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I definitely prefer tri-form on warshades and peacebringers. Your character throws a couple powers away for a flying battle platform and a quasi-tank. Even if you just pop a couple slots in Dwarf form for survivability, I wouldn't know what else to do when mezzed in human form if I couldn't jump into my lobster and start smacking the dang Illusionist that mezzed my kheld.

Transfusion: heal with a source of -regen which some mastermind primaries lack.

Siphon power: not sure of the buff rate on a mastermind sized SP, but there is also the -damage you apply to targets, which can be very useful on hard targets.

Siphon speed: +recharge for masterminds with hell on earth, gang war, soul extraction, noxious gas would be very beneficial. Again, the debuff as discussed in the defender forums in one of the few if not unique debuffs that is irresistible, very useful on hard targets.

Increase density would be very much like the thermal thaw, much more useful to mastermind teammates.

Inertial reduction means your mastermind needs no travel powers. All the travel powers (level 14) suppress movement while fighting. Inertial reduction has no travel suppression.

I can think of numerous situations where end drain from foes can reduce your pets' endurance. Transference is a killer debuff also. This is all part of the kinetic single target sapping package.

Fulcrum shift would be exceptional for masterminds with melee centric pets.

My fear is they would gimp the kinetic set similar to how they gimped twilight grasps' radius, by reducing transference's radius or capping the number of buffs that would be allowed for fulcrum shift.

Hi, HoochShepherd. Did you intend this build to be I19 compliant with inherent stamina? At any rate you need to throw a couple slots in stamina, make it three slotted for end mod.

Running radiation infection, staying near your anchor, while having your choking cloud running will deny most melee damage.

I am not so big on fighting, especially at the cost of delaying tactics so far, and delaying EM Pulse even two levels. Your big control running choking cloud will be best served having hasten near perma, and as close to perma on accelerated metabolism. It's not an either/or mandate, but the extra fighting pool toggles will seriously impair using EM Pulse every time it's available, which is my suggestion.

I would also consider an epic with additional recovery options such as conserve power, power sink just to keep things rolling.

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Gilia, I don't think sonic would be too weak. My first love were the defenders. In certain situations, you want one set over another. In no case would I say that forcefield is always better or always inferior to sonic and we have both sets in defenders; it should port nicely to masterminds.

You can no longer affect the recharge rate of pets with enhancements, set bonuses, or buffs.

I would LOVE to have a /sonic secondary on melee type minions. The orange hula hoop of doom would rule all. I cannot see how thermal is so far ahead of sonic because sonic has the mezz protection. The liquefy kill zone would be so awesome. If you are talking robots, demons or necros, then they have their own heal processes, but there are always some secondaries that work better for certain mastermind primaries such as: thugs/poison.

To the OP, as Dr. Mike said, it's extra insurance for your teammates, but it's a great defensive synergy for your defender. I don't know if you took or care for Dark Pit, but it synergizes very well with repulsion bomb. You can fashion yourself to be an AoE stun machine.

In short, confuse powers move you to the mission bonus quicker than if you didn't have confuse.

This is my new avocation. First, I was the self-proclaimed priest of the death-less howling twilight usage. Now I will add the "Confusion conquers all" to my agenda.

Fighting confused foes is like shooting fish in a barrel. I submit that xp/min goes UP since you spend less time on other mitigation measures.

Pets on defensive, superspeed + steamy mist is total invisibility that only rikti drones, nemesis snipers, and other high perception foes can see thru. You can patiently set up where you want to start the fight, and when you go (my stormies usually start out full tilt), the robots will support you if you don't put them in 'stay/defensive' too far away.

I am guessing you met up with a Super Stunner, the new Freakshow boss that has a big PbAoE damage when you defeat him and then he rezzes with a flourish kind of like Rise of the Phoenix. Your mastermind wants to try to take him down at range. The big problem is you can't debuff him before he rezzes with hurricane. You could try firing off gale ASAP when the super stunner rezzes. Honestly, these guys are a bigger pain the smasher tankers.

Freezing rain does not put out the burn patches. In fact, it increases the damage with -resistance and -defense. It's a GOOD thing for them to be in the same spot.

It used to be you could almost sleep through a mastermind fight against Freaks, but now finding the Super Stunner and dealing with him is a big priority for all ATs.

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Today I was on my electric control/electric blast dominator teamed with a good friend's sonic/sonic defender. At first he put the sonic hula hoop on my dominator since I do have 3 melee attacks, but later switched it to the kamikaze gremlins (who by the way really thrive with sonic shields). I noticed an immediate synergy. The gremlins were amazing. Their damage really spiked up and with the shields they weren't nearly as squishy. Has anyone had experience with an electric control/sonic controller? It seems like an unusual thematic fit, but it also would seem to be very effective.

Both sets are good mastermind sets. I have only dabbled in Pain, but I do know a lot about Dark Miasma. Pain is heavier on the buffs and heals to be sure. After your demons get to level 32 and the ember demon gets his upgrade he will AoE heal - a lot. After 38, you get the Dark Servant. His base heal is less in strength than yours, but it has a much larger radius. I am biased towards dark since it will debuff things and make dropping foes easier.

Either way should be successful. Play both for a while and see which is more fun. You might end up with 2 demon summoners

1. I think you have too much slow enhanced in tar patch. I would slide a slot over to darkest night for some endurance cost reduction.

I think you could get mileage out of the fifth slot in Battle Drones with a IO recipe for Acc/Dmg. Another in Protector Bots to replace the third damage enhancement would have the same effect. I think you get to max fly speed with 2 flight speed enhancements at present.

Fearsome Stare needs some accuracy enhancements. Going generic IO enhancements, 2 Acc, 2 Fear, and 2 ToHit Debuff would serve you better.

I am not a fan of Teleport Foe. I would pull with a Twilight Grasp debuff, a Darkest Night pull to grab a spawn away from a nearby spawn, or a Battle Drone snipe/pull. In most cases my Bots/Dark initiates the attack with Fearsome Stare or Howling Twilight. Whatever isn't feared or stunned will aggro to my mastermind, and then the Robots respond in kind.

The Dark Servant is best slotted with a heavy heavy dose of ToHit Debuff since all his actions and attacks include a ToHit Debuff component. I like dampened spirits because it is an effective recipe set with useful bonuses. Siphon Insight is a Accurate ToHit Debuff set with nice bonuses, but it is more rare and more expensive.

At level 40, on the villain side, you are able to chose from the four patrons to do their mission arc to open the corresponding villain ancillary powers. If you switch sides, you just start taking ancillaries at level 41. The villain arcs are more difficult than regular missions or radio missions but they are soloable. Most masterminds either chose Mu for the knockback resistant immobilization or Black Scorpion for the Defense based shield to stack with the shield defense you receive from your Protector Bot.

Bots/Dark is a premier mastermind combination. Good luck.

I am just waiting for Demon summoning/Electric control masterminds