Ideon

Shadow Shard being opened up to villains - Arachnos, having made a pact with Vanguard in the Tin Mage TF have to co-operate with both Longbow and Vanguard AND the US military to set up a buffer zone in the shadow shard to help stop the Rularuu infestation (i.e. co-op zone stuff)

New enemy types - maybe something Lovecraftian in nature - how about seeing what the Praetorian Devouring Earth looks like?

New NPCs - where's the new War Witch the original prophesied about in the comics during her covenspace? Will she have a new name? Will she be Apex's sidekick and look up to him like a fangirl with him being mildly uncomfortable about it? How about Horus? And how about an updated model of Apex with War Witch's sword in a scabbard on his back?

More alternate animations please!

More hairstyles!

Level 50 Task Forces (hero side) are...

Dr. Kahn Task Force (Founder's Fall, level 45-50)
Statesman's Task Force (Independence Port, level 45-50)
Sara Moore Task Force (Cascade Archipelago, level 40-50)
Justin Augustine Task Force (The Chantry, level 44-50)
Faathim the Kind Task Force (The Chantry, level 44-50)
Mender Silos Task Force (Ouroboros, level 46-50)


As for Strike Forces (villain side)...

Lord Recluse Strike Force (Grandville, level 45-50)
Barracuda Strike Force (Grandville, level 45-50)
Mender Silos Strike Force (Ouroboros, level 46-50)


Shared Task Forces (both sides)

Imperious Task Force (Cimerora, level 35-50)
Lady Grey Task Force (Rikti War Zone, level 45-50)
Apex Task Force (Rikti War Zone, level 50)
Tin Mage Mark II Task Force (Rikti War Zone, level 50)

My sole gripe is I want the MVAS to attack enemies with non-effecting attacks, i.e. it will fire lasers and whatnot at enemies, but they don't do any damage or status effects at all, haha.

Hrm, my two accounts are scheduled for renewal on Feb 29th and March 4th. If I cancel subscription, and then immediately sign up again for six months each, would that prevent any interruption time?

Thinking about gutting my fire/kin controller, I just made him for a laugh, and threw IOs and HOs into his build. I'm starting to want those Acc/Dam HOs back, haha.

Fire does slightly more damage according to Mids, due to extra damage being Fire's 'secondary effect', I guess, haha.

Dark is just pure DoT damage, while Elec adds -End, allowing it to slowly drain endurance from foes. Bit weird how Dark's aura doesn't do mild -ToHit, but oh well.

Before Issue 5, Fire/Device Blasters were awesome because you six slot attack powers for all damage, using Targeting Drone to raise your accuracy... one day, I'll go back to my neglected level 30 Blaster and push him to 50. Why haven't I deleted him? He's my first ever alt when I started playing City of Heroes.

Currently playing a super neglected Issue 8 BS/Dark Scrapper...

Dark Armor sucks up a lot of endurance due to its many toggles. Without good slotting, it will always take up lots of endurance, unfortunately.

If you have some time, do some tip missions to affirm your alignment (i.e. hero tips), and then go for some A-merits, so you can get low level Miracle: Recovery, Numina: Regen/Recovery, Theft of Essence: Chance for Endurance, and possibly a Performance Shifter: Chance for Endurance. Remember to get the lowest level ones so you can slot them sooner.

Miracle and Numina go into Health, Performance Shifter will be the fourth slot in Stamina, and Theft of Essence goes into Dark Regeneration.

Bear in mind that although doing it this way will barely cost you anything (in fact, just the salvage, which can be got with AE tickets if you don't wanna pay the superhigh costs it can sometimes reach on the market, and low level crafting cost), it will take time (two days to affirm, after that two days per A-merit). Three of the IOs I listed are all at least 75 million plus inf at the lowest levels on the market if you were to go the option of bidding for them, which is why I prefer A-merits for the ones I do want (plus I feel uncomfortable handing over 100 million inf in one go to some random person I don't know, haha).

However, it doesn't mean you have to do it all at once, just do it at your own pace. Remember your other characters can do tip missions for A-merits to get their own recipes, and pass them by email (send it to your global name, remember to add the @) to the character you wish to have it on.

I find that villain side tip missions tend to go a bit faster than hero side tip missions, although that may just be me, hehe.

Doesn't the Kismet unique have to be slotted into a passive/toggle to make full use of it so it can be 'always on'? If you put it in Parry, it will only start being active after using Parry once, which might not help on the initial hit. Wouldn't it be better putting the slot it uses into one of the defense toggles or Combat Jumping (if you have it)?

If the build you're interested in has strange power/level selections (like *ugh* Tactical Training: Maneuvers taken at level 49), simply change the levels at which you pick them (i.e. pick up Tactical Training: Maneuvers as soon as it's available!). It will basically involve you using Mids to recreate the build visually, but you pick the powers for when you want to take them as you level. :3 Substitute the IO sets with SOs or IOs as you prefer when actually playing, remembering that they probably won't be permanent (unless you start early IO sets at around level 33 onwards, depending on which sets, such as say, Positron's Blast).

The real (and major) difference between levelling builds and respec builds (actually, they're probably better known as "Post-respec builds", but eh) isn't in power choices, but at what levels you picked the powers.

Ugh, now I want to level up my lowbie BS/DA and BS/Shield scrappers who have been like that since issue 8 and 15, haha.

I blame this thread!