God I hate bubbles


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Originally Posted by Pyrochaos View Post
Sorry for a bit of a necro on a thread, but what is meant by "the AoE thing for Pet Buffs."

Thanks for any insight.
Mastermind pet upgrades these days are AoE; click on one pet and if in range all other pets get that upgrade.


Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth

 

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Thanks for this, I didn't even notice when I came back. I have been casting it over and over. Wow, what a great find.

So do people slot it at all now, on one of my MM's I have it 3x slotted for End and now that seems less need.


 

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Thanks for this, I didn't even notice when I came back. I have been casting it over and over. Wow, what a great find.

So do people slot it at all now, on one of my MM's I have it 3x slotted for End and now that seems less need.
1 or 2 endurance reductions generally. With three slotted you apparently didn't notice, but they also increased the endurance cost by a big chunk. It's a net endurance efficiency gain when upgrading a whole crowd of pets, but it's also used up all at once and not over 5 upgrades.


Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth

 

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You're a villain! Since when do villains care about other villains? Thats like asking a Brute to waste his Fury Bar because you're low on endurance.

If we are fighting a particularly tough Hero, I will bub teammates, but even then, it's at my discretion. Remember, you're a villain, quit playing the hero.
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When I'm on a team, my pets become a lower priority to bubble- I'll always bubble the Commando but the soldiers tend to die too fast to be worth the trouble. And the stealth seems to actually help keep the Spec Ops from getting too hurt.


 

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I have a forcefield mastermind. I can bubble only my pets, or only my team. However, I think bubbling my pets is nearly the only thing I can do for them. I do want to bubble my team as well, and in fact, this is also nearly the only thing I can do for the team. There are other tricks like kb, kd and repel in forcefield, but the bubbles are the most significant contribution to both my pets and the team.

In principle, bubbling 7 people and 6 pets take only 1 minute. Since the bubbles can last 4 minutes, so that is only 25% of my time. In practice, bubbling will take more than that as people don't line up in front of me to be bubbled. And if I want the bubbles to be always on, I usually start rebubbling a little earlier before the old bubbles drop.

I would love some QoL improvements on bubbling, in particular for masterminds. Maybe, just simplifying pet bubbling. When I play my force-field defender, I think the bubbling is ok. Force-field masterminds are a bit too much in my opinion.