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I remember someone on DA doing lessons on how to draw certain features......

http://cataclysm-x.deviantart.com/gallery/#Tutorials

There's some good help in there.

On some of my combination binds , where a power execute is also in the macro, I find it drops the execute part. What I have found is that if you go back in and edit the macro after that, adding the execute part back in, it works.

If you've tried that, then not sure what to tell you.

Pro Payne's post is a good place to start: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=129153

Also, read through the review threads. Anything in them with a half decent review is likely to be worth running. Also, check out the players choice awards threads. It is stickied at the top of the forum.

That should give you pretty good start.

No. It hasn't gotten old for me. I love playing my arch/mm blaster. When you can seamlessly run blazing, snap, aimed, snap,blazing, you kind of end up giggling as you spin around at target after target. And for AOE? Oi. ROA,fistfull,scream and shockwave just makes you laugh as everything falls to the floor.

Once you get ROA and slot it up, you will love how much damage you can do.

Add in ninja run, jumping off a building, hitting an attack, flipping, then firing off snap shot before you land. It's all fun.

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Maybe borrowing Clark Griswold's "Non-Caloric, Silicon-Based Kitchen Lubricant" wasn't such a good idea.

I ran Troy Hickman's arc last night. It was very good. It had difficult opponents and a believable storyline. The third mission could be killer. Stacked mobs with twilight grasp can be tough. The puns were plentiful but not in such a way to keep the story from being serious. It was well balanced, I think, between the humorous and the dramatic.

I ran Mercedes MArc, Mystery on the Boardwalk, twice last night. I didn't take notes but a few things stood out.

Solo friendly. I ran it on a 50 scrapper at -1/5 ( forgot I had it set that way before I started.) I thought I'd set it for -1/1 I was racing through the mobs so fast ( It's a DM/SR and not set for AOE at all.) Second time was on a duo at 1/1. Level 30 db/da scrapper and Arch/elec blaster. Again, we ran through it so fast I thought we'd set it low. The only road bump was the final boss. He actually was tough enough to make us feel like we were fighting something.

Typos/text errors. If I was noticing them, there were lots. My partner's first comment on picking the MArc was about the typos. She tends to notice things like that and I don't, but I was picking up even more on the second run.

Story. I don't want to say anything that might give away any part of it. It is a mystery and it works.

Little details. There's lots of little details that are there, as they should be. Bio's for mobs as well as characters. I liked the comments about the contact in the accept window. ( I agreed with the comment at the start of mission two very much so.)

Over all, a good MArc. Very playable for most anyone. Lower level controllers and defenders may have problems with the final boss mob, but most teams and other soloers will likely not even notice.

I look forward to running the other two MArcs.




A tip for teams running MArcs. At the end of a mission I cut/paste the debrief dialogue box into team chat so the others can keep up with everything said. I think that is the only box that only the team lead can read and no on else gets. It makes it a better experience for all the players. (Other team members, you get all the clues and opening dialogues.)

One response to the original post. Why choose between the two versions of WW? If it's a long TF, you'll have to multi-part it and can use both versions.

Another step I add, is I post three items, all at a very odd amount ( say 673). When I log back in, and there are still only three, I then try to buy them at one less than the amount I listed them at. If I cannot, then I try for one at the amount I listed. If I get one, then it's safe to transfer.

Jericho has a hard time saving any Thorn for any reason.

Aden (aka Shadez) will happily gut anything that looks like it's related to the Snakes. Dragons are Snakes with 4 legs and wings. Lizardmen are Snakes with legs. Scaly humanoids of any form are fair game.

Played this last night and enjoyed it. The only thing I would suggest changing, is picking a different color for the clue text on I think it's the third mission. The red is kind of glaring. Another shade of orange/yellow, or a blue, or even a dull green would help. The color coding of the clues was a nice idea to separate them. It does make it easier to keep up with them after a mission.

Missed this yesterday. Happy B-day Heroid. Enjoy the time with your family.

GS, if you have problems with writing text for you MArcs, I highly recommend using Leandro's program. It will allow you to take a MArc out of the COH folder, edit the text, copy paste and spell check, etc, then put it back in the COH folder. You won't need to keep the game running to do all the editing.

You can find his posting about it here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=128121

Excellent tool for working on MArcs out of game.

I like and appreciate knockback.

I dislike scatter.

There are times you can use knockback wonderfully. Single target knockback is rarely the problem, unless someone is being stupid about it. ( I think we all agree wit that statement)
Stupid uses include:

Knocking toggled targets into other groups of mobs.

Constantly pushing a target away from a melee character. ( Hey, stuff happens, If it happens once in a while, Ok. If it's happening almost every fight or most every mob, then maybe the knockback artist may need to make adjustments)

Using an AOE knockback as an opener when you have a scrapper heavy team, or an AOE centric team. I think this tends to be the biggest problem ( or is in my experience). Say I'm playing a DB/DA scrapper. I go to hit my heal. wham! Archer uses Explosive arrow. Now I have no targets for my heal. I jump in the middle of a group of mobs go to hit Typhoons Edge in DB. Pow. I hit nothing because all the targets are now on the other side of the room.

These are not the only times, and there are always exceptions ( Like a tank joining a team of storm/nrg defenders. There will be knockback, and the tank will have to adjust).

Again, I'm not adverse to knockback. The melee player that can't adjust to single target knockback on occasion needs to get over it. But a knockback player that fires off his attacks scattering everything and making it harder for his team mates also needs to get over it.

Let me add, I've played a stormie, nrg/nrg blasters, Arch blaster, and scrappers of various sorts. When I have a knockback power, I try to be responsible in how it's used. When I have someone with knockback powers on my team, I try to be understanding of what they are doing, but if a person is using knockback in such a manner that it is detrimental to the team, then sending a tell asking them to make adjustments is not out of line.(Adjustments mean asking them to try and backstop with a wall or not to open with an AOE knockback and just wait a few seconds until after the others have a chance to use their AOE damage powers, not telling them to never use a power.) I find asking and explaining why usually works wonders.

Pretty much anything you like.

Flashbacking via Orobolous gives you exp now.

Joining low level teams, gives you exp, even running on a sewer team.

It's so easy to gain exp now, it's almost impossible not to get to 50, unless you turn off exp or stop playing the character.

And, there are some great AE missions that are fun. Saul's Discount TF ( by Ascendant) is funny. Another good one ( IMO) is Consequences of war. A two part MArc ( It's 10 missions long) If you want more, you can check out the Mission Architect forum for review threads and can get an idea of what you may like to run.

Might try asking in the Screenshot and Fan creation forum as well. The artistic inclined and talented generally gather there.

I concur that target cap really does have more effect than Area.

My Arch/MM blaster duo's with a db/wp scrapper. I open with RoA ( if it's up) then hit fistfull of arrows then Psychic scream. Anything left over gets a few single target shots. I'm usually firing FoA before ROA lands. The 5 target cap absolutely affects the damage output of FoA. No matter how tightly packed the mobs are, I can't hit more than 5 ( and they do get packed in thanks to the AOE taunt in /wp)

With the cones, you have to use the target cap as part of the equation. It makes a difference.

I don't think it's the fact that they associate Dual pistols with scrappers.

They associate SR with pistol using.

Lately, gun fighters are not the stand up, quick draw fighters we had in westerns. They are matial art dodgers with a weapon in their hand to shoot their enemy while dodging everything thrown at them. The shooting is cool, The dodges and moves they've got are _really_ cool.
Now, which AT has a power set that allows dodging and slick defensive moves? last I checked, it wasn't blasters. ( I'm not saying they have actual dodge graphics, but the idea behind the Power)

I admit, I wanted a DP/SR scrapper. I love the concept. It's not likely to happen and I get that and am willing ot deal with it.

But it's still a cool concept and I can still dream.

Issue 14 ( Architect ) released on April 8th, of this year. I believe Lazarus is pointing out how, if you made the MArc a year or so ago, you are saying this from the perspective of April 2010. Even Open beta started March 6th. It's mostly a minor quible with your phrasing is all. It may seem a year since MA came out, with all the changes made to it, but it hasn't quite been that long.