Ishaila

Originally Posted by Silverado

Performance always comes first for me, but I'm not just some heartless minmaxer who doesn't care about concept, quite the contrary actually.

When I make a toon I pick powersets first, and then based on the powersets I create a concept that explains his origins. Take for instance my Defender, an ordinary cricket that one day jumped into a discarded radioactive powersuit wasting away in a pond in Crey's Folly, which mutated him into a (semi) intelligent superhero. His powersets? Rad/Sonic of course

Originally Posted by The_Larker

Regen for brutes
Ice Armor for brutes
Broadsword for brutes
Illusion for dom's

Don't care about heroes...so w/e

Originally Posted by Katten

You guys, are awesome.

!

Thanks for the answers and the sweet build advice .

I seriously thought I'd be waiting longer, but it seems there are more trappers lurking about than I'd previously imagined.

Originally Posted by Bloodspeaker

Heh, pre-I16, my default operation on any of my (7 on Justice, alone) MMs was to crank the difficulty up a notch every 10th level, i.e. +1 at 10, +2 at 20, etc.

Now I have more flexibility to do things like solo BNY missions at x8 and start at -1, upping the diff on each pass, til I get killed.

Every player is going to vary in their play style, but MMs are (more so than many ATs) not for everyone. They need a very different mindset, have their own finesse, PARTICULARLY on teams. But, as stated before, if you're relying on an MM to heal your butt, you should have PUG'd with a Corr. MMs that have an ounce of sense are debuffing your opponents, buffing you (if that's an option), tying up annoying ambushes (i.e. "distractions"), harassing the LTs around the EB/AV *you're* fighting (i.e. "other distractions"), throwing their disposable minions in harm's way, and healing THEM so they keep the heat off of YOU.

Originally Posted by Katten

I'm looking for high recharge traps builds.

Also, two questions.

1.) What is the recharge cap
2.) Do acid mortars stack

(knowing 1 will give me the answers to the main questions about how much triage overlap I can get and how many acid mortars can be out).

Originally Posted by Debt_Magnet

What kinda build would be most viable for farming now since the /psy nerf?

Originally Posted by Zamuel

Yeah, Dimension Shift allows you to point and laugh at the enemies' alpha, you just can't kill with it. Don't get me wrong, DS needs some tweaking but I think some of its hate isn't warranted.

Originally Posted by Microcosm

Aw lame.

But they fixed that for fire imps, which spawn at 49 I think, right?

Originally Posted by Silas

I've tried so hard to like the heal bubble because it looks cool but I just can't. Even trying to justify it as constant animation-time-free healing to help with my resists I can't.

It just ticks too slowly and heals for too little. IMO it either needs to heal for more or tick more often. 83 hp a tick on an AT that has just under 1.1k base hp at 50 is like pissing into an ocean, let alone for other ATs.

If I need to top myself and/or others health bars off, I'll use Nullify Pain. A constant influx of healing is nice if you're constantly taking 83 points of damage or less but that never happens. I'd rather have the MM version with +regen. Sadly the only reason I'd take the pain bubble is for aesthetics or a set mule.

Also sadly too late! I am no longer leet. But maybe people can see my postcount and know that I once was, for the duration of a single post

Originally Posted by Gypsy_of_Paradox

Yep my faith in the pbase drops everytime I read a post like this. I've strongly believed for years that players should build their toons to be able to solo.

Masterminds are support toons yes, but they're meant to support their pets not teammates.

"waa waa waaa, i died cuz the h3al3rs teh suxxor"

Ever stop to look at why your toon was dying?

Originally Posted by Nameless_Hero

Yea, those were fun.


Sadly I'd say that the RP'ers have all broken off into their factions, each one with their own version of cannon, all sharing the same space.


Don't know what happened to be honest. The D used to be the place you'd go for RP across groups... now it just seems to be the place for Cape shows and *shudders* ERP cyber.



As for me, I've been more of an impulse RP'er. I do my best on the fly, but I suck at trying to write stories down or plot out events. Every plot needs people to go along with their story, and I never had a problem with that. I just have no idea how to tell my stories.

It's a real shame too, since I have ideas that would be wonderful in the AE.

Damn communication problems. Took me three edits to clean up this post, and it's not even that detailed.

Originally Posted by Galactoman

Those are ultra-slick, Commander.

Originally Posted by beyeajus74018

Roll a mastermind! You won't need ateam, you will be a team

Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill

/second, third, fourthing Ice Slick, hop in with AA and whatever followup you like. (Being ice/psi, one of my next moves tends to be Drain Psyche to get buffed up while they're flopping around, barring KD-resistant mobs.)



Dimension Shift! >.> What?

Originally Posted by Microcosm

You get a lot more damage from your Assault bot, and the proc has a chance of firing for every enemy hit, I believe, so the increased AoE's of the Assault bot make it much better there. Now, if it were thugs, you would want it in the tier 1 pet because the arsonist functions much like the Assault bot and the other minions would get the chance to proc too.

Originally Posted by Silas

I've actually decided to reroll my son/pain into a fire/pain. Fire makes much better use of the various dmg buffs pain gives you, plus is just delicious damage

Sonic is an incredible effective blast set, its just, y'know, a little boring imo. I don't have that problem with Fire.

Now I just need Painbringer to be as good as Adrenaline Boost and the heal bubble to be replaced with something worth a damn and I will be a very happy Silas.

Originally Posted by Nights_Dawn

Yes this GM is very annoying with his running. A brute with taunt helps, but another option is to stack slows.

I was recently on a team of 3 corruptors that fought him. We had 2 darks, and one traps. He ran constantly, hopping onto and off of buildings, and going all over the place. We could've taken him with just the three of us if he'd stood still, but not only was chasing him cutting into our dps, but he kept running away from the traps debuffs.

Fortunately, we managed to recruit 2 or 3 more corruptors, including a trick arrow user. Once we got glue arrow, and stacked other slows like web grenade with it he dropped in a few seconds. He was still running, but not going anywhere.

Originally Posted by Finduilas

From the top:

The fifth LotG slot in Frozen Armor is unnecessary; drop the Eng/Rchg.

The Kinetic Combat sets need additional damage as well as accuracy. Any Acc/Dam from another set will do as a fifth slot, or a Acc/Dam/End or Acc/Dam/Rchg if you prefer.

Obliteration is a poor choice for a typed defense set like Ice Armor; some of the IOs are very expensive, the set has very little end reduction, and you don't get much defense for all those slots. You're currently waaay overslotted for S/L def, so as others have mentioned, the PBAoEs should be slotted with Eradication instead. I'd go with 3 or 4 Eradication, plus the Scirocco's Dervish Dam/End and Acc/Dam/End for additional end reduction and the regen bonus from the Scirocco's.

Hoarfrost is underslotted, especially for Heal. I recommend 5 slots of Doctored Wounds instead, everything but the Heal/End/Rchg.

Icicles is underslotted for end reduction. Instead of the purples, I'd frankentslot it with a mix of Multi Strike and Scirocco's. (I'd also take it much later, it's a huge end hog before Stamina.)

Health and Stamina are both underslotted and need an additional slot if possible.

Energy Absorption needs to be slotted for end mod, defense, and especially recharge. Add a couple more slots from Perf Shifter; heavy on the recharge. It absolutely does not need accuracy.

Hibernate's recharge cannot be enhanced. Drop it down to one slot and slot it with Heal or End Mod.

Tough doesn't need anywhere near that amount of end reduction; replace the End/Rchg with the Resistance IO.

Your power order is okay, though I'd move Icicles until after Stamina and put Thunderstrike in its place. But most importantly, you want Lightning Rod ASAP! So take it at 38 and delay Tough/Weave so you have room for it.