Grey Pilgrim

You should be pretty solid, though mobs with a lot of psychic damage might hurt a bit. I know they're rare, but I don't like being nervous about facing any one group. Cimerorans probably are a bit nerve-wracking solo no matter what Fiery Aura does (if you're fighting a lot at once), because of their defenses and defense debuff. Having about 20-25% defense to all makes a noticeable difference in what punishment I can take, and I always notice it when Grey Pilgrim loses his. And I do notice their defense... they dodge Burn's first hit more often and my other attacks, and I'd rather they went down first.

I've never found Assault to be all that great. I'll sometimes pick it up on support toons, but not very often even then. Leadership is an end hog and there are usually other good powers out there to take. For Fire/Fire, I have to think that another power would help more. Even Rise of the Phoenix has its uses, and I'd rather that over 11% more offense. Bonuses I can get from sets and Fiery Embrace are enough for me usually (and Build up if you can fit it in: it'll be easy to get both when Fitness becomes inherent).

I should remind my wife that I want the hero version of the City of Heroes t-shirts for Christmas. That and an XKCD hoodie. Hehe.



You had a game time card you didn't use? Do you have too much money, or something? This reminds me of a friend of mine from high school that would regularly find $20 in his jacket pocket that he had forgotten he even had. I've never had enough cash around to be able to forget about it like that.

Really? I could have sworn they were not, as I was annoyed at how much my Fiery Aura Tank's resistance dropped when one of those was used. I didn't have Tough running, but I think he lost about half of his resistance... from 49% or something to 27% (it's been awhile right now and I can't recall the exact numbers). I was told then that the grenades were unresistable, as it seemed ridiculous to me (I've only been running defense characters redside, so I hadn't noticed it that much, just heard people complain about it).

Well, it's quite true that Regen has other tools at its disposal, which is a good thing. And you CAN make it through periods where your Regeneration is completely neutered (though it can make things more difficult). However, it is a little ridiculous that this can even happen. I don't think it's completely beyond the pale for someone playing a set called Regeneration, which has a major characteristic of regenerating damage, to expect the set to be able to resist a debuff to that major characteristic.

And mobs that do it can hurt you in other ways with slows, etc., too. Which definitely means Regen is getting hit where it hurts in all ways. Regeneration certainly does need weaknesses (and I think its main one is alpha strike damage), it's more of a question to me where having its regeneration ability completely removed by even one power seems ridiculous. -res debuffs that were irresistible were also ridiculous.

It's obviously a little difficult to argue some of this, since CoX does let you challenge so many foes at once, and Scrappers in particular are quite strong, even with their "weaker" sets. However, I would like to see a design challenge cooked up for our abilities that didn't involve something being irresistible or bypassing a set's major characteristic. When you get into that territory, it's far too easy for people to think it's unfair or lame.

I don't mind Reichsman being undefeatable until you use that one power on him, as we get a tool to deal with him. With how -regen powers work, it's just the way it is. Yes, you can use your click heals still, but it still smacks of as a lame "the computer is cheating!" trick, rather than being an actual challenging foe.

That's kind of unfortunate. I assumed there was some way to do this, especially since your starting contact specifically mentions being able to go undercover. Marchand or Scott should suggest doing something to get the other side's attention, or something. It's not clear as is.

Sharkhead seems to be the location of choice to pick up a tip in a short period. I usually just get one in progress from when drops while I run a regular story arc, but it does seems a good choice. Hopefully too many people will not be doing that, though, or it might get hard to find Scrapyarders!

I did not know that. Cool. Not super sure how to use those numbers to find people, though. I'm better off with distances from neighborhood markers, etc.