Mercs That Bad?

I did not say pets were useless, I said they were ineffective in a fast paced environment. I could spend the next 30 minutes writing out a long list of situations where pets fail to deliver and spend more time listing situations where they can function as well as other power sets, but I'm not going to spend such time.
Team tp is terrible.
Waiting for a tp defeats the purpose of playing in a fast paced environment.
Corrs have plenty of time to dps, and many corr support abilities further increase dps.
Taking aggro off team mates is silly, unless you're on a low level team, theres no reason that should be necessary.

I still group with MMs frequently because I have friends that play them and alot of people I pick up to fill incarnate trials play them, and I play my own MM occasionally, but that doesnt change the fact that TFs run with MMs are almost always slower than TFs that are run by the same people not playing MMs, does it mean I won't invite MM's? No. But it doesn't make it go any faster.

But I digress, making my point is a lost cause, as clearly most of you havent played the same endgame I play, which is fine, to each their own way of playing, it doesn't change the way I view MMs (which is being a very poor choice for an AT for the way I play, which is running content extremely fast), and it doesn't change the way you or anyone else views them either for the way that they play.

Why? It solves the two things that seemed to be of most concern--getting pets into the action immediately or easily making them bypass mobs.

If you are skipping to the objective, clearing while someone else skips there and tps you is actually more gain over time for everyone on the team, and it costs only the activation time of a single recall friend.

All mm secondaries except for FF are also corr secondaries, so whatever the corr is doing to increase dps the mm is also doing, but the mm is doing damage at the same time while the corr is not. Regardless of whether the corr is doing "enough," with the same secondary the mm can do more.

Then tanks are likewise subpar, and so are brutes because you could be getting more damage with scrappers. If you assume that aggro control is a non-issue, then the only types of characters that are not subpar are ones that focus purely on damage and buff/debuff.

I accept playstyle differences and the fact that you may not like the way mm's work for you or your teams, but not your initial statement that they are "subpar." If you want a subpar AT, go to the Stalker forum.

Hey! We resemble that remark! =)

And more seriously, I agree with everything 100%. MM's do fine on damage. MM secondaries are equally powerful to corrupter secondaries. And as both a squishy and a melee fan, I can tell you, even on trials and hard taskforces, I always appreciate a good MM on the team. Whether we're steamrolling or barely getting by.