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Short answer: Banes can get a couple of pets, Crabs can get more. Huntsmen can get whichever of those two they choose. Longer answer: The basic Arachnos Soldier Training and Gadgets secondary set includes Call Reinforcements, which summons up two Arachnobot Disruptors. All Arachnos Soldiers, regardless of build, have access to those pets because you don't lose access to your basic primary and secondary power choices when you respec at 24 and choose between Bane and Crab. The Crab secondary additionally includes Summon Spiderlings which, as its name suggests, summons up three smaller Spiderling bots. Obviously only Crabs have access to the Spiderlings. A Huntsman's choice is, again, ruled by which of those two paths they chose. All four of the Patron Power Pools also include a pet power that summons up a single pet. Technically any Soldier has access to these (as do most other ATs for that matter) but I don't think most Soldiers aside from the Crabberminds end up taking one.

Ug. That's... unfortunate. I'm sorry to hear that the generous time and work you and other guide authors have put in have been made just that much more inconvenient. In this case, are the changes to accommodate the ATOs easy to characterize? For example, if one doesn't care about omitting the Gaussian's Build Up proc, is it just a matter of dropping the ATOs into Venom Grenade and Frag Grenade? Or are there adjustments needed in other areas of the builds to compensate for the difference in set bonuses, which would make listing the changes a pain in the butt (especially for all three builds)?

Okay, potentially dumb question time. How do I see the alternate slotting with the ATOs and whatever else? I load the build into Pine's, go to the Slots/Enhancers menu, go to the Slots sub-menu, select Flip All to Alternate... and all the enhancers disappear, leaving a build with all the slots still there, just empty. I've tried all three 24-50 builds just to be sure, and I've also tried loading the builds both by copying the data chunk at the end and importing it and by clicking the data link at the beginning, saving the resulting file, and manually opening it in the application. Heck, I even tried our fine author's Peacebringer build and got the same result from it as well. Am I doing something wrong? Is the alternate slotting feature just not supported via forum export? Does Pine, whomever he or she may be, just hate me?

Oh dear. My level 37 Huntswoman has been following the version of this guide I carefully extracted from the Wayback Machine. First, THANK YOU! I never played a Soldier on Live, but this is the only character since the game resurfaced that has been able to break through my inveterate altaholism and keep me playing her. Even the re-makes of my two favorite characters from Live haven't been able to do that. But now I have a decision to make. Do I respec to switch to this updated build, or do I just put the update in Build 2 so I can keep playing with the old build while I get everything purchased and slotted into the new one? Decisions, decisions...

Does anyone happen to know what, if any, limit there is on character renames? One per character? Some other number? Some number per account? I don't have anything underhanded or abusive in mind. Just a character concept that would involve changing her name a couple of times during her journey.