Adelie

Sweet! So I could bring back the dynamic of Defiance 1.0 with this power? Teetering on the brink of death in order to get great damage?

Does the damage boost from share pain stack?

Hurricane has a good -tohit. A good reason to leave it on all the time. Just know how to nudge things without pushing them all over the place and scattering them. And once you're practiced you'll be able to bunch stuff up with it nicely and the mele folk will actually like it rather than hate it.

Ninja/Storm mastermind is turning out to be a ton of fun. The only mastermind I haven't gotten bored with. I'm in the mid 40s on it and still loving it.

It just occurred to me that if Going Rogue allows you to play Corrupters hero side, defenders may become obsolete.

Tankers are probably the easiest AT to play. To play them well is a bit harder, but still not any great challenge.

Scrappers are easy to play as well. If you want to level quickly solo with minimal effort this is your choice. You may get bored to tears though like I do on these guys.

Defenders are more challenging and interesting and employ more game mechanics, though their blast sets are not wonderful.

Controllers are where I'd go for the best learning experience. You get to learn pretty much all game mechanics here, with both the control and buff sets, but they are slow to start so don't expect to fly though the early levels like a scrapper or blaster.

Blasters are very easy to play at first, possibly the easiest, but they get much harder later in the game, especially to solo.

Villain side masterminds are the easiest. They may wow you visually at first but eventually most sets will bore you to tears. The only mastermind combo I've come up with that was fun all the way to 50 was ninjas/storm - because it actually requires you to be at the keyboard

Corrupters are what defenders should have been. They employ those buff/debuff sets so there's a bit to learn. Dominators employ the control sets so some to learn there though (but only controllers employ both)

Brutes are not difficult to play but can be very twitchy. You have to go go go to get the best out of them and it can be exhausting or exhilerating depending on how you look at it. You can get an adrenaline rush playing Brutes.

Global Name: Rapulis
Arc Name: The Albatross
Arc ID: 38193

Running Commentary as played by a Grav/Psi Dom...

Mission One:

Oh my, my contact has a nasty scar. Wonder how he got that.

Poor fella's wife is ill. But I'm off to fight Skulls? Why?

Decent little mission. I like the map chosen. Had to switch around my powers to play at the lowly level 14 Should be a good intro mission to the game though. So many of these are set for 40+. Nice to see one set for low level.

Mission Two:

More on the poor lady's illness and another mission I'm sent off on without much explanation. I'm calling it. The two are connected somehow!

Oh I like this map too. Good taste in maps.

These Skulls are a bit wonky. They all say the same thing, in stereo. Is that intentional or a bug to squash?

Huff Huff Huff I miss Stamina.

Mission Three:

Wow. I really like this mission's intro text. Now I know what's going on and its a really cool idea. No I'm not spoiling it folks, you'll have to play his mission ;p

I'm still left wondering how my contact fella got his scar though

lol I like the mission popup text too

Hrm. Kinda anti-climatic though. I came across all of 5 enemies before arriving at the glowie which ended the mission.

Closing text for this mission is heart touching.

Mission Four:

Oooh I like this intro text too. This arc starts of kinda weak but gets better and better and at this point I'm loving it.

Very odd choice of map. Hellions are here somewhere?

Hello Mr. Wolf. Why is he just a Lt? Shouldn't he be a boss?

Ok that was weak, end boss was just a Lt too, and I'm on challenge level 4.

Not much of an end text for such a cool story.

Rated it 4 stars. Good idea and really nice story in missions 3 and 4 but there are bugs to squash. Also why was the end guy a "protestor"?

My thanks to those who played through my hero side Paragon Maid Service and found for me that mission 2 was overpowered. I've neutered it a bit and it should now be much easier to complete.

Could use more feedback Do a search on my name "Adelie" to find it and its villainous counterpart.

I'm gunna run through this Albratross mission posted above next.

Arc Name: Cops and Graverobbers
Arc ID: 32803

Somebody 2 starred this before I got to it.

I liked the mission intro.

Ha! and the mission popup text is funny

The end boss indeed is seriously tough. I can see why you said try with a team

Fought him and lost 4 times before time ran out. My Grav/Psi dom just didn't have the damage to finish him. Perhaps I should try it on a difficulty level lower than level 4 i was running on. THe drain psyche on the minions was wonderful though

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Title: 7662 - The Fan Club
MArc #: 5898
Length: 4 missions
Description: Pretty easy IMO, but I'm hoping for a good story. Be sure to read the clues! (And yes, the 7662 is in the title; that's for RO purposes.)

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Review from the point of view of a Grav/Psi Dominator

Missions One and Two:

I like how you have used standard enemy groups for these missions instead of banging the player over the head with a custom one right away. Makes it fit nicely into CoH lore.

The clues explain the fan club story nicely but I'd add a bit more in game dialogue as well (some people will be too lazy to read the clues)

Missions Three and Four:

Too much Kill All. Makes sense in mission 3, not so much in mission 4.

Mission Five:

I was expecting a mission 5 at the end of mission 4. The story didn't feel over just yet.

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Ok My turn

Arc #: 35286
TItle: Paragon Maid Service
Length: 4 Missions
Description: The Maids of Paragon City are sick of cleaning up after your superpower battles, and they are setting out to do something about it!
Note: There are EBs and an AV (which will downgrade to EB) but there are also powerful allies available which makes it soloable for any AT.

Ok um.. merits? These are still newfangled things to me. I'm not so peeved about merits beause I really don't know or care to know what they do.

Oh I also here there is this thiing called the invention system? DOn't need it folks. You can do just fine without that stuff

The more i read about t he MA thing the more I'm convinced its going to either be a massive re-invention of the game, or a complete dud. I see little room for in between.

This was great! For once I didn't see it coming. I didn't read anything about it and was just playing as usual and all of a sudden zombies come up from under me!

I loved the surpise!

I love red dwarf. My favourite sci fi comedy of all time.

Hollows got a revamp? Hollows? Thats makes no sense. Hollows is a relatively new zone. lol. When does perez park get a revamp? Or Boomtown?

I wish they would STOP with all the i11 teasers on the login client. I'd just managed to push i11 to the pack of my mind and now they throw it back in my face again. Its torture being told about something so far in advance and then being made to wait.

The costume temp power gravitates towards an epic set I've long wanted. A bodysnatcher. I think after this event I won't be the only one calling for it anymore.

The basic idea is that you start the game as a disembodied spirit and take possession of NPC bodies throughout the game (being able to take first only minions then lts and then bosses at high level). You'd have a constant set of psi powers plus an additional couple of powers from the body you are occupying.

This would take some serious work to implement but I think it'd be really cool is possible.

I hope it comes out relatively soon. I hate when they hype things and then make you wait too long. My preference would be not to know whats in it until its almost here.

I wonder if all these goodies will finally make people in the suggestion forum stop declaring things undoable. Lots of these stuff they've announced were so declared.

I have heard that issue 11 will have naked dancing penguins.

Is this true?

I will so quit if this is not true!

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This does look promising.

My only concern.. are you going to lock us out of test server again? This new ritual, started with i9 I think, has got to stop. You didn't used to lock us out of test server

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So we can have another issue 7? No thank you.

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Or issue 6 or 5 or 4 or 3 or 2 or 1?

This does look promising.

My only concern.. are you going to lock us out of test server again? This new ritual, started with i9 I think, has got to stop. You didn't used to lock us out of test server

Come to Toronto!

There are SO MANY things in here that people are saying "used to be" that I thought still were!!

ANd that would make for a very interesting legal calse, especially if the person who sold the account did not inform the person who bought the account of this potential for it to get disabled.