General archtype/power balance

[Championess]

On 4/21/2025 at 11:40 PM, MoonSheep said:

 

here’s a short and potentially argumentative guide:

 

some dom primary and secondaries suck

 

choose a mind/fire or plant/energy and you’ll have a whale of a time

 

don’t try to play it like a scrapper, switch on the brain and think about which enemies need to be mezzed or simply killed

 

use your bloody inspirations

 

get perma dom

 

you have now completed your 11 second guide on dominators

 

Sagely advice from the 3rd best dommie on HC right here.  😜

Edited 23 hours ago by Championess

[FFTMime]

While I admit it has to be right, it still makes me lament I can't play my personal flavor of gremlin and not have a shitty time. 

[BZRKR]

32 minutes ago, FFTMime said:

While I admit it has to be right, it still makes me lament I can't play my personal flavor of gremlin and not have a shitty time. 

I may be missing it, but how would you define your personal flavor of gremlin? Like what 3 bullet points would you distill it down to?

[FFTMime]

Nothing specific, but my usual interaction with things goes along the lines of wanting to play this AT but the powersets or combo I want to use is bad. Where my option is to play something that's not conceptual that does work instead. But I don't wanna. Getting concept and acceptable levels of performance to meet is difficult. 

[FFTMime]

What I am saying is I have criminally and habitually bad taste and no one is to blame but me. I cannot be happy playing things that just work, it seems. 

[Psyonico]

5 hours ago, FFTMime said:

Getting concept and acceptable levels of performance to meet is difficult. 

That depends on your definition of “acceptable performance”.  I personally find very few sets *don’t* give acceptable performance.  For example, Electric Control.  I find it neither does enough damage or control to be worth my time.  Every other control set does either one or both of those to a satisfying extent for me.

 

Electric Control is one of the few (possibly only) sets that I find unfulfilling to play.  But I probably have different expectations than you do.  I don’t expect all of my characters to solo +4x8.  Heck, even at level 50 I don’t expect any set to be able to solo above +1x2.  And only +1 because of alpha incarnate shift.

[tidge]

8 hours ago, Psyonico said:

That depends on your definition of “acceptable performance”.  I personally find very few sets *don’t* give acceptable performance.  For example, Electric Control.  I find it neither does enough damage or control to be worth my time.  Every other control set does either one or both of those to a satisfying extent for me.

 

I have sets I keep going back to for concept/animation reasons, but I keep getting reminded how underwhelming I find them. I don't really find them unacceptable, but I find them to be low-performing (for my tastes for the AT). Sometimes those sets shine on other ATs, sometimes those sets offer "one great trick" that gets a lot of attention but doesn't rock my world.

 

The old, linked posts about differences in clear times measured in seconds between melee types... not particular persuasive to me, although the relative difference between melee sets does align with my personal perceptions.