Hey dude, like I said to Polaris, here's how I play my [u]Thugs Forcefield[u] and I for one, prefer it to Robots or Dark Miasma.
Whatever primary you take, /Dark is the only true secondary.
Had a look at your thugs forcefiled MM and i say that i quite like the look of it...... I'll give it a try and see how it goes
Hey MaX... 
hehe!
i quite like dark, but im no know it all villain Mastermind person, im just bored
'If your a MM and dont have Dark Maismia Your Donught'# If you dont wanna be a donut get DM :P And im Rob/DM and im loving it =P
If a Mastermind is anything but Dark Miasma, he's a donut? Nah, not funny.
soudns a bit stupid if you ask me. I think all MM secondaries own in thier own station of specialty.
I have Dark with my Thugs and lovin it though i hear Traps and Thugs make a good combo as well.
Dark = pets don't die, bodyguard is godly, pets do more damage, you get an extra pet, stuff can't hit you, or run away, or do anything when FS lands. Bosses are held, and if you get into trouble (which you won't, ever) there's black hole to spam and run. It is the most powerful MM secondary, without question. Having said all that, I like FF because I have about 30 second's work every 4 mins, and that's it. The rest of the time is spent watching xp come rolling in.
DON'T eat muffins while I'm developing you.
Pants! Turkey Magnates! A man in a box! Rogue AI! Come one, come all, to arc ID 10107 - It's [i]'Not as long as some other arcs'[/i]!
It is true, dark is an extremily powerful secondary powerset but its not neccerily everyone's taste. Lets face it how can u make a Bots/Dark char concept work? ff kinda fits your bots more.
But the point is Dark rock but you should have a go with some of the others like traps or trick arrow which give you more of an active roll. oh and FF = tad bit boooooring. 
Spoiler that everyone knows about alert (but just in case ;o)
Given the story arc about Aeon tapping a demon and turning its dark demonic energy into electricity I think Bots/Dark concept fits in quite well to the CoV world. Robots powered by little chained demons inside them or something.
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Whatever primary you take, /Dark is the only true secondary.
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If one secondary would be noticeably better than others then the game is flawed.
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then the game is flawed.
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Powersets have never been balanced - All I can say is thank crikey not everyone's interested in making the mostest powerfullest tnak-maeg EVARRR, cos it'd all be a bit boring.
And to someone else - yes, FF is wonderfully boring, which is GOOD for me, because I like to watch films while I'm soloing and pay minimal attention to the game :P
DON'T eat muffins while I'm developing you.
Pants! Turkey Magnates! A man in a box! Rogue AI! Come one, come all, to arc ID 10107 - It's [i]'Not as long as some other arcs'[/i]!
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Whatever primary you take, /Dark is the only true secondary.
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If one secondary would be noticeably better than others then the game is flawed.
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Thing is the Devs know Dark is very powerful, its one of the reasons its the only Defender primary Controllers can't get.
What makes it confusing is that the Devs took the other very powerful Defender secondary, Rad, and redesigned it into Poison for MMs. Why didn't they do the same for Dark? Even just switching the AOE heal to a single target click to keep it in line with the other MM sets would have done a fair bit to narrow the gap.
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Thing is the Devs know Dark is very powerful, its one of the reasons its the only Defender primary Controllers can't get.
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Kin and Rad are also very "powerful" defender primaries, the problem is that Dark is already too "controllery" (including the extra pet). In any case, based on my limited MM experience, Thugs/Dark is a VERY good combo 
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CoX 50s: <ill/rad> <ice/ice> <fire/kin> <grav/sonic> <ice/storm> <earth/kin> <kin/elec> <cold/psy> <thugs/dark> <fire/dark> <dark/elec> <night widow> <EM/ninj> <mind/icy>
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Thing is the Devs know Dark is very powerful, its one of the reasons its the only Defender primary Controllers can't get.
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Kin and Rad are also very "powerful" defender primaries, the problem is that Dark is already too "controllery" (including the extra pet). In any case, based on my limited MM experience, Thugs/Dark is a VERY good combo .
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Indeed they are. Which is why MMs can't get either.
Controllers can, but I started a thread before saying that I thought that was a balancing flaw on the Devs part too, that Controllers certainly shouldn't have Rad. Kinetics real power comes at 38 and received a stupidly powerful boost afterwards via Containment.
They seemed to have learnt the lesson a bit for MMs, except in the blindingly obvious instance of Dark for some weird reason.
I'm trying to decide what primaries and secondaries to take for my MM. I'm stuck between choosing Robo's or thugs for primary and between Forcefields and Dark Miasma for secondary. Any advice welcome.