Callista

Sign me up too, I have all the locations written down and was planning on going through this on my own, the company will be welcome though, I also have fly and Recall Friend if thats helpful.

You may see a guy with a pony tail wearing a T-shirt with a large Callista on the front ... there will be no prizes for guessing who is wearing it.

As I only have about a 25 minute journey I'll probably end up being latest :S some time Saturday afternoon I expect.

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In fact, better get everyone coming to sign one of those.

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Right, erm, well, right ....

Still not one of your GG lot really, I don't think the 4 times I came along really count, (although I do still owe Inago a few coins) ... However if anyone attempts to hug me, prepare to defend yourselves

Looks good so far, would like to see the hi-res one though

Also useful to note ... stamina doesn't work in dwarf form so for me who mainly uses that now it's pretty pointless.

*stares at computer screen with mouth open*
*walks away*
*walks back*
*walks away again*

Thanks for the pointers guys, I have looked at things and did a respec lastnight (took 2 hours). I took out Invisibility, Dimension and phase shift and put in RI, LR and EF. I jiggled slots about a but managed to find 3 for each of those powers, I'll experiment with effective slotting as I go.

Thanks for the tips on a PvP build there Dark, but I'll keep fly and Recall Friends as Callista is a PvE team player and those powers work really well for me, especially in places like the shards to help get people around.

I also like RA, number of times it has saved the day in a tough mission.

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I see what you're saying about the vocals

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Hehe, what I meant was ... you're in luck, it isn't me singing this time, it was on the last song I posted up

Propel is pretty cool, but it's downside is the animation time sucks for it, and you are rooted whilst it happens. Number of times I press propel and wince as I see my team running back past me ... a second attack like AS would be pretty handy, I was toying with putting it in instead of hover at one point but the epic attacks make it a bit academic.

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Having a good rad set will enable to solo an AV roughly these days, but really easily with another troller, and that goes for PvP too, u r missing the powers that really make a difference on the rad's side imo

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After reading peoples suggestions here I was considering dropping the concealment pool to pick up the 3 rad powers. Does that sound like a good plan to you chaps? Also I just found this thread:

http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/sh...t=all&vc=1

and wonder if it's worth getting the extra rad powers at all still ....

Damnit and I had already downloaded the hero planner and was figuring things out

poop, I only need doc quarterfield now, but friday is the only day I'm free this week early evening

ah well next time.

This is a song by my band, called 'The City', it's not really written about this game but it works on some levels so I'm posting it here anyway.

Before I hear you all groan it isn't me singing this time (except backing)

The City

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Looking at the build, though... it does look like you have a very PvE-oriented build, and I don't doubt that you'd have a harder time with it than with many Grav/Rad builds in PvE.


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Was that last PvE supposed to be a PvP? Callista is dead easy to play PvE, if I fire off all of my holds on any given mob there is virtualy nothing left moving, which has always made the debuffs a bit pointless. I always found early on that I had End problems when I had the toggles running. Hence I focussed on making the primaries as effective as possible.

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I'm a bit surprised to see you don't have the debuffs from your secondary, as they're fantastic in both PvE and PvP, and would probably help you in both.


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Perhaps it's personal playstyle but I always found the debufs were more of a hinderance than a help in PvE, I like to focus on holds, and am now able to hold most mobs (8 man teams) by the time the tank has managed to reach them
I also recall the time that I managed to Duo the psychic clockwork king with her and a Emp/Dark defender (no casualties), so she makes a good account of herself in PvE.

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Edit: I've not really gone into any PvP build suggestions, since I'm assuming from your prior posts you're not hugely interested in such a respec.

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You are quite right, I probably won't be respeccing Calli' unless the devs decide to do something horrible to her again, like in I5 and I6. She is good fun to play, never has received any complaints from the teams she joins so I don't want to risk breaking her just to try and make her PvP better.

You may be right, I think 100% of my deaths are at the hands of stalkers. And I haven't spent a lot of time PvP at all, I have played in a base raid and the Arena a few times, as well as a couple of visits to the PvP zones. To be fair I am completely put off PvP and probably won't bother again, however if your character seems to be underperforming in an area it is nice to know why.

The general formula for me and PvP always seems to involve trying to hold someone and then watching them run away, whether I hit them or not, then being AS'd as soon as I try and follow.

Bridger assures me that it isn't possible to have a controller that rules PVE yet is absolutely useless PVP. However I am positive I have one, so here is my build, what do you think?

Callista, Lvl 50 Gravity Conrol/Radiation Emission

Radiation Emission:-
Crush 50++ Acc, 2x50++ Dmg
Gravity Distorsion 2x50++ Acc, 2x50++ Dmg, 50++ Mez, 50(HO) Mez/Acc
Propel 2x51+ Acc, 3x53 Dmg, 52+ Rec
Crushing Field 50++ Acc, 53 Acc, 53 Rec, 50++ Rec, 2x50++ Dmg
Gravity Distorsion Field 2x53 Acc, 2x53 Rec, 2x 50++ Mez
Wormhole 53 Acc, 50++ Acc, 51 Range
Singularity 3x53 Acc, 52+Dmg, 2x50++ Dmg
Dimension Shift 50++ Acc

Radiation Emission:-
Radiant Aura 52+ Heal, 2x50++ Heal, 3x53Rec
Accelerate Metabolism 4x50++ Rec, 2x50++ End Mod
Mutate 50++ Rec
EM Pulse 53 Acc, 50++ Mez, 50++ Rec

Fire Mastery (epic):-
Fire Ball 2x53 Acc, 53 Rec, 3x53 Dmg
Fire Blast 2x50++ Acc, 53 Rec, 3x50++ Dmg
Fire Shield 3x50++ Def

Flight:-
Hover 50++ Fly
Fly 4x50++ Fly

Concealment:-
Stealth 2x50++ Def
Invisibility 2x50++ Def
Phase Shift 3x 50++ Rec

Fitness:-
Swift 50++ Run
Health 4x50++ Heal
Stamina 6x50++ End Mod

Teleportation:-
Recall friend 50++ Rec

Some time ago there was a link to a great COH fan site that had loads of COH videos and links to other sites such as Mr Marvellous' stuff. I can't find it now, can anyone remember where it is?

Both are pretty good, Calli' got rad because of the heal you get to start with, which at the time seemed like a pretty good deal.

I don't think you can go wrong with either, although I have a new controller who is /kin and that is 100 times better in my opinion.

Keep an eye open for members of The Echelon, it's pretty easy going with us, but we have a huge base and loads of active players. Tends to get a little crowded though so there's not always space until the weekly inactive player purge!!

Am enjoying listening to it now, good voice, well sung.

Only suggestion I will make is don't spend too much more time tweaking it, you'll only get less happy with it, to me it seems pretty good as it is!!

Well done old nemesis .... but beware, I'll still arrest you on sight!!

(congratulations matey)

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I have group fly hun. I respec'd it in just for the hami raids
And I'll definitely be at the next one

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If you have got group fly you'll always find someone who'll do the shards with you too :P

I'll come along Hami'ing again, I'll try and not have my singularity conspicuously out the front again like last time -Silly Pet Photo-

And for those of you still not sure, here is a taster of what a raid looks like (note Hami is missing), if I get time later I might put and 'artists impression' in =) This was the bit where the non holder rushed in in an attempt to pummel Hami to death with brawl.

Brawl me!!!

Go us!! Heroes FTW

etc

I also got a good hami-o from that Mez/acc which will go nicely into the hold I spammed on hami this time!!

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Why doesn't: /bind f "powexec_name fulcrum_shift" work?

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It will be the _ character /bind x "powexec_name Bright Nova" works fine for me ... obvously not fulcrum shift but same idea, I thing it takes whatever is after Powexec_name as one argument no matter how many words are used until it gets to the $$ sign.

I got crushing field as soon as it was available, I find that when in a team against a large mob you get much better results if you use CF first then use GDF, for some reason you seem to have a better chance to hit with the GDF ... or maybe i'm imagining that last bit, either way it's more effective for me.

On a slightly off topic note I move that we get GDF renamed to "Miss and die Field".

Callista is a mega powered PVE killing machine, EMP, GDF, fireball -> dead mob

Hold, tab, hold, tab, hold, all enemies held now go get em team.

However when she steps into a PVP zone something magical happens. Firstly she trips over her shoe laces ... well ok not quite, I know they changed some powers for PVP zones but I don't know what??

I got an action string more like, Hold, miss, hold, miss, immob, miss, hold ... ah got him, oh no he's free again ... eh that hold only lasted 1 second, AS -> dead

Controllers are feared in PVP but is this just image, or am I doing something wrong. I almost universally have my holds and immobs slotted for 2acc, 2dmg, 2dur (go ED). I still dislike PVP and won't be going there but it would be nice to know why things go wrong for me so quickly. I'd also like to go and get the badges sometime at least (Callista is my badge character).

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really use your advice, when i should respec nova out

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I'm keeping nova as a handy get out for when TP runs out of power to stop me splatting

Might be considered a waste of a power but a lot of TP'rs get the flight pool for hover to do the same thing so I can at least sleep at nights ....