And the mask comes off.

[Ankhammon]

Cant' say I did.  Did you know that I once discovered a new status condition?  If you Terrorized someone and put them in the tremble stance, then stunned them, the critter would sometimes just start walking slowly away in a straight line.  I called this state "Oblivious" because they could not even be taunted out of that mode until it wore off.

Fear + Disorient = Oblivious.  Strangely, that actually makes sense; it actually happens in horror movies.

That makes it official. I will be making a Dark/Nrg Dom if the game returns.

That sounds worth it to me.

[Ankhammon]

Too bad you got rid of the PhD part, it was worth saving.  I deal with that on a daily basis and fully agree.  Letters after your name don't make you infallible.

Argghhh... must control impulse to make an alt named Elmr PhD.

[Rejolt]

That makes it official. I will be making a Dark/Nrg Dom if the game returns.

That sounds worth it to me.

Arcanabilivious?

Obliville?

Obshadious?

Horror Movie Karma Monster?

[Sinistar]

Mastermind pets had notoriously bad AI.  Shame they were never able to fix that, but then the AT probably would have been even more stupid overpowered than it already was.

Be glad that mastermind pets never had the power to merge into a gestalt.

[pinballdave]

When the game comes back, not if, I will remake my original stormy in a Storm/Water blast - so powerful

[MM3squints]

Arcanabilivious?

Obliville?

Obshadious?

Horror Movie Karma Monster?

Monster Under the Bed?

Infernal Spawn of Evil? (and make it look like the card)

https://images.weserv.nl/?url=ecx.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FI%2F41iidgd7K7L.jpg

[Baja]

Mastermind pets had notoriously bad AI.  Shame they were never able to fix that, but then the AT probably would have been even more stupid overpowered than it already was.

I think ninjas/mercs were the worst. I could very well be wrong, but in my personal experience these two would go apeshit any chance they got. Bots were great to me, rarely did I have a problem with them.

[adarict]

I think ninjas/mercs were the worst. I could very well be wrong, but in my personal experience these two would go apeshit any chance they got. Bots were great to me, rarely did I have a problem with them.

I never had any real trouble with the AI on my bots, but ninjas were horrible. They always acted like their AI was set to "attack the target unless you see a squirrel"

I didn't play masterminds often. Did zombies, they didn't seem bad. My bots was the highest I ever took a mastermind, and I only got to 48. I had 2 ninjas though, and they never seemed to focus on what I wanted them to. One glitch I saw numerous times that made me giggle, was if I knocked a target over like some boxes or something, my ninjas would stand in front of the boxes and just jump up and down. Wouldn't go over or around it, just kept jumping straight up over and over.

[darkgob]

I think ninjas/mercs were the worst. I could very well be wrong, but in my personal experience these two would go apeshit any chance they got. Bots were great to me, rarely did I have a problem with them.

Bots were great but they loved to run into melee and spam Brawl, which was especially troubling on a /Dark MM since the heal is PBAoE.

[brothermutant]

I hear ninjas were spazzes that did melee all the time. Bots were great and so were my mercs, pack animals were ok. Never got into thugs for long, and I never tried the demons or the undead. All of them I used had AI issues where I would have to click the follow me on passive macro a TON to get them to leave crap alone.

[Baja]

I hear ninjas were spazzes that did melee all the time. Bots were great and so were my mercs, pack animals were ok. Never got into thugs for long, and I never tried the demons or the undead. All of them I used had AI issues where I would have to click the follow me on passive macro a TON to get them to leave crap alone.

I ended up macro'ing follow me to a side mouse button for this reason alone :P

[brothermutant]

My staple macros were:

FORT (They would go to where I click and stay in defensive stance); SORTI (Go where I click and be aggressive); ATTK (attack my target); FOLO (Follow me on Defensive so I get to split dmg to them); PASS (follow me on Passive). I did it with the WHOLE group of them so I didn't have the fine control I saw so many great MMs employ, but I was getting there.

If I had my way, I would have the three BEST minions go fight and leave the three lil ones to follow me on defensive to keep some protection when I needed it and also have a way to split those three hi and three low ones to two separate points to fight (to get a lil cross fire going AND to keep the AoEs from killing them all in a hot minute).

[LaughingAlex]

I am hopeful I can make a bots/time mastermind again.  That was a character that was becoming quite a powerhouse.  It was quite challenging to keep her and her squad of robots alive, even more-so in the dreaded lambda trial that masterminds struggled with, due to the slow moving nature of the beast that is commanding a small army.  But it was fun, it had a "slow but truely unstoppable" feel to the class, and I liked that.

[Power Gamer]

bots were my fav MM set.

[Sinistar]

bots were my fav MM set.

Same here, tried the others and didn't like them. Even demons.

[Teikiatsu]

But it dose make your name sound better :P. Look at Stephen Colbert.
Her Excellency The Rev. Sir Doctor Stephen Tyrone Mos Def Colbert, D.F.A., Heavyweight Champion of the World✱✱ featuring Flo Rida La Premiere Dame De France

Esquire

[Teikiatsu]

Cant' say I did.  Did you know that I once discovered a new status condition?  If you Terrorized someone and put them in the tremble stance, then stunned them, the critter would sometimes just start walking slowly away in a straight line.  I called this state "Oblivious" because they could not even be taunted out of that mode until it wore off.

Fear + Disorient = Oblivious.  Strangely, that actually makes sense; it actually happens in horror movies.

I liked it when I hit them with Sleep then Stun, and they stumbled towards me.  Made my job solo'ing with my Sonic/Elec blapper so much easier.

[amrobinson]

Champions is my all time favorite tabletop superhero game due to the enormous flexibility and customization of characters, so i'm slightly familiar with it. (Although i haven't actually played the game since a bit after 5th Edition was released.) As i recall most of the original CoH devs were also big Champions fans. Now for standard fantasy games i usually play D20 based games, mostly a 3.5 game set in the Forgotten Realms at the moment, but i've played a lot of non-D20 games.

George MacDonald, one of the three developers of Champions, actually worked on CoH for a while.
Sadly, he would never share game secrets with me. :'(

[Teikiatsu]

I think ninjas/mercs were the worst. I could very well be wrong, but in my personal experience these two would go apeshit any chance they got. Bots were great to me, rarely did I have a problem with them.

I hated the random KB in Robot laser blasts.  LASERS.  Those stupid things broke up the team I had with my wife's Plant/Energy dom :(

[Power Gamer]

Same here, tried the others and didn't like them. Even demons.

Yeah, the demons talked back to much. Had to fire them.