Krystalee
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I just saw my start date Aug 7, 2004. Wow spent a lot of time and energy on this game. I'll certainly miss it.
Thanks to all the folks, devs, community mgrs and players who have made this an amazingly good experience.
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Awesome, thanks for this Kat.
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I agree with most of what RogerWilco said.
I understand a lot of people's preference for streamlined simplicity of iWork. For personal use I would certainly recommend those. But if you do a lot of file sharing with coworkers then Office is definitely the way to go. Office 2011 is very stable and reliable. If you will still be using Windows computers off and on, then the similarity between the apps will help a lot.
I couldn't function in my job without a VM package like Fusion or Parallels. I would not encourage its use on an Air though. If you still have a Windows work desktop computer then remote controlling it would likely better serve your needs. MS Office includes the Windows RDC client. Though I think it may even be available as a download from MS' website.
I think you will be tearing your hat to shreds in annoyance for the first couple months with this computer. At some point in the next 6 months you'll wonder how you ever survived without it.
Finally buy a big external USB hard drive and a large powered USB hub you can keep on your desk at work. Hook up a USB keyboard and mouse to it as well. Time Machine is one of the best implementations of a backup system you can possibly imagine. USE IT! -
That was an awesome and moving story. Thank you.
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Aww noooo! I took some time off work to coincide with this.
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Whirlwind from the Speed Power Pool is too annoying to consider ever trying the power to even find out if it's useful.
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My very first character was an ice/storm controller. CoH had been out maybe 1-2 months. A number of my RL friends were playing. By the time I got the game installed and updated it was after midnight. So I was feeling pretty goofy. I made a controller without any idea what I was getting into (controllers and dominators should come with a warning label)
I used that silly metal witchbladesque costume and named it after my wife as a joke. Knowing I'd make another character later. (It was such a relief when I finally got to Icon and changed the costume.) In my effort to keep up with my friends that became my main since I didn't have time to level up an alt and still be able to play with them. (Did sidekicking even exist yet?)
It was a love/hate relationship that turned into my first 50 and received the bulk of my play time before I took a couple year sabbatical for another MMO. After my return other alts have taken my time but it's still my main badge hunting character. -
Quote:Dude your alternates are awesome too! Great work! I want to see all of those around Paragon City.Originally Posted by Red_Addiction
Here is a Photobucket album for my other entries. If anyone else could do this I would like to see yours too!
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Quote:Did anyone notice the image for our new dev Second Measure they posted on facebook? Nice eagle head there in the screen shot from the character screen. I'm guessing someone's getting his wish at a future date.Originally Posted by WolfSoul
I second the Wolf and Cat head! Also, EagleFire needs an Eagle head!!
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Quote:I'm very sad to see you go. But I'm glad to hear you plan to keep playing.Originally Posted by Castle
I do still have my personal account, and will continue to play. I'll still be in a Supergroup (and who knows, maybe I'll actually get to play when the rest of them are online now! Silly mid-westerners!) Most of all, I'll still be reading the forums, but, when I post, very few people will know it's me. Sadly, there's little that could be done to change that.
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That is so awesome, I actually teared up while reading it. Grats to both!
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I love those new auras. I can't wait for this pack. Kudo's to the animation team!
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I vote for option 1, replacement. I would even say I'd be fine with core replacement of the art for the ones that are simple cleanups like your t-shirt example. I probably wouldn't be offended if my older costumes pieces were automatically changed. It's nice that you give us plenty of costume tokens to fix things with.
I can understand a few ultra popular pieces being left behind with updated secondary versions. The rest can vanish completely.
It can get rather tedious having to manually fix so many costumes on so many alts when 90% of the time I'd want the old replaced with the new. -
Small changes to existing zones make all the difference to me. Makes the world feel more dynamic and real. Zone revamps are great, but they don't have to come in major renovations like Faultline (which I loved the evolution of that).
If you implement small graphic changes to old zones bit by bit over time you can end up with a total revamp in the end. Plus it will feel more real. New and varied store front windows would make a big difference too. -
Let us not forget the incredible number of hours that can vanish in the costume creator alone.
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Good luck with your new position!
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Quote:Yeah, 5 and 6 are interchangeable. "Twoey" is about as close to Jack as you can get and not have the same model. I love ice, and I love plants, but their pets have always left me kind of feeling bleh. I really need to break down and level up a grav and Stoney some day.Originally Posted by Local_Man
My entirely subjective listing, in part guided by my fondness for the controller set, is:
1. Phantasm
2. Animate Stone/Rocky
3. Fire Imps
4. Singularity
5. Jack Frost
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Quote:Storm is an often underrated secondary. It works well with most primaries. Having done both a fire/rad and an ice/storm. I'd have to say though the fire/storm synergies sure seem to be there in a major way.Originally Posted by Moderator 08
If you are truly burnt out on fire, I'd go earth. But the fire/storm synergies are strong.
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Quote:That's almost an oxymoron. Good herdaners are few and far between. I think I've only seen one in my entire career.Originally Posted by AWRocketman
Then you haven't played with a good herdcaner!
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Quote:I do have a bunch of Hami-O's around from the old pre crafting days. I only included things like that Grav Anchor and the Numina/Miracle sets for long term planning purposes. I'll probably use the Doctored Wounds set for now. I got lots of those already.Originally Posted by ArcWeld
There's a lot of expensive stuff in there, I'm assuming you have the hami-io's already? Numina's and Miracles are pretty expensive as well.
Quote:Originally Posted by ArcWeld
I like enfeebled operation in Fire Cages with rock armor, it adds 4% s/l defense to rock armor. Though the chance of hold proc is nice as well.Those are out of my price range so I figured on respecing out of it when I can afford one.Quote:Originally Posted by ArcWeld
You can remove taking the stealth power and add a stealth io to superspeed or sprint (sprint takes jump and run stealth ios) for full pve invis and save a power.
I was actually doing those for the 1% recovery bonus and because they're cheap. That's a good point though.Quote:Originally Posted by ArcWeld
The slow enhances in hotfeet may not be needed, since if things are immobilized anyway (with cages) none of that does anything
I'll check them. I just assumed out of my price range for now.Quote:Originally Posted by ArcWeld
I like 4 expedient reinforcements sets in imps since it requires less waiting when one of them inevitably dies
Noted. I'll probably swap those for standard acc/dam/rech IOs.Quote:Originally Posted by ArcWeld
Fissure: It's knockback really doesn't need to be modified, out of the box it just does knockup. Your enhancements will actually knock them back which is mostly seen as bad. -
Quote:Yeah my ice/storm is my first toon and my first love. Sadly I just don't see it doing well at farming no matter how I slot it.Originally Posted by False_Fiction_EU
Off topic: Ice/Storm > Fire/Rad - Slot that one instead!!
A lot of my IOs are budget driven. I just figured better scattered useful bonues than a lot of useless ones.Quote:Originally Posted by False_Fiction_EU
Try and focus on 2 main bonuses (say, endurance recovery and recharge) and then find the sets that might give you a decent 3rd bonus (eg: +hp). +Dmg and +HoldDuration are useless to a fire/rad. Yes, +dmg is nice but you already ditch a LOT of damage after setting containment. And hold duration is not really an issue since most mobs should be dead in a few seconds.
Good point. I'll adjust that.Quote:Originally Posted by False_Fiction_EU
Also keep in mind that having +endrecovery bonuses is good but slotting you're spammable powers (eg: fire cages) for endurance reduction helps just as much. So you might want to consider dropping that damage proc on Fire Cages and put an Endurance Reduction IO or Immob/End, Acc/End.
As opposed to some of my other options I like that set. :PQuote:Originally Posted by False_Fiction_EU
I would also get rid of the Lockdown +2 Mag Hold - it really is not worth it. Actually, I don't like that Set at all, but I guess it's a matter of taste.
I didn't realize that, thanks. I was just looking for something affordable and Force of Feedback has good set bonuses and is cheap.Quote:Originally Posted by False_Fiction_EU
As for Fissure, slotting Force of Feedback will turn the Knockdown into KnockBACK. It's not much of an issue if the mobs are immobilized since it negates KB - just giving a heads up.
If it just minimizes some of the knockback that'll be good enough for me for now.Quote:Originally Posted by False_Fiction_EU
I'm not sure if a mag 4 knockback protection will give you any protection at all so you might want to put a 5th red fortune on Rock Armour instead. I could be wrong tho, but I believe mag 8 is the minimum to get it to work decently.
Quote:Originally Posted by False_Fiction_EU
PS: Remember, storm > rad any day. On teams or with a semi decent tank I'll agree with you.
Yeah I don't expect to be a real "farm build" I just figure it might be a functional starting point to start building from with my budget.Quote:Originally Posted by False_Fiction_EU
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I've perused the various posts and thanks to a nice PM response from Local_Man I think I'm ready to have my build looked at. I am an old returning player and don't have a lot of cash at present. I'm hoping to use this toon for rectifying that somewhat.
Is this a functional build for large spawn groups?
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Click this DataLink to open the build!
Dusky - Farm 2: Level 50 Science Controller
Primary Power Set: Fire Control
Secondary Power Set: Radiation Emission
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Teleportation
Ancillary Pool: Stone Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Char -- HO:Nucle(A), HO:Perox(3), HO:Perox(5), HO:Endo(7), RechRdx-I(23), RechRdx-I(27)
Level 1: Radiant Aura -- Mrcl-Heal(A), Mrcl-Heal/Rchg(3), Numna-Heal(5), Numna-Heal/Rchg(7)
Level 2: Fire Cages -- TotHntr-Acc/Rchg(A), TotHntr-Immob/Acc(9), TotHntr-Acc/Immob/Rchg(13), TotHntr-Dam%(13), TotHntr-Acc/EndRdx(15), GravAnch-Hold%(27)
Level 4: Accelerate Metabolism -- Efficacy-EndMod(A), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(9), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(11), Efficacy-Acc/Rchg(11), Efficacy-EndMod/EndRdx(15), RechRdx-I(39)
Level 6: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(19), RechRdx-I(23)
Level 8: Radiation Infection -- HO:Enzym(A), HO:Enzym(29), EndRdx-I(34)
Level 10: Enervating Field -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(34)
Level 12: Flashfire -- Stpfy-Acc/Rchg(A), Stpfy-Acc/Stun/Rchg(17), Stpfy-EndRdx/Stun(17), Stpfy-Acc/EndRdx(19), Stpfy-Stun/Rng(29), RechRdx-I(37)
Level 14: Super Speed -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 16: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 18: Health -- Mrcl-Rcvry+(A)
Level 20: Stamina -- P'Shift-EndMod(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(21), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(21), P'Shift-End%(31)
Level 22: Cinders -- Lock-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(A), Lock-%Hold(25), Lock-Acc/Rchg(25), HO:Endo(43), RechRdx-I(43), Hold-I(43)
Level 24: Stealth -- HO:Cyto(A)
Level 26: Lingering Radiation -- TmpRdns-Acc/Slow(A), TmpRdns-EndRdx/Rchg/Slow(46), TmpRdns-Acc/EndRdx(46)
Level 28: Hot Feet -- TmpRdns-Dmg/Slow(A), TmpRdns-Acc/Dmg/Slow(31), C'ngBlow-Acc/Dmg(34), C'ngBlow-Dmg/EndRdx(36), TmpRdns-Acc/EndRdx(37), EndRdx-I(39)
Level 30: Choking Cloud -- Lock-%Hold(A), Lock-Acc/Hold(31), Lock-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(36), G'Wdw-EndRdx/Hold(36), EoCur-Acc/Hold(37), EndRdx-I(39)
Level 32: Fire Imps -- BldM'dt-Acc/Dmg(A), BldM'dt-Dmg(33), BriL'shp-Dmg(33), BriL'shp-Acc(33)
Level 35: Recall Friend -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 38: EM Pulse -- Lock-Acc/Hold(A), Lock-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(40), Lock-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(40), Acc-I(40), Hold-I(50)
Level 41: Fissure -- FrcFbk-Dmg/KB(A), FrcFbk-Acc/KB(42), FrcFbk-Dmg/EndRdx/KB(42), FrcFbk-Rchg/EndRdx(42), FrcFbk-Rechg%(46), Dmg-I(50)
Level 44: Rock Armor -- Krma-ResKB(A), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx(45), RedFtn-Def(45), RedFtn-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(45), RedFtn-EndRdx(50)
Level 47: Seismic Smash -- C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg(A), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(48), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(48), C'ngImp-Dmg/Rchg(48)
Level 49: Mutation -- RechRdx-I(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Containment
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Set Bonus Totals:- 16% DamageBuff(Smashing)
- 16% DamageBuff(Lethal)
- 16% DamageBuff(Fire)
- 16% DamageBuff(Cold)
- 16% DamageBuff(Energy)
- 16% DamageBuff(Negative)
- 16% DamageBuff(Toxic)
- 16% DamageBuff(Psionic)
- 7.5% Enhancement(Held)
- 3% Enhancement(Stun)
- 3% Enhancement(RunSpeed)
- 3% Enhancement(FlySpeed)
- 3% Enhancement(JumpHeight)
- 3% Enhancement(JumpSpeed)
- 6.25% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
- 5% Enhancement(Immobilize)
- 16% Enhancement(Accuracy)
- 10% FlySpeed
- 80.1 HP (7.88%) HitPoints
- 10% JumpHeight
- 10% JumpSpeed
- Knockback (Mag -4)
- Knockup (Mag -4)
- MezResist(Held) 2.75%
- MezResist(Immobilize) 4.4%
- MezResist(Terrorized) 2.75%
- 14.5% (0.24 End/sec) Recovery
- 36% (1.53 HP/sec) Regeneration
- 1.26% Resistance(Fire)
- 1.26% Resistance(Cold)
- 10% RunSpeed
Set Bonuses:
Miracle
(Radiant Aura)- 2.5% (0.04 End/sec) Recovery
(Radiant Aura)- 12% (0.51 HP/sec) Regeneration
(Fire Cages)- 5% Enhancement(Immobilize)
- 19.1 HP (1.88%) HitPoints
- 9% Enhancement(Accuracy)
- MezResist(Held) 2.75%
(Accelerate Metabolism)- 11.4 HP (1.13%) HitPoints
- 1.5% (0.03 End/sec) Recovery
- 10% (0.42 HP/sec) Regeneration
- 2.5% DamageBuff(All)
(Flashfire)- 2.5% (0.04 End/sec) Recovery
- 19.1 HP (1.88%) HitPoints
- 3% Enhancement(Stun)
- 6.25% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
(Stamina)- 5% JumpSpeed, 5% JumpHeight, 5% FlySpeed, 5% RunSpeed
- 19.1 HP (1.88%) HitPoints
- 2.5% (0.04 End/sec) Recovery
(Cinders)- 3% DamageBuff(All)
- 2.5% Enhancement(Held)
(Lingering Radiation)- 1.5% (0.03 End/sec) Recovery
- 1.5% Enhancement(Slow)
(Hot Feet)- 1.5% (0.03 End/sec) Recovery
- 1.5% Enhancement(Slow)
(Hot Feet)- 1% (0.02 End/sec) Recovery
(Choking Cloud)- 3% DamageBuff(All)
- 2.5% Enhancement(Held)
(Fire Imps)- 1.5% (0.03 End/sec) Recovery
(Fire Imps)- 4% (0.17 HP/sec) Regeneration
(EM Pulse)- 3% DamageBuff(All)
- 2.5% Enhancement(Held)
(Fissure)- 5% JumpSpeed, 5% JumpHeight, 5% FlySpeed, 5% RunSpeed
- MezResist(Terrorized) 2.75%
- 10% (0.42 HP/sec) Regeneration
- 2.5% DamageBuff(All)
(Rock Armor)- Knockback Protection (Mag -4)
(Rock Armor)- MezResist(Immobilize) 2.2%
- 1.26% Resistance(Fire,Cold)
- 2% DamageBuff(All)
(Seismic Smash)- MezResist(Immobilize) 2.2%
- 11.4 HP (1.13%) HitPoints
- 7% Enhancement(Accuracy)
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EDIT: BTW, this was Posi's idea, not mine -- I was just in the meeting it came up in. So, HE'S the bestest dev evah!
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I've been informed that my memory is awful and that it was Pohsyb's idea...So, um, yeah. He's the bestest dev evah!
My apologies for the mistake! (Is that enough? Back into your box now! Go!)
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There is no bestest dev at Paragon Studios. They all are teh awesome! Seriously I left this game out of boredom and tedium in the 2nd year. I came back last year because of all the enhancements to the game and love each new issue addition. -
I just tested on a quad core tower using a copy of test that hasn't been updated in months. It updated correctly first time and logged right into test without issue.
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Starlighter, a peacebringer on Triumph