Quindorrian

From a farmer who runs Thugs all the time, don't agree with this. You WANT to slot procs in your thugs. As a matter of fact, you specifically want to slot Overwhelming Force->KD. I follow none of your slotting advice, honestly... Slotting Achilles and other defense debuffs in your Enforcer? Only if you need it. If I have already debuffed them to oblivion, would much rather put something else there...

Definitely not Field. You want to Farm? Field may get you there like it did, me.

Yeah, Comic-con is a not a problem, itself. The issue with Masterminds (and this is an issue with all non-tank farmers) is runners. In all maps, you'll get runners. Problem with many of the Comic-con maps is the runners will aggro neighboring groups and it starts becoming too much to handle. For my farming, I run a special outdoor map (Boomtown). It has fencing and a little more meaty city terrain. What this does, is it gives runners something to run into. Fencing and such helps contain them. If you play on the Everlasting server, please check out my farm map (just type in Crime Boss). It is about a 30 min clear for my MM and that is with EB's and set to hard at +4/8. Once again, to reiterate, Comic-con? Nah. My pets eat mobs alive. Especially, if you bunch them up like that. It's like you are handing me a gift, bwhahahaha.

Wow - this is amazing! Thanks so much! I am going to get working on this right away!

Can you guys explain how its possible in a tri-form build without losing perma lightform? Same with what the other fellow was suggesting with fire def. Winter IO's will surely get you there, but Tri-form offers very little defense options and slotting Winter IO's takes away some of the other sets that give recharge benefits. Can you suggest specific sets to get there and where to put them?

Does anyone have any advice or recommendations for a tri-form PB trying to hit the softcap in defense in any one damage type? Or, as close as possible? I just don't know how to get there and perhaps I am missing something... Is it possible? (Note, I am unable to post builds due to being on Mac). Thanks for any help!

Yeah, your math is not quite correct (my initial math wasn't correct either). Had to do a little research to confirm this. Still, Chilling Embrace is SUBSTANTIALLY powerful. The way the power works is it actually adds a damage debuff to all enemies in its aura. So, yes, it isn't additive to your own resistance, exactly, but it is almost as good. For example, if you have a S/L resist of 76%, and the incoming damage of an attack would normally be 100, it will reduce the enemies attack to 86 damage S/L. Then, 76% resistance is applied to that 86. So, the final received damage is 20.64. If it were additive, it would be 10 damage. So, it reduced the damage by roughly 4 damage, which is 20% of the damage you would have taken (24 damage). Regarding your other comments, there are some fair points. I spend most of my time in level 50 content. When I do low-level content, I don't feel quite as strong, but I also have a lot of purple ATO sets that don't apply at low levels.

That is what many of the responses are doing: Ragging on Apple and its hardware and how they are moving to Windows because of their opinions on things. It's annoying when an Apple user is looking for answers and most of the responses are about how "Apple Sucks". As Apple users, this is not helpful to us. We want information on how to get things to work on current and upcoming platforms; not, opinions on what they think of Apple and its hardware choices. Just some thoughts.

I fixed it... Had to update the manifest in Island Rum (despite redownloading the latest version) and then I had to point the Wineskin to the correct exe, rescan, update, and now it runs. This is ridiculous?! Island Rum is glitchy as all get out, IMO...

Idk how I feel about your suggestions. I currently have an ice/ice tanker who farms cold, S/L, and fire and is a beast. The end drain on enemies is massive and is your biggest debuff. If you buff me anymore, I will run away with the game... I am not joking. Energy Absorption, for me, already drains all enemies around me to almost ZERO end. That effectively debuffs their recharge as well since when they have zero end, they can't use powers. You are completely ignoring how powerful chilling embrace is. That power reduces all incoming damage by 14%, AND can be slotted with taunt and a proc. You want to buff it, MORE??! Really?! Dude, 14% means instead of needing to be 90% resist, you only need to be 76% to be hard-capped with Chilling Embrace on. That is OP. Icicles does a LOT of damage, btw. Yes, I know it is lethal, but it does a lot more than similar toggles. Maybe I am unique in my Ice/Ice tankers abilities, idk, but I find him extremely powerful. A little more damage would make him on par with a fire/spines brute. Right now, he is a minute behind in farming. I am all for that, but what you are asking would make him ridiculously powerful. I can run you through a farm and you can see for yourself, if you wish...

After reading through all the whining post responses, I am glad you just cut to the chase and responded with something relevant.

I am not sure how the servers have people in them now unless it is allowing them to continue playing on the old version until they log out? It is saying wrong game version for me still and saying that the server version is 20210105_3591 and the client version is 20201130_3514. So, the client version (my local machine version) is newer than what you have running on the servers. Please help!

Ran the patch today and now my game is saying that the server version and client version mismatch. Server version of the game appears to be older than the client that got patched... Just wondering what is going on? I am using Island Rum, but I re-downloaded this and it is still saying the same thing.

I am currently running fast farms with a Thugs/Poison build that evaporates enemies. I would post the MIDS build, but I play on Mac and MIDS is goofy right now on Mac. Poison is very underrated. I slot with massive procs and debuffs. You want to open with Weaken to lower the damage. Otherwise, I hardly ever lose a pet to death and poison has a pet heal, as well. I am having SO MUCH FUN with this build and just ran 8 people through an S/L farm at +4/8! Please note that MM farming is more work intensive than Broot farming because you are managing resources instead of just spamming attacks. EDIT: One more thing. To do this, you will want to slot Field Mastery->Temp Invulnerability to achieve hard-capped S/L resist. This is what I recommend. Scorpion Shield gives defense but does not help with S/L resist.

Your 32-bit download is messed up. When I try to install it, it says that it is 64-bit. Can you please fix this? I need the 32-bit download.

Going through these forums trying to find how to install a working version of MIDS on MacOS Mojave is extremely confusing. People say to run a zip file (makes no sense) or to run an .exe file (also makes no sense). Can someone please link me to the proper .dmg file for installation? I already have homebrew installed and all that. Just need a proper installation file for Mojave. Thanks for any help!

Thanks so much for the replies and help guys! This is very helpful! Really appreciate it!

So, the tricky thing for me with this is trying to figure out what powers to slot with procs, what ones to slot with my ATO's, and which ones to slot KB to KD (all of them?). This is my first toon of this kind. I am also going with fire mastery. Having a real hard time hitting any caps with this build... Any builds any could post? Thanks very much!

So, the issue I am having is that every power in thorny assault is viable and if I take all the powers I run out of slots to put in them to make them all proper. So, how do we handle this if we want a high dps/high survivability build? I just have no idea what to gimp... Thanks for any help/advice!

There are plenty of users such as myself who do not use Catalina.

Why did you just delete the instructions on starting the software for Mac? I forget the exact terminal command and you just edited it 3 hours ago and deleted it?!

Question for everyone. So, looking at Stone Melee/Stone Armor, if you had to choose between picking up Boulder throw or going with Earth Mastery powers, which would you pick and why? What does everyone think of Earth Mastery as a power set? What powers are recommended from the set?

Being relatively new to the PB archetype, I get the impression that the OP hasn't gotten to high enough level yet and hasn't used light form. I went from being unsure if I would like the class to it being my favorite class in the whole game within 5 levels once I understood how to play it in the higher levels. Clearly, once someone understands how to play the class, they will see why the extraneous stuff is no longer needed.

I was Captain Coldsnap on the Virtue server and play on the Everlasting server. Assumed all the Knights that came back would come over to Everlasting. I've been looking for them. 😞 I've even looked to see if their wiki's would be updated on virtueverse in the hopes of figuring out what toons they are playing now. Seems really difficult to reconnect these days.

As it stands, each time they patched the game, it has gotten harder and harder for me to get this game to run on my Mac. Last patch, I had to do the winetricks and all that and change the run directory and it would only run in safemode. After this latest patch, it won't run at all. Now, it completely freezes my system... Anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this? Thanks for any and all help.