Captain_Morgan_EU

Just one question Brimmy, what are you planning on taking at 8?

I'd recommend frost/icesword, just to help you "scrank" a bit more until you can get taunt to get to you aggro management happiness. Personally, I'd go frost for the aoe, then get taunt at 10, travel power pre-req at 12, travel power at 14, then the fitness pool, with glacial armour at 22.

I think just grinding through the quick patch between 6 and 10 will make life a lot easier for you - but avoid getting a non-combat power at 8. It will make soloing easier, and teaming easier, as they can see you attacking.

Yup Earth Sonic rocks (sorry). It just works.

That is right my hardrocking amigoes, I decided to do a spot of drawing - now I suck at drawing on paper, but figured I'd give it a go. This is also my first attempt at digitally colouring a piece, using the tutorials posted by Chaplain (cheers! ) Would love to know what you all think.

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Proper version

Warner Bros version

Oh! Black and White, how bohemian!

Ok, all hand drawn by me from a screenie of my despicable brute, Recessive Gene. I then took a picture of the drawing, cleaned up the lines a tad in photoshop, and then digitally coloured the picture.

I quite like the second for a kind of Warner Bros thing, and the greyscale one looks nice and metallic (imo).

Comments plz!

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From my perspective the biggest things to learn from 3vP are the following:

1) Organisation - It is too much work for 1 person per server. The sheer number of tells I've received throughout this tournament are uncounted, but it's a massive number. I'd recommend a team of two per server - 1 to handle the "crowd control" and 1 to handle the other stuff.

2) Subs - something we didn't really take into account - especially the penalty for not turning up.

3) Try to avoid coinciding with a) and Issue release, and b) the World Cup

Apart from that, it has been comparatively smooth, and I hope, a lot of fun - I'm especially looking forward to the final rounds, when I should get a chance to actually watch a match, and in particular the Union v Defiant Winners Showdown.

Good thinking Kin, especially like the idea to help lessen the poor points of the random system, although I love the random nature too - provides a lot of extra oomph imo.

Yes indeedy - so those named, get to it!

/em cracks whip :P

Further to that, if a substitute is used, please let me know their name and AT/powersets when you send the results.

Cheers, Cap.

Ok, from having a look, it appears that 3 of the matches from round 4 haven't happened yet

So, I'm extending the deadline for these matches until 11pm Sunday night. If I haven't received the results, I will deduct a life from all of those in the bouts, and draw for round 5, when we can hopefully resume normal service.

So,

Mighty Saguaro, Mr Nice and Cold Penetration are facing Empath, DARK MAN X and Harvest Moon.

Max Thunder, Spawnus and Discharge vs. Spines Sparrow, Carnifax and Hidden Healer.

Dax Ferdas, Serophina will be joined by Smirk, to face Orion Star, Envoy and their joinee, Shadow Fury.

If any of the matches need a sub, Troke is first on the list. Failing that, please check the original draw for Round 1, and get subs from those who have gone out/or the peeps who completed their match - Tridento, Captain Skyfire, Vamos, Red Hot Rock, Anath, WickedOne.

Cheers all, look forward to seeing the results by Sunday.

Union are holding Round 5 tonight, we will hold ours next Thursday, when Union are scheduled to take a one week break, with Round 6 on both servers the following Thursday.

OK, got the things sorted out, having a sit down and a brew, then cracking on with the sorting out of lives and the draw.

It may take me a while as my head is full of hayfever, despite me taking my tablets - I'm a little drowsy

Watch this space...

Ah, yeah, just saw your PM kin. Cheers for the offer bud, but I suspect it is a load of work

I should hopefully have stuff sorted by 5:30, which gives me plenty of time to get it all organised - cross your fingers for me guys! If the stuff goes over, I'll get on and let you know, see if I can get some suc..kind volunteer to help out

I am really sorry about this guys - I've got an absolute shed load on today that really has to be done. I'll try my best to get a draw posted up, but I'm not even sure if all the matches from round 4 have happended or not - things have been a little hectic.

I'll do what I can, and post an announcement here by about 6:45pm ish either way.

Sorry again, foiled by RL... grr.

Well Fury, it involved one action man, a razor, a load of modelling putty, and oodles and oodle of talent.

For those of you interested, the action men dolls with fuzzy hair are a nightmare to shave >.>

Well, my incredibly talented missus has done it again, following up her Star Jewel doll with THIS

That's right folks, it's a bonafide, genuine Devidose action figure!

See the original screenie she worked from hither...

Comments plz!!1!

Storm Rocks.

The missus has her storm defender to (iirc) 26, and it is very enjoyable, and challenging set to play. For a controller, it just gets better - apart from gale, there aren't any horrible powers in Storm, and all of them add more pseudo control to your arsenal.

You get a toggled slow, a team stealth toggle with resist to F/C/E, freezing rain - (-spd, -recharge, -def, -res) also has some knockdown too. Hurricane for -tohit, with a smidge of repel (combining nicely with TK), an aoe disorient, tornado for knockaround and damage and lightning storm for damage and -end.

Add in the mass of control you get with mind, and you could lock down pretty much everything. Anywhere. Oh, and O2 boost is an ok healother that also gives sleep resistance.

Earth Sonic here, currently at 13 ish, as part of Team Lockdown, a 2x earth, 2x fire, 2x grav, 2x ice regular team.

I'm really enjoying the combo, and it seems to work well within our setup, as we have an ff too, so doubling up on the protection. I also tested the build to 40 during the RV test, and it did very well in there, especially at holding a hardpoint. I'll see if I can find my build - it is somewhere about.

Got him up to just shy of level 7 tonight in a little under 3 hours, with a very good team of weapon wielding/natural origin toons. Very few deaths, even when we lost one of the scrappers and the other TA/arch.

Flash Arrow is far, far superior to entangling arrow - the tohit debuff isn't huge, but is noticable, and works well with only the default slot. Glue arrow is ace, especially with two of them at the same time. Ice arrow is an ok hold, will be much better once I've had chance to put some slots in it.

Looking forward to poison gas arrow, and flaming arrow in the next two level ups.

*rummages in treasure chest for piratey questions....

Indeed that is the only amendment that needs making to an otherwise excellent TA/archery guide, as flash arrow is now non aggro, so probably a better pick than before.

I've amended the build slightly based on that guide, which should be more effective.

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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder - (http://sherksilver.coldfront.net/index.php)
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Name: The Arrow of the Falcon
Level: 50
Archetype: Defender
Primary: Trick Arrow
Secondary: Archery
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01) --> Flash Arrow==> Rechg(1)
01) --> Snap Shot==> Acc(1)
02) --> Glue Arrow==> Rechg(2) Rechg(3) Slow(3)
04) --> Aimed Shot==> Acc(4) Rechg(5) Rechg(5) Dmg(36) Dmg(36) Dmg(37)
06) --> Ice Arrow==> Acc(6) Acc(7) Rechg(7) Rechg(9) Hold(25) Hold(31)
08) --> Poison Gas Arrow==> Rechg(8) Rechg(9)
10) --> Flaming Arrow==> Acc(10) Rechg(11) Rechg(11) Dmg(17) Dmg(21) Dmg(21)
12) --> Acid Arrow==> Acc(12) Acc(13) Rechg(13) Rechg(17) DefDeBuf(31) DefDeBuf(31)
14) --> Hurdle==> Jump(14) Jump(15) Jump(15)
16) --> Assault==> EndRdx(16)
18) --> Hasten==> Rechg(18) Rechg(19) Rechg(19)
20) --> Health==> Heal(20)
22) --> Stamina==> EndMod(22) EndMod(23) EndMod(23)
24) --> Tactics==> EndRdx(24) EndRdx(25) TH_Buf(37) TH_Buf(37) TH_Buf(46)
26) --> Oil Slick Arrow==> Rechg(26) Rechg(27) Rechg(27) Dmg(45) Dmg(45) Dmg (46)
28) --> Aim==> Rechg(28) Rechg(29) Rechg(29) TH_Buf(43)
30) --> Ranged Shot==> Dmg(30) Dmg(34) Rechg(40) Dmg(42) IntRdx(43) IntRdx(43)
32) --> EM Pulse Arrow==> Acc(32) Acc(33) Hold(33) Hold(33) Rechg(34) Rechg(34)
35) --> Disruption Arrow==> Rechg(35) Rechg(36)
38) --> Rain of Arrows==> Acc(38) Dmg(39) Dmg(39) Dmg(39) Rechg(40) Rechg(40)
41) --> Power Build Up==> Rechg(41) Rechg(42) Rechg(42)
44) --> Stunning Shot==> Acc(44) Acc(45) Rechg(46)
47) --> Fistful of Arrows==> Acc(47) Dmg(48) Dmg(48) Dmg(48) Range(50) Range(50)
49) --> Temp Invulnerability==> DmgRes(49) DmgRes(50)
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01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
01) --> Vigilance==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
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superb FG

Ok, making a concept toon here, so some advice may get ignored if it doesn't fit concept.

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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder - (http://sherksilver.coldfront.net/index.php)
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Name: The Arrow of the Falcon
Level: 50
Archetype: Defender
Primary: Trick Arrow
Secondary: Archery
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01) --> Flash Arrow==> Rechg(1)
01) --> Snap Shot==> Acc(1) Acc(3) Dmg(9) Dmg(13) Dmg(37)
02) --> Glue Arrow==> Rechg(2) Rechg(3) Rechg(42)
04) --> Aimed Shot==> Acc(4) Acc(5) Dmg(5) Dmg(13) Dmg(37)
06) --> Ice Arrow==> Acc(6) Acc(7) Rechg(7) Rechg(9) Rechg(11) Hold(43)
08) --> Hurdle==> Jump(8) Jump(25) Jump(25)
10) --> Poison Gas Arrow==> Rechg(10) Rechg(11) Range(46)
12) --> Combat Jumping==> Jump(12)
14) --> Acid Arrow==> Acc(14) Acc(15) DefDeBuf(15) DefDeBuf(17) DefDeBuf(17) Rechg(43)
16) --> Swift==> Run(16)
18) --> Disruption Arrow==> Rechg(18) Rechg(19) Rechg(19)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(21) EndMod(21)
22) --> Flaming Arrow==> Acc(22) Acc(23) Dmg(23) Dmg(40) Dmg(40) Rechg(46)
24) --> Aim==> Rechg(24) Rechg(29) Rechg(29) TH_Buf(48) TH_Buf(48)
26) --> Oil Slick Arrow==> Rechg(26) Rechg(27) Rechg(27)
28) --> Ranged Shot==> Acc(28) Dmg(31) Dmg(34) Dmg(36) IntRdx(36) IntRdx(36)
30) --> Hasten==> Rechg(30) Rechg(31) Rechg(31)
32) --> EM Pulse Arrow==> Acc(32) Acc(33) Rechg(33) Rechg(33) Rechg(34) Hold(34)
35) --> Stunning Shot==> Acc(35) Acc(37) Range(46)
38) --> Rain of Arrows==> Acc(38) Acc(39) Dmg(39) Dmg(39) Dmg(40) Rechg(43)
41) --> Power Build Up==> Rechg(41) Rechg(42) Rechg(42)
44) --> Temp Invulnerability==> DmgRes(44) DmgRes(45) DmgRes(45) EndRdx(45)
47) --> Assault==> EndRdx(47) EndRdx(48)
49) --> Tactics==> EndRdx(49) EndRdx(50) TH_Buf(50) TH_Buf(50)
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01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
01) --> Vigilance==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
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No travel power, although I have left the option open for SS/SJ to make their way in there if I get bored of hopping around the place...

I know nothing about TA, so any advice would be appreciated, especially on the order/slotting.

On my EM/EA I found that 2acc 2 recharge 2end was optimal slotting for my fury building attacks (energy punch, bonesmasher) and the same again for total focus until energy drain.

I imagine that it will be the same on an EM/elec - once you get Powersink you can start swapping endreds for damages, but I'd probably keep at least 1 endred in every attack.

You can take the end red out of Energy transfer and put a damage there instead, it uses comparatively little end, and being able to oneshot things is fun

Hasten makes a real difference - having energy drain up so frequently really helps me, as does being able to TF and ET with BU as much as possible.

What Silver Weasel said - running 3vP taught me a valuable lesson about how much work is involved, and that was only 42 players (Xanthus got the other 42 )

In 10 minutes on the opening night, I received over 90 tells, 17 blind invites and enough chatter in local to make the text seem to blur.

As to the forum things - these are the official boards for the game we all love, so most people would prefer a simple post in a signup thread to a forum they are already registered on - path of least resistance and all that.

Good luck in your endeavour, and hope it goes smoothly for you. I'll have the rum on tap in pocket D, you'll need it!

Sure thing - some stuff has come up today that hasn't put me in the best of moods (RL stuff sucks) but I'll try and collate everything together at some point tonight/tomorrow.

As I posted in the defiant results thread, I'm still waiting on results for the majority of the defiant ties.

I've allowed till Thursday when I'll make the next draw (assuming there is still interest), but it looks like the World Cup/I7 have combined to make this very tricky to sort out. I still want this to go through to conclusion though...

For clarity, I'm still waiting on the results for 3 Round 4 matches for Defiant - it appears that the World Cup/ I7 interruption hit us harder than we anticipated.

I'm happy to give it till Thursday evening for the matches to take place, and I will then make the draw for Round 5, assuming people are still interested.

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The "food chain", for reference:

Pirate Supervillains > Superheroes > Vikings > Pirates > Normal people and anything else not ninjas >>> Ninjas



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Edited for truth. Yarr!