What is keeping /rad from being a MM secondary?

I know this has probably been asked about a million times, but upon trying to create a bots/* MM I enjoy playing, my mind keeps wandering back to radiation emission. My fire/rad controller was one of the most fun characters I've ever played. Not so much the fire control (though imps DO make me smile), as the radiation secondary. I love the PBAoE heal. I love AM (who doesn't?). Heck, I even love fallout. I just love radiation! I'm just not happy without it...

So that being said, what is keeping /rad from being a MM secondary choice?

Probably cause there was storm, thermal, cold domination, kinetic, radiation, sonic, etc to be ported and they only do one per issue.

So what's keeping rad from being an MM secondary is numbers. =P In 5-6 issues, it's almost sure /rad will be there for MMs.

I think mainly because it would cover nearly every type of debuff, that being, damage, to hit, defense, and resitance. No other MM debuff set can do that and it would become the best set you can pick for MMs and it would be fire/kin trollers or fire/psy doms all over again.

Plust it has a good fast recharging PBAoE heal with a bigger AoE than /Dark, along with a speed and recharge buff in AM.

Not saying it shouldn't be brought to MMs, I would gladly welcome it, but at this point it would just be to good for MMs IMO.

Quite honestly, I think the reason /Rad was not made an MM secondary in the first place was that there was no matching Primary. While Fire/Rad is well known as a good Corruptor combination, Rad/Rad is a permissable combination, and was in CoV from the start. So the devs try and match Primaries and Secondaries as much as they can.

There are exceptions; Energy Melee existed back when CoH first came out, but there was no Energy Defense to match with it until CoV, and Controllers have a LOT of Secondaries with no matching Primary. Still, I think the devs didn't like that Controllers were so mismatched like that, and tried not to make Dominators or Masterminds the same way.

At any rate, there have been discussions of Rad based Primaries to match with a Rad secondary, I personally think the best suggested mutated green blobs for henchmen (something like Shivans) for a sort of "irradiated mad scientist" theme. With Powerset Proliferation, though, Rad is supposed to be Proliferated over to MMs, and that may come before they can get a brand new Primary that fits the theme.

So the answer is, time. Time is keeping /Rad from being an MM Secondary. Wait, and it will happen.

(As for how powerful it would be, that'll probably be countered with nerfs. Pain has Suppress Pain instead of Soothing Aura, Force Field has a Personal Force Field that doesn't come back up immediately, Dark has a tiny heal radius and longer recharge Dark Servant, I'm sure any Proliferated Power Sets will be treated the same)

It will come, albeit slightly nerfed and who knows where, all we can do is guess really. But IT will come, I mean most of the MM secondaries already provide uberness. The last two prolifs made me scratch my head and wonder, are the Devs nuts? They even gave MMs powerboost in the patrons, that was just asking for better AV killers. So rad will be powerful, but no more powerful then a thermal with all pet resist/def procs and shields.

I'll most likely roll a Necro/Rad to stack the -tohit and use Choking Cloud + Oppressive Gloom as mitigation in melee.

It will undoubtedly get there, but it will take some rebalancing and so unless for thematic reasons (like the necro/dark pairing) I think it will beone of the later secondaries ported.

Not much is left, can't wait for Cold. Now that will be seriously overpowered, even when nerfed on the scale they're using.

Benumb and Sleet really do it, but it depends on which primary as well. A Thug/Sonic, would do better then a Bot/Sonic for example. Merc/Sonic w/ procs on pets would be some nice synergy as well.

But as I mentioned before, most of the current sets for MMs provide uberness. Won't expect less from cold or sonic.

I would like to see /sonic because it would be fun to put those sonic toggles on your pets.

In the end the useful of /Rad will come down to the players ability to play the game. A Necro/Rad w/ choking cloud and oppressive gloom running into the center of the spawn. Drop debuffs. AM will help with keeping toggles running and recharge will help with LR spam.

I've got 5MMs at 50 and 3 Rad Emissions at 50, it will be a wonderful set on MMs. It will outpace dark quickly, albeit when ported its heal will be weaker then dark. But it doesn't require a target. As far as the rez goes, just skip it. I skipped the rez on my poison and pain MMs because I mainly solo w/ my MMs.

So in short PORT everything I got Necromancers to roll lol

Necro/Rad makes me think either Ghouls or Spirit Mastery from Titan Quest.

Lack of mutant summoning.

I honestly don't see /rad on MMs doing much of anything /traps isn't doing already.

Hopefully we'll get /rad right after /kin.

Radiation would be fine.

Kinetics would be a mistake without a massive nerf to Fulcrum Shift. Actually, the fact that Fulcrum Shift has made it this long without a massive nerf is kind of surreal.