Let combat NPCs take Inspirations

Title Clarification: FRIENDLY combat NPCs
Simple and straightforward: Let us drop inspirations on Mission-specific friendly NPCs like masterminds can do to their pets.

We can already buff/heal them, but when you don't have a buffer/healer on your team, their suicidal tendencies can be damn tough to counter. The most effective way to do these missions for non-buffers/non-healers is really to lose them somewhere, clear the map, and then come back for them.... probably not a playstyle the devs intended.

I have often wanted to drop a green on a friendly like you can with MM pets. If you are a healer or have the healing PP then you can heal them, but if not, they are screwed.

Great suggestion!

Honestly this is fair enough, many non-combat types have buffs or debuffs but no heals. Many combat types could still use the extra help. If your 100% viable without the NPC then this doesn't make much of a difference for you.

Nothing quite like taking on a mission as a defender who has no heals yet and watching the NPC slowly die. Same story if your a scrapper pounding through a mission with a nice bit of assistance till he keels over.

If your really worried about risk vs reward....The Architect system would like a word with you :P.

I have so wanted this since I got Tunnel Rat killed

Two words: General Aarons

$Diety I hate that guy. Trying to rescue him with a melee character is a nightmare.



Melee: Okay General, you are free lets go!

General: No. We have to clear out the base of Nemesis personnel.

Melee: I'll escort you out of here and come back and clear the building.

General: No, I am a General With A Gun! I will follow you around at close quarters.

Melee: But General, those robots blow up when I punch them. The explosions will kill you.

General: I am a General With A Gun! I will follow you around at close quarters.

Melee: *facepalm*

Sister Jocasta is even worse, when running her tip mission yesterday she insisted on running off along a corridor, down some stairs and across a room to attack a group that weren't even on the way out of the map, aggroing everything along the way.

I wish I could have just left her to die.

Or just give me the option to say "Shut up, don't shoot anything, just follow me to the exit." Some characters I don't mind the extra firepower on - most, I just want to get them out before they get killed.

(It's worse when they're invisible - whatserface from the First Ward missions, you can't even SEE - much less target to heal - and she's had a tendancy to run off, aggro things across the room and die. Whoever came up with that needs to be hurt.)

See my Guides and Tutorials

While we're at it I want the ability to drop inspirations directly onto team members too.

I'd prefer to just be able to use an awaken on anybody. I've been in quite a few groups recently where I couldn't hand one to a down free player.