TygerDarkstorm

I am a diehard lover and player of MM's, but nothing makes me feel like as much of a walking 1-woman army as playing my Ill/Traps controller. It doesn't really start to feel noticeably good until the later levels, but once you get there, it almost feels godly, lol.

My apologies, I need to amend my previous post; the cheap cooling pads were crapping out too quickly, iirc. I was also having a harder time keeping them cleaned out, even with the compressed air cans. I can't fully remember, just that I was getting frustrated and starting googling for other options and came across that Afmat and splurged on it. But again, it's one of those things that works for me because my laptop is pretty much stationary at this point. If you plan to take it places, that Afmat is super bulky and awkward to travel with. And if your laptop is newer than mine, it probably won't have as many issues (mine's also been dropped on accident a few times and has gotten partially warped). I'm actually impressed with how well my laptop handles the game, especially when the cooling pad is running. I can do most things on the second highest graphics setting levels; I usually only have issues during MSR's, but if I don't run anything on my second monitor, then I can usually leave my graphics up (and turn off screen shake of course). (Sorry, I have a tendency to overexplain things. >_<)

I tried 2 or 3 of those cheapo cooling pads and still had issues with my laptop overheating, personally. So I splurged on this https://www.amazon.com/Cooling-Flexible-Colorful-Adjustable-Speed-Black/dp/B085DPTFJM In case anyone else might be in need.

Somehow my eyes skipped from Fister right to "Beat them all off" and I was just dead. 🤣

I can't speak to your laptop itself, but if you're really unsure about trying to play on a laptop, they can be given a desktop-like setup. That's how I run my primary laptop (which is also the one I use for playing CoH). I have it propped up on a stand and it feeds a second monitor and external peripherals (mouse and mechanical keyboard). Granted, I didn't do this just for gaming, but also for college purposes because I have tendonitis and find trying to use a laptop the "regular" way to be annoying. Plus, they get hot doing things like gaming, and your lap is a bad spot for that when it happens. My poor laptop is old enough now that keeping it in a perma-desktop setting doesn't really affect its portability because it doesn't last more than an hour on battery mode and overheats so badly it pretty much stays glued to a cooling pad (one that actually "seals" around the bottom of my laptop helping to pull the hot air out and push cold air in iirc).

"It's just a jump to the left..."

Isn't this combo a delight? I love doms, but haven't really gotten /Savage to work for me (in terms of meshing with a primary and character concept that I really liked). Until I paired it with Illusion/. Idk what it is, but something about this pairing just makes for fun, though I suppose it helps I had a concept for it almost instantly when it was still in beta. My Mercs/Traps MM also became so much more fun now. I was making it work, but oh did this most recent page make them great. All those spent bullet casings on the floor finally mean my boys did real damage, and not that they were spending mass quantities of ammo tickling opponents. 🤣

Your take mirrored what people like @oedipus_tex determined about it in the beta as well; /Fire and /Dark are probably Symph's best pairings on a dom. I know some folks keep trying to pair it with /Sonic, and I'm sure it can be made to work, but the two sets are very much at odds with one another considering Symph wants to be at range and /Sonic wants to be in melee. Otherwise yeah, I prefer Symph on a troller as well.

It is, and it does. It requires a lot of team work and coordination. @Bananiac I am completely swamped with school work; I barely have time to read the forums, let alone log into the game, so I am still out for TT, sorry

I don't enjoy passive MM's either, and I always get confused when I see other MM's just standing around doing nothing while their henchmen attack. I think that's why I rarely play more passive MM secondaries. I play pretty much all of my MM's actively. And I mean no disrespect to you by saying that either! 🙂 I understand that everybody has their own means of making the game fun for them, and it's certainly not like you can't make a petless MM work in PvE. Kudos to your project. 🙂

Same situation for me. I hesitate to purchase anything by Razer because the few products of theirs I did have all broke down well-short of when they should have compared to my Logitech gaming products.

You can get aether particles and aethers from running regular content and WST's as well.

Oh man that's so cool! Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla was my favorite as a kid, and I probably haven't seen it since then, lol.

Not totally related, but interestingly the temp blast pets do show up on your buff bar. Not perfect, but does offer some means of keeping track of them.

I think it also depends on how you level too. Like, if you're running through DFB, especially if you're running the 2xp, chances are you're not going to want/need that travel power at level 4, you're likely going to be more interested in that next attack/support power, especially for the Vahz boss badge. And it's not like it has to be at level 4 or not until way later. You can take it at any of those levels in-between as well if you really want it early on, but not at level 4. Regardless, I'm glad the option exists. I'm glad others can take the powers sooner if that's what they want, and that the option is still there for those of us who tend to wait a little longer to grab our travel powers (or go without entirely! lol. I think I have one toon that didn't take one at all).

And this is why it's an option now. I'd say like 90% or more of my characters don't take the travel option at level 4. But if people want to have that option and let their attack chain suffer, then they should be able to (also, with the p2w attacks, you're not killing your attack chain all that much anyway). Taking away options is generally not a good idea.

According to whom? I've run 2 Yins recently and did not see any reason to cry that the sky is falling the way some of y'all have been since the beta. Yes, I know, anecdotal and only a couple of runs so far, but, at least so far on Everlasting, it wasn't some doom and gloom thing and both runs (one at +2 and one at default) ran in about the same time as Yin usually seems to take.

I imagine you'll still be /Kin spamming even with the necro changes; you'll probably want to invest some slots into the first upgrade power for some extra resist to help keep the zombies up.

Spoopy time characters? T'is Hallowed Sam's favorite time of the year...

I run my Elec/Elec as a Corr and I really like it. It's super fun to see Scourge on top of Shocked. Whether it's gimped compared to the Defender version? Idk, but it's still effective and I have fun.

*shrug* There's sets like that for both AT's. Mind Control is better on doms than trollers.

Strategies and such discussed at length here: And here: Look for the post by Captain Powerhouse on page 9 in case it didn't link right. He gives an in-depth breakdown of how the pet works. I'm still not thrilled about the Reverb's change to being a ranged AI. I know WHY they did it, but on the default AI he made for an amazing tank (at least on my Symph/Sonic test controller). I'll probably be forever salty about that change, lol. Otherwise, Symphony was intended to have a different playstyle from the other control sets, and imo, is better on a controller than a dom because it really wants to have its powers used like blasts and used more frequently than doms tend to use theirs. The confuse wasn't really intended to be used as an opener, though I was able to cheese it some in testing where if I did it at max range it sometimes wouldn't notify all the mobs.

Yeah, it's not been a one-off issue for me either. I'll have to start paying closer attention to it.

I've had this issue on several different AT's. It always seems to happen randomly, and I just sorta attributed it to lag or something with my computer so haven't put too much thought into it and didn't note which AT's and what I was doing. For me, it seems most noticeable when I'm in teams, especially when there's a lot of other effects going on.

You are so awesome Myshkin. I utterly love the idea of the chaos a Storm/Energy would cause just knocking everything around lol. I may have to actually get over my nerves at my lack of skill and just try it and play it and learn it lol.