Mentalist

Ah my bad stone armor does resist end drains. My problem was since the set doesn’t have any cold or directional def the slows DO hit you. Not the worst weakness though and I do love the psi defense in the set.

So many people recommending stone armor when it has no slow resistance and no cold defense. It’s super annoying. I think it also has no endurance drain resistance and no ranged def, so sappers are an insta gg. Willpower has the some of the same problems. No ranged def and no slow resistance gives the Tsoo siphon speed spam and sappers free reign. I like Bio armor because I can defend against and plan for almost anything. Even against defense debuffs I still have S/L resistance and absorb, especially in defensive mode. You should also slot for energy resistance with Bio because energy damage is common and comes with -def fairly often too. Fire, cold, dark and psi rarely come with -def so your defenses in those areas should be sufficient. Even in arachnos maps with the psi debuff ‘scramble thoughts’ most of the actual damage coming at you is S/L and energy. And just kill the psi enemies first.

I would say it has no holes, but has a thin covering over everything. It resists endurance drain and slows somewhat, has toxic/smashing/lethal resist but not def, and defense to energy/elemental but not resist. It even has some psi def to work from so it isn’t totally open to psi damage or terrorize/confuse. It also has healing/absorb and endurance recovery. Everything but bio has a hole with at one of those things.

Oh wow it doesn’t work, I’m so glad you told me before I got any further

I’m working on a build that will focus on buffing the 3rd tier pet as much as possible with the single target Empathy buffs. I’ve started a thugs/empathy guy already, but I’m not sure if the Bruiser is the best choice for the recharge buff that empathy gives. My main question is, how does the Bruiser AI interact with a 100% recharge buff? He has so many attacks - will he get stuck using the weaker attacks constantly with that much recharge, or will he use foot stomp and the other strong attacks first? Would the assault bot benefit from recharge more since it has less filler attacks and will fire swarm missiles everywhere? Are any of the other tier 3 pets worth considering?