What AT do you not play at all

[Apogee]

3 hours ago, tidge said:

I'm not trying to change anyone's mind, especially if they are right... yet I want to comment on one well-written, detailed post

 

 

My Dominators have avoided having Hasten to guarantee permaDom, but I agree that building to achieve permaDom limits my build approaches such that I feel like that the end result (character) is narrowly: really good at certain controls and really hard to be controlled... which feels niche to me. I do like that Domination refills the blue bar... one more thing to micro-manage via build/play choices. I sometimes love living on that knife's edge... but it is otherwise not that enjoyable for me.

 

I feel like my personal distaste for "narrow build choices to achieve permaDom" was a large contribution to why I almost universally avoid including Hasten on Homecoming builds. To me it represents a narrow approach to both play and character design.... especially when "permaHasten" becomes a goal in and of itself. I turned off autoHasten on a character I felt really needed it... and I noticed no significant experience in game play, and I haven't really looked backwards.

 

Yeah, I think I take Hasten mostly out of habit nowadays.

[Riverdusk]

3 hours ago, tidge said:

I'm not trying to change anyone's mind, especially if they are right... yet I want to comment on one well-written, detailed post

 

 

My Dominators have avoided having Hasten to guarantee permaDom, but I agree that building to achieve permaDom limits my build approaches such that I feel like that the end result (character) is narrowly: really good at certain controls and really hard to be controlled... which feels niche to me. I do like that Domination refills the blue bar... one more thing to micro-manage via build/play choices. I sometimes love living on that knife's edge... but it is otherwise not that enjoyable for me.

 

I feel like my personal distaste for "narrow build choices to achieve permaDom" was a large contribution to why I almost universally avoid including Hasten on Homecoming builds. To me it represents a narrow approach to both play and character design.... especially when "permaHasten" becomes a goal in and of itself. I turned off autoHasten on a character I felt really needed it... and I noticed no significant experience in game play, and I haven't really looked backwards.

 

I've learned to depend on the SG base +20% recharge buff.  That way you need 'only' about 105% global for perma dom without needing hasten at all.   But really 105% isn't THAT hard to get in the end and is actually slightly less than you need for perma hasten.  I still end up getting hasten usually anyway, but it does take the stress away of having to always remember to click it every 2 minutes while having dom on auto.  Once I build dom the initial time I'm set, for 90 minutes at a time that the SG base buff lasts anyway.  At least I can taking a friggin bathroom break without losing it.

 

I can understand why some wouldn't like to depend on a SG base buff though.