Baracca

i'm having fun with poison. weaken on one mob and envenom on another, combine with smoke flash and run in at once you can take down that first mob fast while the 2nd is doing less damage. envenom the next and repeat. the trick is to setup smoke flash first, send the pets right at the foot of the mob while casting envenom, then make them all attack that first target. follow that with Neurotoxic Breath to keep them clustered so the Oni can fire away

i cant wait for noxious gas.

here's what i do, and it takes a bit of micro managing

button4 (the side "thumb" button on the mouse) i set for all attack and i use shift+lbutton for goto aggressive like posted above

do you can pull them out, wait for their ranged attack to cycle, then make them attack again with range

it's a bit of clicking but it works really well

I hate bubbling so that kills FF and thermal for me. I don't understand why they don't make it last something like 30 min or just leave it 4 min and apply to everyone in the group with 1 cast

awesome thanks

dark IMO is the best MM secondary due to the area heal. being poison i feel silly pitching softballs to my ninja to heal them.

i would like to see some tweaks to the other MM secondary lines as well

yes. with all my pets and my friend's demons, hallways are busy enough without 6 chat bubbles filled with crap

I'm trying this but it's not working

/bind button4 "petcom_all Attack$$petcom_all aggressive$$petsay_all "

I figured that would have them attack, stay aggressive and say nothing.

any thoughts?

thanks

if the AI is smart enough to know my ninja stars are range and jump kick is in melee range then all you should have to do is fake out the pets into thinking you removed those abilities temporarily

more thoughts:

option to keep health/endurance bars over pets heads at all times
pet AI option: prefer melee/prefer range
pet AI when aggressive, all pets only attack one target not random (kill one mob, then move onto the next near mob - not 6 pets fight 6 different mobs)
faster run speed when out of combat so i dont have to wait for them once i'm ready to engage
pet AI option: don't chase or stay within 50 feet?

pet window: able to resize only this window and lock it on screen for better click targeting/monitoring. as of now you have to window scale all windows making the pet bars small. also, if you have the pet bar on the bottom of the screen, when pets die, the window moves up and down and does not stick to the bottom of the screen

/bind shift+lbutton "petcom_all Goto Passive"

/bind shift+lbutton "petcom_all Goto Aggressive"

/bind shift+lbutton "petcom_all Goto Defensive"

i like it simple - choose one

Ninjas

I wish they would automatically run into melee range and only use throwing stars when the mob tries to run. I wish they were a little less squishy. The Oni is hideous!

Also, I wish the Jounin were the first tier, samurai for the second, and instead of the Oni, we would get the Tsoo Sorcerer.

plant/fire or mind/energy dominators are pretty easy

for mastermind you could do demon/dark or thugs/dark or necro/dark - masterminds do have the challenge of pet commands but you wont have a problem leveling in preatoria that's for sure. and if you forget what buttons to hit or panic, the pets will defend you as long as they're not in passive mode. if you panic with another archetype, you just stand there.

with the next patch and free fitness it's going to be nice with hurdle and swift at no cost.

can Stealth IO's fit into swift since that's "always on" or is it better in sprint?

sorry for all the Q's but when i played this years ago there was no crafting. i dont think there was even DR then

it would be nice if the bind command system was more flexible.

one command:

target pet, heal, target previous would be nice

i guess ninja run + slotted sprint and slotted hurdle is good enough

i was just worried about not have a "real" travel power to run through tough mobs. with SJ or Fly you can avoid that mess

is the defense in stealth not worth it?

I'm trying to save as many slots as possible so...

I'm getting hasten and stealth anyway. Do I get super speed or invisibility for traveling? I'm sure the ninja run speed doesn't stack with SS but do I still get the jumping ability from it?

sounds good. is there anyway to always show their health bars over their head without mouse over or targeting? it would be nice to look at the fight instead of the bars lol

right now i'm using the default menu thing and it's so small. what tricks do you use to target your pets? (mostly for quick healing issues etc...)

thanks

how about poison? will the debuffs help? i'm new to the MM and i like it so far but dont wanna get weak after a few levels.

Thanks

do range enhancements increase the radius or just the range from where i can cast it?

thanks

i love my mind dom. i did group with a elec once and while the effects are cool, i think they would drive me nuts after a while

if it were my character i would agree. my friend is however, already complaining about motion sickness as he plays. I figure fly and hover are the slowest travel powers so...

i'll have to let him try my other character and see if he can stomach the SS

I like the idea. Sounds like batman focusing on crowd control. Bolas, netguns etc...