TygerDarkstorm

Oh cool, nice to see someone else utilizing this MM combo! Mine's still sitting in her... 20's I think, but I hope to experiment with her more.

I made this costume for my ElecMelee/DA brute, Nebula Storm, for Christopher Robin's costume contest theme for this week, and liked it so much I wanted to share it here as well!

So for this week's theme, I had a perfect toon that seems to fit! I present Nebula Storm, an electric melee/dark armor brute, and pictured here with and without her toggles on (I wanted to show it with the toggles because those combined with the aura help create the "cosmic" effect). Her skin is as close to D6 as I could get it. Then... A7: Hair, chest, gloves, bottoms, cape, aura, chest detail D6: Head detail 1, shoulders, belt, chest detail, boots, cape (clasps and inner detail) D10: Hair, cape (clasps), belt K3: Face (makeup 4), head detail 1, chest, gloves, boots, bottoms, cape Dark Armor's color palette changes from the costume palette a bit, so I did my best to get the aura to be a blend of an attempted match of K3 and D10. Chose the lines pattern to resemble constellations

Luckily for those of us who love this AT and main or near main it, the devs themselves have already come out and said that they will not be making the upgrades auto. It may be on your wishlist, but that does not make it a good idea, nor a needed idea, and now, one the devs have actively said they will not be implementing on this server. People requesting this without good arguments to back up why other than their personal feelings seem to forget that MM's pets ARE their source of damage, and they are (at a supremely basic level) almost a hands-off form of damage in comparison to other AT's. If MM's did not face certain taxes for their ability to have their pets deal their damage entirely for them (thus not having to expend their own endurance/health if we're going super basic here and not counting the secondary), they would be like the most OP AT in the game. Do MM's have issues? Of course. Will making upgrades auto fix them? No, not really. Not to mention the other potential havoc it would wreak on the game and other AT's. I am not a hardcore gamer, a min/maxer, or whatever, but I sure do not want to keep seeing people actively trying to make this game even easier than it already is. Even worse is requests coming from people looking to actively degress an AT simply because they do not like nor understand it. If the whole upgrade thing is a mountain you want to die on, then please, MM's are not the AT for you and you should go play a crabbermind or controller or something. I have always loved pet classes--they're usually my default in any game I play that offers them--however, MM's always sort of eluded me back on live because of their complexity. Upon my return, they are probably my most played AT. But I am by no means a master of them; I'm still pretty novice compared to people like @TheSpiritFox who live, breathe, and eat MM's. Are his posts a bit abrasive? Sure, but that doesn't mean that they aren't super knowledgeable and seem to actively know what they are talking about. But please, to you and everyone like you who keeps making these absurd and rather baseless requests, please stop trying to advocate changes for an AT that you do not understand. Building a character and playing this game should require some level of thought. If you do not want to put the time in to really get how to play an MM, then please go play some other AT. I don't go around the boards to the other AT's that I can't figure out asking for changes that would seem like a good QoL but actually be detrimental. I just cannot seem to figure out HEAT's--I figure that just means they're not the AT for me and call it a day. I may fiddle with them on occasion, but I try not to complain and try to seek out info on what I am doing wrong and could improve. In other MM news, has anyone else fiddled with Mercs on the beta to see if the new changes to Full Auto have helped them? On a whim I created a Mercs/Thermal MM, bumped her to 40 and threw some IO's in her. Currently running missions at 0/x3, went up against CoT and managed nicely. But then I realized, I don't play mercs all that heavily on live to properly be able to try and compare how the damage output feels now. >_<

Yeah, I very rarely ever play male characters, lol. Idk what it is, but there's something about the males I don't like as much and I have trouble relating to as a woman irl. Lol.

I will join with Cyberetica, my peacebringer, who will also be dressed as an angel. 🙂

Is this thief also going be caught for stealing pistols as well? I've had issues where my thugs (MM pets) don't show as having their pistols (e.g., are shooting from empty hands) and where my character has occasionally not had their pistols (though on this I am having trouble remembering if it was the thugs MM or a DP toon.

I just noticed that Tyger's face looks like the Joker from the Christian Bale Batman movies. 🤣 Why so serious?!

Congrats Clawdebt!

One of the best things about this game is that you very rarely need to have a "well balanced" team to clear content. As Jax pointed out, a team of 8 defenders can absolutely melt content. Should be fun times for us. 🙂

Thank you for the more detailed explanation @oedipus_tex

Detoggling has been explained over and over around here lately. It's even partially explained by @ForeverLaxx in this thread. In a sense, there is really no such thing as "unexpected detoggling." Meaning, there is always a reason why one or more of your toggles dropped. Offensive Toggles (e.g., Beta Decay): If you get mezzed, even if it's only for a split second (i.e., you got hit by a sleep, but it didn't last long enough for you to notice because you were then healed or damaged right away, thus, breaking the sleep), then your offensive toggles will drop. Defensive Toggles: I'm fairly certain the only ways these can drop is if you click them off, you die, or you run out of end. This game has very little challenge and tactics and such left in it as is, let's not advocate making it even easier by suggesting the enemies should never, ever be able to detoggle us. As it is, you can build for and/or plan for keeping your toggles from dropping by knowing what causes them to drop, what type of toggle they fall under, and adjusting your playstyle accordingly.

Man, that's a tough choice, and I'm not familiar with his reference, but I think that green glasses glow and HUD look pretty awesome. I kinda like the bright pop. But like I said, such a tough choice because the red was pretty cool too in its subtlety.

Bots/Nature MM? If so, man is that a fun combo; I love mine!

I decided to use Bunnie Bombshell for this contest and took "shock value" in a bit of a different direction. 😉

@TrixieKixx I'll be there on Tyger Darkstorm, Dark/ElecAff Controller 🙂

I found this really detailed explanation the other day: https://forum.cityofheroesrebirth.com/index.php/topic,13.0.html

If you are in defensive mode, then your pets will attack so long as you are being attacked. If you get a runner, or otherwise mez the mob, then yeah, you're not being attacked anymore and the pet AI tells them to go back to their master. So yes, I have noticed this happening, and no, it doesn't bother me I guess (I have something like 20 different MM's, lol). I mean, part of playing an MM is pet management, so yeah, I stance dance between defensive, aggressive, and occasionally passive and I make excessive use of the "attack my target" command. On my bots/nature, I like to throw out the little ground patch, command my bots to "go-to" it and then throw them on aggressive.

Apologies! She must have added that later and I totally missed it!

Rainbow colors, hun, needs to be one of the colors listed in Trixie's post that's from the rainbow. 🙂

A lot of what you're asking for is already available in the rez in Pain Domination. Also, this game does not have, nor need, healers, and if that's how you're playing your empathy character, then you're gimping yourself and possibly your team. And I suspect that you'll run into the cottage rule looking to make that big of a change to empathy's rez.

My Necro/Elec Aff is pretty tanky, though she's not slotted yet. My Bots/Nature is quite tanky and lots of fun to play, especially once I got her slotted with her basic IO's. Beasts can be surprisingly tanky, and they pair nicely with just about any secondary--if you like a fast, in your face style, /kin is great, though a bit squishier than what you're probably looking for. The toughest pet sets are Demons, Bots, Thugs, and Beasts (though to a lesser extent). Demons and Bots both have pets that can heal each other, so they lend themselves nicely to secondaries that may not (i.e. /cold, /TA). Bots/FF is probably the tankiest option and one of the "classic" MM pairings, and it is also a very hands-off, slow playstyle, so if you like something more active, this may not be the pairing for you. One of my new favorite things to do is experiment with MM combos and see what happens/what works (or doesn't work). You have 1000 slots per server, pick one (or all) of the tanky powersets and then start matching up secondaries. 🙂

I'll bring Kincatic, Beast/Kin MM and I'll be yellow

Sorry for the last minute notice but I won't be able to make it. I've gotten sick and have a lot of work to do. Have fun!

They're under tops with skin, not shirts.