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My most embarrassing moment in the first few months of playing was a rad/rad defender whose costume design I was extremely proud of until I was watching a Butterfingers commercial. It was Bart Simpson sparring with the Comic Book Guy. I realized then that I had unconsciously copied Radiation Man from Bart Simpson's comic book.

I deleted him fast. (This was before I knew there were such things as tailors in the game.)

For what its worth, I didn't get 'Roll me another J' as a drug reference. It looked like a nonsense phrase to me.

Um, Forbin_Project?

Santa taking a dump down someone's chimney doesn't really equate to the Christmas spirit. (I mean your forum avatar.)

But carry on! It isn't my chimney. I don't have one.

I'll be celebrating the holidays collecting candy canes. Have fun with your, uh, hobby.

I am not capable of judging normal.
I am not capable of judging you either.

I cannot turn off my feelings. I am of the opinion that most people cannot. I offer as evidence in support of my opinion: any discussion that ever degenerated into an argument.

So, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me?

That isn't true. The only way that it could possibly be true would be if I could turn off my feelings on command. But I can't, and I don't think that most other people can either. If I could turn off my feelings so that words didn't have power over me, then I could also turn off my feelings so that when someone dies, I wouldn't have to feel sad.

Words are symbols that we use to share our thoughts and feelings with others. If words didn't convey feelings, then we couldn't easily share them. Most people care what other people think of them, and caring is what makes people vulnerable to the words of other people.

If words didn't have power, then no one would ever speak an insult or a slur. Insults and slurs exist in the language. Those kind of words are intended to hurt, that is their purpose. Words can uplift and inspire as well as injure and demean. Words do have power.

The other thing that bothers me about the quoted statement, is the implication that it is the listener's fault if the words hurt. This isn't true either. If a word is spoken with the intent to injure someone, it is the fault of the speaker, not the listener. The speaker had choice. The listener cannot unhear a word. Volition and intent are what marks the speaker as the offender. It really doesn't matter if the listener took offense or not.

It is possible for misunderstandings to occur, for a listener to take offense where none was intended. Language isn't perfect.

I am only objecting to the statement I quoted above. I doubt 'lolrp' was intended to injure. It looked to me like a flippant thoughtless comment. I wouldn't have commented on the quoted bit either, except that I saw a couple of posts applauding it. I felt inspired to disagree.

There are however Quantum Galaxies that do get the bonus damage. Don't see them too often, but I noticed them in one of the missions where all the enemies are Galaxies. There were couple of Quantum Galaxies in that one.

I've rarely died to a Quantum or Void. I have however died because I had to focus on the Q/V and was subsequently defeated by his friends.

More than the damage from the Quantums and Voids, is the high probability of a stun and knockback on their attacks. If I fail to take out or knock down the Q/V on the first volley, I'll frequently be disabled by his counter attack. In the lower levels, I'll eat a break free before attacking.

/emote Hands $target a mirror.

Enjoy!

I want to focus on this statement. Because something is messed up with my binds too. I don't think that GavinRuneblade is having trouble with binds because he is doing something wrong. I don't think I'm doing anything wrong either.

Look at this bind:

/bind tab "target_custom_next quantum$$target_custom_next void$$target_custom_next cyst$$target_enemy_next"

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this bind? I didn't write it. I copied it from Smiling_Joe's stickied thread on Kheldian Binds and Strategies. I pasted it into the this message unaltered.

It doesn't work for me. I recently made a third warshade and tried to make a standard void/quantum/cyst targetting bind. It didn't work. On the assumption I made a mistake, I checked the bind threads on this forum, and copied-and-pasted into my text line in game. Still doesn't work.

I checked an older warshade, with working targeting binds. They still work. Or they did until I tried pasting that line. Now that warshade can't target a void either.

I'm not trying to derail this thread with my bind issues. I'm just pointing out that if you want to help out GavinRuneblade, that you don't assume he made a mistake typing in the binds.

Of course, there might be a problem with Smiling_Joe's bind, and my error is in copying a bad bind. Which is why I posted it.

GavinRuneblade: I have a question for you. Are you using the Mac or PC client? I'm playing on an iMac, and since you are the only other person I've seen post a similar problem to mine, I'm wondering what we have in common. I created my older Kheldians and set their binds using the PC client before I started using a Mac for CoH.

I wasn't going to mention that, because I'm pretty sure that will never happen here.

I'm fine with cityscapes. I'm just pointing out a whole world provides more visual variety than a city. The designers have done a great job with the variety of city zones, but you can only do so much with skyscrapers.

The only thing I've ever objected to about the cityscape was when they built the same AE building in every zone. It fits fine with some zones, but looks terrible in places like Brickstown or Kings Row. It looks extremely stupid in the Rikti War Zone. I would be highly amused if they would build one in Pocket D, and set it floating outside where it can't be reached most of the year.

I played WoW for about 3 months this Summer. Once I leveled a Hunter up high enough to purchase a mount, I spent the majority of my time exploring the world. It was a very interesting place. Then I suspended my account and played Champions Online for a week, then I came back to CoH.

I've been thinking about this thread again, and I had to think about what was difficult at first, even though I didn't just walk away from the Kheldians. Kheldians benefit greatly from the keybinds listed in posts on this board. But not everyone reads this board. Some people just play for fun, and don't want to do research.

Form shifting is really a pain without either keybinds or macros to swap trays out. Specialized targeting keybinds help a lot to pick out Voids, Quantums and Cysts from a mass of enemies. For a lot of new Kheldians, operating without those binds and/or macros would be a frustrating experience. Those who don't read these forums might have just given up.

I took a break from CoH this summer and played WoW for a few months. I noticed that the Druid form shifters there have it easier. When they change shape, their power trays, or WoW equivalent, were automatically swapped out with the form. Makes it easier to learn to play with the new abilities of the form. They didn't have to learn how to do make a keybind.

I also note that when City of Villains was introduced, specialized pet command macros were created for MasterMinds, and placed in the pet windows. These can be dragged down from the pet window, placed in the power tray, and customized. Nothing similar has ever been done to ease the learning curve for new Kheldians.

City of Heroes and its endless cityscapes is a weakness of the genre, not the game. Superheroes belong in a city, not out in the countryside. Superman may have been a farmboy from Kansas, but he didn't stay on the farm, or in Kansas.

Fantasy genre games can vary the wilderness settings with deserts, mountains, swamps, etc. So there is more visual variety. City of Heroes did the best it could in trying to provide zones with different city styles, such as gritty Kings Row and Steel Canyon's skyscrapers. But its all still city. No weather effects, night and day are barely distinguishable, the War Walls block the horizon. Parklike zones are all hazard zones, meant for street sweeping groups, with no missions.

Visually it seems a little dull compared to all the distinctly different terrains I saw in Everquest and World of Warcraft. I can see why people get a little tired of it. The Roman Zone was a nice change, but I wish it didn't have to involve time travel and Romans.

It would be nice if the Going Rogue expansion would include something like Champions' desert and arctic zones, just for a little more variety. Still, this game is built around instanced missions, so in most cases we would still end up in a cave somewhere. I would be happy enough if they would just design some fresh textures for the existing maps.

I love that bind.

My wish would be for Teleport to work by SHIFT+LBUTTON by default, instead of requiring players to search the forums for a good key bind. Not everyone reads the forums. Players could still change the bind if they liked.

Unless my memory deceives me, and it might, you get your Secondary powers at levels 1, 2, 4, 10, 16, 20, 28, 35 and 38. So a Tanker is capable of selecting 3 attacks by level 4.

But if I understand what Westley is talking about, he means an attack chain with no waiting. There is always an attack ready to fire by the time the previous attack finishes its activation. Tanker attacks tend to be slow and heavy, with recharge times of 4, 6 and 8 seconds commonly (Super Strength Jab being an exception). With such long recharge times, there are substantial periods of time when you stand there waiting for an attack to recharge.

Thanks to this post I created a new Warshade last night. I've already got two, what am I going to do different with a third? (It was kind of nice though, Kheldians have gotten a damage buff since the last time I started one.)

Blasters and Dominators should be able to do this by level four. Counting damaging controls as attacks, and allowing them to take powers from both primary and secondary. But they will do it with four rather than three attacks.

The key to it is that one power have a recharge time that is less than or equal to the activation time of either the other two powers, and neither of the other two powers have a recharge time that is longer than the combined activation times of the others.

Defender Radiation Blast, Warshade and Peacebringer tier one and tier two attacks all have the same activation and recharge times if I recall correctly, which leaves the difference in the tier three attacks. The T3 powers on these three sets are not the same. I think its odd that the T2 and T3 warshade attacks have the same activation time and damage (counting all the ticks from Gravimetric Snare). Usually a T3 power is slower and heavier than the T2 power.

The only thing I don't like about that attack chain you specified is that Shadow Bolt is similar to a ranged version of Brawl in terms of damage, activation time and recharge time. It does make a good filler attack, but if you take Hasten like most Warshade builds suggest, its not going to wind up doing much for you in the long run. There won't be too many gaps to fill while Hasten is up. Levels 1-10, Brawl is a decent power, especially now that it is zero endurance. But except for Brutes, I never use it past that. Shadow Bolt is kind of the same.

Wish Kheldians got a freespec at level 24 like the Arachnoids do. It would make slotting Shadow Bolt a lot more palatable.