William_Valence

Going with the original theme of the thread, Necro/Dark.

But if you -must- have thugs, the Bruiser isn't as much of an issue anymore. With the run into melee AI he's actually golden. The Arsonist is gonna be the one you'll have to babysit.

Make the Recluse's Victory AVs drop PvP recipes instead of regular recipes and enhancements.

Be more of a reason for people to care about Pillboxes, instead of just fighting under the statue, and add a reason to fight them more than once.

You're damn right the MMs are the black sheep, because we're the king kong kamehameha badasses. We're the ones Scrappers aspire to be, Brutes whine to their mom's about, and tanks say "yeah, they're the redside version of me!", even though they know we're not.

For iTrials, the basics I follow are this:

1. Take your time. I'm not good at speeding with an MM, but I could solo a crate/container with +1 level shift. Push to the thing you want to kill, killing the enemies along the way, then kill it. Even if you only get one, there's 8 people on your team. You'll more than make up for it against the AVs.

2. Everything needs to avoid the patches. Keep an eye open, and use you're GoTo/Passive, then defensive. Keep pets out of patches.

3. This is league content. Yes, with 3 level shifts I can engage An AV on my own and usually wait for the team to follow. However this is stuff that requires multiple teams. Leverage the buffs to keep your pets alive against these killer enemies.

4. An extension of 3. Keep pets close. In iTrials, your pets are even level while in supremacy range. This is a huge boost, that will often be the difference in keeping them alive.

5. Know what powers your pets have, and what upgrade gives which powers. In TPN it's Grave Knights with two upgrades, and Zombies with none for Necromicus. That's completely single target. I set them to Passive and pick their targets, and it won't be my pets that take out a camera or civilian.

As a minor QoL change, add a Purple triangle display to the target section of the UI. One triange above the rank, and one above the level.

That way its easier to see triangles up or down when AVs are overblown with FX, drowning in teamates/NPCs, or just not giant enough to have easily visible triangles.

Bots and thugs- 5

Demons- 4

Necro- 3

Ninja- 1.5

Merc- 1

My main Villain is a Necro/Dark Mastermind. Together he and his dimensional counterparts make up the identity Necromicus, and maintain a mystic book by the same name that has all the knowledge they've gained. (And going by what I've seen with i22 the book will probably be Necromicus' Well) Their only goal is to know more about the Physical and Mystical processes of death. They are murderers who kill to see how the various methods effect the process.

Just about anyone would be a viable victim, as they also wants to see how life experiences effect death.

They are aware they'll never finish, but obsession won't let them stop. Despite this obsession, in a rare moment of respect, they refused to bring back the Statesman allowing him the rest he deserves. An astonishing move from individuals who would kill children to see if it was a different process than killing adults.

Considering Synapse still speaks about Melee pets vs Ranged pets and the "Increased danger" Melee pets face, i'm going to guess that the AI isn't intentional.

However, since we're MMs and about the toughest things in the game I'm also going to guess our problem isn't at the top of the to-do list.

I'm interested to see what happens with the PvP IOs. There are a few still selling for the 10-20million price range, I wonder if they'll have the same shift. With more Midrange and junk drops, and a few huge ticket items, I don't know.

I wonder how many converter's it'll take to hit a Panacea or defense/resist global on average.

I'm really not a fan of the set. The bonuses won't beat a set of Blood mandate, and yay the unique proc is another defense aura. Not to mention the wonkyness with having recharge as a heavy aspect of a MM set.

Switch the Damage bonus (set) to accuracy, At least one resist bonus to a positional defense, and the the enhancement aspect of the proc to Endurance instead of recharge.

I'd also would have liked something more Unique for the Proc, like resistance to BG mode damage or something.

But ah well, We're Masterminds. We're hardcore badass SoBs who drink the tears of AVs and bathe in the blood of GMs. I won't loose sleep over it.

Decided to read this thread on a whim to see if there was anything interesting or important, I was not disapointed. BrandX I'm loving that new Avatar, seriously that's some cool ****

Now, I have yet to try them so I could be wrong, but it seems like there's a new power tech that rolled out with the Valentines day event. The Arrows. From their description they do one thing to friends, and another effect to foes.

So in a late night, diet coke induced stupor, I considered what it would take for me to roll a PB. This is what I got.

1. ALL YOU PBs NEED TO SHUT YOUR PSI HOLE!!!! Ha Get it. Really, shut the Psi hole on Light form. From all I can tell, Warshades get top survivibility and damage at the cost of having to scale by enemies. Peacebringers seem to have always been about high level survival (though not always implemented well to that effect) that remains constant and with a much lower level of available damage.

2. (This is the inspired part) Split the defense debuff in half and add that much resistance debuff (it would be -4.5% defense and resist or -9% defense and resist) Now, make it so that the power can be used on allys for a minor heal, defense buff, and resistance buff. This effect would cap at a certain number of stacks, and be constant through the powers.

Now buffs would be modified to have effects when used on foes. Reform essence and Glowing touch could be moderate/large Regen debuffs, while the Essence boost powers could be HP debuffs similar to degenerative interface. If that wouldn't be allowable, a resistance debuff would be mechanically the same without the potential oopsie moments if too much debuff became available to the players.

3. Make photon seekers more useful. Give them the Carrion creeper effect. When they expire, they summon a pseudopet. Any enemies that die in the Pseudopet causes another Photon Seeker to be summoned. Each one would create the Pseudopet, and each pet would summon for a death in range.

As for making forms more useful, Let inner light be useable while in nova and lightform available for use when in Dwarf. Make Dwarf form Increase the players HPcap when used, in a similar way to Afterburner, and make Nova form do the same for Damage. Also, if they don't already, make the essense boosts cary over between forms. A human form would be HP capped at the current level, and in Dwarf form, there'd be much more HP available.

Add to that the standard remove shifting animation times, and Sashes and I thinks they'd be just about perfect.

It's gotten kinda bad when people see bots, stop, and assume it's paired with traps.

The thing you need to be careful of, on a time especially, is you have power boost on with your toggles on mids.

Before farsight, your 42.5% S/L defense, 40.8% E defense, and the rest is 26% or higher. With a vannila farsight, you add 14.87%. With a PBed Farsight, add 21%. PBed farsight puts you to iSoftcap on S/L/E and standard softcap to everything else.

EDIT: And I almost forgot, I don't know if mids adds the Probot bubbles. If it doesn't you could add those on top of what I just said.