How do YOU Perma-Dom

[BastionWalls]

This isn't a question of how to get Perma-Dom, but more of the best mechanics to use to maintain it. Do you Auto Dom or Hasten? Can you link the non-Auto power to one of your attacks via a macro? How do you track your non-Auto power so you hit it as soon as it's up? Is it just a matter of putting that power somewhere in your tray that you will see when it's recharged and just training yourself to see it amongst all the chaos? I have been struggling with this so far and am just looking for a way to "idiot-proof" the process.

[Bill Z Bubba]

I have one dom with hasten-less permadom. Log her on, go street sweep until domination is up, leave it on auto and it never goes away. But that takes gearing completely for global +recharge and kinda blows for other build choices.

 

The others are regular permadom with hasten. Hasten is set to auto and I bound dom to V. Same thing I do with my SR and Shield builds where V is set for practiced brawler and active defense.

 

Tray 1 is click attacks/powers I use often.

Tray 2 above 1 is toggles and other long recharge clicks.

Tray 3 above 2 contains powers I usually bind. Hasten will be on auto, then Dom/PB/AD, other heals or click buffs, etc. This makes it very easy to see when something is about to be ready again.

 

Generally speaking, T, Y, U are self-buffs, V, B, N are click mez and heals.

Edited January 31, 2022 by Bill Z Bubba

[oedipus_tex]

I put Hasten on auto-renew and manually click Domination when its up. It helps a lot to turn on the visual timers for icons so you can see exactly when they will recharge.

 

I do have the problem of not being able to go to the bathroom without Domination falling off. Hazard of the class. 🙂

[Arcadio]

I'll usually build for 90-100 global recharge and put dom on auto. With that much recharge, there's a lot of leeway in clicking hasten so I can just get to it whenever I remember.

[Mezmera]

I'll always put Hasten on auto due to habit of every other character and I like to put domination next to my most clickable area typically right next to powerboost where it's in the spot of where any Build-Up type power goes.  

 

I shoot for 85-100% recharge bonuses along with defense/hp and rely on being well practiced at re-clicking domination.  

[EnjoyTheJourney]

I put domination on auto and click hasten when it's up. As long as overall recharge is in a good place it's less problematic to be a bit slow pressing hasten than it is to be a bit slow pressing domination, so I prefer to put domination on auto. 

 

I use hasten on my dom builds and usually get 75 - 100+% global recharge beyond that. If global recharge is on the low end of that scale, then that tends to be for builds that have force feedback +recharge IOs in them that will often trigger when used. 

 

PS: Purchase a snowball in the P2W vendor's "just for fun" sale window. It's inexpensive. You can then build dom while outside missions by throwing snowballs at player characters, pets, some NPCs and objects, and all enemies. 

[Onlyasandwich]

1 hour ago, EnjoyTheJourney said:

Purchase a snowball in the P2W vendor's "just for fun" sale window.

This advice is amazing, effective, and hilarious.

[Mezmera]

2 hours ago, Onlyasandwich said:

This advice is amazing, effective, and hilarious.

 

That's such a last year tactic. 

 

I mean I'll still do it to people and blame it on building up domination and that it can't be helped.  But now I just summon the Vanguard dummy, pop Force of Nature and interrupt snipe, perma in seconds.  

[TheZag]

I made a bind load file that switches what power is on auto every time i press forward.  Turns out i press forward quite often and it keeps both powers active almost all the time.

[oedipus_tex]

I haven't tried to prove it, but based on the publicly available code, it seems you get bonus Domination points for every team member, without regard to whether that entity is a player or a pet. So, keeping pets around (probably) actually has a semi-useful extra side function. A Fire Controller with 3 imps and a APP pet would build Domination as if on a 5-man team.

 

Also, it's an unexpected synergy between Dominators and Masterminds. 🙂 

Edited January 31, 2022 by oedipus_tex

[Outrider_01]

Perma hasten, domination, and tie it to a rolling bind tied to W.  Put Hoarfost on similar bind to S, but its not a rolling bind it just activate say turning it to an auto fire which switches to auto of hasten or dominate with the W.

[kiramon]

I have directional binding set up; I use hasten even in builds with perma dom without it 😕 

it’s just too powerful of a button for how little actual investment you need in it. (Forever In the fun comes first mindset, and think it should just be a global passive effect rolled in since it in and of itself is neither fun to use nor player button utilization-changing lol but I’m likely the minority XD)

[Aurora_Girl]

Bound Dom to forward, hasten on auto. Easy peasy. 

[Errants]

Hasten auto, dom 3:1 for Ctrl+1 for easy rehit.

[BZRKR]

I set Domination for auto-fire, bind Hasten to the tilde (~) key, and when Hasten recharges, I hit tilde with my pinky.

I also build for enough recharge that I have as much overlap as possible.

[DreadShinobi]

Build for about 128% global recharge before hasten. This keeps your domination up without needing to click hasten so you can use the bathroom or what have you. This doesn't mean skip hasten though. Hasten acts as an effective buffer against recharge debuffs without needing to slot such IOs. Having your domination recharge as fast as possible is always beneficial because it means more resets to your blue bar. For dominators, more recharge means more recovery or avg end/sec. You can get 20% more rchg from sg base buff and 15% from amplifier. And last but not least, align as a villain so you get access to Frenzy which automatically fills your entire domination bar, so you never actually need to waste time building up your initial domination street sweeping or whatever. Basically all my characters are vigilante, and my dominators are villain-only. Sucks, but an easy choice to make. Domination is the auto power, hasten is a clicky.

Edited February 9, 2022 by DreadShinobi

[Chelsea Rorec]

On 1/31/2022 at 11:11 AM, BastionWalls said:

This isn't a question of how to get Perma-Dom, but more of the best mechanics to use to maintain it. Do you Auto Dom or Hasten? Can you link the non-Auto power to one of your attacks via a macro? How do you track your non-Auto power so you hit it as soon as it's up? Is it just a matter of putting that power somewhere in your tray that you will see when it's recharged and just training yourself to see it amongst all the chaos? I have been struggling with this so far and am just looking for a way to "idiot-proof" the process.

 

[Yomo Kimyata]

Teach me, my peeps.  I’m not a dominator kind of organism, but generally I don’t know why people want domination to activate automatically?  I’m all for having it up whenever you want it, but why would you put a blue bar filler on auto as opposed to on demand?

[Bionic_Flea]

Luck of the Gambler, Hasten, ATOs, Purples, yadda, yadda, yadda . . . BOOM!!  Perma Dom.

 

Oh, and you want it to be on auto because it's a vicious cycle - fire enough attacks to get perma - now you have a brief, little boost to tohit, a full blue bar, mez protection, and the bigger badder mezzes.  If domination, the inherent, recharges before it expires you keep all that going.  If you let it expire you have to build up your bar again and lose mez protection and all the other stuff.

Edited February 16, 2022 by Bionic_Flea

[Mezmera]

10 minutes ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

Teach me, my peeps.  I’m not a dominator kind of organism, but generally I don’t know why people want domination to activate automatically?  I’m all for having it up whenever you want it, but why would you put a blue bar filler on auto as opposed to on demand?

 

Because a lot of builds are tight on recharge and only have seconds to click or people get distracted and forget to re-click domination.  

 

But I agree I don't auto Domination.  Knowing I have it ready for the click I run as much of my blue bar dry that I can so I can get it filled all back up so then I can click it on demand.  

Edited February 16, 2022 by Mezmera

[EnjoyTheJourney]

Domination does 3 tasty things at one and the same time, as follows:

 

1. Domination doubles the mag of numerous control powers and noticeably increases control duation, meaning insta-mez for bosses with a single application. This is huge for shutting down bosses before they can fight back and the extended duration adds a lot to safety. Controlling EBs and even AVs is soo much easier with domination active. 

 

2. Domination provides stable mez protection, which limits the possibility of being interrupted in the middle of using a skill and ending up having that use of that skill cancelled.

 

3. It refills the endurance bar. 

 

Number 3 is for many builds not that important. The first two points above, though, they are game-changers for how a dominator plays. 

[Hyperstrike]

On 1/31/2022 at 10:49 AM, oedipus_tex said:

I put Hasten on auto-renew and manually click Domination when its up. It helps a lot to turn on the visual timers for icons so you can see exactly when they will recharge.

 

I do have the problem of not being able to go to the bathroom without Domination falling off. Hazard of the class. 🙂

I agree with this.

[UltraAlt]

6 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

Teach me, my peeps.  I’m not a dominator kind of organism, but generally I don’t know why people want domination to activate automatically?  I’m all for having it up whenever you want it, but why would you put a blue bar filler on auto as opposed to on demand?

 

To me, it only makes sense to put it on autofire if you can permadom.

As Dominator, you are very likely to run out of end and need it to refill your end bar.

 

I guess it is a give-or-take of being able to do more damage while Domination is up, but  having to REST or burn END inps while Domination is up because you are out of end.

 

Edited February 16, 2022 by UltraAlt

[Black Zot]

To me, a power can only be called perma if you can set it to autofire and forget about it.  Does that make for tight and expensive builds?  Yes.  But any other way of doing it drives me insane.

 

"This power will stay up all the time if you just keep clicking this and this and tha-" FUCK THAT SHIT.  If you've got time to babysit a power to that degree, you didn't need it to begin with.

[ScarySai]

Hasten on auto, domination bound to tilde ( ` ).