TygerDarkstorm

If you go to Menu -> Options -> Windows then scroll to pets, you can enable the pet window. But beyond that, it's like Lunar said, only MM's can actually command/direct their henchmen

To start with, what are your goals with the character? Pain & Kin both lean themselves more towards grouping (though they can be played solo, of course). Kin brings buffs that pretty much everyone loves and likes to play up close in melee range; min/max with Kin is to go Fire/Kin. Fire/Dark is also a very solid/strong pairing. You should be getting recharge slotted into Tar Patch and dropping that as often as you can. You should be able to strafe/kite through your tar patch. Take Howling Twilight and wield it offensively; I believe the stun on it is auto-hit. You also have Fearsome Stare for CC; blast that and then single target groups down if your AoE isn't spicy enough to down 'em safely. If you still want to go Pain or Kin (I mean, we've 1000 slots, try 'em all!), then Pain you can pretty much pair with anything. It's a heal set. If you don't want to do Fire, Kin also pairs well with Electric for a sapper style build. But Kin is another that goes with pretty much any blast set that plays well in melee.

Before folks go crazy with these, only very specific versions have had their copyright expire - the Winnie the Pooh from the books (If you make one with a red shirt, you are still in violation of Disney's copyright on their version), and the Steamboat Willie Mickey & Minnie. Using any other variation is still a violation.

Fully agreed with trying out any secondary that sounds fun to you; you never know what will click! That said, both suggestions from evetsleep are great, and I'll also tack on Demons/Storm, Demons/Traps, Demons/Sonic, Demons/Nature. Truly, they work with pretty much everything. Demons/Storm is my favorite so far--absolute end hog, but my god does she shred through things. I don't run heals on her either; if the demons die, I resummon them.

I look forward to the pics from your guys' run today. 🙂 For next week, provided nothing pressing crops up, Phoenixia has decided that she will deign to be cutesy for this. 😛 Phoenixia - Thugs/TrickArrow Mastermind

It's okay, I know you were trying to joke and I'm not sure why it came across as a bit off. My daughter is an only child and is naturally very shy, quiet, and very clingy to me. She's doing well with school, but I wanted her to have some sort of activity outside of school where we can be around other girls/kids, and since she's not into sports, we chose Girl Scouts. Yeah, the girls can be a bit wild sometimes, but I've also gotten to watch my daughter start coming out of her shell, making new friends, and they get to learn and do so many really cool things and it lets her and I bond as well. ^_^ I apologize for getting upset. Hope you all have a great run today! 😄

I know you were joking, but I guess I'm the only one who doesn't think this is funny.

I've attached the costume file for what I came up with based on googling Knight Templar knighttemplar.costume

I was going to try and bring a brute, but just remembered I can't be there tomorrow anyway because of Girl Scouts. Have fun y'all.

I don't have an answer for why it does that, but yes to keeping the same global even if you delete the toon, and you can also choose to change your global name.

Trials are a little different in this, at least DFB is. You can recruit mid DFB. Though yeah, probably best to treat them all similarly as like a "raid" in WoW where it's something you should be dedicated for the entire time.

Mercs/Traps is a lot of fun. I play Traps fine on even fast moving teams; you learn to pick and choose which abilities you can use reliably.

Omg, using the spectrum face under the dragon hat like that is brilliant! I have a character who's wearing it kind similarly, but it doesn't look nearly as good as yours. So cool!

I agree that cones are sucky, but idk, I joust in and out of melee on my doms and some blasters and I guess I don't mind that playstyle.

I think I paired Rad Assault with Earth Control, but I'm liking this idea of pairing it with Grav for the reasons you've given here. To the OP; I think Rad Assault gets skipped over for a lot of the same reasons people don't like Total Focus or take Rad Melee on melee toons--the animations/activation times are so slow that you're often corpse blasting on fast moving teams. I imagine it's perfectly workable solo though where it's less likely to happen.

I unfortunately don't really do builds; one of those things I have trouble wrapping my head around. I just soak up a lot of random knowledge between here and playing lol. Hopefully one of the folks good at building can take a look for you and help out!

I honestly haven't delved a ton into it, but I'd think that anything that doesn't mind being in melee range. I think Psy prefers range, but Elec, Rad, Dual Pistols, Seismic, and probably others I can't think of off the top of my head. Like I said, I have an Energy/Martial blaster; they're a bit at odds, but it's still a really fun combo to play if you really wanted to try Energy/Sonic. Personally, I have a DP/Sonic & Seismic/Sonic, but I've been out of the game for a while so I haven't played them super recently.

Have you looked at /Sonic's powers? That was why I was asking. Energy doesn't lend itself well to blapping though as it's loaded with knockback, unless you want to convert that KB to KD. Granted, I have an Energy/Martial blaster that is a load of fun. If you want a more ranged concept, Energy/Energy, Energy/Devices, Energy/TA are pairings I can think of off the top of my head.

If you do not want to blap, why are you choosing to go /Sonic? One of /Sonic's best -res powers is a toggle that requires you to be in melee for it to be effective, not to mention its hardest hitting attacks are melee ones (actually, arguably 80% of its powers are melee).

Tranquilizer does work... but it's so rare that it's not worth even trying to use it like the power description says; e.g., as a means of taking out one enemy temporarily. Basically, if you don't see orange numbers pop up when you use it, it slept the target instead. But it's so subtle that you may as well not even notice unless you're spending extra time looking for it. Frankly, I hate having to choose between a single target sleep or AoE sleep as my first power pick. Both options are kind of sucky, and the sleep in Tranq is so low, my freaking origin taser was sleeping targets more regularly. Not to mention, the Tranq sleep in Arsenal is so not-obvious that you're just as likely to keep blasting the target rather than incapacitating it like you might be wanting to. It also made for kind of a crappy level one power if you decide to take off and do missions/street sweeping right away instead of doing DFB/PI's/etc. as the sleep effect is rarely procs, Be prepared for lots of kiting those initial groups of Hellions for Matthew Habashy. I don't recall feeling as weak on other troller primaries for this mission.

It's a passive effect that "turns on" when you're in defensive/follow mode. Also, if you want more precise control over henchmen, I highly recommend these numpad binds:

@TrixieKixx I apologize, but can I please switch my toon? I tried playing the Ill/Sonic and hated it. Instead, I'd like to bring Illusionary Sora - Illusion/Energy Dominator. Thank you 😄

Ooooohhh, I'm going to have to try Dark/Poison sometime. I've had some minor survivability issues on my Earth/Poison after getting Venemous Gas, but I think that comes down a lot to needing to work on her slotting and playstyle (she's level 33). But considering how slow Earth can feel, Poison seems to give it some much needed help in that department by weakening foes. Might have to go give mine some love again, lol. But yeah, hard to avoid the poopy theme, lol. The below is what I went with:

And can be quite thematic! I may have childishly gone the stinky poop route with mine lol

Why? Masterminds are already classed as a support class in this game.