First of all - please forgive me for not using 10 arcane acronyms per sentence. I abhore the netspeak.
I am now running a second char. My first one is 20+lvl Mercenary Mastermind. I am now running an 11lvl Radiation/Thermal corruptor. And the biggest problem I've found is... well, managing the Masterminds
Allow me to explain:
From my experience I see the Masterminds as the closest thing to a tank that the villains have. Their pets are not nearly as tough as a Brute, but there's a lot of them, they can be respawned and nobody really cares if they go down. This being said if they DO go down and the Mastermind cannot respawn them quickly, bad things happen. The Mastermind is quite squishy and if he gets the aggro from the baddies that ate his pets, he will go from green to red in seconds. His basic instinct by then is to run like hell, bump into another mob and die. More than once I've found myself in the situation when a Mastermind has done a runner, died somewhere and the team was severely weakened with me trying desperately to balance the heals and damage output (if a team, and that does not happen rarely, consists of Masterminds and me I have the biggest capacity for powerful single shots). I am now considering getting into the teleport pool, just to prevent the Masterminds from sprinting away and dying in some dark corner when they pets buy it.
But my main problem with this archetype is the huge endurance drain it puts on me. If I am in a team with 3 Masterminds I have to keep about 9-12 friendlies shielded and healed. I've found you get more value for money keeping the pets health stable than caring for their masters - they usualy have sense enough to stay away from aggro, but go absolutely nuts if their pets go down. So this means dealing out something like 18-24 shields and still having endurance for healing and support fire. Has anyone run into such scenarios? How do you deal with the endurance problems?
