MaestroMavius

Any sword that isn't real, I.E. Fire Sword in Blaster and Scrapper sets, Radiation sword in blaster set, etc.. I'd love an alternate animation that doesn't use the swords!!

JumpKick... wow that's an odd animation.

Tintable Hasten and SS.

Knock Out Blow animation for Total Focus. Pretty please!!

Fire Breath - Animate from hands instead of mouth. Maybe have two hands stretched out and slowly sweep around. Maybe use the Praetorian Police outstretched palm animation.

Normal standing pose for Ninja Run while not moving. I can deal with the anime run while moving. The constant hunchback while standing, not so much.

Reversible Rains. Rain of Fire, Blizzard. Have the animation start on the floor and rain up, like I'm summoning a pit of fire that shoots towards the sky.

More fly poses. Standing, Standing on an object like a disc, I'd love to have the hover pose as an option on fly for my ghost toons, even as an emote. (I'm one of the few that has a macro for the flyposes and I still love them!)

If you buy the complete collection it will indeed come with 1 free month of gametime. It will automagically be applied to your account when you upgrade the code.

I bought the GR complete at Best Buy day after launch. It was discounted $10 and after subtracting the free month I ended up getting it for less than $17.00!

You just landed on the one reason I won't play Fire Scrappers. Maybe one day I'll come up with a concept for all the fire swords. Til then it's just immersion breaking for me.

I think I'd do some recon first just to make sure I wasn't asking for trouble. Not the dangerous kind... The annoying kind.

Last thing you want is to go through all this and worry over etiqutte only to find



Star wars kid... Or Leeroy Jenkins type personalities. I'd try to make sure you actually want to associate with the person before inviting them into my gaming circle.

Your right. Get sucked right in. I stayed on the year I was born for ages hitting next.

You could stand or sit on the stairs somewhere they might walk by with a cell phone. Whenever someone walks by just start chatting about the hami raid the other night. Or how cool Blasters Nukes are. Wait for someone to take a second look, like they make the mental connection.

Then just wait for them to see you again and they will come to you.

Yeah. I hesitate every time making sure I spelled it right and everything.
Even though I seriously doubt anyone else has something even remotely close to @Maestro Mavius. When your sending tens of millions in a single email, caution is key.

First off: Welcome to the game!

Now my standard new player link.
paragonwiki.com
This is the place for instant info.

Your post is a tad bit hard to follow but I'll do my best.
If this is really your 1st toon, as much as I love MM's, I might suggest rolling another AT until you get past the learning curve.
My worry is that 1. If you use a MM to get over said curve then all other AT's might pale in comparison. and
2. MM's can be a bit tricky to get the hang of.

On MM's the 1st thing I do is create a goto macro.
Just type /macro go, petcom_all goto
Also, when you have the time. The guides section here is loaded with useful information.

Next, you'll want to right click on the follow button and edit it to be
follow defensive.

As for Secondaries I would suggest /Dark. It's an all around good set and will be able to do everything your looking for.
Out of the 3 Primes you listed:
Bots are ranged
Ninjas are all over the place
Demons... still to new to say. (I always avoid new sets for a few months so I don't get nerfed)

Bots will be amazing past level 32. But a recent bug has cropped up making ranged minions enter melee. A fix is in progress.

Ninjas have a reputation for being reckless. But with proper use of goto and passive this can be worked around and they have pretty good damage early on.

Demons are nasty at the moment. Nasty as in everyone looks at them and then feels the need for Cialis for their own character's performance anxiety.


I'm sure specific builds and what not can be provided for you but I urge you to experiment first.
This game is all about the journey to 50 and your not penalized for making numerous characters.

EDIT: by learning curve I generally mean reaching level 20.

As long as you don't delete the main account. It will still be in an email for all your alts. It's attached to your @Global which covers any toon you create.

I'm not understanding this new trend with people coming to the boards asking for advice and then slamming the responses by defending their build...

If you didn't want the build analyzed you shouldn't have included the Mid's. If all you wanted to do was point out that MM's are superior to Banes you shouldn't have included the Mids.

By doing so, you in effect asked us for advice on the build. So why the need to get defensive?

(Yeah I know, I'm not the type to 'call someone out' and generally refrain from 'knee-jerk' responses but this particular new trend has been bugging me. Makes me want to stop helping and I like being helpful.)

The problem is, those of us that aren't Ebil have very little understanding of all this 'Easy Money' you marketeers talk about.

Thankfully I've got 50's and glemail now to bankroll my alts.

Most people forget that you can sell drops at vendors. Others list everything that drops for 1 inf just to get the badges.
Then we have the majority of players, who don't realize all the nuances when it comes to the market. These are the 'Buy it Nao' crowd.

I noticed when I went to list my junk commons that even at 1inf (needed more slots on the lowbie) nothing was selling. Nothing.
That's when I noticed the 0 bids.
My 1st thought was it had to be bugged...

Shortly after, I realized a fortune was there for the taking. With nothing more than a few simple transactions and some running to the nearby clockwork vendor. But I'd already transferred a few million to that alt so I didn't invest the time.

But yeah, we need someone in game spreading the word so the
'forest floor' can be cleaned some.

It's that most annoying bug that actually got me to give Ninja's a try.
I'd avoided them for years based off the general feeling that they were reckless and squishy.

The day before I heard about GR I'd rolled up a Bot/Storm and fell instantly in love. But...

I shelved him, in order to wait and create him as a Praetorian Hero. This was to be my Blueside Soloist.

GR launched and I went to my saved costumes, recreated him as Prototype Protector and was off!! I was so excited to finally get around
to the Bot's...

Then the little bugger stormed right into melee, instead of standing beside me and blasting away. Must be a fluke I thought and kept playing.
Shortly after level 7 I just got fed up. My Drones would take a pot shot and then rush into melee and try to brawl the target to death.

This was not the way they were acting months ago. So I came here and read about the bug. Discouraged I decided to roll up a throwaway toon.
Figuring the bug might make Ninja's more playable, in a round about way, I created Spectral Samurai just to toy around Nova and see what Thermal was like.

He hit 20 before I knew what happened!! Now he's blueside working the cape mission.


My fear here is. When they eventually fix this bug I'm worried it will invalidate the way I've learned to play the Nin/Therm.
But, then again, I'll just turn Prototype back on if it does.

Nitpic: They are Epic AT's because of the storyline, not because they are designed to be Uber.

My 1st thought was naturally "Yes" There is nothing better than a well played MM.

Then I saw the reason your asking; He can't solo EB's.

This makes me think it's something wrong with the build. As my experience is EB's are generally a joke.
AV's on the other hand are next to impossible without the right combo.
Hopefully someone will show up soon with more detailed info for you.

That said. Masterminds are sick. Create one, make a goto macro, profit!!!
My Necro/Dark can even take on AV's solo, with the right prep of course.

Rift rider was just my way of saying my ninja MM was the 1st Praetorian I had to reach level 20. As the mission that sends you to Rogue isles or Paragon City concerns a Rift.

The falling down dead when dismissed started for me shortly after Demons were preleased. Think something with them broke the code.

As an aside. I rolled up my 1st Ninja MM to explore Praetoria and he quickly became my 1st Rift rider. However I noticed a few oddities.

1. Is there supposed to be a costume change when Train Ninja is applied?
Because neither the Genin or Jounin change at all. EDIT: The jounin has a wristbow appear but thats it. Is this WAI or Bugged?

2. Is anyone else unable to select a title in Praetoria? At any trainer with any character? When I click Set Title it pulls up a blank window.

Does have me curious what times Incarnates will be producing on the Pylons now that you mention it...

1. Clown summoning. (I know Posi's been against it in the past but he's no longer in charge so...)

2. Pirates. (Since we have bots and ninja's it only makes sense to make it a geek trifecta.

3. Better control over individual pets. Without the need for numerous binds/macros.

3. Radiation secondary.

4. Clone summoning. (Should be possible with the doppleganger tech, the tiers would be various levels of perfection.)

5. Elemental summoning. (Tier 1 Electricty Gremlins. Tier 2 Enlarged Fire Imps. Tier 3 Wind Jinn.

6. Beast summoning. (Yes it would require a skeleton that isn't bi-pedal...SCR applies here.)

/Claps

Bravo sir, loved the toon's names.

All I can say is...

Wait, nevermind.

I'm still speechless.

One of the coolest things ever for me in game was years ago.
Only a few months in for me and I jumped on a random pug in Steel Canyon.

The mission gets set and I start flying towards it. I'm panning my view around (still new and taking in the sights) when I notice another hero
race past me on the ledge of a building. I glance over and watch as they leap off and land on the next building and continue. Then I notice an orange glow zig zagging below me and see the green name, realizing it's one of my team mates racing at super speed. The moment I resume the camera to center a flash appears right beside me, it's another hero spreading his arms and vanishing as quick as he appeared, then bam! He's 10 feet in front of me then 20...

At that moment, with the four of us strangers all using iconic powers to get to the mission. Yeah I was hooked.

Then the leader flew past me.

Maxed out Blaster Total Focus ftw!




*This is personal opinion and should in no way be considered 'accurate'

Only real issue I see with this is the fact that quite a few enemy groups in game simply don't go past a certain level.

The reason you don't see Skuls in the late game is the group simply doesn't exist that high up.
Only groups I know of that could be 'Favored opponents' from 1-50 are
COT, Council and well I can't think of any others...


I already do this in game though. One of my toons has the concept that he was rebuilt after the Rikti war by the Council (6 million dollar man style)
and then promptly escaped. He now makes it a priority to hunt down Council soldiers at every chance. Specifically picking arcs that focus on them, etc.

Another toon I have spent levels 22 thru 30 soloing the BP mobs in Dark Astoria as it was in his concept that he had a personal vendetta against them for destroying his ancestor's souls.

So, I see what your aiming for. Just don't think it's currently possible without reworking all the groups in game to range from 1-50.

I've been rezzed by myself... sorta.

Was on my Necro/Dark. Got overwhelmed and ran out of inspirations. I fell and watched as all my minions collapsed, except my ghost! Poor little guy kept plugging away at the last sliver of health on a Lt.
I wasn't even watching my XP bar at the time. Was just about to hit the hosp. button when my ghost dropped the Lt.

Ding!! I was back on my feet with a bang. I was so shocked I had to just stand there and heal my wonderful little ghost, he'd earned it.