Psylenz

@Seebs, I often gift 10 or 20 million, and when they ask if I want it back, I tell them to pay it forward.

Wow, just wow. The presented snipe was on a blaster. I am thinking of two corruptors with some strong accuracy debuff such as: dark, storm, rad.

Now, now, we aren't French, no need to be international elitists.

If you can lost a power with (damage) an enhancement then the (musculature) alpha slotting will affect the enhancement of that powerset.

You can substitute (heal or stun) and (spiritual) or any other enhancement/alpha attribute.

Necro/Dark is a classic power pairing. I am not sure what trouble you are having, but necros are inherently more squishy than demons.

I have a level 50 Demons/Thermal, and he is very durable. The thermal shields stack nicely with the ember demons aura, and the thermal heals mesh well with the Demon summoning heals.

I started a Demon Summoning/Sonic resonance mastermind for thematic reasons with the new issue. I am pleasantly surprised how durable and effective the pairing is with the lower level PvE content. I find it more durable than my Bots/Time Manipulation -- so far at level 27.

I would agree with the previous posters. I would add that putting Grant Invisibility in your Kinetic build so you can speed boost an ally after granting invisibility, especially for squishies. The added invisibility has a nice defense boost, AND your speedy friend can stealth quickly to mission objectives barring the +perception foes if you like.

I should add also that my level 50 demon summoning MM is Demons/thermal. I use forge, and living hellfire to boost tohit and damage, along with assault and tactics. Most masterminds I try to fit in tactics just for the extra confusion resistance.

Slotting 2 Centrioles is decried as an exploit, but there is no argument that slotting centrioles for the damage and endurance reduction for maximized damage benefit would not be desirable. The damage resistance effect is an oversight on the developer's part.

My feelings is that although there are unintended consequences, no one in leveling to 50 in 8 hours. No one is defeating the Hamidon from Max altitude with packs of freezing rain users.

I gave up on my first peacebringer, but my second seemed much better

My TA/sonic defender seemed like a good concept, but it peels off sooooo much aggro and dies quickly, never made it to level 30.

My Bots/TA is love/hate. I HATE investing so heavily in Repair and the Medicine pool. On, the other hand, it does tankermind better than some )

I think both sets offer a lot. I am not sure for min/max that beam rifle is the best complement to time manipulation, but they are both good. Endurance usage is a big concern for time. Fortunately the most emphasized debuffs are unenhanceable.

Off-topic, I wonder how many players we have from South America. I like that this game has international appeal. Tengo primos en Paraguay. Siquiere, pueda preguntarme en espanol, pero no se portugues.

The new "Lost" story arc is very buggy and unenjoyable.

1. The contact pops up on the screen, but no contact is listed in active or inactive.

2. The arc is highly biased against masterminds because all level capped ATs get up to +5 levels to the mission cap, as in all other contect. The problem is masterminds have powers to level 24, BUT they do not get their second tier 2 pet. Level 20-25 is hell enough for masterminds.

3. The pumicites ambush in the middle of the second mission. My mastermind was ambushed by 9 pumicites. Fair enough, I use return to battle and run clear back to the door of the mission to resummon. I am followed by the ambush. Terrific, death 2 in 2 minutes. The ambush returns to a position out of sight, so I use the rez from the safeguard bank mission. AGAIN, the same pumicites ambush my mastermind while he is summoning pets.

I don't need to do the debt shuttle on a level 20 mission that is supposed to be an enjoyable arc. Maybe this is still the Statesman formula, where if everyone is a Tank, Scrapper or Brute, we wouldn't have this kind of trouble.

4. I quit the task force, and my character is subject to the repeating, looping theme music of the failed task force even after I zone -- insult upon injury.

This is a big mechanic: temporal selection as I read it then is +heal rather than merely +regeneration. Masterminds should definitley use temporal selection healing pets: necros, protector bots, ember demons et al or other healing teammates. For minions or teammates with heal auras this will leverage a great deal more healing.

My .02 influence, I have bought into sonic resonance since the beta for that issue. I find sonic cage to have far more utility when soloing. I agree that finding a way to proliferate applying the sonic disruption field to the defender WHILE SOLO would be good.

I rolled up a Demon/Sonic to witness the effects of having a willing sonic debuff anchor always available. Wow, talk about endurance usage! Even with inherent stamina, my toggles are crashing all the time.

The -resistance of disruption field is mobile and constant. If it's on a sympathetic ally or a melee pet, it's very effective to keep on a running/mobile hard target. In my opinion, less endurance cost or bigger debuff would be appreciated. Seeing the interplay with time juncture, a modest -damage debuff augmenting the anchor's -resistance would be an interesting improvement.

Perhaps I am not comprehending what appears to be happening. I noticed when my time manipulation controller teammate uses temporal selection on my character, it results in my character's temporal mending ticks to be buffed higher. Or, am I completely hosed and just seeing someone else's numbers.

Sometimes it appears to be ISP instability, other times, it appears on the Paragon server side where I lost connection. I am in the same rocket board.

Distortion field AoE -recharge? YES, please!

Sonic buffs on top of bots defense sounds good, but you will be micromanaging the pet with sonic dispersion to stay in range. Bots kb tends to push things back, and if you manage it, then it will work out, but you still have to wait to get in debuff range. This also spreads out your pets from under sonic dispersion.

Admittedly, the Task Force was started with a difficulty setting too high. We slogged our way through the last mission. However, when we got to the dark clones of our team, we knew we were beaten when the Beam Rifle clone of our teammates used the tier 9 nukes against our level 16 team.

I have been playing lowbie levels with a Bots/Time manip. Smashing damage/burst damage will overpower heal over time. The other limiting factor besides mezz is: player limitation on maintaining the click buffs and masterminding I know there could be worse complaints.