brophog02

It's not bad. Remember, you coordinate both parties, which is an enormous advantage.

What I do on my Ninja/Storm is to "deliver" mobs to them. I send them on a goto and gale/hurricane/herd their way. Pre-planning with the melee pets takes care of 95% of any potential AI problems.

My advice on the melee pets that really helps is to bind a goto command to an extra mouse button. That way it is point and click.

The hurricane advice above is great, and the easiest way to learn the power is with a MM, again because you're in full control. Just outside of hurricane range it will begin to debuff (right at about the edge of your steamy mist cloud). Think of it as a very delicate instrument, and treat it that way. If you want to really move mobs, that's what Gale is for. Hurricane works best with a little finesse. A lot of people treat the two powers the same, and therefore think Gale is useless, but that really couldn't be further from the truth. You should always use Hurricane with the lightest touch, remembering that mobs move directly away from the caster. Therefore, with Hurricane, they will move away from you in a fairly tight arc. With Gale, however, if you're far enough away from them they will move pretty straight from you, again because they are moving straight from the caster, and therefore in a predictable angle. It is therefore easier to move lots of enemies away from you, into a good clump with Gale than with Hurricane. Gale, however, operates with brunt force making it a poor tool for finesse, whereas Hurricane is perfect for finesse moves and nudging enemies around.

In time, you'll learn that even outdoor maps are at your beckon call. Drop freezing rain on a big spawn, throw down snowstom on the boss, and circle with Hurricane. You'll be amazed at how tightly you can get spawns. For this method, I like a little speed, but not necessarily superspeed. My stormies are about the only toons I take swift over hurdle with, because I like the speed of sprint+swift for this method.

Indoors, learn the "ping pong" method of handling tough bosses/EBs. Get them near the corner, or with practice even a wall with a protruding edge, and put them just at the edge of hurricane. Drop a Tornado behind you and let it push the enemy into the wall. They'll bounce up and down on Tornado while your Hurricane effectively pins everything in. With practice, you can get small spawns juggled in this fashion.

Storm takes practice in a sense that no other set really does, but it is amazingly rewarding when these and other methods are executed. With storm, don't think chaos, think containment. Most of your powers are AOE oriented, and the goal is really to utilize your awesome positioning tools to maximize that destruction, rather than having to resort to random chaos. Between the necro debuffs, hurricane, and a lot of slows and -recharge, very little will get much of a chance of hitting you.

It may be a tad slow to 16, and you may grow tired of using Gale as primary mitigation in the early levels, but by 20 you'll see that it was really worth the patience.

That will always happen, Hyper. Unfortunately, you're not going to get people to stand aroun and be courteous in that endeavor.

That's why the suggestion was made in test to increase the hit points of the GM (who seems to go down incredibly easy). An increase in the time between banners falling and the GM spawning have also been made.

(On that note, why is it CoX takes in so much feedback and yet doesn't utilize some of the most important stuff. Dozens of people told them what would happen with MA, and it happened that way......only to be a black eye for everyone. Every test event like this important notes like this are said, and way too many aren't put into place. If you're gonna take feedback, then you need to take all of it into some account and not just code created bug issues. The players tend to have a good idea on how things will go, particularly in the area of exploiting a commodity).