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Although the /time set is very nice and can be pretty strong with 3 people running it (thats 3x stacked defense and recharge bonus, along the friendly buff), i believe other sets will give a way greater benefit.

But for time, i would either pick necro or ninja. Both are very melee 'heavy', giving a better synergy between the melee-focus of /time. Necro and Ninja go pretty equal in strength, Necro got the upperhand in slotting (as extract essense can hold all the 3 unique IO's) while Ninja got the upperhand in damage (smoke bomb).

Survival Necro is the better choice, with their -tohit and selfheal combined with your heal/def/-tohit you pretty much floor the tohit from nearly any mob. Speed and efficienty Ninja got the slight upperhand, as zombies always 'delay' when they jump/fall and have a lesser setup on attacked then T1 ninja's.

On the bright side, just got an email from NCsoft, Aion 2nd aniversery with 10 days free gametime.. So thank you NCsoft, but NOT thank you Paragon Studio's.

I had screenshots, but just when i wanted to upload them, i noticed my screenshotui was set to 0. In a trial, they were shown as +2. I shall screenshot again and /bug it.

Where in the notes can i find the sumpremacy chance?

Aah no wonder it didnt go up there.

Im in a que now, so gonna check in a bit. I'm +2 incarnate, so my pets should be +4 zombies and +3 graveknights?

Gimpish, but that huge though.

True, you lack melee superpunches, you lack Build up, you lack a proper T8/9, but oh well, you get used to that.

/devices got a bitty of love, the Drone summon now is a 1sec non-interupt cast (alike the elec/ pet), but the defiance 2.0 from it is nerfed massive.

Timebomb is still kinda useless, tripmine only if u like to play with it.

Target drone gives a base defiance of 12.5% i believe, see it as a permanent powerboost.

But personaly, with a non-crash fast recharge T9, i would pick a set with BU.

Footstomp really needs the KB proc chance for 100% recharge, thats the baby of footstomp and strength of SS (versus other sets).

I never noticed the supremicy shift

My MM is +2 incarnate, but in Pocket D my graveknights still were 49+1.

Can you see the 'level shift' in their combat attributes?

I am in a love/hate relation with Mercs. I love the theme, the idea of controlling a mini-army, no undead or high-tech stuff, just some peeps that know how to shoot a gun, gives me a great link to my AR blaster.

And thats about how far my love goes for them, the rest of it.. i hate. Summontime, upgrade time, abilities, overal usage and 'flaws' in the set, ironicly i am playing a Merc/TA, along with procs the set has a huge -resist debuff but still they dont feel even close to the effectiveness i get with my other favorite, Necro/trap. My necro/trap i activly fight along, /trap aint that 'active' on playstyle, so i have the 2 attacks (single hit and selfheal) along with Soul Mastery. With my Merc/TA/Mace, i got sick and tired of the freaking redraw.

If only they would take some time, redesign some of the Merc aspecs (as said, Serum, overal usage of Seals and strength of Commando), i would love to play the set again. But the more and longer i play my other MM's, the less interesting it becomes to continue my Merc. Even a very matching secondairy doesnt make it better, the very same secondairy can also work perfectly on other sets, perhaps even better (/storm on bots for example).

Not untill they pickup and fix up the set like they recently did with EA, i'm not looking back at my Merc MM anymore. Though its sad, i really like the set as theme, but the other sets are just way better then Mercs now ever can be.

I though mace and axe are equal now on powers? Not same order but each have a cone, piercing cone, mini aoe and few st powers. Damage wise it do feels mace is on the upperhand.

Initialy i thought 'phantoms' would fit my Necro MM lovely, untill i got them and found out they are actualy the PA mobs from ill trollers.

So i moved on to the battle drones, the buff bot is pretty useless (bitty heal - only you, not your pets and a 5% defense bubble) but their range is very impressive.

I take Lore pets that either suits me (drones on a /trap MM) or are not 'in my way' (as the bulky Longbow or Rularuu). My Granite tank got the whisp-lookalike-pets, small decent and they give a nice -defense debuff.

I only wish they had more 'theme' wise pets, such as Malta for my AR blaster, DE for my Granite tank or undead-alike mobs for my Necro.

If you run with them to melee, it is a very very strong set. The clickies and toggles making it a very defense/-tohit/-recharge strong set, slowed mobs are good for melee-happy-ninja's. The hold is usefull for the scary hitters.