Acenra

nice movie. I wish I could of been there, but my lvl 2 corrupter was unavailible at the time (had a virus on the comp, and as usual, sister blames my games for it)

The Terrortheun guild of Light is welcoming new mystics.

only just formed today, it's single member is making his Debut as a leader. The base is small (heck, it's only one room, and even thats small) but decorated in an arcane fashion which is in this year.

until the ground rules are set, the SG will allow the first five people to arrive to become Users of light (2nd from top) the next ten will be Paladins (next one down) the next 15 will be mages (next one down) and the rest will be gaurds (bottom rank).

during your course as a Light gaurdian, you will promoted to the next rank by gaining 20000 prestige or reaching lvl 40.

Arena events will be organised by the Keeper of the blade (top rank) and the users of light. events may include PVP rumbles and raids (heh, if we were raided right now, we'd be wiped in seconds)but these events wont be established yet

if you're ofline for 45 days... we'll wait longer. another 45 days later and still not online, we'll assume that you're gone for good and kick you from the SG.

tink about this! this doesn't come all the time.

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Stalkers are you sick to death of people seeing you when you are in Hide now they have fixed the stealth bug... do you think that its not worth playing now...

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speaking as a Tanker...

ARE YOU NUTS!? for ages, the humble tankers of the game have been complaining about your hide ability! atleast it's fair now

Gideon makes a point, us tankers are being pressured to do most of the fighting and we cant do it all. we may have a good axe arm but the blade of that axe does go blunt and our arms do start to ache. so if we're pressued to do the damage taking, we could atleast get some support. and we can't do great against all damage:

"right Acenra, go over there and take on that mob of Fortuna seers"
"um, I can't defend against psi damage"
"what part of you're a tanker dont you understand? you can defend against all damage! now go!"
"sigh"
five seconds later
"I lastest five seconds!"
"thats four longer than yesterday"
"my debt is MASSIVE!"

so yeah, we could do with some credit, our gauntlet inheret power is already like taunt. if we enter a mob first or attack any of the enemies, the mob's attention will go to us anyway, so really we don't need taunt.

over my course as a defence focused fire tanker, I have seen many inexperienced or experienced but lucky players try and tank without their shields on, which ever they are.

so this thread has been posted so that inexperienced players can read and learn and experienced players can post any other tanker tips they have that have helped them get from lvls 1-50 in one piece.

my first few tips are:

1. put up those shields!: most players don't put up their shields, and are missing the big picture. I bet that if you put two stone tankers in the same sized, same lvled mob and one of them only puts one shield up, the one with the shield will survive the longest (unless of course, the non shield one is lucky enough to not get hit). I got an excuse from an anonymous tanker a while ago and they said that their reason for not putting their shield up was because it drained too much of their end for their attacks to be effective. so heres the thing. the two main enhancements you absolutley need for your shields are damage resistance and endurance cost reduction. that way, you'll have plenty of endurance to spare for your attacks.

2. be inspired!: I'm not sure if you all don't do his but some tankers don't use most of their insperations because (if they do use their shields) they are over confident they'll survive, right? WRONG! If you are comming up to a big mob, don't worry about using your insperations. it wont effect your pride, it wont slow you down. those little squares are life savers. use luck and sturdy to live longer and insight and rage to get more attacks in. And dont be afraid to use all of them against the Arch-villain you hate so much.

3. Tired yet?: as said in pointer number one, most tankers are worried about their endurance falling so low they lose what was keeping them alive. this is what has some tankers running scared. the solution can be found in several ways
[*]CoB isn't the only endurance saving inspertion. Rage upward and Insight upward save endurance by making you hit the target harder and more often. with less hits on an enemy, this saves endurance used.
[*]Teams help too, the more you have in a team, the less amount of enemies you have to take care of. and plus, your friends may have CoB or recovery aura which can save your life
[*]if you have the ability to drain endurance or reduce the endurance cost, USE IT! don't rely on a slower attack rate plan you made up to save your life. this system also works with flying tankers. if your flying through a low level zone and are running low on end, find a small group of villains, 3 at the least, and drain them. you'll feel refreshed and ready to fly again (if you're wondering how that works, it doesn't matter about the lvl, just the amount of enemies)
[*]Turn off the shields during travel. if you keep them on while youre doing an endurance draining travel power, you'll travel half the distance and most probably land in the middle of a mob where you could be one shotted due to the fall damage you get.
[*]unless you're fly gambling, flying high is not a good idea. by flying higher, you increase your damage from fall, and increase the distance you have to travel. so fly low and fast.

4. most powers have more than one use!: some powers have a hidden ability to help you that isn't described when you hover your mouse over it and read the stats. for example, I found out a week ago that burn wasn't just an effective area attack. if your immoblised by something like ring of fire but still have your arms free and can still attack, then use burn to set you free. look for these hidden atributes while you level and you can come out on top

5. do you have a tavel power?: this is kind of a 'no duh' thing. of course you have a travel power! but when you get the one that makes you go from A to B in a mili-second, you often forget the one that you got first. for example, a random tanker gets hover at level six. He's so overwhelmed that he can defy gravity, he forgets hover's second ability, and then at lvl 14 he gets fly and never uses hover again. this proves he doesn't know much about this ability. Hover can save endurance. by using it when you want to just sit there in the air, your end will gradually increase to it's full. using it for defense is a brilliant idea. it may only be marginal, but you'll survive a little longer with it on along with all your other shields. Hasten is good too, it'll will allow you to get attacks in faster.

6. enhance it!: enhancements may not look like they do anything at first, but they do alot more than you know. Training enhancements don't do much, i have to admit, but as soon as you get DOs (dual origins for those who don't know) you'll notice a change. And finally, you get to the SOs (wanna guess? yep, single origins) these are every players salvation. they dramatically increase the powers efficiencey and are needed at level 20 onward.

7. I think I see a Stalker!: this is were all the tips pay off in my last few pointers. when you courageously venture into a PVP zone, you are in grave danger of being assansinated. You can't resist them and you never know when they're comming, but Stalkers are the bane of all tankers, especially me. so, to survive them you have two options:
[*]stand against them and fully test those enhancements you just got. the chance you'll kick their butt is quite high if your enchancement count is high.

or
[*]run like hell. no tanker has a duty to stand around like a cow by the slaughter house door. if you have anypower, like blazing aura, that helps you know where they are (blazing aura will keep saying miss if a stalker stands next to you) then leg it when they are near you!

however, there is an alternative. if a stalker is hit when they are invisible, they'll become visible again. so use attacks that have never been know to miss. burn doesn't, no matter what level, it can never miss.

so there we go, from my experience in the world of paragon city, I have learnt these leasons which have helped me survive.

(oh, and if you're wondering, I'm not lvl 50 yet, I'm just posting what i have learnt so far )

being a fire tanker, I do have my reasons for not getting taunt. my powers aren't defensive or offensive enough. upon a technicality, if I use taunt I'll die and then there will be a team wipe

I have done a reasonable amount of writting. all that time of plotting has paid off as I had added 30 padges worth of writting to my book.

so, because of this, I am returning until the day after the ball, where I will do so much leveling ( I hope) I should get my tanker to lvl 30 if I can. and if you don't believe me... well you just don't have faith in a 15 yr old author in the making!

(trust me, there's an 8 yr old who wrote a book, and I have pretty intelectual friends and family, I think I have some advantages)

heh, bugs... creepy, especially spiders, I have a serious case of Arachnphobia, hence the reason for my deep hatred of Arachnos.

lets see, we have: robots, mercs, ninjas, thugs, pirates, zombie people and another one that might be on way but I forgot it . basically, we've almost exhuasted all forms of henchman. the plants one would be good, genetic monsters grown in a lab? how bout that, your first lot would be something like a little thing with claws and your last one would be a T-rex kind of thing. I can imagine it now

"go toothy! grind their bones with your- wait! no! stop! AAAAAAAAH"

those would be the days

wow, I hadn't checked up on this post for ages.

the reason why I made the post is because Slade from Teen Titans had martial arts and a bunch of robots to boss around

ah well, can't win em all

congratulations guys, I hope you have a great day

I can't attend for I have lots of stuff to do, my book, GCSEs, a film I've gotta make with my mates. it's overwhelming me!

anyhoo, I'll see if I can send that toaster via hero mail

I'll do my best, the entire english department at school is rooting for me.

who do you think is a good publisher nowadays?

thanks, I started cutting back yesterday. the improvements are already showing

I got better marks in chemistry and I've added several more ages of writting to my book. but still, that's only marginal, got a long way to go till it's done.

well, I need to stop playing CoH/CoV for a bit. The book I'm writting isn't progressing very well and I have my GCSEs to deal with.

so, until the book is dealt with (which won't be long I hope) I won't be Playing CoH/CoV. I will still attend the Valentines day ball and may pop in to say hi on occassions, but no major playing. I'll also keep up to date on the forums and any major events going on while I'm away, I'll keep a note of it and maybe come back on to attend it.

so, the only thing I can say now is, have fun, maybe see ya some time soon!

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PLus Im hoping to Pull

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well, keep one thing in mind:

you'll have alot more luck than me

My MM's pets

Battle drones

1. Alpha 355 α
2. Beta 677 γ

future names:

3. Gamma 944 β

Protector bots:

1. Delta 1001 δ
2. Epsilon 1002 ε

Assualt bot:

1. Omega 3000 Ω

all based on stuff that sounds sciencey

I tried putting the actual symbols in but it wont configure, *sigh*

Krunch has a point. although I haven't arrived at the magic lvl 50 myself, it's a good idea to savour these lvls.

you should come, it'll be great, not an event to miss

and still none of my characters are lvl 50. but yeah, happy brithday to the europian game! we would celebrate with a party but it might be too close to TG's Valentines day ball where I will be sitting in the corner doing what I do best... meditating cos I'm bored

um...

I'm Acenra, lvl 22 fire tanker, personal interests include meditation, playing guitar, reading magic books and chasing the guy who killed my family when I was nine I have blue and red eyes, blonde hair, elven ears and a small eye mask to cover my unusual eyes.

I dont expect anything. I'm just posting this cos it's a boring school morning.

oh and about that response to my idea, you make a good point, i'll keep my mouth shut and pry my hands off the keyboard in future can't wait... well i can, I dislike valentines day in general

heh, you know what? I just had an idea

call me crazy (most people do) but like me, a very small selection of players have no dates. I don't mind this, I got yr 11 leavers prom soon and I'm gonna be alone anyway.

however, other players who have no dates don't like this. so, heres the thing; my latest bad idea is a dating service. it'll just be a small forum thread were players who need dates would put in a post with anything they want to add to get another players attention (that last part wont go down well) but still, it'll give a sutable line up if people are desperate, bored or like to meet new people.

I'll come, should be fun. I've discovered my role at parties...

"guys who sits in the corner, looking mysterious and making sure everything goes ok" or, another way to put it "goes to the party alone and has nothing better to do than to make sure everything goes ok"

I'll arrive at about half eight and find a corner to sit and monitor the party. and dont try to get me to dance, I got two left feet in both the real world and the virtual world.

my arrival time leads me to this question; when does the party end?

VICTORY!

by pure chance, and without me doing anything, my mum has alowed me to play now. I have it and it is uploading as I type this.

so find me, DR. Rapidfire, tearing up the rogue isle in a few mins

I'm a little mad now

my dad had just recently told me that I can't get CoV until I do a weeks worth of Revision. Fair play to him but I don't see why I can't get the game

you see, in my house, you have to do 2 hours worth of revision a day excluding weekends where you have to do 1. so when I get home the priorities are like this
1. homework
2. revision
3. shower
4. anything else before tea
5. tea
6. anything else before bed
7. bed

now I dont see why I can't play my game after my revision.

still, he is worried about my GCSEs and all that, so I appreciate him for that.

so, unless my mother argues for my side, I'm keeping any more suggestions availible for my second character for another week or so before I have the means to get the game.

thanks, I'll make a note of it and make sure I get those powers. any other suggestions keep comming in till I have made our little Mastermind

Sub-note. this is not Acenra's arch-enemy. quiet frankly, I don't think Acenra has ever met him. Acenra's list if enemies goes on forever but I dont want to make them, incase of roleplay purposes.

<ul type="square"> [*]Raem - a sword weilding dragon like human who wears a suit of armour that can seal souls and use their abilities. Acenra is the only one who is immune to it. Where abouts unknown
[*]Blue-streak - old team mate, turned bad after the destruction of Legend City, has the ability to manipulate and use energy, where abouts unknown
[*]Botanist - a plant controling mad man who was currently the closesed to killing Acenra with the use of the Black Mercy, a plant that makes you relive a repressed memory. currently deceased but rumour has it that is aprentice wants revenge
[*]Shadow - the creator of the Netherworld and all dark magic, killed Acenra's family when the boy was nine. Has been seen skulking around Paragon City[/list]

good point. he did take up a villain name. I'm not sure what though, maybe Dr. Rapid fire, or has tht been taken?

so, heres the stats:

Name: Dr. Rapid fire
Powers: robotics/traps
Arcetype: Mastermind
Origin: Technology
Costume: still havent decided, not until I get the game I don't think I will.

ok, thats all covered, any Ideal powerpools? any specific powers I should look out for?