If you had force fields I would say go with manuvers but in your case I would go with assault instead. I have done ninjas with just about every combination and thermals seem to be the most survivable because the pets get 1-shotted alot less.
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With ninjas and thermal, at least in my experience, provoke has been critical to keeping them alive. I have it fully slotted and on auto. I jump in the middle of spawns and keep it firing while the paper dragons tear things up. I haven't gotten to patrons yet, but with this playstyle I'm thinking of taking opressive gloom to lock down spawns.
Just something to consider.
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I dont remember how much money you were willing to spend but I made a slight change
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So I decided to create my first villain and wanted to try a MM. I just hit 30 and so far this combo works well. Having my two Jounin and Oni Forged definitely ups their damage potential and the shields deaden the damage enough to give me time to get heals off. But I have a question on power picks now. I'm debating picking up the leadership pool but I don't know if Maneuvers/Tactics or Assault/Tactics would be better. Looking at the numbers, Maneuvers only give like 2.6% defense unslotted which seems like it would be a wasteful toggle to run, but I don't know if it would help out their survivability by stacking with Ninja defense. If I don't go the leadership route, then that opens up two more powers for me to pick and, once again, I don't really know what to pick. Heres my build (hope this works as I rarely ever import from Mids):
*Edited to change a few slots around.