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Builds should be fluid, not built on the eternity of thoushaltsoftcap. You are a dom. Your defense is your offense. There are lots of ways doms can leverage their built-in functions to mitigate loss of a few points of defense.... Also, you can cheese it like my daughter does. Stealth up, enflame singy, walk into mobs, wait patiently for it to follow you and start fightning. It WORKS. 😛 No teleport target needed. It's just, well, not terribly fast. But veeeeeeeeeery soothing.

First, enflame is good enough that my 6 year old can solo 0/5 just casting enflame on singy and walking close to mobs in stealth and letting singy open combat. She just mashes buttons once engaged. Second, ABSOLUTELY! Enflame is an add on to, not a replacement for core secondary attacks. Do not assume enflame does all your killing for you! Also, it generates gobs of agro, so be prepared for that! Considering that my daughter can mash buttons 1-5, click singy once in a while and enflame it, thats pretty good indicator in my opinion. My personal silly tricks with multiple stacks of thorntrops doesn't count. 😄

Drop vengeance, replace with teleport target, profit. You only get mileage out of veng on teams, and on teams where people die with regularity, and it does nothing for you solo where teleport target does a LOT. I would consider just not taking Rune of Protection to be honest, once you have achieved permadom. That could be a good power to replace with teleport target as well, and it is low enough in the power pick list you have there to be useful in all circumstances, porting enemies, fellow players, or the upcoming singy at 32.

I pulled 16 blueside zones COMBINED from the nobodygoesthere at 7pm EST (its pretty busy right now on excelsior). There were only 49 people. Total. In 16 combined non-populous zones. (I even included KR, but I guess skulls arent as cool as I think... 😞 ) Atlas, 50 people. PI, 25. Talos, 23. If you catch people leaving mishs, PI has been in the 40s. Talos has been hovering around 30. That is in just _3_ of the "populous" zones on blueside. Yes, there are people who play in every zone, but that is far from a majority position.

Hmm, interesting slotting for enflame. I went with 4 superior winter blast or whatever that crap is with the immob proc and 3 of the others +damagez and +end. That power is expeeensive to run. I hadnt thought about slotting -res in thornburst. I didnt take it, so, not sure it would help. I do have fling thorns, but maaaaaaaan, its on a 3 second recharge. Is there any way I could actually -res something with that kind of rech? edit: I stripped the purple set and slotted 3 annil, a rag +5 d/e, and the achilles proc. It recharges in 4.23 seconds. Is this viable? Will I -res ANYTHING with it?

520,000,000 (520 million) I think that is probably extremely high too.

I really like that we have a legit newbie in the forum asking questions. Especially with that doom and gloom thread about how noooooooobody plays anymore.

Talos hill. PI plaza. Thats all I have. 😄 Please note that these correlate to above post I just made too.

People are immensely lazy when it comes to travel. As a whole, the game is played in something like 4 zones blueside, and the very few redsiders doing whatever. Unless its for merits/badges for giant monsters, thats it. PI, IP (solely for penny), KR (if you are doing the two skulls arcs), Talos, Atlas, $insertwhereyouAEzonehere. Anything else is purely oddball usage. The old school arcs in other zones run you all over gods creation so clearly thats out, street sweeping does no good for you exp-wise (travel tips are cool though for completionism), the new school arcs that DON'T generally aren't run, or are run by a select few which gets SOME people into other zones. Cim is the prime example of this behavior. Unless you are doing an ITF, PEOPLE DONT GO THERE (excluding the .05% that do the arcs there). Aside from War Walker/Babbage, PEOPLE DONT GO TO BOOMTOWN. Not even for exploration badges. The list goes on and on. People. Are. Lazy. Think of how many PI Radio teams people join, when exp can be had with equal difficulty to 4/8 council, in other areas, level aligned, merit or otherwise aligned. What I have seen is people ALWAYS GO FOR THE PI Radio teams. Nobody is going to go to a one-off invasion in some zone they have hardly, if ever, gone to and then tried to drum up companions. It simply isn't near the nexus of traffic flow blue side (atlas, talos, PI). I see redside lft/lfg messages so rarely I wonder if they even really do anything groupy. 😛 I have no solution, simply stating reality. People have fun with that reality, I do not think any attempt should be made to try and force people elsewhere.

This is tank forum. Go Tank! 😛

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die! wait, in game?

Doms Do It In Blue?

Lift does more damage than your level 1 blast from your secondary, by a lot. Considering you can slot a ff +rech (doms love rech, and it pops often enough) and some procs and this and that, its a hell of a lot better than that t1 blast. And it casts pretty fast too.

I never played psi on a stalker, so take this with some salt: Insight is the worst mechanic EVER.

I find it to be actually a bit, well, overpowered. Against single targets, with the right combo (cough cough, bio, cough cough) you can splatter anything everywhere. My absolute strongest single target murdermachine is my enm/bio stalker, who just murderizes things. Choice of where you drop your procs there is IMPORTANT, because you can do all sorts of nifty things with the combo mechanic that pumps the damage waaaaaay up.

And lives on a very fast cast!

I would put multiples in something like an elec assault/elec blast set or whatever the elec blast is for sentinels. edit: cause users of those powers tend to be squishy, and powertransfer has good 2 and 3 slot bonuses (+huge end), and gets acc, dam, rech, endmod, so you can shove it into something like ball lighting for 3 slot annil/3 slot pt...

This is no longer the case. It no longer has a fear effect.

Actually I moved up to 0/8, 1/7, still on generic IOs, depending on the mob type. I tend to avoid things like malta, which on generics at that level as a dom just isnt very fair. Just needed more powers to close the gap for survival. Also, I eat lots of candy now. Generally I dont touch candy at all, but I have found that hey, its actually very useful. I actually got fling thorns at 8 which was stupid helpful, and I am finding that flying didnt do what I wanted it to do. Also, my powerpicks I am finding need significant rearranging as to what level I get what, but otherwise its pretty sound. More importantly, I figured out how to play it in a team! This may sound stupid, but when you amp up on damage, enflame generates a lot of agro. As long as the team is putting out level-appropriate damage, I don't take too many hits, but depending on when I inject myself into the mix determines if I die or live. I cant wait to see how this works on set ios! Talking to @Bionic_Flea, turns out that there are ways to abuse this with traps-type oriented characters, and a few other things. 😄 @Sovera I am highly interested in hearing how your /psi works out. I found that thorntrops is AMAZING in the gitup, and the slows fairly make the grav/thorn pairing pretty tough. ps: permadom is expensive 😐

Everywhere. Defense IOs. Travel IOs. set bonuses all over. PVP bonuses in at least one spot I am aware of. Resist IOs. Just look?

I disagree. There is a whole mountain of people in several of these categories who have enough inf to slot 1 char fully, or a bunch of chars in a very frankenstein way. For those, the costs of the market, the availability, and the function of the market are doing their job nicely.

Interesting thing I learned from the forum the other day. Rad's melee heal is waaaaaaaay better than darks heal. Plus rad gets a damage patch which stacks with dark goodness. Rad/dark I could see as pretty impressive on a brute.

What is this new fangled thing?! I MUST try it out! I have a petselect macro I got from someone else that lets me do silly things too!

Yes indeed! Singy pops impacts all the time. Very nice to see!

A friend said Go Test On Beta, so I did. No, no bonus damage, but yes.... yeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, butts are being kicked. I wonder which is better, grav/kin, or grav/dark. Grav/dark for the pet, and massive bonuses to keep you upright, or kin for self-boosting enflame. Thoughts?