TygerDarkstorm

There's literally 0 reason you can't use a bow in melee range outside of some arbitrary condition you're making for yourself. If you insist that you can't use a bow in melee range, then I would roll up a Ninja/Time either on the regular shards or on the beta server, grab the heal, then put the pets on Stay and see exactly how far away you can be for the heal to reach them. However, not playing in melee is doing you a disservice as Time anyway because one of Time's main debuffs is a PBAOE toggle that you need to be in melee, or super close to it, to trigger. If you're truly wanting to play ranged because your head canon says that bow = range, then you need to pick a more range friendly secondary. If you're wanting a heal, you're looking at Thermal (which also brings a couple of great debuffs that can be used from range), Pain Dom, Empathy, Electrical Affinity, Nature, Marine, etc.

Water's such a versatile powerset for these kinds of concepts with us being able to recolor them. 🙂 I couldn't resist the pun name I did for mine as well--Punky Brewer.

Fair, you may never need more than the base slot and an accuracy. I'm not sure if the Ninja personal attacks can be procced. Edit: I should have phrased it to be taking the personal attacks, slotting an acc IO in them, and using them regularly.

I don't quite understand your logic here, and maybe this line of thinking means MM's aren't for you, or you need to create a ranged MM concept. If you're going to play an MM with a melee based primary, then you should also be in melee range, which is also where Time wants to play anyway because of the Time's Juncture debuff. Time is a great secondary for MM's, including Ninjas, and you should be playing in melee range with them. You should also be playing actively and not passively--Ninjas aren't going to play like Bots/FF, you don't just stand there and do nothing while the bots do all the work. You should be giving at least some slots to your personal attacks and using them so you boost your Ninjas' chance to crit. You should also be actively using your secondary to mitigate incoming damage, debuff enemies, and boost your Ninjas. And once high enough level, sprinkling in pool/epic powers as needed. Btw, heals are not strictly needed on an MM. There are a few strong MM secondaries that don't have heals and you either build to be super tanky or you play where you plan to sacrifice your henchmen more and resummon as needed. HC drastically lowered the cooldowns and end costs of needed to resummon and rebuff henchmen. My Demons/Storm MM skipped O2 boost, partly because she's a villain, but also because I just resummon demons as needed--for the most part she causes so much chaos that it's rare the demons even need healing from me. Edit: Also, with the changes HC has made to primaries like ninjas, you should be slotting the upgrade powers. You don't have to give them extra slots if you don't have room in your build, but you should be putting Def/Res in the upgrade powers which will further increase henchman survivability.

I don't really understand this complaint. If you're not twinking, you're going to want your tier 1 & 2 attacks from your primary because you're not going to have the recharge to comfortably run an attack chain with only the higher level attacks. There is nothing in this game forcing you to take the damage aura at a low level if you don't want to and there's no reason for the devs to shift the tiers that the aura show up in. You get a free respec every 10 levels, plus the AH, and respec trials--you take the early attacks while still leveling in early game, then respec out of them later on once you're able to get better recharge and such to run the stronger attack chains.

After playing this character more, I'm not entirely sure if dark melee and psi armor go together; drain psyche makes two powers in dark melee pretty much useless, and as of now, I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Debating if I want to play her more or use a different brute.

Hoping to be there on Panthera Darke - Dark/Psi Brute. Will let you know if I need to change if I can't get her leveled in time.

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@Midnyte Hope you're doing okay. Haven't seen you around here for a couple of weeks. ❤️

And at least one powers dev hates/dislikes MMs. 😞

Ya know, that's fair. 😂

This!! MM's are still lacking reworks for 2-3 of the primaries, not to mention in dire need of some sort of new primary. I imagine the devs feel it's hard (and I think I heard at least one of the powers devs hates MMs), but man, we're the most sorely in need of a new primary. Regarding the OP: I don't see a place for a flamethrower as a full on powerset. I feel like it's better suited to just offer an alternative animation to fire blast/fire assault where you choose a gun to fire your attacks from.

Just a tiny note for your backstory, our bodies have pores, not pours. 🙂 I love the concept. Somewhere in this thread is my Water/FF corruptor who was in a beer accident and mutated to have beer powers.

I hope to be there on Blazing Arrows - Fire/TA Blaster If it's okay, her summer heat inspired outfit is a Coachella inspired fit.

Okay, y'all are gonna have to forgive me, my ADHD brain forgot the name of two of the folks with us today and don't have a screenshot of our team names because I didn't think of it (I also didn't think my brain was going to immediately forget two names just because they're not on the signup list either xD). I'm also too lazy to make my screenshots show this info because then it means rearranging my bars for pics 😛 TT Lineup for today (excluding Dom because I didn't realize they were hiding off to the side blending in with my mercs; sorry mate!) @TygerDarkstorm Xanthia - Mercs/Cold MM @Burnt Umber Caelum Ignis (Got the name from Frau's screenshot, just missing your secondary) Elec/Something Blaster @Purple Enchantress Moonbird - Street Justice/Ninjitsu Stalker @FrauleinMental Fraulein Mental - Mind/Kin Controller Domination Officer (thank you Frau for the screenshot!) 🙂 Arsenal/Martial (I think) Dominator @Jaxman100 Aura Reactor - Psi/Rad Tanker @Bananiac Battle Priestess Vea - Arachnos Soldier I tend to get fixated during TFs, so I always forget to grab screenshots during them, but this run went way smoother than our last attempt--we downed the crystal guardian dude in a matter of minutes. Poor Ban got caught by the same anti-fly debuff Umber and I had to deal with last time. Thank you all for the fun! Edit: Added the correct character names for Umber and our Guest.