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Nope. All petless masterminds are like boxbot: just terrible.

I'm of the opinion that for "duo" you want something like a Brute and a Corruptor work best. Scrapper and Controller or Defender might work just as well.

Obviously it depends to some degree what sets and combos you pick, but generally that's how I feel. I don't think you can really buf each other up enough if you just have two Cors or Defs to work with. The meatshield is important. Plus Brutes and Scrappers do excellent damage too.

I think /Invulnerability for Brutes or Scrappers is good. Plays most of the game on easy mode and not too hard to IO for the highest level game play. Has a strong taunt aura for more "easy mode" with a Corruptor.

Or you can pick a "controller-esque" set like /Dark Armor. Bit harder to play but still very viable, esp. with IOs.

Either go damage on the Brute, like SS/Invul or Fire/Invul, or go self-suffcient like Dark/Invul. Then pair the Corr to that. If you went Smashing Lethal damage, pick Rad as the secondary. If you went something more exotic, pick Dark or Fire for the primary and then /Dark Miasma for the secondary.

My ideas:

SS/Invul Brute, Dark/Rad Corr
Fire/Invul Brute, Dark/Dark Corr
Dark/Invul Brute, Fire/Dark Corr
Dark/Dark Brute, Fire/Thermal Corr (stack resistances)
Dark/Dark Brute, Ice/Thermal Corr (more control in Ice)

Something like that would bring a lot to a duo, and you could add anything at all to this and the power would just go up. Great for teaming too.

Definitely not By His Bootstraps, there's no crazed despot in that one. Never read the other.

Yeah, no. Way too annoying.

However, slowly killing off citizens would be an interesting way to make the event feel more like a "deadly apocalypse".

First one would get blasted with eldritch fire or some-such, run around waving his arms for a while, and then crumble to the ground. Then a couple seconds later another would experience the same fate.

You'd have all these burning corpses laying in the streets and lots less citizens. Those who do remain should be doing the "cautious walk" or "running screaming" or even just standing in place shaking. Way too much work for this year I'm sure but may be next year it could be added. Have to figure out a way to get corpses to stick around longer so that the event has a true "deadly apocalypse" feel to it.

Thanks!

What she means is you're playing a villain, not that you're breaking any actual laws.


And come-on, Golden Girl. Surely you can move one Hero over to Vigilante statuc just for occasions like this. I mean, those Villains might be redeemable, you could help them out with that.

This game is heavily instanced. Which means most of the time all the other players are inside a mission like you are, so you won't see any one until the zone population starts to go up by quite a lot.

Solution: get on those server channels. These are player made channels that everyone hops on just for the same reason you are having problems. Everyone's inside an instance, and it can be hard to find teams or other help.

I don't know what the channels are for Defiant, but I'm sure someone will pop up soon to tell you.

The advice you've got here is excellent, Hart's post just above mine is a very good list of tactics. And don't overlook rolling a Brute or Mastermind either, they're great for starting out.

However I like SwellGuy's #2 I quoted. The newspaper missions will net you a Jet Pack. This enables you to fly and it's a big boost for getting around. (You could also purchase a recipe and craft the Jet Pack, but this one is better.)

Also, any number of level 50's would like to have the badge that comes with the Jet Pack. (It's actually called a Mayhem Mission, and you get to rob a bank.) So while it can be a bit tricky to get, you can also get lots of help. To do this you'll need to join a server (global, not just in-zone like broadcast), which will make it easy to find folks. Let us know what server you're on and we'll help you out with what channel to join.

Plus, in the time it takes you to do the three newspaper missions and the Mayhem Mission, you'll likely hit level 8, pick up Crushing Field, and be much more capable in general to handle those pesky snakes.


So my plan would be:

1. Find your server channels and join them.

2. Hit Port Oaks and the broker (newspaper) missions.

3. When you get the "rob a bank" mission (happens after three newspaper missions), advertise on the server channel for anyone to join and get the badge.

4. Get the jet pack, get level 8, get Crushing Field.

5. Go back to Mercy and show those snakes who's boss.

Brutes need a Sarcasm primary.

It's All Hallows Eve.

Oh that's good. I never believed that OUR Nemesis would do something nice like fix time. But I never considered the Praetorian Nemesis. He'd almost certainly be a good guy, right?

OK, prediction: The Nemesis we visit in Ouro is from Praetoria. That screenshot you see is either A) A destroyed version of the Ouro in Praetoria that Praetorian Nemesis first started with, or B) A future version of Ouro which is under attack by various forces.

OK so far, couple of issues:


1. Please don't do this by default. The current behavior works well in many circumstances. Add a parameter to the GOTO command like "force" to invoke the new behavior. So a command needs to be like "petcom goto force aggressive" to get the immobilize behavior.


2. The devs will also have to add a counter to the Immobilize, something like a dispell. Right now the only way to do this is to buff status (mez) protection to override the mag of the immob. There might be a way to remove a given power or effect already in game, but I can't think of an example.


3. Each other command besides "goto force" is going to need this dispell, including the regular "goto". More work for the devs, unfortunately.


It's a good idea, but you can see how the workload increases once you start considering interactions with other parts of the game. I'd love to see smarter AI or other fixes, but I think the devs attention is mostly elsewhere right now. We can ask though; I'll support asking the devs.