Mr_Frost

I gave up on Bendis after Decimation, cancled my saves at my local comic shop and have been happily reading Secret Six ever since. I've got no idea who is even buying the Avengers anymore....well except for Kasoh obviously.

I don't have a level 50 character yet but this makes sense to me. I hate the idea of not having the option to 6 slot a power, however with Incarnate content just around the corner I think it would be better wait and see at this point. For all we know 50 is just going to be another slot level after the new endgame content and advancement arrives.

Lots of people have made petless MM's. Basically they play like rather weak corruptors or defenders.

Aside from the challenge there isn't much point to doing it.

Just a small complaint/suggestion but a lot of my friends have this fairly common habit of making a TON of new characters, particularly after a change and sometimes it can be a pain to link up and invite them all on a work heavy week where we might all be playing limitedly or at different times or just want to run through a task force and not wait around logging on and off with various charcters.

It would be very nice if we could just E-mail people an invitation to join a SG rather then having to wait till they are online with a particular character to send an invite.

Radiation Emission for Master Minds

In all reality another part of the problem it Batman would very likely vary his gear much, much more then is shown in the comics.

For example he would likely have many different belts stashed in the Bat-whatever he was using that day to get around with the tools he felt he would most likely need for a given situation since he has a very limited amount of space to work with on that belt and tools are often mutually exclusive.

Rescue? Probably a bulkier belt with more tools to fight fires, medical supplies, rope lines etc.

Street fight? Probably a small one filled with easy to carry tools like plastic cuffs, a much smaller first aid kit, etc.

Powered Super villian battle? Probably again a bulkier belt, with weapons safely holstered to allow him to quickly draw them rather then dig through pouches for his weapons since he would likely be relying more on weapons then this his martial arts.

However just this small detail makes more work for artists and writers then drawing him with a generic yellow belt and simply having him claim to have changed the contents to what he needs rather then change the belt itself.

The same applies to the whole Batsuit. He would likely have many, many options for gloves, gauntlets, belts, capes, cowls, helmets, boots, armor etc.

Plus it has been shown to have some pretty unreal features like small computer control compartmets of tear gas which deploy if anyone tries to remove it which, even if possible would be accidentally triggered anytime he bumped his head so under many authors there is just no good way to show draw a more accurate batsuit.

I'm not much interested in Clows or Pirates myself but otherwise that is an awseome list. ^_^

Clones in particular should have been on my list two but for some reason I forgot about them.

What are the top items you want to see for MMs in future issues?

For me I'd say:

1. Some form of pet customization with the idea being a total costume change.

Obviously this is the largest MM items for a lot of people and the leat likely to happen for multiple reasons. That said allowing people to select from a stock of character models as part of power customization doesn't seem unreasonable to me. For example maybe have a Yakuza thungs sets, the current thugs set, a Mafia style thugs set, etc. etc.

2. Radiation Emission Poliferated into a MM secondary.

Radiation Emission is probably my favorite buff/debuff set. I would love to play this set as an MM even if they had to replace or tone down the powers for MM. I'm really surprised we got evil Empathy before the poliferated this set over but I can understand why RE has stayed off the table.

3. Better MM controls, like the ability to select each pets general combat AI.

Ideally I'd like to get to the level of control you had of heroes in Guild Wars Night Fall where you could remove attacks you didn't want them using etc. etc. This way if say the medic is getting himself killed on your team you could set his AI to heal only and remove any attacks that were causing him to act supidly.

Same as any other power. Slot Syphon Power for reharge, get some sets which lower your recharge and pick up hasten.

I really think Time Bomb needs to be replaced. Yo already have poison trap which is basically a nerve gas bomb and trip mine which is another bomb. A third rather crappy bomb doesn't really seem to be doing that much.

I know the set is called "Traps" but I'd be just has happy if they renamed it Weapons of Mass Destruction or something and made trip mine and poison trap grenades as well as replaced time bomb with Gun Drone. I know Trip mine and poison trap are certainly better than Time Bomb but personally I still they are not very group friendly and just go against the general flow of game play. Even Tangent Beacon and acid mortar, which are by no means terrible powers, suffer a bit from being left behind just as often as not in fast the fast paced as well as more and more mobile game play, particularly in villian teams.

Hey all I finally, finally, finally got my 1 year vet reward and I must say it is amazing!

Sands of Mu just helps out so very, very, very much at the early levels even with redraw times for certain power sets due to the fact that I can debuff and damage several enemies at once which is really useful. I had been having trouble with a mission when I last loged on, after getting Sands I dominated it!

I wonder though does anyoen take the Axe over sands? I have a hard time seeing under what conditions that that moderate damage single target leath damage Ax would be more useful over the High damage negative energy cone of sands but I have to assume the Ax is just as good as sands otherwise why offer you a choice right?

Are there really enough ghosts in the game that this Ax really pays off or it is just a non-choice and sands is always better unless you want an Ax for concept reasons?

Perhaps you should suggest a smoke bomb alternate animation for that power.

Maybe but it is better then nothing and you'll probably get more slots with the incarnate content but we'll just have to wait and see about that.

Hmmm look good to me, you might want to start planning a post issue 19 build since you'll have three more powers which, depending on how you slot or don't slot them, could make a serious difference to your build giving you more room to pick up offensive power without hurting your soft caps. Perhaps you could drop Lazer Beam eyes then in favor of Physical Perfection. Just a though I haven't really looked to see how easy it would be to replace the bonuses from the sheild breaker set in Laser Beam eyes.

Also a huge advantage to mixing the three together in a layered defense is you'll be much harder to neutralize with Debuffs. If you rely on just one you'll always have certain enemy types who can just destroy you at will because they strip away your defense effortlessly.

Also I know this isn't want you asked at all but if you really want to get complicated control & debuffs are also powerful defense tools. If you lower the enemies damage or keep them from attack all together they can't very well kill you both of which brutes can get a little of with certain sets like Kenetic Melee.

Well thanks. I forgot about Bruising, for some reason I thought it was a defense debuff not a resistance debuff.

Thanks again! Looks like my scrappers and brusiers will just have to do without.

Question: Are their any powers for melee ATs that debuff enemy resistance outside of the Ancillary/Patron powers?

As near as I can tell there are not but I thought I would ask those who know the game better then I.