Need help with Dominator build please. Earth/fire/flame dragon them

[h4rtl3ss225]

Could anyone post a good mid build for a magic earth/fire/flame sticking to dragon theme please.  someone made a build guide kind of but has at lot of confusing picks please help

Ekundayo_-_Dominator_Earth_Control_-_Fiery_Assault (2).mxd

[honoroit]

without mids, some personal prefs aside from obvious (like 6 slot your pet):

 

a lot in earth is pseudopets; gasses, earthquake, quicksand  so no domination benefit there.

 

quicksand is a good pick, as it is a base layer for def debuff on harder targets.

 

same with quake. single slot on quicksand, couple recharges on quake.

 

take haste. dont think, take haste.

 

no flight powers, you need to be grounded for several abilities.

 

salt crystals is snap def debuff, and quick, benefits of dom,.. it may assist, often skipped. if you take, throw in the chance to self heal set (sleep).

 

stalagmites, 6 slot aoe purple damage set if you want, or for disorient. whatever, but its recharge reduction should be a priority - that one is go to for 'mobs stop dead' regularly.  this is probably your most important control.

 

if theres 1 or 2 doms that dont need to hard seek perma dom, I'd put earth among them.

 

stone cages is a good 6 slot choice for your ato set that summons the orb. 

 

the hold being the other, if your not trying to proc it.

 

on earth, i dont try to do damage with the set as dom, its a lost battle. its not what earth is good at.

 

fire breath with Artillery is significantly higher range than without. a 30 degree cone has a lot more coverage with extended length. artillery has 2x range extending elements, if i recall accurately positrons blast only has 1.

 

consume is skippable, it is abysmally slow to cast pbaoe.

 

mace for epic is not on your list, but theres a geodey/magicy looking one thatd fit a dragon theme, plus you can have it appear sheathed on your back permanently (a dom carrying a weapon!)

- scorpy shield

- poisonous ray (dmg proc this for big success)

- disruptor blast (same as prior)

 

mace epic will likely serve you better than flame, but if you want flame - melt armor isnt worth it, too weak.

 

Figs - who likes 🧂salt crystals🔮

Edited September 22, 2023 by honoroit
put not out

[EnjoyTheJourney]

Here's a potential "dragon" build ...

Damage should be pretty good overall. It can be made better by stacking weaken resolve and melt armor on hard targets, when you can. The -resistance unique IO can be swapped into weaken resolve if you'd like more uptime against hard single targets (ie: if you team a lot and fight a lot of AVs). Intuition radial is a good choice for improving damage. The key reasons to take intuition radial over musculature are that increased range makes fire breath a lot more effective and the boosts to hold and to slows are very helpful for the build. 

Stone cages isn't something I tend to spam for an earth dominator, in part because the visuals make it harder for melee and in part because the damage is so low. Unless you're willing to spam stone cages, though, the dominator IO AOE damage proc won't make much difference. So, it has been left out of the attached build.

 

Regarding defenses, dragons are seldom glass cannons. Usually, they're not easy at all to take down. This build offers more toughness than a lot of other dominator builds you might see, with unleash potential, barrier, and melee core hybrid. Unleash potential has about 33% uptime without any external speed buffs and it softcaps ranged defenses (without assistance from barrier) while its up. Barrier has 30 seconds of extreme toughness, followed by 90 seconds of somewhat better toughness (huge defense / resist buffs for 30 seconds, followed by a 7.5% defense buff and a resistance buff for another 30 seconds, followed by a 5% buff to defense and resistances for the final minute of its duration). Melee hybrid will help to increase toughness during the "low buffs" portion of barrier. 

As an easy-to-miss benefit of this build, and in exchange for all that influence spent on winter set IOs, resistance to slow and recharge debuffs sits at 65%. With recharge being so central to dominator effectiveness that ends up being helpful. Also, the buffs to fire and cold resistances and to ranged and melee defense can be helpful, at least at times. So, those winter sets can noticeably toughen up a "dragon" dominator. 

If you'd like another AOE you can swap out consume and swap in combustion. It may be better to stick with consume, though. The cast time on combustion relative to its damage is so high that it's tough to justify taking it and keeping consume raises the odds that you can get an endurance refill if and when you need it. 

Dominator (Earth Control - Fiery Assault- Fire Mastery).mbd

Edited September 22, 2023 by EnjoyTheJourney

[smnolimits43]

i love earth control, but i dont quite see how it relates to dragons ??

[EnjoyTheJourney]

Dragons with two or more elements may not be common in fantasy literature. But, if the OP wants to roleplay a dual element dragon there doesn't seem to be any harm in that. 

Tiamat might agree with this line of thinking. 🙂