Clave Dark 5

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.

I don't have any thought son the suggested IOs or anything, but please, let's have the mansion run available year-round like the blockbuster is if we're going to do this. I'd personally love to be able to Halloween (or even Baby New Year) any time of year for the change of pace and less-over-exposed maps. Plus the price for the IOs wouldn't go through the roof the rest of the year.

Simply a joke, don't mind me. Thanks for the build.

Since apparently shameless begging is a thing for these threads (😀) , was there a Fire/Dual Blades Brute build that I missed somewhere? Are their any cheap ones?

That looks sick, so of course I'll be working on Halloween. Still, good work, and have fun!

Yup, all correct. Mike Baron was a pretty solid superhero writer back in the day.

Never. I hit a wall sometime in the middle tiers, like say +2 where I either stop playing the character (new shinies!) or the process just becomes a pain because of the awful Incarnates interface. At that point, I may still pull one or two of the "mains" out for occasional BAFs or something, but dear god, aren't they already powerful enough?! Who cares?! I just want to have fun here, not jump through stupid hoops.

This really should be achievable fairly easily with community input. One could hold writing contests in the AE and lift out the successful ones, for instance. I know they do still require testing and all that, but writing them itself is still at least one step that the devs can farm out.