I'll occasionally dual box with two active combat toons, but for the most part I pick one main to act as the damage dealer and then choose the second as a follow-along buffer.
I've had good success running a tank with a pocket emp following along with fortitude on auto. I've also had good luck running scrappers with my FF bubbler on follow with dispersion bubble.
I've also used a rad on follow to a melee toon with the rad's AM or HA on auto and clicking the rad debuffs on any particularly difficult enemies.
You might try running your fire/kin on follow to the spines/da with speed boost set to auto on the scrapper. I've done that before.
As for trying to do simultaneous combat with both accounts, I'm too old and slow.
We don' need no stinkin' signatures!
Fire/Kin + Spines/DA = MASS CARNAGE with minimal stress. SB every couple minutes, and FS right after jumping the Scrapper into the middle of a spawn (I often only do it every 3rd spawn, when the previous FS is about to wear off).
Emp and any direct damage toon is pretty good too (and little bit safer). Just throw Fort, AB, RA's (when they are available), and CM if the damager doesn't have mez protection. Then go to town on the enemies.
The other thing I've done on stuff like AV's, is take a tank (preferably Stone/) and put it on auto-taunt, use a high damage toon, and a Shivan for debuffs. Or take a debuffer and put whatever I can on auto/toggle, and use a Shivan and tank for damage(which also keeps the AV/GM, etc, taunted off the debuffer).
If you were triple boxing, you could even try running three blasters (on normal missions), and just nuking each spawn. You might even be able to do it with 2, with extreme amounts of recharge bonuses. Although, if you had all three aoe each spawn nearly simultaneously, you could probably do pretty good too (even faster than nuking, though a bit more dangerous). Just take Medicine pool for minimal downtime, and the occasional defeat.
If I thought about it some more, I could come up with many more combinations, both cross AT and intra AT and even hero+villain combos (Brute + Kin could pass up Sp/DA for MASS CARNAGE, and Poison or Tap MM + Rad Def(or even Ill/Rad would annihilate AV's).
MM & MM
Twice the army! I set one set up for offense, and the other for defense. Have the defensive one following the offensive, with /dark heal on auto, targetting his toughest pet, pets on defensive. Control the offensive one. In tougher fights, i'll have the defensive target the offensive, so I can select what enemy he's pulling his heals from.
Just curious which MMs you ran? I've since tried 2 fire/kins and they start slow but they're starting to ramp up the damage. I also attach an add-on number pad to my second box which I keep near my main keyboard to give some flexibility
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I was "borrowing" my son's account the other night (I pay for it) and tried what I guess is the most natural pairing: fire/kin troller and spines/dark scrapper. I also played with two defenders: storm/rad and storm/sonic. What has been your best combinations? I haven't been able to find any guides on the subject. Thanks all.
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Fire/kin + spines dark, or fire/kin + fire/en blaster.
Fire/Kin and Fire/Rad. Nuff Said
Fire/Kin and Fire/Kin or Fire/Kin and Spines/Regen.
I was "borrowing" my son's account the other night (I pay for it) and tried what I guess is the most natural pairing: fire/kin troller and spines/dark scrapper. I also played with two defenders: storm/rad and storm/sonic. What has been your best combinations? I haven't been able to find any guides on the subject. Thanks all.