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Just use Mids and activate the Incarnate to see the difference. But the short answer is yes it does make a difference having Spiritual.

On any build where endurance is questionable I always compare Musculature to Cardiac to see if I can slide by with Musculature to get the 2 point difference for endurance ratio, otherwise I pick up cardiac and try to adjust my build accordingly.

When the game first came out the powers were pretty much paired up. So AR went with Device. AR Device did not have build up so they gave Target Drone that bonus for AR. It was poorly thought out and minimal updates have been done to Device since it first came out.

You can't for example get to make another VEAT costume after the first one. Example you wanted one without the cape and another with the the cape.

You need to play around with it click the buttons and pull up the different menus and see. That is how I learned. It won't break it.

I will give this word of advice regarding mids. Make completely and absolutely sure if your making a PvE character that the button on top is set to PvE and not PvP. Otherwise your defense and resistance numbers will be completely screwy. I did that once and what I thought was a defense cap toon was not in PvE because my button was set to PvP.

I will say I was impressed with a Time Defender that was holding the mobs and making much easier for us to kill the escapees on a 12 man BAF. Without him and a brute who was 1 shotting many of the mobs it would have been really, really rough or next to impossible.

I completely agree about the busy nature of it. I only played one to 20 and I just wasn't feeling it and I actually deleted it. I have toons in their teens I have on my account from 7 years ago, but this toon just didn't sit well with me and I was not happy at all with the endurance numbers I was seeing. I actually thought it was a math problem in MIDs.

But nonetheless, I really can see at times it has some interesting stuff that you can activate all at once that can put a Time player in wow that was amazing category. Sadly Robot Traps or Dark has been doing that for a long time.

I think in a team setting with all the other buffs it will make a good impression. But I don't think solo it will do what some other MM sets are doing if that is what your looking for. Mastermind are normally busy and require some work dealing with Pet AI and such. I'm just not in the mood of making myself ( yep I know I'm bringing out a personal issue here ) even more busier. I can play my DS Pain if I want to click a lot of powers.

I don't know, I seen the video and all I seen were the same 3 or 4 attacks over and over and over again. I was literally bored half way through. Maybe its changed since then.

On Mids when you have your build open. Look on top and where it says Import Export, click that. Choose Long forum export. A new window will open up. On the right where it says formatting code type, choose either Official Forums (vBulletin) or phpBB / Zetaboards. On the bottom where it says Data Chunk, check the box that says Export Data chunk as well as Data link. Then click Export now button on the bottom of that new screen. The build will now be on your clipboard. Come to the forums and right click and hit paste to paste the build into your posting.

As for not understanding whats good or not then I suggest you take the time to read the links in my signature. That is the reason why they are my signature. I was tired of linking that stuff all the time.

As for the what a huntsman build. You can click the link and read up or do a search for huntsman.

Again the SOA forums really do not revolve that much or at such a great rate that doing a search is really necessary. You just need to float back a few pages to get some ideas.

Also you need to decide how much your going to spend on a build. I've seen guys spend billions on a build with several purple sets and PvP IOs. Personally that's not my style and I feel I will forgo doing 50 DPS per second and save those billions for 2 or 3 other builds and toons I have ideas for.

Once again if you haven no clue then you need to log in and look at the prices of those IOs. I have seen players talk about making billion INF builds but not understanding that they cost that much or think that by the time they are 50 they can get that money without serious marketing work. Nutshell your talking at least 400 million for a decent build.

The simple first issue I see is Ranged VS Melee..

Demons is a mix of Range and Melee. Putting Melee pets in close proximity of a AV regardless of what you have is going to have issues. Simple example is the AV ( or EB ) guarding the warehouse and lab in the BAF Incarnate trial. Even with Barrier active on my pets they still get hits and take damage some times and they are capped out for defense and resistance at those times. So personally having Demons in close range of a AV is not good or not the best choice. Now you do have some healing components within time which seem very nice and might be of some help. The cool thing is they are not reactive like a healing power from an empath but they can be used and last for a sometime even when the pets are not damaged. Will this cover the pets I do not know.

Regarding Time...

I know with Traps you need to cast FFG every 4 minutes minimum. With Time you need to cast Farsight every 2 minutes. On a personal note I know I usually remember to cast FFG just after it explodes and I go oh crap. That is usually followed by a Poison Trap and then resummoning FFG. The difference is FFG is up every 10 seconds. To get Farsight up all the time you will need to get perma Hasten and then you need to remember to cast it every 2 minutes.

On top of all of this you need enough aggro to keep the mobs attention. On regular mobs you should be fine but holding EB and AV aggro might be another issue. I don't think you have the output to maintain that aggro and I don't honestly know if those debuffs like Time Juncture produce aggro or enough aggro with Taunt to keep a AV on you. I know Trip mine and Provoke are good enough to keep the attention of an AV.

I think as well with Time your more making sure all the bells and whistles are working instead of just getting into the fight with Traps. Meaning Time crawl active... Check, Temporal mending active... Check, Temporal selection active... Check.

Basically I feel with Time your more looking to protect yourself then fight. Which is why I think Traps does so well. Your laying down an item that is going to hurt a bad guy. Even Caltrops is very good at what it does.

Here is a Time build which is not range capped by 2%, but lets pretend it is. So your range capped and then when mobs move in they become aoe and melee capped via Time Juncture. But look at the cost of getting something like that. Granted its not the best build as it was tossed together to get some defense numbers. But you don't have that much leeway with the powers and sets. You could remove hell on earth for something else set bonus wise and maybe put Time stop 4 slotted with Basilisk gaze for the range defense bonus.

With all this babbling I basically do not think atm that Time can achieve what Traps can. I also do not think a Melee based pet is going to achieve what a Ranged pet like Robots can. But I am open to seeing someone who can tool Time better and point me in the right direction.

I don't know about that, you would have to do something to keep them alive. Once they are dead your doomed. They really are work especially with the broken AI since first implemented.

As for the OP question.

I am sort of thinking of what your saying along the lines of when I might also fall asleep at the computer when I have aggro. My most success of survivability has been a 6 slotted Health blaster ranged cap and hovering. Mobs are limited to range attacks and depending on how far away you are they might even be limited even to more longer attacks. Simple example crey fire farm. If you hover in the elevator banks towards the ceiling fire breath is limited.

Some sort of Blaster with EM secondary which again is a range cap hover blaster. With EM secondary you can also pick up Aid Self. So your really limiting yourself to Aim, Build Up and Boost range from EM.

Also a Arachnos Hunstman build with double assault and maneuvers, again range cap hover blaster style with Perma pets. We are talking 4 attacks maybe that do really good damage and the pets are really nothing to complain about at all.

I don't know what you would consider work in traps. FFG is on for a while. Your dropping poison traps and caltrops maybe. You can ignore trip mine if you must. Even seeker drones can be ignored. With an SO build your pretty much half way if not more to defense cap. So your eating 1 or 2 purple inspirations to cap out. Then your just messing around with your primary attacks.

Mind you I am thinking higher settings with these builds 2/8 or 3/8. If the discussion is just 0/1 setting then anything is fine.