Demons/???

So I'm new to the whole PvP thing. However, one thing that always had my interest was masterminds. Demons especially. Which, lucky for me, I heard that demons can be viable in PvP. No idea if that's true or not, but if it is, anyone have any idea what secondary would be best to pair with it?

Thermal or Sonic.

The only real threat to Masterminds are the judgement spams from people. Both thermal and sonic add +res onto the already high resistance of demons.

In fact, sonic can make the demons hit 90% resistance with all the procs and some nice slotting. That would mean that 400 damage judgements would only hit them for 40 damage each (Plus your share spread out).

Thermal gets close, but also has a heal + debuffs, making it much more viable.

Also, it's true that Demons aren't bad in PvP. I'd rate them 2nd behind Thugs.

I've had a friend say actually Force Fields paired with demons could be amazing. There any verification on that? Either way, the sonic and therm ideas do sound pretty nice.

Force fields really only has Force Bubble to it's name. The shields are sub-par in a PvP environment, and PFF won't do anything for you.

Force bubble is nice with teleport to trap people against walls, but it's nothing special with demons. Thugs would be a better pick there.

Ion is one of the most popular judgements in PvP, and it's also autohit. That's why when I was thinking about a Mastermind to survive judgements, I specifically looked at Demon/Sonic and Demon/Therm. It's impossible for you, or your pets, to dodge Ion.

In PvE, I have no doubt FF paired with Demon would be nice. The same isn't in PvP though.

Sonic has more -res than therm, with a cage power + more res to all.

Therm has -def, -recovery, -dmg, with an AoE heal + a lot of forges (+tohit +dmg to pets).

I'd suggest therm over sonic unless you wanted a bit of a concept or wanted to try something different. Both would be pretty powerful.

Demons/Dark