DreadShinobi

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Global Name: @DreadShinobi
Email: chjelias@gmail.com
IM's: --
Games you plan to move to: Aion mainly, occassionaly GW2, might go back to Rift someday, BnS looks awesome.
Steam ID: Tecknolife (but I'm essentially never on steam)
Favorite Powerset/AT in CoH: Fire/Cold corr
Red/blue?: Never really mattered post GR.
More stuph: Not horribly sad to see the game itself die (minimal interest in anything), but seeing this community go is really the pits. Shoot me an email if you want to stay in touch.

Oh I can post here now.

Either way I never really liked Scrappers a whole lot. As a standalone character they were great, obviously, and I think that's what had me continually going back to them. The numbers they could achieve were just incredibly good, in terms of raw dps and survivability, and damage mods that just loved to be buffed.

On the other hand Scrappers were incredibly limited in (what I consider to be) viable build choices, especially compared to brutes, and for much of their existance Shield Defence was the only choice (because it outperformed everything else to such an extent), and the major issue here was that only a few scrapper secondaries had a taunt aura (this was the biggest flaw of scrappers). Honestly if they had just given scrappers taunt auras on the resist based sets I would have been all over scrappers all day long, but that never happened (Until I managed to convince the dev team to add a taunt aura to the Hybrid Incarnate Power, but even that wasn't that much). With the lack of taunt auras on scrappers, brutes were always #1 for me in terms of melee. As Silas would put it, a good melee will bring 2 things to a team: Damage and Aggro control. Unless you were SD, Inv, or WP, it was likely you failed at Aggro Control, and if you were Invul or WP, you were taking a hit to damage output as well.

For everything else, there are brutes.

I'm sure many will just be on their home server. If I log on at all, thats where I will be.

It's pretty well known that BM was the weakest MM primary they put out, just another one of those things you don't want to touch, even with a thirtynine and a half foot pole.

I regret not fraps'ing more. Especially pre i13 pvp. Alot of the speed records pre incarnates would have been awesome to have recorded as well.

The ski chalet was the only truly fun Holiday Event, and even then there was a large group of the population that HATED it with a passion due to not being able to do it for one reason or another (from connection speed issues to simply being fail at controling their character at higher speeds of movement).

Everything else was pretty much just: Do the content once for the 'new shiny content' then do it again and again and again to get the badges for the characters you want the badges on. TBH if the holiday event stuff wasn't tied to badges, it would barely be done. On average from what I noticed over the years, people did it for the limited time rewards, rather than it actually being genuinely fun. YMMV.

And yes, the Halloween event on GW2 is pretty great, with one caveat in that some of it (perm weapon skins) is gated behind having obscene amounts of gold or on hand cash with the obvious intention of them trying to reduce the amount of gold 1% of the GW2 population has from playing the market during the first week.


@Solo, I'm on Blackgate as well, although I haven't been playing it much recently being knee deep in school projects among other things.

Omigosh. Coolest dev team ever. D:

Posting here cause I can't post in the Champ forums.

Was always good running with you smilies (interface). Take care out there!

Carnie Illusionists were the only troublesome mobs in the game, and even then it was really only that way for my blasters. Sappers were always manageable (they're minions ffs), regardless of toon, you just couldn't ignore them. Rularuu eyeballs were a check against pure defense based builds, but again, it's just something to go into prepared.

I'll be picking it up on sunday with a friend. I'm unusually excited about it, and mostly I think that's more because I am so bored with everything else. Should be fun though, the thing they're adding to black city/white forest looks cool.

Cheers.

Mirror Spirit.

St. Martial. Fun times all day long.

Staff has pitiful dps on brutes. I'd definitely go StJ.

I wonder how long it took all their people to word that as carefully as possible.

"City of Heroes has a special place in all of our hearts,"

Yes and I'm sure that's what they were thinking when they fired paragon studios without warning, gave no official announcement, and removed any trace of the game from their website. gg.

Aion isn't a game I would reccomend to the coh playerbase.

Between the 60-80 keybinds you need to effectively use all of your skills at level cap, the extremely high skill cap required to be competitve, the relatively grindy nature of the game compared to coh (it's nothing compared to what it was at launch, but it's still much more grindy than coh), and the generally more crude community compared to coh, it's just not something I'd reccomend. Cause if you're bad, the community there will not hesitate to make sure you are aware of it.

I'm not saying it's a bad game though, I love it. I've got 4 lvl 60s, a 51, and 2 48s. Played it at launch for 9 months then took a break til it went f2p and they really improved the game alot especially in regards to having a western playerbase. Really the only thing I dislike about it is their Manastone and Enchanting systems which is far too dependant on luck and/or having obnoxious amounts of disposable ingame money to spend. But otherwise the graphics, world, combat, skillcap, pvp, instances, are all alot of fun, imo.

Oh, and if you roll Asmo, be prepared to be the perpetually losing race. Faction Imbalance is completely out of whack, and the dev team doesn't really care a whole lot.

I refuse to believe any of those top 10/20/50 w/e game rankings that doesn't put zelda at the top

I met a few people from Champion who live in my area. For a few years now we've been hanging out every sunday. We play MTG, do some console games, and occassionally end up in the same mmo.

Did it save my life? no. And while I highly value the friendships I made in this game, my life as a whole would have probably been alot better off if I never got into MMOs.

I've played a number of elec characters.

EM/Elec brute, SS/Elec, TW/Elec Brute, Fire/Elec blaster x2, Mind/Elec Dom, Elec/therm Corr, Storm/Elec defender... I'm probably missing 1 or 2, probably a scrapper. All the ones I listed were fully IO'd, accoladed, etc, the works.


Elec Manipulation is good if you have the build and playstyle to support an extremely offensive melee set on a glass cannon. This isn't a set anyone can just slap on a character and wreck everything like certain other builds can (hi, ss/fire), it is the epitome of high risk, high reward. My fire/elec was probably the squishiest character I ever made but was completely viable due to the obcence ST and AoE dps it was capable of putting out, as well as being one of the best buff recipients in the game.

Elec Armor is fantastic. Elec Armor was good before IOs, Elec Armor was good before they got energize. Elec Armor was good before the entire incarnate content endgame completely revolved around energy damage. At this point Elec Armor is one of the best armor sets in the game, holding a solid middle ground between fire's offense, and dark's over the top survivability.

Elec Assault was pretty good when it came out, being one of the few sources of +tohit for doms along with much better ST damage than Thorns. It's nothing really special though.

Elec Melee has had it's places to shine. Elec/ Stalkers in PvP with the double/triple or whatever critting Thunderstrikes, or the wave of Elec/Shield Scrappers before those got toned down. Other than that though, Elec Melee has always been a poor ST dmg set with aoe that supports doing content at your own speed, but quickly begins to fall behind sets with faster recharging aoe as team pace speeds up.

Then there is elec blast, unarguably the worst blast in the game (come at me). It's occassionally had some impressive uses in pvp, especially on elec/therms (oh lordy, were well played elec/therms hard to beat), on the other hand in PvE it was a complete trash set.