Bots/FF and teams: Playing the Bubbler?
By
Bronze Knight,
Posted on: 2011-01-17 09:15 in Masterminds
You don't need to keep everything buffed. Most of the time the Brute/Tank can be skipped, MOST of the time keep an eye on there health If you think they need it do it. Allways prioritize AT's that have no defense to begin with. Cors, Doms, MMs, Defenders, Controllers, Blasters. After that move on to the Scrapers and Stalkers.
As for your own bots you'll just have to play it by ear. If your team has an AOE healer stick to them like glue and spam GOTO. Then you shouldn't need to buff any of your bots. If not then I would suggest either buffing the Battle bots only OR buffing just the Assault and Protector bots and just let the Battle bots die.
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"Hypocrisy, the human inherent." "Let not this work be wasted, apply yourself always."
On a team, I really don't keep everyone bubbled. I'll only bubble those who take sustained HP damage (i.e. those who need additional help) and then on "final boss" fights I'll drop a bubble on everyone. That goes for my Bots and other players!
Primarily I'm using Force Bolt and Force Bubble to help put stragglers into the main herd. Or, like last night, using Force Bolt on a Dark Dwarf that Sister Solaris was inexplicably following, to get her over to the altar 
(it worked!)
One fight to remember bubbles is on the LGTF - Famine does AoE End Drain, and your second bubble will protect against that!
i mainly buff the team and jump in tankermind style
when i see my bots dying i recast and maybe buff them
normally my 2 shields are in the always use powerslide so i can buff in battles too
as MM with FF you have not too much attacks that you can free 2 powerslots for presencepool
Helge corr lvl 50 rad/cold
Helge2 corr lvl 50 ice/rad
Techbothelge MM lvl 50 robo/dark
Helge Mauz def lvl 50 emp/ele
illuhelge troller lvl 50 illu/rad
Wiederbelebter helge nk lvl 50 bs/reg
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Quantenjaeger ws lvl 3
How do you handle keeping everyone bubbled and managing the pets?
I find the durations on bubbles a bit maddening enough just to track, and then to give 2 bubbles to 7 people and 6 robots (26 casts), but on top of this I am trying to make sure that I am getting maximum dps from bots, while keeping them alive (especially the one that has a melee fetish).
How do you keep your team bubbled without going crazy juggling everything, because I find it a bit hard to juggle w/o feeling overwhelmed.
PS. I like to forcebolt tougher mobs to get some soft mitigation, so I am working on that too while everything is going on.