New power set suggestion: Insect MM

[Mindrivet]

THIS IS FAR FROM COMPLETE OR BALANCED

This is more of at brainstorm!

The minions would be as follows:

Tier 1: Summon Soldier Ants - 
Default Attack: Bite - Deals damage and applies -Res on the target.
Upgrade: Sting - Deals damage and applies -Recharge on the target as they are slowed by the venom.
Final Upgrade: Pheremones - Each attack will put a stacking "increased damage taken" debuff on the target. Additionally, the Soldier Ants can use an AoE acid spray attack that applies -Res on the targets hit in a cone.

Tier 2: Summon Praying Mantis
Default Attack: Severing Pinch - Deals damage and causes bleeding to a single target.
Upgrade: Sweeping Slash - Deals damage in a cone, while also inflicting bleeding.
Final Upgrade: Diving Slash - The mantis takes flight to dive bomb the target location, upon landing all nearby enemies take damage and receive -Recharge as they are knocked off balance.

Tier 3: Summon Spider Queen
Default Attack: Spider Spit (ranged attack) - Deals damage and inflicts poison and a -Res debuff on the target.
Default Attack: Hatch Eggs - the Spider Queen summons several pseudopets that engage the enemy dealing moderate damage.
Upgrade: Web - applies an effect on enemies similar to the Web Grenade skill
Final Upgrade: Broodmate - the Spider Queen summons a temporary pet, one of her many suitors. He will fight until time expires or he dies.

This is just a very rough idea of a power set focusing on -Res, -Recharge, and summoning additional pets passively (some could be psuedopets).

I feel like insects (and arachnids) are a classic mad scientist weapon, we need this.

*I posted this because my friends encouraged me to, I was just musing to myself*

Apologies if this is not where this goes, but I don't see any suggestion category.

[Vinceq98]

Would love this to come true along side the thugs and beasts revamp.

[Zymn]

Only if the attack powers are:

 

L1 Bees

L2 Bees??

L6 BEES!!

[Mindrivet]

15 hours ago, Zymn said:

Only if the attack powers are:

 

L1 Bees

L2 Bees??

L6 BEES!!

I love this

[Kinvesu]

This sounds good to me. Though I would take ANY new primary for mastermind, since everyone else keeps getting new sets, but us.

[JayboH]

23 hours ago, Kinvesu said:

This sounds good to me. Though I would take ANY new primary for mastermind, since everyone else keeps getting new sets, but us.

Probably because it's the most difficult thing in the game to make period.

[TygerDarkstorm]

1 hour ago, JayboH said:

Probably because it's the most difficult thing in the game to make period.

And at least one powers dev hates/dislikes MMs. 😞 

[JayboH]

18 hours ago, TygerDarkstorm said:

And at least one powers dev hates/dislikes MMs. 😞 

What I said might be why.  

 

I would love more MM primaries, don't get me wrong.  

 

Another idea would be some kind of non-Rikti aliens or something along the lines of psionic damage-focused pets.

Toxic damage could be part of this insect idea too, perhaps introduced with the upgrades amongst regular lethal damage.

[normalperson]

 

As good an idea as any I've heard so far.                  But one thing:  spiders are not technically considered "insects".          So the set would need to be called something more like "bugs" or "invertebrates".