Zyhar

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So I think whilst Amy and Rory will appear in later episode, it will not be as a companion capacity like before.

In 2 Eposides, the Doctor will be dying afterall.

When making a new SG, i created 3 toons (with basic stories) just to get the 20k per member thing.
I thought i'd list the names here, because I would be willing to part with them if anyone actually wanted them...They are only sitting there atm afterall.

Lone Samurai
Natural Hero
Vigilant Hero

Honestly, I haven't found any to be skippable.

I guess if you are staying at range you could skip Time's Juncture.
If you are solo play only you could skip Temporal Selection.

But I would honestly not skip any if you plan on doing TFs/Trials at any point.

I would be up for this!

Ideally it would be on a Friday or Saturday though. The reason for this is because of the EU times being 5-8hours ahead means I am gonna be up pretty late on the days this takes place.

Hey folks!

So my name is Shaun. I started playing CoH back in Issue 4 (around when it came out in the EU). I played it up until about Issue 13 and took a very long break as the game didn't interest me anymore. Back then there was very little endgame content. At the time I was playing on Defiant Server.

Then I see Issue 21 is coming out, and had a look at all of the changes from I14 to I21 and saw a huge amount of endgame content added, so I decided to come back!
I thought if I am returning and 'starting again' the best place would be on the brand new server, so here I am!

Zyhar
Gravity/Time Controller.
Made on Exalted about 10 minutes after servers came online for the first time, and just now dinged 50 =)

Gravity/Time is providing me with insane control currently.

I can lockdown entire groups in seconds. I have skipped stuff like Propel/Lift ofc, but the control from Gravity seems incredibly strong.

Hey Carnifax.


Q:For Distortion Field what is the change for the hold.

A:Time Crawl greatly increases the chance of the hold happening. From what I have seen so far, it does not increase its length.

Q:For Time Stop does it buff the length or the mag of the hold? Does it also increase the -regen debuff?

A:The magnitude. I totally forgot about the -Regen and -Heal from Time Stop. Currently I do not think that it increases the -regen debuff, but I can't confirm yet.

So I have had the chance to have a proper look now. Did a couple of TFs (Positon and Syn) aswell as getting the toon to 38. The toon I am playing is Gravity/Time, but it was mostly time I wanted to talk about - hence the thread.

My feedback so far. This is based on memory (as the game is down).

So you have 2 powers that are great on their own, but buff the effects of other Time powers too.

Time Crawl (T1)
This is an excellent power, even pretty good on its own. The slow and -regen is very good. It does have an accuracy check and can miss. When considering the effects of other powers on Time Crawl targets it becomes one of the best powers in the set.

Temporal Selection (T4)
This is cast on a team member. It gives a decent bonus to Damage and Recharge. Currently at level 38 (with 2 recharges slotted) I was able to keep this buff permantly on 2 party members. It also increases the effects of other Time powers on the person with the Temporal Selection buff.
I feel this power is pretty good and the recharge is nice. It seems a little overpowered in that it's so easy to keep the +recharge up on 2 targets however.

The other powers

Temporal Mending (T2)
This is a small PBAOE heal with a HoT afterwards. When the heal hits someone with the Temporal Selection Buff the heal is increased by a huge amount on that target.
Currently I think the heal is far too weak on normal targets and far too strong on targets with Temporal Mending.

Times Juncture (T3)
Another great power. Its an Aura (like Steamy Mist) that does -Damage -ToHit of all enemies in range. The radius feels like it is in a great place. I have no problems with this power at all, and is one that you should try keep up at all times.

Distortion Field (T5)
Slows all enemies instead and gives a chance to hold on Time Crawled enemies. The slow effects dramatically reduces incoming damage on large groups entering the field. Definitly a great power and should be used when possible.

[u]Time Stop (T6)
A single target hold. It's stronger when used on enemies with Time Crawl. Not much I can really say, its a Hold

Far Sight (T7)
I love the defence buff to the team this provides. I feel the numbers and the recharge are just right.

Slowed Responce (T8)
Targetted AoE -Def, -Res. Stronger when used on those with Time Crawl. It's a very strong AV *** kicking power. Not had the chance to use this much though, but fantastic on the uses I did get. I am very annoyed that it's so late though. It would have been better as T3/T4 imo.

Chrono Shift (T9)
Crazy power on a 6 minute cooldown.
+50 recharge to the team for 90 seconds.
+15% instant End to the team
+End recovery for 30 seconds.
+Heal over time for 30 seconds.

It's pretty damn good, and the only power that I think "Damn, this animation is awesome!!"

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I made a Gravity/Time controller.

Its level 22 currently (if you powerleveled your Time toon, you suck big time!) and soo much fun!

I am going to main on Exalted yes.

For me personally though, it is mostly because I have been away from the game for a long time (3 years now?) and very recently returned.
I will be staying now, and because I haven't really got a home server anymore I figured the best thing to do was to make a new main on the new server.

I can understand though, that several older members have their 'home server' they have been with for possibly even 7 years now. No new server is going to change that .

Probably the Beam Rifle set, but only to try it out really.

Other than that, nothing is really 'interesting' enough to warrant me spending additional money on it. If something 'cool' came out, then yes I would.

Ahh its good to know that you don't have to change all your passwords then, and that just changing/updating your City of Heroes password is enough.
It still is rather odd though and it seems to be affecting a large amount of people. There were several on Exalted alone saying that they couldn't log in this morning due to details being wrong.

Servers should be back up in 3 hours.

Edit: Updated so you don't need to read through alot of replies to see the fix.

If you are currently unable to get on the forums, log in to your account management page.
Change/Update the password you use to log in to City of Heroes (the forum password is the same as your City of Heroes log in).
You seem to be able to simply 'change' your City of Heroes password to what it already was in order to gain forum access.
Try again, you should now be able to log in.

As talked about lower down in the thread, several of us were able to log in after doing the above.

So, the first thing I did (as I am sure many others) was made a character with Time Manipulation character.

What is everyones thoughts on this Powerset so far?

My thoughts
-End seems pretty managable, even early on.
-The slows are great
-Distortion Field is awesome.

They are of coarse only initial reactions, and as I work on the toon I hope to build on some more detailed discussion over the coming weeks.

I don't mind all this downtime.
I would rather spend a couple of days away from playing, than a week being frustrated by the amount of bugs.

Get it right, don't get it rushed .

Nice to see some people still around! Issue 21 also brought me back, but I have decided to give the new Exalted server a try.

I am very glad to see Defiant still going strong though!