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Well that was a lot of very usefull information. This is what I'm currently going for: Should be softcapped on positionals if using PowerBoost->Farsight->ChronoShift as the standard combo every 90 seconds (which is why I went for less recharge and no frankenslotting in Farsight, and more defensive slotting in certain powers). Please feel free to tell me to change something and explain why. I do want to make this build the best it can be. As for the problem of -regen, I took 2 actives, which gives me -550% regen in total I think. Don't forget to add 17,6% Defense to everything but Toxic and Psionic from the Protector Bots. Mids doesn't show that. Had that confirmed by someone ingame using the same slots and Agility Paragon Edit: With the incarnate it seems like one +5 Recharge IO in Haste is enough for perma. So feel free to slap an extra slot somewhere O_o DarksynthV7 - Mastermind (Robotics - Time Manipulation).mbd

All I'll say is: I took a break since 2019 before remembering I like playing this game actually (lol). If my char had been renamed I'm not sure I would have played again. It differs from person to person for sure. You're basically putting a "hard quit moment" into your game with a policy like this. And I just don't see the need for it, expect for cases where someone just made 50+ characters to "take names" and then never played those and logged off for 2+ years. I don't know how prevalent that is on a small private server. I don't think level 50 chars should have their name stripped at all. I don't think forcing people to "roulette login" their chars once every x months is anything but dumb as well.

On a more positiv note: It's also very easy to create demonic-possessed Elfs that you ran for a year+ in DnD campaigns. What I don't get is why someone wants to copy character XYZ instead of just making their own "totally not a knock-off" character that's just based on the powerset. Like that guy said he wanted to speficially play Dr. Strange. Well he can. Just call the character something unique and use a different color palette and clothing theme. You can still have the same powerset and abilities. But now you're Prof. Anomaly, who has a robot arm. I dunno get creative.

But wouldn't you want to use two lvl 53 Cytoskeleton in Tactics? And add Gaussian: Chance for BuildUp? Still only 3 slots instead of 6 (and having wasted recharge%).

Could you go in depth about Chrono Shift? Why is your slotting better than three D-Sync Conduit? What am I missing here? You gain some healing but the EnduranceDiscount doesn't do anything does it? D-Sync gives EnduranceModification instead (and no increased healing). The recharge bonus is very similar because of diminishing returns.

EM = Energy Melee (based on you mentioning Energy Transfer I could rule out Electrical Melee) EA = Energy Aura or Electric Armor?

Would a Robots/Time be on par? 10% worse? What's your take on that? Because while I'm currently leveling a few different ATs I am starting to wonder which should be my main. So I stumbled upon this thread and instead of making another one I shall hijack this one :P Basically I want to do the followong (solo): - +4x8 Missions, and not just against The Council (certain factions will be harder than others, but should be doable still) - GMs / AVs - I really liked killing an AV once in a solo mission on my stalker back in...2010? It took forever but it was fun. How much -regen do I need for that I wonder? Time has a little bit and you get -200% per active skill from robots. Question is how much -regen do you need to solo GMs/AVs? - Do Oroborous Flashback content. So the build should exemplar down well too. I'm not expecting to do +4/x8 lvl 10 missions but if I run those at lower difficulty, I still want to get through them. I'm thinking getting Time's Juncture early + AoE Heal should take care of that. Throw in Maneuvers and pet set bonuses and should be fine? Now if Robots/Traps can do those thing A LOT better than Robots/Time I'll swap to it. I'd like to play an MM as my main and still accomplish these goals. So I was positively surprised when MM was mentioned here. I mean Widows or Dominators are cool as well, but I just like summoners too much.

It's quite infuriating how shitty this system is. I followed the guide and just can't get Aaron Walker as a contact. I just entered Neutropolis and this entire run is now fucked for now reason at all. I have Calvin Scot as my contact, which makes no fucking sense either since I never did the two contacts before him in that arc and never wanted to start that arc either. Now I just skip an arc I guess? Why is this so shit? Edit: I physically went to Aaron Walkers location and did find him there. Could also start his arc. So that makes even less sense.

Well that changes it. I'll list at a reasonable minimum then, to avoid lowball bids, at least on items that aren't hot-seller.s

Hold up. So if I post an item for 1 inf, it will sell to the highest bidder? Even if that's a 14mil bid? I've seen people mention putting up something for 1 inf to save on market fees. And thought this could backfire because "what if someone has a 50 inf bid on that item?". But if I "skip" those lowball bids to sell to the best offer. Shouldn't I literally sell everything at 1 inf?

Please explain why you're using "mm" to denote millions? It's either "10mil" or "10kk" with k standing for a thousand. So 1kk = 1 thousand/thousand The "mm" makes you texts just frustrating to read.

You can just stand still I'm pretty sure. It'll heal you as well.

Uhm, my Necro/Nature MM is based on my Circle of Wildfire Druid and you could just add the file to your post and share it that way maybe

I'd be really interested in sharing ideas. If you're on the Discord please feel free to poke me. I have incorporated StrikerFox's findings for endurance management but I'm still a bit short on recharge (overgrowth at 70sec) but increasing that lowers defenses resist and I'm not entirely sure how much personal resist is needed. Same for slotting Enchant Undead. There are a LOT of options there. Same for getting heal procs into Dark Empowerment. I'll post what I got cooking so far. Linadriel V2 - Mastermind (Necromancy - Nature Affinity).mbd

What a helpful community we have with people like you in it.

While levelling: Use Placate. It's amazing. Wether you drop it at higher levels when you get the Archetype Enhancements going for Hide procs is up to how tight the slots and powers are in your build. You can put Perfect Zinger: Threat/Placate/Range in it and call it a day. Personally I remember using it constantly before max level.

I keep seeing your posts and they are really amazing in terms of information. But can't you just POST A BUILD for once? Like if you have figured out how to solve endurcance on Necro/Nature, just post a build. I spend so much time in mids because I can just find an optimized up to date build it's driving me insane.

We get it, you don't like MMs. This whole threads comes across as you trying to get people to just agree with you so you can feel better about it. Not going to happen. I'm over here on my MM having fun. It's the best solo AT in the game. It's perfectly ok for you to not like it and play something else. But don't expect people to affirm your viewpoint that it "just sucks". That's really how this entire thread comes across and it's just weird. You seem super focused on very specific types onf content, where you had bad experiences playing MM. So play different content? Play a different AT? I'm not playing MM to do +4/x8 farms. I can just use a Fire/Spines Brute for that. Want to control mobs and play in a team? Controller is probably a better choice. Like it just depends on what content you're doing and how you want to play. But if you just want to play the game, chill out and do radio missions / contacts, kill ATs or Monsters, farm badges, do Oro etc. I just think a Mastermind works great for that since you can build them so flexible. On my current one I can even stealth through missions, summon some bots, kill the target and port out. It's almost as fast as playing Stalker. I can put a mission on +1/x8 and blast hords of mobs. It's almost as fast as playing a Brute with AoE focus. If someone needs help I can join their team and play healer for just them since I'm /time. It's almost as good as playing a Defender specced to full heal/support. If someone needs mobs debuffed since they're having a hard time otherwise. Well geez it's almost as good as a Controller. It does everything. That's the point. It rewards you for invested time and infamy more than any other AT in the game in my opinion. I play on EU, the server and this game are basically "dead" I don't get to do Task Forces or whatever. So I sure am glad I have a solo friendly option. Playing a Blaster would just be miserable for me. And playing a MM is miserable to you and that's ok.

If you're playing /Time without combat teleport you're just doing it wrong. Be 50-60ft away from pack, pets on bodyguard, then combat teleport in and use Distortion Field. Time's Juncture debuffs the mobs ToHit immediately as you land, So you just tank the alpha strike and put your slow field down. After than you do the usual. But that opener is so effective. Also you can just use Combat Teleport as a mule for Zephyr - Knockback Protection.

Had another look. I'll link my Robot/Time build which I used to edit yours. I think going for defense works better than going for resist with /Time because of how good Time's Junction and Distortion Field are at disabling mobs attack speed and ToHit. DarksynthV2 - Mastermind (Robotics - Time Manipulation).mbd edited_Mastermind (Thugs - Time Manipulation) - Mace Mastery - i27 p6.mbd

The Defense/Endurance/Recharge Luck of the Gambler in your Maneuvers should be a Defense one. I'll look more into it tomorrow, since I'm doing something similar but with robots. But very similar ideas in terms of slotting.

Well I have a Brute for Architect Farming. If that's still a thing (haven't played in 3+ years). But luckily I know how to work the /AH so my MM is "outfarming" any Brute, technically :P Which kinda fits the AT as well. Work smarter not harder.

Making a Brute for farming. Sure. But multiboxing 3 MMs. At some point I'd rather just not even bother. I mean you do you, but I was kinda disappointed when the thread went to multiboxing.

I did not account for Chrono Shift. Now I have a better understanding about how you stack the cooldowns. With your setup Chrono Shift has a recharge of 98.29s. With mine it's 100.3s or 102.5s depending on weather I frankenslot Shield Wall +6% res, Reactive Defense +3% res and Kismet +6% accuracy OR if I slot 3 Shield Wall and 3 Reactive defense (like in the build example I linked). Well it's a bit more than 102.5s since Chrono Shift falls off and you loose it's recharge bonus for those ~4 seconds, but I'm too lazy to math it out. I guess it's a question of how fast one pulls and if there's travel time between packs. Status protections isn't that useful after all, since it only reduces the time a status lasts, so you're still unprotected against Hold/Stun/Sleep and loose Time's Juncture. I really wish I could find a way to prevent that, especially when the Leadership Auras all stay active when cc'ed. Small amounts of resists against Lethal/Smashing/Fire/Cold might also not be as good as I think. I'll probably just have to finish farming up the infamy with my "kinda working for now" Spines/Fire brute and test it out at max level myself to see how much I'd value some resist over the recharge. I even tried one variant that drops Photon Grenade and Combat Jumping for Boxing and Tough, to make use of Resistance IO sets. But yeah, it's really difficult to make this build objectively better, so kudos to you. I'll report back if I find anything that makes the build perform better if I do run into any issues. Edit: and then I found this thread: So now everything is up in the air again. The fact that you can slot all those +def buffs for pets and damage procs and also have incarnate abilities affect them. Man this is impossible to figure out.

Thanks a lot for the updated build. After looking at it I wonder if it makes sense to change some of the Luck of the Gambler slots. As I understand it you need 105% recharge to make Haste permanent. The build has 122.5% recharge. Since Luck of the Gambler is only used for the +recharge, one could replace it in certain powers, this would give a little more resistances depending on what sets are used. So what do you think. Is there something I'm missing for why we need this much recharge? Also: Stamina with one Performance Shifter: Chance for +End and three Stamina Mod IOs gives slightly more recovery (+0.03). One would loose the +speed and +HP of course. Since the Recovery seems high enough, I guess going with 4 Performance Shifter IOs might be better. Just something I noticed. If one would decide that 122.5% recharge is overkill, then something like Panacea could be changed as well. So yeah, thoughts on the amount of recharge? Other than that I have an impossible time with finding anything to change about the build. Edit: Replacing 2 Luck of the Gambler sets seems promising: Haste has a 120.5s recharge, so it's not up for 0.85 seconds if my math is correct. I'd still call that perma Haste. Instead we gain resists (8% all + some against S/L and status effects) and slightly more HP. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1554;746;1492;HEX;| |78DA6594DD4F526118C0DF977390404C10505140D14C0521C83E2EDBD4D44C964B7| |2EB8A111CF56CC0611CD8F2B27FA1CF7FA0326EBA686D39FB98F671E15F9095695D| |F621B475D3BAA187F33C011B679CFDCE79BE3FDE43E4FA94F9F1CC8D738C5B26537| |1558D45E26A5ECAA5E54CD2149512AB1925A5ACAC098C31E78492576351392DC526| |736BAAACC6662763130539953480B6A7EE175B2CA4D34A267859B9A6E4E584EA6D5| |04D149697835A8C483C23670BA9785E5632AC7D415152C179299E9472EAAA9C3569| |EF8B59494A76688F51292565955C5E3337FFB7CECA9915D7F9AC9C0836A488C4131| |275B1D60D95F9E0DED433BA2A7AF603101699EE27F13B523C2496902D65E47B47CD| |97B375AEC9BC45E42EE838D77422F70AE8D7873CE221BA90A67EE407F011A816E1B| |90E75CF90960D64C726F129D2FE04F3BD803EB0950AD37BB13E2B8CDF8035080647| |D54ECFECF62A8DACD342FC036AB7C83E426E23F91BFDE8FF0A02B6A2BFBEF5AAA8C| |9CC51E215E4D125A28769F12C3BD55E0C6C1072B7A12F6B3362AD9F20473BC56B7F| |877EDD5BC46DA4E735B2FF2DF10DB203E259299E95FADB837836AC59B45DC01CFDB| |348EF0C711A393885B4411C07D5E02892EE11711D79EC01F121F13E72187CBB6846| |5D7B28DB8219396967CEAFB8C79E3DE23ED27540FC82F47C03F361917D86FA7BB11| |65DAF03F718A0FD04ACC801C8E9461BEEF6E38C3DC46DC8DD47F5F4D14CF621E600| |CD64402F68BB1D1690A33A2247FA5A9007E033443319BA877D1DBF45BC49BC4333B| |84DBC8BDC801023D4C3C86F41ABCB57428E95B1DF9299313FF5E0A7B335467C093D| |04A9DEE0198C79E234719C7812193E8BEC8499842867E822E608CF61CEF074B5272| |37389B56F137E70315F93245495F04649B8C966BC4972AA4932DF142752B7A92C88| |A4042DD7B4464BED3BAF1C9A6AFF138C077026E5BA8CF339AE9D15DF129E8F52A3F| |D08DAFFAACB044EFB1BA5BD8DD19E02B4CFBF9D00CAEDB4C333FA55766D75F9A506| |79B141FE0FDE1E0741| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|