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Thugs and Bots kind of reach a whole new level once you get entangling aura to hold things in burn patches. I'd recommend testing up to at least 40 before really deciding.

Burn/caltrop patches 😞

When they changed TA I became quite obsessed with trying make different permutations of it on different AT's. Love my ta/sonic defender to death (Sonic Penetrator). For MM's it's quite sick on defense based sets...especially BOTs. Not sure which is my favorite but of the below the robots are probably the sturdiest and highest damage output (when not exempting): Bot/TA - stupid survivability and damage post 32 Thugs/TA - good survivability and damage from start to finish Beasts/TA - no obvious synergy but does really well if you find other creative ways to light the oil patch Zombies/TA - honorable mention. The stacking -tohit and self heals post 32 really turns these guys into quite the force to be dealt with.

Oh? I didn't know that. I thought if it was anything but DEF+Follow it would break. I'll give that a try!

I absolutely love to play MM's, but once I start to run into things like caltrops and burn patches (where pets go absolutely bonkers) I quickly get frustrated. I know I can command my pets to "stay", but that breaks bodyguard and is problematic with melee pets of a mob moves out of melee range. Is there any trick or suggestion on how to deal with these types of attacks? I know that some secondary's have things like a hold that could help (assuming there's only one MOB to lock down), but maybe I'm missing some approach that isn't obvious. Am I missing a good compensating strategy at higher levels?

Switching to a directly HDMI connection from my laptop to my monitor instead of my USB (DIsplayLink) hub solved it. Not sure why thought, but it started after the 20H2 update. 😕 Kind of annoying that I cannot use my hub, but I'll live.

Holy moly my hero! That worked. Thanks!! Actually when I tried running it from my laptop it did work, but I normally play through my larger monitor (via a DisplayLink hub). I tried that and it didn't work. So it's something with the hub. I think there was a driver update for that as well which got applied...time to unroll that. Thanks for the suggestion though!

I updated last night to the latest Windows 10 build (20H2) and now when I click Ready in the Homecoming launcher the Loading banner starts and then goes away after a few minutes, but I never get the City of Heroes login screen. I looked in the event log and it looks like cityofheroes.exe crashes each time I try to launch it via the Homecoming launcher: Faulting application name: cityofheroes.exe, version: 1.0.3738.64, time stamp: 0x60220200 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 10.0.19041.844, time stamp: 0x60a6ca36 Exception code: 0xc0000409 Fault offset: 0x000000000008c57f Faulting process id: 0x31fc Faulting application start time: 0x01d715976ffd2183 Faulting application path: \\?\C:\CoH\Homecoming\bin\win64\live\cityofheroes.exe Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll Report Id: 1c2df690-6cfe-4a14-8625-ef9e0fc07e0b Faulting package full name: Faulting package-relative application ID: Any ideas on what I can try? I've tried using both verity and uninstall\reinstall via the HC launcher and still have the same problem (and multiple reboots). Thanks for any ideas!