Zombie Man

Hooray!!???

I get the same thing. Dunno why.

Pro tip: Synapse goes much much faster if the team gets Shivans first and then takes turns spawning them in missions, especially against the bosses. You'll even be able to take out the GM without begging the server to help.

Well...

When it comes to Legacy content, we've seen Atlas redone as well as Posi TF.

Now, they've moved onto Kings Row in the next issue (I24). I'm a little disappointed that the legacy arcs weren't removed (or thrown into the police scanner bin). They are as bad as the oldest TFs. Also, they're given out by different contacts depending on origin which interferes with co-op mission completion.

Those arcs should have been replaced with a new "intro to the villain groups of level 5-15" arc given by one contact.

Anyway, it seems the Devs are revamping legacy content from the ground up, which is the logical thing to do so that you can build on a overarching arc.

This means we can only hope that a Skyway update and a revamp of Synapse TF will come out in I25 (or even I24.5!).

If it weren't for forum moderation, every thread would be turned by some into an anti-PvP rant.

What Else Gives +ToHit?

What is *not* a secret is that Freedom Phalanx Penelope Yin is a psi melee toon and she has these powers.

Player villains have already been at the receiving end of these powers.

Any guess how that gets ported to PCs is open for speculation.

Mothership Raids.

Just ran two of them, and the leeching toon on my second account went from 29 to 38.

You do need level 50s to anchor the teams, which is hard to find on Double XP weekends, though.

The most efficient?

1. Run as many toons as you have through the fastest SSA arc (e.g., #1.1 which is always under 10 minutes) twice. Once for the Hero Merit and once for the double [EDIT: quadruple] Merits (40 of them [EDIT: 20 of them -- still worth going for]).

2. Use incarnated toons to run the Apex/Tin Mage Incarnate TF duo once a day per toon for the total of 80 Merits for less than an hour's work.

3. Run as many toons as possible through one running of as many 'speed versions' of the various iTrials available for the Empyrean Merits once a day.

4. Always run all your toons through the WST each week.

5. To break up the monotony... keep an eye out for a TFs forming on your grouping channels and join them for fun. There will be plenty of XP and INF and drops and the final Merit rewards to justify it.


You will soon have more than enough Merits, A-Merits, and iMerits to do as you please.

Jack had a lot of great ideas and was able to get a great game launched.

His problem developed after launch when he got locked into seeing CoH as just a mechanized version of a table-top roleplaying game where, he, as the GM, kept the players in the dark not only about content and lore (which was mostly appropriate, otherwise, massive spoilers would have ruined the fun for a lot of folk), but also in the dark with regard to mechanics.

Jack thought that knowing the mechanics would make the game less fun. The problem with that is that the mechanics had a lot of flaws and imbalances and just wrong numbers. And Jack (and the powers team at the time, excluding Castle) would purposely turn a deaf ear to the players. On top of that, the players would find all sorts of loopholes and exploits which became nearly impossible to fix since... the Dev team run by Jack weren't in dialogue with the players and the players didn't know what the real numbers were to test.

On top of that, the playerbase would change the focus of the gaming habits (hating streetsweeping and using just the instanced missions for level-appropriate foes, e.g.) and Jack was slow to respond (if he ever did) to how the players wanted to play. He tended to be inflexible to what the players were supposed to consider to be fun.

On top of that, when the playerbase became loud enough to not be ignored, he was a public relations nightmare. I won't go into all the stories of foot-in-mouthisms he was guilty of.

On top of that, while keeping players in the dark over mechanics -- else our fun would be destroyed -- he took a paycheck from a player-guides company to publish all the mechanics.

On top of that, he negotiated with other companies to create a CoH-killer alternate Supers-MMO while putting CoH on a shoestring budget.

Jack deserves credit for the initial impetus of the game. He also deserves blame for all the inflexibility, the imperious attitude, and the betrayal of the game.