How survivable are Demons/Time pets in incarnate content?
By
Dz131,
Posted on: 2012-05-26 22:27 in Masterminds
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The only problems with Beast Mastery is 1: It's not Demon Summoning, which blows away most other pet sets. I say most because I don't want to start a what the best pet argument when I want to say ALL other pet sets 2: It's plagued by the AI bug where pets wont chase after enemies that are knocked back. This isn't a problem for ranged pets since they'll switch to ranged attacks. Beasts are all melee so when you knock an enemy back they stand around stupidly until the enemy gets back up. Beast will be fine when they finally get around to addressing this. When? No idea. Devs are usually pressed into making the next big flashy thing with barely a backwards glance at things left needing fixed in their wake. Probably because "Issue 25: We fixed all the broken stuff!" ISN'T going to generate the money that "Issue 25: More new powers sets!" would.|
Originally Posted by Tsuji
Hey all,
I already have a bots/dark, and was originally planning on making a beast/time because the one thing that drives me nuts in incarnate content is watching my robots explode constantly. Just looking over city of data it seemed like stacking power boosted farsight with the ATO +defense would push the beasts into super high defense, to the point where I wouldn't have to resummon them constantly. But I keep hearing that beast mastery is garbage. So how about demons? Anyone with personal experience in incarnate trials have anything to say? I hate resummoning pets constantly; the demons have resists, but no defense to stack. So...Anyone have any experiences to share? Thanks! |
As for Incarnate Content, I'm pretty sure all MMs have to re-summon constantly. One aoe and pet HP evaporates like water on the sun.
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Unless you've got a strong resistance shield to apply to your pets, your Tier 1s are going to get one-shotted on a regular basis, no matter how much defense they have.
demon time should be pretty good. Just don't count on farsight keeping your pets alive through everything. You will need to resummon, probably alot. You will need to run into melee to take advantage of your -dmg -hit debuff aura, and constantly spam your aoe slow to gimmick the AI to survive.
Hey all,
I already have a bots/dark, and was originally planning on making a beast/time because the one thing that drives me nuts in incarnate content is watching my robots explode constantly. Just looking over city of data it seemed like stacking power boosted farsight with the ATO +defense would push the beasts into super high defense, to the point where I wouldn't have to resummon them constantly.
But I keep hearing that beast mastery is garbage. So how about demons? Anyone with personal experience in incarnate trials have anything to say? I hate resummoning pets constantly; the demons have resists, but no defense to stack. So...Anyone have any experiences to share? Thanks!
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