Electric Masterminds

[Rudra]

So I was goofing off with my main MM when I wondered how I could get an electric MM. And seeing as how this has come up before and with @biostem's recent thread in mind, I have some proposals:

 

Storm Caller:

Charged Bolts

Summon Wisps

Lightning Bolt

Charge Elemental

Ball Lightning

Summon Elementals

Cascading Thunder

Summon Storm

Overcharge

 

Summon Wisps calls up two Lightning Storm model pets and one Voltaic Sentinel model pet. These are just for visuals, you are not calling up the Animus Arcana or a Voltaic Sentinel. They would be normal lieutenant strength. Would have higher than normal smash, lethal, and energy damage resist, lower than normal negative energy and psionic resist, and would have good defense. Most likely powers across all three would be Charged Bolts and Lightning Bolt.

 

Summon Elementals calls up two Gremlin model pets. Again, these are just for visuals and these pets would be normal for MMs. They would have the same resists and defense arrangements as the Wisps. Most likely powers would be Electric Brawl and Shock just like the Controller's Gremlins, but weaker as per henchmen tier pets.

 

Summon Storm calls up Tempest Elemental model. Again, just for the visual. This is a normal built MM henchman except with the resist and defense alterations. Most likely powers would be Lightning Bolt and either Ion Field or Lightning Field.

 

Charge Elemental grants Wisps Electrical Field, Elementals Lightning Bolt, and Storm Ball Lightning.

 

Overcharge grants the Lightning Storm model Wisps a Mag 2 electric stun attack (no damage?), the Voltaic Sentinel model Wisp Rejuvenating Circuit, the Elementals Thunder Strike, and the Storm Short Circuit.

 

Cascading Thunder is a location AoE power that can only be triggered where the MM currently is. It does not move even if the MM runs off. What it does is creates a localized storm cloud like Storm Cell that constantly rains lightning down. Purely a visual effect. The mechanics of it are it is a short duration damage field that does constant tics of light energy damage with a chance for KD to foes in its radius.

 

I was going to also include earth, water, and fire themed sets, but this post is rather long, so I'll just do those later in other posts.

 

Thoughts?

[Fade]

The concept sounds fun! I'm not sure about some of the specifics (I don't love the idea of stepping on Electric Controllers toes by making a visual clone of their tier 9 pets, for example) but the overall idea is definitely worth pursuing.

[Rudra]

1 minute ago, Fade said:

The concept sounds fun! I'm not sure about some of the specifics (I don't love the idea of stepping on Electric Controllers toes by making a visual clone of their tier 9 pets, for example) but the overall idea is definitely worth pursuing.

I'm mostly using the Gremlins for ease of implementation. Recycling existing assets may hopefully make this more likely to happen. Otherwise I'd have used something else and maintained a ranged theme for pets like the other two pet powers.

[Rudra]

Maybe instead of Summon Elementals calling Gremlins, the power could be Summon Raiju? Use the wolf model but reskin it with a glowing blue-yellow spectrum effect and add a lightning aura to make the ubiquitous lightning wolf of Japanese fame. It would retain Shock as an initial power, but replace Electric Brawl with either Shocking Swipe or Electric Bite. Shocking Swipe would be the Claw Rake of the lionesses except as energy damage whereas Electric Bite would be the Vicious Bite of the wolves except as energy damage. They only get one of these though. And the Overcharge power could grant them either the other melee attack or a weak Short Circuit.

[Stormwalker]

I don't know enough about Masterminds to comment on the specific powers (I only have one, and he's still low level), but I like it from a concept perspective.

[TheMoneyMaker]

On 3/15/2025 at 3:08 PM, Fade said:

The concept sounds fun! I'm not sure about some of the specifics (I don't love the idea of stepping on Electric Controllers toes by making a visual clone of their tier 9 pets, for example) but the overall idea is definitely worth pursuing.

The difference between the Electric Control and a MM version of the pet is that --like all MM pets-- it would not be customizable while the electric controllers and dominators could customize theirs however they choose