The first 22 levels from a MM's perspective

I dinged 22 last night, and thought I would share my experience with MM so far.

In the last second of creating my character, I decided that I would go Robots/Force Field (I was originally planning Robot/Traps).

I haven't seen dominators or corrupters around my level-range, so I can't offer my perspective on that class. I have played with a lot of brutes and stalkers tho, and my initial oppinion is that MM should be happy as we are, especially once the enhancement bug has been fixed.

Up untill level 12, I didn't experience a single death. I saw the brutes and the stalkers take a lot of hits, especially the stalkers bought the farm a few times.

From 12 to 18, I felt I did fairly well. Killing was fairly fast, I felt even more safe as I began using more commands to control my pets, and I really did feel that I was contributing to the team. The stalkers on my team did better and better, and slowly started to shine. The brutes kept getting killed, over and over.

From 18-22 I felt somewhat out of place. The brutes kept raking up debt, the stalkers were amazing at removing bosses and LTs. I let my robots go in first to distract everyone, then the other ATs would more or less do the cleaning.
I decided to solo from 21-22, because I was so shamed about my performance on teams. That went really well. It was extremely safe, and the speed was "okay" (not especially fast). The good thing was that I could solo just about anything. An 8 man team going up against tsoo in small closed caves might feel the heat - with single person spawns I wasnt even breaking a sweat. The sorcs werent a problem for the bots.

From 22 to 23 have been really enjoyable so far. I had saved up around 350k, that went into slotting with SO's. That really made a difference. I avoided spending too much on my bots, and put everything into defense (bubbles) and stamina.
However, I am starting to feel really squishy. If things go wrong and something decide to start hitting me, it usually hurts a lot. I had forgotten how much a Tank Swiper can hurt - now I remember it very clearly.


Bottom line, again only after reaching level 22-23, is that MM are really enjoyable. Right before we get "the next bot" we might feel a bit weak, but we feel damn fine at the levels after that.


I hope the enhancement bug is fixed soon, and is really looking forward to seeing how well we do!

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I hope the enhancement bug is fixed soon, and is really looking forward to seeing how well we do!

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*IF* they fix it. They might not. TBH I'm guessing they probably wont, just remove the enh slots for those that would affect the other powers. (eg def, heal)

The command I find most useful when teaming (or even solo) is 'heel'! Robots (and probably other minion types too) have a great ability to not get aggro of the whole group of mobs if they stay at range (and dont get any unfortunate knockbacks) The problem comes when there are large numbers of mobs and the bots start to rampage drawing in other groups. I always have a finger over my heel button to yank them back to me - and if needs be, theres always recall friend