Illusion/Dark/Ice review

[Snokle]

Been running this Dom for a bit now after hitting 50 and starting to do some fine tuning on what I feel the build is feeling like. I have gone through a few passes trying out some different epics and the powers and kinda ended up with this currently.

 

While I usually do not got for Def Epic armor, I think Sleet is too good with PA and Gleam to pass up, I think keeping as much as the mobs bunched up together will keep up the damage as much as possible instead of walking around. Also with Dark Assault having some -to hit it will be a little bonus to help with the extra defense.

 

Since no Res epic, I added Fighting pool to add in the Glad Armor bonuses to get some free KB pro when I am not in Dom, and the extra 6% to Def. Still end feels tight on this, which is something I did notice on some other passes. Just want to make sure there is nothing too obvious I missed.

Dominator (Illusion Control - Dark Assault - Ice Mastery).mbd

[MoonSheep]

keen to have a look at this when home later out of curiosity

[Snokle]

This run I swapped Spectral Terror with Phantasm. I am not sure on it yet, but it is more of a test. I found I was using terror less and less as I went on. Compared to early levels.

[Meknomancer]

3 hours ago, Snokle said:

This run I swapped Spectral Terror with Phantasm. I am not sure on it yet, but it is more of a test. I found I was using terror less and less as I went on. Compared to early levels.

 

Unless you have a massive surplus of shield walls stored away and just want to toss them in the build you'd be better off with 3 luck of the gamblers in superior invis and weave for a tiny hp bump. Or toss the scaling reactive in with 2 more pieces for s/l res and hp which are probably more useful than any regen bonuses.

 

Endurance on this combo is awful, ill/dark is one of my favourites and i played it a lot when we first got domi illusion, either find slots for stamina, simplest way is just to drop them from superior invis or swap to an alpha like vigor. Since your attacks are mostly procs i'm not sure how much dps you'd lose out on if you swap musculature out. And getting perma PA on these is rough without taking ageless or limiting the build to sets giving nothing but recharge bonuses and dropping all the proc damage so i don't think musculature loss would be awful.

[MoonSheep]

9 hours ago, Snokle said:

This run I swapped Spectral Terror with Phantasm. I am not sure on it yet, but it is more of a test. I found I was using terror less and less as I went on. Compared to early levels.

 

the build overall looks not too bad, i don't tend to build for defense but i don't think you've sacrified much to do so

 

- i would pick up gloom for the good ranged damage and keep both spectral terror and phantasm

- smite has a fast recharge, so proccing it out isn't too effective

- i find ice storm very underwhelming and would look to have something else

 

haven't got much to say other than that, i quite like it. tempted to make an ill dom myself

[Snokle]

Okay thanks for the notes. I will look at some notes, probably go through with Vigor for the Alpha, and do a bit more power slotting around, scrap out Ice Storm.

 

If worse comes to worse, I will probably scrap Weave to put back in Terror as that was a final add. I will work on what I have planned out for another iteration.