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.

[Warshades]

I didn't do a deep dive into it, but made a few adjustments. Personally, I'm not a fan of Flash with it's massively long activation time. Gleam is up often enough and can accomplish the same goal of controlling mobs. I switched to experimentation pool for Adrenal Booster, imo it's more useful for what you want to do as a dominator (buffing recharge and damage). I also changed to intuition radial incarnate, this helps quite a bit as it enhances hold duration, damage, slow, and even tohit debuffs that you can benefit from. You can also proc out Blind as it can deal some pretty good damage when proced out and intuition will help with the hold duration.

 

The build is a little tight with slots though and I ended up taking some from other powers (like the overwhelming proc from Phantasm). You could maybe consider swapping Phantasm for Spectral or Flash, I've not played illusion on a dominator but never found Phantasm overly useful on my illusion controllers. Endurance may end up being worse with the switch from musculature radial and losing the end mod buff.

Dominator (Illusion Control - Dark Assault).mbd

[Snokle]

So I went through and did another pass or two and ended up with this build. I did respec into this, and did a couple test runs through some random KM TFs, a couple paper mishes, and then the heist mish. I have not done the incarnate arcs yet, but it feels a lot better on paper now. While it is light on AOE from myself, I think with the clones and Phantasm it brings enough to cover normal mobs. I thought I would miss not having the target AOE, but I do not, sleet is more than and Army is crucial for damage.

 

Also with flash while it has a long recharge time, I do find it is nice in certain clutches. Priority is always Gleam -> Terror, and Darkness two start wreaking havoc. But sometimes if additional mobs come in during a cool-down the extra AoE control is good to have as a backup.

 

Finally gloom does do wonders for adding to the single target DPA, while I stuck with Smite proc'd out, I found Midnight Grasp is best going 5 slot Hetacomb + ATO for abusing the +power proc. As you are gaining the stacks quite a bit. If I felt frisky I could shave one slot off Smite and put it into Blind and Proc that power out, as I have enough recharge for perma-Dom, but I am comfortable with it as it stands.

 

Vigor made a big difference on the End bar, as I am not worried about popping blues anymore really. So I will probably most times skip Ageless, and run Barrier for tough stuff but have that as backup if need be. Overall very happy how it has turned out with the turning and adjustment, thanks for all the input!

 

Dominator (Illusion Control - Dark Assault - Ice Mastery)v2.mbd

Edited Thursday at 10:12 PM by Snokle