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I'm about to go to bed, but thankee kindly for the responses (especially this late at night. ) I'd like to take both ShaP and SupP, but I really need to skip a power from my secondary to fit in an attack, my PPs, and my PPPs. I'll certainly try out ShaP; again I'm just worried about that no heal period when grouping on 8 man teams on higher difficulties when there's lots of painful AoEs being thrown about (I'll probably do a mix of soloing and teaming on this MM). The clarification on SupP is majorly helpful, as I've read a lot of mixed reviews on the power. It also can be confusing when a corruptor or MM mixes up the Corr version with the MM version in a post.

The last time I played an MM BG mode didn't exist, so I'm still getting used to the whole Tankermind thing. I kind of wanted to take Hover for concept (and to make Teleport less annoying), but I may consider dipping into Presence for Provoke and try it out. Can't hurt right?

Again thanks for your input, hopefully I'll have things worked out by the time I17 hits OB.

I've decided that rather than going DS/Dark, I think I'm going to try out /Pain; the last time I played they didn't exist, and I've already gotten a Necro/Dark into the low 30's (a bit past 2nd upgrade).

I have two quick questions that I have been unable to find definitive answers for after searching around the MM and Corr forums:

First off, Share Pain vs Suppress Pain. I have read that both are skippable with more players seeming to favor doing w/o Suppress Pain if needed. After playing a /Thermal I can definitely see the merits of having another single target heal, especially one as meaty as ShaP; however, the fifteen secs of no healing concerns me. Fifteen seconds feels like an eternity, and I can foresee many deaths from AoEs or loose aggro during the no heal period that wouldn't have happened if I could pop a Respite or use NP. I realize that strategic use of the power will reduce these deaths, but I know I'm going to faceplant more than once because of it.

I have heard that SupP on the other hand is largely useless out of the box and even fully slotted is underwhelming. Personally I am considering taking it because I think it looks awesome, and I have heard that it makes a good set mule. (*Edit Scratch that; I've heard conflicting stories with some touting it as amazing (with prodigious use of BG mode) and others saying it's terrible. I'm really not sure what to believe at this point.)

If you are wondering, I cannot take them both because I am determined to have a personal attack on this MM for concept if nothing else; it is a nonnegotiable.

My other question is whether or not /Pain makes a good Tankermind. I don't really want to sacrifice a Pool pick to take Provoke, nor am I especially interested in tanking to begin with, but I am curious to see if it would be an option or even an expectation by teammates.

*Edit Also, how are /Pains at soloing AVs? I was able to solo a few on my /Dark, but it had built in -regen (among other things) so I'm not sure if /Pain will hold up nearly as well.


Any insight from the learned would be wonderful.

Ya, I was just warning you that your cries were probably falling on deaf ears.

I wish I had seen it before it was taken down.

Ya TR2 has been down for awhile.

I lied, it lasts 45 seconds with a 5 min recharge unslotted.

It was indeed released on the second of March, so it will have been a full month since their last release. Here's hoping.

They would have opened it b/w 9 and noon PDT if they were opening it today, at least that's their usual modus operandi. Better to hope for tomorrow at this point.

Well look at it this way: if you are in by the time you get past the queue you'll probably need to go to bed anyway. Who knows, maybe they'll open it to everyone tomorrow and it won't matter?

I was able to connect within ~5 min. Do you have a slow connection? Is your firewall blocking the Updater? Did you make sure to run the Updater as administrator if you have Vista or Win 7?

I was able to connect; hang on and I'll check to see if I still can.

Lol, I knew you'd chime in Jacks.

That's ok man, we'll start our own game studio and host our own CB, that'll show em!

Is anyone else starting to think of the CB as a big party that everyone's been invited to but you?

That's all you can do then; make sure you downloaded the EU client just in case.