KianaZero

That would explain everything!

I always thought that was a typo,as if the line supposed to be:
"not only does Paragon City have the largest Hero population in the US,"

But you see a good Healer wouldn't do any of that. I've been told that a TRUE HEALER is an empath who skips all his attacks (and leaves the required one unslotted) takes nothing but the first 3 heals and the Rez, the full Medicine Pool for Aid Other and the Rez and then any other power you can find but won't slot or use because they're not heals.

An Empath's JOB is putting the AoE Heal on auto and healing everyone and everything all the time leaving no time for anything else because anything else is a waste of end, waste of time and waste of Healing.

But then that's some of what I've been told, and others are incredible (like one guy saying that non-Farming players need to be banned from the game)

There have been times where my Dark Defender was kicked from teams because he "wasn't a Healer", and I've seen people hold on tightly to the idea that any non-Empath Defender is a waste of time to play because they don't heal. That is what we rage against because an Emp/Psi Defender has 18 Primary/Secondary powers to use and they're all useful; but many people insist that only the first 3 in Empathy is worthwhile and that's all they use, even when told otherwise or even shown otherwise.

Plaid!

I have GOT to try that one of these days.

Stop? I hope you can start getting paid to do those awesome vids!

I know how you feel, I've done that trial I don't know how many times now, but I know I can count the sucesses on one hand. Actually, it just takes two fingers. It'd be great if they'd redo that one. I was hoping it'd get a remake when Hollows was polished and given some tweaking, but that didn't happen.

For some missions, yeah, they help a new player get to see the city and learn some of the ropes like where mobs spawn at or what level the area is; but others do more harm than good like the first Hunt 10 CoT in Perez Park which is usually given to someone who's just leveled enough to enter it and the nearest CoT are well above your level. There were times on Defenders of mine the fight was one-for-one, I'd kill one Thorn minion and the rest would kill me at near the same moment.

That mission wouldn't be so bad if it weren't given so early, much like the "Hunt Clockwork in Boomtown" you get from the Security Chief; you'd more than likely get that mission at around lvl10-12, and have to jog all the way from the originating contact, all the way up Steel Canyon, and then all the way from the Boomtown gate to where the Clockwork spawn in at, usually in large groups +1 to your level (if not more). Should you die fighting the large mob of Clockwork, then you either hope to have a Rez on you or you're walking all the way from Steel's Hospital back to the mob which usually reset and is full strength again.

Granted Safeguard temp powers and Ninja Run help that problem, but it'd still be far better to move the mission to a higher level range (barring a re-make of the zone given to others like Hollows and Faultline).

You know, something just occured to me (that plenty of others probably realized). Most of the old content was made with a different frame of MMO Gaming in mind. Back in the early days of CoH, Jack was making the game in a way that forced us to do things, usually difficult things, no matter what. Need to click on simultanious glowies? Forced to team. Have to hunt 50 Carnies in Peregrine? Forced to hunt (sometimes) rare mobs that spawn low numbers. Able to solo an even con Boss? Better not, or Jack will change the coding so you're forced to team with at least 5 others to take it down. Even the contacts themselves won't give you their Cell until late in their mission list. That's basically the thinking of other older and mainstream Fantasy MMOs.

Then an MMO might not be the right type of game for you. For a Single Player game, then absolutely; 4 hours is a lot of time to play in one go, and 10 is an incredible amount. Goodness knows I felt beyond dead losing track of time in XCom, Civilization or Oblivion and feeling stupid at myself for playing them so much in a single go.

But in the world of MMO's time is different. The game isn't set up to give you a lot of big name rare rewards in 4 hours of play, but more like 4 months of play. For instance, Purple IOs don't drop but for an extremely lucky few; I've talked to SG mates who, while playing about 4-6 hours per day, have yet to get a single Purple since they came out. I myself have gotten I think 4 since Purples were added to the game, and I play in upwards of 6-8 hours per day.

What about the intent to club baby seals, getting to do it, and then deepfrying them into tasty little nuggets?

Ah, okay. That sounds more like how it'd work. The way it's been worded earlier in the thread makes it sound like Back Alley Brawler knows how to suck a soul from beyond simply by being one of the Surviving Eight.

Even that can be a stretch; how does Back Alley Brawler know how to train my Dark Defender on how to forcibly summon a soul from the Netherworld?

Me: Hey there Back Alley Brawler. I know I'm strong enough to force a soul from the great beyond into helping me for a while, but I need to know how.

Him: . . . .I punch things kid. Punch them hard. So....punch the universe?

Me: Ok then, never mind. Hey there Castle; I need to know how to yank a soul against its will from the netherworld to help me in combat.

Castle: I'm a mutant that can shoot things with fire. Well, I can also heal you with this tricorder thingie I got. Does that help?

Me: Right. Ok, Mynx? Can you hel-

Mynx: Get away from me! The Furries will find me if you stick around me too long! Shoo, shoo!

Me: o_o;

It's the other Radio mission, Find the location of the Wyvern Financier, when the Longbow Financer and Wyvern boss see you their dialog is

If this deal was something on the up-and-up, why would Longbow be so worried about being seen financing Wyvern?

Nothing says that Indigo and Crimson couldn't have joined Longbow recently; them being in Longbow isn't a retcon, from everything I've seen. They work with whomever they see fit if it'll get them the results they want.

I'm talking about them hiring Wyvern; they're the 'Hero' group that does their best to kill all the villains, something that Longbow seems to be against, considering they're always trying to arrest villains rather than kill them.


They *are* the good guys, but they're not above using means that are less than heroic. I'm not saying they're evil, but they certainly are a far cry from being paragons of heroism. They work to do the best for the innocent, but they're willing to push the limits, as evidenced by their hiding weapons from the media and hiring out vigilanties in secret.

For offical info on Longbow's doings and such, check the Longbow Guardian's Info.

Most of their new requits don't survive; meaning they die. You could say that 'most don't last' meaning they just mediport out, but the way it's read makes it sound like they don't fight again after that, so they must have died, been crippled past the point of being able to fight, or retire from Longbow. That's a pretty big issue for a paramilitary force trying to get more people to join their ranks. One would think that Ms Liberty would make sure her rookie members would be better prepared for fighting super powered villains and/or Arachnos, but they're given little more than a uniform and a pistol.

For their less-than-Heroic means, look at the Longbow Flamethrower;

Now, flamethrowers are BANNED by the Geneva Convention. Note that. They're actively and knowingly breaking the Geneva Convention! Especially when you consider that NATO is arming Longbow. Thus, NATO must be doing their weapon building under the table to give Longbow their illegal weapons, or else the UN and/or US would be breathing down their necks. What's more is their info even says that they hide their napalm whenever the press is around because that's not exactly a heroic thing to do.

They're also quite willing to hire people to do all kinds of dirty work, work they can't be linked to if brought to the open; they help fund Wyvern, a 'hero' group that aims to kill villains rather than bring them to justice (and hire only people with a grudge against villains). They also hire Mindspider, a former government Hero that was let go due to too many 'disciplinary actions' and went Freelance.

This shows they're willing to get people to do the wrong thing for the right reason, as long as their hands don't have the blood on it they're clear of any wrongdoing (in a way similar to the aliens found in S. Andrew Swann's book Forests of the Night, the aliens were pacifists but in their own mind if they hired out violent people to further their own ends, then they were still adhering to being non-violent).

I really doubt Statesman, who holds the belief that a Hero should never, under any circumstance take the life of a villain, even if it's to save another Hero in immediate and mortal danger, would hire a contract killer to off Recluse, Reichman or Tyrant. Longbow (and probably Ms Liberty too) don't hold to that ideal, at least in part since they're willing to hire others to do it for them.

"Patience is a virtue!"

. . . .Not now it isn't!

In the hospital getting Chemo.

That's how I prefer to handle them. I've gone out of my way to kill them if I see one. Any and all spiders give me the willies, I don't care how docile or cute other people say they can be; if they are found inside my home I will kill them with extreme haste, hate and bile.

I think TV's power can only do so much.

Welcome to the Rednames TV! Could you bring back Jole era MST3K? I miss it so much!

So how do you explain Clockwork/Mu/Carnie/Malta Sapper draining?

I'm not being an a-hole; I'm curious at how you thought this through for your character.

Don't we know that the one winner of that Wanna Be A Super Hero game show plays CoH? Couldn't we get him?