Bosses help

[Mezmera]

If you find yourself missing lots I'd have a look at what all Domination does for you.  You can right click and look at the details of what powers are all doing for you.  If you'd have right clicked and looked at Domination you would see that for the first 15s of you hitting the Domination button you get 25% tohitt which will make sure you hit everything you're aiming for.  You could have laid out some aoe controls while focusing on the force fields since you should have everyone under control while you eliminate their buff.  Not to mention before even engaging in the fight you would target control the ones you know that spawn those buffs in the first place.  And some of those buffs you can confuse into being your buff, so much for the need for inspirs.  

 

 

Edited January 8 by Mezmera

[Greymistbc1]

1 hour ago, Panache said:

It's wild to want to have the last word so bad but be wrong so much.

 

It's about you coming into my thread and attacking me while contributing nothing.

"Tanking" >> 'taunt power'

You said "...Dominator PA absolutely does not tank..."   

They do, indeed, tank.  They pull agro, and are indestructible.  So you are, in fact, wrong.

Yes, they would pull agro better with an actual taunt. But it is not necessary.

The entire thread was about my struggle with EB Capt. Callisto.  If I had had PA, I could have had 60 seconds of Hold stacking without ever being targeted.  
Or firing attacks, or even using rest.  Because I would be perfectly safe while PA was up.

You are now 6 posts in without adding anything useful.  You have, in fact, spent the last two spreading disinformation.

 

 

 

[Greymistbc1]

41 minutes ago, Mezmera said:

If you find yourself missing lots I'd have a look at what all Domination does for you.  You can right click and look at the details of what powers are all doing for you.  If you'd have right clicked and looked at Domination you would see that for the first 15s of you hitting the Domination button you get 25% tohitt which will make sure you hit everything you're aiming for.  You could have laid out some aoe controls while focusing on the force fields since you should have everyone under control while you eliminate their buff.  Not to mention before even engaging in the fight you would target control the ones you know that spawn those buffs in the first place.  And some of those buffs you can confuse into being your buff, so much for the need for inspirs.  

 

 

I'm sure you are right.  As I stated elsewhere, after the first run I was just frustrated and didn't bother to try to build Domination.  I did go back and check the combat logs, and that first run was dominated by a streak of 'miss 96%'. followed by a streakbreaker, followed by another 96% miss, and then a third time.  So, just terrible luck.

As for aoe controls... jolting chain does kd, and static field does sleep, and neither will turn off a FFG once it is up.  Which they were, due to my first few misses. 
I _think_ that confusing the engineer first does not help, as he still summons, and the FFG is still your enemy.  You'd have to let him summon, then confuse the FFG, which requires hitting it...
 

[Mezmera]

If there's any good sleeps in the game it is Static Field.  Lead with that into mobs then pick out whomever you want to eliminate.  Can also pop domination once that generator is summoned then confuse it since you should be able to hit it now having 25% more tohitt...

[Greymistbc1]

12 hours ago, Mezmera said:

 

 

Most dom assaults come with a powerboosting type of buildup.  It gives you a bit of a damage boost but it also makes your controls last a great deal longer,...

 

 

Sadly Elec, Fire, Martial, Rad, Savage, Thorny and Psi do not.
Only Dark, Earth, Energy, Icy and Sonic do.

[Greymistbc1]

2 minutes ago, Mezmera said:

If there's any good sleeps in the game it is Static Field.  Lead with that into mobs then pick out whomever you want to eliminate.  Can also pop domination once that generator is summoned then confuse it since you should be able to hit it now having 25% more tohitt...

Indeed, I love static.  Yes, that would have helped a lot, just hide in the bubble.

 

[Mezmera]

2 minutes ago, Greymistbc1 said:

Sadly Elec, Fire, Martial, Rad, Savage, Thorny and Psi do not.
Only Dark, Earth, Energy, Icy and Sonic do.

 

Yes I was speaking in generality seeing how you are new to the AT.  You do get Build Up on /elec which comes with a good deal of +tohitt....

[twozerofoxtrot]

6 minutes ago, Greymistbc1 said:

Indeed, I love static.  Yes, that would have helped a lot, just hide in the bubble.

 

Instead of that, make Castillo live in the bubble.

Because EBs and AVs have low protection to sleep and immobs, you can drop Static on him, then layer electric fence to hold him in place. Every 4 seconds he'll go to sleep, so just chain the immob.

Castillo (to my recollection) doesn't have any snipe attacks. He mostly uses a flame thrower and melee. Keep him trapped in his nap puddle and slowly melt him down with your level 1 immob.

Maybe 1 yellow insp at the start to ensure you stick the first cast. After that it should be a cake walk.

[DreadShinobi]

If you are playing Domi pre perma dom you definitely want to be planning out your mission pacing to have your domination bar full when youre ready to engage an expected EB encounter. 

 

Seems like you might find some useful info here: 

 

Inner Inspiration to refill your insp tray with large insps is super nice. The self rez will alleviate some hospital trips and Return to Battle pops all large insps upon rez. Mission Teleports and travel power temps are nice for zones like faultline. 

 

Specific to playing a dominator, the recovery serum is super nice as dominators can tend to be endurance heavy even with domination refilling the blue bar. Dominators typically lack a self heal, you can purchase a med pack for that. Both of these temp powers mean more space in your insp tray for non-blue/non-green insps that are more useful. The offense amplifier is expensive to maintain but the extra recharge can be helpful for a low level dom or an exemping dom to maintain perma dom or for the tohit buff. 

 

Lockdown and Devastation +mag 2 hold procs can be slotted in your tesla cage starting at lvl 27 if you want to have more reliable hold stacking before reaching perma dom. 

[Panache]

3 hours ago, Greymistbc1 said:

It's about you coming into my thread and attacking me while contributing nothing.

"Tanking" >> 'taunt power'

You said "...Dominator PA absolutely does not tank..."   

They do, indeed, tank.  They pull agro, and are indestructible.  So you are, in fact, wrong.

Yes, they would pull agro better with an actual taunt. But it is not necessary.

The entire thread was about my struggle with EB Capt. Callisto.  If I had had PA, I could have had 60 seconds of Hold stacking without ever being targeted.  
Or firing attacks, or even using rest.  Because I would be perfectly safe while PA was up.

You are now 6 posts in without adding anything useful.  You have, in fact, spent the last two spreading disinformation.

 

 

 

 

lol homie, I could tell you that that's not how I fight EBs/AVs with an Illusion Dom because it doesn't work at high levels, but you're just going to have to take my word on both of those.

You're provably wrong on that. You started this thread with a tantrum that only got worse as people tried to help ('bad design!', 'can fix this with a line of code'!). Your other contribution to the forums was the thread "Scourge is Broken (of course!)", which was another easily disproven rant. The usefulness I'm adding here is pushing back on crap like that and like this; someone getting mad about something they don't understand, assuming they're right and the thing is wrong, running to the forums to rant about it, and then refusing to listen to people and doubling down on the outrage. 

Edited January 9 by Panache

[Greymistbc1]

2 hours ago, Panache said:

 

lol homie, I could tell you that that's now how I fight EBs/AVs with an Illusion Dom because it doesn't work at high levels, but you're just going to have to take my word on both of those.

You're provably wrong on that. You started this thread with a tantrum that only got worse as people tried to help ('bad design!', 'can fix this with a line of code'!). Your other contribution to the forums was the thread "Scourge is Broken (of course!)", which was another easily disproven rant. The usefulness I'm adding here is pushing back on crap like that and like this; someone getting mad about something they don't understand, assuming they're right and the thing is wrong, running to the forums to rant about it, and then refusing to listen to people and doubling down on the outrage. 

" I could tell you that that's now how I fight EBs/AVs with an Illusion Dom because it doesn't work at high levels"

Well, that has absolutely no bearing on this topic now, does it? Since it is about an Elec/Elec Dom fighting at 22? And since the only reason that got brought in at all was because you wanted to brag about yourself?

"You started this thread with a tantrum"

Actually, my first post was pretty even tempered and reasonable.  And, yes, I still think it is bad design, and could be easily fixed.

"Your other contribution..."

Wow... you _really_ have no life.  That's twice you went digging into prior posts looking for ad hominems.  (That's a logical fallacy, btw).

"The usefulness I'm adding here..."

LOL, Wow!!!  So you are a righteous defender of truth?!?    Sad, small, and trollish.

Here is a helpful suggestions for you:  read other people's contributions to this thread, there have been quite a few good and helpful ones -- something you might learn from.