Mantlet's Bane...

Idea for the character occurred after reading Rob's back-story on Obake. Since Malacoda is already meddling on the plane, I thought a tie to Mantlet that was more direct was in order. Since the paradimensional portal was an obvious plot device to link the two parallel dimensions (Freedom and Triumph), it was worked into the backstory. I originally started as a Fire/Thorns Dominator for concept reasons (demonic armor and all). The look of the thorns was amazing with the armor, but the powerset combo was not all that great. Fire is not a great control set, and the thorns was OK, but offered little secondary mitigation (the special effect was a -Def on the target hit). For a character with no resistance/defense, active control and damage mitigation turned out to be key. So, I scrapped that incarnation of Mantlet's Bane and formed a new one based on Ice/Ice.

This set is working MUCH better. The slows from the primary/secondary stack, and the tier 1 blast for the Ice secondary is the best of all the sets. Ice Sword Circle offers some early AoE for teams, and Hasten is allowing me to build Domination frequently. Overall, it's playing much more smoothly than the last powerset combo.

Ultimately, I would have wanted to go with a Mind/Psi Dominator just because that's Mantlet's weak spot. Problem is that it's a late maturing set with the lowest damage potential, so I opted to go with elemental damage, which is another (albiet less) weak spot for the Invulnerability Tank primary.