its time we make a change, calling all buff bots to send a msg to devs

FF/Therm/Cold buff bots,its time for a simple change to our powers

make that 4m buff timer a hour long on all our bubbles
the devs can in 1 single act of kindness give us so much relief of frustrating work we do in large teams


when we are on a full team, as we are made more for teaming then Solo powersets

we are buffing 7 diff people with 2 shields each, 14 buffs ever 4m,

but MM have it the worst, i have a FF/bots,and this drives ME crazy

i live for full teams , on my ff mm i have 7 team mates and 6 pets to buff

but their often a 2nd mm on my 8 man teams, so i have over 19 targets to buff ever 4m or 38 shields ever 4m

, i am a official slave buff bot on teams
not a fun job, but at lest your team HAS GOD MODE, worth it

but something happened, i snaped

on a team of me, a other MM WHO happens to be a ninja, and my god do i feel for him, ninja pets die a lot,goes with having melee pets, so am putting over 38 shields on my team ever 4m, xtreme end of my buff boting char

then someone left,and guest who joined,a Necro MM, now having 25 targets to buff ever 4m with total Of 50 shields! ,ever 4m, i just said **** it, told them after the next mission i was done for the day,

Frustrating is a understatement for being a mm buff bot who enjoys to omfg team with others. why must you make my life a pain devs as a therm or ff MM

devs,its time you make all this go away,
give us 1 hour buff timers
and get rid of these damn 4m recast buff bot powerset powers

you would make us all so much happy to play our chars again on large teams

if you think 4m fine as is
how about all the devs in charge of powers,

make a 8 man team full of FF/therm MMs ,AND MAKE them buff each other and ever single pet on that team, and see how they feel then

that would be 55 things to buff with 2 diff buffs, or 110 total buffs ever 4m
it cant be done, its the xtreme point i can think of,
could a 1 hour long buff timer do it, Sure,

hell 110 buffs ever hour, would be SO much better then the hell am already going thro Now, that's saying a lot!


to all my buff bots brother and sisters
plz lets send a msg to the devs now
make this insane 4m buff timer game design go away,and let us force on our other powers more often then being a FULL time buff bot for our team mates

That was pretty funny.

Oh, it's not a joke? How sad.

Would you accept a 15 fold increase in endurance cost per shield for the 15 fold increase in duration ?

That would be a 146.25 base cost per shield btw. (MM is 9.75 currently)

I am Jack's total lack of sympathy.

... wow. Happy tenth anniversary, Fight Club. Where was I? Oh yeah.

You were playing the martyr card. Doing something nobody asked of you, and whining about it.

On a villain.

You have eleven other slots on that server. Do something you enjoy.

Here's a thought - if you're on a full team, with another Mastermind (or Dominators, or Controllers in Co-Op areas,) just focus on the players. Buff your pets as well if there's time and they seem to need it - I find that in large groups the other players are usually active enough aggro-magnets that MM pets rarely get hit anyway. *Don't* bother buffing everyone else's pets, at least once you're past level 10 or so. Those players either have buffs of their own, or have already learned a playstyle that doesn't need them as much. And if there are seven other players, the amount of damage per second you lose when a Zombie or two goes down is minimal.

Yes, it would be nice if the duration on shields was increased to 10 minutes. However, some sets would have to be drastically altered to accommodate longer durations - higher endruance costs, lower values for whatever they buff, or both if they stack with themselves. (The Kinetics set would probably be pretty badly mauled by a change like this.) Increasing the duration to an hour is simply ludicrous, and would actually be counterproductive for ATs that have those abilities. Why? Observe: You get invited to a team. You buff everyone present. They kick you and get an AT that does far better damage, because unless they die, you have just become obsolete for the next 59 minutes.

Can I get auto-firing Fireballs so I can stop pressing that annoying button every spawn. You think shielding people every 4 minutes is a pain, people expect me to be attacking and using Fire Sword Circle every 10-12 SECONDS! Buff bots have it easy.

I'd also like the game to auto-target the most dangerous non-boss/EB/AV mob and then mez it for me for an hour after I activate Char when I log in.

On a full team with my /Thermal MM, I just buff the Players and my Tier 2/3 henchmen. There is no point in buffing the minions.

If I have time, I might buff other MMs Tier 3 henchmen, or everyone and everything on the team. The only thing that matters are the players and my pets that count.

The only thing I could see happening is an option to turn our buffs into targeted AoE buffs somehow-- with a commensurate increase in endurance and recharge. I'd pay the price to cast my shields as a 15'radius targeted buff. The 4 minute timer is never changing, especially to your 1 hour proposal.

This post was meant as a joke right?

"Sorry bucko, but CoH and CoV are the same game." -BackAlleyBrawler
"Silly villain, CoX is for Heroes!" -Saicho

an HOUR?! srsly....an hour. lol, yah the devs are gonna smack their foreheads and say "zomg he's RIGHT! What have we been thinking?!"

I don't think it would be too unreasonable to increase the duration and end cost of ally buffs two or threefold

Hmm. So, if I just keep two instances of CoH going, I could just swap out toons rapidly when the buff goes down between missions and reapply? Sounds like a really good plan. A really good plan. Hell, ran an ITF in 24 minutes last night then followed it up with a 28 minute LGTF, there wouldn't be any need for anything but debuffers and Kinetics at that point, just have everybody capped for defense and resistance for the entire night.

4 minutes is plenty long. Call back when you try to keep ID and SB up on multiple people, particularly when the justification for it being so short is because it's a potential of "griefing".

it's funny, just last night I was saying to somebody that I have a bit of trouble remembering to rebuff after 4 minutes and can never remember to re-buff after 20 for the mystic fortune power.

I've got a 50 FF and a 50 therm, 34 Cold and 27 Sonic, I see nothing wrong with 4 minute durations.

If all the buff bots send in their votes on this, it's going to be like 50 people.

Buff bot is a terrible way to play any character, even when you have a powerset with per-ally buffs to cast.

...People put shields on MM pets? o.O