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Originally Posted by 8-J

Serum won't help you farm, or make much of a difference in how fast you gain XP, but it's great if you like to do TF's like Imperious, where there's a super mighty AV fight waiting at the end for you and your team.

Most of the time you're using it so rarely that when you finally get into a situations where it would be handy, like where your team is about to wipe out, you end up forgetting to use it. That's my experience of it anyway.

Originally Posted by Patteroast

As someone who has tried all his primaries and secondaries on a Mercs/Poison Mastermind, I think Poison's Poison Trap is way more useless than Serum. Serum does a decent job at doing what it was designed to do... the problem is that it was designed to do something that doesn't matter much except in just a few situations. It'd definitely be more balanced if it either had a much lower recharge, longer duration, smaller crash, or a combination of all of those. But I think there are a good number of more broken powers in the game than it. And hell, my example of Poison Trap from Poison won't be all that valid anymore in I21, so there's still hope.

Originally Posted by The_Static_Man

What Premonitions said, that mana is called "Endurance" and It's Enhancements.

MMs are probably the most difficult class to play in the game due to the fact you have a miniature army of pets to keep in check. I would firstly recommend rolling a new toon that's not a Mastermind and perhaps a Stalker or a Brute and try working on them for a bit so you can get the gist of the game mechanics. Masterminds have a far steeper learning curve.


When slotting your pets, people typically go 3 slots for damage, 1 for accuracy, 1 for endurance and 1 for any seconday effects your pets might dish out such as Defense Debuff, Healing etc. For zombies probably healing, though that won't really take effect until you get your 2nd upgrade power at level 32.

Also you'll have a power called Stamina. 3 slot that for endurance modification, that will increase your endurance recovery.

Finally, once you get up to Single Origin enhancements if you slot any more than 3 of the same enhancement type in a particular power, the additional enhancements lose their effectiveness drastically. 3 Slots is the "sweet spot". Anymore than that and you'll only be gaining a very small benefit so it's far better to use the reaming slots for other types.

Oh and be sure to check out the guides section of the forums, there's a huge wealth of information there about the basics of the game.

Originally Posted by _Klaw_

Yes.
Gang war requires a successful hit. Hell on Earth doesn't. So there.






(I do like thugs though).

Originally Posted by LIinfinity

You can't go wrong with Thugs/.

And if you team with another Thugs/ MM your Enforcers' Leadership powers stack. Oh, and don't forget the madness that is known as 'Gang War'.

Originally Posted by Mid_Boss

Sonic, as it stands now, is going to be a pretty terrible MM secondary. Sonic is already limping way behind the other buff sets. I'll lay it out for you.

Sonic buffs have the same numbers as force fields. But resistance is only half as good as defense since 1 point of defense brings you a lot closer to the 45% soft cap (which means only 10% of damage reaches you) than 1 point of resistance who's soft cap is 75% and that's still 25% of damage getting through. AND it has a psi damage hole. So Ice and Force fields leave it in the dust already.

All other resistance sets have healing to make up for resistance being generally pretty crappy. Anyone who has rolled a Thermal MM know you need to heal your pets constantly to keep them on their feet. Sonic has no heals at all. Dispersion will allow you to give pets more resistance than Thermal can but it's still not going to make up for Thermal's heals.

Now let's look at the debuffs. Disruption Field is going to cost and unGodly amount of endurance for MMs to run and it left in the dust by the -res powers in thermal, ice, and weather who all have better -res and have -defense as well. Syphon means that sonic comes out on top for single target -res but still no -defense or any of those other debuffs ice and weather get with their rains. Not to mention you need a meleer to make Disruption work.

Let's forget Repulsion and Cage. Someone will argue that they know of a situation where these are useful. I prefer powers that are useful all the time, not just in one specific mission. So sonic is saddled with two completely skippable powers.

The only thing sonic has going for it is Liquefy. And if it were up as often as Freezing Rain, Earthquake, or Sleet is then I'd say it almost saves the set but Liquefy's recharge is FIVE TIMES that of those other powers.

No. The buffs and debuffs are rendered obsolete by other sets and its only crowd control has a ridiculous recharge on it. If they're going to port over Sonic then they really need to spend some time and do a LONG over due revamp of the set.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

The more I think about it, the more I think /Sonic is going to be pretty bad on MM. /sonic offers no healing and aid other has its limit.

With Mastermind's buff value, sonic shields' buff value is even less than Corruptor's. The only set that may work is with Demon or maybe Thug.


I rather get Cold Domination than /Sonic. I've tried /sonic on Corruptor and I almost deleted him at lvl 42. I am really not thrilled about a resistance-based set with weaker buff values and no aoe healing to back up. /Thermal makes sense but not /sonic.