gameboy1234

Well booger. It *used* to give you a search box. :/

Right, so the OP might have to go to Kings Row or The Hollows for some arcs for a while.

Kings Row might be good because that's where the next Twinshot arc happens. Take the Tram, and head over.


Edit: And yes, this is the "newbie" forum. No worries.

Masterminds and controllers are 300 points each. (Normally 1200 points.) It's weird these two are more expensive but that's the way it is.

There's also a New Player Pack in the store, for 0 points. Yup, free. It's a nice little welcome package for folks. (It's under Account Services -> System Unlocks.)

Wiki or no, I can personally tell you that I've made the $50 purchase a couple of times, and the 600 bonus points counted both times.

Personally I think that this is the expensive way to do it. Remeber, you can pick Merits for your mish rewards in DA. You have a chance to get either Astrals, or Empys. And Taskmaster Gabriel in DA gives 2 Empys for completing a full set of DA missions.

After you get all the common components you need, you should stop selecting Component from the reward table and switch to Merits. That way you can start building up the Empys and Astrals you need for incarnate abilities above the first Tier.

I'd speak up when the group is forming. Ask if newbies are welcome, and if the leader will have time to explain things. Or if they are speed running, best to stay away if you want to learn, and wait for the next group.

You could post on your server forums and ask. That might be better than waiting for a random group to form that suits your needs.

I'd consider running some TF for newbies, but there's the question of "how newbie." Good players who are new, no problem.

OTOH, folks who have "special needs," are afk a lot, follow the leader means wander off and aggro three groups, take 20 minutes to load, suddenly develop "life issues" half way through the TF, etc. It's frustrating when you feel like you are being taken advantage by folks claiming to be "new."

This is important too. You can't make bad teams into good teams by yourself. If a team is bad, it's bad no matter what you do. Some powers don't gel, some players can't adapt or be taught.

OTOH, as an example, a team I was on was having trouble last night. Folks were dying left and right, and completing missions was a chore. Our leader left in disgust (after taking some ribbing for picking /Pain Dom, and then not taking any powers in it after the first). We got a Tanker and an Ice/Cold Defender to replace him. Suddenly our fortunes reversed. We could handle anything, and nobody died even once, despite large numbers of Arachnos ambushes on one map.

That reversal was a combination of factors. Tank + Defender on a team which had neither was a big boost. Loosing a cranky player was too. It's just the way the game is.

I was going to say the same thing. At least you should try a tanker. You have control (Taunt), and the ability to stay alive long enough to use it. While Invulnerability has a Psi hole, that's not much of a concern until late game, where it doesn't take huge amounts of Inf to plug it. If that bothers your consider Will Power, although if you're frustrated at low levels I'd start with Invulnerability myself.

The other thing I notice is you seldom make reference to secondaries. Soldiers from a MM set pure DPS? Haha, not likely. What secondary did you pick? That's more important imo.

Another example of secondaries: I like high defense toons. Tankers and Bots/FF are the cat's meow for me. So I'm trying a Dom now for a new experience; my Mind/Psi Dom is level 22 right now. And again I didn't see any reference to your secondary on your Dom in your post. When I tab through a group during a fight, I have two choices: mez it, or zap it. If it's low on hit points, I zap it with Psi. Killing a mob is the best control. If it not, I mez it and tab to the next mob. It's important to spread the mez around if you want to control as many mobs as possible.

Killing is not the goal of mind/psi. It's not really high DPS. Support by mezing mobs, confusing good ones, and killing low hit point targets-of-opportunity are how I'm playing right now.


And the last thing I can think of is: try tabbing through a group instead of clicking. It's faster, and when clicking can be hard to actually select the mob you want. Learn other keyboard commands too. Control-Tab I think selects the closest mob, which allows you to quickly restart the tabbing once you go all the way through a group (happens if there's a second group nearby that you don't want to engage yet).

I've done several Magi, but never RHW, so we always just dismissed pets and killed the lights when they showed up. You don't need level shifts for that. I think there's a difference between having done the trial before and doing it a special way for a badge.