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Excellent guide!
I wish I had read it before I went into RWZ.

Great guide, but I have to agree with Dustnite. HT is probably the most awsome power of the whole set. Unlike what most people think, it's not a rez power. HT is an autohit, AoE disorient and debuff. It also happens to rez as many of your teamates at once with no ill-effects, if you are in a team.

Whenever I see a boss, EB or just some real scary mob I basically have my henches alpha them and then hit them with HT, gang war, tarpatch, darkest night and a few pop-shots from my pistols (I kept dual wield and empty clips). It's simply amazing how fast the boss goes down when you do this and if there are any other adds with him, they will usually be wondering around aimlessly while you pummel their boss.

Even though I mainly solo, and when I do team, I usually choose someone smart enough to keep themselves alive (at leat most of the time) I use this power so often I have it tripple slotted for recharge reduction.

I don't think I ever laughed so much reading a guide!
Great job!

On the hero side, I found my elec/elec blaster was a blast to play (pun intended). True, blasters are not for eveyone, and they are squishy as squishy can be but at the same time no other hero AT is as much as an adrenaline rush to play. The are the epitome of "do onto others before they do it to you" and the ultimate glass cannons.

Just the fact you can do damage that leaves even scrappers jelous but will be face-planted in a seconds notice if you don't pay attention to what you are doing adds a whole new perspective.

and if you need some help becoming a blaster, or even better a blapper, here is the link to one of the best guides out there:
Mystic_Amethyst's Blaptroller Guide

Have fun

Actually,from my experience, it's the same number of side missions villians, and the rewards seem to be the exact same ones.

Actualy, I would say Pat Robertson is the ultimate modern day facist/nazi. For a supposed man of God, the hateful drivel he spews out at every given opporutunity is simply obscene.
/rant off

Let's all say a prayer to the patron saint of botched pulls and herdings: Leeeroy Jenkins

Those who hog awakens are condemed to use them.

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All thats missing is the "crazy tanker" that actually knows how to herd on every team...

Otherwise you are pulling (when the situation calls for it), faceplanting or setting the difficulty to wimpy.

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A tanker good at herding is about as hard to find as someone who knows how to pull or even worse, a team who understands both the concepts of herding and pulling.

I'm not saying pulling has no merrits, but I do think that 9 out of 10 times, herding is the way to go.

I don't think pulling is as much of a lost art as much as an inferior tactic. Mind you, before CoX I used to play Anarchy Online where pulling is almost required. Because of that, I can get my blaster to peel away a mob like someone peeling an onion, layer by layer until just the boss is left.

The problem with this is that it takes way too much time. Not only that, but CoX has a huge number of AoE attacks. Because of that, herding becames a much more efficient method of dispatching your enemies. In other words, you can widdle down a group of 5 or 6 by pulling them one by one in 5-10 minutes or you can have your crazy tanker run around aggrowing 2-3 groups and putting them all in a nice tight buch so the other team members can rip a series of AoE attacks on them.

The only exceptions to that that I can think of is you are soloing, have a group composed exclusivly of squishies or if you have some real tough AV or Hero as part of a group.

Other then that, pulling is just not worth the time and effort.

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I've played the game since release and the perfect pentad is the absolute best team configuration in my opinion, so no, you wont change my opinion on that one. Two tanks, Two defenders, Two controllers are redundant if the one already on the team knows how to do their job.


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I don't agree 100% with that statement. My main objection is that you can have 2, say for example, deffenders fullfilling 2 very different functions. My main example here would be an empath and a bubble defender (or even worse a archery/trick arrow defender). Yes they are all defenders but they fulfill pretty different functions.

Also there are plenty of ATs who's functions overlap. Usually if I cant find a good healing deffender, I will enlist 2 healing controllers. Same holds true for a tanker who can pretty much be substituted for 2 scrappers or a Keld after lvl 20.

I think more then particular ATs, you should pick your teams according to functions. There are 5 basic functions: damage, heal, crowd control, taunt and buffs/debuffs. These can be performed to various degrees by various different ATs.

I a perfect world, you would go "oh, I need a defender (tanker, scrapper, etc..)" and you would go, do a search and find one who would join your team. The reality (especially at real low or high lvls) is that you won't find one whenever you need one. The trick here is to be flexible enough to know how to fill up the holes in your team to keep it moving. Keep in mind that if you waste 20 minutes looking for a tank, you will not get XP for those 20 minutes and run the risk of other team members leaving your team as well.

As for the number of people in the team, my motto is: the more, the merrier. Yes, you get less xp per kill but you also get larger mobs and you move through them faster. After you get past 7 members you also get a huge increase in Lt.s and Bosses which can be worth double or more xp then a minion. Not only that, but if you want a badge for killing leaders of a certain group(for example Fake Nemisis, Paragon Protectors, Master Illusionists, etc.), you are simply wasting your missions if you go in with a team with less then 7 members.

You remember seeying a PC and wondering why the keybord was not part of the unit, like in an Apple computer.

You saw a comercial for the Lisa and stayed awake all night trying to figure out what the advantage of a mouse was and had no clue of how it worked.

You thought an Osborne was the ultimate in computer portability.

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remember getting your 12" G.I. Joe's "hair" wet and having it all fall out? for the Joe's with the fuzzy hair that is. . .

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I remember that and Kung-fu Grip "Leopracy" That would cause the fingers to fall off. Now here is the kicker: I acutally found a Doll's Hospital (remeber those?) that would not only fix that but GI Joe Baldness as well. But just in case youwant the address, let me state that was in Brazil, and a few decades ago.

Don't be too rude to those who blind invite; there might come a day when you will be prayinng for any invite, even a blind one.

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Well, what else can you do when that music's lost it's taste, but try another flavour?

I must be old, 'cause that look *still* screams cool to me.

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You know it is.

I highly encourage everyone to embrace their inner Ant today. (We so need a "Prince Charming" dance emote for I8...)

Ridicule is nothing to be scared of.

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All I can say is:

I live the life that I've been left
I leave most things unspoken
but deep inside Geronimo is tearing me apart

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You rember G.I.Joe being 8 inches tall and not 4 inches.



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AARRRRGHHHHHHH !
You are an Imposter

Action Jackson was 8 inches tall.
G.I. Joe was a full 12 inches.



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Anyone remember Matt Mason or Captain Laser? Or what about that endless variety of tin toy robots with all the lights and guns hidden in their chest compartment?

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I knew I wouldn't get my five points...

But have you seen _the_ doctor in a Sinbad movie? (Golden Voyage in this case) My dad took me to all 3 of the Harryhausen Sinbads in the theater. Wasn't until years later I realized it was the doc. Tommy plays a great villain.

And once again, the old gamer thread comes back to haunt me...

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When to you, The Doctor was John Pertwee, and not Tom Baker. (ok, I'm just waiting for someone to say The Dcotor was Patrick Troughton or even worse, William Hartnell)

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I am glad I was able to enjoy Troughton through Davidson, but I'll hire a well-placed sniper to take out the first [censored] who preaches the "fine acting ability" of Colin Baker.

That fudge head drove me away from Doctor Who.

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I pretty much enjoyed Pertwee through McCoy, having Davidson as my personal favorite. While not my favorite, I did enjoy Colin Baker. I am also enjoying the new series that is currently being shown on Sci-Fi, and am extremely happy that the good Doctor is back.

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I knew I wouldn't get my five points...

But have you seen _the_ doctor in a Sinbad movie? (Golden Voyage in this case) My dad took me to all 3 of the Harryhausen Sinbads in the theater. Wasn't until years later I realized it was the doc. Tommy plays a great villain.

And once again, the old gamer thread comes back to haunt me...

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When to you, The Doctor was John Pertwee, and not Tom Baker. (ok, I'm just waiting for someone to say The Dcotor was Patrick Troughton or even worse, William Hartnell)

Of all possible deaths. None is more cruel then death by lag.

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You owned an Amiga 500

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The 500 was actually the 2nd Amiga to come out...the original was the Amiga 1000, and I bought that one as my 2nd comp after the TI-99/4A (see my previous post - wow, 16K RAM!).

At least that one had a built-in floppy drive, but no hard drive. I bought the external floppy drive as well, and had some killer boot disks that I created using programs that compacted other programs so they'd all fit on the one disk.... Man it hurt when one of those disks went bad!

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I know that. But the 500 was the first of the Amigas to sell a somewhat large number of units. The 1000 and it's Kickstart disk were somewhat a part of computer history that Commodore tried to erase. Now here is a bit of trivia about the 1000. If you opened it up, it had the signatures of the whole developer's team (plus Jay Miners dog) embossed on the lid.

I personally own a 2500, which was the first "accelerated" Amiaga and the first one to come with an HD. I used to do visuals for Rave parties with it in the 90's and could actualy do a 12+ hour show with a 20 Megs HD and a whopping 3 megs of RAM.

Deluxe Paint IV lives!!!

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plain and simple..your old if you saw the orginal star wars at the drive in's


*rasies hand* I DID!
*raises hand!*
I saw JAWS in the drive in, too!

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I could say I saw 2001: Space Odyssey in theaters, but I'm not

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Anybody remember The Thunderbirds as a first run show? Or any of the other Gerry Anderson puppet shows, like Captain Scarlet?

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Ohhhhhhhhhh! yeah!
Thunderbirds
Stingray
Joe 90
and of course Cat. Scarlet that had that little voice over in the bigining of the show telling you that "Captain Scarlet is invulnerable, you are NOT!"
BTW, I think the official name for those was Supermarionetation.

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You know who Big Jim was

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I take it you are meaning "Big" Jim Shooter. He of the notable quote "We'll trick the little f***s".

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Actually no.... Big Jim was an action figure who when you pressed his back he would do a karate chop. His arm muscle would grow when you flexed his arm as well. Later, he got some friends with similar names like Big Jack, Big Josh, Big Jeff and so on. Later still he got other superhero friends who made up the Big Jims P.A.C.K. Some of the members of said group where Dr. Steel (who had a metal hand and dragon tatoo over his chest) the Whip, Warpath and Torpedo Fist. There was also the evil Zorak who would change his face to a green scary one when you raised and lowered his arm and then pressed his back.

Have to go now. The light on my hand has turned red and the Sandmen will be coming for me soon

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I only have one thing to say:

"All your base are belong to us"

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Pffffffffft....

If you think that is old then you probably haven't even reached legal drinking age yet.

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The point was classic memories of games now forgot, and I just couldn't believe noone mentioned the above classic.

And if you must know, I'm 23. No I'm nowhere near old enough to fit into the category everyone else is claiming in this thread, but I'm sure as heck not 11.

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The reason no one mentioned it is because All Your Base is not even 10 years old. To us old fogies, that was merely yesteday.

Here are some other good ones:

The Marvel Superheroes cartoon, with possibly the worse animation ever (if you don't count Space Angel)

Speaking of cartoons, how about Phantoma, Shadow Boy, Rocket Robin Hood & Johnny Quest?

Remember when Banana Split was more then an ice-cream (1 banana, 2 banana, 3 banana 4)

Anyone remember National Kid?

Ok, have to go now...feel very, very old and while remembering all this, forgot to take my meds

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I only have one thing to say:

"All your base are belong to us"

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Pffffffffft....

If you think that is old then you probably haven't even reached legal drinking age yet.