Lobster

and boy is my Mids tired!

...what? I got nothin'.

But seriously... love the Mids. And yes, I have 70+ alts on Pinn. Because that's where it's at.

My first mm and first mm to 40 (when that was the cap) was nin/pois. I never played him past 40. After spending lots of time with other combinations well... I found nin/pois to be the most intensely demanding mm combo out there (and I've tried most of them). That was the only mm I felt I ever really *needed* to set up tons of complicated binds for - individual move & target orders (especially for the end heavy, weak single target heal that we know and love as Alkaloid...), etc.

On no other combo - including other /pois or other nin/ have I felt that a full bind & macro setup was so necessary. I suspect that nec/pois will be close, but fractionally better due to the pets' self heals and the lich's control.

What I'm saying here is... you're pretty familiar with how it's going to be by now, so if that's not your thing it's probably in your best interest to roll up a new MM.

I picked up the musculature common last night on my bots/dark. As others have said, one of the the hardest things (if not the hardest) for mms to come by is extra +dmg, and I really don't *need* anything so I just went with the gravy.

One thing I've already noticed is that it allows me to use my 2 slotted thunderstrike (I had nothing else screaming at me at 49 and I wanted an attack, but only had 1 free slot) much more effectively.

It's a shame the incarnate stuff doesn't rsk down or it would allow for some interesting builds, but I suppose that's the price we pay. Still, I rarely rsk sooo... I'm tempted to try a build specifically targeted at alpha slotting. Maybe after I make that first billion...

My other 50 mms are a nec/dark which I'll also be grabbing another dam/immob alpha and a nec/pain that I'm torn between recharge/heal and damage/def debuff... I'll probably have to get both.

I have to say that, even though I'm not big on attack power focused MMs, the builds you can get with the damage alpha interest me.

I'm playing one through goldside right now, currently at 19. The one thing I've noticed is that I have worse end usage issues than I can recall on a brute. This is probably just because I haven't played any scrappers lately.

It's fun, but my attack chain just seems to be lacking something currently, although I just added the pbaoe and that is helping. It looks like the kind of combo that will really blossom late game (28+), when you can leverage the pbaoe aura (which I don't have yet) and LR in, as the early game is not particularly impressive.

My system (Laptop with Nvidia 9800M) was running horribly in game:

*Crashed any time I opened the costume editor window
*Would drop to 3-5 fps for 30 seconds every 4-10 minutes, at random, no matter what graphics setting I had it on.
*80% of the time the game would not close when I exited, and I had to do a kill task.

(The 3rd one just started happening in the last 2 weeks, and the costume crash started maybe a week after GR went live, but the horrible lag started with GR).

ANYWAY.

On the 14th Nvidia released new beta drivers, for 260 and I installed them last night. All problems gone, and the game is running better than it ever has.

I spoke with one other person in channel who had the costume creator crashing and suggested he install the new drivers - he did and it fixed him as well.

[edit: The being unable to close completely issue is still here, but less common ]

Is it just me or has the market tightened up a little in the last week or two? I'm not doing too horrible, up to about 250m from 100, but my first market character is basically locked up with things that the bottom has dropped out of but I'm too cheap to relist... no worries, lots of alts and patience.

Also, re: HVMs: Yes. I financed my elec/shield (separately, not through my market characters) by trading merits for, and selling, two Miracle uniques. Frankly I'm amazed the prices for them are still as high as they are.

Update: This last change seems to have stabilized my system, I haven't had an issue since then.

You guys are inspiring. I've been playing since launch and I still suck at this market thing. I starting trying to "seriously" market again a week ago... and I've managed to take my 100m->120m+50-60m in things waiting to sell. Not hugely impressive, but faster than farming. I think I'm still going about it wrong.

Checked both those things re: the monitor.

Whatever my issues are seem sporadic, it's driving me a little bit crazy. I haven't seen the line I mentioned in a few days. But...

Currently, when it has problems, the problem it has is "chunking" as I turn. Ie the framerate slows way down, but only as long as I am rotating. Moving forward, etc. works fine.

Definitely has the usual dom end issues at low levels (makes me want to wait to play until i19 :P), and seems squishier than my elec/energy (all the KB is actually useful) but the synergy between the auras and aoe sleep + heavy single target dps is too tasty to pass up.

Nice guide. I have to ask/wonder if the style was "borrowed" from the famous (on the relevant boards - League of Legends) "MFing Cho'Gath" guide. It seems too similar to be coincidence, maybe they are both running on the same memeblood from an old meme I'm unfamiliar with?