Humility

Well, this character isn't one that I will really actively play. It's on a second premium account and the only reason I really want it is to do a little powerleveling on certain builds. Some builds are just painful at certain level ranges, or really need SO's to start to be functional. Frankly, I've played the lower levels so many times on so many ATs there are times I just want to get to the mid 20's and start having some fun. It's sort of a side project anyways, I started it yesterday and just brought it along for a couple characters running their tip missions to doorsit and got I think 22 or so. Basically, I'm not looking for something fun or fulfilling, just a tool to PL my fun characters up to the 20s when I feel the need.

Yeah, I understand why SS/FA is good. I know how rage works, including the crash. Footstomp is a fantastic AOE with great radius and good mitigation. Rage and fury combine to boost burn and the damage aura to crazy levels etc. I know how it works, I have both SS and FA characters. My main question was how effective it would be with single origin enhancements only, if it would be worth my time.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Thanks much, that was just what I was looking for, gives me a nice starting point!

You can pick each reward selection one time per 20 hours regardless of which arc you run. So sadly you cannot just run all the arcs for shots at the component choice on every arc. It seriously puts a throttle on actually filling out your incarnate abilities.

That's exactly why I was asking, I wasn't sure what qualified as a 'target' in this case. I was looking to get a lot of mileage out of this on my masterminds, but not really surprised it doesn't work that way.

On a similar note, I seem to remember reading something about the MM purple proc affecting all 3 tiers of pet when it does proc regardless of where the proc is slotted. Is that correct?

Now, I could be mistaken because I haven't tried this... I was told you cannot take items from storage in a coalition base. So you would be stuck e-mailing them to your global to move things right? It works... but with one item per e-mail and one e-mail per 15 seconds that SUCKS if you're trying to move a lot of stuff.

I really would love to be wrong on this, please tell me I'm wrong and you can place/remove items from coalition storage. Please?

Yep. Was kind of surprised by this.

I agree. The solo path should be slower. I don't have an issue with that. It's just that the gap is too wide right now. As you said, they'll be monitoring things and we'll see what they do. But expressing that opinion is one way to make sure they get some feedback.

I just wanted to quote this for agreement. Well said. The arcs were a lot of fun, I don't want anyone to think I'm saying otherwise. They were great and a pleasure to play/ The rewards however, were disheartening when looking at the amount of farming needed to get anything over T2. I think It's great I have an option to get T2, it expands my character and it's fantastic. I'm one of those people however who strives for the best I can be without regard to what other people are doing. I want my character to be better because it can be. Being artificially limited because the devs think I shouldn't get access because I don't have time/inclination to play with 7-23 other people is frustrating.

Your comparison doesn't really make much sense to me, but whatever. Doesn't matter why I can't run the trials, just that I cannot. As such I should be denied the ability to advance my character? The point I was trying to make is pretty simple. If you want to argue simply for the sake of arguing, I'm not terribly interested.

I agree with some of your points, the Mastermind I have been focusing on with DA has T2 Alpha, T2 Interface, T1 Judgement and T1 lore. I like having the variety of abilities and it has improved my play without question. One can certainly argue that soloist do not strictly *need* level shifts and T3/4 abilities.

The counter point however is that I pay $15 a month the same as everyone who runs iTrials. I am already not getting to see that content, should I further be denied the opportunity to continue advancing my favorite character in meaningful ways? Somehow the $15 a month all those trial players pay is more important than the $15 I pay? I understand it is my choice if I don't want to see that content, no worries. But being denied the opportunity for furthering character advancement is pretty hard to swallow.

I believe the timer is 20 hours PER arc on separate timers. But I agree, the content is good stuff.

Well, considering one of the most common complaints about the MM play experience is the unresponsive AI your experiences are the exception, not the norm. I'm not sure what might be different for you, but what I described is pretty much the same as I have seen described by virtually every other MM player I've talked to or read about on the boards. The pet commands are just in pretty bad shape, it's great that they work for you, but they don't for most other people, at least not in the way they should.


Perhaps you misread my post. I do not like FF, I abandoned it because it was boring and passive with a lack of active tools. I realize I didn't specify in my post, but I actually started the necro/time first and found necro to be not quite what I wanted so I started the thugs/time. I do really like the /time because the buffs tend to be fire and forget which allows me to play more actively on the control/debuffing side of the set and really push my blue bar hard by using those powers on cooldown to really press the fights hard. Dark has a great toolbox and I'm wanting to pair it with a different primary and give it another go. It's a very active set and I love that. Pain just doesn't appeal to me, it lacks the oomph for higher levels. The resists simply are not enough on their own to keep your pets standing and at higher levels incoming damage quickly outstripes the capabilities of healing. I think it looks like a cool set and I like the tools it provides, if I grouped with players more often I think I would get some great mileage out of it.

It wasn't intended to offend, and I'm sorry you took offense. I do however stand by my statement, if defensive/follow is the only command you use when you are playing masterminds, you are indeed underplaying the AT. I'm not saying this to insult you by any means but rather to point out that with fine control of specific pets/tiers of pets following different commands or operating from different placement (with the /goto command) you can do things that you would not otherwise be able to do with the AT. Basically all I said is that finer micromanagement of your resources allows for higher performance, I don't see how any gamer could really disagree with that. Sorry you took it as an attack, it wasn't intended that way. Feel free to report it to the mods for review as I believe my intent was pretty clear and not a personal attack, doubly so with this clarification.

EDIT: There ya go, I reported the thread for review so if the mods think something was out of line they will let us know.

The problem is... pets don't actually work that way. If a pet is chasing a runner and you hit defensive, it often takes them 3-5 seconds to actually turn around and come back to you, often bringing another group with them or dieing because they ran into the middle of a group. If the only command you ever use is follow, you're seriously underplaying your character.

As for editing commands, that's pretty useless for me since I use Sandolphins keypad binds on all my masterminds since it easily lets me issue specific commands to all pets or specific tiers, it's second nature at this point and I couldn't imagine trying to play without them.

I've got:
50 bots/traps
50 Thugs/time
41 Demons/Thermal
39 Necro/time
37 Thugs/FF (abandoned, FF is painfully boring)
32 Mercs/Dark (Abandoned, love dark but hate mercs)

Beautiful, perfect... thank you so much. I figured I was just missing something simple. Very much appreciated