Demetrios Vasilikos

maybe if mr. fantastic, lexx luthor,tony stark, batman, Forge, cable, The Watcher, Apocolypse, and Mr sinister all came to paragon studio then maybe it could.

lol yeah id almost forgotten that one. the age of way to easy to get soft cap def for all. Id never even touched those IO sets at the time and still dont really ever go for set def, more a global recharge guy myself. Now if they ever nerf LOTG 7.5 specials down to like 5% there will be hell to pay I tell you HELL!

To be fair ED was a cataclysm. It drove many away for a long time. Most I know in game are first year players, and most admit to breaking for as much as 2 years after ED.

It did help lead to a better age however. I love IOs and crafting and its largely a direct result of paragon studios efforts to bring back some of that super feeling lost to us in ED.

So although I do agree ED in the end became a good thing, at the time and how it was done( jack promising no major changes would come with COV and pvp,a nd ED was largely done to try and bring balance to ATs in pvp) lead to probably the worst blow to coh rep we ever had.

Ofcourse that major hit to our rep left with cryptic so now we can go to CO forums and laugh at them all day long

Um techncially you are describing champions online, however if you go check it out you likely will see that although in theory it sounds better then our older game, it really isnt.

And some hopes like maybe one day pool powers being made more interesting and flexible to let us make more diverse concepts could happen. a pistol pool a sword pool etc could all hapen one day. and its clear with the other revamps to travel power pools we have had they are looking at those things and not just AT sets.

I maybe misread your post here, but if your soloing on a defender you should be using an offender build, and those rarely have trouble soloing GMs let alone normal content. Perhaps look into the defender forums for builds designed to function like mage tanks. I honestly feel they are probably the single most effective solo AT in the game. the things I have seen them do oh my oh my. You want a real Hal Jordan class green lantern build it is definatly in the defender at sets. though maybe also consider ruptors. nice with blaster primary, and def primes as 2ndaries. Really borderline OP when you think about it.

I am of the mind of the above. If I want a real wall I get a tank period. As for the best mix of dps and survival I favor my psi/ment blaster probably over all of my 50 scrappers including a bs/regen, a ma/shield,claw/wp, and katana/SR. All of whom I love and have invested in heavily with IOs including some having multiple purple sets and the like. But there is just something about serious ranged and aoe dps combined with a smart build to survive that is second to none.

Be it blanker,Offender,corr, or the many other sets that mix ranged dps with the ability to control mobs will always give a certain potential for things few melee builds can.

I love how you assume its the other being ignorant. KB powers can bring an immense amount of helpt to a group. If a group scatters I just switch to hard hitting single target fire to gun them down in a blink. If you want to hit the big group first then be there first. People wrongly call it scrapperlock when its actually called WHo Is the better killer. dont expect others to hold back so you can get your perfect shot every time. That is no better a sense of team play then a leeroy.

Being a good team player is about you adapting to whoever you have along, not asking them to hold back so you can feel more special.

When I need a good dosed drain psyche I dont go hey guys wait till I get a juicy mob on me. I run in to the heart of the mob without thought hitting DP and then my mix of pbaoe and targeted aoe then pick off stragglers. Rarely does the rest of the team even have a chance to attack the mob.

My only question to the blaster scattering mobs is why didnt the first shot wipe at least half of them out?

your very out of the loop then about this little bit of cox lore called the secret identity act which protects ones rights to remain secret even if registering. However the original concept of a vigilante in coh was a unregistered super, one could now days infer anyone playing as a vigilante isnt even on the register.

Ofcourse some of us in the know are aware of how its really done, with that mind witch of the tyrant state using her power to keep tabs on all of earth at once. only those heroic souls at crey have the defense and plan to save the world from the grasp of meta scum.

And thats why we who Lore RP choose to do so. We want to give some of these unsung characters floating around in the lore more depth while also adding to the depth of the game. For example on my vet account( not the one I am posting from atm) I have a character named T'Keron Valmaz. He is actually my oldest toon and only one left from my first year characters. When ever he runs certain TFs or content where you encounter infernal it gives me a bit of a chance to drop some banter with an npc and many times I get tells from members of the team afterwards saying how much more interactive I made the game feel.

If you have never tried to RP on virtue I encourage you to come check it out, we are not all cyber pervs in furry outfits( most of the time) And if you enjoy the coxverse then take some time to find a good lore concept, many will react positive to it.

Some other frineds I know who run LRP characters portray:

The Oracle from the itf
Cole Marcus plucked from time moments before drinking from the well.
Ghost Richter a vengeful spirit of stephen richter from praetoria.
Doctor duncan Silver aka Doctor Darkvine: ******* son of darkvine the fallen midnighter, and similar to my berkeley is seen as a hostage in a low lvl arc.

yes that is what is called lrp or lore based role play. there are ofcourse rules in the EULA about using characters meant to imitate admin or devs, so one of the main things to keep in mind is if the npc name your considering is connected with a dev icon. For example one name I was warned by admin not to use was James Temblor SR. I had wanted to RP an alternate dimensional version of the original faultline. However James Temblor is just to closely tied with faultline an active DEV to be allowed.

Bentley Berkeley was a concept I fell in love with, because he is seen a few times in some of the oldest most interesting story arcs, has the interesting and fun to RP aspect of being one of the few called an IMMORTAL in cox lore while not being all powerful. Also being one of the original names found on the Midnight clubs charter all work to make him have alot of easy ins to approach him for casual RP.

i am far from alone and have encounterred enough over the years Id say feeling fairly safe that at least a 1000 players on virtue have adopted this style of RP. I run a number of them, 2 Lore SGs the Circle of Thorns(red side) and Crey GLobal Enterprises blue side. And know a number of others in various SGs including other crey based ones. Although I do have the toon count alphonse crey and rp a very different twist on crey and thier goals and function in the scheme of things.

Many also tend to adopt a practice of using a secret idtenty name so to speak while leveling if its a concept they feel being less then 50 wouldnt accuratly portray, or by taking the name are given the added challenge of having to level up that character rather quickly with no alt breaks to avoid a certain amount of mockery. Exceptions are typically alts of the same concept like secret identity alts or just exploring variants on equally appropriate power sets.

It can be alot of fun pouring through cox lore on Pwiki to find a name and concept that appeals to you enough to want to find a way to make a character out of it.

One of my earliest is the name I use here on the forums. The concept of demetrios Vasilikos is not exactly what some expect. He isnt meant to be Doc Vahz in disguise for example nor him from an alternate earth like the newly seen one in praetoria during the arcs there( though its increased my own toons recognition a fair bit funny enough))

No Demetry is an advance paragon protector made by Crey. After failing to capture doc vahz or his research they took a somewhat different route and used samples of his blood aquired during a failed attempt to capture him to make a DNA memory core. They placed this into thier latest and most advanced paragon protector clone slug to date. The body developed incredible regenerative properties almost immediatly, and within days the mind fully developed and restored to a pre madness state lacking the chemical imbalances that lead to the original's own fall to insanity.

Its pretty much like managing to steal jekyll out of hyde and give him his own super powers.

those are just a few of my own lore based concepts but there are many more out there.

For example a friend of mine when time manip and beam rifle came out felt inspired enough to create a character named Simon R. Leeds meant to be an alternate version of one of our greatest villains from his youth who had in his dimension discovered Ourobros like tech almost immediatly and went on a very different direction in life more like the oh so popular doctr who.

Ill give you a clue his name is an anagram for the villains Sometimes lore based RPers become a character sometimes we just use it as inspiration to create a totally new one of our own. the main goal is to just be as much a part of the world we play in as possible so when we encounter each other it makes for a smoother melding of rp ideas. Thanks to alternate dimensions,clones, and time travel even when you have the occasional encounter with another ""you "" so to speak there are a number of ways to use it to just further a fun random rp encounter.