Golden_Avariel

I used to keep my globals on the same middle tab as the help channel so I could easily hide or reveal them as needed. But Help has been so annoying lately that I've either removed it from the tab or moved the globals to another tab. The Op makes me a little ashamed of that move. I should probably reach out more too.

I agree there should be something in the announcement about where to find the contact however, knowing it was level 30-40 caused me to assume it was FF or Bricks for the hero contact. Since I happened to be in Ouro when I logged in I went to FF first, pulled up the map and found him right away. I used the same logic to find the 2nd arc's contact in Talos.

I expect the villain-side contact will be in Nerva or St. Martial.

If the next arc is level 40-50 then I'll be looking in PI and Grandville.

I only have a problem with it if the death was particularly gruesome or humiliating, which as far as I can tell Alexis' was not (Katie on the other hand suffered a fate worse than death, at least for her). To me a WIR is not necessarily how many get killed but how they are killed.

It was sad, and I hate it when anyone dies in the game, but it didn't seem overly violent or gratuitous. I've only done the hero-side and I'm really itching to do the villain side because I have SO many questions left.

First rule of the hero - keep that mask on!

I really wish they would change the old crashing nukes to act more like all the nukes they've created in the last few years.

Just had this exact problem. I've changed a lot of costumes today and his was the first that wouldn't change (no charge, no error, no change). He has mace mastery and a weapon. I wonder if that has to do with it.

I sent in a support ticket.

In my continuing effort to get my 50's immortalized in artwork, I present Midday Chill (ice/ice dom villain semi-reformed as an ice/cold controller hero) by Mark Williams (and many thanks to Comrade Hero for showcasing this artist).



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There's no real reason that I'm aware of for the setting or pose, just whimsy. It was Mark's idea to have her balancing on the bear's back, I initially wanted her riding it but she does look more like she's about to jump into the action this way.

I love that she's looking over the top of her shades.

You can see the in-game Midday Chill in my signature, at least for a little while before I change the link.

Well it isn't like 8k is all she's ever going to earn before 50 but I hear you. I resisted sending money to my latest controller and got to around 15th level just selling and using what dropped and buying TO's and DO's as I could afford them. She played fine up to that point but afterwards it became progressively harder to slot meaningful enhancements or feel particularly effective in a team. Eventually around level 20 or so she got a lucky recipe drop which sold for several million on the market and things got a lot better.

I had the exact same experience on my newest dominator and he had the benefit of getting a lot of candy canes last winter so he got into the 20's before starting to hurt for cash. Then a kb protection recipe dropped for a few million and he was back on easy street until he blew most of it at 22 replacing everything with SO's.

But canes and recipes are only valuable on the market, not the vendors. I don't know what you do in the upper teens and especially in the early twenties if you don't have access to the market. Scrape by slotting only your most important powers I guess. Inventions help a lot since they don't have to be replaced every few levels but f2p players don't have that either.

BTW - this is the same experience I had when I first started the game before I finally broke down and learned how to use the market. Things haven't really changed since then.

The new Haunted House trial was very cool and fun.

I was only able to get on one successful banner event but that one was fun. It's just hard to get any interest to do it this year.

I haven't been around enough to get in on any GM take-downs unfortunately. I just haven't seen any which is polar opposite of last year where they seemed to be everywhere.

Trick or Treating was as fun as always although I didn't get to do as much on as many characters as I usually do.

You used the exact right word for The Hand's work... magnificent. I can't wait to see the finished piece.

LFG is a selection on the top of your chat bar (where the Team selection is). Select the Events tab and then the House of Horrors trial. It'll try to team you up with 3 others who have done the same. It is usually better to try to form your own 4-man team but I've had pretty good luck putting a 2 or 3 man team in the queue and letting the system automatically add the extra people.

It really is a bummer that you need exactly 4 people to run it but with the exception of not being able to include everyone on every run it has been a blast.

I've noticed some the last few days, last night was really bad (8-10pm central US time). The kind of lag I'm getting is like when you activate a power and it takes 2-4 seconds to actually execute, or a power icon has the activation animation circling around it until the next time I use it, or it shows available but isn't really, etc. I also sometimes get enemies jumping around the room if a lot is going on although that wasn't common. It is like the lite version of a crowded rikti invasion.

It isn't so bad I can't play but it is annoying. I have not had client lockups though.

The fact that any hero or villain could get an alignment merit, even those who had never run a tip mission in their life, was obviously a bug that was eventually going to be fixed. And when it was fixed it was announced in the same way that most changes are announced, on the main COH Patch Notes web page (no forum access necessary):

October 19th Patch Notes

So the announcement is well over a week old and publicly available to those that cared to look.

It is now working like it should have all along - those that qualify to get alignment merits via tips can get them via signature arcs. I'm sorry you didn't get the reward you thought you deserved but Paragon Studios DID in fact disclose the change well before you ran the arc.

I found the bored people but never the person that starts the easter egg. I had a nice, patient stranger join our trio but after a few minutes of searching I started feeling bad for him and we went on into the mansion.

I agree with Chris, all great but RedG's stands out. Nice collection!

I was the team leader for the Faathim and I hated the lack of a "phone." Luckily that character has teleport so I was probably the best choice for those long distances but that trip between the last two missions - Storm Palace to the Chantry and back - was a ... umm... definite oversight that needs fixing. Call it the mental link he is obviously capable of establishing but give us a phone!

I like the Shard TF's. Our SG did all of them right in a row and in order over the course of several months doing a few missions each week. I used the same character for the whole campaign and toward the middle of it, especially after you leave the first zone, you start to feel isolated like a soldier in a foreign war.

It was cool.

I got my token yesterday which is around the time of month (maybe a couple days early) when I would have gotten my vet reward in the past. I was also one of those that got an extra token when 21 went live so I definitely feel like I've gotten everything now.

I expect I'll get my paragon points around the 10th (sliding earlier toward my billing date as time goes on) and my reward tokens around the 26th every month from now on. I'm happy but feel sorry for those that didn't get an extra in September. That seems totally wrong to me.

Those are some great pics, as usual for you. I think I'll be contacting Mr. Williams for Midday Chill.