TygerDarkstorm

To sort of add on to the OP's question: With TW suffering from such long animations and needing to build up momentum, is this a primary better left to people who have maxed out 50's that can farm tons of inf for their TW character to have IO's? I tried to roll a TW/bio scrapper because I was curious about it supposedly being overtuned right now, but I got bored before level 5 because it felt so slow. I am a newly returning player (from live like 10 years ago, lol) and am kind of enjoying the game at my own pace. I never did a whole lot of hardcore end game in live, so I'm not in a rush to hit 50 right now. Because of that, would TW be a bad choice to go? Will the leveling be absolutely agonizing without being able to get IO's? I imagine it will get nerfed by the time I would even be able to get a TW/bio brute going, but the idea of swinging a giant weapon around is appealing in theory, if it can also be enjoyed while doing solo missions and occasional teaming to level.

I am by no means a master MM or anything, but I thought I would offer my two cents over my experience in the early leveling process of beast/nature. I chose the powers for thematic reasons, and did great until about level 10 (soloing missions in Praetoria). After that, my pets and I started getting squished, a lot, and I found the character a bit unenjoyable to play. So I rolled a beast/time MM and boy did I find myself enjoying her! I know /time needs levels before it really gets going, but just from this early perspective I already thought the play experience was much better. Granted, I rolled blue instead of gold and joined DFB's and Posi TF's because I wanted those experiences and to try and see if I could maintain my pets in a group situation. But the times I was/do solo, I feel more comfortable having /time than /nature. As always, YMMV, and other, far more experienced MM players may have gotten much better use out of the beast/nature combo than I did. Edit: And after coming to the boards here, I think I'm going to re-roll out of beast/ entirely. I enjoy them thematically, but have been a bit underwhelmed with them in game, and after coming here to the boards, I know why. I think I will be re-rolling my beast/time MM to thugs/time since I already have demons/thermal.