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Speculations about this range from an upcoming New Expansion (possibly easier to debug Have New Expansion vs. No New Expansion than Have New Expansion And CoV Only vs. Have New Expansion And CoH Only etc), Bases For Everybody, and the inevitable Side-Switching suggestion.

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The last paragraph has garnered some attention.

Ok here's the deal, I want to experience the VEATs (because they seem awesome). I have a lvl 36 Bots MM and I want to know from you good people is it possible for me to lvl that toon this week including the double XP weekend. I don't have a lot of time because of work but willing to put effort into it to ding. If it's possible what should I do?

P.S. I usually play hero side that's why I'm such a noob when it comes to the red side!

I posted on the CoH Forum my idea of making Electric Stalkers not only playable, but extremely useful; all thanks to a couple choice IO Set Procs.

See the build and what I thought up Here

Reply there or here, either is fine.

Does this build really change how one can look at Electric Stalkers?

I'd like to wait until next year before rolling up any more alts, but that might not happen. But before I DO roll them up, I'd like some input on the sets, and combinations of sets.

/Devices for blasters seems like a somewhat controllery set, so I might enjoy that, but what primary goes really well with it? (I have a level 50 ice/ice/elec blaster, and the only reason I enjoy her, I think, is because she's like a really high-damage pseudo-controller.)

/Traps for corruptors and masterminds seem similar to devices, though they get a healing object and some powers come later. Any thoughts on /Devices compared to /Traps? What corruptor and mastermind primaries would you suggest go well with /Traps?

I'm also thinking of making a /storm mastermind.. sounds fun. I should note that I've played a bots/dark MM to level 50, and I had a thugs/dark MM for about four levels before deleting her. I'm not against the idea of playing the other MM sets, but I think I may have been spoiled; before teaming with FB, AF and Lag I didn't even know MM pets could be confused. "Egads!" I thought, "How horrible!" So... not that I want to only play bots/ MMs, but .. yeah.

So! Feedback on these sets and possible combinations is most appreciated! :)

HAY CHIBIS GO TO VILLAIN COMM.

I think there's a WAY high level mish where you go into the future (into an absolutely trashed version of Atlas Park) to duke it out with ghosts and, if memory serves, Lord Recluse.  I would LOVE to be able to get into that map to film, but I have no villain NEARLY that high.  So, I was wondering if anyone on here has a lvl-50 villain on Justice who'd be willing to lackey up a lvl 12-14 corruptor long enough to get into that mish so I can zoom around and film it?

It's not going to happen right away, I'd just like to plan for it and know who I can ask. :)

Michelle
aka
Samurai_ko 

Current Mood: curious

So I'm a little confused--

I have not yet gotten a hero to 50, but I have a villain at 50, and it supposedly unlocked an Epic Archetype for me. I made one (widow), but I went to make another and the epics are grayed out. Are we only limited to 1 epic per server?

If I get a hero to 50, will I only be allowed to make one epic hero?

(I'm mostly directing this at people who frequent Vent, but I've never met an LJ person I couldn't team with.)
Now that Issue 12 has gone live and we all have new inspiration, I want to start getting together regularly once a week and set about proving what we've stated so often: 'it's not the powersets that need nerfing, it's US.' I've got a number of older low level toons to play, as well as some brand new ones. I don't want to make the team a planned affair, just the time and place. Tuesday or Wednesday evenings on Justice heroside?

( This is for chibis on Victory )

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I was asked for a ship raid and since Kin wanted to do it since the Rikti are back I finally want to go for it.

Honestly, I´ve never done this before so it will be a challenge for me. Lemme ask a few questions before I´m going to the team stuff:

- Is a ship raid like a TaskForce? There is that annoying guy at the Vanguard base who always wants to draw me into this job ^_^
- If it´s like fighting a Giant Monster, can we go with two teams?
- What about the team level, the usual sking or is it not nec. (like with a GM)?
- How long does it take?

Maybe there are some experienced people who can tell me a about a ship raid, otherwise my team has to share my challenge with me ;P

EDIT:
Uh boy, that´s lots of good informations here. I´ll add my own post to memories XD
I decided to cancel this and to try to get on a ship raid as a participant to gain experience. And I´m happy I asked before going on my personal desaster ^_^

Thank you very much all vor sharing your thoughts and experiences here.


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Current Mood: cheerful

It's been awhile since I had that tickle in my brain that indicates a concept that won't be going away.  I came upon the idea of a toon whose origin is mutation.  His mutation is ... blood-lust!   I'm thinking a DB/WP brute, but I already have one of those.  Perhaps a DB/SR?  Or is that setting myself up for frustration?  Anyone have one that'd like to share their thoughts?

-Skullseye

( Follow the bouncing chibi )

Well the story goes like this, about the time they introduce Thug MMs into the game I was having computer issues.  So I never got to try them when they went live.  A RL friend wanted to play a MM and he chose that powerset to play an told me to give it a try.  So, I did and It's been fun.  What surprised me was how much I like the pistol aspect of that set.   I remember folks asking for a Pistol Scrapper set on the forum.  I couldn't understand why anyone would want that in a game like this.  My thinking was that it would be similar to the AR Blaster set and a pistol set would be more of the same.  Well, I was way wrong about that!  I'm hoping that the Devs do make a pistol set because I'll be first in line to play it!  BTW, here a screenie of my MM on Champion -- mutant, pixie, demon thug  - STRYKUS

So basically I have this idea to make CoH and CoV more interactive between each other. I don't know if most people agree with me, but both games feel very separate. Even with the PVP (which I fine to be very sub par) I still feel separate.

One of the ideas I have is opening the hero and villain areas. Let's say I am a villain and I want to cause some mayhem in Talos, I stowaway on a ship or take a submarine to Talos start causing some destruction. Now of course this destruction won't cause any problems for heroes, except possibly a minor cleaning annoyance, but it will make me feel a little better about myself. So lets say you see me the evil city terrorizer in talos beating up your grandmother or something and you think "HEY SHE IS A SWEET LADY!" well you can attack me if you want. You don't have to attack me but if you do I can attack back. I would also like to add both characters would now be marked for PvP and if there were other heroes or villains in the area they could join in on the battle by attacking. I would even saw letting toons attack NPCs would work as well.

I know the things I am saying aren't new or revolutionary but a similar set up worked with WoW, and we all know how good things are going for them. I know the ratio of Heroes to Villains is really lopsided and I think something like this would be what the games needs to get more people playing villains.

There just needs to be more interactivity, the games are just too separate... and I do believe that needs to change.

X-posted.

So, Doctor Brainstorm just posted the following to the official forums. It includes the full details of the Mental Manipulation Blaster secondary set, and answers to a few other assorted questions. If only to have something other than ads to talk about, I'm copying it over here.

( Powerset Proliferation FAQ )


...holy crap. My initial guesses about Mental Manipulation weren't quite on the money, but I guessed right on the Confuse power! Eventually. ;)

I'm confused...

I have an AR/Cold Corruptor and is shaping up to be a great little character, but I swear this baby can draw aggro that would make a Tanker go "Daaaamm Girl!"

I was recently in a team with 4 Brutes, and they ran into and started attacking a large mob. I sneak in from the side and open up with a Shotgun which peppers the crowd. Every time at least 60% of the mob stop attacking the Brute(s) look in my direction and start opening up with whatever weapons they have on hand. Usually I am rooted to the spot because I have unleashed Flamethrower, which throws the mob into a Frenzy.

I was literally running backwards from mobs with the Brutes yelling at Me to stay still but since my health bar flatlines almost instantly, self preservation takes over here.

Does anyone else suffer from this, or has the aggro rules changed or what?

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Okay, this is the big one. POWERSET PROLIFERATION POLL! It's just behind the cut, and if you choose "OTHER" then be prepared to asplain yoself in comments. One for Heroes, one for Villains.

( POLL! )

Hero to Villain poll being posted to cityofvillains!

Okay, my level 33 Thugs/TA Mastermind Chibi Rei-kun, got a mission to "kill, defeat, beat the holy living !##@%$#5 out of, Kidnap Luminary". So i went to the mish, and defeat all the longbow that were standing around rather easily. Now mind you my difficulty is on vicious I think? Whatever the villain equivalent to "Rugged" is. Most of the spawns were +1/+2 to me, but I was not having problems.

So I get to the final room where luminary is. There were two spawns in the room, one with Luminary and 1 without. I dispatched the one without luminary rather easily. I waited, let all my minions heal back up to full, then I blinded her with Flash Arrow, and then I started my attack. Luminary is an Elite Boss and she cons red to me.

This is what my attack consisted of:

Send in all pets at Luminary, then order them to attack
Disruption arrow
Glue arrow
Poison Gas arrow
Acid Arrow
Ice arrow
Entanglement arrow
Gang War

and then just consistantly hit any debuff arrows as the come up.

Now admittedly, I probably should have STARTED with gang war after sending my minions in, but to be honest I doubt it would have made a difference. She friggin ignored *ALL* of my pets, and started hitting me with energy blasts which killed me quickly. I rez'd in a hospital, went back to the mission, and tried again. This time I STARTED with Gang war, sent in my pets, then started all my arrows. Once again, she ignored my pets attacks and hit me with Power burst (knockback), Energy Torrent (knockback), and Power blast(knockback) and I was dead. At this point I screamed a few obscenities, realized that it was 1 AM, and I decided to go to bed and try again.

Here's my question:

Does trick arrow just raise my threat level so high that mobs will ignore my pets attacks and just attack me, or was I the victim of a dev deciding to play Luminary, and I just got pwned in PVP? (Comon, I know some of y'all have thought that when you have a particularly bad asswhipping in the game)

Ja

Rei

ETA (2-26-08): I popped three purples, flash arrow, gang war, Minions attack, disruption arrow, glue arrow, poison gas arrow, acid arrow, entangling arrow, ice arrow, and she was dead in about 20 seconds. Having said this, she sure as hell was focusing her attaks on me, but they were missing. Thanks for the suggestons guys!

Current Mood: curious

Right after I got the awesome portrait of our main heroes, I ordered a piece of our main villains from syrusb

Link to the original entry on cityofvillains 

Current Mood: happy