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Like several here I tried it on a Necro Poison MM. My mind set was to solo 4/8 with this toon that people found impossible. I worked and reworked the build. I even started looking over the pet combat logs to see what the soul extraction pet was doing for each pet to see the differences.

End result I seen it was a waste of my time trying to do the impossible or nearly impossible, at least not without Incarnates and Barrier.

Now I am just looking to record the different Soul Extraction pets powers so I can post them up for others since I didn't see any other place that has this info for players.

Thanks all for the info.

@Roderick I didn't think of those. I did them long ago and forgot about them. My mind is shot sometimes. I get what your saying but it will take a few rereads to have the process sink in.

But without naming the person until I get the Okay. Someone read this thread and offered me one. I was a bit prideful at first but common sense sunk in and told me this person could have just not wasted their time sending me a P.M. and just pretended they never read the thread.

I want to thank them publicly, but I won't without their okay. They should get the praise and public adulation's they deserve.

Long story short.

Between work and bad luck I just wasn't able to do the summer event enough times to score one of those Procs. I tried to see if I could convert one but no such luck. End result even though I market a bit. I just am not that big of a marketer to be able to afford that IO. I might be able to buy one for the price they are going for But then I would be broke. Many of my builds are a mix of converters and Hero/villain merits along with sales of some higher end IOs. I just can't stomach myself to blow my whole bank account for 1 IO when the reality is I probably need 2 or 3 across all my builds.

So anyone have any insight if these IOs will be coming around again ?

It allows you to touch your toes in RL.

I know what he said The image clearly says "TACTICS"

Here are some issues and questions.

1. I have no clue what if anything these pets offer you. As an example Protector bot offers you a Defense bubble, Thugs give you defenses via leadership, Demons resistances. I have no clue what if anything Beast does. I am assuming its all about the dps with them.

2. Force Field. I have no way of saying this beyond it just sucks. Its boring as heck. The only and only reason I have a Robot FF is first I had no clue how boring it was and secondly when I sort of decided to bring him out of retirement was because at that time you could Base Raid and I was part of a VG that would have weekly base raids. The bubbles where big for defense and offense because of the Force Bubble. Not may players has anything to prevent me from pushing them back. So hiding around a corner I could literally close off a hallway. I also had Teleport foe which was used to TP enemy and then the Brute would beat the snot out of them along with my robots.

3. Just about every Force Field player is pretty much the same with Aid Self to heal the pets and Aid Other for themselves. Granted you don't have that but it is obvious your still learning how even IOs work and how to get the most out of set bonuses. What you will come to learn very fast eventually is you have nothing to heal your pets. So you will resort to Aid Other and Aid Self.

4. Defense wise you will be short of defense cap I think for both you and the pets or maybe you just might be capped out.

5. Endurance will always be an issue because of the toggles you will be running. So your pretty much Pigeon holed into Cardiac for the Alpha.

I would honestly hold off on this to see what i24 brings. Maybe Nature affinity if it comes to masterminds might be better or the new 5th powers in the power pools might give you something to look at as well.

But regardless of all of the above let me go over some mistakes your making.

Luck of the Gambler is being over slotted. At most use 3. +Recharge, Defense and Defense/Endurance or Defense/Recharge for non toggle powers.

Fortify pack seems very much over slotted. You have the Numina Proc in that so it only goes off when you use that power. If you put in health it will have a chance to go off every 6 second.

Honestly I don't even know if you need that much recharge for Force Field. probably hasten and 2 LOTG + recharge might just do the work. I think you will be slotting Gift of the Ancients more then LOTG for the endurance bonuses anyways.

You want the endurance you recover to be at a minimum of 2 points higher then the endurance you use. So if your using 2 points of endurance you best be recovering 4. You could recover less but you would some sort of other endurance recover power like Power Sink to get back endurance. Unfortunately you don't have access to those powers as a mastermind.

Going back to set bonuses again. Tactics should be slotted with 6 slots of Gaussian for the plus 2 to all defenses if anything.

When using IOs you should be working towards something. That something can be defense, recharge, recovery, regeneration or mix of of one or two. Right now you don't have much going on that standard SOs wouldn't do.

Since your going Force Field the logical step would be to try to cap out some of your defenses. So that is where you probably should be working towards with set bonuses.

But in the end I would steer away from Force Field and maybe go towards dark or time or even traps, though I get theme wise beast traps can be tough concept.

I would look at Device.

The IO sets bonuses will allow you to set up for Range cap Hover blasting fairly easy. Caltrops will be good for keeping mobs away from your area even though your hovering.

Again because of the IO set bonuses this offers you some decent numbers.

Don't take Detonator.

There are TONS of other powers you can use. Trust me when I tell you I didn't even use it on my DS Traps Semi Petless mastermind and that was the whole theme of having the demon blow up for me. The damage was so minimal that the temp hand grenade does more damage then that power. You would think purposely blowing up a Henchmen should be doing double the DPS of Time bomb or something but it isn't.

OHHH, NM

I thought this was gonna be another female pet thread..

I suggest you look up Linea Alba build that soloed ITF as it might give you some insight as well.

If you accidentally drink some, you can call 1-800-POISON

Enhancement boosters.

I have a range, Force Feedback and a damage proc in it.

The range does seem sort of short for me and the recharge seems a bit long.

@Mid_Boss

So you know your 10 points short of defense cap for yourself. Though the pets are capped.