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It looks like the plans are to take all the snipes down to a 2.26 damage scale, with tohit at 22% making them 2.76 damage scale. Dominator snipes atm are 3.56 I think. Cooldown would come down from 20 seconds to 12. I was aware of the changes, yes, but seeing as they've been on the PTS for a while and one of the GMs in discord said no decision on them has been reached, I'm ignoring them for now. Without a snipe I don't really have a ranged attack chain that's complete, so I was wondering if chasing intent snipes would be worth it to complete the chain.

So I have a Mind / Elec dominator who has taken Zapp. Electric doesn't have many ranged moves so I'm contemplating trying to slot for insta snipe but for Dominators you need Kismet, Tactics AND Link Minds. Psionic Mastery only sort of fits with the theme, so I'm wondering if it's worth trying to do Insta Snipe, or just drop Zapp completely.

So I have a few looks I quite like, but nothing that really catches my fancy. What costumes do yo guys use on your Warshade?

Some people bidded the wrong amount and people are now trying to capitalise thinking that's what it's worth

Ninja Blade is certainly less visceral - that works a lot better for my char but not for everyone. It can also slot Achilles Heel - Res procs in most attacks (unsure if DB can). The ATO build up proc also probably makes DB better than before as the DoT combo is a lot more doable.

I have no idea I'm afraid - all I know is I have a Ninja Blade / Energy Stalker I really like, but I don't know how he performs vs dual blades. Ninja Blade AoE is a bit annoying because of cones, but the attacks are all quite fast recharge which makes it feel really nice at the lower levels before you get a lot of global recharge.

Well, nearly nothing. You can't get lower-level Safeguard missions through Ouroboros. You have to find someone actually of that level and go along with them if you want to get the exploration badges from those. Actually you can now - if you get the Hero Slater or Villain Disrupter badge you can get a contact who will allow you to go and do them.

With recharge you also need to bear in mind that it isn't 42% faster, because 100% recharge only halves the time the power takes to recharge (I know the formula does weird things after that too). 42% recharge means the power recharges about 30% quicker using the formula from the Paragon Wiki page.

I have it on a dark/energy Dom, but only so I can get the 2 AoEs from the pool. The damage is good, I only tend to use it if eveyrhting is completley locked down and I'm left with a boss that is held but still has quite a lot of life. It doesn't get masses of use, but I didn't like the look of conserve power.

FYI, with Hasten you need about 70% recharge for Permadom. Without Hasten you need about 125% I think, which would as you say probably benefit from using the non purple ATO set as you would need your 5 10% recharge purples. I also don't have any DOTs, so that also may explain the difference in the fear behaviour.

Really well argued and lots of proof. I'd love to see something like this so I can really pump up my Incarnate Form size.

Dark Watchet doesn't improve accuracy at all though, which is okay when you have a lot of +acc set bonuses, but makes me nervous lol. Equally, my observations seem to be they have a chance to attack when you attack them rather than a guaranteed counter. Where would you put it though if not in Fearsome Stare?

I did put it there in the end, there is no purple set for Fear. My holds are 4 slotted with Basilisk's Gaze so I have recharge from them already, and that way I save slots. Heart of Darkness can take a Purple set so not that. Living Shadows wouldn't get the best use of it. Possess doesn't need 5 slots... ...and that's all of Darkness Control! Although the relative cost advice is good; thankfully I already have Permadom so now it's just a matter of build tweaking for more defence.

Someone posted this to reddit a while ago. It tracks ACTIVITY (web and reddit posts and other bits) and NOT player count.

I would heavily applaud getting rid of the clamp

So have a Dominator Assault Secondary as their primary, and then have a summon secondary? Could be cool

Personally I'd shift some slots away from Posess - it's great with even just 1/2 slots with set bonus accuracy and recharge bits, but that's personal taste.

Any chance you can post a pic of what the orbs look like? I presume thr colour doesn't match the power used

I like the philosophy of the change quite a bit as its helpful for dominators, though I can't test at the moment so some tweaking may be required.

If anyone wants an example of people passive aggressively bitching about HC, look at the latest post from COXG on the Discord.

I haven't seen any of that, in fact I've seen exactly the reverse, Rebirth/Reborn//coxg players bashing HC and claiming that it's "just the old SCoRE boys club but on a grander scale" and therefore theirs are better. Very much this, all I have seen is the other way round. Particularly a certain day when the main discord had a big speech about HC and then the next day tried to say they didn't want to encourage or create drama...

People talk a lot of minmax talk around slotting, but really, in how much content does maxed sets really matter if you’re teamed and exemplared down to run missions? On any decent team I’ve been on we plow through content easily, only occasionally do we have to stop and rethink an approach to a fight. If it were in teams I wouldn't bother - this is solely for making solo exemplars a bit less painful since my Dom is Energy Assault has one AoE attack pre level 35 and I don't much like PbAoEs. I should also add that it's to get enough Recharge to have Haunt almost perma for strictly concept reasons, and just more control; part of what I love some much about CoH is the interplay between the control and recharge systems so I like to make the most of them at all times. Another thing to consider is slotting very cheap dual set IOs. At level 25, these will eclipse SOs, but then you're not slotting for the set anyway really.

I had some sets I knew I would use that were limited to 30 so I slotted those. Then I slotted some more to try and get permsdom early to see if it was what I liked before spending much money on purples and others. I plan to exemplar down to complete a lot of content I missed so I've gradually be replacing those sets with attuned versions too, if they weren't limited to 30.

Also to say, however much you slot accuracy, you always have a 5% chance to miss.

There was a wholesale blaster revamp, the dominator powers just benefitted as a side benefit - I don't believe they were planning a proper review of dominator assault powers.