ClawsandEffect

Pretty much what Bill said.

A lot of people who have a particular character they're known for (Claws and Effect in my case) snag the name on as many servers as they can in an attempt to be the ONLY one with that name. I didn't think to do that, so there are Claws and Effects running around that aren't me. It annoys me slightly, but there's nothing I can do about it, so I don't worry about it.

Should work nicely if you drop it right at your feet after gathering a spawn. They aren't going anywhere, so Death Shroud will keep ticking away at them. IIRC it's a area placement power like Ice Slick or Tar Patch, which means you can put it anywhere you want it, including right where you're standing.

Sometimes it isn't so much the power itself getting/holding agro as it is making it easier for your other powers to do so.

That sounds suspiciously like a poster who is known for railing against Mid's any chance he gets.

I get the feeling you've read his posts too

So the crux of your argument here is that anyone who uses Mid's is an elitist Min/Maxer?

Try this:

Take a step outside yourself for a minute and re-read what I quoted, as though you did not write it yourself.

Now, after having done that, answer a question.

Who sounds like the elitist here?

Every time you rail against Mid's and people who use it, you sound like an ***hole. Would you like it if someone said they were better than you because of something you do and they don't? Because that's exactly what you're saying, in so many words, every single time you post this crap.

Yes, we get it, you don't like Mid's. Give it a ****ing rest already. There is NO reason to derail every single thread you post in because you have a mad-on against something that you don't like.

Now, back to your regularly scheduled thread.

Well, first off, you should be looking for typed defense for a Willpower character, not positional. This is because Heightened Senses is all typed defense, and it makes more sense to add to what you already have (typed defense) rather than start from scratch with positional defense.

My slotting for Gloom is 3 Thunderstrike (for the recovery and E/NE defense) and 3 Devastation (for the 12% regen bonus and the max HP bonus)

For Willpower toons, I slot Eradication in my PBAoEs (4 of them) and usually 2 Scirocco's to round it out. I'd go 4 Eradication, 1 Scirocco's Dervish (Acurracy/Damage/Recharge is a good choice) and the Force Feedback proc.

4 Kinetic Combat and 2 Crushing Impact (Acc/Dam and Acc/Dam/Rech) are my pick for single target melee attacks if I'm hunting typed defense. They're usually kind of pricey though.

Aegis in your resistance powers gives you a nice Fire/Cold defense bonus, and you can slot Reactive Armor for a little more defense. I go 3 and 3 if I have the slots to 6 slot them.

Your wordplay there seems familiar for some reason....

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*looks at name next to this post*

Aha! That's where I've seen it before!

No, you really don't exaggerate. I had a clock chase me from the yellow line in Steel Canyon to the tailor. I popped in and made a quick change to my costume, and the damn thing was waiting for me when I came out. It then proceeded to chase me to the green line. I suspect it would have followed me all day if they could use trains.

Those little buggers are relentless.

Dev's Choice missions give you an option when you run them. You can opt for normal drops (which includes purples) or AE drops (just tickets)

Some of the high level TFs can be run in less than 2 hours, so those are still options (ITF, Kahn TF)

Your odds of getting a purple just running vanilla level 50 missions aren't very good. But you can do so if you want.

I'm not going to share my actual thoughts on this....because this is a family forum and I don't want to get banned.

Things you didn't think about:

You would have to upgrade the character slots on your "mega server" to 396. Yes, 396 slots. Otherwise you would be screwing the people who have filled up every slot on every server.

Losing my toon name would lose Paragon Studios my business. There are a LOT of people that feel the same way. My main character is also my name in the CoX community, losing that character name is akin to identity theft and I refuse to pay money to a game company that would endorse such a thing. Losing a name due to it being offensive or copyrighted is one thing, losing it because everyone got crammed toghether and someone else logged in their character with that name first is another, and I for one, find it unacceptable.

LAG. Massive amounts of lag. Not everyone has a top notch, state of the art computer to play on. If you cram that many people into one place, close to half of them would not be able to play at all due to the extreme ramp up in system requirements to be able to play the game, instead of watching a slideshow. There are over 100,000 subscribers who play CoH. If half those people can't play because their computer can't handle the massve increase in lag, you just lost 50,000 subscribers. The game can't afford to lose that many subscribers.

There are many, many other considerations that I'm not going to go into.

Lack of teams isn't a problem with the game, it's a problem with how you look. The population isn't "dwindling", it has stayed pretty steady for a while now, and is showing signs of growing. Going Rogue will probably increase that even more.

Theft of Essence: Chance for +End is the single best IO you can put in Dark Regeneration. It checks to proc on every target in range, I have actually gained endurance using it before. I don't know what you would want to give up out of your set up to fit it in, but Theft of Essence is a REALLY good IO for that particular power, it almost seems like it was designed specifically for it (which it may have been, since there are so few enemy targeted heals in the game)

No problem at all. It didn't sound like you were being dumb about it, just that you were worried about the wrong things too early. I usually take Stamina around level 30 or 35 (Scrappers or tanks may not get it at all because they have access to Physical Perfection.)

I usually try to get everything I need/want from my primary and secondary by level 38 so I can focus on an epic pool if I so choose. I can slap together a build when I get home so you have a visual idea what I'm talking about.