Fleeting Whisper

Envenom's -Heal, and Weaken's -Special.


Edit: Also, making your teammates puke with Elixir of Life.

To be perfectly fair, the reason Orks need more dakka is because they can't shoot worth a damn in the first place. They use the 'spray & pray' strategy of long-ranged combat, but they have to pray really hard.

Hell, if you dismantle an Ork firearm, you'd find that it is physically impossible for it to even shoot anything. The only reason their guns function on the minimal level they're at is because the Orks believe it should work, and therefore it does.

Technically, the maximum number of minions is based on your Death Magic, but yeah, it's kinda hard to get above 16 (which caps you at 10 minions) and even if you reach 20 Death Magic, you're still capped at 12. They're still useful as body blockers and for energy from Soul Reaping, though. Also, using Jagged Bones on a minion doubles its lifespan (when the minion dies, it turns into a Jagged Horror minion), or using Animate Shambling Horror in the first place (when the Shambling Horror minion dies, it turns into a Jagged Horror minion).

Of course, any Minion Master in GW worth their salt will have higher than 8 Death Magic (6 minions), which is the most you really get in CoH, not counting Gang War's Posse or Hell on Earth's Living Hellfire. Soul Extraction can get you up to 8 henchmen, too.

As mentioned earlier, I think it really is a matter of the primary. Mercenaries, Necromancy, and Ninjas are underperforming when compared to Thugs, Robotics, and Demon Summoning. My Thugs/Dark didn't have any special problem with the Battle Maiden fight, or any of the lv50 TFs. Stealthing a TF with a MM is frustrating since I need to release my pets to do any stealth work, but the actual fighting isn't so bad. The last LRSF I ran, I barely even lost a pet against the Freedom Phalanx, much less anyone dying on the team (unfortunately, though we were trying for a Master run, someone had previously died against the Vindicators).

Outside TFs, I normally run x8 difficulty while solo. While I attribute that partially to my secondary (two AoE control powers, plenty of -tohit and -dmg, and a pet with more of the same) and the AoE immob from my PPP, having a powerful MM primary certainly doesn't hurt.

Midnight Dodger requires that all teammates dodge the mines.

Yes.








I'm not sure if you're being serious, Klaatu, but the game doesn't care what location any enhancement is in, only how many of a given type there are.

No, the OP is essentially asking for Maintained Enchantments from Guild Wars.

I bring Fluffy to all the high-level TFs, and he rarely dies unless I use him to soak an alpha strike (which I sometimes do). Or if he waddles through a blue burn patch while I'm fighting Battle Maiden.

Though I'm not sure fighting after I die is of any use, since I've seen Fluffy kill a white minion exactly once, and that took some time.

Magic would explain why you never have to reload, or why your bullets can bend or go through corners.

Don't leave out the obvious:

With the exception of Maria Jenkins' new arc (haven't played much high-level blueside in a while), I've not had any real trouble with the tings you list, even in melee.

Protean? I jumped in to help a friend using my SK'd Tanker and smacked him around without noticing or doing anything special. I didn't even know he had nasty PBAoE stuff, before or after the fight.

Warwalkers? I had to ask a teammate what the orbital strike text was talking about, because nothing was happening to my MM or henchmen. And I had henchmen in melee range of nearly every single Warwalker through both TFs (same PuG did both of the TFs back-to-back).

Director 11 and his Proximity Mines? Well, I get hit with the mines a lot, which throw me through the air, but other than that he's a fairly simple AV. (Haven't tried for Midnight Dodger, myself.)

Lady Winter? I just use Gang War and dogpile her with 16-20 bodies. Haven't noticed any issues soloing her. The hardest part of the LW mission for me is finding all three totem thingys to destroy in the poor lighting of the map.

Patches only spawn centered at players who are still, and you get a 5-second warning in the form of a swirling blue effect and some sound before they start burning things.

You don't have to be able to move while shooting, you have to be able to notice the warning and not activate Energy Transfer after it starts. (The patches are also small enough that 1-slotted Hurdle could get you out of one and nearly across a second.)

I guess we just didn't know Black Pebble well enough to notice him go missing between BAB and Castle?

The summon powers have had abnormal accuracy modifiers since inception, long before any dev even considered showing such numbers to the players. (People like Red Tomax showed us the numbers anyway.)

Considering the powers designers pretty much just play around with Excel spreadsheets, the most logical conclusion is that summon powers have an abnormal accuracy as a helper flag to the dev that it's not an actual attack power. The abnormal accuracy powers may even be used to aid in searching through the tens of thousands of powers which exist in the game.

You're thinking too small.

Don't forget that Tornado can slot RIP sets, so it's still possible for any MM to get all 4 auras, so long as they're /Storm.

Amen!

Sorry, the Mastermind AT is the Minion Master (Necromancer) build in GW, not the Beast Master (Ranger) build. If you want a Beast Master, play a Controller with a buffing secondary. (Unfortunately, unlike a GW Beast Master, you will get your pet at 32 instead of 2.)

Tin Mage and Apex aren't really so bad for MMs, except the Battle Maiden fight, where keeping your pets alive is more about positioning them than it is about their stats.

Though I must say, the Alpha slot has helped me so much with my pets' lifespans. I'm currently using Nerve Radial Boost for +20% def slotting. Between defense powers (such as Maneuvers, Steamy Mist, Shadow Fall, Force Field Generator, Deflection Shield, Insulation Shield, Dispersion Bubble), the Pet and RIP set uniques, and the pets themselves (Enforcers and Protector Bots), and Nerve Radial Boost, henchmen can get pretty tough. After slotting NRB, my Thugs jumped up past the soft-cap to about 54% at rest. The AVs on the Tin/Apex TFs now have a 10.5% chance to hit my Bruiser, an 11.25% chance to hit my Enforcers, and a 13.5% chance to hit my Punks and Arsonist. The Minions on those TFs range from 9% chance to hit my T1 henchmen to a 7% chance for my T3.

A lot of video games can be pretty bad, too. Even ones without a strict rating.

But did you kill the bifrucations?

No, I expected the price to drop by the time I had been looking at the market this afternoon. The beginning of the event is usually when people are most voracious about participating.

I know for a fact people line up at the Chalet door waiting for the event to start. I've been there myself before.