Beast Mastery on the test server

(reposting here, accidentally posted in the controller foum originally)

I only go to play a little bit yesterday, I quickly made a Beast/TA and the sewer team I was one had 3 of them (one of them had the same generic female barbarian costume I was using, except for hair color )

Has anyone had a chance to seriously play with it? what are your impressions?

Seems fast paced, I don't know if we can get level boosts yet, haven't looked into it.

For theme reasons /Poison /Dark and /TA are two secondaries that appeal to me (Storm too but I have a few too many stormies).

Without spending more time learning about the set, I don;t know if there are good synergies with any of those.

I like so far though, it's a safe bet I'll be purchasing it.

Well there's already a thread about BM on this forum:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=282019

I've played with BM/TA a little. It seems solid, and soloable. Reports of other folks is that it doesn't quite scale up to 50 well, but that was before Synapse bumped up the resists of the beasts, and changed some recharge times.

I was able to solo at +0/x4 with BM/TA pretty decently at levels 28 and 32. I think if I had a heal, I would have much tougher (I was playing to concept and skipped Aid Other). Time Manipulation, Thermal and Dark Miasma would probably be huge performers. To me the beasts seemed tougher than ninjas or zombies, but not as tough as bots or thugs. Damage was more than bots pre-32, less than bots afterwards. (Damage was probably on par with Necro.)

However I think the jury will be out for a while, as it takes a bit for everyone to work all the bugs out of their builds and decide whether a set is truly "worth it" or not. I personally plan to make either a BM/Time or BM/Dark on live once it's available.

Looks like the Tues beta patch was delayed. BM changes are up now.