plant/?

[terrawar]

looking to start up a dom will be my first one and decide to roll planets and now i am trying to find a good secondary to go with it was thinking of ice or earth and maybe electric. how do these pair with planet?

[Coyote]

Plant's main strength is the ability to do a lot of control with little actual controlling. You throw Seeds at the start of the fight, and then possibly Roots (treating it as an AoE damage power and slotting it like that). After that, you're free to use the secondary, so take one that is useful.

 

What I find interesting about Plant, is that the mobs kill each other. So, while it could be interesting to take a secondary like Martial that is busy since you're free to attack... the knockdowns prevent the mobs from killing each other. Instead, my preference for Plant is secondaries that have no mitigation effects, so that mobs aren't interrupted from the self-slaughter, and you do more damage faster. So, I prefer: Fire, Thorns, Savage, Rad.

 

Of the ones that you listed, I like Earth the most, since while it does interrupt mobs, it works best at short range using AoEs. And Plant closes to at least mid-range at the start of the fight for Seeds, so it's easy to continue forward and throw the Earth AoEs. And you'll be using Roots for more AoE, which will also prevent the mobs from scattering from Mud Pots. It should clear groups well, and Earth has good single-target damage also. And Plant is a bit weak on single-target control (read: multiple Bosses), but Earth has Seismic Smash which can both take a Boss out of the fight and also seismically Smash it.

[Giocondi]

Made my first ever Dom not very long ago to test out the AT. Happened to roll a Plant/Earth as it sounded good thematically. It. Is. fucking. amazing. That toon temporarily cured my altitis as I played her all the way to 50 and IO'd out. It was my first time using Plant on any AT and good lord it is just an amazing set. I honestly can't recommend it enough. Another option would be plant/fire as you would be a blender for demolishing large groups of enemies.

 

Now excuse me as this conversation has forced me to go create another dom.

[oedipus_tex]

You have a lot of options here, and almost any secondary will work.

 

I have to admit Electric Assault (and Thorny) is my least favorite Assault set, but you could make it work. The only real interesting power in Electric Assault is Build Up, and its not that interesting. 🙂

 

I wrote a post that lists the various interesting oddball powers available to Dominator secondaries, with short videos showing how the power works.