Kelenar
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Quote:This pretty much sums up why I like DM/Elec/Mu for it. Mine only really needs the ST attacks from Dark. Between Soul Drain, Ball Lightning, and my damage aura, anything below a lieutenant dies without me touching it.Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
I beg to differ. I made a Dark/Elec/Mu (Mu mostly for concept) character for the express purpose of slaughtering Rikti, and most of my kills come from Dark Consumption - the +End power in Dark Melee. Of course, it's at the end of my initial attack chain for a reason, but the fact remains that Soul Drain and Dark Consumption are both potent AoE attacks in and of themselves.
I solo missions at +0x8 for inf and recipe drops, and don't generally use Inspirations.
I use Ball Lightning on a group to get it to notice me, since it's a DoT and interrupts the Commmunications Officers, whereas Taunt just makes them notice you and summon the portals. Then I run and hide like a little girl around a corner somewhere and wait. About half the enemies will run up in melee range, and the other half will stand by the corner and shoot. Once everyone's there, I hop over to the shooting guys and wait for the melee ones to catch up.
Fury's WAY full by now, and sometimes it's a good time for Energize. Pulling out Dark Consumption (which, with my slotting, has 2.35X Accuracy), I usually get the max of 10 targets, which is a huge boost to damage and tohit. Then it's Electrifying Fences and Ball Lightning (which recharges in the time spent herding), then Dark Consumption to refill all the Endurance I used. This usually kills all the minions in the group, and the lieutenants are half-dead. Taking a step back, I fire off Static Discharge (since everyone's immobilized by the fences), then jump back in to finish the job with the melee attacks.
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Quote:Alternatively, put a normal name in there. There are probably a zillion variations on Nuclear Man running around, but Nuclear Eddy sounds like a superhero name too and is probably free on every single server.Originally Posted by Katze
Try putting a word that describes the character in front of the name: Dark, Fiery, Ghostly, Nefarious, Cryptic, Stealthy, Outstanding, Sergeant, Last, Resolute, Mysterious, Iron, Purple, Mythic etc.
Recent names I've picked up on Virtue:
Blazeknight
Cobalt Bomb
Dancing Phoenix
Entropy Dagger
Magatama
Neon Jenny
Rogue Arcanist
Shardwave
Silverbuilt
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Dark/Elec Brute. Screw IOs and tactics. Just find an AV who does primarily energy damage and you win.
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Capslock: Target Nearest Enemy
C: Toggle Sprint
T: Self-Heal/ST Hold (whichever I rely on more.)
Z, ], \: /beginchat [channel name here].
V: Teleport (if I took that as my travel power.)
For Defenders/Corruptors/Controllers:
Numpad#: Target teammate #.
Numpad+ and -: ST buffs.
For Masterminds:
Numpad 1: Select all pets.
Numpad 2: Select ranged pets.
Numpad 3: Select melee pets.
Numpad 4/5/6: Aggressive/Passive/Defensive
Numpad 7/8/9: Attack/Follow/Goto
Numpad +: First pet upgrade.
Numpad -: Second pet upgrade.
G: All melee pets goto.
V: All melee pets attack. -
Quote:This is on my wish list. Most of my characters can handle bosses. A notably smaller subset of those characters can handle bosses every other mob. ... and the characters who can't easily handle certain bosses (I'm looking at you, Master Illusionists) often aren't much better off facing them as lieutenants.Originally Posted by Star_Seer
There should be a way to have a named boss (not lt.) at the end of a mission without having to slog your way through endless bosses to get there.
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Quote:I now know what I'm reading over Christmas.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
novel... that touches on transhumanism, politics and philosophy.
My handle? Uh. Well. Like a zillion years ago when I first got Baldur's Gate as a pseudonerdling, I needed a name for the wizard I rolled up, so I randomly picked Kelenar. Then, later, I got EverQuest and needed a name for my character, and, hey, I already had one laying around. By the time I got to CoH, I'd used it in about six different MMOs and it was just habit. My online friends get confused when I pick anything different. I'm actually forcefully transitioning away from it and using different things when I move to new games/forums, because
1. Every vaguely fantasy-ish name is now used about six times over thanks to WoW.
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Quote:I am now going to express morality in terms of games of Battleship.Originally Posted by Niviene
I tend to do whatever it takes to float my boat and if that means sinking yours to get there, so be it.
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Quote:This sounds about right to me. I know at least that pets don't count, since the first thing I tried upon getting it was throwing out a vet pet to see if it would.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
I think (not sure here) that NPC allies count, but pets do not.
Don't take that as gospel though, I could be wrong. -
Quote:I can second this. My Dark/Elec brute is pretty darn sturdy against Rularuu. Makes some sense, since Electric Armor seems to be designed to be the anti-silver bullet set and Rularuu are trying to be the omni-silver bullet.Originally Posted by Chompie
Spewing up theory here: How about a Dark/Elec Scrapper? (or Elec/Dark Tanker I guess)
Elec has good resistance to Psi, that covers wisps.
Elec has abominably good resistance to Energy, that will laugh off Ranged attacks from Brutes and Eyeballs.
Dark Melee can help mitigate the pain from incoming smashing attacks with -tohit and the godly Siphon life.
Mmm, I want those powersets now. -
Stinky Diver, a former Navy commando with an attitude as bad as his odor.
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Quote:I think folks are undervaluing -def a bit. If you just stick with the equivalent of one SO worth of accuracy (which most of my builds end up at pre-IOs due to slot shortage) then there are huge swaths of the game where you aren't at 95% to-hit. Being able to make your whole team hit 20% more often against entire groups of enemies with things like Irradiate can be hugely helpful. Sure, it doesn't scale that well if you're slotted out with IOs, but it's been pointed out a lot before and I will continue to do so--IO builds actually aren't that common. It can be practically negated by IOs, while you can almost always use more -res or -speed, so I think it could use some attention. But I'd still call it useful for a huge chunk of the game for most players.Originally Posted by Another_Fan
Well it isn't ice's slows or sonic's -res but it comes in useful when planing out your builds. Acc isn't much a problem in IO builds to begin with with archery its just that much smoother. The one nice thing about -def in radiation is you can slot achiles heel procs.
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Quote:I've been known to occasionally just SJ around Founder's hunting snipers for an hour or so. It's good times, and actually decent XP if you're in the right range.Originally Posted by Zekiran_Immortal
Actually teleporting around the rooftops of Founders Falls is one of my favorite things.
Now if only I could get a "sniped the snipers" badge for it...
I noticed how freaking awesome the ninja run was in mercy last night too. -
Quote:You'll take that back when the mental images hit you out of the blue one day.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
Thanks, Kel.
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The Floor Is Made Of Lava: The CoH Version? I approve.
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Quote:Oh god, I'd forgotten that too. My /electric defender always missed out on the nuke wave because my nuke was a targeted AoE instead of PBAoE.Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I had forgotten about the Hami buds. These were the things that used to drop the HamiOs. So you'd get, like, Assault/Traps blasters or whatever stacking piles of mines and queuing up their Novas before Hami died. So there would be a brief lull as people prepared to ninja the loot, and then this huge lag spike just as Hami went down.
And you would have NOTHING.
And some blaster, or otherwise, elsewhere would have a half-tray of HamiOs.
Now that I think about it, I think I did several raids before tiring. Mental block and all. -
Quote:The pet arguments were actually over two things:Originally Posted by brophog02
Too bad stupidity didn't get altered. With Wentworth's now having its lag issues, idiots think that if there are two of you in there, and one of you happens to be running something like steamy mist, shadowfall, etc.........then that person is causing their lag.
Seriously.
1. If there were too many pets out, they could theoretically do too much damage during the Hold phase and cause a raid wipe.
2. People thought that pets added to the (already considerable) server-side lag.
Both actually possible, but probably not too likely to result from three lone imps. That never stopped people from having fifteen minute arguments over them, though. -
Not to go with the crowd, but my first thought upon seeing this was 'GRAVITY CONTROL!' I might only touch it on Doms, though... Controllers can bring enough mitigation from their secondaries to do some interesting things, and having two damaging powers is a lot more helpful for them. (I actually kind of like gravity as it is on controllers with some secondaries.) What I'd really like is for them to invent effects that are the opposite of knockback/repel for gravity, but that's kind of out there.
For individual powers, Serum on Mercenaries. It could probably be made useful without running into the cottage rule, but I'd just as soon turn it into something interesting, since I've never found much need to buff an individual pet's survivability if I'm using my secondary well. -
Quote:Twisted and evil.Originally Posted by BlueBattler
I actually think Lord Recluse is more spider than man, now ...
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Quote:The whole 'balance' thing was only really widespread for a rather short time... since then, I've occasionally heard that version of it called Druidic True Neutral or Balanced True Neutral. In general, True Neutral is just another alignment which just means that, well, the person doesn't lean particularly strongly toward Law/Chaos or Good/Evil. They generally follow the law out of convenience but don't hold it as particularly holy and they don't go on rampages or kill people, but neither do they make huge sacrifices to help people. It's basically the Normal Person Alignment.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
That isn't actually neutral, though, not in D&D terms. Neutral in D&D, from how much I've played, has to do with the balance between good and evil, and is most characteristic of druids, from what I've seen. It's the belief that the world is governed by the balance of nature, and allowing either side to triumph would upset the natural order of things.
Now, of course, I could well be wrong, since the last time I actually dealt with these alignments was in Icewind Dale, and that was operating under the aD&D system. -
Quote:This, seriously. Old Hami raid was so boring that you could set one person to follow and set an attack on auto-fire and perform admirably through a large portion of it. The new ones aren't exactly brain surgery, but I still vastly prefer them. They feel a little bit less like a deliberate attempt to waste my time.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
The old Hamidon was a frikkin' mess. I know people always tout the social aspects, but for me it always sounded like a bunch of 12-year-old telling UR MOM jokes for four hours straight. I'd have turned off my Broadcast if it weren't important to hear the leaders' chat.
And the event itself was absurdly boring if you're not one of the designated few. I brought a Scrapper, so I spent half the time sitting on my hands and half the time lagging out. Literally sitting on my hands. "OK, everyone who doesn't have a hold, just stand back and wait." Yeah, great gaming there.
And with a bazillion people, the lag was epic. Not only did my system grind to a halt even with all the graphics turned down, but the server slowed down, as well. I couldn't see the Hamidon, I couldn't see our effects, I couldn't see more than 20 people (out of 200), powers on a 5-second recharge took a minute to recharge and I essentially spent the last quarter to half of the battle just staring at my combat tab, waiting to see system messages that a power had recharged so I could click it. If there's anything more boring, I don't know what it is.
And to top it all off, not only did people rush out to nuke as many Hamidon Buds as they could (good thing the Hamidon Enhancement were no longer given out by these) but as the raid people stood back in the now empty Hamidon crater, swapping their spoils, someone thought it was very funny to start dragging Monsters into the pit, thus preventing people from trading. And not just a monster or two, mind you. I left after we took down five and had five more coming. I left with most of the raid, in fact.
There was NOTHING about the old raid that I could describe as good. At all.
And the broadcast discussion was usually 80% 'THAT PERSON IS WEARING A CAPE AGH MY VIDEO CARD' and 'SOMEBODY HAS IMPS OUT KILL THE IMPS SOMEBODY HAS IMPS OUT THE IMPS ARE LAGGING US THERE ARE IMPS KILL THEM.' -
A grab bag:
Lawful Evil- Kai-Lian. She was basically made as an experiment to see if I actually could make a lawful evil heroine. She heroes to beat up people (villains!) and take their stuff and because she's very, very lazy. Having to defend herself all the time in a chaotic place like the Isles would just distract her from more important stuff, and she'd probably die, since she's not that great of a combatant. And if she happens to find something during her adventures that give her a legal method to get somebody powerful jailed and buy their equipment on the auction block cheaply, well, who's going to argue?
Chaotic Neutral- Sorrow-Weave. A Shadow Shard native who thinks Ruladak breaking the world is somehow related to her mutant abilities, so she venerates him. Strength is all that matters... so she doesn't really have an agenda beyond 'fight tough people and break stuff.' She could just as easily be a heroine if Paragon weren't so titchy about property damage.
Lawful Good- Magatama. She was sort of an attempt for me to make a more elegant character after a long streak of 'RAWR I BREAK STUFF' characters (see above!). Went through great personal effort and sacrifice in order to get powers just to help people and all that.
Neutral Good- Shatterware. She used to be Lawful Good, but ending up good friends with a borderline-villain convinced her that the law isn't always right. Her alignment is more like Goody McGoodGood Goody-Two-Shoes That Is Also Good. -
Quote:In general fandom. Which is to say that it's spread liberally across huge swaths of the internet. Generally the same areas that are very concerned about what would happen if Frodo and Spock had children together.Originally Posted by Ad Astra
Ubiquitous where?
I had never heard it prior to these 2 threads and had the same reaction as Karl & BBQ. It's very grating. -
Quote:Wait, what? I always thought she was supposed to be immature. Like, really immature. She comes off as a kid in half of her dialog.Originally Posted by Olantern
Katie Hannon ... wise.
Quote:Originally Posted by Katie HannonIf something happens to me, well, it'll take all hope away from my friends and aunties. -
I'd really like this. With the new levelling speeds, I rarely actually take long enough to level up to complete an entire arc before the mid twenties or so heroside if I team much at all. As it is, this basically means I just have to ignore story contacts to avoid doing four missions at -3 for arcs.
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Quote:This is one of the big ones I've been wanting for a while. Perhaps it's my fluctuating amounts of goth/Victorian characters.Originally Posted by Heartbreaker
I would absolutely love to get some frilly clothes to be able to make more anime-type characters. Lots of lacy dresses and ribbons for Magical Girls and Maids, and jackets/shirts with ruffled sleeves and chests for the poet/casanova type Bishounen. (Lelouche from Code Geass, or Jack from Pandora Hearts come to mind)
Also, back pieces. Particularly wind-up keys. Give me both of these and I could finally make a proper costume for my ancient clockwork doll! Heck, you could easily do an entire clockwork/steampunk pack. <Insert obligatory Nemesis plot joke here to save other people the trouble.>
Just no cravats. I have an unnatural hatred for them.