Nethergoat

all we'd need is someone to invite them all to the SG so we'd get badge credit...

oh, one more difference- I'm taking advantage of City Traveler to pick up a movement power at level 6 on everyone, whereas before I'd have just stuck with Ninja Run and saved the pick for Stamina pre-reqs.

Also, the changes to base fly speed have made it a MUCH more appealing power at the low levels. I used to take SS or SJ even on my flyers then respec into fly later when it wasn't as miserably slow and I had some slots to throw at it. Now, it's totally viable and very fun even at level 6.

this is true- I generally don't bother selling anything our friend the 'casual gamer' can afford...well, except those generics I've been crafting, but people are happy to overpay for those too!

hey, is there a list of the SG badges on the wiki or something? Our super talented designer was pining for a couple of unlocks to complete the control room's mise en scène . Maybe we could have a 'get together' night to chase badges, run a TF or something.

aaaaaaaaaaaaand UberGuy makes my point 1000x better and uses logic and facts and stuff.


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Mine would be exactly like Dark Astoria, only with contacts and missions and stuff to do besides nuke zombies (although you could do that too).

I'm ignoring stamina.

I have a handful of lowbies I'm playing right now and none of them are worrying about fitting in stamina. I figure they can get by over-slotting for endredux until I19 hits and that will save me a bunch of respec'ing.


For my existing characters, I'm not going to respec anyone specifically to take advantage of inherent stamina....well, unless they dramatically improve the respec interface as a bribe. =P

NECROGOAT!


Had occasion to run Posi again last night thanks to a perfect storm of unexpected free time (the baby went to sleep early), a random invite and a low level character I wanted to get a few levels for.


The team was quite a bit "better", in the sense that we had a nice balance of ATs going (two blasters, a couple of defenders, some controllers, a good tank and a squid).

The merits still stink. =P

But again, it was a fun time. It was a nice crew, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and I went from level 10 to level 14, so mission accomplished there. I think our final time was 1:25, quite a bit faster than my first go-round, which I attribute to much better mitigation in the form of our earth and cold controllers.

I was on Burn Rate, my fire/fire farming blaster. Before rolling this character I'd have thought I had a pretty good understanding of 'fire blasting', having taken my fire/ice up to the mid-40's. But this gal plays VASTLY different.

Fire/fire brings exactly one thing to the table- aoe damage and plenty of it. Where ice delivers excellent survivability and mitigation, fire gives you aoes, some aoes and then, just for good measure, more aoes. Which was great on this team- with the tank locking down most of the aggro I was free to lay waste until my blue bar hit Empty.

So while the 'content' was the same my experience of it was very different, even playing the same AT (ar/dev vs fire/fire). I think about this quite a bit as people harp on how 'repetitive' the game is. While any MMO will be repetitive in the sense that there's a finite number of missions to run and foes to defeat, CoH provides a really wide variety of play experiences within that framework depending on what you're playing and who you're teaming with. So new ATs are content, powerset proliferation is content, anything that alters how you interact with the existing mission framework provides content.

Just some random thoughts.