Thors_Mitersaw

*cough* clones! *cough*

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When are they gonna give mercs some loving?

link?

Eek. Yall are scaring me away from mercs... sad. I really can not stand how the other sets pets look (especially teh ridiculous looking and thematically ridiculous thugs) aside from zombies (and I am jsut not a zombie kinda fella)

They still dont appear to be performing the binoculars emote. The bind for the brodcast works fine though.

its like the pets will literally just SAY <em binoculars> in my text window

I want to shotu on broadcast level X mastermind LFT and then have my pets do the binoculars emote

/bind numpad1 "local Level $level Mastermind LFT"$$petsay_name Cadre <em binoculars>

Doesn't seem to be adding the binoculars emote when I do this. I can haz help? Also, any idea why my speech bubble defaults to the black and white when doing this?

Well me and he rolled a merc/traps each and leveled till we got special ops guys and I have to say Mercs is really fun. But I am not so sure I am crazy about the traps. The mortars range kind of sucks and it does not last very long at all. And I at more tan a few tiems wish i had something to heal my pets with. Granted I did not take triage beacon but yea...

Does Pain Domination eclipse traps or is it worth it to pursue traps? Like pain, traps does nto seem to have much damage mitigation either. Would me and my pets be more survivable and deadly with buffs and heals from /pain?

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My best advice regardless of your secondary is grab the -res procs and slot them on your pets. Granted they don't stack but you'll be able to keep the effect perma np.

Personal experience with my merc/pain, I skipped serum in favor of painbringer. I went with soul for PPP, the AoE Immb is extremely helpful.

Any questions on the mix, just ask

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As a returning player from 2 years ago, I have to say I have no idea what a "proc" is... haha. I also do not know what PPP is. Maybe I should, but either way I am terrible with acronyms and an old fogey trying to make a comeback. SO if you could enlighten me I would appreciate it...

Yea I was thinking of going for /pain. Too bad I wont have any use for the more corrupter friendly share pain.

I gotta say traps is sounding pretty cool to me but is the stationary aspect of them gonna prevent me from PvPing?

That is disappointing, serum looks like it has good resistance numbers in Mids. Should I just skip it if I go Mercs? It is also sort of a let down that Mercs have bad DPS, they are trained soldiers after all.

As soon as my brother gets his account woes settled we are planning on rolling masterminds and leveling them together. We have both pretty much decided to go with Mercs since we cant re-skin thugs to look like mobsters :P

Are Mercs a good set? Serum sounds like it would be a hoot. What secondaries would be the best compliment to two Mercs Masterminds? We would like to be able to do some pvp with our duo as well. Neither of us has done a lot of pvp but when we have, it was zone PvP. I am not sure whether that will temper the advice we receive or not, I would imagine so. I am unsure of just what secondaries lend themselves nicely to PvP for the mercs. Or which compliment mercs well in PvE.

We are mostly mastermind noobz

Traps seem interesting and varied. Seems pretty fitting of a bunch of 'natural' sorts like mercenaries. Are traps too stationary to use in pvp? Is detonator useful? I was thinking serum + pain domination's painbringer would equate to some seriously 'roid-raging commandos coupled with world of pain. Are all the heals and buffs in pain domination as useful to the pvp mastermind as some of the more debuff oriented sets? (I know that poison is supposed to be pretty good but honestly it doesn't really appeal to me much having a mercenary commander spitting bile all over the place)

Questions:

Are Mercs any good with dark? (no, I will not play thugs. I hate the way they look. GOD I wish I could select mobster skins for them on the character design screen...)

Is there a tutorial on how to do the whole mission creation architecture?

well I definitely think that travel powers REALLY made this game nearly impossible to balance. If pvp was done form teh start and not as an after thought... it probably would be a hell of a lot better.

will champions online have pvp?

this form is seriously fail. Why the [censored] cant we just enter the email associated with the account and get the information that way.

pretty sweet. Though i might have to go with Mercs myself... I can not stand how the thugs look. (now if I could dress them up as mobsters... that would be a different story)

have you used /traps in pvp?

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i solo'd every av every story arch gave me on the way to 50 as both a necro/dark and a thugs/traps and did it without io's.


some mm builds need io's. most do not. all you really need is some -regen, some defense or overwhelming amounts of healing and -tohit debuffs.

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so does that exclude pain dom?

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i dont consider pain or storm as viable as traps or dark. your debuffs cant be made perma, and just being able to heal alone isnt enough. you also need someway of increasing your pets survivability whether it's from massive amounts of -hit or -dmg or -recharge you can keep up permanently, or some form of shielding for the pets to keep them alive.

an ideal av solo situation is having to replace the minimum number of pets. the more end spent on replacing pets and rebuffing them is end not spent using your secondary to debuff the av or buff your pets.

of the two - the thugs/traps had the easiest time killing positron as a +2 av. of the two, the necro/dark had the easiest time dealing with biff and widdershins regen as +2 EB's. of course once i got io's in the thugs/traps and could make the -regen in poison trap permanent that was no longer the case.

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what about the buffs to your pets available to say mercs/pain? Like Painbringer and World of Pain? Could those buffs make up for the lack of DEbuffs?

yea he says they haven't sent him anything in email yet. nothing in his spam box either

Are you pretty much stuck being stationary with traps?

Is it really safe to use that PBAoE debuff though? Without any sort of enemy enemy debuff to ToHit, is it advisable to be in the thick of thigns like that?

It does not ask for the email address in the password retrieval form, only for the ncsoft username and then verification via birth date and imaged letters. But it only returns either an error or returns him to the original log in screen.

I didn't think about it begin a holiday though. Thanks for pointing that out.

My brother is having a hard time retrieving his password to his ncsoft account. He enters what he thinks was his username, submits the form, then enters his bday and the verification code, submits THAT form, and an error is returned saying:

"Error retrieving password information. Please try again later or contact Support. There was a problem resetting your password. You may need to contact Support."

He has contacted customer service but they have not responded in 3 days. What should he do? Please help.

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Since mids doesnt have PVP enhancements yet, I can't post a build from there, but here are screenies.

Buffs
Build
Build with patrons

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how do you afford all of those IOs?

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i solo'd every av every story arch gave me on the way to 50 as both a necro/dark and a thugs/traps and did it without io's.


some mm builds need io's. most do not. all you really need is some -regen, some defense or overwhelming amounts of healing and -tohit debuffs.

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so does that exclude pain dom?

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>.> No one has Covered this but Goldbrickers would be Overpowered in terms of Single Target Damage.

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I think he just means aesthetics.

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Robot Primary - Malta, 5th Column, Council
Mercenaries - 5th Column, Goldbricker, Sky Raiders
Thugs - Hellions, Skulls, Carnival of Shadows
Necromany - the group in Dark Astoria, zombie invasions
Ninjas - Circle of Thorns, Knives of Artemis, etc

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put the family/mobsters under thugs and I will love them forever.