. Any other theories misunderstand the MM style of play.

We don't get good personal attacks; most MM skip these entirely. Some secondaries like FF aren't terribly "active". Cast once and you're good. I'm not seeing how trying to force people to play differently than normal is good. I suspect some other play styles might get caught up in this too.

The "participation script" might have been a good idea or an interesting experiment, but if it isn't capturing actual participation, then it isn't working and may have to be scrapped.

These are my picks. Smoke Grenade because it not only is a big perception debuff but also because the -ToHit stacks with all the +Def out there. On a Widow, that's a big thing.

Force Bolt because it's as good as a permanent single target hold as long as the KB isn't resisted. Will permanently remove most bosses or EBs from a fight.

Force Bubble is tougher to play. The secret is to use it to herd the mobs into a corner or some other place, and then you have to NOT MOVE. It's running around with that on thing running that causes scatter and problems. If you can set up and hold one spot, you'll keep sending mobs into the same spot. More show up and they'll get tossed onto the same corner, and any trying to escape are repelled back to where they started. Hurricane a.k.a. Herdicane is similar.