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Yeah, this ended up being an issue for me the one and only time I've tried it. I grinded up Sara Falin and unlocked her alpha, only to spend pretty much the entire time on the floor. @TrixieKixx I've been working on Hallowed Sam, but she's only at level 37. Not sure if I can hit 50 and get her decently slotted and alpha slotted by Saturday. And still in debate if I'd be able to participate Saturday anyway because we're leaving for vacation Sunday and will be spending Saturday getting ready.

Demons/Thermal is thematic, powerful, and solid. 🙂

Empathy is neither here nor there, but if it's a set you really wanna play, I'd probably recommend it more on any other AT that gets the set (especially since MM's get the low end of the table in terms of buff/debuff percentages). It's not terrible, but its main focus is healing, which is nice, but reactionary, which is not the best way to help your pets. It's not horrible, but many of the other secondaries offer better support for your pets. If you plan to team a lot, then empathy won't be as terrible, but if you're going to solo, you'll be fine, but probably a little slow since emp won't really help your pets deal more damage and/or debuff your enemies. If you really want to go a healing/support route to your pets, I'd recommend Pain or Thermal instead as they have other useful goodies that actually benefit the pets.

All available costume components are unlocked and available on HC, so if they're available for player use, you should be able to find them in the costume creator.

Maybe if you're on mobile it's different, but it's there on my laptop.

I have an elec/dark brute, but she's still a baby (in the 20's I think), and I'm not great at making builds, so unfortunately I don't really have anything useful to add, just that it's a fun combo.

@SmalltalkJava made some really great points in their post that you should take into consideration. Also, as this is your first time playing kin, I'm not sure I'd advise starting off with a beast/kin MM. Kin is a very busy and active set and trying to balance it with managing already fast melee pets might be tough. By all means, give it a shot, but beware it might be more frustrating than fun until you get the hang of everything. And if you haven't already, I highly recommend these numpad binds for pet control: I make MM's so frequently I have this thing favorited/bookmarked and almost always open in one of my tabs so I can load the binds in for a fresh MM.

I think we need more clarification here. You're being a bit vague and it's kind of tough to figure out how to respond to this. If you've played kinetics on any other AT, then you'll know it plays pretty much exactly the same on an MM. Beasts are a nice pairing for /kin because /kin likes to play in melee and beasts are melee pets, and the beasts are pretty tanky on their own, so /kin's lack of buffs in that regard doesn't hurt them as badly. Beasts are already pretty fast, so be careful when smacking them with speed boost--the super zoomies are fun, but can make them a bit hard to keep track of to make sure they don't do like the ninjas and take off to aggro extra mobs. This is a powerset combo that likes to play hard and fast. If you don't like risking needing to resummon pets in combat (mostly while leveling before you get all the upgrades and slotting stuff) and/or needing to keep a tight leash on your pets, then it may not be the powerset combo for you. However, @The_Warpact is right, the only way you'll know if you like the combo and "get" it, is to play it. Maybe don't run DFB, perhaps skip the double xp booster, perhaps even try soloing with it through some missions or something. If this is to be your first try with an MM, then I'm not sure I would recommend beast/kin as a pairing until you've gotten the hang of how MM's play.

It is indeed a lot of zoomie fun. 😄 I have a beast/kin, and yeah, sometimes it's almost a bit too chaotic to try and manage, but it can certainly be some good fast-paced fun as a different type of playstyle.

I didn't enjoy Beasts/TA either. Seemed like a good idea, but I ended up hating it. 😅

@Bananiac I always love seeing your commentary. 🙂 @Midnyte I've never really done the TF, and never actually know what to call it/them because I see it advertised so many ways. TinPex just seems to be the most common way I see it in LFG so that's just what I said because I couldn't remember. 😅

Those pics turned out great @Midnyte!

I'm torn between AT's, lol. 🤣 On one hand, I love MM's, but not sure how viable one would be for doing high-end stuff; I remember being faceplanted the last time I tried TinPex on one, lol. I'm also torn between Corruptor, Blaster, Defender, or Warshade. 😅

Love this!

Just out of curiosity, what AT's are some of y'all thinking of bringing to the TinPex? Trying to figure out what I might want to take to 50 and get slotted, lol.

I don't think the level at which you acquired the power means much when you're doing a respec. Unless you mean you have/had one more slot available than you actually should have had while performing the respec. Otherwise you're free to slot those powers as you see fit while performing a respec; it's one of their benefits.

Oh nice, I love your concept! I have a character along a similar theme: Echolocation Gal (Sonic/Sonic Defender) This is her dolphin inspired look. I plan to make a bat and maybe whale one as well.

I'm aware the looks are totally different, but I can't believe no one beat me to this for Beelzeboss:

If you're sure. Like I said, I don't mind coming up with a different concept since I'm not overly attached to any particular hero.

Oh that's awesome! Please, you take Poison Ivy; I'm not particularly attached to any one hero over another, so it would be no trouble at all to come up with a different concept. 🙂

Thank you! I had a feeling there was something I was missing, lol.

If he's a DP/Inv Sent, where did the sword come from? 🤔

Is this a special form that can only be used on Fridays? 😛

That's what I mean, lol. I don't really have any, and don't really have time to get them leveled. We'll see what I can end up doing.

@TrixieKixx For next week's theme, I'll be bringing Poison Ivycat - Plant/Psi Dom. In case you couldn't guess, she's paying homage to Poison Ivy. 😛