Chinook

I've maintained two accounts from the launch in order to play with my now teenage son.

I've always come back to this game and he has made hundreds of friendships.
This news saddens me and has devasted him.

He'll get over it and move on, but so many thanks to the devs for such a great game and to the community that made it so enjoyable.

I truly wish there was a way to keep it rolling for the fans.

Given that you are updating the graphic level, not trying to re-style from a Golden Age to a Modern look or anything like that, then absolutely I favour Option 1.

Any advice would be appreciated.

I play CoX with my son and have almost since launch.
At 14 now, he wants more PvP

I enjoy PvP, but I've never put the time or effort into CoX PvP in order to really know what to play or how to build so I'm not sure how to advise him.

He only has a couple of 50s, a Elec/Elec Blaster and a Necro/Pain MM.

Can anyone suggest some basic PvP builds, pool choices, what should he be looking to get out of slotting etc.?

Who's in charge of forum administration?
Have they made any official comment on the fate of the Dev Digest?

I'm just finding it odd that a "tool" as well used as the digests have not been repaired/recreated yet. The migration to "improved" boards is well behind us, is there an ETA on this issue or is the concept being deliberately dropped for some reason?

The movie was fun.
It wasn't great, but it was good enough to be fun.

Concerns about canon are ridiculous. The canon you like regarding G.I. Joe already ignored the canon I knew growing up, and I didn't scream back when your little action figures were trampling over my 12" history. Regardless, huge swaths of cartoon canon were stupid and hugely flawed when you attempt to change medium to film.
Snake Eyes had too many backgrounds, Cobra Commander had no background etc.
Like or hate the movie for what they put on the screen, there's plenty to dis if you really want to without pretending there was some great canon that should have been followed.

Depending on the selections, MMs can bring Buffs/Debuffs/Heals/Tanking/DPS

It is a very strong AT and the only people that have a reason to shy away from them are those of you with older PCs that lag out in larger conflicts.

MMs have total positional control over minions if they choose to and positioning where your minions are can often dictate which powers they will execute.

In the scenarios the OP describes, better MMs will pause their minions briefly to allow the other AoEs to go off and clean up. Or, they might have enough AoE that the scattering is irrelevant and everything is going down anyways.

If your team's MM is scattering, then just focus on the Bosses/Lts, the MM will wipe the minions scattered or not and still contribute DPS to your targets too.

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I've settled for "Praetorian Monsoon"...

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Typhoon?

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Tempest?
Cloudburst?
Deluge?
Cyclone?
Chinook?
Squall?

Thesaurus FTW.

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Not all of those will be available...

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How would you like it (Smurphy, or any of the other "I'll just leave" folks) if you're playing a board game -- Risk, Monopoly, whatever -- and as soon as it becomes clear who's likely to win, one of the players walks away without a word (whether they're being a smug winner or a sore loser)?

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I'd feel the same way I would if I was playing chess and my opponent just quietly laid down his king and walked away.
They are simply admitting the game is over.

Regardless, your analogy is badly false.
If you walk away from a board game, the game is over.
If you leave my team, my game is not over, I can handle it with or without you and you can be replaced if I feel like it. The only thing that is over is our teaming experience. You're free to end that at any time.

I will usually tell you that I'm leaving.

I don't feel obligated to tell anyone why, it's none of your business.

While we don't know yet, I feel that it is a relatively safe speculation that it will be per costume slot, not per character slot as it sounds as though the power customization will be grounded in the costume creator.

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Now the big question is what DON'T you take for Lightning Field?

From the Primary, I take everything but Zapp. Secondary consists of everything but Lightning Field, Charged Brawl and Lightning Clap. I take hasten, hover, fly, and the Fitness trinity from the pool powers, and I take all the elec ancillary powers except EM Pulse.

What should one drop to put this in? Now, I'm sure that running a straight blapper, I could probably drop a couple of my range attacks, but getting rid of the Tier 1 and 2 attacks hurts if I get mezzed, dropping Tesla Cage is bad mojo because of its mitigation, and I certainly can't ditch Sparky. Thunderous Blast could go, but that's just so much goodness, as is Ball Lightning for AoE love.

So what power could/should be sacrificed for Lightning Field?

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I don't take VS.
My E3 play style is focused on Sapping and AoE. Lightning Field is much superior to VS for those purposes.

I don't think those of you questioning Felcia Devine's soloing are paying attention.
She is OUTLEVELING the mission and then soloing it.
That is doable and an easy way for a dedicated soloer to complete difficult missions.
Of course, it is not a very good way to level, but it's a good method to complete things.

Then you'll note that she thinks doing the cape mission at 20 is hard. Well, ya, because it sounds like she's on an unenhanced character and hasn't outleveled the mission.

I liked to clear the jail room of guards and even sometimes clear the doors if there's a chance we might have to use it.

I'm going to add my voice to the list on a few sets that are popping up all over the thread.

/Devices - Blaster
Elec/ - Blaster
Merc/ - MM

I have played and enjoyed all 3 of these to high levels; I have found ways to play each effectively and to have fun.
Regardless, it was clear to me that these sets each under perform in relation to other sets.

/Devices was effective in an entirely different iteration of CoH. There is no way for /Devices to currently make up for it's lack of a Build Up. The set is filled with "toys" instead of "weapons". Even when you're having fun, it is apparent to the honest /Devices user that others could accomplish whatever you are doing better/faster. This leaves you with a decision to make, if I find /Devices fun, is it fun enough to actually give up effectiveness?? I don't believe that is a question that should have to be answered. Some minor tweaks across /Devices could easily bring it into line. Time Bomb though, that's an abomination.

Elec/ was a set that I was able to eventually make both fun and effective but only by playing to it's singular, late game strength with one of only 2 effective secondaries to choose. I played a Sapper build, but realistically, that is very limiting to the Primary because it is only truly effective in the late game with a mature character and only if you grabbed one of the two Secondaries that allow you to really use this strategy. Elec/'s drain effect needs to be useful with or without the "right" pairing.

Merc/ suffers from just being slightly off in a few places. A trash lvl 18 Power selection that pales in comparison to the must haves from other sets just adds to the unfocused pets that would be greatly helped by a standardized range and by a 3rd Tier One pet that would play his role instead of being the healer that charges in and brawls or is at least the closest to the fight. Why doesn't someone hand this "medic" a gun with longer range but lower damage????

Electric's End Drain has 2 components, you drain the enemy and you absorb some of that into your End.

Given that draining the opponent is an all or nothing affair and that successfully flooring End is potentially overpowered as control if too easy to accomplish on a Damage set; perhaps we could look at the other component?
Boost the End Recovery portion of the secondary effect.
Elec might be more worthwhile on it's own if slotting allowed the set to operate at or near Stamina levels much like a /Regen Scrapper.

All zones are FFA PvP
All citizens are grey targets, all Contacts and NPCs con as various minons, Lts, Bosses, EB, AV/Heroes, GMs etc.
All vehicles and streets articles are destructible as in Mayhem missions.
Recall powers can be slotted to work across zones.
No target cap on AoE powers, if they fit in the area of effect with collision on, then they are effected.

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If this is just a thread to be a thread then I won't put my thoughts into words.

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All threads are threads.

This thread is obviously not serious.