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Exactly. Sometimes you have to train your melee friends, too. Put that spawn neatly into the corner enough times and even the dullest player figures out that's where the action is.

Tanks LOVE energy blast, believe it or not. Most tanks, at least until fully IO'ed out, do not have the insurmountable defenses most of us would like to think they have. Most tanker combinations still rely on a combination of mitigation sources, often with their own forms of active mitigation. Nothing is better for a tank/scrap, especially a WP/Invuln than a stack of bodies on the ground incapable of attacking.

The smoothest ride I ever had to 20 was on an Energy Blaster. No lie. Tanks and trollers are not quite up to snuff yet, and knockback comes in very handy as mitigation in those levels.

Communication is the problem with knockback, not the effect itself.

I can't put this nicely, but it needs to be said: You simply don't know how to play masterminds. If you're willing, however, the help is out there.

This first point is key: Your pets are summoned in bodyguard mode. Defensive Follow, Defensive Goto, and Defensive Stay are all bodyguard mode. You have to intentionally take them out of bodyguard by either changing them to an aggressive or passive stance, or by issuing them an attack command.

The benefit is 75% damage reduction with 6 pets. Any AT in this game would kill for that kind of constant protection.

You, without any pets, make a blaster look like a tank. Your pets and your ability to keep them alive through buffs/debuffs/heals is what takes you from the squishiest AT in the game to arguably the most resilient. This happens all while still doing very impressive damage.

What it does do is make incoming damage very miniscule. Instead of an attack doing enough damage to kill you or a single pet, it spreads it out amongst all of you, making it much easier to heal/regen back.

This is just playstyle issues here. You need to actively use that secondary to keep them alive, and your problem may be that your choice of secondary is not one that is compatible with your playstyle. The only things that really give masterminds trouble are things with a lot of AOEs, and even then we're normally talking autohit AOEs, like burn patches. The reason, of course, is that it is the only time that all of your pets can be taken out at once, thus threatening your ability to use bodyguard.

Aggressive has its place, regardless of what some think. There are simply times that the enemy isn't capable of threatening you, and therefore you can switch into aggressive. My storm masterminds are great examples as storm can lock enemies completely down to the point that they can't attack, and therefore can't initiate the aggro from bodyguard.

The better choice for you is to use a defensive attack command. The benefit is that when they are done attacking they will return to bodyguard. When you get 5 or 6 pets, the best course of action is often to keep the tier 1s on defensive follow and use attack with the tier 2 and 3 pets on key targets.

Sounds like someone that doesn't use the mouse. There are people that will not use any powers with a drop target for that reason. My suggestion to anyone is to put goto on a mouse button. This makes it point and click and extremely easy to use.

There are several sets that would get around some of these issues, if you simply couldn't use a power with a drop target. Something like a Mercs/Pain with provoke would work very well. No drop targets to my knowledge, the Mercs stay at range well, and provoke plus bodyguard plus Pain Domination makes the combination fairly resilient.

We're sappin yer xp.

How about you just take the powers (that already exist) to do what you want........

Correct. In Gravity, it is the holds that have -kb.

They're not all tier 9's either........depending on AT.

That would require work on the part of those making the suggestion, which is why 99.9999% of the suggestions are summarily ignored.

I wonder sometimes how many devs these people think we have working on this game. We get about a dozen threads per day from someone whining about something, but providing no work to justify anything. It is as if they just whine at the devs and they will do all of the work (apparently in their infinite amount of time as villain hating demi-gods).

It doesn't work that way. Even amongst things the various devs want to implement, time to get certain projects done between the various teams is tough to get. You need to really do all of the legwork to even get an idea considered because time is sparse. You do not make "simple solutions" and then ask folks to prove that sets are indeed balanced correctly........particularly when you have no idea yourself what that term even means!

Going into such a thread whining about things that are unilateral across ATs (such as stun magnitude) is just going to get you ignored and/or laughed at. If you want a suggestion taken seriously, you can't have such errors in your work.

And the tough guy attitudes.....LOLworthy.

A tier 9 defensive toggle......otherwise known as "god modes".

You'd need a really big quiver........

Just do a search in this board for 'ranged defense'. These kinds of threads come up A LOT, and there are several builds posted that you'll want to look at.

Why are you people struggling with this. NONE OF THIS is relevant in terms of disorient mags.

None.

Of.

It.

It's simple: Single Target is generally mag 3, AOE is generally mag 2. Nothing else matters when it comes to the mag of the power. The power could do no damage, minor damage, or extreme damage. It could have secondary effects or no secondary effects. Sets are not balanced by the reasons posts like this keep reciting, so stop doing it!

The reason some of us are hard on the OP is they didn't do their research into the suggestion. Backing them up by being as ignorant as them is not helping, and only gets the storm redirected to you.

Sorry, I meant your powersets.

One Endredux in your attacks usually settles most of your end drain issues. Attacks take far more endurance than your toggles ever do. I like to frankenslot blasters about your level (or just a bit higher).


As to Saturday, I should. Saturdays and Mondays just haven't been good to me lately.

If I cared about rep, you'd be the first to get some from me!

Why stop at Doms? We made this case above. Snipes just don't fit in the game.

That's irrelevant. You're not doing your homework, because if you did you'd see all of the mag 3 stun powers out there, and notice a dearth of mag 4 stun powers. You'd also have the least bit of a clue how powersets are balanced.

I'll just tell you, since we're 40 posts in and you still REFUSE TO DO ANY WORK IN YOUR OWN SUGGESTIONS thread.

We might as well rename it the "Vitality was too lazy to actually make a real suggestion thread".

Single Target Stun Powers that are mag 3:

Taser
Stun
Beanbag
Stunning Arrow
Screech
Scramble Thoughts

It's pretty simple, had you done any work at all for this thread: Single Target stuns are generally Mag 3, AOE stuns are generally Mag 2.

No I'm not. I'm comparing it to every ST stun power in the game. That's why Total Focus was nerfed. Tier (in regards to balance) is irrelevant in this game. Total Focus was "nerfed" to mag 3 because that's what mag stuns are in this game. It shouldn't have been mag 4, just like Cobra Strike shouldn't.

You seriously need to do your homework before starting a suggestion thread.