Dechs Kaison

Honestly, I do play something else. I've really only played "active debuff" AT's, so I don't have to refresh shields and such. I have played a kin/ defender, but SB isn't like FF in that people don't die when SB wears off. I'm just tired of the buffing AT's "forgetting" or just being too lazy to keep the shields up. Also, it gets difficult to rebuff during longer AV fights or raids where the team can get spread out.

That's exactly why I said they should last until you zone. You don't need to re-buff mid fight.

This does become a problem when people die, because they will need to be rebuffed after rezzed. Masterminds already deal with this, because if one pet dies you have to resummon and then re-equip/upgrade one pet at the cost of 6. It sucks, but we still do it, and I feel it is a worthwhile tradeoff.

This.

Well, obviously because you're too exhausted to reach into your bag-o-tricks and pull out a handful...?

Don't worry, nothing moves trip mines. As I stated, they basically made all immobile traps 100% immune to teleport effects.

The ONLY thing that can be TP'd is the already mobile FFG.

YES!

My bots/traps could take over France for practice, then move onward and upward to a better defended third world country.

Unfortunately, it can't "save" your back slot item when it changes to the backpack. It will replace it with the backpack in every sense of the word, no getting it back.

The best they could do is "You forgot to change costumes before changing your build, so you lost your cape/wings. Now you need to go to the tailor to fix it."

Damn! How awesome would a PB FFG be? Two minutes of 30% defense...

But really, I have a question then: If my caltrops are slotted for knockdown, would it be powerboosted to knockback? What about the chance for hold proc that can go into webnade, does that benefit from PB?

I'm with you on this. Where's the world domination story arc? How about a Crey or Malta takeover arc? When do I get the usurp Nemesis and command his army to true victory arc? Where's the [my character]'s Victory zone?

Ok, some of that is a bit outlandish, but I would like to do more than rob the bank for my broker.

Well, at 45, there's a chance you could still help even if the group didn't have SK room. At anything less, and you're more of a liability than anything. That could be why you see those broadcasts.

As long as there's SK room on the raid teams, I've seen 35's joining. It becomes a pain, though, trying to make sure you stay in range of your lackey/mentor. Especially for any pet classes (dom/troller/MM) where the pets can die because of the sk range.

But how would that affect your secondary and pool powers?

I am a kin/archery defender. I completely emptied my quiver, and now I can't use fulcrum shift.

I am an AR/pain dom corruptor. I emptied my magazine and can no longer heal my team with bullets?

I am an archery or assault rifle blaster. I'm out of ammunition, so now I can't fly or jump really far.

No, nothing ports with you.

I have a bots/traps MM with Teamport, and it leaves behind my acid mortars, triage beacons, trip mines, everything but the FFG.

First, in PvP, people don't go for your pets, they go for you. Kill the MM, the pets die.

TP foe doesn't do anything anymore. If it hits, they teleport to you phased. You can't do anything to them, and they get the chance to run away.

I have no experience with necro/ past level 24, but I do have a good feel for MM's in general.

From what I've seen, to take down an AV, you need a very specific build. You'll need challenge to keep the AV's attention on you. Stamina is a must since the battles will be so long. Hasten could also be a necessity because it lets you pump out more dark servants and drop more dark patches.

Tactics: Keep your pets out of AoE range of you. This puts them outside your heal, but as long as you keep the AV's attention, they shouldn't need it. Maybe move in to them for a heal every once in a while, but realize that you're going to endanger them to do that. Be sure to keep them in range of supremacy though, for bodyguard mode and damage bonus.

Slotting: Zombies are simple, acc/damage all the way. Easy to ED cap even without sets. Give the Grave Knight's an achilles heel proc. That -resist is incredible against AV's. After that, slot with acc/damage from different sets until you're at the ED cap and then fill what's left with tohit debuff. Your best defense will be stacking -tohit debuff. To that end, you'll want accuracy, damage, and tohit debuff in the lich, with priority to accuracy and tohit debuff. Don't worry about holds for him, since an AV is not going to be held. I would slot the dark servant for tohit debuff as well, along with capping the recharge and adequate accuracy.

Also, it'd be good to fit the unique +defense and +resist pet damage enhancements where you can. I'd suggest zombies, since they have the least "extras" to enhance. Also, throw the unique +defense and +resist recharge intensive pet enhancements into soul extraction.

That's all I got, hope it's accurate, and good luck!

It's silly because having an endurance crash after using your weapon is saying YOU expended all your energy to nuke.

I mean, that works for inferno, where the fire comes from you.

But this is a gun. An outside source. Somehow draining your energy.

I'm going to add to this. Granted, I am most experienced with bots/traps, so it may not be relevant.

I use Provoke to keep attention, and generally do ok, until the AoE's start dropping. I don't have to worry unless they're auto-hit patches. Longbow flamethrowers and Nemesis are particularly nasty in regards to this. Even the best tankerminds can faceplant if they're not being very specific with their pets.

What you need to do is use the goto command to keep pets out of AoE range when the enemies hit you, but they have to be close enough to be within supremacy for bodyguard mode. Stand too close to your pets, and they take two hits for every one, dying off quickly and leaving you to be shredded like you're the AT with the lowest hit points. Stand too far away, and you faceplant like you're the AT with the lowest hit points. Oh that's right, you are.

Luckily, Bots are ranged, so I don't have much trouble controlling them. With zombies, I imagine it's much more difficult to survive because they'll tend to run into melee, which will either be too close to you or too far away.

Meh, I'm not going to say you need Tough/Weave. -tohit is every bit as good as defense, except that some mobs (read AV's) resist it.

Don't get me wrong, those defense/resist IO's are wonderful when you're getting slammed with AoE's that hit your minions with damage and shared damage.

You share the 50 points.

Let's say you AND your henchmen have 50% resist to smashing. A smashing attack hits you for 160 points, your resistance brings it to 80 points. That 80 points is then shared amongst your henchmen.

You get two shares of damage, so 20 points. Your henchmen each get one share of damage, so 10 points. (Add it up, 20 + 6*10 = 80 from above, just to check) That 10 points that each henchman takes is irresistible.

Prot bots have seekers, but I'm not sure if it's worth enhancing their -tohit. +Defense is the most important thing I can get out of them. Anything else is icing.

I thought about aid other, I really did. Shorter recharge, could work on bonus pets (teammates), it seemed nice. In the end I decided that it was worth it to have a heal that works at range, now as opposed to after I get close enough and after the interrupt but now it's too late, the bot is dead. And now I'm thinking about hasten, which will be my fourth power pool, so no luck there.

Erm... you're not doing something right. With 6 pets, you have effective 75% damage resist. You should be able to survive just about any alpha.

Try starting off with darkest night to floor their -tohit.

EDIT TO INCLUDE: As far as the resist/defense IO's. They only work on your pets, they don't give defense and resistance to you. The pets cannot "dodge" shared bodyguard damage, and they do not resist it either.

THEY NEVER SAID IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE.

They said it would take way too much work for the small crew they had.

Hire a bunch of people and give them two years to work on it, and things change.

This is why I suggested greying out the pulse rifle powers for a few seconds. It simulates the overheat, but doesn't lock you out of other important powers and prevents the inspiration circumvent.

It would be a ***** to implement in the code though.

Oh.

Oh my.

I'm so doing this with my kin defender.