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I'm only allowed 1 Defender, right?

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Well?

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I dunno, anyone would think this is my idea! personally I'd go for one of each AT but thats me and my "pokemon" mentality but if you want to do defenders then thats your choice! I'm all for everyone doing what they want in a democracy... I'm currently wallowing in guilt for creating the Radrangers and the Alt Rangers, and the Union Overlords and naming the SNHS and not understanding coalition chat... and I think you'll find ED was my fault too somehow.

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Don't stress yourself! Play Pokemon, that'll confuse you!

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pokemon is easy compared to this

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I'm only allowed 1 Defender, right?

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Well?

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I dunno, anyone would think this is my idea!

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Does this sound familar?

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Well after 479 hours I got Doulos up to level 50 in a mission that saw 5 heroes ding at the same time, it would have been 6 but 5 is still pretty good, I imagine that we have the record for a mass ding as well as people in one mission. Just how many were there, around 30?

J. Brute
Manf
Doctor Nookie
Okton
Inspector Frost

are the 5 who made it.

My next target is along the same lines but a bit more personal, and a LONG way off. I plan on getting a minimum of 3 toons to level 50 within the same mission, I am considering making it 5, one of each AT, but that is a hell of a lot of game play!

I was wondering if anyone else would be up for this silliness, starting now becasue I imagine it would take some co-ordination, but look at it this way, if 4 other people agree to make a go of it with 3 toons we could have a ding of 12 heroes in one mission, surely that would be cool. If we had 8 people doing 5 then we could see 40 heroes ding level 50 within one mission... how cool would that be! Now the obvious mission choice for this would be (cough) dreck and that's a LONG way away from any of my toons.

I have:

Dark GC, Broadsword Regen level 27
Blapper, Energy Energy level 12
Radoulos Prime, Rad Rad level 15
Fire tank Frank, Fire Fire level 7

As yet no troller and no Kheldanian (with khelds in the mix you could have 56 heroes hitting 50 in the mix... oooooohhhh thats like a whole SG!)

If people are up for this team then I will make an SG to stable any toons that people want in there in there so we can check to see how we are doing with levelling, the target being they all stop with about 30k from 50 then we have a mass levelling frenzy.

If no one in interested in this, (and I know many altaholics out there who would be!) then nevermind I'll do it on my own, however if people are up for it then that would be so cool.

YOU WOULD NOT HAVE TO LEAVE YOUR CURRENT SG TO PARTICIPATE, just any alts you want in the stable could be in the stable. 1 Alt in the Stable SG would be essential though so you could monitor progress of others.

So whose coming?

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I'm currently wallowing in guilt for creating the Radrangers and the Alt Rangers, and the Union Overlords and naming the SNHS and not understanding coalition chat... and I think you'll find ED was my fault too somehow.

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To quote Aero:

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It's Doulos' fault!

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heheheh I'm a right little stinker

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and so marks the end of the ALT Rangers and Rad Rangers.........

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That is disappointing.

Is it true?

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Only if you want it to be... Halo stop being a pessimist! We're going for a world record here!!!

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until you come up with your next brillant idea

Union Overlords created by Doulos - Doulos doesn't play his controller, kept alive by new leaders
ALT Rangers created by Doulos - Status inactive
Rad Rangers created by Doulos - Status inactive
Alternators created by Doulos - Status currently active....until....
................created by Doulos

starting to see a pattern here?

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Lol, i'll keep him in check on this one

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hmph someone needs to

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That'd be like hearding cats...

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Hmm this is turning into a ziggarat, I think I might call it Doulos' Ziggarat of babel - it tries to reach heaven but never gets there

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and so marks the end of the ALT Rangers and Rad Rangers.........

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That is disappointing.

Is it true?

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Only if you want it to be... Halo stop being a pessimist! We're going for a world record here!!!

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until you come up with your next brillant idea

Union Overlords created by Doulos - Doulos doesn't play his controller, kept alive by new leaders
ALT Rangers created by Doulos - Status inactive
Rad Rangers created by Doulos - Status inactive
Alternators created by Doulos - Status currently active....until....
................created by Doulos

starting to see a pattern here?

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Lol, i'll keep him in check on this one

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hmph someone needs to

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and so marks the end of the ALT Rangers and Rad Rangers.........

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That is disappointing.

Is it true?

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To include the alternators SG in the PR coalition list, something has to give.

I suggested to Doulos that the RadRangers be absorbed into the SNHS SG, so the evil swine went and made me the leader of RR... GIT!

So, before anything is done, can all RadRangers pass on their opinions as to whether or not to disband the SG and join SNHS by PM or forum post. I won't do anything before Sunday night at the earliest and until I get several responses back.

I personally would like to keep the alt rangers going, and will be keeping Broad Head in there.

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I've already decided to move Pion into SNHS and debating whether or not to move my fire blaster into Precision Rangers with the full stop set up by Shynet.

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and so marks the end of the ALT Rangers and Rad Rangers.........

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That is disappointing.

Is it true?

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Only if you want it to be... Halo stop being a pessimist! We're going for a world record here!!!

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until you come up with your next brillant idea

Union Overlords created by Doulos - Doulos doesn't play his controller, kept alive by new leaders
ALT Rangers created by Doulos - Status inactive
Rad Rangers created by Doulos - Status inactive
Alternators created by Doulos - Status currently active....until....
................created by Doulos

starting to see a pattern here?

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I'll agree with Synaesthetix on this one. The sheer amount of health regeneration in the /regen set will be dificult to counter. If the scrapper doesn't have any acc slotted in his attacks you might last long enough to take him, but don't bet on it. /regen are survival experts, and unless you can beat him before his regenerative clickies recharge, your going to be there for a long long time.

Edit: I don't have any numbers to back this up, and only experience with en/en blaster, so take this with a pinch of salt.

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Hence why Chives keeps challenging the Rangers - because of his powersets and his build, he knows that we'll run out of endurance quicker than he loses health due to any damage we can dish out.

Before you've even started the battle he's going to win because of his build not just because of his ability at PvP (and he is good at PvP).

It would be more interesting to challenge him to a one on one with you both on lv 1 en/en blasters with the same powers.

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And talking of closing in - or moving away, for that matter - you're going to be hampered with your choice of travel power. The nature of attacks in Spines - -Fly, and some ranged - mean you're going to be spending a lot of time grounded and moving damned slowly, unless you've slotted Sprint and Hurdle. A lack of mobility makes you an easy target for anyone who knows what they're doing.

The biggest problem with Spine/Regen for a */Energy Blaster/Blapper, however, isn't in their -Fly/Immob attacks, it isn't their regen rate - it's Resilience (auto disorient res). If you're not planning on changing your build, though, that really doesn't affect you.



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A good example of the inherent inbalance in PvP - if you happen to be lucky, your opponent's build beats yours, if you're unlucky theirs beats yours. A bit like rock, scissors, paper.

Reminds of the time during the Brighton Comic Con when I fought Healing Kitten on his empath against my tank - any damage I did he healed, any damage he did was too small to worry me. So we ended up in a stalemate - I highlighted this to the moderators and there was not much they could say - in fact they struggled to come up with a PvP battle where everyone could have an even footing. If you happened to have the strongest character (in terms of power sets and build) at the time you would eventually win.

They came up with a tank PvP which I can't remember if Max Power won, but it was pretty boring watching 5 tanks stand next to each other and try to beat the [censored] out of each other.

The only truly balanced PvP will come from everyone having the same AT and same build, which isn't going to happen.

and so marks the end of the ALT Rangers and Rad Rangers.........

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Shnyet, I'm all for strip joints. Must confess too many years of oggling Marvel's female beauties inspired me to utilise a mutant-strip club.

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hmm maybe we should set up a 5 man POWER team

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Erm... I did already



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nope I meant 5 of us playing at the same time in an AT team

Doulos from the Precision Rangers on Union or Synaesthetix will be the best people to ask.

Just out of interest are you planning on PvP, PvE or a mix of both?

I was testing out some binds for Deluge and managed to get 4 powers activated via 2 macros.

Cut and paste the following into the chat window using ctrl+v

/macro 1 “say Sniping $target$$powexec_auto Aim$$powexec_name Build Up$$bind e powexec_tray 2 9”

/macro 2 “powexec_name Sniper Blast$$powexec_auto Hasten$$bind e powexec_tray 1 9”

For some reason when the macro button shows up it only contains part of the command so you have to go into edit macro and replace whats in there using ctrl+v again.

This gives you 2 macro buttons on your power tray put macro 1 into power slot 1 on tray 9 and macro 2 into slot 2.

When you press e, your character will say in whatever channel you are using at the time "sniping <whatever you have targetted>", build up will fire off and aim will be switched to auto fire, wait a couple of seconds for the autofire to hit aim then press e again and then your character will fire sniper blast and autofire goes back to hasten (I have this on auto fire - you can swap it for whatever power you normally have on autofire)

Press e again and the whole cycle repeats itself.

You can get build up, aim and sniper blast to fire with one key press and depress but that involves setting up some bind files and I got bored with it last night so I'll probably post it next week.

here's the US version for comparison:

Citybinder Thread

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...and those of you who know me and my toons will be SHOCKED to find out that my Khelds are gonna be spandex wearing cape flapping nancys!

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Only if they are female, 6 feet tall, and have names with the word "Star" in it.

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Nah, but I might make them female, however I like Walter and Percy as names for them... so that doesn't work, that said you don't see a lot of Scapegoat esk Khelds running around so maybe its back to the drawing board... my daughter would be happy if I actually played a female toon... might make them 8ft tall for the hell of it!

Might not take Trick arrow on troller either... only cause of the time it takes to animate... but grav looks so fun!

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Grav/rad FTW!!

hmm maybe we should set up a 5 man POWER team

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Bah Halo, the amount of alts you have it could push the number into the 100s! I wanna get all my toons up to level 22 by the end of feb at the latest, which will take some doing... but 1 is past that 2 are over half way and the other 3 should be ok. TFs FTW, start Posi at level 10 finish it at level 15! Boring but effective...

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nope quickest way is Synapse, got my PB up to 14 over 3 nights without really trying.

Get all your chars to 15 then keep doing synapse again and again (or just keep doing the first mission again and again - it tends to be in steel), that's what I used to do with my alts, all you need is a friendly fire tank with plasma shield to take the aggro

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My PB/WS I know nothing!!! I freely admit that I know NOTHING about how to work them, am I right in thinking that:

Squid = uber blaster
Tanky thing = semi tanker
Human = all rounder

the more forms the less powers??? I know nothing about how they work, just cause I wanna look different to all other PBs and Warshades I'm tempted to go all human with them but I don't know the problems this may cause...

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Human form is basically a blaster with shields - more blasts and less melee attacks - to compensate for this they give us some holds and heals.

Dwarf form is like a tanker and is all melee attack, also increased endu recovery

Nova form is uber blaster like but very squishy though with cool AOE and cone attacks, also quick endu recy

I'm going for a human form but having the Nova (no suppression on flight!!) and Dwarf (to compensate for squishyness and lack of melee in the human form) in my build for situational events and quick endu recovery

have a play with it - they're good fun, a WS might be more your thang due to the TPing and stealth (i think)

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well deluge has signed up 21 heroes!!! wow...

Halo, Mr. Alt himself, are you going to join us on this?

Masters of the Altiverse is cool but the Big Ding-A-Ling is still my favourite! It says what the whole group is about. Rad and Blapper will be staying with their SGs but my other 5 will be in this SG (for story sake) and we can have an SG thread to keep everyone up to day on where we are.



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Nope, after 10 months of messing around with alts and finally getting a lv 50, I've decided to rotate my time between Halo and Halo Darkstar (the PB), anyway all my char slots are now full on defiant and union (had to use the test server last night to try out a concept char) - haven't got the time to get them all up to 50 together

Alt Masters

Masters of the Altiverse

Alt Rangers (Oh no, we've already had this one )

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Name ideas: None suggested, working title, The BIG Ding

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Big Ding a Ling

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LMAO, genius!

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ahem, serious suggestion now, how about:

Union Power Gamers ?

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Name ideas: None suggested, working title, The BIG Ding

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Big Ding a Ling

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Are you saying that you want to ding 3 of your chars to 50 simultanously in the same mission or one after the other on the same night?

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Thats how I read it too.

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See Aero agrees with me

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Are you saying that you want to ding 3 of your chars to 50 simultanously in the same mission or one after the other on the same night?

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at one point, now I am saying I want to successively ding 7 toons to level 50 in one mission, completing a stable of 8 level 50s on the union with the the global chat handle Doulos. Simletaneous cannot be done, but we could in theory have 7 simletaneous dings of 8 heroes...

This is a long haul but would be SO cool!

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I know simultaneously can't be done that's why I asked the question because it wasn't clear at first.

Best way to do this is to rotate your chars round each night, that's what I normally do with my alts, see what's in demand that night - sometimes people want a controller sometimes they want a healer sometimes they want a tank...oh no since the NERFS no one wants a tank anymore

Are you saying that you want to ding 3 of your chars to 50 simultanously in the same mission or one after the other on the same night?

*cough* and what Doulos forgot to say was:

"A special mention must go out to Halo and Chillblaze, 2 Rangers who I started my early career as an Ranger with and whose awesome blasting skills have saved me from faceplanting on several occasions, I love you guys "

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Ah D, don't mention it buddy heheh

anyhow, great story and well done on coordinating the multi-dinging last night.

Sorry I didn't wait but as I explained it was a combination of tech problems and not wanting to make a promise I wasn't sure that I could make

BTW this story ties in nicely with the backstory I came up with for my MM in beta:

Reverant info

gratz on being the first pure ranger to go from 1-50 in the SG, a very sizable achievement matey, very sizable..