Dechs Kaison

I dunno if I am. Maybe I'll just leave my villains to gather dust and start fresh on a higher population server, thus exacerbating the problem further.

You guys think things would change when Going Rogue hits? Would the much of the active blueside switch over?

If only I could transfer my supergroup with my characters......

Oh well. Anyone feel like making new alts and joining a relatively low population SG?

Kaison Corporation - Now hiring!

So you're all basically saying that the fully functional SG base I've manage to set up is largely going to remain solely occupied by myself and my alts?

And that I'm going to be mostly without teammates unless I'm doing the endgame raids?

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Stick with the set and you'll have an amazingly worthwhile pay off, especially once you IO it out. You'll basically be a steamroller once you reach the end of the road.

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Seeing this makes me happy.

My bot/ff has always felt like a steamroller, albeit more so because of the pace it moves though. Nothing can stop me! That turtle may beat me to the finish line, but nothing can stop me from getting there!

As I said, the Thugs/Poison already feels much more like a nuclear powered steamroller with death rays and rockets. I wish playing my bot/ff had been this much fun.

I can't wait to get my necro/pain through this rut.

I bought CoV when it came out and randomly made a few villains on Champion, played for three months and quit. I came back a year ago and I'm getting much more into the game, but I'm finding Champion to be a very empty looking server.

Is there anyone out there? I have a lot of trouble finding teams...

What kind of players are mostly on this server? Am I just missing the crowds?

In short, yes, mag lasts as long as the duration.

It's more like a hold for x seconds at a set magnitude the whole time.

You may or may not remember my recent post about the stupid powerful bot/ff character of mine. Well, as he gets nearer to the end of the line, the grind becomes more arduous, seemingly less rewarding, and all around boring.

So I've created a pair of new MM's. One Necro/Pain and one Thugs/Poison (who has a fairly clever concept if I do say so myself). It has reminded me how tough things are in the teens. My thugs fought through scrapyarders with three worthless punks and a sole enforcer. Demolitionists and Foremen tore us up with AoE until I learned there's nothing that can't be solved with enough debuffs and gang war. Thugs made it through the dockworkers strike, even Sea Witch without too much trouble.

The necro is having similar, although amplified, problems with scrapyarders. Without the debuffs (or the occasional gang war), zombies die too quickly to be healed in time. I'm about to give up and just paper/mayhem my way around the content for a bit.

In both cases, I'm finding the game a lot more fun and challenging, with more to do than just stand around and watch things die like with my bot/ff. In fact, there's things I can do to make things die faster! I see potential here that I didn't before. I'm tempted to shelf the bot/ff indefinitely and actually have one of these builds beat him to 50.

A final note: The thugs just hit level 26, introducing the bruiser, which, coupled with the fact that I'm out of scrapyarder arcs, makes the game a bit more like Duke Nukem on Sesame Street. I love this bruiser, I leave him on aggressive, command him to attack, and leave everything else on bodyguard mopping up what he knocks down. Life is great.

I feel retarded here... what's a dual/quad-boxer?

/bind Y "+down$$target_custom_next defeated mypet$$follow$$powexecname Soul Extraction"

I'm giving this a try. I'll edit the post as soon as I know.

Verdict: Follow doesn't work. I'm guessing because +down is a conflicting movement vector? Either way, it targets the pet and hits the power immediately, and I just realized the power has a 60 ft range, so I don't really need to follow anyway. Thanks for the help everyone.

Final used command: /bind Y "targetcustomnext defeated mypet$$powexecname soul extraction"

It's a lot simpler than I was making it out to be.

Thanks for the help, and the link.

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There are some tricks that might allow you to select the new target on key-press, and then follow on key-release, which might help reliability with the slight delay.

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I'm going to have to look this up. I can't imagine the possibilities this would allow.

Hey, I'm looking for a way to bind a key to do these three things:

target nearest dead pet
follow
powexecname soul extraction

The only part I'm not totally familiar with is the targeting commands. Can I get a hand?

Are the empowerment buffs worth having?

Ad Astra, I'd like to think that I've made a VERY COOL looking "conference/world domination room" with flags and weapons and big round table. It's very hitler-esque. Not what I was going for, but it just looks so cool. It's just a decorative room, no function whatsoever.

The whole base is tech themed, with factory walls in the workshop and custom colors all throughout. The workshop in particular has a lot of decoration.

I was just wondering how much people cared about this kind of thing. Am I wasting time/prestige by making it look shiny?

It just seems a shame that everyone's either in a SG already, or is a lowbie that you can't trust...

Thanks for the help, but particularly:

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Also, if you are doing missions/activities in a zone that doesn't have a base beacon (PvP and shadow Shard), you can "go to base" when you die, an click on your blue portal exit to go right back to the exact location you died. If you are inside a mission in those zones, you'll pop up at your mission door. It's very convenient.

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This I did not know. Thank you very much!

So I've got a super(villain)group that's been pretty much just me and my alts, but now that I've got enough prestige for a decent sized base, I'm looking to actually invite people.

What do would you expect out of a SG base? Obviously teleporters to everywhere is a must (got that). I've got personal storage and an invention table. What else are must have items?

Are storage racks that important? It seems you'd have to worry about random members hawking your stuff if you put it there, although I'd probably only invite people I played with pretty often, so it shouldn't be a problem...

Is the infirmary useful?

Do most people care about decorations?

Any other tips for a new base designer?

Thanks for the encouragement. That'll push me on a few more levels for sure!

I'm getting very discouraged with my necro/pain, although it's only level 18 right now, which I know is the toughest levels for MMs. I already asked if it was a good powerset combination once on this board, but I've got a new question.

I'm not frustrated now, though. I feel like I'm doing very well with the sets. Pain is excellent at keeping my pets alive, don't get me wrong... and I'm about to pick up stamina to keep them alive longer.

The problem I see is this: All my henchmen will have a self heal at 32. All of them. Won't that make the mainstay of /pain pretty useless?

I just worry that I'll put all that effort into getting up to 32 and then feel like I'm half as useful as I should be.

Sorry, I'm not saying I did. Just wondering if I could still get the lower level salvage with a high level character.

I guess it would be pretty stupid...

Pretty simple, should I get salvage drops from enemies that con grey?

Hey everyone, I'm looking for feedback on my latest arc, made possible through I15.

A Slice of Revenge
Arc ID # 242602
Alignment: Villain
Length: Medium. Three missions, small-medium maps.
Keywords: Complex Mechanics, Non-Canon, Solo Friendly
Description: Mastermind Dechs Kaison could use your help getting revenge at those who tore down his corporation. Revenge goes too far as it nearly triggers a doomsday situation. Villainous sequel to arc #195202.
Enemy groups: Malta, Custom, PPD, CoT
Difficulty: Solo friendly. No EB/AV. You will have help with the Malta Boss.

Other Notes: I tried to make this one challenging and fun, as well as inject a great deal of humor. I wrote the contact dialog uniquely in that it's a conversation where you fill in the logical blanks. The most important question I need answered is "Does the contact's speech make sense?"

There are also a few less than obscure movie references. Cookies to anyone who gets all three.

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I don't worry about recipes, I just vendor them

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/em flinch

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Fulmens, don't worry so much. I do know enough to make sure I don't vendor procs and the more valuable recipes. Generally though, at level ~20, it seems the vendors pay more for recipes than you can reliably sell them for.

I still only put them up for 100 inf.

Kinetic Tut, a kin/nrg defender. My first character, my first (only) to 50, my favorite character.

So here's how I operate with regards to the market, be it blue or red side.

I'm an altaholic, so I only have one 50 blueside. I dinged and immediately shelved him. I've been playing my rainbow of masterminds that are all about level 20. I don't worry about recipes, I just vendor them unless they're common and I want to make that IO. This leaves me with no use for any uncommon or rare salvage. What to do with it? The vendors offer such terrible prices...

So I head over to the market, put my salvage up in stacks of whatever for the price of ... 100 inf. Well almost nothing sells for only 100, there's always tons for sale and more bidding, but with nothing actually trading hands. The bidders are all waiting for people like me, and the sellers are waiting for someone who needs to BUY IT NOW. Immediate sales, I get my money now.

I'm just curious, how much of an effect am I having (if any) on the overall prices of these items by offering bottomed out prices?

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there probly nerfing the best ae mishes.some lvl one must have got more than 4 lvls in a hour

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And you people called me the troll.

My turn to get the popcorn this time.