Clave Dark 5

These builds look great and gave me a lot to think about, great job and thank you! Stray thoughts: The MM strategy page on the wiki reminded me of something I noted back on Live when I had a Mercs MM and didn't know any better about skipping the Primary set attacks: tho the personal attacks on their own aren't all that strong, they can really help chew through foes when combined with those of your pets (plus on a Mercs it was fun to have another machine gun chattering away at the same time, it just was, no YOU shut up!). So Pulse Rifle Burst may only be 50 dmg umenhanced, but it does help out, plus the knockback is a useful soft control when it fires (also see below about Tactics). Then there's that theme-breaking Arcane Bolt, which has a chance to "proc" whenever you use any other power; that recharges it if it's not already and doubles the damage. That clocks in at 45 points of dmg unenhanced, so make it eighty and you can see how that can come in handy and feels hard to pass-up. I mean, I may be a whimpy Emp MM, but I want people to fear me as well as my bots. I normally advocate taking Resurrect powers, but skipped on my build for space, also partly because it's useless on pets, and because I can buy the temp power from helpful P2W lady too. Not taking Weave is a bit hard though, yeah, I am having second thoughts there. Maybe I'll drop Pulse Rifle and keep Arcane Bolt so I can pick that up. "You've 6 slotted a lot of sets that won't help you out at all like doctored wounds/luck of the gambler." I just ported those over from the build I was starting from; given time to look into the possibilities, I am more than happy to re-pick sets or to move slots elsewhere, sure! I am probably shooting for strong Def and Resist here, yeah, so I'd look into better choices in that direction. Tactics is one of those perhaps overly-slotted powers (except that's a lot of defense); I like taking it for just the Gaussian's Build Up proc, which fires based upon the number of peeps you're running with, including tour pets, so I may just need the single slot there. Mix that proc's Build Up in with the two attacks already mentioned and my personal damage starts to look even better. "You Pet sets already have +Endurance, so maybe the ally Endurance recovery powers from Empathy might not be that useful?" Oh yeah? You said those come from the pet sets? Big if true! It might not endear me to anyone I team with, but I wouldn't mind dropping some Emp powers to tailor this toon more for my own fun; I'm wondering how often I might really need Clear Mind for example, heck even my Emp controller never used it that much.

Still not all that sold on Incarnate stuff personally. When I hit 50 it's often time to give in and play that new alt I've been itching to try out anyway. 😀

My theme is she's a robot who builds her robot friends, so Arcane Bolt is something of a stretch, but I worked it in anyway for now; I am open for dropping it though, with a good reason. Speaking of theme, I figure this might be my only chance to fly over the streets of Paragon/screaming citizens of the Rogue Isles with my fleet of justice-dealing/terror bots, so I just had to take Group Fly for once in my life, kind of a now or never thing. I ended up dropping in the non-superior MM IOs, breaking my "cheap" tendencies, but would happily drop those for cheaper alternatives. I just threw this together now before bed and may have missed obvious stuff, but here it is. This Villain build was built using Mids Reborn 3.0.5.6 https://github.com/Reborn-Team/MidsReborn Click this DataLink to open the build! Maid of Metal: Level 50 Technology Mastermind Primary Power Set: Robotics Secondary Power Set: Empathy Power Pool: Flight Power Pool: Leadership Power Pool: Sorcery Power Pool: Fighting Ancillary Pool: Mace Mastery Villain Profile: Level 1: Battle Drones (A) Sovereign Right - Accuracy/Damage (5) Sovereign Right - Damage/Endurance (5) Sovereign Right - Accuracy/Endurance (7) Sovereign Right - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (7) Sovereign Right - Accuracy (9) Sovereign Right - Resistance Bonus Level 1: Healing Aura (A) Preventive Medicine - Heal (9) Preventive Medicine - Heal/Endurance (11) Preventive Medicine - Endurance/RechargeTime (11) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime (15) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime/Endurance (15) Preventive Medicine - Chance for +Absorb Level 2: Heal Other (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge (19) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance (21) Doctored Wounds - Heal Level 4: Hover (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (23) Karma - Knockback Protection (43) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All) Level 6: Equip Robot (A) Recharge Reduction IO Level 8: Fly (A) Flight Speed IO Level 10: Maneuvers (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge (39) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance (39) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge (39) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense Level 12: Protector Bots (A) Mark of Supremacy - Damage (13) Mark of Supremacy - Damage/Endurance (13) Mark of Supremacy - Accuracy/Damage (17) Mark of Supremacy - Accuracy/Endurance (17) Mark of Supremacy - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (19) Mark of Supremacy - Endurance/Pet +Resist +Regen Level 14: Absorb Pain (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal (21) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance (23) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge Level 16: Clear Mind (A) Endurance Reduction IO Level 18: Pulse Rifle Burst (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage (34) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (46) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance (48) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge Level 20: Assault (A) Endurance Reduction IO Level 22: Fortitude (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance (25) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge (25) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge (27) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge (27) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (48) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed Level 24: Arcane Bolt (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage (48) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (50) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance (50) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge Level 26: Assault Bot (A) Expedient Reinforcement - Accuracy/Recharge (29) Expedient Reinforcement - Accuracy/Damage (31) Expedient Reinforcement - Damage/Endurance (33) Expedient Reinforcement - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (34) Expedient Reinforcement - Endurance/Damage/Recharge (34) Expedient Reinforcement - Resist Bonus Aura for Pets Level 28: Recovery Aura (A) Preemptive Optimization - Accuracy/Recharge (29) Preemptive Optimization - EndMod/Endurance (31) Preemptive Optimization - EndMod/Recharge (31) Preemptive Optimization - EndMod/Accuracy/Endurance (33) Preemptive Optimization - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge (33) Preemptive Optimization - EndMod/Endurance/Recharge Level 30: Tactics (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff (42) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge (42) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance (42) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance (43) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance (43) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up Level 32: Upgrade Robot (A) Recharge Reduction IO Level 35: Regeneration Aura (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance (36) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge (36) Doctored Wounds - Recharge (36) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge (37) Doctored Wounds - Heal (37) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge Level 38: Adrenalin Boost (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance (40) Doctored Wounds - 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I tend to go cheaply too, so that still does help, thanks for that and the link.

This. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster patterned Superman's underroos on that look back in 1938 and made them really colorful as well, and now we're all stuck with this convention. Unless you favor lots of pouches everywhere instead, anyway.

The porting makes them a bit harder to deal with, worse than runners; you try and shoot/hit them only to find them gone so now you have to re-target. Just a simple little wrinkle on the usual grunts who'll stand there and try and hit you or whatever.

When did you started playing CoX? Was it before or after the game shut down? Tell me a little about how you met the game. A roommate was playing it and I kept watching over his shoulder and thinki9ngit looked like fun. Which was a real deal fort me as I generally consider all video games a waste of time ha ha - I could be reading a book instead of running thru a pre-set maze! And yet here I am. Have you played the game before the shut down in 2012? If the answer is yes, tell me about how you feel about the game’s “Death”. What was that experience like? Yes. I was maybe a bit burned out, but still felt kinda sad about it; not like actually super depressed, but "well dang, that's a pity" sad. And when the game returned in 2019? What did you felt? Was it like a “Homecoming”? That was great, I felt like I'd have a chance to hop in and get one last fix, so that even if it went away tomorrow, I'd be able to be satisfied that I had another shot at what had been taken away (there's still so much I haven't done yet). What was the first thing you did after playing the game for the first time in years? Created a few characters, duh! I dunno, probably started leveling a few. What are your thoughts on the return of the servers? Did you brought something with you from the original server? (Avatars, builds, things like that) I did maybe one or two, but not too many. I tend to come up with new ideas for characters instead of returning to "old favorites" no matter how much I liked them. Do you like to play with a specific character? (can be more than one) If yes, what makes it so special to you? Mainly character concept and if it feels like it plays in a fun and/or easy way instead of a "this is going to be very complex" tricky way. I don't tend to revisit characters once I feel I'm done with them, partly because I'm captivated to play a new character and only have so much time.

I've started a new Bots/Empathy MM for some easy soloing play. I don't expect to take on AVs all the time or anything, but I also don't want it too gimpy or anything. I figure I can easily roll through radios or arcs not set to high whilst in BodyGuard and heal my bots up as they do their mayhem to anyone who dares raises a hand against me during those times when I can't find anyone to team with. So the build I'm looking at (from JJDrakken I believe) has me wondering a few things that I could use some answers to before I start making alterations to it: Since I'm going to have healing out the wazoo as an Emp, is Repair for the bots really necessary? It's been so long since I've run a Bots that I've forgotten who well or not that it helps I've heard Arcane Bolt makes a good attack for MMs; although not exactly thematic, I'm willing to overlook that in favor of helping my bots out damage-wise. I figure this with Pulse Rifle Burst (only) would be nice? Should I go to Arcane Bolt, how useful might Enflame from Sorcery as well be? Knowing that pets don't runaround like headless chickens anymore, unless you tell them to. The build mentioned above goes set-bonus-chasing for slotting out the bots, but the times I've run MMs in HC (a Beasts and a Mercs) I frankenslotted for Pet Resists and what-not, what's a good Bot Slot choice? Anything else I am obviously blind to that you think I should consider?

Not a bad idea. How about make it twice what level you are so it doesn't feel too tiny? So at 1st level you'd get two XP, and at 50th 100. Related, I believe I have seen it's possible to get a random drop from greys, I'm pretty sure I got an enhancer booster once.

Yeah, but meant to like get people to help. Sometimes I set me MM pets at aggressive and just trawl through the streets looking for grey targets for the hell of it, might as well assign badges for that too!

That strip got me thinking, maybe we need to give out badges for stopping purse thievery and other "street crimes".

And to think that people pick on red side for being worse than blue side!

Yes, please, everything there should have something to explain how they work.

@Arbegla Can you help me understand how that is? Looking at the power on City of Data 2.0, it shows 45.2667 dmg but Robotics' Pulse Rifle Burt lists 50.16. I'm inexperienced with CoD so I might be misreading it somehow or maybe I'm missing something else about the AB build-up effect thingy... which I'll note isn't covered on our wiki!

I want that too. And not that crummy stuff either, the good pumpkin spice stuff! He's right there in my sig!!

Did you still get the badge?

I have posted a build or two but find I often don't get replies if it's an unpopular power set or I'm not aiming for min/max goodness. I also don't have a huge amount of time to devote to our hobby here, so I can't spend lots of time tinkering with MIDs or the test server, so anyone who does post a build upon request, even if I don't like its goals, is a hero in my book.

It's like the animal heads, you get a few options to adjust it, but not nearly as many as we do with standard heads. Never been sure why exactly.

Still makes me chuckle that pistols only have "minor" damage.

Aw man, why do I always find these threads late? Oh well, I usually dumped these all pretty quickly anyway.

Yeah, it takes a lot of combing over something to make sure, there's not some hidden detail that could cause problems like racist material or copyright violation, plus then there's checking the playability of it all, making sure it's not exploitable for easy loot, etc. This wouldn't simply a matter of the mods playing through it once, stamping it with a blue check mark and then moving on.

They're afraid of adding gnus as MM pets to the game.

Ha, not from me anyways. I don't resort to ad hominem attacks. Usually. 😃

That sort of stuff you described is, I'm willing to bet, a serious head ache to develop: one misstep and you've OPed every min/maxer, who'll howl when you have to strip that stuff back out of the game (while al;so saying it's all to easy now). Ultimately it sounds to me like you've just played CoH a LOT and that it might be time to take a break.

No, nope, that's too sensible. There must be some conspiracy to not do things and someone to blame for it.