Sonic assault dom - Shout : yes or no?

[Gothscudo]

Currently playing a plant/sonic dom and debating if I should take shout at lvl 35.

 

Pros

3rd ranged attack

resist debuff will stack with shriek/scream

 

Cons

longist animation at 1.97

bad/annoying SFX (at least it was when I played sonic defender)

kinda want to be in melee range all the time with disruption aura

limited on 'Ranged attacks' for IOs sets

 

Other options at 35 would be to go for epic pool powers.

fire mastery : fireball / fire shield

primal forces : energy transfert / temp invul

mako : bile spray / watersprout / shark skin

ghost widow : dark embrace / sould drain

 

Share your thoughts.

[Galamane]

I'm starting a Dark/Sonic/Dark to find out lol. Your points make sense though. This will be my 2nd Dom so I'm looking forward to it lol.

[Apocohotep]

Currently running a Ice/Sonic and facing the same situation. I feel I'm going to skip shout as I have enough buttons to hit as it is 🙂 

[capricorpse]

I ended up taking it and swapping out Scream in a respec, so far I like the choice.  If I exemplar down I'll have one less single target attack, but with slotting it won't feel the way it would if you were actually lower level and missing an attack.  I opted for Shout instead of Scream because it hits harder and has the highest-tier resistance debuff.  

 

I'll also mention I'm running the set with Gravity Control so I have more single-target attack options than some other doms who may not want to trade one out.