Crazy1van

Radio Missions. Lots and lots of Police-Band Radio Radio Missions. For everything else, team with somebody and let them have the star.

One marginal idea might be a Reverse-Lassie, which works better in an anime frame up than in the Western Superhero genre. Basically, give that female toon of yours a shoulder panda or shoulder kittie, or one of the Vet pets that is organic, and roleplay the animal sidekick as the one doing all the talking, usually right after it stares into your face, maybe asks "Are you sure? Well, okay," to you a lot.

Like the guy with the parrot in the 1st Pirates of the Carribean film. Shame we have no parrots in this game. Maybe you could get Null the Gull to be your animal companion.

Easier fix; read the EULA. It isn't cool that the servers are down, but we all agreed to suffer through such downtime without being compensated for it. They owe us nothing for it.

If you want to complain, fine. I don't like it either; sucks that I can't play while I have the time to do so.

But if you want to be compensated, think about what you're really asking for; the company is losing money by paying for repairs as we speak, and losing money in the form of customers not buying any Paragon Points during the outages. Now you want them to compensate you by giving up items intended to bring them revenue, despite agreeing to a EULA in which you gave them permission to take the servers down whenever they need to without being compensated for it.

Yes, Unquiet Bride; that was it. Thanks.

I wasn't personally competing in last night's CC, but as a finalist on Friday Night I know the procedures. :-)

If I was Glacia, I'd have committed sistercide by now. Or suicide, if my powers were ineffective against ol' jabberjaw.

Welcome back. Dunno how long you've been gone, but the last two years have seen a LOT of changes. Personally, I think the Inherent Fitness pool is the biggest (positive) change, but being able to turn my heroes into villains and vice versa is pretty awesome too.

Pretty sure I posted an entry in the Infinity Census, but in case you missed it, I'm Kavik.

Howdy.

Alternate form of Teleport:

- Rabbit Hole: When the destination is chosen, a tunnel forms linking the character's current location to his new location, even if the destination is on a building or in mid-air. 'Holing' teammates causes the user's arm to disappear into the tunnel mouth, emerge at the target, grab a leg, and yank the (looney) toon through. Known bug: Long Range Rabbit Hole tends to land characters in Albuquerque; a left turn must then be made to reach the proper zone.

Maybe she just really likes plants, and chose a plant motif for her name / schemes. Not her fault if she happened to get superpowers that have nothing to do with plants.

I was there; no hi-rez screen shots though, can't really make out any of the winners well enough to post the pix here. Still, was very cool, and a decent turn-out; I reckon more people enter CCs when they don't need a theme pre-built.

My main, and the only toon I have all 5 Incarnate powers slotted to Tier 4, is a Claws / regen scrapper. He's not the most effective toon in my arsenal, but he's a lot of fun.

I'm no good with the number-crunching. I've tried using MIDS to squeeze maximum utility out of a build, but I can never factor everything properly. Meh.

Some advice I can give. Take the fighting set early on; you'll want those toggles. You might want Leadership as well, but it's pricey if you don't team on a regular basis.

I skipped Hasten, but I don't recommend doing so, as you'll need those Regen powers available as often as possible in big fights. Obviously Moment of Glory will be your best friend, but unless you perma, save it for when you need it.

My personal attack chain really only consists 4 attacks plus Confront, so I skipped a few Claws powers on this build. Against one large foe, this serves me well (coupled with my Destiny void power) but in mobs I admit that I sometimes suffer. And yes, I use Confront a lot. It's not a choice I recommend for most scrappers but I find myself tanking often enough that I needed a way to grab aggro.

For my Alpha, I usually have Spiritual slotted, which wouldn't be necessary had I taken Hasten. But with all 8 Tier 4 Alphas crafted, I can play with what the situation calls for.

Level for level, you're squishier than most scrappers, and claws don't do as much damage as many sets. Try to resist diving into mobs that can overpower you by pulling or avoiding. Like I said, I do great against single foes, even when they con purple to me, but mobs can take me down, especially if there's an end-drain in the bunch.

In the end, it's a lot more about having fun than about min/maxing an AT for the benefit of others. This is a game that, for now at least, you pay money to play.

Hoverboard travel power? At WALK speed? Surely it would be at least Sprint speed, or just a Travel Emote / Aura deal that modifies the graphics of another power. Hovering at the speed of WALK is like teleporting at the speed of HOLD.

My characters fall into two categories; those I created before ever playing CoH, and those I created FOR CoH.

Ironically, the bulk of my characters created prior to ever seeing this game have been adapted in a way that makes the game setting, and in some cases, specific storylines, intergral to their existence.

My main toon, Kavik the Wolf Boy, was an agent of a secret branch of the U.S. military in his original continuity. On Primal Earth, he's part of the Vanguard, and worked closely with Dark Watcher once his 'security clearence level' was high enough. The original version is a werewolf seeking the origins of lycanthropy, but he doesn't believe in magic and tries to disprove or rationalize all known instances of magic. This translated in CoH into his desire to shut down the Tsoo, CoT, and BP, as they are dangerously depleting the natural energies of the Earth / Universe, by his understanding of how magic works. As a werewolf he took special interest in the Council to the abominations they often created in the name of science, an element of the character unique to this setting.

Kavik eventually traveled to the Shadow Shard with Dark Watcher on one of the many frontline initiatives during the Coming Storm, but was lost in that realm for several years. While there the energies of that reality changed him, and when one of Rularuu's aspects was killed in battle with Earth's heroes, Rularuu tried to transform Kavik's new body into a suitable host for a replacement aspect. To avoid this Kavik went back in time to before the Coming Storm and merged with his former self, but this just gave the present-day Rularuu a foothold on Earth, so every time Kavik uses his new cosmic (Incarnate) powers, he loses more of his humanity. This all came from a need to justify a werewolf that could go toe-to-toe with god-level foes, but was also vaguely inspired by a Lovecraftian plot I'd subjected the original character to, years ago.

On the other hand, his Praetorian Earth counterpart wound up living in the Tunnels, and was eventually rounded up for experimentation by Neuron, becoming Kavik the Ghoul Boy. When the Resistance freed him he joined their cause, and adopted a very black and white view of morality. Now that he lives on Primal Earth, he even feels that Kavik the Wolf Boy is little better than the scum he fights, due to the primal toon being a vigilante willing to work with villains on Vanguard assignments.

Other characters, like Kid Kilovolt, are simply superheroes with back-stories completely unrelated to anything going on in paragon City, the Rogue Isles, or Praetoria. KK operates in Paragon City because that happens to be where the action is. His Praetorian counterpart the Kilovolt Kid is a willing member of Powers Division, but really he isn't so much loyal to a cause as he is working with whatever 'system' is in place to uphold laws and catch criminals. Neither version of KK relies on CoH lore for their origins or motivations.

300 INF on Percy! That kid gets himself kidnapped every week or so it seems.

Kind of hated that trailer. Of course I'm looking forward to the movie, but we were just fed several scenes from BATMAN BEGINS and THE DARK KNIGHT with a tiny drop of new material added in to justify the trailer's existence. Did anyone catch Anne Hathaway in that? No? Because she wasn't there!