Beast Mastery: What Secondary Power Compliments It?

Just like the title states. I have a Plant Control/Earth Assault Dominator I want to change over to Beast Mastery. In keeping with her theme, I am looking at Poisons or Thermal. I know the effects of Thermal; however, I am not familiar with Poisons. Poisons seem more suite with my character's theme yet Thermal has group heal where Poisons does not. Any opinions or guidance here would be appreciated. Thanks.

I made a BM/DM MM (that's kind of fun to say) on Beta and can say that I found having a strong heal very needful. The beasts of BM seemed rather squishy to me. Either on par or maybe just slightly above Ninjas in survivability. That being said, I haven't played around with Poison since it's been buffed. It's entirely possible that there is enough debuff in the set now that it would compensate for the survivability, but I wouldn't think so. I think if I were to make a BM on live, I would likely go with Thermal for the nice resists and the heals.

If you have a Plant/Earth Dom you are NOT going to be pleased with the meh performance of BM with anything trust me.

I've seen a few of these threads starting and I found this thread to have some really good suggestions, ideas and discussions!
Happy hunting!

I toyed around with a beast/poison on test and enjoyed it. The animation for antidote makes it look like your tossing them a little treat for being obedient pets.

Thank you all for your input. I started with Thermal; however, I'm not sure I like it. Watching flaming critters running around with fire and plasma shields is a bit disturbing. I full expect PETA to show up in Atlas Park to protest my treatment of my pets! I think I'll redo her and try Poison, if that doesn't work...Dark Misama or Pain..probably pain since it does not require me to 'hit' a target to heal.

Dark or Time are going to provide you with the best babysitting capacity for your very squishy, melee only pets. They are probably the only sets I would personally consider playing with Beast Mastery, since you're going to need all the buffs, heals, and debuffs you can get to keep your pets alive, and the controlling and slowing effects will be necessary to stop them from chasing enemies all over every map you step into.

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Traps so you can send them in as bombers. Or whip support when it comes out

/Time would definitely be optimum, with /Dark Miasma as a close second. I however went with /Sonic due to having too much of the first two. Sonic pairs nicely with the beast's innate resistance, and has very nice debuffs.

Also the more people I get to use Sonic the higher chance there is of me being on a team with another sonic, which basically makes everyone invincible.

I went with storm mainly since I have yet to have a real stormy but also for a few other reasons.

a) Concept... its a druid/nature master type of character who I also plan to get panther stealth for both travel and the notion of shapeshifting.

b) Personal Damage... I like dealing dmg myself as well as having pets with my MM's and the pseudopet nature (more static damage value unhindered by AT damage scales) of tornado and lightning storm let me dish out some significant damage on my own.

c) Recharge Intensive Pet Set... Tornado lets me slot the recharge intensive pet uniques for added protection for my pets. BM doesn't have a gang war-esque power.

d) Versatility... Storm has a varied toolkit. Heals, buffs, debuffs, hard and soft controls

It may not be everyone's cup of tea but it works for me!

Yeah I am going with Pain Dom - can skip a lot so you can get the MM attacks, and still keep the pets alive most of the time.

I could only be soft on animals so the only thing I could do conceptually is choose Time. I'd be a person from the future with animals from the future. Things like "my animal in a burning oil slick" is a no no.

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