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@Maelwys, I think my view of the usefulness of Font may be because of the effect of running Arctic Air, a 25ft PBAoE Confuse aura, as well as application of Cold Snap and Ice Slick. All work to cut down mob attacks. I get so many Fonts because my Toon is always using Block of Ice (with Font) as well as Chillblain (slotted for Damage) as well as Arcane Bolt for strong ST Damage. The Damage is likely enough to bother the mobs. Even on higher Notoriety content, I've not noticed the Fonts get defeated. But there the Damage would be less. If the Font inherits the slotting of the Power it's in, that's not the best Accuracy for them. I do have Tactics at L47 (for Jack Frost, who does have ED-capped Accuracy but attacks with 1.0 Base Accuracy). Also, the Base Accuracy of the Damage Auras for both Font and Fiery Orb is 1.0, so they're not going to be great for hitting without Tactics. The Toon doesn't have Infrigidate either, the sole -Def Power, as its -Damage only affects Fire Damage. Just can't fit in all the Powers into a build. It's kind of a bit of extra Damage and some interference on mobs aggro. I may some day swapped the Power Sets between Cold Snap (Will of the Controller) and Block of Ice (Overpowering Presence) as some times I want to be absolutely sure my 3 ST attacks are ST. And right now with Font in Block of Ice, that's not true.

I've not found that at all. On my Ice/Cold Controller, I have the Font on Block of Ice and I've had up to 3 of them out. Because of the awesome Arctic Air I'm normally in close and the Fonts just wander over to some mob and ruin its whole day. Even if I'm at range but in combat, the Fonts move quickly enough to take on the mobs. Even on +4 content, I've found it rare to see the Fonts defeated before they expire. I've got the Expedient Reinforcement special in Jack Frost, so the Fonts will l have +10% Resist all but Psionic within 20ft of my Controller. I've not played Dominators very much, so I'm not familiar with its ATO Fiery Orb. Someday someone will get numbers on the Font and the Fiery Orb and we'll have a better idea. Until then, here's the CoD2 pages: https://cod.uberguy.net/html/entity.html?entity=pets_overpowering_presence_pet https://cod.uberguy.net/html/entity.html?entity=pets_dominating_grasp_pet Both are downgraded in HP from other Pets the same amount. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=pets.overpowering_presence.resistance&at=minion_pets https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=villain_pets.dominating_grasp.resistance&at=minion_pets Both have damage auras. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=pets.overpowering_presence.shocking_aura&at=minion_pets https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=villain_pets.dominating_grasp.blazing_aura&at=minion_pets And both go away after 20s.

Part of the problems with Kinetic Melee is that it is misunderstood. First the T9, Concentrated Strike has a low DPA and a long Cast time. It's worse that Martial Arts T9 Eagles Claw and that one I skip on all ATs. I do take all 3 of the other ST attack, T1, T2, and T3, as well as Cross Punch (better DPA even ST than the T9) as the PBAoE T7 is a bit slow on the recharge. Power Siphon is actually better than Build Up. Using the first 3 ST attacks, quickly pump it to 5 stacks of +Dam (I monitor it in Combat Attributes) which is greater than Build Up and lasts longer, but with the same base recharge of 90s. Here's the latest build on my Kinetic Melee/Ninjitsu Scrapper. It's a Gold-side completist, so it'll be a while until I get it to L50. Scrapper KineticM-Ninjitsu.20250828.WpnM [i28p2] @Jacke - Jacke Discreet.mbd

I've reported the minimap issues with the Safeguard and Mayhem Missions. They should eventually be resolved.

Thanks for that, @Snarky. I'm familiar with non-suppressing stealth, as there's 15ft of that on Blaster Devices' Cloaking Device Field Operative. Cloak of Darkness has more. I plan to eventually make every Dark/Dark combination (Mastermind Necromancy/Dark). Also, for my Dark Armor Toons, I'm planning to go with Obscure Sustenance for all of them. Its extra effects make it seem to be a better choice over Dark Regeneration.

From what I've heard, the spaghetti-nature of the AH code is likely the worst in City. That's going to be a major project that will be tackled some day, likely when there's also other reasons. Also, there's still the bug that a Toon can try to enter an SG Base while that SG Base is being unloaded from memory and saved, leading to the server terminating the City client instead of doing something kinder like bouncing the Toon back to where it tried to enter the SG Base. So that's also an area for work.

Just remember, there are double agents. But going triple is suicide. Be seeing you.

Trip Mine also has the tag (in the upper left of the linked page) "Strengths Disallowed: RechargeTime". https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=pets.mine.trip_mine&at=minion_pets Don't know if that means the Force Feedback Proc has no effect.

Fire Imp's only attack (Brawl) has 1.2 Base Accuracy. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=pets.imp.brawl&at=minion_controllerpets For 1.2 Base Accuracy and slotting ED-capped Accuracy, against +4 Targets (as they are +4 to Pets), final ToHit is about 92%. -Def and Tactics would help, but only a tiny amount. And except for those Pets that are just extensions of the Toon (Electrical Blast's Voltaic Sentinel, etc.), it's the Base Accuracy of the Pet attacks, which are independent AFAIK of the Base Accuracy of the Pet Summons Power (which doesn't use it AFAIK). There's details to this I don't know, but there's other changes to the game that need to go in before the Level reductions of MM Henchmen gets remove. Until then, Masterminds really need to take Leadership and Tactics, unless their support set has a very good -Def Power (like Radiation Emission). Soulbound Allegiance Proc would only help intermittently and that's effective a lower final ToHit chance. Don't know about the untargetable Pseudopets. Some of them may be independent, others may be Toon extensions. But all should benefit from Debuffs like -Def. I know Phantom Army does. Good thing as EVERY attack they have is Base Accuracy 1.0. Can't find where in CoD2 is the "Ignores external strength boosts" for PA, but I know they have it. As does Trip Mine.

@Maelwys, the key takeaway here is getting that ED-capped Accuracy into Pet Summons Powers. I think like out of all the Pet and Recharge Intensive Pet IO sets, only 3 ED-cap Accuracy just by themselves: Brilliant Leadership (barely) Blood Mandate Sovereign Right I've been making up mixed sets for Toons with Pets as I do new builds (so far behind in builds...). After that, if needed (don't need to on the first one I fixed, my AR/Dev Blaster's Gun Drone), add in either Tactics or the use of a -Def Power. Only some Pets (I think they're all NOT targetable) are considered extensions of the Toon and thus get the benefit of the Global Enhancements, including Level Shifts (outside of what MM Supremacy grants to the MM's Henchmen).

In other news, I've made a new build for my Dark Armor/Martial Arts/Soul Mastery Tanker. Still very low Level so it's a long way from being tested. But after looking at Dark Regeneration and Obscure Sustenance, I've decided to go with OS for all ATs. And I'll find out if its other buffs are worth the lesser amount of Healing.

The interpretations as I mentioned above were confirmed to me. Not sure of the above. Inspirations and Global effects from Clicks are in Global Buffs and if they were included, others would be. But these are testable with appropriate use of Combat Attributes window. That also includes the Caster's Global Buffs. If we had EXACTLY the same view as what the Powers Devs use (and some documentation as well), this would be much simpler...maybe. But we don't, alas. CoD2 is better than nothing. But it's also got nil documentation and a steep learning curve.

Hey @ScarySai, @Maelwys, I said I looked at Beanbag and it's still not good enough to fit into my AR/Devices build. Beanbag is a ST attack and would need to replace another ST attack, either Burst or Slug (Sniper Rifle is too good, as is the Pseudo-ST Ignite). (See ST chain below.) Beanbag could maybe replace Burst, but replacing Burst (currently with 2 Procs, Apocalypse chance of Neg Dam and Achilles Heel chance of -Res, as well 4s Base Recharge) would hurt a lot. Beanbag replacing Slug is more likely. Burst has Cast ArcanaTime of 1.188s, DPA of 59.79/s, Base Recharge of 4s, Base DPS of 12.7/s, and Base Range of 90ft. Outstanding feature is 8s -7.5% Def, which means it can slot the Achilles Heel Proc. Slug has Cast ArcanaTime of 1.584s, DPA of 51.61/s, Base Recharge of 8s, Base DPS of 10.56/s, and Base Range of 100ft. Outstanding feature is 25% chance for Mag 1.25 KB. Beanbag has Cast ArcanaTime of 1.056s, DPA of 51.19/s, Base Recharge of 10s, Base DPS of 5.46/s, and Base Range of 60ft. Outstanding feature is 11.92s Mag3 Stun. So, to get that Stun, the build would take a hit on its Range and likely DPS. My current ST chain is: Burst - Ignite - Sniper Rifle - Burst - Slug If Exemplared such that Ignite is disabled, can swap in Buckshot. Beanbag maybe could replace Slug and move that to the start. But the Range is down to 60ft. Build has +10% Range, so that would be 66ft. When Ignite currently has the shortest range at 81.3ft. And I use that ST chain at more than 66ft range. Beanbag is better than it was. But it's still not good enough for me to put into a build. EDIT: Alternately, I could put in Beanbag and replace another Power. Making just a situational Mag 3 Stun. But Beanbag's always been that. I tried it out years ago. But if I use Beanbag and I get that 5% chance to miss, I've got to do something else. So I just haven't included Beanbag and always do that something else. And I don't think I can find any Power in the build I'd want to drop to make room for Beanbag.

Recently, I looked at Beanbag for my main Toon, AR/Devices Blaster. It does more Damage now than it did in the past. But I've developed that Toon since 2005. The build is tight and I don't want to lose any of the existing Powers to add in Beanbag. Just the way it is. When all Powers in a Primary and Secondary Powersets are good, still to fit in the more-than-6 needed Pool/Epic Powers to flesh out the Toon's build so it works well, thus have to skip what are good Powers. EDIT: Looked at it again. I'd almost be willing to drop Slug for Beanbag. But Beanbag has a Base Range of 60ft, while Slug has a Base Range of 100ft. Beanbag has a faster Cast but Slug has betterDPA. Sticking with Slug. For now....

I've written up important advice for the builds of all Toons who depend on the vast majority of Pets and Pseudopets here.