Grey Pilgrim

I've wondered if they were working on something to that effect for awhile. I do hope it happens eventually.

Not sure what to think of all this... I'll probably have to wait to play these a bit to see if I like them. I am a little leery of larger team requirements, as I like to be able to do things whenever and even with a small group of people. TFs are sometimes a little big, even, but they fit the bill quite well.

I am still trying to figure out how any team should be able to do these trials, but they will still be a challenge... and non-alpha people can do them as well. That's a rather broad range. I'll be curious to see how this goes with PUGs as well. Hopefully better than queue systems for WoW... most PUGs I joined there did not do well on their various challenges.

Looking at the Very Rare boost level for Musculature in Mid's, I beg to differ. My En/En Blaster is not going to be nice to the mobs with that buff going. We're talking about 100 more damage from Nova, 80 more from Total Focus, and 40 from Power Burst. That adds up, and I will take it.

Spiritual is going to be great for my Dual Pistols Blaster, though. He has Aid Self, and as you noted in your later post, the alpha slot can help his healing and recharge, so it helps him to recover and do damage more often with his best powers. I may or may not go to the very rare level with him, though, as the recharge bonus isn't that noticeable (two seconds faster for Build up and HoB).

You may be right... I don't know the proc well. It does have a chance to fire with each target for sure, which means that it's likely going to go off when used on a mob... near guaranteed recharge can be nice in that situation.

Do we know what this pack is going to cost? Kind of curious, as it does seem to have more than other packs... but maybe I'm not sure how many pieces were in the magic, etc., packs.

It does seem like a decent pack if you like the animal theme. I don't really have any characters like that, though, so I'm out of luck on this one. Probably for the best though, as otherwise I'm sure I'd be grousing about why unique things to the game like a different run mode, so many costume pieces, etc., are not being added to the game without an issue.

As usual... I'm hoping we keep seeing good costume additions with each issue, or these packs will start to really rub me the wrong way.

And even then, it depends on what you mean by insanely good. I enjoy almost all the fire sets, but there are pros and cons to all of them. I'm sure he's looking at the good offense numbers for Fire as well, which are there for a reason. I'll take the extra mitigation most other sets have over that, usually. I actually ending up rolling a Fire/Fire Dom instead of a Blaster, more because of the extra mitigation than anything. I like a little mitigation for my Blasters.

For the rest of your post, I would agree. Sets need to perform well enough, but they don't have to be a top set, either. I could almost see the devs thinking they don't want to make any new sets clearly the best, as there would be just as many, if not more complaints, about that.

Whoops, I remember thinking they were procs. Never mind, then.

You're kind of dissing the ability of the animators for the game. They could use the exact same animations and have people be annoyed, sure, or they could lengthen how long some of them take to attack (Empty Clips would make more sense to fire off more rounds, anyway... I seem to recall the MM one only firing 3-4 shots), add in another move to the animation that was still not too "flashy," etc.

I'm sure they would aim for the latter things, which is probably why they weren't done. Someone decided it was more work than they have time for. I think it's unfortunate and would question that judgment, but it is what it is. And who knows, maybe they didn't have time to do it so Dual Pistols could be a pre-order perk, and haven't had time since to add those in.

Little known secret, those can proc off of each target hit, for some crazy temporary recharge. Can't recall if that's WAI, or just something they haven't gotten around to fixing yet.

Me, I'm using the -res proc and prefer that myself. Once my build is done, I don't feel like I'm going to need a lot more recharge, personally. Doing more damage on hard targets is more appealing to me.

I'm rather surprised they couldn't figure out a way to do it when developing the set, or at least adjusting the pistols attacks from the Thugs set as needed to make it work. They know we want alternate animations for just about everything, and they already had some to hand. Why not do it, even with just those three they had? Mystifying.

But yes, I like the animations just fine as they are. It'd be fun to see what else they could come up with, though. Even a trick coin shot for Bullet Rain could be interesting (Xenosaga did it, why can't CoH?).

I believe mine were slower than usual. Comparing numbers probably isn't that helpful, since your connection, other work on your network, etc., can affect that as well.

Unknown means they're getting close to being back up, silly. And it's not like starting five minutes late (or ten) makes things a loss. Such a doomer all of a sudden!

Yeah, that sounds kind of busy.

Supposedly the servers will be back up soon so we can start on time for Isos, but we'll see. Think I need to update my game first as well.

? Who wasn't taking this into account earlier? I know some people did, me included. It still is going to depend on where you want to go overall with your build, no matter what.

There's no Shivan requirement to do any content in CoH or CoV. It's just Satanic Hamster latest thing to talk about.

Why is that odd? It encourages running of all levels of content, something CoH has been known for, what with Orobouros and all. If the Strike Target is just going to be a cycling of the 45+ TFs, they have a lot of incentive already. They're obviously going to use those, but only using those would be a mistake, in my opinion.

Yeah, if they ever do the lower level stuff... I doubt Katie Hannon is ever going to get it... especially if they want to keep things somewhat on a level playing field between red and blue sides.

As for the 50 TF thing... yeah. At best, I don't think I would get that for a year or two... I only have enough time for TFs every week. I bet Death Conqueror twitched a bit when he saw that one.

I thought it was going to be in the MotD as well. Nothing on the launcher right now.

Bah, my Fiery Aura Tanker never died on that part of Apex. Dark Armor is clearly just weaker than Fiery Aura! Mwahahaha!

I might have had a few buffs on me and had enough time to proactively use Healing Flames and pop an orange inspiration, though. Maybe.



For the OP, it's hard to say without knowing a bit more about your build and exact conditions you are seeing. The +40 game is more challenging than other parts of CoH, remember, so you do have to adapt and build for that more than other parts of the game. It's also helpful to have good tactics... you usually want to avoid triple pulls, anyway, given the aggro cap and other things like that. Teams can work on more than that, but it is harder to do.

Well, depends on what you mean by better. You're doing all of 20 damage more per hit, but with your accuracy boost more than halved. Recharge and Endurance aren't improved that much either (not that Scorch needs much in either).

For me, the accuracy is much better, as I want Scorch to hit when I want it to hit. But either way, you're at least getting a max hp boost, which is nice when you get enough of those together. Just wish Healing Flames was affected by having a higher max hp.

Anyway, like I said, just have a good end goal and make sure you get there. The extra defense is nice on your build, but I didn't want to short Scorch too much on the accuracy.

Looks like they are putting it in the Announcements section, so no need to roam around looking for it. Though it sounds like people were impatient for them to put it up earlier.

I think this is a good idea, especially if they encourage lower level TFs with it. Those 45+ ones have a lot of encouragement already, what with shards, etc. If not, it's not going to do all that much. Though it might encourage some people to try out some TFs they haven't done much. I've personally been avoiding the STF with the new Incarnate stuff, not sure why. So GP is going for it this weekend, I guess.