Dechs Kaison

Hit 'em with a single target buff. For some reason, it converts them back into being under your control.

Even the upgrade, I've found, will solve the problem, but only one the henchman you target. This becomes very end taxing if more than a few pets are bugged.

Do you have bosses turned on in your difficulty settings?

Yes, I read your post, you've seen bosses in CoT, Longbow, and Arachnos missions. The reason I'm asking is because CoT, Longbow, and Arachnos bosses stand out in a crowd, even if they are downgraded to LTs.

With Council, however, a downgraded boss will blend in with the rest of the mobs. Personally, I have trouble telling the difference between a vampire boss and a vampire LT, same with warwolves and galaxies. A lot of the "normal human" bosses even look the same as the LTs, so it'd be hard to pick them out if you aren't very familiar with the names.

I had an argument recently with a global friend of mine about the subject of GMs and MMs. He is a scrapper more often than not, while I am an MM. I don't have an exact record of the conversation, but this is pretty close:

Scrapper: MMs and scrappers can solo AVs, but it takes a scrapper to solo a GM.
Me: What are you talking about? MMs have soloed GMs before.
Scrapper: I'm talking without temps/insps.
Me: So am I.
Scrapper: MMs can't sustain [some number]DPS required to overcome regen. It's not possible. (I think he said 350... I could easily be wrong.)
Me: But masterminds have tools like -resist and -regen that increase effective DPS.
Scrapper: Whatever.
Me: I haven't done it myself, my build isn't ready yet, but I've seen it. I wouldn't argue like this if I hadn't.

He still wouldn't believe it. An argument like that isn't enough for me to get bent about, but a day later, I noticed he wasn't on my global friends list anymore. Obviously he got his panties in a bunch because he didn't want to hear how scrappers can be equaled, if not surpassed.

I know that MMs can solo GMs. We don't need no stinking temps or insps either! Again, I can't do it yet, but I know someone can. So I beg of you, the MM community, provide me with hard, undeniable proof. Bring me videos! Toot your own horn! Show me it can be done, and I will convey the information to the doubting scrapper. Together, we can break the narrow minded scrapper who lives outside of debuffs.

Scrappers and brutes are pretty equivalent. If you like your brute, roll a scrapper. They will play much the same way, except that you don't have to build fury.

I'm going to log into Freedom early, turn of XP earning, and sit in my supergroup base just to take up a slot on the server! Muahahahahaha!





No, I'll be farming prestige with my bots/traps on virtue.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=193424

That's a recent topic in the Player Questions section.

The guy wanted to name his pet Arthur.

You want to know another odd invalid name?

For 25 levels, my character had Club.1, Club.2, Club.3, Heart.1, and Heart.2. The Assbot was going to be the Spade, but that name's invalid.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=190418

EDIT TO ADD:

Not to be a jerk, but imagine that, a stickied topic in the Kheldian forums called Kheldian Binds and Strategies. It's right at the top too!

Bots/Traps is my favorite character. I'm busy running x8 malta, CoT, and carnie missions with him for leet lewt.

I'm not going to say this is the only way to do things. I'm not even going to say it's a good way. I will say that this is what I do, and it has gotten me this far.

I took no personal attacks. Not even air superiority or something like that. I do have Mu lightning cages though, and use them frequently.

I took every trap except detonator. I use them all. Caltrops has four damage procs, one proc for knockdown, and a recharge enhancer. I used to have detonator, but ever since I got myself and the bots softcapped, I haven't had any near death to use it on. Triage beacon is perma, and I find it invaluable. The acid mortar has an Achilles proc for -resist.

My pools are teleportation, presence, leadership, and speed. Notice I don't have stamina. I run all three leadership toggles all the time. I don't have endurance problems. Speed's only there for hasten, and really only as a "panic button."

My bots are always in bodyguard mode. I taunt like your sixth grade bully. I have a macro set up that commands just the Assbot and protectors to attack, but I've never used it.

I've taken a Thugs/Poison up to level 26 entirely solo. Lots of fun, and very powerful. I didn't even have noxious gas! I hear that's what really puts thugs/poison over the top, a noxious bruiser.

I still like him, but I met a few friends who play on Virtue. I'm not paying for server transfers, so I just re-rolled all my characters and haven't gotten back around to him yet.

One thing that I didn't see mentioned, the proc is +end, not recovery.

So when you do a nuke, or a sapper hits you for minus a billion recovery, the proc can still give you endurance.

My bots/traps loves this change, and so does my level 30 warshade who found a purple while playing with some SG mates last night.

I made a fire/electric blaster who's a stage magician in a tuxedo and tophat.

No two powers use the same colors, and they're all sorts of flashy. Green/blue fireball and pink/yellow fire breath I think are my favorites. Perhaps the purple/turquoise rain of fire.