Intrinsic

A while ago I played an ice/elec blapper up to 50. While I eventually abandoned the blapper concept, electric manipulation was well-suited to the task. It had some great melee attacks, plus Power Sink to replace the endurance which that character burned through at an enormous rate.

A bit more recently I played an elec/kin tanker up to 50+incarnate. I chose electric armor because I wanted a set with excellent resists, my reasoning being that defense was easier to acquire by other means. The result was a real beast of a tanker, one that could easily tank any task force or trial, without having to contend with the damage or movement penalties found in the stone armor set.

I never really liked sapping though. If I needed damage mitigation or crowd control, it was usually to blunt the enemies' alpha strike or to lock down a bad situation immediately. 'Hard' controls always seemed more effective in typical encounters. And endurance drain ran into the same resist problems that most debuffs had versus AVs and monsters.

Still, it was very feasible to enjoy playing electric characters without getting into sapping.

No. I don't believe NCSoft will sell CoH to another party, and expect them to C&D any open attempts at emulated servers. I'd like to be wrong, but I don't think that I am.

My understanding was that Codemasters lost the license to publish the game in the West, and was forced to shut down it's servers. The Korean developer was never shut down, and AFAIK the game was still operating in Asia. It's good news for RF fans (if they even exist; I thought the game was terrible), but I don't think the situation is analogous to that of CoH.

My revenge scheme is to buy GW2, and maybe Blade & Soul. That'll show 'em!!!

I wasn't interested in Mission Architect, and I saw very little else from I14 to I18 to make me want to resub. Sure, they made some QoL improvements, and I think some power proliferation, but there wasn't much new to do, and I didn't want to just keep running the same old content. Judging by the revenue numbers, I'm thinking that I wasn't the only one who felt this way.

I've seen a fair number of catgirls and various scantily-clad characters running around CoH too, and I don't even play on Virtue. I understand that you folks are looking for reasons to hate Blade & Soul, but mind the hypocrisy.

They probably haven't worked out those details yet. I'm doubtful that it will happen at midnight though, more likely in the afternoon or evening. IIRC that would be in line with other MMO's that NCSoft has cancelled.

Oh, one thing:

Since I stopped playing CoH a couple of months ago, I've been playing Tera. I doubt that I'll stay with it long-term though; the combat is a lot of fun, but the community is terrible.

After that, I don't know. For the last few years, I've pretty much been an MMO tourist. CoH was the only one to which I'd keep returning. I don't really see a replacement for CoH in the foreseeable future either. I'll probably just end up spending much less time playing MMO's.

My fire/time corruptor's current chain is Blaze -> Fire Blast -> Flares. When I24 hits I'll probably drop Flares for the snipe, giving me an attack chain of Blaze -> Blazing Bolt -> Fire Blast. I'd also need to switch my EPP to soul for Power Boost, which would give enough +to hit out of Farsight to meet the reqs. I may also change up some of my IO sets, since the new attack chain could take advantage of more +recharge. I'm looking at some pretty significant changes actually, depending on how the new fastsnipe works out.

I started out on Freedom. I moved to Pinnacle for a while, and when the SG I was in there died out I moved back. Freedom (still) has a high population, with none of the baggage I associate with a RP server. It's the best fit for me.

Yeah, I've been on three previous badge attempts, and I don't think any of them made it past the first time freeze.

I was thinking about this earlier. Since there is a countdown timer for the obliteration beam, and it appears to center on a random player, maybe we could use a variation on the strategy used to deal with Tyrant's Flow Lightning on the Mag trial. When the countdown timer reaches 5 seconds or so, have everyone (except perhaps the tank) stop attacking and back far away from AM. When the beam starts, everyone can move back in and start attacking AM again. The idea is to make the beam spawn away from AM. Also, stopping attacks several seconds before the beam starts would reduce the chance of dropping AM's HPs below one of the Time Freeze thresholds at a bad moment. At the very least, it would encourage players to be more proactive about avoiding the beam, instead of scrambling to react to the beam once it has started.

I'd like to bring Ion Sky, my fire/fire dom, for this. I even have some leftover Ultimates. I can bring a different character if needed, though this badge seems more about timing and paying attention than anything else.

I'd like to join. I can bring my fire/fire dom, Ion Sky. The dom has Assault (leadership) & Maneuvers, T4 musculature, reactive, rebirth, and assault (hybrid). No seers yet, but I can craft any lore pet. I'm thinking that one of the pure energy damage pets would outdamage the seers though. Apart from the seers having low overall DPS, the boss only has one attack that does psi damage; the other attack does smashing damage. If my understanding is correct then Tyrant has minimal resists to anything other than S/L, so energy damage wouldn't suffer much of a penalty.

Don't think it's a problem with electric armor in particular. I just don't see a lot of tankers, period. The few that I do see are usually fire or stone armor, and most of the fire tankers appear to be built for farming or DPS instead of tanking as a group role.