Fleeting Whisper

1.What are MM's basic job?

Deadify things. And you only have to get your hands dirty if you really want to.


2.WhatA are the basic MM tactics?

The two most basic tactics are:
a) Tell your pets to attack each enemy you want dead in turn
b) Leave your pets in defensive and piss off some enemies yourself

The former is more direct and pointed, but leaves you vulnerable. The latter spreads your damage out, but keeps you safer. More advanced techniques are generally expansions upon those two.


3.How are MM's played?

Like walking deathtraps


4.What are possible "stunts" (tanker-alpha esque) a MM can pull?

Masterminds are exceptionally suited to dealing with an alpha strike of a large spawn. They've even got two methods of doing it:
a) Send a minion into battle alone, sacrificing him to the heathen gods of CoX that you might be safe from the rebuttal of the alpha strike
b) Take the alpha strike to the face while your henchmen are in bodyguard more, so that you're taking at most 25% of the damage.

Some players combine the second with Provoke from the Presence pool, as well as additional self-protection powers (like Tough and Weave), in order to play "Tankermind"

5.How does the MM pet command system work?

/petcom name [stance] [command]
/petcompow power [stance] [command]
/petcomall [stance] [command]

name is all or part of one of your pet's names. If it's part of a name, all pets matching that part will be affected
power is all or part of the name of the power the summoned your pets. Like above, if only part is specified, it can match multiple
stance (optional) can be one of:
- Aggressive (pets attack anything in sight)
- Defensive (pets retaliate against things which attack you or your other henchmen)
- Passive (pets do not attack)
Abbreviations for the above work, too (agg, def, pass)
command (optional) can be one of:
- Follow (pets follow you around)
- Attack (pets attack your current target)
- Stay (pets stay where they are... mostly)
- Goto (pets go to a targeted location you specify)
- Dismiss (unsummon pets)


6.Is it possible to set keybinds to tell a specific pet to do x job (move, attack, guard, ect.) like if you give a robotics pet drone the timebomb from (I think) traps can you tell that one pet with the bomb to move to a mob that you target.

See /petcom name above

Piston Boots animate for any kind of jumping. Rocket Boots activate for any kind of flying. Winged Boots activate for any kind of movement. (Winged Boots are conceptually for running, but there's no real difference between running and other kinds of movement)

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Hint: the fastest way to steamroll missions is to not invite brutes.

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Of all the alternate MA and SS animations, the only one I can even tolerate is the ground punch for Foot Stomp. And even then, I like Foot Stomp better.

You'll have my Popeye windup when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!

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I do not like the idea of making FFG a toggle given /traps for corruptors can be end heavy.

[/ QUOTE ]protip: Toggles generally cost less endurance/time than clicks

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Do non damaging attacks like Twighlight Grasp or the temp extinguisher power make her submerge? Squirting her with a giant water hose seems to be fairly humane.

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No, non-damaging attacks don't make her submerge. One of my favorite things to do on my gravity troller is to use Wormhole to teleport her onto land. It's a challenge to see if I can get her to the middle of town before somebody hits her

[/ QUOTE ]I think they made her immune to teleport a while back, because people would use TP Foe to get her onto land. I've got a screenshot somewhere of her swimming through a basketball court.

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All buffs (and debuffs) on the caster at the time of casting are transferred to the attack.

[/ QUOTE ]Well, that's true for most but not all pseudopet summons.

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Paragon Protector ELITEs. These are very tough hombres, they have a nuke which can take out the team

[/ QUOTE ]Only the ones with Fire Blast have a nuke

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I have got to admit. I'm surprised by the conviction and varying results regarding what color Sally cons. I personally love Croatoa, and I've seen Sally con every color available. From Grey to Purple, to everything in between (I distinctly remember seeing her con Blue once).

Which is why I am solidly confused by the discrepancy.

[/ QUOTE ]My guess is that at least one of her spawns is presenting con color based on her level (30, I believe), causing people below 30 to see purple and above 30 to see gray, whereas the other spawns are correctly presenting a static con color of yellow.

I changed it when I quoted you. Your original link was to cityofheroes.wikia.com

It's actually fairly simple, but requires some tools not available to every person. Most importantly, you need a server host which allows server-side scripting, such as PHP. Depending on the forum software you're going to use the image on, the server might need to allow PHP (or your script of choice) files to be named as an image file, since some forums enforce linking to PNGs, GIFs, or JPGs.

Once you've got such a web host, you upload the images you want to it, and create a server-side script which will randomly pick one of those images, and then either redirect the browser from the script to the image, or print out the image data with the correct MIME type

Edit: an example script --
<font class="small">Code:[/color]<hr /><pre>&lt;?php
$fileList = array();
$handle = opendir('.');
while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
$file_info = pathinfo($file);
if (strtolower($file_info['extension']) == 'png') {
$fileList[] = $file;
}
}
closedir($handle);

$imageNumber = time() % count($fileList);
$img = $fileList[$imageNumber];

header ('Content-type: image/png');
readfile($img);
?&gt;</pre><hr />
The above reads the folder where the script is stored to find any PNG files. Then it picks a random PNG out of the list and displays it.

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For more information please visit this web page.

[/ QUOTE ]Use paragonwiki.com, not wikia. Wikia is no longer updated or maintained by the Paragonwiki administrators and regular contributors

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Nemesis Snipers can still see you. Rikti Drones, sometimes.

[/ QUOTE ]+Stealth IO + Shadow Fall is 65ft stealth radius.

Snipers (which exist in more than just Nemesis) have 149ft perception radius. Turrets and Giant Monsters have 100ft perception radius. Rikti Drones and Rularuu Sentries have normal perception radius (45-54 depending on rank), but they ignore stealth completely. While a sniper might start attacking you when you're 149 feet away, a Drone won't shoot until you're up close, but they'll see you when you're close no matter what your stealth is.

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I thought I read that you can only use one concealment power at a time but then maybe this is different?

[/ QUOTE ]Powers can be placed into power groups. You're only allowed to have one power from any given power group active at once. For example, Combat Jumping and Super Jump are in the same power group. If you activate one, the other turns off.

One of the power groups is called Stealth_Group, and it contains things like Stealth, Invisibility, Shadow Fall, etc. (Note that Stealth_Group does not contain Super Speed or Hide, which is the most common way to get a second layer of stealth). Placate is not in Stealth_Group (or any group, for that matter)

While Placate does give you 150ft StealthRadius and 380ft StealthRadiusPlayer, its primary purpose is to allow a critical strike in mid combat (without having to wait for Mask Presence to unsuppress), not to make yourself invisible. Of course, since it does make you invisible even to snipers, and applies the Placate status to your target as well, you can always use it as an escape route

As a side note, I'm fairly certain only toggle powers are ever in any of the power groups, and click powers cannot be.

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It is no coincidence that every MM pet class has ample knockback powers.

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I've wanted to ask about your sig and what that means.

Why do they? Proponents of KB usually say that it just takes skill, but there is no way to use that KB strategically.

[/ QUOTE ]Of course, that quote isn't true any more. Thugs have very little KB (50% chance to single target from Bruiser's Hurl), Ninjas have some (60% chance to single target from Genin's Crane Kick), and Zombies have none.

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And the Assault Bot has -Regen which is pretty useful if not overpowered in tough boss/AV/hero fights.

[/ QUOTE ]Actually, the -regen from Assbot doesn't do much. He's got two attacks which each have a chance to apply -50% regen. Twilight Grasp is a guaranteed -50%, and it can self-stack... and it's in the same set as Howling Twilight, which is -500% regen. Envenom is also a stackable guaranteed -50%. Traps.Poison Trap is -1000% and can be made permanent.

And all of those regen debuffs pale in comparison to nearly any amount of -resistance.

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So in short 100% means 1/2 mez duration 200% means 1/3 and 10,000% means almost no duration.

[/ QUOTE ]At the cap, you've got 0.99% mez duration. A +5 Malta lieutenant hitting you with a stun grenade would last 0.46 seconds

Is it just for you, or for the whole team?

Oh, and does it work outdoors, or only in missions?

According to CoD's entry on the proc, it only works on other players.

It's because you're on the Trial.

I use Knockout Blow &gt;.&gt;

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I had a thread in suggestions for a while (It's been purged) to change Sally to be immune to attack, and add an NPC to the edge of the lake who gives out a Camera temp power. Rather than "killing" her, you'd take her picture. Get two pictures for the badge

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That would be amazing.

especially using the camera in our camera emote.. it's perfect!

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, that was part of it

I had a thread in suggestions for a while (It's been purged) to change Sally to be immune to attack, and add an NPC to the edge of the lake who gives out a Camera temp power. Rather than "killing" her, you'd take her picture. Get two pictures for the badge

I recall her conning purple, though that may be from memory of a sidekicked character in the zone.

Yes, Demon Summoning (Desdemona) and Dual Pistols (Maelstrom) will be available to players.