Mercs/FF advice?
Force Bubble, because it is great for getting aggro and great for herding mobs into corners whenever you are in that kind of map.
It can also be used to keep melee mobs away from your Mercs whenever you may need it.
Repulsion Field is only good for keeping melee mobs away from you and not so great if the aggro is on your pets. And Repulsion Bomb is imho worthless.
Another bit of advice I would give is that if you have a budget that lets you softcap your personal defences (Possibly just Ranged since you have hover) you might want to look at a patron with a RES based shield, but until you have capped defence then Black Scorpion is the best to pick.
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Force bubble FTMFW.
You'll be amazed at how much that power increases your survivability. And yes, shoot for high defense. Keep bodyguard mode on. With six pets, you have effective 75% resist all damage. Any resists/defense on top of that compound very quickly.
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