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What is happening on labor day?

I love MM as a class. It’s my favorite. However at times they definitely feel like a class that is stuck in Beta development and was never quite finalized. -Pet brawl -pet one shot fragility -Attack command stance being on the same setting toggle as Goto, Stay, Follow. It seems to me that Goto, stay, and follow should be separated from attack. I haven’t done a complete use-case break down on this idea but my thoughts keep leaning that direction.

I’ve never played a blaster past level 15. So excuse newbieness. However, with defenders and controllers now talking about using procs to get around their low damage caps, it got me thinking. Let’s take Dark blast for example which can be proc’d out fairly well from my understanding. Is it mathematically usefully to go heavy on procs for a blaster since their damage cap is so much higher?

anyone figure out how to fix this?

@Sir Myshkin I see in your Elec/Dark build that for jolting chains you have Sudden Acceleration: kb to Kd. Jolting Chains already just does knockdown. I just wanted to let you know, in case you missed it, or if it was on purpose then you could school me on why 🙂

I’ve only ever seen it chain to new targets.

So far this seems to work, if you hold the key down for a second. It will fire taser dart when you let off the 't' key /bind t "+targetcustomnear Oil Slick$$powexecname Taser Dart"

You're doing a great job! Your workload seems to be increasing for sure!

I would look at plainguys petless whip only thread. another option is a /kin with kb to Kd io’s in repel and whirlwind. It looks pretty cool and I found it pretty fun. Just semi effective though. You can also do the same knockdown thing with the /FF version of repel and whirlwind. That would give you more defense, but no endurance refill. So 6 in in one half dozen in the other. I love the whirlwind animation. The way the character does a little wind up before it starts. I was trying to think of a secondary with toggle pbaoes to combine with it. That would be. Time, FF, Kin, rad, nature. Maybe more that I can’t think of off the top of my head. Basically spin and Debuff/knockdown as the pets attack in bodyguard mode. I still have to think about a top primary for it. Demons would give resists, bots some defense. Necro last pet has cc that you could proc up for damage procs. Lol. I’m gonna have to brainstorm on this

Good News. Looks like crytilis got part of the MasterMind demons resists to show up in the latest build. It looks like the Force Shield from the Protector Bots is showing up now! I left the Demons resist ticket open. https://github.com/ImaginaryDevelopment/imaginary-hero-designer/issues/63 I closed the Proctor bot ticket: https://github.com/ImaginaryDevelopment/imaginary-hero-designer/issues/57

Yep. Taser dart and one of the other ones also. I don’t remember which one though

I like this. Nice and seemingly simple

I just need a class that allows me to take MM primary as both primary and secondary. More pets.

I understand. Mitigation is mitigation. A hit not taken is is the best hit to have. - side note: as I was typing this I misspelled mitigation. And it auto corrected to: “Mitigation is motivation” Which could be true

Does that actually tend to work at high levels. I tried doing that with repel on my MM and it didn’t seem to work that well. Granted on MM it’s 2.88 mag instead of 3. Do you slot additional KB enjancers on there also? What slotting do you use on it beside Sudden Acceleration KB->KD?

A dark blast with a resistance secondary that can get highish defenses seems in theory that it would be tough. The dark blast would defense cap out the percentage of hits you take and the resistances would soak the damage that gets through. Is theee a resistance set that matches this criteria? Hmm. Maybe SR and go with sets that give resists

LOL. Here is something a bit off the wall. Go with a Dark Blast / Super Reflexes Sentinel. You can take the dark blasts , then select the "no skull" or "no skull alt" animation. Then change their colors to one of the light greyish-blue tints that is in the middle column, in the 6th column I think, and halfway down in the blue area.. It will actually turn them kind of a grey with minimal black tint, and they actually look like you are shooting webs. Then you can also pick up Air Superiority from the Flight Pool for a nice overhead smash (at least that is what it looked like back in the day). As a matter of fact. You get respecs in the game, since your actual class has the webslinging down. You can then pick and pull from the fighting pool and other pools that have melee attacks and kicks See you out there Webslinger!

Is there a bind for targeting and igniting Oil Slick with the Taser Dart?

Sorry if I missed this in the thread above. But has anyone tested the MM Summom Wolves with Shield Breaker proc and Lady Grey Negative damage proc because they have 2 attacks on short cool down that have -def effects. I was wondering if I should proc slot them or not, as a general rule. The wolves take a lot of procs selections

One more folow up. do the level 50 orange sets work the same as as the purple?

Crap, I've made a lot of bad mistakes! Oh well. time to respec and put stuff on the AH and re-buy.

I think that Banished Pantheon would be good. I've heard there is an invulnerable version of it. So it won't automatically die when you summon it. Granted I'm not 100% sure on this and I don't know if other Lore pets get the invulnerable effect either. It's just what I've heard.

Quick question. for level 50 purple IO's. Should I get them Attuned? Do they mentor down to low levels and still work? If not then i should probably get them as regular 50 IO's then I can enhance them to higher levels. I've never really tried this. So please advise.

I get complaints about MM pets every so often in caves. And I keep my pets on a tight rope. I do my best to keep them out of peoples way. But you can't make everyone happy.