Expedient reinforcments and phantom Army

I'm looking to purple out my build in the next few months. And i was looking for ways to maximize the effect. I was planning to frankenslot PA with 4 xr, and then 2 soulbound allegiance. And then toss the other 4 soulbound into my phantasm. That gives me the 4% dmg bonus, and X2 on the regen bonus and the extra 6.25 global recharge. That seems like the best all around package.

However, that leaves me without a /recharge in 6th slot. I would really like to toss in The resist bonus aura, however pa is wierd. They don't take damage, they can't be healed or recieve buffs. So can they transfer the resist bonus to other pets? It would seem like they should, since they are the only pet I can think of on a timer, so the set was really designed for them, however I was wondering if anyone knew for sure?

I know I could also toss the resist aura into my phantasm, and in many ways that makes more sense, however then I lose 1.5% stamina regen, and trade that for 2.5 status resist, which I really don't need between aegis and I Will. I just haven't decided what is best. I guess its not that big a deal, I could easily buy about 20 xr for the price of a purple. Just wondering if anyone had any experience with this.

The Resit and Defence IOs give you a temporary power which gives a supremacy-range PBAoE buff aura that effects all applicable pets.

I since only Phantasm will get any buffs, I would recomend not using these IOs on a Illusion troller.

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Originally Posted by VoodooGirl [*]Watching out for the Spinning Disco Portal of D00M!*

It's a temp power? That actually seems really cool. Does it apply to incarnate pets? Whats the recharge on it? I thought that it only applied to when my pets are up. It's not really a big concern, cause my PA is almost perma, perma at times, and my phantasm only takes damage when its being stupid. Being a kin, it would be nice to have a stupid button. (I doubt it would make much difference tho)

If you look at my Illusion/Rad guide, I discussed various slotting options for PA and Phantasm. I used 4 Expediant Reinforcement (everything except the Resist proc and the Dam/End), and then the Dam/Rech and Chance for Build Up in PA. For Phantasm, I went with 4 Expediant Reinforcement plus an Acc/Dam Hami-O.

Phantasm doesn't have much defense or Resistance. He is supposed to stay at range and use his Decoy like his own PA, which is where he gets his survivability from. However, there is a pet bug that causes him and many other pets to run into melee when he is not supposed to. The Devs have acknowledged that this is a bug that is on their list to fix . . . but it has been a while.

The Resist proc is wonderful on Earth's Animate Stone or Gravity's Singularity because both of those pets already have high resistance. I wouldn't bother with it on an Illusion. Recharge is more important, and with enough Recharge you can usually re-cast Phanty when needed.

but being unbuffable, it wont get it in the first place.

Phantasm can be buffed tho. So putting the aura in pa wouldnt nessicarily hurt. It wont effect pa but will phantasm. Unless that changed? Anyway like local man said, there isnt much res to stack with anyway so recharge would be better.