a random "I'm enjoying summoning demons" post
By
Lobster,
Posted on: 2010-05-03 11:15 in Masterminds
My favourite is still thugs but I already have 2 thug 50s and Demons are a close second favourite so I reckon my next 50 will be my DS/Dark who is 20 now (after 4 days that is fast for me).
I've been exceptionately happy with (believe it or not) my demon\ff MM. Force fields make the tier1\2 pretty durable on top of their resistance...but it's what it does to the demon prince that I love the most since he has a sizable DEF already...before I bring my stuff. It's pretty easy to soft cap him and with him being the boss pet he runs at my level....yum
The Porcelain God - DarkKinetics Corruptor
Meat Juice - DarkDarkSoul Brute
Pretty and Strong - Do you really have to ask?
Dual boxing /pain & /therm (non optimal combination, just two sets I haven't played in a while - or at all on a mm in the case of /therm), hit 28 last night. I forced myself to stop at 26 on test so I wouldn't "ruin" it - but also didn't let myself dual box it so I would focus more on the primary itself... so my live play experience is fairly different.
I adjust my difficulty to something that makes me "work for it" as they say, without taking an inordinate amount of time. Ie if I screw up a spawn pretty much pastes me. I'm still finding that sweet spot post Demon Prince, but for paper missions, running +2/4 or +2/5... one of those seems to do it. Certain enemies are more difficult, of course. It is nice to have pets that (mostly) don't drop like creampuffs to a +3 flamethrower.
The mission of the new arc (Dean?) where you have to fight off 5 or 6 different enemy types on the way to taking over the cloning lab was the most difficult thing so far, and took me a long time and several deaths, but I wound up netting 8 bubbles from it so I call that a win.
I love the Demon Prince's fixed ai! I didn't play much on test after the AI fix, so this is a nice bonus. He *does* still get stuck every so often (ie only cycling one attack every 8s), BUT it seems to fix itself when the target dies and he moves to a new one, so no biggie there.
I also like how the hellfire using demons use your custom colors - that totally surprised me. Nice one devs!
Demons require less healing and micro (so far) than ninja, so this looks like it could be the /pois user I finally get past 40 on. Fingers crossed.
I may have to take them blueside after GR so I can try soloing (dual boxing) some TFs. While the redside TFS are well done, they tend to have something wacky at the end (the sky raider oil rig, the exploding crystal tunnels, etc.) that makes dual boxing mms just not fun (for me).
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