Obscure Blade

Or to put it simply; if you want to attack and stay in Bodyguard, only order SOME of your pets to attack and leave the rest in Defensive/Follow. And yes, you can drag icons from your pet window to your power tray to make new command buttons, as well as edit the ones there.

Scrapper: Ice Armor, Axe, Ninjitsu

Stalker: Axe

Controller: Traps and Dark

Mastermind: Rad, Cold

Brute: Ice Armor, Broadsword, Ninjitsu

Blaster: Dark Blast, a variation of Super Strength or Martial Arts for a secondary.

Dominators: Illusion, Dark Blast, Radiation Blast

I always assumed that with the economy crashing a lot of companies pulled back on expenses; such as advertising in odd places.

I went and made "The Contaminated Man"; a pollution/toxin themed Fire/Earth. Green lava-themed hammers, green Char, purple lava themed Tremor and Earthquake, etc. He's all green and purple and blue himself; zombie face with the bio-organic skin for the torso.

On any MM without a heal in the secondary I recommend Aid Other. I don't bother with Aid Self though; as long as you keep some henchmen in Bodyguard you don't really need it.

I was just playing my Fire/Earth Dominator, and noticed that the hold animation for Char only played about 1 time in 10. The power worked, but they'd just stand in place. And when the animation did play, it looked more like a stun animation than the choking animation Char normally has.

Imps using Dark Fire look quite evil in black and red.

If you don't like Blazing Aura's pulsing effect ( my problem with it ), making it black renders it much less noticeable and leaves you with a black aura of sorts about a foot away from you. Sinister looking.

For Earth Control, making the Immobilizes stone or lava and the Hold crystal creates a nice contrast; the crystal is embedded in stone or lava when you use both.

Dark Fire Breath looks like you are breathing some sort of contamination at people.

Be warned that gravity lags well behind other sets until level 26, because it takes that long to get an area control in the form of Wormhole. Unlike, say Illusion/ with Phantom Army at 18 or Fire/ With Flashfire at 12. Well; Illusion can get Flash much earlier but it's not much use at low levels and is best put off until much later if you get it at all.

They are both oddballs compared to the other sets. They both lack an Immobilization power for example.

Mind has more hard controls than Illusion. It lacks pets.

Illusion relies more on soft controls like Taunt from Phantom Army, Fear from Spectral and Deceive. It has 4 pets; 5 if you count Decoy Phantasm.

1: Another vote for base NPCs.

2: A more "steampunk style" or whatever term you want to use teleport. Something that is neither the white hi-tech or mystic teleports, and fits with those base parts that are neither glossy high tech nor mystic. Something brassy with lightning.

3: A large monitor that shows actual city scenes. Like a view overlooking Atlas City Hall complete with heroes milling about, say.