Crysys

Honestly, I think the question is back to you....."Do you need more?"

Having played it for 50 levels, how comfy are you with your blue bar? Have you looked at other ways to max out END Recovery such as the IO uniques in Stamina and Health?

It also depends on whether or not you are going for the perfect DPS chain.

I take Hasten with almost all my toons, so Super Speed always seems to fit my playstyle best. Vertical movement travel powers are cheap/easy to get anymore. You can't really replicate SuperSpeed with a temp power.

Plus SS+Stealth IO gives me stealth as well, so I kill two birds with one stone.

Actually, it's not Team Teleport....just teleport self. The trick is to get the bots to open up from range, then close for melee after I've got everything debuffed. Team Teleport makes them go to melee too fast and then they use their lower damage attacks. My maxed defense keeps me safe and they close the distance quickly in case I TP out of bodyguard range.

My Bots/Time MM is now done with iTrials and here is where she sits:

-Softcapped DEF to EVERYTHING BUT PSI for PVE content
-Softcapped to S/L/E/NE for iTrial content
-Psi DEF is at 42% so pretty near softcap for PVE

My Bots are 55%+ DEF to everything but Psi (38% there)

The above was accomplished via several permas and IO bonuses:

-PermaHasten
-Perma ChronoShift
-Perma Powerboosted Farsight (that's +26.15% DEF to EVERYTHING right there thanks to Enzyme slotting in PB)
-Several bonuses from IO's
-The shield from Bots

Add to the above whatever other -ToHit bonus I am getting from Times Juncture and I'm either softcapped to everything or way past the softcap on everything for iTrials.

For Incarnates I went with:

-Alpha: Agility T4 (Didn't need any more defense but took it so I could get the +RCHG and +ENDRECOVERY)
-Destiny: Clarion T4 (Mezz protection was my only weakness, although I seldom got mezzed given I'm softcapped Defense to everything...Clarion now covers it)
-Interface: Reactive T4 (meshes well with Bot fire damage)
-Judgement: Ion T4 (once I've got the spawn locked down, this is handy)
-Lore: Warworks T4 (Moar damage)

Seriously, on +4/x8 I'm a one girl wrecking crew. Against anything, mezzers included. I'm a combat teleporter so I just TP into middle of spawn and let the bots open from range. If I happen to get mezzed, my Bots have pulled aggro by that time so I just stand there waiting for the mezz to wear off....and my IO slotting has provided some mess resistance to help the durations there. Seriously....I played this 1-50 and Mezzing wasn't ever a problem. On iTrials I've been the tank to pull Nightie and Siege and to tank the AV's. I've been last toon standing on UG trial and NTN trial more times than I can count, outlasting even the stoners. Yes, the streakbreaker means I get hit now and then but my self-heal (which is up again before it drops the trickle-heal) is there to cover me when that happens. I've not died in weeks of play.

I've posted my build elsewhere if you want it. I don't even know what my bonuses from iPowers are giving me now but my recharge is showing 185% before Agility bonus applied. My biggest issue leveling wasn't mezz but END management. I slotted all the unique +END IO's early and still had issues with it up until I got T4 Agility. I actually got to T3 Cardiac originally, but switched to Agility and discovered that the +ENDRECOVERY was better for me than the reduction in END cost from Cardiac.

This is easily the most powerful MM build I've ever made, way way WAY outperforming my Bots/FF and Bots/Traps build. I was just as safe on my Bots/Trap build (and the mez protection was a huge plus) but nowhere near as fast of a playstyle. Bots/Time is non-stop action. Seriously recommended.

Perma chrono is very possible. I had it down to 18 secs before I even got into incarnate powers. It doesn't take as much as you think considering Chrono itself is a +50% recharge buff.

On my Bots/Time, I have via IO sets (with only two purple sets):

iTrial softcapped S/L/E/NE @ 65% (Powerboosted Farsight + IO set bonuses + Maneuvers + CJ + Scorp Shield + Bot Bubble). Def is capped to everything in PVE but Psi for self and bots.
Global Recharge at 187% before invoking Ageless and Agility +RCHG buffs
I took Agility for Alpha...very happy with it.

I did TNP several times this weekend with my Bots/Time MM. I just went inside and put bots on passive when switching buildings. Worked fine.

I've found that you are likely better served running petless or only spawn your Tier 3 lone henchman until you achieve at least 50+1, but that won't take very long to accomplish. Even with the fix that went in a short time ago, your Tier 1 and 2 pets are roadkill.

Once you get your second level shift, your pets can take a fairly active role in the prisoner escape sequence and during all the outdoor segments of the LAM. AV battles are still problematic thanks to the idiot henchman trying to run into melee all the time.

You won't be worthless....but you won't feel like a VIP either. A$$hat team leads will still choose just about any other AT over an MM for an iTrial, but fortunately, A$$hat team leads aren't that prevalent because, well....they are A$$hats.

Hadn't even considered enhancement boosters...how do they work exactly? Can I apply them to IO's to make these go from 50 to say 53's?

I posted my pre-Incarnate build here. It still shows my older slotting for the Protector Bots...I've started experimenting since then.

With that build, Chrono Shift was down about 18 secs (Powerboosted Farsight was perma, however). But once I achieved T4 Spiritual and Ageless, it was perma as long as I remembered to invoke Ageless when available.

Looking at the newer Alphas, I wonder if I should go back and take Agility instead? I started down the Clarion path for the mezz protection but I really don't get mezzed all that often since my Defense is already so high and then I've got the big -TOHIT from Times Juncture on top of that.

I've been fiddling around with my build for my Bots/Time/Mace MM. I'm already T4'd out on all iPowers so really not much left to do with this toon.

However, I've never quite been satisfied with how I've slotted my Protector Bots. I've tried two different slotting approaches:

Slotting A: 3 Soulbound Allegiance + 2 Nucleolus HO's + 1 Membrane HO

This slotting nets me +ACC 90%, +DMG 106%, +DEF 20%, +ENDREDUX 33%, +RCHG 60% and +TOHIT 20%. I also get the set bonus of 16% regeneration and +24 HP.

Slotting B: 3 Nucleos HO's + 3 Membrane HO's

This slotting nets me +ACC, +DMG and +RCHG of 94% each and +DEF/+ToHIT of 56%.

Slotting C-Z: I can play around with derivatives of the above two to either get a smidge more defense buffing from the Protectors, or pick up their damage a bit more.

I'm already perma Chrono Shift so END for the 'bots hasn't been an issue for awhile, and I'm capped to S/L for iTrials (65%) and well past softcapped for Def in all PVE content. Psi Defense is even healthy at around 31%. So I'm not needing that much more from the Protector bots bubbles myself, although my bots clearly benefit from it. On the other hand, I'm perma power-boosted Farsight also so the added +DEF isn't really needed.

Given their role, any suggestions on slotting? Money's not an issue...can and will spend whatever to maximize them out. Set bonuses are always nice, but since I'm not getting hit and have a really good self-heal, don't really need the additional regen bonus.

Thanks for your thoughts.

I enjoyed my DP/Rad also. If you are going to pick DP, it's a good pairing, as is Traps.

For Doms, there are few things in game more powerful than a well built Plant/Fire/Fire. Jaw-dropping powerful.

Beam will do better damage overall, thanks to disintegrate and scourge. And DP, while flashy, really just boils down to a weaker DPS.

I can't wait for female henchies. Puts women in their rightful place serving my bidding.

I'm still looking for a good Fire farm arc. I've not found any yet that eliminated the rezzers and pushing past the max ambushes.

I PL'd a toon from 1-50 in about 9 hours last Saturday, which wasn't as fast as before but still not a big chore. I miss level pacting more than anything as I could PL two toons at once.

The "best" fire farms now include half-naked witches with large boobies. Everyone knows this.

I made two builds with my Robot/Time MM. One had Provoke and the other I just ran my debuff aura and took TP self.

I find I hold far more aggro by turning on my debuff aura after TP-self into the center of the spawn, and what aggro I don't hold, my 'bots grab pretty quickly.

With Provoke, even with TP Self, I just wasn't near as effective.

This may be more a comment on /Time than anything else.

Its hard to beat Beam/Traps if you want a "Space Marine" or Predator type of theme. I'd suggest skipping Triage Beacon in favor of the Medicine pool, however.

Taking Burnout will get you double Gang War, a pretty cool party trick.