Yogi_Bare

I think there's a 90% cap. Also, doesn't the calc change up a bit for AoEs?

MM tier 1 pets.

I understand that; what I'm referring to is that the more -mates you have, the more utility a single AH proc can provide. You're more likely to hit (or even surpass) that '360' marker as your team/league size increases; while a damage proc remains fixed in its benefit.

It is never safe to assume what may or may not be slotted by your -mates; better safe than sorry.

Being that its a low probability proc; multiples help (but not ensure) gap reduction in -res coverage (especially if other players are slotting it).

For solo play, maybe, for team/league play; the -res should take priority (IMO).

I rarely up the diff past +1; especially at/after 50 (I focus more on increasing mob size). So I'm assuming -2/-3 (unless we're (pets and I) level shifted) until I come across 54s?

Seems like a pain to remember that so I may just go with the SA proc in the upper tier pets as you suggest.

Not necessarily (outside the perception that there are already balance nightmares in the setup as is).

It would be no different that the Dev team implementing the Incarnate system or the Inventions system to the game.

Many of the sets are setup similarly (as others have pointed out) and systems can be applied in small groupings accordingly (ie. small 3 step combos that create bonus or effect for lower tier powers). Stances that modify any set's offensive/defensive modifiers (as opposed to just one set that allows something that an entire AT should be privy to).

I don't see the balance nightmare unless you're coding in for some grandiose effects that are beyond the scope of what I've suggested.


I'm to the point that I'm preferring retrofits to older sets with the new mechanics without having to go in and reconstruct each individually.

An active Inherent; if you will.

As I said in the OP; it does boil down to pets.

The OF proc is giving me the opportunity to create /Storm toons in situations where I normally wouldn't. So, I started going through the Controller sets (that's where my other two /Storms are) and took a peek at the Illusion pets (which are very nice).

I realized that I would probably have to pick a different secondary so that I could slot the OF proc into Phantasm instead (As an aside, I play /Storm for damage; not control); I could live with that because the pets were hardcore... but the pets weren't always there.

Now I'm planning the build for recharge and I'm realizing that I could skip all that mid-to-late game; expensive slotting hokey-pokey and have six perma pets by level 26.

So I figure there's gotta be something (outside of concept) that makes Illusion pets worth tens-to-hundreds of millions of Inf to get similar uptime found in normal MM pets. I realize that their invulnerability factors into it but is that it? Do they have tons more DPS as well?

And I know its not the personal attacks, Illusion only has two ST (with very little contribution form Containment) which are about half the DPS of MM ST personal attacks.

I have a Crab already... what I don't have is an Illusion Troller. I suppose what it boils down to is, really, is Illusion worth it if they couldn't be made perma?