New Plant Dom

[DocMidknight]

  So I'm starting a new dominator and finally decided to make a plant dom as I've been pushing plant down the line until I could come up with the concept I wanted and I'm wondering what powers are the must haves as I've never used plant before. I know I've heard seeds are awesome and the creepers are proc monsters but beside those 2 I'm unsure.......do I need or want the group immob or the group hold and what about spore burst? Spirit tree won't be really needed as I'm using dark assault so I have a heal available to me.

 

   Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

[tidge]

I just got my Plat/Electric to 50, and the primary (during leveling, kept at respec) was

 

1) Strangler

2) Roots

8 ) Seeds of Confusion

18) Vines

26) Carrion Creepers

32) Fly Trap

 

I don't like single-target Immobs so I skipped Entangle. I have another character with and AoE sleep, and I didn't feel like putting such a power in a Dominator. Spirit Tree was sacrificed to pick up 5 mules for LotG. Vines isn't quite up enough for me to really rely on it... it is basically my alternating control with Seeds of Confusion.

Edited July 21, 2022 by tidge
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[DocMidknight]

@tidge, thanks for the input as I wasn't sure about roots and vines if I should take 1, both or neither but now I have an idea of what way to go.

[tidge]

As I wrote, I just finished leveling my Plant Dom, and I more-or-less purposely left it with only around 20% positional defenses for extra excitement other may find distasteful.... so I even though I (now) have a reasonably kitted perma-Dom, I'm still thinking of the original run while leveling.

 

Seeds of Confusion is the "money power": I try to open with that, and then follow with Roots. SoC didn't need many slots while leveling, but YMMV. The pets/pseudo-pets aren't super reliable until they (a) will stay with you (b) have recharge times close to their duration. Not a lot of deep thought on that one, but I felt like writing it. Those two cycle fast enough that they basically set the pace of clearing spawns. At 50, Roots has the ATO %+Damage; while leveling I had that ATO in Strangler... I don't expect this choice to make much sense to anyone, it's just that I made some early choices on which of those low level powers were going to give me certain global +Recharge set bonuses before 50.

 

I have two %proc powers in my build: Carrion Creepers and Static Discharge (Electricity Assault Secondary). A few powers will have a set %proc in them, fewer still may have a second as the 6th slot. Again, this is not a particularly deep thought for a Dominator. I only write this because I found (at level 50) enough recharge (without Hasten) to have permadom in the absence of slows and without relying on SG base buffs. I do try to remember to keep the SG base buffs (attack rate, recovery) active anyway. I could slip more global +Recharge into the cone attack, but that is where I have some %-Resistance. The Fly Trap also has %-Resistance, which I find helps.

 

I used ATO %Fiery Orb when leveling, but I had pulled it out of the build. I felt like it helped with aggro at low levels. I'm going to experiment with it again I think. I should be able to drop it into Carrion Creepers to replace one of the /Recharge pieces used there.

 

The only power on my build that disappoints me is from the secondary: T8 Thunder Strike (PBAoE Melee). Even slotted with 5x Armageddon, and an even-level accuracy of 153%, this power misses far too much for my taste. It isn't a terrible finishing move sometimes against weakened spawns, but it doesn't have the synergy I want with the primary.... either in solo or in PUGs. I delayed picking it to level 41, and I am going to move the 6th slot (was %-Resistance Fury of the Gladiator) to another power. I really want to play my Dominator as a melee character (I even have Combat Teleport at level 6!) but this T8 just isn't paying dividends on the investment.

[Hardship]

I would say that Seeds of Confusion and Carrior Creepers are MUST haves, the rest depend on play style. I guess technically both SoC and CC also depend on play style, but if you play a plant dom you should change your play style to include them!  😉

 

 

[FUBARczar]

Plant Control is the only set I would consider playing with any assault set. So pick whatever you fancy.

 

That said, my personal preferred assault sets are:

Dark 

Fire

Martial

Psionic 

Savage 

Stone 

 

😂 I listed many

 

[Voltak]

6 hours ago, FUBARczar said:

Plant Control is the only set I would consider playing with any assault set. So pick whatever you fancy.

 

That said, my personal preferred assault sets are:

Dark 

Fire

Martial

Psionic 

Savage 

Stone 

 

😂 I listed many

 

I also want to add that I don't see enough earth assault dominators , I had 3 in live.  That's a very SMASHy assault set, fun. 

[DocMidknight]

2 hours ago, Voltak said:

I also want to add that I don't see enough earth assault dominators , I had 3 in live.  That's a very SMASHy assault set, fun. 

 

    Have a dark/earth dom that's very fun.........a smashing good time