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Your profile picture keeps moving. Thought i was imagining it lol. First time i've noticed.

Please don't use the "suck" word lol. We are entitled to do what we want. It may be less effective and will struggle in some content but it is their choice. Most content is very easy. I could build a Tank with just SO's that would work fine in most content with a team also. What next a dps monitor in game to call out "you're dps sucks" ?

That is misinformation also. Tankers do not have higher damage/dps than Brutes/scrappers general. They have better AoE due to increased arcs/rad/targets. They are good trash clearers but weaker boss killers. Usually it is down to placing procs everywhere they can. Fire melee is very potent due to having an extra AoE attack compared to Brutes/scrapper version. Electric melee, which has quite a lot of AoE and is comparable on Scrappers/Brutes/Tankers is lowest on Tankers for clear time. Just saying Tankers (not Tanks) are "the highest dps" is wrong.

It does not mean it does either.

"your tank sucks you don't have Taunt" reply "but they are all dead :P" "you are a tanker not a dps" reply "but they are all dead :P" "you suck, you need to follow the leader (blaster) because they are all dying" reply " i don't Need to do anything i'm fine, maybe they should follow me :P" 🙂

I would say Elrik is a BS/Willpower Brute. But you could go Scrapper also. He needed drugs to survive until he gets Stormbringer. Stormbringer provides him with the health he needs to live, hence Willpower. It makes him stronger as it steals souls, hence the Brute. You can take the Sorcery pool for the theme and take Rune of Protection which will work well with WP. From the epic pool you could take one like Soul Mastery and pick summon Widow and have that as your Demon. This would keep the theme and be quite effective.

When i add a defense slot to mine it does not seem to improve the pets defenses beyond base values. It shows 6.22% Ranged defenseTactical upgrade in the pet stats whether i slot a defense enhancement or not. I am certainly not seeing these figures above just the first base value figures even when slotted. 50+1 Mercs/cold MM. Ill test it some more later. Ok now it seems to be working lol. Did the same thing to check it but this time it is showing a different figure and is working properly. No idea what went wrong before but all good. Sorry to bother you guys. TY

Would it be possible to get some different color skins/outfits for the Mastermind pets?. Examples... White arctic outfit for mercs. Different skin colors/ethnicity for mercs/thugs. Black or white wolves/lions. Different color demons. White ninja's maybe.

I noticed that Tactial Upgrade for Mercs can slot +defense sets yet it does not seem to buff the pets defense when slotting it with a defense enhancement. What is the defense in TU for? It does not give them any Melee defense at all. Shouldn't they have a little Melee defense?

I have actually done that lol. Did look silly rushing in and getting held lol. ~To Dian. This game has evolved quite a bit where Squishy Support classes charge in and Fold space mobs in to nuke.

They could give KM a type of fulcrum shift which is not too dissimilar from DM Soul Drain and let the attacks drain a very small amount of stacking damage like a small personal Siphon power.

Mids is off then as mine shows different. Im using 3.5.5.10. Slotting rage is not always required by some players. Some don't even take it for some reason. I would change FS slotting though.

72% is the minimum resist i am seeing which isn't bad for a defense/resist hybrid set. Slotting tough hide more does not give significant boosts from what i am seeing 2% at most. A bit harsh lol. Maybe they wanted the focused accuracy and Phys perfection is just there. Perhaps post a build so they can see the differences.

Sounds like you had lots of Boobs on the team 😛

The first build as the second build does not bring much extra to the table in damage etc to justify losing those resists.

3.5% for some ATs and 5% for other. Thats what it shows when i log in anyway. It only lasts a few missions though.

It's 5% in Cim isn't it?

This is what i did to the Infinitum build. Hopefully it opens. Powers were picked in no particular order so you will need to do that. You can add Fly/hover with just a few changes also. View This Build In MRB And this with a few more procs. View This Build In MRB Ill drop this here also. It is not a Tanker but a Stalker. View This Build In MRB

How do you open the builds? I can't open them when i export. It opens a new blank Untitled tab only. ------------------------------------------------------------- Ok i have got it working. I opened MRB and went into Options>configuration>update&paths>Repair schema until it says Valid. That seems to have sorted it. @crytilis

Of the few MM's i made i found the Mercs/Cold the best. There are a lot of secondary combo's i have not tried though. Soft capped defenses with Serum boosting resists. Some +recharge and FF procs to keep Serum up. Debuffs from cold to boost damage etc. I just wish the pets would run a little faster out of combat though.

Pets are still slow to catch up, clunky (getting stuck etc), takes lots of managing and it can be annoying resummoning them if you don't play a defensive secondary. That is why i don't like the MM. I have characters that will leave the MM in the dust and so i choose to play them instead. Not really to do with with what they can solo so much. I like the idea of the MM pet class but i don't feel it works as well as i would like.

Soloing an AV/GM is probably ok with a MM but i never mentioned them at all. That has nothing to do with the issues i had with MM's and has nothing to do with Builds, considering the game is supposed to be balanced around SO's. Thanks though Chief.

I guess the answer is if you don't like SB don't play it. That would be a shame though. I tried it and have shelved mine. My choice, it's just not for me. Many other sets aren't for me either. Nothing to do with maths, just doesn't feel right. I can't play an AR Sentinel knowing that FA on a blaster is more damage and recharges much faster also lol. If many don't play it then there is a problem.

I think it would depends on the team?. A few blasters or even corruptors chaining their nukes could make SB feel slow when you stop to apply Storm cell and then the C5 and someone has already used their big nuke and wiped most of the mob. Harder content could let SB shine a little more though.