BazookaTwo

This. Bats, knives, titan weapons, staff (pool cues) etc. Street Justice and Martial Arts too!

So I leveled a Mace/Shield to 50. I wanted to love it, but it ended up feeling lackluster. I've since field stripped it to feed alts, but I'd love some help building something that is as impressive as possible in the DPS department, and at least doesn't get pummelled too badly at +4/8 content. This is a long term project, and I'm willing to invest in it before I start working on Incarnates. I'm open to whatever epics and power pools help the most with DPS/recharge. I'm willing to listen about optimal ST and AOE chains, and skip attacks not needed. Anyone have some advice or a great build to share?

I read that as "internationally" make a mess of things. I think it's a good motto.

all great advice! I am having trouble not choosing powers from the primary and secondary! Everything is so good. The only pool stuff I took is Hasten and Speed...and I might take burnout just to for extra recharge oomph in a pinch. I don't see myself caring much about defenses on this guy! Everything is tactical!

with superior invis, I can be standing in a mob wailing on one enemy, and the rest don't even notice. it's pretty funny.

So I 50'd and Incarnated my Gravity/Arsenal Assault/Power Manipulation Dom. It's loads of fun. I'm no stranger to Arsenal Assault. I have never taken an Illusion anything to 50 or even into a solid build. So I'm looking for advice. It is fun so far, at 16 or so. I don't have Mids, so please if you do share a mids anything, embed it in the forum post, pretty please? So far I read a recent thread about ILL/Martial and I think I will skip Phantasm. Does Contagious Confusion do great stuff in Deceive or Gleam? So far I've taken Blind, Spectral Terror, Superior Invis, Hasten, Super Speed, and the first 4 arsenal attacks. I'm less impressed with Spectral Terror. There is;'t much I'd skip on Arsenal. I know I want PA, and Gleam. Any ideas on Epic/Patron sets? Any advice welcome.

And none of them tested and verified

That's what's great about it! I've found that engaging the person and bringing up infringment just leads to childish outburts, so I do this instead.

Some of us even chat you to say 'kewl costume' just to get your character name, global name, and petition you for harrassment/conduct - specifically to get you in front of the GMs...

Good guide. I am running a Grav/Arse/Energy and ended up having a build that didn't focus so much on Defense at all. I have more Resist than Defense, but even that isn't capped. I did take Combat Jumping, Tough, Weave, and Temp Invulnerability. What I built for, aside from Recharge, was Endurance tools, Damage Bonuses and Accuracy, and lots of procs. I'm not running any purple sets, and honestly I don't need them, which is a relief. Force Feedback in Propel and Buckshot early on were my bread and butter for ghetto recharge. Even before Hasten it was noticable, I even put one in Kick. 🤣 I also ran Kismet until I got Targeting Drone, then I dropped it. My recharge with Hasten up is 132.50%. My recharge with Ageless up 152.50%. It's the most fun I've had on a Dominator so far.

The mines are fine with wormhole. But I tend to also drop mines all over the place, including and especially near Singularity. Buckshot and propel can also knock mobs into minefields.

I have a very, very solid Grav/Arsenal build. I'm working on the incarnates now. It's loads of fun to play too.

My first character was an AR/EM. That meant I had a serious love for punching things and sending them across the map. All the better if I slotted Knockback so I could you know, follow up with my ranged powers. We all follow the tank, so I would of course, also target through the tank. You can imagine the love I got.

Bazooka Tooth was my signature on Live. He's an AR/EM blaster. He's not fully kitted out yet as far as Incarnates, but he's done otherwise. My other signature character is Iron Bow, my badger, who is an Archery/Ninja/Ninja Sentinel with Natural origin and no real travel power. I am now working on two signature SGs - one hero and one villain, with the original ATs the game had when CoH and CoV launched. The villain group is going to only do redside, and the Hero group will only do blueside, with the coolest bases I can muster for each.

Also I'll add that you can use the superbase temp powers available to purchase with salvage to shore up various things, if you're planning ahead. And I would plan ahead for any solo AV fight.

Brilliant. Did not realize that

Untrue. You can still access the START Vendor in pocket D during a Task Force

Ok, I apologize. That's surprising to me!

Thanks Snarky!

I am leveling a Gravity/Arsenal Assault. The synergies are great because of Knockback! Propel + Buckshot, followed by An AOE Hold is sweet. I put FF Procs everywhere I can asap. This combo means a lot of recharge and early, which is what you want on a Dom. The Melee strikes are great too. It's easy to dispatch pesky Sorcerers quickly. Like any other grav build, I leave off crushing field until later in the build because it's just an aggro magnet if it's your opener. Wormhole is a decent opener though. Gonna enjoy setting up mines in solo missions, and learning to buckshot and propel mobs into mines behind them.

Given an elbow strike in the real world is most definitely single target, what a silly idea.

I think you have drank too much fluoride and boofed too many quartz crystals.

Started a new Dom with the Paragon Protector costume stuff! Grav/Arsenal Assault Dom named "Paragon Prolapser". 🙈 He will NOT be slotting any Sudden Accs. FF +rech Procs and Hasten...2 great kb cones early on...rifle butt power hit like a truck. Solo'd to 22 tonight and it was great.

I'm glad that idiots are putting themselves out in the open. That didn't use to happen so often, except whenever an AR/EM blaster stood next to the Tank and power punched his target across the room. Wonder who that idiot was? Oh right, it was me.

I just want the servers up again...