Aerie

Happy Birthday Xi.

Sounds like a nice idea, put me down for a maybe.

Gratz Spawny.

I didn't find my peacebringer slow to level at all. In fact I found it easier than my other characters. And like you I LOVE my Peacebringer.

I've got mine slotted with 3 defence, 3 recharge. Since Light Form is really only to be used for AV's or big battle situations this is more than enough. Of course if you want to use it more than for these situations, with Hasten it should adequate for your needs.

I'll be there my young Padawan.

Well done Tailman.

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A PB is more soloable

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Solo'd from level 1-40. So yes i'd agree. Was a breeze.

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Just one thing id like to point out why do you have aid other/aid self when you have also taken glowing touch and reform essence?



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Agreed, Glowing touch is an awesome heal power. And coming from an ex Empath that's saying something. I've kept a team alive with it in front of an AV when the defender dropped. Unless your planning on spending 90% of your time healing others i'd drop Medicine. And if you are planning on spending 90% of your time healing others, roll an Empath.

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Incandescent Strike is beautiful, if you're only going to slot it with one hold duration though just forget about taking it...

It's a mag 3 hold with a high chance to be mag 4, I think. The holding power of IS is very handy but I feel the ammount of time your opponents held doesn't matter much. Better going with an Accuracy three Damage and some combination of end reduction or recharge reduction.

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Never plan on my opponent living more than a few seconds if i'm hitting them with IS, so I wouldn't bother with hold. As said above slot it for acc and dmg. It's a good Alpha strike to take out oranges, reds and purples. IS is the 'laying the smack down' power.

Depends on your playstyle. Warshades are powerful in the right situation. On average they are ok. PB's are consistent powerful, as someone said above in the right situation a WS could take a PB. But I tend to find the right situation isn't easy, why I prefer a PB. In fact the PB is my favourite AT overall, I love them.
Not as blastery as a blaster, not as scrappy as a scrapper, not as tanky as a tank, but they have a almost as much as each which makes them damn powerful.

As has been said above check to see you don't have any old arcs still going. This is normally the reason Maria Jenkins doesn't come up. What happened to me.

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Many a time now someone asks if they can join us and I have to say 'sorry SG only'. That's not to be spiteful, I am just happy with the close group I have, and know them all so well and know they are great players, like a little family.

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I think you'll find this is the very definition of "clique."

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No a Clique is a group of people that don't ever allow anyone else into their fold. A supergroup is a group of people that expands over time as they meet new people, make new friends.

Supergroups expands, Cliques don't or at least, rarely. Many times I go out on organised supergroup events, supergroup missions, to collect prestige for the group, and this usually consists of a full team of 8. While waiting for one of the group to get a mission from a contact you get someone saying 'can I join your team' to which I reply 'sorry but on a SG only team'.
One, most of the time there isn't room and two, even if there is it defeats the point of going on a 'supergroup' event if your letting other people into it who arn't in your supergroup.

Cliques are not supergroups, supergroups are not cliques. If i'm not on an organised supergroup mission then other people can join, but if I am on an organised supergroup mission or TF and someone wants to join and we say no sorry SG event only, does that make us a clique? No.

Human form only but with Light Form (which I use quite often) when facing an AV and his minions, and since in Light Form you can use all the human form powers I found them totally devestating.

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The squid form has a nice damage output, the dwarf form is really tough and the human form have some nice tricks

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Yup, I have found Light Form is great. HUGE damage resistance and can use all the human form powers. Fly into a mob of purples in light form, unleash Dawn Strike, Photon Seekers, let rip with Radiant and Incandescent Strike, Gleaming blast and Solar Flare, the result, total annihilation and not a scratch on you.

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Seriously though, used point blank they are devestating. Used pre-fight they are quite pretty.

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Agreed. I usually use them as a mini dawn-strike while the real dawn strike is recharging. Jump into the middle of a mob and unleash.

Would be nice if they were smarter but they do work.

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I haven't seen any SGs like that in CoHs either. I do remember one in SWG that had a yearly fee to be a member off

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Really!? Now that's pretty darn sad! Is that game even still going?

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There is nothing wrong with prefering to group with your SG, a few people have pointed out good reasons for that. Saying you will only group with your SG and/or friends is a step towards being a clique but isn't bad in of itself.

The bad part of a clique and what makes it earn the name over just being a group of friends is where your completely dismissive and rude towards people that aren't a member of the clique. Saying you will only group with friends or your SG can sound dismissive of others and be why people can jump to the conclusion that your being rude where you aren't.

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Yup this I won't stand for, there is no reason to be rude to other players. To my knowledge I don't know any SG that are like that though, I may be wrong. Certainly doesn't happen in my SG and those I am friends with. I can see why the term clique is used in this regard if someone was rude to non SG players, however I don't like all SG only teams being labelled as a clique, especially as they are polite, decent and friendly people.
This is what bothered me.

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Like I said earlier, I'm an introverted kind of guy. Blind invites by total strangers make me anxious and take away ever so slightly from my enjoyment of the game. I am most comfortable either when soloing (and chatting with my sg in the sg channel) or when playing with people from my sg. Next in descending order of comfort is getting invited into a team by someone from my friends list, followed by getting invited to a team by someone who I've played with before or who I know by reputation from the forum or within the game. Bottom of my comfort scale is getting invited by someone I don't know at all - quite often I'll team up with them and give them a hand but there's also a fair chance that I'll choose to continue to solo. I'm not refusing to team with them because I don't like them or because I refuse to team outside a set group of people; I'm refusing because the situation they're inviting me to get involved in is closer to the edge of my comfort zone and some days my real life circumstances have caused that zone to shrink, thus putting the "teaming with people I don't know" situation outside my comfort zone. I play this game to relax and to enjoy myself and day to day I'll play in a manner that allows me to enjoy myself and to relax. My sg (and my friends) allow me to relax and enjoy myself more so I am more likely to team with them.

<end public therapy session>

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Thanks Doctor, I agree.

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Whats wrong teaming exclusively with your SG? In the end everyone tries to get around bunch of people who share similiar intrests, humour etc.

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Yup.

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What would you rather have a polite, decent and respectful player who likes to stick with SG friends, or a rude, obnoxious player but who's happy to team with anyone?


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So if I'm happy to team with anyone it makes me rude and obnoxious? Sorry but if you're going to pick my posts apart and misinterperate them, expect me to do the same.

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Did I say that? No. But seems to me your having a go at those who only team with SG friends. Or am I wrong? Even though those that have posted above and do are decent, polite, respectful people. So what's wrong with them teaming the way they want to team. Read posts before snap replying. The only qualities a player should have is politeness and respect for his fellow player. As long as they have those I say let them team how they choose. Being decent and polite to other players is far more important than their teaming choices. Those that have posted above, Empath, TG etc choose to stick within their SG's and friends, but they are decent, respectful and friendly players, so what's the problem how they choose to team?

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But I do think that if you really will not team with anyone who isn't in your SG... Well I'm just glad that not everyone has that blinkered a view in-game.

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Since when was it policy that you had to team outside your SG? I thought this was about players manners and attitude not their playing choices. What would you rather have a polite, decent and respectful player who likes to stick with SG friends, or a rude, obnoxious player but who's happy to team with anyone?

People should be allowed to play the game how they choose, as long as they are respectful and polite to their fellow gamers I don't see the problem how they choose to spend their time and with whom.

Me for example, for ages in this game I teamed with everyone, eventually I made a close small group of friends and we formed a SG. Now we play almost always together, not exclusive but mostly. Now does that make me a 'bad' person because I want to play with my friends?

A Clique is a highschool term, it means a group that is closed off to others, mutually exclusive to themselves only. A SG is a gathering of players who add to their number and play together. As long as people arn't rude about it, or have an ego about their SG I can't see the problem here.

It's interesting reading the above posts. I do beleive COV is slightly to blame for this shift. Many new people have come to play initially only on COV, I know playing there myself a bit you get talking to people and you ask them who they play on COH, many don't and came straight to COV. Playing first as a hero you get into a certain mindset of duty and honour and friendship, and this is what made the community on COH second to none.

Now though you have COV where my experience so far teaming wise hasn't been great, the mindset of the game itself is, gain power, tread on your fellow villain etc.

Those coming from COH you can spot a mile away, those new to either games you can spot to.

This isn't a standard response, plenty of decent people have come from the COV crowd to, but I do think a larger percentage of ruder players, coming into COV and now moving into COH has come about.

That and the advent of PvP big time, where killing you fellow players is an accepted thing. Pre PvP we all got along, now some take it far too seriously, convinced killing every 'real' player out there is the point of the game, like 'I Pwn you' or whatever it's called, and it affects their demeanour.

This probably all sounds like a lot of psychological rubbish, but just sharing my thoughts.

As with Generalissimo_2 I spend most of my time now solo or more often than not teaming only with my SG friends. Many a time now someone asks if they can join us and I have to say 'sorry SG only'. That's not to be spiteful, I am just happy with the close group I have, and know them all so well and know they are great players, like a little family.
I know many people outside the SG and talk with them a lot, but I don't team with them hardly ever.

If your having problems at the moment, or if certain people are bothering you and it's affecting your gameplay perhaps taking a break would be a good idea. Just because you leave doesn't mean you can't come back and from my own experience taking a break was the best thing I could have done.

Or, just simply avoid those that are causing the problem. I did try and team outside of my SG with some low level characters recently on about 4-5 teams, and with each I got what you mentioned, so stick with SG only really now. There are some rude players out there, but don't let it affect your game, as there are still LOADS of nice players out there to.

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Im on the left hand side over beside Generalissimo_2. His big purple green cozzy stands out a mile

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You wanna see some of his others. The pink leotard is my favourite.

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I'm in Nettle's one, on the left side

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And i'm the teeny tiny hero just in front of him