Well assuming you're planning to mostly solo it I would say /Pain or /Thermal as your secondary. Early game the easiest tactic for a Mastermind is to just have you and all of your pets run into melee range and start brawling so a PBAoE heal is pretty handy for those levels. /Poison might also work well since it has a strong (albeit single target) resistance debuff early. /Dark is also nice as it has an AoE heal, a good (if slow recharging) patch power and a nice debuff, downside is the to hit roll needed for the heal.
Primary probably doesn't make much of a difference. The minions you have around for those levels all have relatively similar powers. The melee pets will have a bit of an advantage since at low levels you lack the tools to keep enemies out of melee range anyway so you might as well embrace it. Necromancy is quite nice due to the strong melee attacks on the Grave Knight. Demons have a variety of damage types and extra protection from the Ember Demon. Robots provide some extra protection from the Protector.
Play Pretorian from 1-20 then you can choose blue side when you get to 20. I liked thugs/dark best for MMs. Demons was fun too.
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I've seen threads that say this doesn't work. That you can't unlock any epics as a praetorian (even though there is a message that says you have).
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Play Pretorian from 1-20 then you can choose blue side when you get to 20. I liked thugs/dark best for MMs. Demons was fun too.
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Thanks guys. Going Praetorian won't unlock the VAT's.
I was thinking Necro/Dark. Slotting Twilight Grasp with ACC early is pretty easy, and the first 3 Dark Powers are enough to make 1-20 cake.
Thugs/dark is better because of enforcer's leadership.
Necro is all melee so make sure to stay close and use your aoe heal. It was really easy to get all the way to 50 with thugs/dark.
Bots, thugs, and necro - any of the three with /dark will work nicely. The debuffs in tarpatch itself is worth the selection. Edit: demons will work, too. Also if you get a team leader level 25 or higher, you get access to the second tier two pet.
Thermal isn't bad, but its debuffs come late. Forcefields is very safe, but doesn't push your dps. Traps is a good set, set doesn't really get all its gadgets until level 20ish. Don't get me wrong, these secondaries are successful but not optimal for a level 20 push.
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hm, best sets for up to 20 imo are thugs and necro. Both have strong LTs and ok minions. For a secondary, dark is the best, you get most of the really good dark powers by lvl 4.
I might also mention for a quick run to 20 to try a brute. Now that we have inherent stamina, a brute is pretty stupid good at low levels. A claws/fire brute would get a damage aura, and spin really early, you just rip through stuff.
Thugs/Therm or Thugs/Dark for sure.
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Ammo switching for Dual Pistols was my idea:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=135484
Necro/Dark has been bar none the fastest 1-20 of any AT I've played. I'd venture to say it was my fastest 1-40 but that could just be cause I loved my concept so much.
Just keep in mind they're zombies, mindless ghouls. Treat them as such (meaning I keep them in passive most always and use them as ambushers usually) Order them around constantly and you won't be sorry.
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So it's been 4 days what did you go with?
I'm looking to unlock the Villain AT's, but don't want to play redside and will probably never do the 30 tips just to go back blue. So I'm looking for the fastest 1-20 MM (which is the fastest 1-20 AT, IMO), but I don't care about upper end powers.
Suggestions? Thanks!