Secondary with the most skippable powers?

I'm enjoying playing a Mastermind, especially now that I've figured out a way to control my pets in a way that works for me, but I'm not really too thrilled about the secondaries. Many of them seem to be for those who like to be constantly doing stuff like buffing and healing (two things that I've never been very good at).

Anyway, my question lies in my decision to make a Demon Summoner, and my liking of nearly every power in that set, particularly the whips, which work with my usual melee-focused playstyle. I guess I'd be more inclined to be a "tankermind", so having almost every Demon Summoning power, as well as powers from the Flight pool (or other travel pool), the Fitness pool, the Fighting pool and the Presence pool, leaves me with little space left for a secondary.

So which secondaries have the fewest "must haves", so I don't feel like I'm skipping something that's important?

Thanks in advance

Well Force Field is the obvious one. A FF character with 4 powers (PFF, the two shields and Dispersion Bubble) provides the defensive benefits of the set which is the big thing. The other powers in FF are nice but you can probably manage without them. However having to recast the small bubbles every 4 minutes sounds like the sort of thing you will hate.

With that in mind I would actually recommend Traps. The powers are almost all fire and forget powers with long recharges (Web Grenade is the exception but you don't really need to spam it much) and the nature of the set encourages close in play rather than hanging back so it sounds like it will fit with your style.

You have to take Web Grenade and will definitely want Acid Mortar and Force Field Generator. Other than that you can probably survive without the other powers but I'd recommend taking some of Triage Beacon, Poison Gas Trap and Seeker Drones if you can find any way to fit them in.


In general though one thing I'd recommend is looking at the more debuff-based secondaries. Dark, Traps and Storm are all focused on debuffing your foes rather than buffing your allies and as such encourage a very different play style to the more buff-based secondaries that you will probably find suits you a lot more.

I'm familiar with Storm and Traps, and I've never been able to get them to work with past Masterminds (or in the case of Traps, at all). I might try them again with different strategies, or I might attempt something different and see if my playstyle can adapt.

Agree that FF seems to have the most skippable powers. Force Bolt is forced on you at level 1, and then the two shields and dispersion bubble and you are set.

Not sure what's hard to figure out about /Traps. 1. Run at mob. 2. Toe bomb. 3. Pets murder everything. 4.Profit!

It's even safer when you get Seeker Drones. Just summon them right into the spawn. They last a couple of seconds, take the alpha, then explode with some nice debuffs. Perfect lead in to toe-bomb Poison Trap and Acid Mortar. All 3 just happen to have the same recharge time too...