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The simple trick, make a keybind to (for example) numpad 7/8/9 to change the 'mode' of all your pets into passive/defensive/aggressive.

The moment you click the place for them to drop, start wacking numpad7, they will pop into passive straight away. This way they will never draw any agro as long they are out of range of the mobs (just like yourself actualy :P)

Works like a charm for me.

I have 2 active accounts (and 2 computers) and often i run both a character from 1 account on each computer to lvl a bit easier (blaster with my granite tanker, PB with scrapper etc).

Now i wonder, what best /xx corrupter i should pick to boost my /regen stalker abit? I first thought termal, decent resist, healing and that acc/dmg buff (yet bit short). Then again, sonic has higher resist stats plus later on a aoe resist bubble extra, making total resist quite high.
Finaly i thought Ice, going defence instead of resist making my stalker harder to hit thus more time to regen.

Any ideas?

Ice primairy has some gain from boost range too. Frost breath cone increase quite alot, you can pop Blizzard quit far away from you and bitter ice blast gets a normal power range.

reporting with a kheldian (PB)

oh and a fire tanker who desperate need some help lvl'ing.

By far my most annoying point.. the healing of the protector bots. They serious dont know WHEN to heal my other bots, just randomly they seem to heal them (or not). No mather what 'mode' i put them into, they just refuse service. I noticed they hardly heal eachother, quite weird.

Second place, Assault bot flame trower, slow animation, wrong direction. Though without the lvl6 upgrade they wont use it

And offcourse, the happy cave-missions. They keep trying to run around, instead of just face the fact that cant move any further because there are 4 bots infront of them.

It would have been cool actualy, like those little (forgot name) stone thingies Bedrock spawns when he dies.

Worse to see, that CoV actualy has the same stupid 'looks', i realy would have hoped it was differently.

lol i wanna see that BU->TF/ET on a elec brute. From CoH they have high energy resistance, dont think they will go down that easily

Then i realy got the feeling i'm doing something wrong with my fire tanker

I will stick to my stoney tanker then

Either i go play on 1 of my 12 alts (altaholic..) or just log out and continue on the other games i play. Since i dont have realy buffing powers, kinda useless to wander around and help people.

Is there actualy a even worse mob then a Quantum PP? I only once met this PP, luckely with my granite outfit. Just kept taunting him untill that stupid MoG was over.

I'll await the day that there will be a quantum AV or Eliteboss (hence a nemesis would be fun already) will arive in the missions

Currently running a 31 fire tanker, have to agree acrobatics is close to be a base part of a fire build. Then again imho stoney's are nearly forced to get more attackpowers in their build once hasten runs out. The recharge is close to infinitive (erm.. spelling?), chance of loosing agro becomes quite bigger.

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Prot Bots, work better in this configuration than with a mixed up build with heals, def buffs etc. Tactics gives them enough accuracy with one ACC. The end rdx is for their own heal power, without it they often become drained quicker than the battle is over. With this build they can do well, the disorient duration is for their seeker drones (2nd upgrade power).


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Is there a big difference in the healing-time of the prot-bots if you keep them in defensive mode? Quite a few times my bots are just standing around while my assaultbot is going into red-zone.
For now i slotted my prot-bots with 1xDmg/1xDmg/3xDef/1xHeal to get a bit more defence in their bubbles.

Blazing aura and taunt are way too late if you want to be a aggro-manager. Put 1 slot extra in BA, add a endrdx to it since it has a high end-usage.
See if you can drop 1 power and get buildup, specialy before TF/ET your damage output aint realy big (burn you need a aoe imm/hold/patch).
I added a bunch more endrdx on powers/heal, even with stamina i tend to run out of endurance eventualy. Consume helps alot, but against freaks (quite common) it can be pretty hard to deal with. Specialy cause i dont see hasten in your build.

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is it worth slotting personal force field?

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Just slot 1 recharge or a end-red in it.. The base stats are already topnotch, though i tried to see if a lvl51 AV was able to hit me with PFF/FoN/TI on.. But since you are running on kinda cap resist/def all, not much

My previous build was Force epic based too, but having SJ/CJ/acro as trvel, having imm/hold/KB resist you can perform extremely well with FoN/TI. The moment your health drops, pop PFF (maybe an extra purple) and most of the times you can heal easily yourself with the medicine pool. Using powerboost you even increase the healing (most people dont know that )

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You are totaly free to play your character however you wont (scranker, blapper, defaster anyone?)

[/ QUOTE ]Never heard of defaster, I know fair few offenders though

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Opposit of a offender :P (offensive defender vs defensive blaster), i like the word defaster more since it sounds more like 'disaster'

So a blaster is a tank according to you? i use frostbreath they all start hitting my blaster instead of the team.. Cool, i can say i'm a tanker!! Oh wait.. Controller can do aoe immobilize and let all the mobs hit him instead of the team.. a tanker!!!

The 2nd line i just consider 'not read', a pitty you try it like that way..

Besides that, how do u actualy know how i play.. by merely the fact i dont let my pets be used as cannon fodder? Luckely most people are not that short-simple-minded as you are, so i have parties each time i play.

If a team ever starts whining about the fact i dont send em in as tanker, i just leave the team simple. I play this game to enjoy, definiatly not to be told 'how i should play'. Since its a personal choice how to play, there is not basic of the MM, neither there is a guideline.

Adn i realy think you should re-check the definition of tanking.. cause pets cannot tank.

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I have no Peacebringer or Warshade as yet, but I know of the Voids and Quantams and the hate that comes with them.

I haven't heard of the others that you've just mentioned though, anyone mind telling me what they are and what they do that makes them such a threat? I'd like to know before I go up to them to say hello.

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Dwarf = tanker-form of the kheldian.
nova = squisy-form of the kheldian.
but this time its on the side of the guys you have to arrest. They have the same powers as the kheldian ones, not that hard to take down.

That crystal thing is darkcolored standing thing, that once you get close it spawns a huge ammount of floating blobs. By the huge gangbang this group can do, often such crystal results in a complete team-wipe.
The few times i encounter it, i went solo into it with my granite tanker, a good succes Blaster's nova/blizzard is also very effective.

It is very depending on playstyle (RP related optional). Most people seem to think MM's can summon pets nonstop, but all our summon powers have quite long recharge, specialy if you dont have hasten. Add the fact they are pretty end-consuming, pre-respec i had serious problems being able to summon new pets due lack of end and summon-recharge. Since nobody was healing, i had to keep people alive with my poison heal power, even with 2end-red it still takes bites out of my end.

MM's are passive-attacking and active-support. Specialy the FF, dark and poison are extremely helpfull to the team. The more time you need helping out your team, the less you are waiting for a new respawn of your pet-army.

Once i been kicked out of a team, because 'i didnt summon my pets fast enough' and 'i wasnt healing the brute'. No, then i rather solo missions. It seems the only people actualy liking the MM's imho are the stalkers. I keep them healed, buffed and take most agro away from them so they can do AS's alot.

I do alot of the heists, am a bot/poison too

The trick is quite easy.. use obstacles. Once you get into the main room with the vault, let your bots clear the room and shoot the door untill about 10% left. Move your bots to the main entrance of the room while you go click the glowy.

Once you see guards come running in the long corridor, go stand behind the wall next to the broken vault-door. This way they need to run all the way up to you, before they can attack you. Your bots will start attack a few they see, help them a bit with forced attack to those who they didnt attack yet. They will overtake the agro and then you can run up to them to support em.

If 1 can slip trough, get your hold power ready and keep the guy hold untill your bots can help out again

So once again, use walls/obstacles to 'hide' from their 'line of sight'. This way they have to run to you, time enough for your bots to arrest em.

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Sorry, but you are completly wrong there. The design of CoV intends for MM pets to be used as tanks. Brutes are intended as boss killers (the Scrapper role in CoH) NOT TANKS.

If someone says "PETS IN FIRST" they are simply playing the game as it was designed to be played. It the reluctance to commit pets (and if nessasary sacrifice them) that makes me prefer not to team with MMs.

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If so, can you state EXACTLY in a document/help that MM are designed that way? You are totaly free to play your character however you wont (scranker, blapper, defaster anyone?), imho kinda wrong correcting people that play their own style. Besides that.. a pet cannot 'tank', they die nearly instant when they get hit. So you are already wrong in the line that they are supposed to play as 'tanks'.

Where is the good old 'pull one' tactics?

Even getting the shield good slotted (fire got s/l+fire res, ice s/l def) it wont realy change your squishie-ness. I took the epic that suits my character most, but ice in that case is 1 of the worse epic sets. Elec powers i dont like, when they 'miss' it still shows a 'hit' animation.
So it became force, specialy FoN with TI gives you cap s/l (for blaster) and pretty good resist vs the rest, also very good end-regen. Since i was already used to timed powers (rage), you can use it very often. PFF is damn good after popping your lvl32 power, quick Cab and turn it on.

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spam me sin, or ill spam you!

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I managed to do 3 bars yesterday, tonight i try getting a few more.. 32 is getting so close now Then still have to do mika, encore, sinergy XS.. Oh well, i wont be out of CoX that fast yet

I think its not realy the fact IF you want to let your pets die for the team, its more the way how your team 'orders' you to do so. Thats the thing the TS seems to have probs with.

Some teams i send my pets in first, nonstop healing my assault bot who also got some nice corrupter (or is it dominator?) buffs. Straight after the first shot, brute already running in together with a stalker going for AS. In those teams, yes i will 'sacrifice' my pets for the good of the team. Specialy if they give you some purples to make 1 pet survive a complete aplha attack, even better

But in a team where they all wait and hang around untill all my pets are dead (no single support) and the mobs decide to hit the MM, no.. i let my pets sit around or just send in 1 little pet.

Even though my pets are replacable fast (hasten), i still feel kinda sad when 1 of my pets is going down.

i already had quite a few missions without any void at all. Or maybe i was lucky and went straight for the mission-targets and skipped the void