Give em the ol' Razzle-Dazzle! (A Pyro/Sonic build.)

[Kalean]

Paragon City! Do you miss the 80s?  Do you remember when leather jackets were cool and rock music was cooler? Do you like your music loud?!

 

Well here's your girl Alison Blair to remind you that you're only one alt away from reclaiming your Glory Days! Hit it, Alison!

 

 

Just in time for Halloween, it's time for an expensive alt that'll really blow you away.   It's Alison Blair, the mutant who can convert soundwaves into pure light - with explosive results! 

 

Are you tired of controlling the battlefield from range?

 

Good, because this Permadom prefers to be out there amongst her people, getting up close and personal with her audience.  With positionals at 28+, and a -17% to hit aura, she's basically soft-capped to defense... against the crowd she's surfing.  Make sure to throw those glittering columns and hypnotizing lights out there to keep your distant fans entertained, you'll be with them soon enough.  But first, deal with your adoring fans that just can't keep their hands off you.  For those that get through, 63% S/L resist is pretty respectable against melee, and you're a permadom, so you shouldn't be expecting too many to even be attacking.

 

Disruption Aura should keep your fans eating a solid 15% more damage, and make sure you Scream and Shout plenty to give the elites something extra besides. 

 

Conserve Power should be up about half the time, and domination will be up about every sixty seconds, but you'll still have to lean on recovery serums and blue pills, like any good rock star. Ageless should really help, though.

 

Remember to crowd surf with spring attack whenever it's up, which should be about 3 times per hasten cycle.  As long as you hit an enemy audience member, Spring attack will save a solid five seconds off all your recharge.  Hit two times in two minutes and you're squarely in perma-hasten territory.  You can manage two spring attacks in two minutes, can't you? Of course you can.  You're a rock star!

 

 

Any suggestions are welcome, improvements are always worth considering!  Bass Boost is off in Mids because it artificially inflates the defensive stats and damage; it's only going to be up about a third of the time, anyway.  

 

 

 

The Razzle-Dazzler - Dominator (Pyrotechnic Control - Sonic Assault).mbd

[EnjoyTheJourney]

You've put together a well thought through approach to building a "rock star" character. Who is, of course, a dominator. Very cool.

Here's another approach to a pyro / sonic rocker. I wouldn't argue it's necessarily better overall. Still, you may (or reasonably may not) like some of the ideas offered. 

 

The "force of will" power pool seems to fit really well from a thematic perspective for a rock star who commands attention while on stage and who performs for extended periods of time. It's also functionally really solid, with endurance recovery and defense totals both going up by a lot for a full minute when bass boost is cast shortly before casting unleash potential. Uptime should be over 30%, which provides a helpful boost. With weaken resolve and the achilles heel -res proc applied to mobs (27.5% -res), along with disruption aura (15% -res) and the two ranged blasts (15% -res), there is a serious amount of -res debuffing brought to the table by this build (57.5% -res). 

Click the RHS buttons to be "off" for bass boost and for unleash potential to see what the "baseline" defense and endurance recovery totals are without bass boost or unleash potential active. Those baseline defense and resistance totals are fairly close to what you were mentioning in your OP. But, having unleash potential in the build offers the chance to increase recovery and defense totals quite noticeably when incoming aggro spikes and/or endurance totals dip too low. 

In the build below leviathan mastery replaces energy mastery. Water spout can be re-skinned and re-colored to be a wind funnel created by the wall of sound emanating from Alison. Functionally, this improves crowd control (which every rock star wants) and also improves single target damage. That said, energy mastery could also function just fine if leviathan mastery doesn't appeal. Also, to improve AOE damage, glittering column has been proc'd up into a mini-nuke that's available about every 14 seconds. Glittering column hits so hard, with such good damage per second of activation time, that it's worth including in the single target attack rotation when it's available. 

The incarnate picks in the build below offer a more defensive build approach. But, none of the changes made are necessarily essential to allow the build the function. If you like ageless better than barrier then that should still work just fine in most situations. 

Hopefully what's here proves interesting and you can find at least some ideas that end up being helpful. 

 

Dominator (Pyrotechnic Control - Sonic Assault - Leviathan Mastery).mbd

Edited October 17 by EnjoyTheJourney

[High_Beam]

I'm feeling this because of some alts I have.

 

If you spot Hard Melody or Blue Aria check em out, they are two members of Super Girl Band (that's three words, they don't want to get sued by DC), a pop-rock band themed from the 80's.  Sonic sweeties with the sounds to soothe the savage beast

 

One's Symphonic/Sonic the other is Sonic/Sonic

 

But I have Pyro handled by Six Pack the Roadie . . . how'd he get the name?  Two words; abbbbbbbbbbbs.

[Kalean]

10 hours ago, EnjoyTheJourney said:

You've put together a well thought through approach to building a "rock star" character. Who is, of course, a dominator. Very cool.

Here's another approach to a pyro / sonic rocker. I wouldn't argue it's necessarily better overall. Still, you may (or reasonably may not) like some of the ideas offered. 

 

The "force of will" power pool seems to fit really well from a thematic perspective for a rock star who commands attention while on stage and who performs for extended periods of time. It's also functionally really solid, with endurance recovery and defense totals both going up by a lot for a full minute when bass boost is cast shortly before casting unleash potential. Uptime should be over 30%, which provides a helpful boost. With weaken resolve and the achilles heel -res proc applied to mobs (27.5% -res), along with disruption aura (15% -res) and the two ranged blasts (15% -res), there is a serious amount of -res debuffing brought to the table by this build (57.5% -res). 

Click the RHS buttons to be "off" for bass boost and for unleash potential to see what the "baseline" defense and endurance recovery totals are without bass boost or unleash potential active. Those baseline defense and resistance totals are fairly close to what you were mentioning in your OP. But, having unleash potential in the build offers the chance to increase recovery and defense totals quite noticeably when incoming aggro spikes and/or endurance totals dip too low. 

In the build below leviathan mastery replaces energy mastery. Water spout can be re-skinned and re-colored to be a wind funnel created by the wall of sound emanating from Alison. Functionally, this improves crowd control (which every rock star wants) and also improves single target damage. That said, energy mastery could also function just fine if leviathan mastery doesn't appeal. Also, to improve AOE damage, glittering column has been proc'd up into a mini-nuke that's available about every 14 seconds. Glittering column hits so hard, with such good damage per second of activation time, that it's worth including in the single target attack rotation when it's available. 

The incarnate picks in the build below offer a more defensive build approach. But, none of the changes made are necessarily essential to allow the build the function. If you like ageless better than barrier then that should still work just fine in most situations. 

Hopefully what's here proves interesting and you can find at least some ideas that end up being helpful. 

 

Dominator (Pyrotechnic Control - Sonic Assault - Leviathan Mastery).mbd 46.34 kB · 1 download

 

I like it, looks like an excellent alternative for those who don't mind trading away that permanent defense for some more AV-melting damage.  I can probably throw together  a hybrid of the two builds if anyone decides they want that weaken resolve + Achilles combo but has to protect their precious rockstar face.  That would probably also be a good combination for approaching incarnate soft-cap totals for brief bursts, even if trades away perma-hasten.  Thanks for the idea!

I was also contemplating making a version with the teleport pool, Fold Space would be very strong with this combo.  But that starts to lean more into Lila Cheney territory... 

 

  

6 hours ago, High_Beam said:

I'm feeling this because of some alts I have.

 

If you spot Hard Melody or Blue Aria check em out, they are two members of Super Girl Band (that's three words, they don't want to get sued by DC), a pop-rock band themed from the 80's.  Sonic sweeties with the sounds to soothe the savage beast

 

One's Symphonic/Sonic the other is Sonic/Sonic

 

But I have Pyro handled by Six Pack the Roadie . . . how'd he get the name?  Two words; abbbbbbbbbbbs.

 

Abs for days...

Edited October 17 by Kalean
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