Master + Mind or let's micromanage the shizz out of a "boring" set

[The_Warpact]

Back on Live my main was a Bots/FF, I leveled this toon to 50 pre-incarnate days which took like 6 months...ugh. BUT, in that time you really get to learn the dynamics of your build, and through various changes over the years (running treespecs for respecs another ugh) I found a build that suited my micromanaging.

Now my builds I used them for base raids (lol stupid tanks ya can't touch me), RV, and generalized play. In PVP I found it useful to just plant my fat bubbly ass in a choke point and invoking my inner Gandalf "You shall not pass" worked well and it made me a target because taking a MM into pvp was just inconceivable although my fellow VGmate had a necro/dark that stacked bodies in SC which was fun AND it made him a target because he had some really crazy piss you off macros that he did on dead players it involved tea and bagging and shooting off his wedding confetti...you get the point.

 

Back on track...so when HC came about I was all for making my favorite main but I stopped myself because all those years I never considered rolling anything else...well I did have a SS/FA broot before it was cool. So now literally hundreds of toons later (I delete just as many as I make and yes I only do 50's) I want to make that old MM again and dust his butt off clean him up and give him a fresh coat of paint. So now we have IO's, I dabbled with them on Live but never got really into them...namely because I was broke all the time making different costumes lol. I mess with them a lot now I have 3 bases just full of storage for...well everything. I'm a collector not Benicio del Toro collector but I collect the shineys which is my drive. Its part ebil marketeer part ebil hoarding collector.

 

I do not or hardly ever take attacks, I'm sitting on a cadre of MM's right now and now of them have attacks other than whats in their secondaries although certain debuffs tend to draw the ire of some baddies. So during that time I micromanage, whats the team doing, debuff, heal, position pets for better tactical advantages, buff, etc so in my busy world attacks are just more shizz to put into an already tight schedule and face it with today's steam rolling teams the window of opportunity on what you can do has reduced itself dramatically before everything is dead.

Most of the time I just force the mobs into a corner with FB and let the bots and teammates decimate them as they flounder, can't really do that with AV's so its back to a support role and do what I can to keep the heavy hitters and my bots alive (looking at you Reichsman nazi bastard).

 

I pulled up builds on Discord and omg I was like yeah these suck...no ideas and was thinking why did they take all this unnecessary stuff and have like a 26% s/l def??? But they have purples in useless attacks (useless to me) so getting nothing from those I said fudge it and made my own, from what i can remember BUT instead of SO's I now have IO's..huzzah..?

I slotted for caps first and foremost get the caps on s/l def and res then after that I slot for everything else. Now some might question why do that when ranged would be better on a ranged pets. Well its simple, I am really aggressive with my pets, so I slot for my survivability first and then everything else because really without the MIND there is no MASTER.

I also do not plan for incarnates initially, those abilities should never be a crutch to get your toon where they need to be, they should be an added bonus to a strong build. My build is good def wise then add in the bubbler bots buffs and its golden, rely on you and your pets not other powers that you are not going to have for awhile (unless you PL then well do whatever). On this build though I'm going to take my sweet ass time leveling him and learning it all over again which you should do on some builds because sometimes the trip is better than the destination.

 

I would love a critique/advice whatever on my build it has been a while and as some of you know I usually role chaos masterminds (basically any primary plus /Storm) although /EA is becoming a mucho loved set but with it being a RES set I choose to forego it. Although as I sit here I'm like "damn that might be really tanky fun" shizz freaking altitis. Well anywho after that Stephen King novel here is my build.

 

 

https://www.midsreborn.com/builds/download.php?uc=1404&c=670&a=1340&f=HEX&dc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