Mastermind Primary: Warlord

[Gerswin]

Lash	1	Ranged whip attack
Summon Spearman	1	Summon spear wielding warriors
Crack Whip	2	Melee Cone
Equip Warriors	6	Gives spearmen shields, archers armor, barbarian titan sword
Dogs of War	8	Summons pack of armored dogs
Archers	12	Summon Archers
Berserk!	18	Henchman buff, +Dam, -def
Barbarian	22	Summon barbarian warrior
Elite training	26	Ranged, Empower Warrior Henchman

 

This primary allows a whip-wielding mastermind warlord to send his or her primitively equipped but physically imposing forces into battle.

[mistagoat]

I don't think you can give a MM 4 summon pets unless one of them is non-permanent like gang war. Dogs of War could probably fill that role but you might need to push it to a higher level. Thugs get GW at 18.

[General Idiot]

Yeah, for this to fit the mold of a normal pet set you'd need to pick either Dogs of War or Berserk for the level 18 power, move Crack Whip to level 8 and add a second single target attack at level 2.

 

And personally, I don't think I'd want a whip as my weapon for a set like this. Though admittedly I'm not sure what else would work. A bow is the obvious one but ninjas already has the bow. They could recycle some weapon models from the Circle of Thorns and give it a crossbow perhaps, the existing rifle stance and animations from Beam Rifle would at least mostly look right for one so it'd just need the particle FX to be done.

[Rudra]

35 minutes ago, General Idiot said:

Yeah, for this to fit the mold of a normal pet set you'd need to pick either Dogs of War or Berserk for the level 18 power, move Crack Whip to level 8 and add a second single target attack at level 2.

 

And personally, I don't think I'd want a whip as my weapon for a set like this. Though admittedly I'm not sure what else would work. A bow is the obvious one but ninjas already has the bow. They could recycle some weapon models from the Circle of Thorns and give it a crossbow perhaps, the existing rifle stance and animations from Beam Rifle would at least mostly look right for one so it'd just need the particle FX to be done.

To fit the Mastermind AT like you say, it needs a couple more changes than that. I misread your post, sorry. You already covered all the things I thought you missed.

 

A quick breakdown (for the OP):

 

Level 1      (Add missing non-AoE attack, probably Corruption given MM attack sequencing and established whip powers)

Level 1      Summon Spearman

Level 2      Lash (Would actually go here.)

Level 6      Equip Warriors

Level 8      Crack Whip (Short range cone)

Level 12    Archers

Level 18    Berserk! or Dogs of War (Pick one for implementation. Devs won't do another Practiced/Master Brawler set up.)

Level 22    Barbarian

Level 26    Elite Training

 

Now, as for not using whip? How about Staff Fighting or Battle Axe? Then it could be like this:

 

Level 1      Mercurial Blow/Beheader

Level 1      Summon Spearman

Level 2      Precise Strike/Chop

Level 6      Equip Warriors

Level 8      Guarded Spin/Pendulum

Level 12    Archers

Level 18    Berserk!/Dogs of War

Level 22    Barbarian

Level 26    Elite Training

 

Sure, this transitions the MM to melee attacks, but it would still fit the theme and there have been requests for melee MMs as well. If Staff Fighting and Battle Axe don't work? Then there is still Broadsword, Dual Blades, and War Mace. Or if ranged is to be retained, maybe Sonic Attack for the ancient war leader's bellowing voice?

 

Edit again:

Or hells, steal from the Cimerorans:

 

Level 1      Dart Throw (Derived from Toxic Dart in the Experimentation power pool, just uses lethal rather than toxic damage and has damage scale adjusted)

Level 1      Summon Spearman

Level 2      Pilum

Level 6      Equip Warriors

Level 8      Frag Grenade (Cimeroran Traitor Immunes Engineer version)

Level 12    Archers

Level 18    Berserk!/Dogs of War

Level 22    Barbarian

Level 26    Elite Training

 

Edited Friday at 09:40 PM by Rudra
Edited to strike out 1st sentence and add 2 sentences after struck out sentence.

[Gerswin Jr]

I like all of the suggestions.  I was mostly trying to suggest the theme and to have a canine gang war clone. I figured that the whip animation was the least used and had potential for both melee and ranged. I also wanted to avoid anything overtly supernatural in the powers.  Also, I believe masterminds are one of 2 non epic ATs that have no new primary power sets since live, so I thought this could work with minimal new animations.