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Sooo someone told me to not use equip on assault?

Clebstein

By Clebstein,
Posted on: 2009-06-20 18:09 in Masterminds

 

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So someone said if I summon my basic bots our use equip then summon assault bot and use upgrade. The AB will do missles alot more and do aoe more.


Is it true? It kinda seems true but what am I missing out on AB if i do this?

 

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It will keep it from doing Flamethrower, whick may kill DPS.

Doesn't really makethe missles fire more often.

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Yea, I can't imagine it would either. I mean, the missles still gotta recharge anyway. And flamethrower is part of it's aoe damage capabilities I thought.

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Well it is doing missles back to back when I try it. If anyone else has one that could try also please do it Seems to me that it does.

 

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But then you don't get to see it shoot fire, and what's the fun in that?

 

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This strategy was more in fashion when you could put enhancements which USED to but not anymore increase the recharge of the Assault Bot. I don't think its worth the extra effort to avoid the flamethrower now that the recharge is unenhanceable.

The other thing people leave out is that one of the plasma blasts is in equip. This attack has some -regen and is useful on bosses/AVs/heroes.

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I've tried this tactic, but it didn't seem to make much difference to me. Yes, it fired missiles because that was pretty much all it had, but it didn't seem much more often than normal. I found that without flamethrower and the second plasma blast the assault bot would pause and do nothing for a second or two every once in a while.

Personally, I think the chance that it might use flamethrower and delay the missiles for a bit is worth the alternative of not doing anything while it waits for missiles to recharge. I'm not that worried about such a small change to dps when I can already melt most spawns anyway.

Plus, as was mentioned the second plasma blast is another source of -regen, and the flame thrower is cool anyway.

Oh, and the first time you lose a bot in combat and have to re-summon and equip/upgrade the assault bot will get flamethrower anyway, unless you send it away. That seems like more hassle than it's worth.

So my feeling is it may have been worth it when you could increase pet recharge and have them spam missiles over and over, but now that that's no longer possible, I don't think it's worth it.

 

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So my feeling is it may have been worth it when you could increase pet recharge and have them spam missiles over and over, but now that that's no longer possible, I don't think it's worth it.

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That's it in a nutshell.

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Thank you all for the info. You guys rock