I don't know which concept you are driving at, but in general I would pick storm over sonic.
Having said that, I am not sure why you would say that sonic barrier, sonic haven, or for that matter, clarity are duds on a mastermind build. Are you going petless? The three powers are pretty good for teammates as well as your demonic pets.
Storm has a better mix of slows, defense debuffs, resistance debuffs, to-hit debuffs, storm damage pets, stuns, and storm positioning tools. Yeah I heavily favor storm, but I haven't totally written off sonic either. Sonic has disruption fields, sonic siphon and liquefy which are all pretty special.
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Not knowing what your concept idea is... can it wait for Demon/Time?
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Not knowing what your concept idea is... can it wait for Demon/Time?
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But neither of the two possibly backstory ideas I have really fit in with Time...
Sounds like Storm it will be!
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Go with storm. Sonic is going to suck for MMs. Resistance sets can't hold up without heals and sonic is the only resistance based set with no heals. On top of that the only thing that's gonna die faster than your pets is your endurance bar. Dispersion and Disruption are already pretty damn costly together for any other AT but MMs pay more endurance for their powers than anyone else.
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I have a concept. I like building based on concept.
This stems from my desire to play a Demon Summoning Mastermind.
Right now the concept could either work with /Storm Summoning or /Sonic Resonance.
I have a few stormies (one defender, one controller... and possibly one corruptor)
I've only toyed with Sonic Resonance. It looks like it has a lot of useful powers, but it also looks like it has a lot of dud powers (Sonic Barrier, Sonic Haven, Sonic Replusion, Clarity). But at least those are easily skipped if I want, for instance, something like Leadership. Storm only has one skippable power: O2 Boost.
I know that I'd have to wait for I21 to create a /Sonic MM. but I'll probably wait anyway, as this character is likely to be a hero, and I'd rather start blueside.
Anyway - what would y'all say would be the good/bad of going with Storm over Sonic, or vice versa, with Demons as the primary?
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