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Basically, it's just not a very good interface and plus the psionic dot is a bit less than others. T_T

This is true. I am Taiwanese. :P "Big Brother" can be used on your good buddy who is older than you. In gangster, "Big Brother" is used a lot. And in a big circle of friends, there's usually one "Big Brother" or "Big Sister". They are not usually related to you by blood but we call them "big" because it "indicates mentorship, seniority, or veteran status".

On the other hand, we call the young ones "Small Brother".

I like your new changes because with Tough, you can slot one +3% unique and even +4 knock back protection. :P

I would probably put one more +recharge in Power Boost. The rest is fine. I didn't take web hold power but I think it's a matter of gameplay choice.

My Ninja/FF +1 has soloed a pylon with Musculature and Reactive. I did not use Lore pet (they die anyway if they all bundle up). MM has the luxury of using taunt on pylon and stand away from the pets so they don't get aoe, but I hate using taunt. I basically Hover up and above the Ninjas so I don't get aoe...they do. lol It was quite tough for me because the aoe damage is really high and Ninja has little lethal resistance. I also ran into huge endurance problem before the group buff change. I did use inspirations and poison dart for some minor -regen. I've also soloed a GM in Monster Island (grandville) using lore pets. Without lore pet, my Genins ran out of endurance and GM's health couldn't go lower than 15%. With lore pet, it was quite easy.


I chose Rebirth and just like what somebody said, I need the aoe healing when things really go bad.

My Lore pet choice is uncommon. I chose Vanguard. Here is my reason:

1. I don't like using powers that are too common and I rarely see Vanguard. That's the first reason why I looked into Vanguard.

2. It turns out Vanguard has pretty good synergy with Ninja. The Lt pet has some -lethal resistance which benefits most of Ninja's attacks. He is melee-hybrid and tend to die more easily but the Sorcerer pet is awesome. I love her because she ALWAYS stands far from the action. She offers elemental damage and good aoe. I don't need to babysit her much which is good because I have 6 paper ninjas to babysit. In fact, she sometimes stands way too far back to benefit from my leaderships. lol

3. Vanguard doesn't have the best ST damage but their aoe compliment my Ninja's weakness. My Ninja already has high ST damage.

Do you know the power Painbringer? It's Pain Domination's last power. Would you use it on your boss pet or one another melee player?

I think ultimately it is your game. I can see the logic that you want your pets to stay alive so you contribute more. My only concern is that Temporal Selection's +30% recharge does not benefit your pets. 150% regen sounds nice on paper but it doesn't translate that well on a pet that has less maxhp.

I believe Mastermind is the hardest AT to play well on a team because you've got to make so many decisions like do I keep my teammates alive or do I keep my pets alive so we win the fight? Let's just say I don't always save my teammate if I know my pets can do better. lol Mainly because if I save a teammate, he may not have enough endurance to continue the fight but most of my pets should have a lot less endurance problem.

I get what you are saying but I think Temporal Selection is better on other players. If I have teammates on my team, I always put TS on somebody else first and then go back to my Dire Wolf.

On ST target, yes. But if you have targets around you, feel free to use Thunderstrike as well. I normally only use Thunderstrike as battle opener and after the proc from AS. Other than that, I don't use it much because it's too slow.

Chain Induction is now a much better attack because it still jumps if the target dies. It didn't do that before.

Chain Induction also grants you 100% Focus because it has base recharge longer than 10s. I don't know the exact math but if the base attack has 10s, you pretty much get Focus every single time you hit.

Yes but I guess what I meant is that a knock back is a knock back.. you don't really stack the "duration" of it. Two knock backs may knock a tiny bit further and that's about it. You really don't get more benefits from knocking and knocking. There are times if you knock right when they get up, you can knock back again and most of the times, you knock again and he still gets up and shoots you.

I don't mind all the knock backs but I don't like solar flare's. I also wish Photon Seekers didn't have knock back because if one seeker hits first and scatter the crowd, the other two may not hit as many targets. You can't really "drop PS" the way you can with Seeker Drone so to get the most damage out of them, you are more likely to just drop it right in the middle of the crowd, which creates another Pbaoe knock back effect just like what I don't like in Solar Flare.

I've talked to many of my online friends and the #1 thing they don't like about Peacebringer is all the knock backs. It is a legit issue IMO and one I wish could be addressed. Of course, all is well if we have an option to reduce knock back effects. Then those that love it can keep it and those that hate it can reduce it to knock down.

I agree with this. At some point, enough knock back is enough. You can't really "stack" knock backs anyway. What's the point of having knock back in almost every attack?

I don't hate all knock backs but I do hate solar flare's pbaoe kb. I rather they do something to nerf solar flare like reducing knock back chance to 10% but keep it knock down. PB has enough knock back powers if I really want knock things away from me.

Yeah, if you are on a team, pets will be the last choice for Temporal Selection because it has an awesome 30% +recharge that the pets don't benefit from. Even other Mastermind can get a good use of 30% recharge.

Having Superior Conditioning also means you can put one more Performance Shift proc. I've never put more than one but some people claim that proc is very good for endurance management. This means you'll have 3 places to put the procs: Health, Superior Condition and Physical Perfection. Most of my Stalkers take either Body or Weapon epic because of Physical Perfection. Weapon is good if I need one aoe and web grenade is always good to ground a flyer if I need to. I would say 60% of my stalkers take Weapon.

The aoe sleep patch is a pet... so when placate happens, the mobs can't see the patch but they can't attack the patch to begin with. :P

The thing about Smoke Flash is that even though it's listed as having two purposes (critical and placate others for more safety), it's primary use 90% of the time is just adding more damage.

If smoke flash somehow is pbaoe, would that change how the enemies fight because they'll turn aggro from your pets to yourself? I hate using bodyguard mode and I am not sure if I want my pets to lose all the aggro.

In fact, while I was soloing Black Scorpian, I've noticed that if I keep using smoke flash, Black Scorpian sometimes change his target to me even though I did not even attack him at all. I think it has something to do with the placate effect from smoke flash. I put it on Jounin all the time during that soloing.