Necrotech_Master

i would highly support this idea

although the temps you receive for 1 time things arent too good to begin with (i mean if your 50 the debt protection temp from mayhem is gonna do you nothing)

however you could still get the temp powers out of the side mishs that grant the temp powers (weapon deals for safeguards for example)

if your intent is also to slow an enemy into submission then a good thing to go with that would possibly be mace pool

but honestly, most poeple are gonna resist that a lot (elec and sr can both get huge resists to slow), and i dont know if they count under mezzes so i dont know if they would be hugely suppressed

if you can manage to stack on a lot of slows then you should be fine (if you went traps you would be forced to take a slowing and -fly power)

if you were gonna try making a mm for pvp, i would probably not use a melee focused pet (because most poeple are scaredy cats and run around at the first sign they are losing), bots are prolly the most effective primary for pvp

a large majority of brutes usually are meant to be built like tanks

the most scrapper-like set a brute has is prolly super reflexes

willpower, fire, and maybe dark armor are other possibilities that could be build like a scrapper if thats what your looking for

yeah, for primary i dont know of a powerset that equates to spines (spines is one of those very unique sets)

the purple pet set is decent (the chance for build up on the tier 2 pets is really nice for increasing DPS)

sovereign right set is uncommon/common lvl 50 pet set which most of the set bonuses add mez resist to you and has the 10% resist to pets (all but psi) if they are within supremacy range

edict of the master set is uncommon/common lower lvl set (dont remember it off my head), but the aura bonus is 5% to all defense

what you have for your build looks pretty good (although i very much disliked school of sharks when i tried it because you cant use it on flying enemies), poison trap for poison set is HORRIBLE compared to the poison trap for traps so you made a good choice with that

what you could also try to do is slot the pets with other sets that could help you, if your going for some resist, you could use slots on the genin to slot one of the kb sets that give both smash resist and kb protection

if you wanted some rech set bonus, you could slot your oni with basilisks gaze (4 of them) and a lockdown chance for +2 mag hold, then the oni and you could easily hold bosses (especially if you slotted the same thing in your paralytic poison) if you slotted in both the powers, you could have +15% rech (global) and can do up to a 10 mag hold (3 from your hold, 3 from oni hold, 2 from oni lockdown, and 2 from your lockdown), even without the lockdowns activating you can still do a mag 6 hold from both of you.


another possibility is using genin as some of an IO mule and slotting pet procs in them (the 3 mentioned above) and then fleshing it out a little, and putting the purple confuse proc in jounin (will make the blinding powder they use really effective) and then slotting them with a melee purple set (if you have the inf to afford it)


what you have is good for starting out though (like when your looking to upgrade to IOs)

to help me make my ninjas stronger, i got a lot of the pet procs (soverign right resist bonus, edict of the master defense bonus) and those will help, especially if you have other things like manuevers to stack with.

about vengeance, no you cant use it on a dead henchy (otherwise masterminds would be insanely overpowered even moreso than they already are lol)

noxious gas is actually better when used on a higher tier henchmen such as tier 3 pet, on a ninja mm i would use it on the tier 2 pet since oni is mostly ranged dmg

power boost affects most mez types and it affects defense like that of maneuvers

you can only rename mastermind pets, all other pets (ie phantasm, dark servant, ect) cant be renamed

i tried making a whole map with just gears in it maybe 1-2 months after AE came out (was messing around with it lol), its HARD to fight those things on a map with dark background cause you cant hardly see them lol

ninjas are similar to zombies in the fact they do better single target dmg vs AoE

i think the smoke flash works on any of your pets and gives them a crit that deals unresistable dmg (smoke flash is the unique power for ninjas like repair for robots or serum for mercs, ect)

with smoke flash and enough ninja mm's, you can actually kill RWZ practice dummies or if your solo you can kill civies in mayhem mishs (because smoke flash makes the ninja deal dmg that bypasses the targets resist)

the best way to solve that is to put the bosses you only want to spawn one time into their own enemy groups with the same name as the ones you normally have, but add maybe an extra space at the end so its still technically different

then in the normal enemy group just add in a different boss that can appear regularly

i dont really consider changing the order of the powers changing the powerset

what the OP was suggesting was a completely different list of powers than the current dark blast (nothing to do with the ordering, which again, is NOT creating a powerset with NEW powers in it)

if they changed the orders around, thats still the exact same power, just in a different slot on the list, again its background numbers (its not hard to change the order of sets, but it is A LOT more work to create brand spanking new powers)

i know they arent 100% identical, but if you look at power lists they are identical

super reflexes has the same power list on scrappers and brutes, but on brutes they changed the AOE defense toggle to have a taunt component on it, look it up in the game if you dont believe me

what im saying is the powersets have the same powers, yes the effects/numbers are tweaked to balance it for the AT its on, but i never said they were 100% identical in every way, shape, and form. its easier for them to tweak numbers/base stats of powers than to completely redo the whole thing animation and everything

it looks interesting, but why change dark blast if they could directly port it from either defenders or corruptors?

this is list i would rank (top is smallest)

• clockwork gears
• rikti monkeys
• redcaps
• fir bolg minions

after that almost every enemy uses the normal model (or larger) and this is not counting the flying enemies like northern lights, lanaruu, will o the wisp, ect