Newbie Looking for Help

So I'm fairly new to CoX (and MMOs in general for that matter) and I'm looking for a little help with my favorite MM (who goes by the same name as I do).
She has recently hit 40, and I find myself looking to the future, specifically a much needed respec. As one might guess, being my first toon, not all of my choices in powers were well chosen.
And so I come to you for guidance.

The facts:
- Necro/Therm
- I prefer being a support player in a team, (I find myself often acting as a primary healer. Sometimes even if there's a Pain Corr around...)
- I'm not looking to solo EBs or go PvP. At least not until I lrn2play more.

(Note: Please be patient, I may not understand all the terms you use, especially if it's abbreviated)



P.S.
Despite how messed up my build is, I'm surprised at just how powerful I still am.

Welcome to the City Azurakna!

Masterminds are both the easiest and hardest ATs. Easy in the way you have all those pets my MM is a Robot/Force field and I just completely destroy everything. There also hardest due to the Pets AI and handling them.

However I can't help much I haven't ran a Necro/Therm so not familiar with the powers as some others. You might try to Search the forum for a build.

Me I never use a build someone else made I have Mids and don't even use it. I find I enjoy the trial and error in what I make.

So my Questions are...

What is it about your MM you want to respec for? How is your build "Messed up"? Do you feel to weak or that you want some powers you skipped? Want to improve performance? Do you have any IOs yet or goals for any IO enhancement sets?

A few tips is make one build (can be done at trainer) for Solo and one for Team. This way you can focus on enhancing your Zombies with Solo build and have the second build focused on your Thermal powers.

List the powers you have and what slots in another post that way you can get a more focused help.

PS. This is my first MMO as well and thought I tried others ('mumbles about WOW and Guild Wars') I always returned to the City! Been here three years now.

Welcome to City of Heroes.

My first recomendation is to pick up Mid's Hero and Villain Planner from the Titan Network. It's a very powerful tool.
Link: http://www.cohplanner.com/

Create your build on Mid's and post it here with the export function. Then we can critique your build and make recommendations.

Grizz

Dump gloom
Dump TP Foe (You have six AoE minded minions, what are they doing with one target?)
If you made it to level 30 w/o hover on top of TP you might not need hover, but I would probably fit it in, too.
Pick up Tactics. Your minions crave enhancing for features besides extra accuracy/damage (heal, tohitdebuff, defense debuff.)
You definitely need heat exhaustion and melt armor instead of team teleport. If you really fancy using team teleport, you can probably fit it in before level 32.

Good luck and I have had good luck on my Necro/thermal myself.

I love Necro/Therm. There's nothing quite like being the master of several flaming zombies.

Anywho, I'd say that TP foe can be chosen later, like at level 49, because TP friend can be useful in missions for rezzing and bringing a late-comer to the mission to your position. :I'm not a big fan of team teleport, personally, because I think it sucks up a lot of endurance and doesn't let you travel very far. Also, I'd say that Hover isn't really needed unless you have an especially bad computer, unless you just like the effect it has. :P

If you're having any endurance problems then you may want to pick up Stamina, especially if you're considering adding the Tactics toggle to boost your pets' accuracy.

I would skip Gloom and pick your first shield at level 2, so you can grab your pet upgrade at level 6. Gloom is a nice attack, but your pets can do a whole lot more damage. I'd just as soon skip it altogether, or get it later in the game.

Hasten is always a nice choice, if you can fit it in. Your pet summons, heals, and debuffs will recharge faster as long as it's active.

Be thinking about which patron pool you want to use, and make sure to unlock your patrons before respeccing. That way you can use a patron pool for your level 41 slot and beyond.

My build grabbed Melt Armor and Heat Exhaustion as soon as they unlocked, and I never regretting getting them when I did. They're great for making weakening or rendering ineffective many extremely irritating enemies.

So I completed the Arc to get the power pool today and was able to respec afterward.

Powers I dropped:
-TP powers (Probably will pick up TP friend again)
-Hover (Was meant to complement TP)
-Forge and Thaw (I know they're useful, but I honestly never remember to use them)
-And, of course, Gloom.

In their place I have picked up:
-Soul Extraction
-Swift, Health, Stamina (Oh boy, does Stamina make a difference!)
-Assault and Tactics
-Hasten and Super Speed (Almost considered using Swift+Ninja Run as a travel power, but naaaah)
-Nightfall from the Soul Mastery Epic Pool (Part of that choice was thematic, as I RP)

First thing, I went out and got some SOs and IO to fill the gaps I had due to the new power selections and then I went off to test it.
At first, I didn't notice anything all that different besides quicker End recovery and other such obvious stuff.
My zombies weren't kill anything at a faster rate.
So I double-checked that the Leadership abilities were on. They were.
However, I then realized that I had forgotten to Enchant and Empower my pets...

So they were killing stuff just as well as they previously had, except without being upgraded.
Once I did so, everything was gravy.

Thank you guys for the great advice and pointing me in the right direction.

Glad to be of little help I could. Would have been more but like I said I haven't ran a Necro/Therm so not as familiar with the powers.

STAMINA! I always get that, even when I might not even need it like in a Regen Scrapper with it's built in Quick Recovery.