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Really...Doms? *Shocked* Plant/Elec...I do so much stuff all the time. Sometimes I am button mashing so much, I think Ill need a replacement keyboard. *Pulls hair from roots* Seriously...I need like 4 cups of coffee, close range, stealth, and seeds of confusion...then I can calm down!!!
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no, No, NO, NOOOOO! Three ranged AoE 'holds' locks down a whole spawn. Perma domination boosts magnitude to cover bosses and doubles mag 3 duration as well. For all but truly bigass fights you drop a whopping three attacks at the start then you are free to go drop the kids off at the pool, hand load a few more rounds of .45 ACP, or gap that new set of plugs for the pickup.
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Next we have defenders. For a lazy primary there is simply nothing that compares to Force Fields. Every 4 minutes you have to refresh bubbles on the team and then go back to reading your novel. Electrical Blast wins out for defenders with the same slacker powers and approach as for the lazy Blaster. (Short Circuit is one of the greatest powers in the game even if you are not looking to play the low intensity way.)
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As a 5 year FF/Elec Defender, I have only one thing to say about this....
...you're right on.
I admit it! Many, many play sessions before I switched from Freedumb to Protector, involved me casting the bubbles, putting Short Circuit on auto, and then turning on my TV to Adult Swim.
Good Times.
EDIT: Thanks to whoever bumped this, or I might not have ever seen it.
This thread should never die.
Regarding Masterminds: it really depends on your powerset choices. In general, Ninjas and Necromancy are anti-lazy, while Robotics are famously low-maintenance. People playing Robots/FF have commented that it's like watching the game play itself. Of course, you can take a less lazy tack, directing your minions and using the assorted KB tricks of FF wisely. Or you can just hang back, bubble stuff, and set your robots on aggressive/follow.
Thugs seem to do pretty well generally just left to their own devices as well, and would probably do so even better with FF or the like. My Thugs MM is Thugs/Poison, which's quite anti-lazy, but most of the work comes from the Poison side. I usually don't really bother giving instructions to my thugs other than "Ok, kill everything you see," then I focus on debuffing everything I see and healing my minions (which'd be less of an issue with a secondary that reduced the need for healing in the first place--like say FF).
FF would probably be the best lazy secondary, but Dark seems a bit low-maintenance. I mostly run Shadowfell and use Fearsome Gaze+Tar Pit on every spawn, plus heal and occasionally use Darkest Night on tougher stuff. With a primary that needed less healing than Necromancy (with their lethal and fire vulnerabilities and melee leanings), it'd likely be reasonably lazy. Plus, it has a pet that follows you around and does a lot of your debuffing.
Traps also comes up as a possible choice. Laying Trip Mines and all isn't exactly lazy, but its defense buff automatically follows you around and you just put down Acid Mortar and it does its work. Stuff like that. I wouldn't pick it as a first choice for a lazy secondary, though.
And even on my Thugs/Poison? I regularly eat lunch while playing with my lunch hour team. Debuff the greatest threats then take some bites. Not many of my alts I could do that on. It felt kinda lazy even with a busy secondary (I'd say half-lazy 
). Plus, my Necro/Dark MM still has some lazy moments. And then there're the tales in the thread about lag-friendly powersets about things like a team of MMs killing everything on a laggy map even though the lag was so bad they couldn't do a single thing during battle.
Robots/Pain domination. Set your auras on auto, your bots on aggressive, your teammates on follow, and come back when you hear the 'mission completion' music. Your team will love you.
I'm sure this is a solid guide, but I was too lazy to read it.
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Necro/Pain is pretty lazy.
I soloed a +5 boss (37 Quarry, toon was 32) while afk.
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I think that many lazy people gravitate to empathy defenders. True, to play it well one must put forth some effort. However, in the field, I've seen many who's contributions consisted of putting themseves on follow on the tank and then just rocking the aura. No keeping up CM or Fort, sometimes maybe remembering RA, and certainly no using their secondary at all.
I think this sort of player gets by more than other sub-par heroes, since teams see the floating green numbers and assume that their defenders is doing a smash up job.
I'd like to stress that I am not saying that all empathy defenders are lazy or don't contribute fully to a team's success. Just some. But certainly not all.
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Those emps should be playing Force Fields. The fools.
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Bots/FF MM's might be the laziest you can get with this game while soloing at least once you get Dispersion Bubble. I don't even bother bubbling the bots unless I am going against a Hero. Launch bots, upgrade, turn on Leadership pool and big bubbles, walk into spawn, wait for spawn to die, rinse, repeat.
Pain might be just as good, I haven't hit the magic mid-twenties yet. I'm too lazy to log in.
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Those emps should be playing Force Fields. The fools.
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Lord knows I wish they were. I see them rocking the aura and assume I'm going to get targeted with the ST heals after taking an alpha. Frequently I am proved wrong.
I find my shields/ice tank to be impressively lazy as well. If I were to switch my auto to taunt instead of frozen fists, I would probably only have to press 2 buttons per spawn and remember to keep active defense going.
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Running a controller can be a lot of work, but there is hope for the Ice/Storm players. From Ice we have Arctic Air, Ice Slick, Glacier, and Jack Frost which allow you to sleep-walk through most fights while still contributing in a big way. From the Storm secondary we have Snow Storm, Steamy Mist, Freezing Rain, and finally Lightning Storm. All very effective in most fights and all requiring almost no effort to use.
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So since this thread has been rezzed I might as well go ahead and ask (assuming this is to be taken seriously). The concept for my controller is based on mind control and storms, think I can still pull off the laziness. I'm loving this. these are the toons for me and I want to give a couple a try. I was looking "set it and forget it type" and I think I found them. Now I get to actually WATCH combat instead of twitching out on my scrapper.
This toon isnt very lazy until late game but an elec/devices blaster can be very lazy in late game. Just how lazy depends on how much you want to spend on it. Voltaic Sentinel, Gun Drone, and an attack on auto make for a very lazy solo and team player. If you put in the work to reach perma hasten you can have 2 gun drones out but thats for those less dedicated to being lazy.
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I might give an ice storm controller a shot. My scrapper keeps my dander up. I'm a support player more interested in story than combat. Kinda like a tourist. Keep the suggestions coming. Great post!
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A lot of issues have been released since I wrote this, so it is time for a 2nd edition. (Pre-I3 and pre-ED bubblers were gods; not so much anymore...)
So, let's talk villain side and laziness. To start with, which AT should you choose?
Brute, with that rage bar constantly nagging on you like your old lady who wants the garbage out yet still takes her own sweet time fetching you another 6 pack, just does not work for the lazy player.
Mastermind, with all those drones needing constant attention just like the rug rats with the diaper changing, band aiding, daily feeding, monthly bathing, keepin' 'em out of what's left of this 6 pack; NOOOOO thank-you! (Why else would you take the garbage out and go pick up the welfare check every month if not to get a free pass on all that womany stuff?)
Corruptor: Hmmm, keep the team buffed/spawns de-buffed while laying out the smack-down at the same time? Kind of like fix the toilet (the one next door at my brother's work just fine thank-you very much), fix the sink (just keep the dripping faucet over on the left side and it works fine), and REALLY fix the broken window in the kids room (let's see A-another layer of duct tape or B-the equivalent of eight 6 packs just so they can break it again?), all at the SAME TIME?!? I don't think so.
Stalker: Two quick deadly strikes, run away and hide, sneak back and do it again. Hey, now we are getting closer at least. Still, this sounds too much to me like changing your own channels when you could have a DVR instead. Sure, programming it up front is a pain, but then you just sit back and put her on cruise control. Plus, what do those DVR-less souls do when a bass fishing tournament and a nascar race are on at the same time?
That leaves us with Dominator. Fortunately it looks like we have a winner here for the lazy player. (Remember, lazy player does not mean you just stand at the mission door and leach; any AT can do that. Lazy player means you are still significantly contributing to team success, but you also get to eat a sammy and suck back a few while doing so.) Unfortuanately, unlike bubblers where all you have to do is buff the team every 4 minutes and stay somewhat close to the main assist with a dominator you will have to push the button more frequently.
Now in order to cut back on how often you have to cast you really need to build for perma domination. That truly is NOT very difficult and can be quite cheap with the right power choices. For me that means mind/thorn. Mind has the best and widest selection of group mezzing and thorn has knockback which lets you slot kinetic crash 3 times to go with 2 basilisk gaze which gets you your 5 X 7.5% recharge. Now all you need is 5 X 6.25%, 4 X 5%, and 2 purple 10% recharge sets. If you end up paying more than 100 million for ALL of that then you have not done a very good job shopping. (Yeah, basilisk is ridiculous right now, but it should hopefully settle down and you can swap it for 2 more kinetic crash if you must.)
Once perma domination is in place (those sets plus 3 slotted hasten) your job at the start of each fight is to drop aim, total domination, terrify, then mass confusion. If you are on even a half decent team the fight will be over before anything else is needed from you. Wash, rinse, repeat. Have fun and try not to get too smashed with all the spare time you have playing lazy.
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THIS...my friend gave me a good laugh AND something to think about.
Not an easy task for the lazy.