AlienOne

I have Superspeed as well, but don't yet have the 60 month vet reward.

Anyone can have a 2nd travel power at the Posi level, as long as they pick it the moment it becomes available...

You can, of course, use your primary travel power, but....For Peacebringers, it's pretty slow... And for Warshades, it consumes an AMAZING amount of endurance at that level.

"Alien"

Hmmm... Never really paid that much attention to it or tested it myself. I was just quoting from the info posted in the information section of the power itself. I was not aware that accolade powers could be affected by your global recharge... Good to know!

Now that I think about it, it did seem to come up fairly quickly after using it during my "traditional" soloing of all the mobs in front of Romulus on the iTF the past few times I did it...

I've got a 170% global recharge on my 'shade, with a "chance for 100% +recharge" popping off for a few seconds literally every 10 or 15 seconds (or sooner) once I've built momentum... It's enough to put Hasten at perma, actually.

"Alien"

I've thought seriously about doing this with my main two toons, as I've already encountered a few people on Freedom who have made some sort of imitation of my main two characters' names. (lol)

"Alien"

I'm sure you're joking here, but I'll humor you...

The *common* definition of "influence" is:

"the power or capacity of causing an effect in indirect or intangible ways." (dictionary definition)

In this game, I think it's a little ridiculous to think that some lady off the street has "enough money" to pay you for saving her behind. In fact, it's not even really "heroic" to accept such a reward (even if this were the case). If you are being a "true hero," then you wouldn't be saving the damsel in distress for the money.

I think this is the issue the developers came across when developing a superhero game in the beginning. Thus, they named the *currency* "Influence."

So, by saving someone, or defeating an Arch-Villain that's possibly causing citizens harm, you're not "earning money," you're "gaining influence." You're gaining "the power or capacity to cause an effect."

An NPC who sells jetpacks is affected by your "superhero influence" to want to give you a jetpack.

On the "flip side," an NPC is affected by a villain's "Infamy." He may give a jetpack to a villain because he's afraid of what that villain may do to him if he does not.

Therefore, I say that yes, that "influence" appears out of "thin air," because it is an *intangible thing*. That lady you just saved (presumably) will go tell her friends that you just saved her life, and they'll tell their friends, who will tell theirs, and so an and so forth....Which allows you to "gain influence" in Paragon City.

The more "good deeds" you do, the more "influence" you have in the city.

The more "evil deeds" you do, the more "infamy" (or evil reputation) you gain.

If the developers didn't mean it like this, they just would have called it "gold." Or "money." Or "cash." Or "currency."

Understand?



"Alien"

You ever used a library of different guns extensively?

A lot of people say "just point and shoot, it can't be that hard"

Can it?

I submit that although the mechanic "point and shoot" may be *simple*, using the gun itself requires training and practice to be any good at it. It's definitely NOT "that easy."

So, yes, using a gun requires training--especially if you're talking about "hero level" of expertise with a weapon.

"Alien"

Tru 'dat!

"Alien"

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really wish we could still accomplish that in AE (or if you still can, if someone could show me how)... I had SOOOO much fun testing out my Warshade to see if it could survive against various foes on a "neverending, constant incoming enemy/damage" scale...

I don't even care if there are ZERO rewards for setting up a mission like this. I just like the challenge. OMG that was so fun when I was doing that!!!

The only time I can even get close to something like this is if someone allows me to run ahead and take the entire Cimeroran mob in front of Romulus by myself while they stay at the bridge in the beginning of the map and take stuff down... Or if someone stays with me at the end of the LGTF, and allows me to finish out the final room on the last map (for some reason, if everyone quits the TF after it's completed, it auto-kicks me from the map, so I have to have someone stay on the team after the TF is completed)...

"Alien"

Awww, that's too bad.... I've had a bubbler put black bubbles on my characters before, and due to the "dark nature/look" of many of my toons, it actually looked really good and matched the uniform...

"Alien"

That's actually a great idea... I need to do that myself with a few of my low-level scrappers... Those Rularu weapons are just friggin' great!

"Alien"

I've seen him do it. He doesn't die once (regen ftw), and every "main" power he uses has a purple set or a PvP IO set in it, and therefore exemps down with him (and is phenomenally powerful).

I consider that to be the worst mish in the TF as well. In fact, I hate that mission more than any other in all of CoH.

However, I find it (especially on fuller teams) to be more beneficial to fight your way to the hostages/boss, so you will have a clear path on the way back. Not "kill-all", just "clear a path."

Otherwise, you run into problems with the hostages running into CoT on your way back and stopping to say "I'm captured again!"

And you have to take down that mob anyway.



That said, this thread inspired me to finally go ahead and try it myself...




Special thanks to "Spike Mah Drink" and "Intestinal Fortitude" for allowing me to solo this thing.


Bits of trivia for 'ya:

A. I could have finished this at least an hour sooner than I did
B. I had 3 deaths up until the last 2 missions
C. The "Rescue FEMA workers" mish took me 45 min by itself (working at a casual, safe pace, fighting my way to boss/hostages)
D. I took a 15-min break to get more salvage and re-apply base buffs about halfway through
E. It took 15 min to find boss in the cave CoT mish, because caves and I don't get along very well
F. I didn't use any temp powers (other than base buffs), but used inspirations LIBERALLY
G. I used Nova/Dwarf forms almost exclusively during the first half of the TF, and then used Nova/Human forms almost exclusively during the second half of the TF (frustration with lolDwarf was setting in by that stage)
H. I used my "Eye of the Magus" and "Geas of the Kind Ones" accolades only once during the TF, and that one time didn't help, because I still died. (haha)


Overall, it was pretty fun... But, I gotta say that although, yes, Khelds are maybe the best to exemp down with for a Posi, it's not really until a Manticore TF that you can REALLY see a Kheld shine.

The difference in performance for Khelds between the Posi level exemption and the Manti level exemption is absolutely amazing.

"Alien"