Emerald_Phase

You guys converted me about a week ago

In that time, I've made 150 million on a grand total of... ready for it? Four recipes. That's it. I took what I had, pooled my resources, bought a few high end recipes, crafted and listed 'em. Total time invested? Five minutes. Seven if you count the time it takes to hop between WW and the Unviersity.

I love the Market because people are LINING UP to give millions of inf for 5 minutes of work, then running out to spend hours on their fire/kin, while I'm out playing the rest of the game

My first 50 was my DM/Regen scrapper, so I almost exclusively tend toward Sands of Mu simply because lining up the cone is second nature to hit at least 2, usually 3 targets without even thinking about it

The only time I do really miss the GSA though is fighting spectrals. Hate spectrals. Haaaate.

... *giggle* Um, wow. You just topped my "Spent ten solid minutes chasing a Warwolf boss" runner on my D3 this morning.

Seriously, the run AI is just a little out of hand these days. I don't remember it ever being this bad in past issues.

I've expereinced drama, and been the subject of some myself, but in my defensse I was seriously depressed during that time, so I wasn't really myself.

That said, I've never experienced anything the likes of which I put up with back in WoW in any other game, let alone here. Virtue has its idiots like any game, but with the implementation of stuff like per-global player rating and avoidance of Pocket D, my idiot-to-awesome ratio is heavily weighted toward the latter these days.

I've said it before, but the worst thing that's ever happened to me in this game was the time a stalker tried to mug me as I was flying across a PVP zone back in, like, I7 or so. He was using Super Jump to try and keep up, landed on a Longbow Warden, and accused me of cheating. /Broadcast had a good laugh at his expense considering I apologized for his landing on said warden even before he started spewing crap at me for it (Despite it not being my fault to begin with )

Now, I'm at a unique position right now where I literally have one person still playing that I keep in contact with. My old SGs are all dead, or people log in once a week for thirty seconds then run off again, so I'm in the process of trying to find my place on the server again, but I still agree on the whole. It just feels more pleasant here, IMO.

Something I've always wondered, but never thought to ask: is there a spreadhseet/chart floating around somewhere that lists either point-for-point, or overall-per-group what groups are resistant/vulnerable to what damage type?

A lot of them I've picked up over the years just through trial and error or hearsay, but some specific ones I'm not aware of, like if there are any groups with a Negative Energy vulnerability, etc.

Just curious. I'm not really hurting to fight any specific group on any of my characters. Even my Claws brute rips right through anything that gets in her way despite some claims that lethal is too commonly resisted (I enjoy fighting Fortunatas with her. That's.. so many levels of wrong )

Danke, gracias, etc

Scrappers - /Ninjitsu, Ice/Ice. I don't really care for Stone/Stone, but another option for Ice that's not Tanker would rock. Sorry Tankers. I like you as a friend and a teammate, but we're just too different.

Sonic for Masterminds would be great. I'm happy with /Thermal on my current MM project, but a Bruiser with Disruption Field even when solo? Yes please!

Brutes - Broadsword, Spines, Ninjitsu, Spines, Regen would be interesting with their higher HP, Spines, Ice/Ice, and did I mention Spines?

I love Dark Blast and Dark Miasma, and I used to be one of the big proponents for a Dark Blaster/Dark Controller of some bent. Anymore though, I'm not sure how they'd make it work without creating entirely new sets, so I'm not going to weigh in on that one. I'd love to see it done though, if they find the time

And I have no idea how Illusion would work on a Dom, but just thinking about it makes me giggle, so I'll give that one a big fat "Put me down on the HECK YES! list" stamp.

Edit: Apparently I just hadn't met the right Tanker. I'd still love to see Ice proliferated though

I've got another one, but this is powerset specific. Reading a thread in a similar vein over on the General Discussion (about characters whose concepts you love, but simply can't play) reminded me of my short-lived Mind/Empathy controller.

Concept-wise I loved her to death. I loved RPing her. I hate hate hated that in the teens I was relegated to trying to heal for people who, on seeing me join, went "WOOT HEALZOR!" and promptly split off in seven directions, expecting me to keep up with all of them.

It's more "teammate fail" than "powerset/AT fail", but it happened so often I finally just deleted her I had her in an SG, but IIRC they never wanted her for teams, nor the coalition, so PuGs were all I had.

I've thought about ressurecting her, but I'm not sure how I'd recreate the concept with other powersets. Nothing hit home so well as Mind/Emp conceptually.

Anyway...

My Mind/Empathy controller. From concept to personality (Roleplayer, from the "interactive writing/improv" perspective, FWIW ) I LOVED her. I couldn't play her though because I found that the second I joined a team, they all went "WOOT HEALZOR!" and split off in seven different directions, expecting me to keep them all alive with my mighty, TO-slotted heals.

I miss that character so much, but I just can't tolerate the stupidity magnet that is /Emp >_>

The other one is my DM/Regen scrapper. Every time I play her, I feel like she's just not bringing as much to the table as other sets for too little in return.

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Although I deleted her back in ... I5 I think (made in either I0 or I1 ), my first Fire blaster's theme song was always Blaze of Glory because if Inferno didn't kill it, well, somebody got a wakie?

Masterminds, according to people that don't actually PLAY MMs and think the pets do all the work magically - Lump, PotUSA

Solo Tankers (Because the song will end before you finish a mission) - American Pie

I actually made the dreadful mistake of trying this at only -three- on my Ninja/Thermal mastermind.

Three Warmth spammers plus three sets of genin/jounin. I didn't stand a chance. No WAY would I try it at 8 without a full 50 IO build, and even then that's pushing it.

At least, not solo.

Interesting idea, and one that resonates strongly with me. I'm a firm believer in the masking concept, that almost everyone masks their true selves to some degree, and some (like myself) mask it completely, at least offline, but that's getting creepy and psuedo-psychological so I'll just get on to my characters

Sakura Izumi, my Ninjas/Thermal mastermind looks drastically different. In the material plane she appears as a lightly armored high school-aged girl with a mask, using a minor glamour to alter her normal appearance, so that when she "goes incognito" it's harder to put two and two together. Her spirit appears as a "purified" female Oni with a blazing white aura, but not blinding to look at.

Aria of Winter appears as a living representation of frost. Where she walks, the ground frosts over beneath her feet, her skin is like crystalline ice, but her hair, by contrast, flows like water, tinted a tropical blue (A hint of warmth amid a sea of frost)

Metiana, my only other 'teen' character appears mostly as she does in the material plane, except that instead of her patched-together, shabby steampunk armor, she's dressed in the same tattered nightgown she wore for weeks following her parents' murder, orphaning her in the Rogue Isles a year ago, and her 'spirit' still clings to the old stuffed bear, one button eye hanging loosely, its stuffings starting to fall out a small tear in its belly.

She's probably my most inwardly 'tortured', complex character, at that.

Psychic Strike actually has the Sight, granted to her by a ... for lack of a better word, "psychic ghost", played by a friend, who found the fact that Rebecca for a long time wore a full helmet to shield herself from the myriad thoughts of the outside world a fascinating and saddening notion.

Despite her stoic and often very untrusting nature outwardly, her spirit self appears quite laid-back, dressed either in a floral print sun dress or a swimsuit, looking like she belongs right at home surfing a big wave (She's half-Polynesian, and her thoughts are always in what she lost at the cost of her powers)

That about covers my active, semi-active, or at least possibly-heard-of characters, except Crimson Willow, but she's one I haven't developed enough to really have an idea of how her hopes, dreams, and fears would shape how others would see her.

Since I already have the salvage anyway I'll go ahead and craft it, throw it in somewhere and forget about it until her build matures a bit more.

Maybe I'll get lucky and pick up the other +regen unique(s) on the way to 50 (*snicker*)

>_>

Yeeeeeah. I just had one of these drop for my steampunk-themed level 13 Claws/Willpower Brute while blowing off some steam (Sorry, I had to ) in the wee hours.

I'm just curious, how noticeable is the ~25% regen?

Used to be Masterminds, probably because I've only ever played the Ranged sets. The irritating thing is, you can tell them to stay, but the second they go into combat, it's like someone loaded your battle bots and one protector drone with Wndows ME because two of them, sometimes three, will fire off one blast, then RACE off into melee despite you screaming at them to stop, heel, sit, roll over, play dead... Er, no, wait, they usually play dead just fine, after charging headlong into Silver Mantis' aura

I find Sandolphan's Revised MM Numpad Pet Controls freaking fantastic. It takes a little getting used to, but as many MMs as I've tried (over a dozen, accounting for different primary/secondary combinations) after awhile it literally just becomes second natre.

Anyway, I'm loving my Ninjas/Thermal MM. She's got a great theme (IMO), and when I tell the ninjas to get their butts into melee, they don't kick once, then sprint back halfway across the map to stand there throwing shurikens, so that's all a moot point now.

Probably the one non-epic AT I can't get into at all is Stalkers. Ironically I'm playing a Night Stalker assassin in an ongoing D&D campaign, but in CoH I just can't get into Stalkers, not for lack of trying.

Heroside there are some powersets I don't enjoy, but not in the sense of locking me out from playing the entire AT, with the sole exception of Kheldians.

Khelds I find interesting lore-wise, but I just don't find them fun.

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*swoops overhead piloting a rickety brass-plated rocket pack* Ahoy down there! Being the steampunk fan that I am, this music video was the first thing to come to mind when I saw the weekend theme ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WrPWFn7e2c

*sputters off into the distance again, dropping into a cloud bank*

Forum regular (particularly the Controller forums) - Local Man

Roughshod, THE most bad-*** inv/ss tanker I have ever met.

Elevator Man - Gravity/something controller with the Teleport pool - He MOVES people!

I'll toss in one or two more if I think of any.

>_>

I ran into him on my D3 tonight. I'm really, REALLY glad I kept him locked down at max range now. That had better be a bug because that's just cheaper than a crashless T9 (Looking at you, Freedom Phalanx)

Got another one, but largely because I can't remember if I was still playing when this was added

The "Last objective in your mission shows up on the map" thing. To quote a friend of mine back in 2004, after we spent an HOUR in Orenbega searching for that last hostage,

"Just let me friggen take 20 on my search check!"

This change, for someone like me who has absolutely zero sense of direction, and can get lost on ANY cave map in the game, is absolutely fan-freaking-tabulous.

Also seconding Lady C on corsets. My goth chick gets by with a combination of Witch and Wedding packs for her 'onstage' outfit/costume, but a proper corset for Costume 3 would rock.

Sigh. Curse you people.

I clicked on this thread out of sheer morbid curiosity because, for me, I could never get into spines for getting past the "Bananas pop out of nowhere" appearance. I forgot that Power Customization fixed this until about mid-way through reading.

By the time I reached the last post I had fully conceptualized a new Spines/something steampunk scrapper with metallic "spikes". I really did not need another alt

I'm still bouncing around the notion on the secondary. Elec is the best thematic fit, but Fire can't be discounted either. Maybe even /Dark, but I'm not a fan of Dark Armor's playstyle.

Anyway, off to play with Mids.

Before I hit 22 and switched from DOs to frankenslotting (Exception: I had some old L25 Decimations that I paid ~5k for before the market merge that were just collecting dust, so I slotted those into Gloom) with my Dark/Dark Defender, I had absolutely no problem soloing the Faultline chain of EBs.

Part of that is because I had enough blues to keep the end bar going, but to be honest, it felt as fast, or faster than when I did that arc on my Mind/Kin at the same level, and a LOT safer because Dark/Dark is monstrous anyway.

This is purely anecdotal evidence with no scientific backing whatsoever, but for me, I'm enjoying my Defender far more than I did my corruptor because the higher debuff numbers are more important to me versus doing better damage on a team. I'd say try something like a Rad/ or Dark/ primary and see if it's your cup of tea.

The damage bonus slides because the AT modifier slides, but after 22 you'll have a good idea of whether or not it's fast enough for you. For me it's just right.

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