Master Zaprobo

Always room for more guides! Of course, there are as many ways to play with other AT's as there are powersets - both for the MM and the other AT's.

For instance, Stalkers may want to alpha-strike, or they may want to sneak between the cracks of the aggro your henchmen draw. Brutes may be happy with Mercs blasting at range, but irritated by Ninjas getting in the way of their aggro/attacks.

By all means, give it a blast though - different playstyles never stopped me from writing guides.

Well, now sitting in level range (L45) MZ can now make an appearance in the LRSF. Of course, whether you want a Robotics/Forcefield/Mace Mastermind is a completely different question.

Shivans can be acquired easily. Nukes, well I'd have to work out how to get them too I guess if needed.

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And on the pro-Repair side of things, I like it. I have 6-slotted Aid Other in my build but in a hectic fight you can find yourself out of range of your Assault Bot or Protectors and need to keep them on their feet.

Resummoning and issuing both upgrades takes the bot(s) out of the fight for that duration and when you need sustained DPS to overcome regen (Arachnoids, EB's, AV's) then it is very worth it.

The only drawback to it is the animation time, and you do sometimes find the bot falls over as you didn't react quick enough.

Otherwise, I have Repair three-slotted for recharge and love it. Also handy if an important bot gets end-drained.

I'll be up for this Close to getting the badge, so I might as well top them off to stop it annoying me! L45 MM

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Cheers people! Very smooth operation!

They hang around for a period of time, but will shortly expire (well, this is what happens when you go out of range of a Mentor/Boss anyway).

May be instant if you actually drop the partnership...

Right, I need the Frozen Fury badge and that means I need a gang of miscreants to give me a hand spawning the frozen fiend.

This little jaunt shall be done in the Nerva Archipelago at 2200hrs today and anyone who wants to lend me a hand is more than welcome! We'll need five people to stand a chance of spawning him anyway!

Anyone in?

The problem with single commands, is you can get henches to say something simultaneous with yourself but not after or before yourself.

So, look at chaining bindfiles maybe so at least you're only pressing one button repeatedly for the bind.

In PvE you need to protect your henchmen. In PvP you need to protect yourself. Choose accordingly - any secondary set is good but with thugs you're mainly doing Smash/Lethal damage so want a set with some res/def debuffs.

Traps is a good all-rounder but lacks healing, same as Trick Arrow. Dark is the ultimate all-rounder being able to do a bit of everything. Forcefields is a specialist set focussing on defense, as is Posion but focussing on debuffs.

Pick accordingly, and play to your strengths.

Without breaking the forum rules, I can't say that I'm suprised.

Pretty much - he summons Bane Spider Executioners Although, technically his powerset is "Lord Recluse" so I doubt we'd get all his attacks

Warhammer player here these days, playing a heavily modded "The Enemy Within" campaign. Moved to the system after our custom Ravenloft Campaign of some four years (one session each week, rain or shine) came to a close.

Stamina... for a Mastermind its something you need to respec into if you find you need it. But consider, you lose three other powers to gain it. Is it really that important to you?

If so, great! If not, then you can work without it.

I can run five toggles simultaneous and still heal/attack. I can run another toggle on top of that for the duration of a fight if needed. Without Stamina.

Of course, you want to spam something over and over that needs more slotting then yes - Stamina could be the way to go!

One of the very early missions in CoV (if done solo) has you with a small number (four or five I think) of Wolf Spiders. One of my very favourite early missions.

Also, throughout various points of the game you get Bane Spiders and other pets...

I'd love to see an Arachnos MM as an unlockable Epic Maybe keyed to a series of Arachnos-themed missions and badges...

And my suggested powerset?

Mace Blast (ST Attack)
Call Wolf Spiders (Wolf Spider upgrades to Wolf Spider TacOps which finally upgrades to Wolf Spider Huntsman)
Mace Burst (ST Attack, slightly stronger)
Equip Troop (Upgrade)
Mace Volley (Cone Attack)
Summon Mu Mystic (Mu Striker, upgrades to Mu Adept, upgrades to Mu Guardian)
Arbiter Intervention (Summons Arachnos Arbiters, Arbiter Drones and an Arbiter Drone Coordinator for a limited time [Gang War, with more power but less duration])
Call Bane Spider (Bane Spider Commando upgrades to Bane Spider Scout and then finally to a Bane Spider Executioner)
Boon of Arachnos (Upgrade)

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AFAIK that's Working As Intended (tm) in PvP.

And rightfully so, since activating Force Bubble effectively negated any chance that most melee toons (any tank or scrapper, outside of /inv and spines/*) had of causing you any damage.

My Katana scrapper, for example, would not have stood the slightest chance of being able to hit you. Neither would my Human/Dwarf form Peacebringer (unless he used Light Form for the repel protection). Meanwhile you could quite happily stack holds and setup containment on both of them (controller) or blast away to your heart's content (defender).

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Except, y'know, Epics which give all melee characters ranged attacks/holds. Counter already exists for it, without what is essentially a mechanics exploit.

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If your complaint is that pool powers now counter part of your control, consider that taking acrobatics negates all of the inherent control in several powersets.

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Not at all - Acrobatics gives hold protection. Super Speed is a plain run speed buff and does not include repel protection.

Unless there is specific Repel resistance on a power then it is not intended that you should be able to close to melee. Any other behaviour must therefore be a bug.

And Mesmer, I guess I wasn't playing in PvP zones at post-L38 at that point

Superspeed will also allow you to joust someone inside of Force Bubble - I speak from experience! I reckon thats a bug that needs fixing though - the ticks of repulsion are not fast enough to affect a superspeeder in time before they get into melee.

Force Bubble and Dispersion Bubble are the powers that makes my MM viable in mass PvP, giving me protection against melee and controlling types, allowing me to concentrate on ranged attackers.

Same as melee types can ignore controlling types as they have inherent shields against that sort of thing.

Still, it was a good showing

I'd be up for this merry little jaunt as well...

Confusing yes, but not a bug

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Not always - sometimes your teammates show up in the pet window, and pets show up as options . Not quite sure how that happened, but it's an interesting bug I've had happen a lot.

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Not a bug

The Pets option at the top of the team window loads or closes the Pet window. The Options option on the pet window changes to/from Advanced and Individual control modes.

They're not labels for the windows, they're buttons in their own right.

The only thing nuts about my bots in I8 so far is the increased speed...

Easy one is...

/macro goto "petcompow Grave agg goto"

Click on the macro button, then click on the location you want them to run to.

The fight was long and I am sure we will meet many more times on the battlefield heroes! Alas, other duties for Arachnos pulled me away prematurely but I am gratified to hear that villain prowess prevailed!

I shall have a few screenshots uploaded shortly. Many thanks for all who attended.

As an aside, would anyone be up for making this perhaps a monthly event? Last Sunday of the month being Recluses Victory Day?

Yep, the fight was long and I am sure we will meet many more times on the battlefield! Alas, other duties for Arachnos pulled me away prematurely but I am gratified to hear that villain prowess prevailed!

I shall have a few screenshots uploaded shortly Many thanks for all who attended.

As an aside, would anyone be up for making this perhaps a monthly event? Last Sunday of the month being Recluses Victory Day?

Yeah, hook me up - I need to bash a few more CoT for some badges, and I love a good team-up!

Will be one more for LK'ing the lower levels since I'll be at the level cap for this