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Originally Posted by Awesome_Clawsome

your reply is a troll post lol ;-)

I have two level 50 MMs and have never had a problem with either one of them...maybe its just that I don't expect them to be what they weren't intended to be.

I didnt make the sig, I found it...and I never realized MM wasn't on there until you pointed it out...my MMs are staying put, in my regular rotation ;-)

Originally Posted by RadDidIt

I have 165% global after Hasten.

By the way, Staff on Brutes is excellent. Really fun, decent damage, good utility. On Tanks its so bad I'm going to delete this toon. At 50. I've never done that before.

Originally Posted by MentalMaden

Remember that controllers and doms while there is some overlap, are different ATs therefore play differently.

Doms are control/damage a more offensive set, whereas the controller is control/buff-debuff a more defensive/support set. And just because that "terrible" word support is there it doesn't mean wimpy. On the contrary, controllers can be some of the nastiest toons in Coh/v. Since your teaming, I wouldn't worry too much about picking up damage powers (unless you do a fair share of soloing) and think about making your character a good balance of primary and secondary. Early game your more offensive AT'd friends will be able to dish out way more damage than you, but you will make them gods of damage while you make your enemies statues (or idiots shooting each other in plants case ). Eventually when you get into your epics you can start really thinking about damage and resists/defense as your build should be fairly well rounded by then. At that point you'll "get" what it is so many of us love about the AT.

Originally Posted by Mad Grim

The only problem I see with the port is the +health buff. It is static, not a percent, so it could wind up doubling your pets' health. Might need to be taken down a few notches. Pets with double health running around, as well as soft capped defense and ridiculous debuffs? No more force field, ever, unless you really hate the ice shields' looks.

Originally Posted by Chill_Out

I've been playing masterminds since the launch of com. If I just ran regular.instances and solo missions id be okay, but its terribly frustrating to run trials and task forces on top of the already existing pet behaviors. So much so that I have shelved my main mm characters. Even more frustrating is the lack of rrresponse by the devs to pet feedback since iss ue 19.

Originally Posted by Xiang Shao

I dont think it's a bug, I think thats just normal.

And Im fine with that.

Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei

IDK, what is going on but the pet AI on MM's, Trollers etc... is broken and needs to be addressed.

I suggest that we all get together and hit the next ustream sit through 55 minutes of banter and belching into the mic to get to the Q&A part, then BOMBARD them with when are you going to fix the pet AI?

How can they not know it is broken with these threads? How is it that is has not been acknowledged and worked on?

People of Pummit get some face time with these dudes and pin them down to something ffs, this is crazy.

Originally Posted by Little_Whorn

Alright, point taken. I'm still relatively new to contributing to these boards, so I still take most people here seriously. Hence, the effort But I get it. Moving on. Nothing to see here >.>

Originally Posted by Auroxis

If everyone does more DPS, having DPS specialists isn't as important.

Originally Posted by Auroxis

Empathy still has RA's for leagues, and while Fort and AB lose a bit of their shine, they're still awesome powers if used wisely.

As for incarnate slots themselves, Destiny hit all buffers pretty hard. However, damage dealers were hit just as hard by Lore, Interface, and Judgement.

Originally Posted by Thirty-Seven

On topic: these and the Demon noises are the first sounds that have ever bothered me enough to silence them.


An Archetype's what?

Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei

That would be which AT?

Originally Posted by detroitfrost

Thugs, one of the best debuffs in the game, Sonic Disruption goes well on the Bruiser since he is always in mele.

Originally Posted by MaestroMavius

The problem is Masterminds were balanced for years around the 'bug' both before the Dev's even realized the code was messed up and the whole time after up until GR.

So it isn't that they won't fix MM pet ai, it's that the can't.
As far as the Dev's are concerned, pet ai is WAI.

It would be far to costly to re-balance over 5 years of balance passes by totally removing the messed up ai and giving MM's the true control we were always meant to have. So they have no choice but to change the internal stance from "It's a bug we're dilegently working on" to "Here's how you do that properly."

I wasn't just blowing smoke or making stuff up in the other threads. I was one of the biggest supporters for 100% MM control years back. Until I used reasoning and logic to realize what happend, (When Demons were in Beta, everything became clear.) Suffice it to say, I had to man up and roll with it at that point.

The reason why I've been so adamant about pointing this out in all the recent threads about it, as I knew they were coming, isn't because I like that the pet ai is considered WAI, but rather because I want the community to be going at this the right way, to avoid wasted energy and creativity on our part.

If we can finally realize that the Dev's no longer consider this a problem needing to be fixed, we can start to mobilize options for reversing that stance first, then move on to solutions...

*Head desk* I hope someone gets this finally. Be my guest, PM any and all Red's you want asking for clarification that pet ai is bugged. It will never come. Pet ai is WAI...

Lets figure out how to change that viewpoint first please.

Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex

I would have the initial burst of damage be non-notify (they may know they've been hit, but they don't know where it came from), and only make the target/group aware of the strike several seconds after the initial shot. You would thus get a "free" attack on a difficult enemy before starting the fight, but still be able to open with something else.

PS I agree they should do more damage.

Originally Posted by Awesome_Clawsome

So sad that so many people, or so few (depending on how you look at it), want MMs to become OP.

First of all, MMs are original villains. There are no hero bosses...just heroes and superheroes...and since villains always lose in the end, they all need to have some type of weakness, lol.

Fixxing these so called problems they might as well make all stalkers' attacks AS's...all controllers' holds 10 secs...all scrappers' attacks critical 100%...etc.

A Mastermind is a boss, not a Master Controller (which would be sooo OP)...and NO boss gets everything they ask for from their employees/minions, lol.

BTW, it is just a game...have fun.