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Im guessing if you got +acc as a bonus the pets benefit from this as well since +acc affects your powers and the pets are a power.
The thing that got me puzzled was things like mez resists, defense and resist bonuses since those affect you yourself and not your powers. Anyone know for sure what the answer is here?
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Unfortunately the answer is that they don't. I've done about as much of an IO respec on my Thugs/Dark as I would want to, and I ended up keeping quite a few HOs. In terms of bonuses, I went for some +rechg +acc (for things like Twilight Grasp, Fearsome Stare and my Patron AoE immob) as well as a bit of +recov and +regen. I do find the -kback and mez resistance global and the 2 +def and +res pet uniques to be quite useful, but otherwise HOs and normal IOs seem better in many cases than going for IO sets.
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>
I was afraid that was the answer. Looks like a rethink of the build is in order and it looks like I will be slotting HOs and ordinary IOs alot more than set IOs at this point just like you said.
Thanks for the info.
There are several IOs which effect minions.. One provides +Res(all) and the other +Def(all).
But only if your minions are close by you.
Yeah I know, one +res, one +def and one +res to taunt/placate. Question was about the normal general bonuses from sets, global bonuses.
I like the Blood Mandate line, as they give +Def(Ranged) and +Def(AoE) which stacks well with Forcefields/Traps.
Otherwise, generic IO's are the way forward.
Hey all
Dusted off my old thugs/dark and decided to do a IO build for it. This got me to wonder about things like global bonuses and how they affect the pets. Im guessing if you got +acc as a bonus the pets benefit from this as well since +acc affects your powers and the pets are a power.
The thing that got me puzzled was things like mez resists, defense and resist bonuses since those affect you yourself and not your powers. Anyone know for sure what the answer is here?
Just wanted to add that the sets are quite crappy for pets, basicly any pet has a side affect that you wanne enhance besides acc, dam, end and no set offers anything like that. Might be too much given that each pet has a different side affect but it really feels like something that should be looked at. Maybe allow us to slot sets that correspond to the pets power for instance hold, stun, fear, etc etc.