Arbegla

I'm currently playing a fire/martial Dom, and wanting to see about using the fiery orb in her hold power, so it can occasionally proc a pet. I plan on being in melee and perma dom for protection (and glorious Stuns from FIre/) but would other procs/slots be more valuable then the orb?

Might of the Tanker is my guess, the Tanker ATO proc.

If I remember correctly, 1) its not really a ballista, thats a reported typo 2) you get some 'helper' mobs that are in the back of the mission that probably killed the boss/LT for you

On blasters that have both available, I'll alternate them, using Build up for the alpha strike and Aim to finish off mobs. Unless I'm facing serious -tohit debuffs, then I'll save them to overcome being floored on tohit.

I edited my post to reflect that the purple patch still affects the pets, but just not as much as it did before. Thank you for the clarification.

I like clarity, so this helps a lot. As it is, it reads that non-50s don't earn patrol XP when logged off, which isn't the case.

I'll definitely second the fact that pets need more AOE defense (or flat out immunity, as is the case in some iTrials and task forces) but please don't nerf Bodyguard mode, as MMs have the lowest base HPs of any of the other ATs. MMs have to work really really hard to get above 1000 hitpoints, and most don't even have that.

Well now I want to solo the ZTF in hard mode just for the extra boss fights!

I did a few loops around the Zig in Brickstown, and was able to get the badge within an hour, and that's with multiple people doing the same route. Now, killing said Winter Lord by yourself is a different story. 🙂

They recently moved the Defense and Heal enhancements to the equip/upgrade powers instead of the pets themselves. You probably had it slotted before the patch.

Were the normal salvage drops in addition to candy canes? They are 'even-level' mobs now, and should drop normal salvage in addition to candy canes.

This has been fixed and resolved for quite some time now. Pets no longer despawn/respawn when going up/down elevators. They do when changing zones, but the buffs still remain using what can only be described as 'code magic'

I've been playing in MIDs a lot and building different characters (mostly Blasters, Brutes, and Scrappers) and I notice that 1) Mids doesn't really have a tooltip on the various ATOs procs and 2) I haven't been able to find good information on them to see if they are worth their salt or not. With the fact we can get the ATOs with reward merits (and the AH has them for pretty cheap anyways) are any of the ATOs NOT worth slotting in any archetype or combination of powersets?

Those are the accolade powers, so not quite a badgers, just a completionist. 🙂

IIRC, Patrol XP only affects experience earned from mobs, not from mission completion (or even story arc bonuses) but i could be mistaken.