The Grim Heaper

Even if it does- sort of misleading blueside due to the almost-always-present warwalls and their blue haze.

... Unless there's something on on the test/beta servers that I'm not aware of, in the costume/power editing screen the moon/sun icons only make the editor's background darker/lighter so that you can see some colours/shades that might otherwise blend in to the background and be difficult to see.

Really? I know they changed fly from needing a little over one slot to bring it in line with other travel powers, but i thought you still needed to put SOMETHING in there to hit the cap. But looking at the wiki, you're right. ... Looks like I get to slot more KB protection/slow resist in a few builds

And gameboy's right, I had kinda forgotten about the level reduction for mm pets when there's more than one of the critter for the first two pet powers. With That in mind I'd definately go with Nerve - helps your pets get a little more edge on that level penalty, and buffs the defensive powers.

Keep in mind this may not be the best choice for all Masterminds, but for the sets you have it would seem to provide the most synergy.

Generally speaking, Spiritual (recharge) and Cardiac (End Reduction) are often the most useful based on the primary boost; most builds are often rubbing up against the ED cap damage wise, and outside of debuffs/enemy buffs most builds are slotted in such a way that under normal circumstances chance to-hit is seldom under 95%.

That said, Bots/FF/Leviathan (generally speaking, without knowing the specifics of your build):

• CARDIAC
  • Primary; End reduction
    • Self explanatory, most things take end reduction. Summoning/equipping your bots will take less endurance. Your buffs and toggles require less endurance, as do your (few) attacks.
  • Secondary; Range/resist
    • not too useful, range is nice, and it helps School of Sharks (and teleport, if you have it). Unless you're running Tough or Shark Skin resist isn't helping you
  • Tertiary; Fear/sleep/intangibility
    • Not much in here for you unless you're dabbling in the Presence pool.
• MUSCULATURE
  • Primary; damage
    • As I said earlier, most builds already slot for ED cap in terms of damage, not that there's anything wrong with wanting a little extra oomph. I tend to shy away from musculature unless there's good synergy with something in the secondary/tertiary.
    • Does apply the enhancement value to your bots. something to consider
  • Secondary; Immobilize/Def-Debuff
    • Immobilize helps School of Sharks. Doesn't look like you benefit from debuff at all.
  • Tertiary; End Mod/Run/Tohit-Debuff
    • End mod could assist the Inerrant Stamina, if you have endurance issues it's something to consider (that said I don't know many masterminds that have endurance issues beyond setting up the pets)
    • Not sure how useful the run is in this era of inherent fitness/ninja run... If you like to move about quickly in missions, it could free up the slot in SS or Sprint for a stealth IO (or knockback protection in SS)
• NERVE
  • Primary; Accuracy
    • Bonus accuracy. Chances are you can hit 95% of the time anyway, but can be helpful in some situations.
  • Secondary; Hold/Defense
    • This is what makes Nerve tempting on a bots/ff mastermind. The defense. It will boost all your bubbles, maneuvers, and the bubbles your protector bots cast on you and your bots.
    • The leviathan hold will last longer
  • Tertiary; Taunt/confuse/fly
    • Taunt could be useful if you're into the presence pool.
    • If your MM gets around by flying, this could free up that slot for stealth or one of the universal travel IOs.
• SPIRITUAL
  • Primary; Recharge
    • Your two Shields recharge quicker, might mean a little less down time when reapplying shields to team mates/bots/both
    • What few attacks you have recharge quicker giving you a better attack chain (and lets you fire off your hold more often).
  • Secondary; Heal/Disorient
    • Outside of pool powers, you might not have much use for heal, but your protector bots take it, so presumably they'd heal your other bots for a greater percentage of health. I never see them use it in combat, personally - and after combat it's probably faster to dismiss and resummon seriously injured bots anyway. Oh, right - and health from inerrant fitness.
    • Protector bots and the assault bots take disorient, as does photon grenade (if you took it)
  • Tertiary; Slow/jump/tohit buff
    • Jump - again, depending on your travel power choice, if any, could free up a slot for special IOs.
    • Tohit buff might help if you took tactics

Personally, I'd go with nerve, and (if i was running it) consider dropping tactics for another power choice (or if it was playing host to important set bonuses/procs, keep both). Core, but might consider radial if I took flight and/or Presence.

Otherwise I'd go with a core spiritual

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If this EVER happens again, find someone on your team with taunt (even if it's the same WP tank/brute), and have them run and get a jetpack (if they don't already have some means of flight).

All they have to do then is put taunt on auto, and fly high enough that taunt can still reach Recluse. Worst case scenario - Recluse can still hit you with his ONE ranged attack. But it's on a long enough recharge that the a couple of greens or a single defender/controller/corruptor can heal you back up again. And it frees up the defender to not need to completely babysit the tank, and attack the pylons.

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*blink* nothing wrong with everything else in your post, but... no. The point behind Enhancement Diversification was to 'force' people to diversify their enhancement slotting - slot more than just Acc/dam/dam/dam/dam/dam in every attack power (or in some fringe cases like /devices blasters, slotting 6*dam, and have targeting drone pick up the slack).

I really don't think the ED in issue 6 was brought about by the inventions in issue 9.

There is... assuming the widow is over lvl 20 and you have going rogue.

You win several internets for this one

If TFs/SFs are your only requirement, any server will do if you get on the global channels. Heck, on Triumph last night while it was one of the lowest two servers in term of load, we had at least 2 STFs underway at any time, and there were still LGTFs, RenaultSFs and LRSFs being formed until after midnight (cst) when I logged off to get some sleep.

HD in this case would refer to your hard drive.

You haven't read through the "Rude Tells" thread, have you?

musculature, eh... well, how much do you need/want endmod? Conserve power doesn't seem to take it, but you'd get some use in unstopable and inherrant stamina. You seem to get no benefit out of tohit debuffs. Run speed, while nice, won't do too much beyond getting you from point 'A' to point 'B' a bit faster if you hoof it.

Unless you are desperate for a little more recovery from two powers, the extra 3 boosts in the musculature radial don't look that useful to a Inv/SS/EM tanker. Really, the only thing in musculature you would seem to benefit from, at all, is the damage boost. If you're already up against the ED cap, the T4core has 30% boost that ignores ED, while the T4radial has 22%.

So, is the loss of an ~8% damage enhancement worth some endmod and runspeed? *shrug*

No; in the crafting window, select a very rare, and scroll down. It's a limitation of the implementation of crafting in CoH. Each combination of rare alpha powers requires it's own recipe.

IE: the recipe for a radial paragon is not
[TC/PC/PR/TR] + [TC/PC/PR/TR] + [salvage cost]
it is
[PC] + [PR] + [salvage cost],
[TR] + [PR] + [salvage cost],
[TR] + [PC] + [salvage cost],
[TC] + [TR] + [salvage cost],
[TC] + [PR] + [salvage cost], and
[TC] + [PC] + [salvage cost].
6 seperate recipes that give the same thing.

(they must, of course, be from the same tree; you can't combine a rare musculature and a rare spiritual.)

Yeah, on a disk that old... any files that have not changed over the years are probably so small that it would just be faster to download them with everything else than waste the time reading the entire disk for them...

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