BUILD REQUEST -- PvE, MM, Beast/Pain, Some assembly required.

Thank-you if you stopped in to help! I'm trying for a hit-me-in-the-face so my doggies don't splat build. Details below. I'd really appreciate the help. If I use your build, I'll use your name as my battle cry, and fill my char info with your praises. Really.

I have about a C- grasp of IO builds. To keep from making silly mistakes and wasting tons of money, I'd like your help! Oh, yes, I have mids, of course. So that's a fine format.

Restrictions: About 500-800m is my budget. No RP considerations. No Accolades or Incarnate slots. (I'd like to earn them with the build, not need them for the build).

Basic Strategy: Bodyguard + Provoke + AoE Healing. Possibly throwing in a switch off of Invoke Panic and Flash Freeze on alternating mob groups. I am totally open to suggestion on the way this 'keep my pets alive to kill you' strategy is achieved, but would like to stick with the BG + Provoke style. No self status protectin in Pain, I know, and I'm prepaired to suffer for it.

Required Powers:
Beast Mastery: Summon Wolves, Train Beasts, Summon Lions, Summon Dire Wolf, Tame Beasts.
Pain Summoning: Nullify Pain, Suppress Pain, World of Pain.
Power Pools: Provoke.
Travel Powers: Highly Optional. Ninja Run with empty swift, hurdle, and sprint is good enough for me.
EPP: Patron or Standard Epic is acceptable.

Powers to Include if it's not a huge pain:
Beast Mastery: Call Hawk. Fortify Pack.
Pool: A procced out Boxing or Air Sup FTW (No, seriously.) And Invoke Panic.
Chill Mastery: Flash Freeze


IO Thoughts: Procs do temp damage scale. Masterminds do sissy-girl damage scale. Conclusions: Procs are a useful way to up MM damage. Procs in pets can be cool for the same reason.

IO Dream: Leave 1 slot open in Nullify Pain for the Panacea Proc (and don't consider it for cost), which I will get 78 years from now, and die happy. I heard it (uniquely) does proc on those healed and not just the caster. If this is true, then this is my dream IO. If it's not true, then it's not.

Build Goals: Some survivability for self. AoE defence is most important, can most easily lead to a wipe in BG mode. Mitigation through things like AE sleep epic, or oppresive gloom, or the slot intensive Invoke Panic (open to suggestions). And procs make me stupid happy in low damage attacks and T1 pets.

Please share a build or give me advice! Thank-you very much for your time! Remember, if you post a build and I pick it, I will sing your praises in every flavor text I have. Oh, and I'll put an homage to you in my forum sig too.

Greatful for any help! Thanks!!!

Oh, and I'm going to play this char up from scratch. So if you can fit in provoke early, that'd be nice.

Had a go, hope this help. Tried to build for softcapped defence so you could just tank stuff while your pets killed everything Made sure stuff rechaged fast.

The incarnate buffs are there to suppliment your build, but isn't needed for it.

http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/downl...D1FF3F7A95DFD9

Thank-you kindly, Trilby. Looks like lots of fun. I made 4 or 5 builds on my own before posting here, and none of them are half as good. If no one else has a go, I will use this and spread your glory! ^.-

Hyperstrike: That's a simple and obvious observation that just never occured to me.

I've saved up money, and decided that's the combo I want to play. I have not leveled the character yet.

I guess to level, I can just sorta go about my business and frankenslot a bit on the cheap, throw in a couple standard things that help like steadfast+def (I have a few laying around anyway). So now that you've clarified the choice for me, I'd say I'm more looking for a lvl 50 build. I've never had an inarnate character before. Was away from game a while. I don't know how long that takes.

So: a build designed for lvl 50, to help me through incarnate content?

Upon reflection, this style of play probably doesn't heave much place in that level of content. So now I'm pretty confused. So a couple of questions:

1: Can an MM who uses himself as a meatshield and some indirect mitigation and healing function endgame?

2: Is the only viable path for an endgame MM using defense/resists to directly increase the surviability of his pets (ie FF/Sonic) If this is true, I'm just Out of Luck.

3: Is it more desirable in endgame, large group content, to focus on buffs and party utility at the expense of standard MM pet-centered play?

4: If you just do what seems fun and run around with a not very group friendly build, will people still welcome you?


I'm really open to advice if you have any on the subject.

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For leveling up I will stick with my original general concept but feel a bit ridiculous taking in your comment and realizing how obvious it is.

Thank-you for taking the time to advise!

If you have a really different build concept you think would do a lot better endgame, I'd love to see it (keeping to beast/pain). I can always switch back and forth between builds depending on what kinda content I'm playing with. So I don't mind if my lvl 50 build is not in tune with the concept I had for leveling up the character.

I mean, I suppose I could go so far as to run around with things like phase shift and hibernate etc, and just vengeance and rez dead team mates if I had to. I just don't know enough about this to make an informed decision.

Thank-you for taking the time to help. And sorry for my long-winded posts.

EDITED: for brevity and clarity believe it or not lol