plant/plant dom...questions...

[Libertyguard]

um...i decided to try a plant plant dom(thorny/etc) anyway...um...how does one even play one of these? i mean they act sorta like a spines scrapper...but are fragile as hell.

[Erydanus]

Accurate.

 

When I got into the CoV beta my thought was, "OMG this entire archetype is a mistake*" and sure enough when it went live the devs had to buff dominators over and over to get them to the point where they're pretty playable. Mostly that buffing happened to their powered up domination mode.

 

The main thing is, if you're soloing, you need to go slow at first so that you can use your controls to hard hold things, and then beat them to death with your secondary as fast and hard as you can. Once you get your AoE soft controls like your sleep and confuse it'll go much better. (The tree is crap skip it, it is NOT a useful self heal btw.) In my opinion low level dominators are much less soloable than controllers but team just fine. Once you get some levels under your belt it'll be better.

 

TLDR it helps to be somewhat masochistic to play a Dom.

 

 

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* In my opinion, Dominators should never have been control primaries. They should have had the control power sets as their secondaries, at about 80% of controller effectiveness. Their assault sets should have been primaries (and thus higher damage) and they should have also been formulated a little more like blaster secondaries and had a few utility moves like Build Up in them. Then dominators could have been played more like blappers with holds and the occasional AoE.