Lazarus

You know, I already had little respect for "Master of" badges after that time period where TF difficulty was bugged and resulted in all the AVs never spawning above level 49 in level 50 TFs, including the STF and LRSF, for a month or so before it was fixed. Hearing this nonsense now makes the "Master of" badge even more of a joke for the LGTF.

Wait a minute, are you saying that you can deliberately fail missions and still get the "Master of" badge for the LGTF? That right there is just flat out wrong!

Very much agreed. The ITF doesn't need 6 people and honestly the LGTF is not much more difficult. While I could see a poorly build team of 6 having trouble taking down Weakened Hamidon, honestly a poorly built team of 8 is not likely to do much better just because they have two more warm bodies present. The only TFs I can really see needing 8 people are the LRSF and STF, but those are designed to be the toughest TFs in the game anyway.

While we're on the topic of TFs, the Shard TFs need a lot less running back to Paragon City, for any reason. Especially now that Rogues can run them as well and won't have access to the SG telepads that hero players might have nor hero version of oroborous.

All of the CoH content in general operates on comic book time and is somewhat fluid. You'll notice that aside after the first Rikti invasion in 2002 pretty much no exact dates are given in game.

I'd say that such a revamp is worth a lot more than two new zones. It will be a big boon for veterans running new characters and new players won't be wondering why there is such a discrepancy in the quality of blueside missions.

Every pre-issue 5 blueside TF (except Posi now) needs to be looked over and have the redundant missions removed. Each of them is at least twice as long as it needs to be.

They did fix the lower level contacts but forgot to do the ones from level 30 and upwards until issue 17. Now they should all give their number within 2 missions.

I just hate Redcaps. Hate hate hate!

Scirocco had to be stopped, he was going to rewrite all of reality to suit himself! After seeing what he did to Ice Mystral only a fool would think that they were not going to get the same treatment next.

Yes, please yes. One that comes to mind is the Countess Crey arc, which has a part with three large identical click the glowie missions set in three different zones rather than just one mission with three computers in it.

Diviner Maros does mock this in his arc. He mentions about how he should send you out to gather information and all that, but instead uses his ability to see the timeline to figure out where you need to go next.

As for a TF I want to see reworked at bit, it's the LGTF.

• Fix it so that Team Recall no longer can teleport Penny Yin. It's a really cheap exploit.
• Allow Infernia and Glacia to walk while they talk, and fix it so that they spawn at the same time like they used to.
• Either remove the need to escort Infernia and Glacia, making them regular allies, or allow them to escape on their own so that them dieing does not fail the mission.

Yes, I'm asking the Devs to kill many of the tricks speed runners use. Maybe then we can get more decent TF teams than people who just expect to stealth everything, plus a possible increase to the amount of merits that the LGTF awards.

Here is the rules I would like to lay down for all new arcs and old arc revamps.

• Arcs should be a minimum of 3 missions long. Most should be a maximum of 5 missions long. A few special arcs may be a maximum of 7 missions long. 8 missions is much too long. 10 missions is right out!
• No mission on anything larger than a tiny or small sized map may be a kill-all.
• A single escort to the door is allowed. If there is more than one captive, make them a regular self-escaping captive.
• No hunt missions in the middle of arcs!
• If a mission requires me to talk to another contact and I already have their phone number, allow me to just call them! (Praetoria has this so we know it can be done.)

That's odd cause there are a lot of CoT and 5th Column in the level 40-50 and 30-40 rogue tips. I can only think of 1 Carnie rogue tip in the 40-50 range as well.

Issue 6.

I just fought Silent Blade in the level 50 hero morality (really dumb mission by the way) and to my chagrin she not only had Divine Avalance for extra melee defense but also had the ninjitsu version of Elude. This meant that once she popped it she was untouchable for three minutes, during which I might as well just leave the mission and go have a sandwich while I wait for it to wear off.

Or at least that we're officially 2nd-tier now that we have all these jokers below us.

Hell, why don't they just make that a recurring contest. "Write us some good tips, the winners get their missions entered into the CoH canon."

Well Blasty is actually fun to fight and has character. Des is bland and can send your resistance, recharge, and tohit to the floor if you're unlucky enough to run into her after she has already summoned her demons.

Reducing overpopulation?

I remember a weird villain group in a comic once whose operations involved building orphanages, digging wells, distributing vaccines, etc. Their long-term goal was to make overpopulation worse and therefore bring on World War III in some way.

I've gotten so sick of Desdemona, she's annoying as an ally too and I just skip past her whenever she shows up in a mission if there is an optional objective to free her. If she didn't have a badge (which probably is the reason she shows up so damn much) she'd be totally worthless in my opinion. Her character is very bland as well.

When I finally ran into Maelstrom it was that tip where you have to talk to him first. Well he was all alone in a room and INVISIBLE so I nearly ran right past him. He then acted all high and mighty and pulled a ninja vanish when I kicked the crap out of him in seconds. He just strikes me as an annoying marty stu character.

I do wonder why we don't have more tip missions. The thing is, not all of them are made equal: I've seen quite a few that were simple and little more than paper missions, I wonder why the Devs couldn't churn out more of those. A larger amount of simple missions in the tip pool would spread out the more complex missions, making them stand out more while also feeling less repetitive.

Would have been nice for him to announce that here so everyone would know to stop waiting.

Yeah Praetoria seems like the last place anyone would want to roll a buffbot character.

Fire Control as well. Most of the powers are just aggravating to players and that damn Smoke power has way too short of a recharge.

In fact, Hold powers in general should have their recharge times greatly extended for AE critters. I've stopped putting hold powers on anything lower than a boss as LTs and Minions can spam and stack them very quickly, unlike non-custom critters.

Not so much Electric Armor, as it's protection is spread over 4 powers. You can make a Electric Armor critter who doesn't have max Energy resistance but still has things like Knockback resistance without having Hold resistance.

Meanwhile Fire Aura has it's protection in only 3 powers, and both of the toggles have some type of mezz protection as well.

Very, very few.

Radiation Blast: Proton Volley
Electricity Assault: Zapp
Energy Assault: Sniper Blast
Fiery Assault: Blazing Bolt

And that's it.

We had that when AE launched and unfortunately it only drove the farming boom since people made arcs specially for gathering the badges as quickly as possible. Most of the badges were gone come issue 15.