Biowraith

Every 5-10 minutes I try to log on, and every now and on some attempts there's a slightly longer pause than usual between clicking the server name and getting the nuh-uh message, and for a brief moment I think the server's up and I'm about to get the character list. Then I get the nuh-uh message after all, and it's a total slap in the face.

Willy Wheeler. Just having to start each day knowing that you're Willy Wheeler must be pretty awful.

My job sometimes involves minute taking. Is there any chance you could head over to Scotland to fill in for me?


(and thanks)

I *might* move my Victory characters there, depending on how the populations end up i.e. whether the anticipated influx of free and premium players brings up Victory's population size vs whether Exalted proves hugely popular with VIPs.

My Virtue and Freedom characters are staying put.

The text descriptions for damage powers can be somewhat vague, inconsistent, and even outright inaccurate. You'd be better looking at the detailed info, and comparing the damage numbers there with other powers (esp. powers you're already familiar with).

Also 'light damage' doesn't have to be a bad thing if it's also cheap and fast recharging (i.e. lots of light damage rather than one or two heavy damage). Especially at low levels where you may not have many attacks yet.

But yeah, the melee attacks are generally fine. Dunno about the most minmaxed attack chain with them, but they should take you through those levels and beyond without any major problems.

First I'll be camping as many names as I can get on the VIP server - not sure if I'll end up playing there, but if I do I want to be sure I have all the names I'd want.

Then I shall make:

A Pistols/Poison Corruptor (been a placeholder char waiting for this since Dual Pistols was announced).

A Grav/Time Controller (re-roll of a Grav/Sonic - I like the /Time aesthetic on him better).

A Beam/Sonic or Beam/Traps Corruptor (I'm undecided on which - Traps is fairly good fit thematically and more powerful than Sonic, but after rerolling the controller I won't have any Sonic Resonance chars and I like to keep my alts varied).


Probably also a Dark/Dark Blaster (alternate version of my main), and quite possibly a Ninja/Time MM just so I can shout "IT'S NINJA TIME!" at people.

Downtime announcement is up.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...03#post3869303


Glad I didn't take Tuesday off

Hmm, was hoping for an estimated time for it going live by now (even just "morning" or "evening"). Guess I'm going to work tomorrow

Once you get the Lich his Tenebrous Tentacles and Fearsome Stare will help keep them from running (albeit not incredibly reliably since you're at the mercy of pet AI).

Otherwise, you could try picking up a taunt power - that'll temporarily cause most runners to come back. Or hit a defensive-follow macro (or passive-follow, for a longer lasting effect) when your pets try to chase them.

Much later on there's the patron pools for aoe immobs and single target holds.

If I'm reading the in-game power info correctly, from level 47 onwards Fortification + Crab Armor Upgrade is enough to block Rom's rez-stun (Crab Armor's protection is constant, but Fort scales with level). Certainly from my actual experience, you will never get stunned by Rom at 50 with just those two protecting you.

With regards knockback, 4 points will block the vast majority of kb in the game - but of the few sources of kb it won't block, most still won't be blocked by 8 points. But with high levels of +def the few knockbacks that could breach 4 points will miss most of the time anyway. i.e. I don't think it's worth chasing more than one -kb IO (if you can fit more in without any extra effort/slotting, great, but I'd not compromise anything for them).

Anyway, unless you have a really specific IO build in mind, just about any power pick is better than Wolf Armour for a Crab (tbh I feel similarly about Bane, but there's a bit more wiggle room there).

I just want to know whether it's worth me trying to get Tuesday off, or whether the timing will be such that I can leave that til Wednesday (i.e. if it goes live after I'd be home from work anyway).

Though either way it's dependent on sweet talking my boss into giving me the leave at such short notice, especially as we're a bit short staffed already. But screw those guys, I want to play with the new shinies.

This is exactly the release date I predicted, but unfortunately the forum logout bug kicked me right as I tried to post it and I never got around to trying again.