Earth/Radiation Dominator, No Inspirations, no temps, no deaths allowed, Master ITF: unusual team make-up

[Voltak]

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Small 4 man team -- A very unusual and unconventional team to try and complete the Master ITF challenge under these very difficult settings with no inspirations, and with our goal to do it in under 60 minutes.

This video highlights the strengths of earth/radiation Dominators to control enemies who are known to be almost immune to controls,  and also to debuff defenses of those enemies after their defenses increased dramatically after the last game patch. It is important to note that Radiation secondary was not chosen for being the highest DPS, because it is not.  It was chosen for the crucial utility we wanted under these circumstances. 

 

The scrapper and the widow in the team were the main damage dealers and specialized for this challenge under these conditions.   Our job as dominators was to set up the enemies for the kill and debuff their defenses so the dmg specialists hit consistently enough for us to speed along.

 

 

Edited October 24, 2021 by Voltak

[Tacheyon]

Could you spare a end game build?  I think I know most of your powers from the video.  I see that you only took Contaminated Strike and Radiation Siphon as your Melee powers.  Is that because every other power is like 2+secs in activation time?

 

Anyway thanks for the video.  Now to level another Alt!

[Voltak]

19 hours ago, Tacheyon said:

Could you spare a end game build?  I think I know most of your powers from the video.  I see that you only took Contaminated Strike and Radiation Siphon as your Melee powers.  Is that because every other power is like 2+secs in activation time?

 

Anyway thanks for the video.  Now to level another Alt!

Yes

Also, Fast animation was golden 

But more importantly I needed to fit everything else you see here.  
Sihpon is for healing only and it is slotted with touch of the nictus. 

I get 117 healing per tick for 3 ticks.  That's a hefty heal. 

My role with this build is not to be the killer or any main dmg dealer.  
I just have enough damage so that in the case I need to or I am alone, I will be able to kill whoever I need to kill. 

My role here is debuff, control, debuff. and aid with dmg when I can. 

Stealth is important for me, well... for the additional defense, even the suppressed value helps me reach cap or near cap, and also for being able to stealth my way through missions or part 2 caves of ITF, or disabling the turrets in part 3, and so on. 

 

Edited October 26, 2021 by Voltak

[Bill Z Bubba]

After watching this vid I went back into a max diff ITF with my earth/earth dom and focused heavily on quicksand/earthquake, basically spamming them as much as possible and it made a world of difference from a prior attempt I had made. So thanks for that Voltak.

[Voltak]

23 minutes ago, Bill Z Bubba said:

After watching this vid I went back into a max diff ITF with my earth/earth dom and focused heavily on quicksand/earthquake, basically spamming them as much as possible and it made a world of difference from a prior attempt I had made. So thanks for that Voltak.

I will be uploading a very brief video of that same Earth/Rad Dom you see in the video, soloing part 2 of ITF , inspirations and temps disabled. 

I will not cover the whole part 2 since this build took forever to do it and video editing is not really a quick thing to do.  
And.. I have other projects to upload.  

I am very happy the video helped and you experienced first hand how much control Earth has outside of just holds or stuns 🙂 

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@Voltak

 

Very nice.

 

Why not Thorny Assault? Does a better job of defense debuff, both single target and AoE.

 

You lose out on Radiation Siphon's heal. And Thorny has some long animation times. But so does Radiation Assault.

[Voltak]

1 hour ago, ... said:

@Voltak

 

Very nice.

 

Why not Thorny Assault? Does a better job of defense debuff, both single target and AoE.

 

You lose out on Radiation Siphon's heal. And Thorny has some long animation times. But so does Radiation Assault.

Thorn has no self heal.  That's a deal breaker. 
Did you watch my videos with the Earth/Rad?  I have a couple. 
The self heal was important and still is. 
The ST dmg of Thorns is not as good, but the AoE is better.