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Pretty sure Lusca doesn't actually have a generated body.

Including MMs. The bulk of the MM's damage comes from pets, yes, but not all their damage unless you choose to not take attack powers for your MM. Every one of my MMs has at least 3 attacks they can use even if they have no pets out. (I think 1 has 4 attacks because I grabbed the attack from the Sorcery pool as well.) (And even with my attacks, I can still run my full suite of secondary powers and re-summon/re-upgrade as needed. So it is doable.) And this is an exaggeration. While there are bosses and higher that have AoEs that can one-shot my henchmen/pets, it isn't all of them. At +0, there aren't many even EBs that can one-shot 5/6 of my pets. (They can one-shot 1/6 of my pets, but their AoEs are a little more manageable.) As I increase the difficulty though? Yeah, things get tougher. However, my pets and my MM-preferring friend online's pets have been able to survive even level 54 EB attacks without the benefit of incarnate shifts such as when we were hunting minotaurs and cyclopes in Cimmerora. (Though it isn't consistent when they use their big attack.) I definitely agree that I think the MM pets are too fragile and would like to see them made a bit more robust. However, I also have to acknowledge that unlike Controllers/Dominators who only get 1 or 2 pets with long recharges, MMs get 6 with fast recharges. (Even the T3 pet starts at 50 seconds of recharge before any enhancements or set bonuses, compared to 240 seconds for VEATs, Controllers, and Dominators.) And in Hard Mode content? I let my Scrapper, Tanker, or Brute friends/allies take the aggro while my pets provide me a means of doing at least some damage even if I don't have time to re-upgrade them while I focus more on the support role and replacing pets as I lose them. (And when I can, I throw an upgrade or two into the mix to bolster my pets again.) I guess I just take the view that the rest of the team are my henchmen/pets as well, so even if my actual pets aren't at 100% effectiveness, they are still working with the rest of my... uhm... pets... to clear out the threats to me. I mean the team....

That's a matter of opinion. I personally vastly prefer red side over blue side. I just avoid Peter Themari and Westin Phipps. (And often Dr. Graves as well.)

I've taken my Ninja/Dark MM into Hard Mode ITF and when things got frantic, did not upgrade the pets on re-summons until I had time to worry about the upgrades. I'm not saying you can't upgrade them, I'm just saying that it isn't necessary when things are running a bit out of control.

Depending on how frantic the fighting gets or how powerful the enemies' AoEs are? You can forego the upgrades until things calm down a bit.

The Badger site does list all the component plaques for the lores so you can mark them as you reach them. (I feel like a Badger site infomercial....) (Edit: Though some explores like River Rat and Party Animal don't....)

https://n15g.github.io/badger/ You have to input what you found/got, but it does tell you what is missing for most of what you start but haven't completed yet. And includes coordinates for all the explores and lores.

True, which means MMs have difficulty with +4/x8 missions outside of incarnate content. (They still have difficulty in +4/x8 content even in incarnate content.) However, as someone who plays MMs and has successfully done +4/x8 content? It is still doable. It just isn't worthwhile unless you enjoy the difficulty it presents. Then again, I'm not afraid to run from a fight when it starts to look untenable, re-summon, re-upgrade, and then re-commit to the fight until I've finished the mission. Even if it means exiting the map to be able to do so. (Edit: I find +2/x3 or +2/x4 to be a sufficient difficulty on my MMs to be a challenge without being a slog.)

No, it does not. It puts all the MM's pets at equal level to the MM. So using a 50+3 MM as an example. The T1 pets would normally be level 48. While in incarnate content, those same T1 pets would be level 48+5. They get the same +3 incarnate level shifts as the MM and they get another +2 level shifts for being T1 pets in incarnate content.

While doing any incarnate content, it is removed. The T1 and T2 pets get level shifts to pump up their levels equal to the MM's incarnate shifts + the negative level shifts the T1 and T2 pets endure. Only for as long as they stay within Supremacy's range though.

Chat window. Sorry.

This is not actually true. Supremacy has a 60 feet radius. So do all three Leadership toggles. And Bodyguard Mode applies so long as pets are within range of our Supremacy (edit: and we are in Defensive Follow). So we do have some wiggle room even on melee focused pet sets.

Says who? If you read the rest of the thread, you'd see someone talking about how the studio has treated masterminds. You're treating us like we're defenders, and we are not. Yes, we were meant to be in melee range. They gave us bodyguard for a reason. Certain pets are melee, for a reason. We have secondaries with PBAOE buffs. You clearly do not play masterminds much and dont know what you're talking about. You are clearly here just to hear yourself talk. Please exit my thread. I do play MMs, and @Glacier Peak isn't wrong, though (s)he is missing part of it. Ranged pet sets allow the MM (and pets) to hang back and lay down support fire while also letting the MM use more support abilities. Melee focused pet sets do require the MM to be closer to the fighting to keep the pets bolstered by Supremacy though. However, on a team, which you should be on for the higher difficult content, by which I mean Hard Mode content, even melee focused pet set MMs can hang back a bit to reduce the amount of hate they have to deal with to buy themselves time to replace lost pets, support the team, or lay down some added fire of their own.

I don't know how SG base PvP works, but I do know that my MM pets typically can't follow my MM anywhere in my bases. And if mobs (like pets) can't navigate a SG base, they aren't a threat to anyone. Also, if it were to be implemented by the devs? It would have to be an option for the SG to enable. I for one don't want random enemies raiding my bases. (Though I do want to be able to have 0 XP/0 inf' mobs roaming my maze to threaten and challenge those that enter it....)

Every time you ding, your new level is posted in the chat bar.

Like @Greycat said, no contact should be sending you into a zone that is higher level at minimum than your current level. If you were sent to Faultline at level 11, you should probably report it as a bug.

This should really be its own thread. This thread is about trying to get more players to play red side.

Hopefully last bump to keep poll visible.

I'm not arguing that. I know several powers use the same animations. All I am saying is that the request has been made before, multiple times, it has support from the players, and implementing it will take time from what I believe is the lone animator on the dev team. (Edit: Regardless of whether new animations are made or existing animations are repurposed.)

I haven't seen them add anything new to melee on HC. So the last example I can give is Radiation Melee or the alternate animation for Foot Stomp. Foot Stomp got it added on Live though and I believe Radiation Melee was developed on Live but not released until the game showed up as a pirate server incorporating the incomplete work from Live. (Edit: The only animations I can remember undergoing changes are Thunder Strike for being sped up in the latest patch, and the new power sets. At least as far as HC goes.)

I said it because in my experience from additions to the game, many times they make new animations. (Edit: And speeding up or slowing down an animation already in the set is not as work intensive as converting an animation from one set to another.)

You're asking the wrong person. And even if other animations were to be used, the animator has to work with the animations to get the timing right and change out the linked particle effects.

*shrug* I don't know. Last I heard though, the dev team only has 1 animator.

I just realized what this mission now reminds me of. (Please don't ask me what took me so long to come to this realization.) The assault portals in this mission are now acting like the Rikti portals in the mission where you fight Hero 1/The Honoree in the 'Retrieve the stolen incarnate container' mission Mender Ramiel's incarnate promotion arc. The mission where if you don't find and destroy the Rikti portals fast enough, you need to reload the mission for having spawned a sea of Rikti filling the map. However, unlike that mission, these portals start spawning before you even get anywhere near them and they spawn two bosses each time even at minimum settings every time they trigger more Rikti, which is a guaranteed suicide mission.

This and an all sword set of animations for both fire and ice have been requested before. They would need new animations created for those sets, and animations are probably the biggest holdup in adding things to this game. Though this request (and the all sword option) has rather robust support from the players.