Fireknight013

Was going to space ever on the table for the dev team, especially during live days? I always had hoped before Praetoria, that there would be another planet, perhaps similar to the Praetoria direction, but with alien race and new archetypes that would be in direct conflict with both the heroes and the villains in the other factions.

That is a tactic, and a level of control different from what I referred to. It certainly isn't my play style, but I respect it as you have control of the pets and are working through the tactics of what you're doing. So even if it wouldn't be the way I play a MM, it's a play style and tactic that I respect, and appreciate. When I said what I said, it was with the idea that a MM sets their pets to a specific function and doesn't control them, or expects them to perform in a way that is not the way the AI is set up. My position on why I don't play the way you do is that don't slot health or endurance until later in game, because I use my pets as the fodder. Especially when I'm playing a MM with primarily H2H pets, like zombies. But then again, I'm the MM that people don't think I do anything because I'm so busy controlling my pets and using passive or active toggle powers to defend my pets and my team that I often don't use direct attack powers. I rarely ever take the AR or PR attacks when I'm using Merc and Bots respectively. Mostly because the impact of that single attack is so minor compared to the sheer amount of an all out first strike from my 6 pets on the same target, that I would rather pump my pets full of ACC and DAM enhancements and have them go to town on the enemy while I /em evillaugh. LOL

It is not correct, that's the point of what I was saying. That it was impractical if that WERE the case. it isn't.

That's what I do, and did was I dismissed the pets. LOL I just didn't tell the team so they wouldn't try to tell me again to "Put them on Attack my target" 😄

I have noticed in the last few days that people still have an idea of MM commands that I thought people would understand by now, but maybe that's just because some are either new or new at playing MM's. Pet commands are an active command, not passive. I had someone ask me today if my pets were "Set to attack (my) target" I let the comment slide because I thought maybe they just meant in general, but we were going on a DFB, and discussing badge run on the Vahl boss and I realized they honestly thought you set your pets on "attack my target" and the pets would only attack what you target.] First of all, this is impractical for me, because unlike many who can't stand it, I use Tab to target enemies over 60% of the time unless I'm picking a specific target. This would make my pets attack every target in a group before settling on what I actually wanted them to target. I decided to test the idea of "set and go" to see how the pets reacted. This made me think some people think MM is a "set pets and done" type of archetype. but many times after zoning, pets go into passive mode, which completely obliterates that idea to begin with. So I set my pets to aggressive and attack my target, and then I walked up to a group of hellions and selected the Lt. there were two minions between me and the Lt. Bots as they were, attacked the nearest target to them, the minions. I then pressed "Attack my target" in my tray, and low and behold, they did as commanded. I'm not trying to be in any way sarcastic or demeaning about this issue to people who don't play the MM arch, or even to new players who are still not understanding the arch. If you're a Mastermind, and you're not actively commanding your pets throughout a battle, what are you doing? Because you're not controlling your primary means of attack and defense. Don't get me wrong, since we just got off of ToT, I have seen plenty of instances where a MM pet just set on aggressive can be effective. When enemies are everywhere, who cares that one of your minions is just popping away at a zombie instead of concentrating firepower on the Arisen Mummy.....unless that Arisen is attacking me, that is. But pet commands are not passive "set and be done" type of commands. It is an active powerset, that yes, people can AFK during ToT and still have an impact. But when you're on a team doing missions, especially during Boss fights that spawn more minions, it is pretty imperative to control your pets, using the "attack my target", "follow", and passive "heel" commands. I also encourage anyone new to playing a MM to please do yourself a favor and set your options at the top of your pets window to advanced mode. Unless you've just gotten used to the simplified version, this opens up a wider range of abilities for your pets like "stay" and "Go to" and setting a location, so your pets move ahead of you around a corner with a lot of enemies to take the alpha strike, as well as other commands from the drop down. I guess I just really wanted to post this so people who don't know, will stop thinking pets are supposed to just follow you around and automatically know what you want them to do. Which is ironically the problem with leadership in real life these days....but I digress.

So I missed him in the Heather Arc and did so in Oroboros, but since it is a two part badge, I had no ability to save him during part 6 of the Dream Doctor Arc, since Oroboros mission seems to be based what you did while "in present time" and since I failed to save him in real time, he didn't even show up in the Oroboros Dream Doctor Arc. I can only hope I may be able to team with someone and get the badge through a team doing the missions....I hope.