GavinRuneblade

If you care about the roleplaying aspect of it enough to avoid missions, but not so much to be willing to rewrite the discussion for yourself, then that is the price you are choosing to pay.

My alternate solution is to pay other players to start missions for you so they are your employees and servants. That works well too. And it's fun.

I agree on reducing the killing it takes to make the banners vulnerable, and making the banners a bit more killable themselves (5% shift ought to be plenty, not a big change). But more importantly, some kind of in-event clue for people to spread out and hunt at all banners to make them vulnerable, and then another to gather on one banner at a time. It would go a long way.

I think it was either the last week in May or the first June (this year 2010) there were four simultaneous supernatural events going on Virtue. So, clearly it is not suppressing.

Just this long weekend I hit an event in Mercy Island, then within minutes joined one in Grandville.

They don't bother me as toggles. I do wish they had shorter activation times so I could turn them on faster. But I use them quite a bit.

As clicks I wouldn't take them because no enemy would survive long enough for them to be relevant. As a toggle, I can use them when I need to scrap for a while, or while escorting a kidnapee and I can't be stealthed, or when in a team and the -tohit benefits everyone.

But I also have so much I want to fit into stalker builds that having skippable powers doesn't bug me. =)

Doesn't take you out of your way at all. You have to actively pursue the contacts. You have to travel often all the way across a zone, then all the way back to the contact, sometimes more than once before getting a cell number. Occasionally you have to leave a zone, though thankfully this is rarer than blueside. What I am suggesting is significantly LESS work and LESS effort than standard play and not going out of your way at all. Hell, you barely have to leave the immediate area of the market and/or your VG portal.

This is why most other games have bosses with vastly more dynamic powers that CoH uses. For example, powers that when they hit move the target down the aggro list (or remove all aggro from the target entirely). Shapeshifts and Multi-stage fights where the boss completely changes powers between stages. AoEs with radius larger than the range on heals and blasts so squishies can't stay out of them, but not so many of these that the squishies are in constant danger and the tank is meaningless. Actions that must be performed simultaneously to turn off a power/effect. Terrain with significant impact on the fight. Waves that are significant, not just "ambushes while the boss stands in one place", by significant I mean change the powersets and/or tactics used up to that point in the fight.

And personally, on the carnies, the biggest change I would LOVE to see is implementing PvP phase rules so when they phase, I can phase and still hit them. I'd love that.

Or you can take Burke for your level 1 contact, avoid all the arachnos agent contacts, run primarily newspapers and street hunting, plus write your own AE arcs. At 45, do exactly the bare minimum (3 arcs for 1 contact) working with Arachnos for the experience of beating down first one of the second-tier lieutenants, then one of the patron, then Recluse himself just to prove your superiority to Arachnos.

You can also join people on their arcs on your own terms, including using Inf to hire people to start arcs for you as if you were the contact and they were minion. I have a villain on Virtue who enjoys this and gets decent responses.

In reality, the softcap obsession is mostly relevant to those who are thinking of AV soloing without inspirations/temps. If you are willing to pop a purple, getting 35% defense is good enough, especially on a budget.

Good to know. Thanks!

That's amazing, my DM/DA at 20 hits exactly as much as it should be hitting. You'd almost think Dark is working as intended. But that can't be right.

Note: the above may have included sarcasm.

As a stopgap, use the sucky proc where you can. There are a ton of them on the market and they are cheap enough that you can use them as a placeholder to get the set bonus then just slot right over them once you get the triple. And if you are using any powers as setmules, might as well leave in the proc, because who cares right?

My understanding was that no mobs have toggles. They only have click powers that duplicate the effects of toggles.

Efficiency. A luck of the gambler is over 100 million for 7.5% recharge. Haste is 1 slot for 70% recharge. But if you are missing out on over 30 seconds of downtime that 70% effectively drops lower and lower.

This. At the end of the day, it's a game, you're supposed to have fun.

I haven't played it, but I can confirm there is at least one listed as "medium" length.

on my BS/Regen I tried using Phase Shift as a backup MOG, so I had two clickies where I could regen like a fiend safely. It turned into just another power I would forget to use when I needed it, but the few times I did remember, it worked well enough.