Aeroprism

Hello beautiful people. So this lovely scrapper of mine. Rad/Rad is level 24 now. I love the powerset combo but I found her... sluggish. So instead of going to a classic power pool, I went toward Force of Will, thinking "hey this is almost super jump AND I'll get two more useful clicks for my rotation until I get my later powers." Respecced. BIG MISTAKE. Weaken Resolve is arguably useful but takes forever to come back. Wall of force is just... not good. And to accommodate these two, I delayed Gamma Boost till later, another HUGE mistake, now I'm endurance starved every two pulls. Are those "alternative" powersets supposed to be any good, or am I just not using them properly?

Going on with my MM/Dark questions (should I just start a new topic?), I got two questions I'm 22 now, the only power available being Howling twilight, (I never team this character so...) I'm looking at power pools: Force of Will looks mighty tempting, it has a few decent attacks that can be used to manipulate foes, i really like Wall of force, and jumping is my favorite travel mode. Any thoughts? Which makes me wonder: I know that all three basic attacks in the MM lines have secondary effects but I'm thinking of speccing Call Swarm out. Would that be crazy? -7.5% defense is nothing to sneeze at but the damage is abysmal and the pack mentality chance is only moderate.

I just can't get over how awesome, mature and helpful the community is here!

Totally fun AT! I also just started a Bot/Elec Villain to try another angle. Motherbrain was already taken (Phantasy Star reference) so I went for Dura Mater. (Stern Mother, in latin)

I followed the advice given: started my battles by applying darkest night (making sure to turn it off as soon as reasonable to have it available for the next group), Tar patch is the group is larger than two or has a boss. Send pets, start pelting the debuffed target with my attacks since they do more than just damage. On average, my pets ravage everything without being hit even once. I tried the same mission as yesterday. The one where you face Leon and a group of 5th at the end. The alpha did kill my three wolves but my lioness and my character endured long enough to let my debuffs fully take hold. I re-summoned my wolves and went to town. Leon fell before his henchman were done. Fudge you, Leon. Well into the Montague story arc now, gained two levels, got Fearsome stare. Life is good.

You people are beautiful. So much good and interesting info there! I will post my current build shortly. Edit: This is my current build. Note that all my IOs are 20, and the red/damage IOs are actually the 5 free ones you get from the P2W. Villain Plan by Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer 2.7.2.10 https://github.com/Crytilis/mids-reborn-hero-designer Click this DataLink to open the build! Level 17 Magic Mastermind Primary Power Set: Beast Mastery Secondary Power Set: Dark Miasma Villain Profile: Level 1: Call Swarm -- Acc-I(A), DefDeb-I(5), DefDeb-I(5) Level 1: Twilight Grasp -- Heal-I(A), Heal-I(3), Acc-I(3) Level 2: Summon Wolves -- Dmg-I(A), Dmg-I(7), Acc-I(7) Level 4: Call Hawk -- Dmg-I(A), ToHitDeb-I(9), Acc-I(9) Level 6: Train Beasts -- EndRdx-I(A) Level 8: Tar Patch -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(11) Level 10: Darkest Night -- EndRdx-I(A), ToHitDeb-I(11) Level 12: Call Ravens -- Dmg-I(A), DefDeb-I(13), Acc-I(13) Level 14: Summon Lions -- Dmg-I(A), DefBuff-I(15), Acc-I(15) Level 16: Shadow Fall -- EndRdx-I(A) Level 18: Fortify Pack -- RechRdx-I(A) Level 20: [Empty] Level 22: [Empty] Level 24: [Empty] Level 26: [Empty] Level 28: [Empty] Level 30: [Empty] Level 32: [Empty] Level 35: [Empty] Level 38: [Empty] Level 41: [Empty] Level 44: [Empty] Level 47: [Empty] Level 49: [Empty] Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Dash -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Slide -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Quick -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Rush -- Empty(A) Level 1: Prestige Power Surge -- Empty(A) Level 1: Sprint -- Run-I(A) Level 1: Supremacy Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A) Level 4: Ninja Run Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A) Level 2: Health -- Heal-I(A) Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A) Level 2: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(17), EndMod-I(19) Level 2: Alpha Howler Wolf Level 2: Howler Wolf Level 2: Pack Mentality Level 14: Lioness ------------

Beast/Dark MM here, I just ragequit on a mission. Level 18, my notoriety is -1 level, team size 2, so I'm essentially fighting small groups of 4-5 blues. It goes kinda sorta well for the most part, but this end of mission had one yellow boss and some 5-6 blue minions. The alpha wiped my 3 wolves and my lion in about... point five seconds. I didn't even have time to drop tar patch or darkest night. Not to mention that the Dark heal takes 5 seconds to go off and has a suitable chance to miss. I'm starting to think I chose a very, very bad combo. Sucks. I like those beasts so much but yes, they ARE paper-fragile.

This. This is so awesome, it hurts.

Though I still plan to try Plant/Storm, I must say that Ill/Dark won me over for now. So here's Wrong Answer, my new Controller.

It's fine. Beast Mastery allows Sunscreen IOs to be slotted in.

Actually we get along better than ever. Communication, conciliation and most importantly: computers in different rooms 😛

Ill/Dark eh? Just for the concept alone this sounds fun. Might even play Red side. God knows I have enough blue side already.

So, this is what's what. Not quite the jungle look I aimed for, but it works.

Yes but just imagine how powerful they become if their armor is INVISIBLE.

Well, the last episode WAS about a quasi-naked jungle-lady. What did you expect? 😄

Oh I woudn't worry. I have been with the same person for a while now. In fact, when CoH first came out, we had been together ten years already.

Canadian High-Five! I'm a filthy frog from the general Montreal area.

I'm French-Canadian. We embrace cold as a way of life: clothes are optionnal. 🙂 Hey seriously, thanks for your help, I absolutely cannot wait to try this tonight and do some missions with my animal buddies!!

The belt was in the right. What I don't like about the barbarian female shorts is that they look more like lingerie and it's just silly. They don't look like something that would be worn by a jungle-themed character. A "tarzanette" would either wear fur shorts like you see in all the Conan or He-Man settings, or something very minimal that only covers the "please don't sue us this is not an adult game" bits. Because, you know, my wolves and lions are quite butt-naked. The costume piece I was yesterday was of the second category. It covered the frontal area but looked like a thong from behind. Edit: If I combine that belt with the "thong" color scheme from "bottoms with skin", that might be it.

It's similar to what you show there but is was a complete short. Edit: Then again, maybe it was a combination of that belt and a short. I will have to try things. And my Beast MM is not a Tarzan, but a Jane, so it's all good 🙂

Thanks for the answer! What I actually saw was a pair of shorts with a single large ring on them. My Beast MM character is barbarian/jungle theme (sue me, I'm a sucker for classics) and I use the "barbarian" set from "tops/bottoms with skin" but these shorts I was would work so much better! I guess I'll look again!

Using this awesome thread again for another quick question: Are there unlockable costume pieces? I saw someone pass by yesterday and thought "this is EXACTLY" what I need for my Beast MM character so I went to the trainer, hit the Customize Appearance thing and I've looked and looked, never found it. This is keeping me awake at night.

It's a tossup between Ill and Plant. [Insert "Why not both" Meme here]

I'm reading Illusion right now and it does look yummy and fun but why two stealth powers? Are they even useful solo? Edit: Super high defense. Answered my own question. I really, really need to install Mids designer... How does the stealth powers from Ill and Storm play with each other? Do they stack?

It's 18? My bad! This makes it a lot more accessible. On and I don't intend to solo AVs on any characters ever. I`ll be content with soloing missions 🙂