Delusionist

was able to save up enough money to buy my first house.

learned to build a computer from scratch.

learned why I like nVidia cards more than Radeon cards.

understand the color wheel a lot better. And abuse it in making new characters all the time.

discovered I am obsessed with how my character looks in MMOs. So much so that it makes it hard for me to play other MMOs for any length of time.

made some really cool friends who I would never, ever have met otherwise. Pulse, Myrmydon and others -- really good guys and gals who have gone from being people I type to to people I know and talk to.

found out that I am way more fond of having minions do all my work for me instead of blasting things myself. I am trying to apply this learning in other areas of my life.

Over the past 8 years, this game has meant a lot to me. I took small vacations from it from time to time, but I have always paid a subscription -- I felt that it was 'my game', I had watched it grow and evolve and had been a supporter financially and in other ways. And it was always there for me -- through ups and downs it was something I could count on. I knew it would have to go away someday, but it makes me very sad that it's happening now.

Thank you CoH. Thank you devs. Thank you community.

To sum up:

Every AT needs help (I think I saw every AT mentioned by at least someone).

No AT needs help (at least one person thinks each AT is fine).

Pretty much what you would expect from a question like this on an MMO forum.

That Steven Colbert animated gif was spot on.

Do you plan to solo a lot? If so, then you may find Dark's lack of a heavy hitting single target blast a problem. That was my experience at least. But on teams I find that Dark really shines with 2 fast recharging cones that also stack with the yummy debuffs of /Poison. Keep in mind that /Poison's tier 9 requires you to be up close and personal, so using your cones will be more difficult. Personally, I find that poison works best with something that has targeted AoEs or PBAoEs, but YMMV.

I'm pretty crazy about my Bots/Storm MM. So if I could only have one that would probably be it.

However, /Time is definitely my favorite MM secondary. I'm having a blast with my Ninja/Time and Necro/Time.

I have a feeling that PBU and the +Defense power that Time offers are not going to be compatible for that much longer.

Other than that, you answered your own question: FF gives mez protection (other than sleep) to squishies. And -END drain protection. If they want those things, then they would choose TM over FF. It's what I did on my FF/Beam defender.

I've been pretty happy with my KM/EA so far. But he's only 25. Still, I was able to solo all of the First Ward stuff with bosses (even the psi heavy stuff) -- Disrupt I find to be situationally useful, but definitely not something I could keep on all the time without my eyes melting.

I'm looking forward to slotting Disrupt with the Absolute Amazement proc at 50.

Bought it early this afternoon. Well done...now I can finally use some of the hundreds of free tailor sessions I have over most of my toons.

Love most of these. The stuff I don't love I'm sure someone else will. Can't wait to buy the pack.

From what I can see in the trailer, this pack looks great. A definite buy from me. As far as I'm concerned, keep the packs coming. Although I didn't purchase the Party Pack, I figure that some packs will appeal to some people and others won't. I buy the ones that I like and I'll wait my turn for those that I don't.

The only thing to be aware of with DB/Nin is that you can run into situations with a lot of annoying redraw...like when you Mez protection recharges in the middle of a combo. Or if you need to pop off a heal. Not a deal-breaker IMHO, but it can be very annoying and if the timing is wrong it can mess up a combo.

One thing to consider. Yes, KM shines in ST damage, but when PS is up and you have a damage aura, you can get some pretty nasty numbers that will chew up a large chunk of health on just about any non-boss critter out there. I often find that once I pop PS on my KM/Elec scrapper, all I need to do is Burst at the end and all the minions are dead and the LTs only have a sliver of health.

So, I think KM shines with damage auras as well as ST damage. Just a thought.

Option 1!

[QUOTE=UberGuy;3156872]Scrapper EC now gives a window where your next MA attack will auto crit if you queue it early during EC's animation. /QUOTE]

AFAIK, it's not auto (as in 100%), but increases the chance to crit by 33%.

I notice several sets are missing recipes from the vendors. Notably Kinetic Combat (the ACC/DAM one, I believe). Wasn't sure if this was working as intended or not.

DP/Fire here. Loved it on test for the same reasons that previous posters have given. Hot Feet = relative safety zone.

I'm getting somewhere between 12k-15k download speeds for updates. I'm reinstalling the CoH client and at this rate it will take all night just to go from the Architect Edition version to current live version. What's up?

I've checked permissions on the program and given it access. I've tested other sites and games (including Champions Online)...nothing else is having speed issues. Anyone else having problems?