Nethergoat

Really?

They seem quite steady to me.

Each month seems to bring one fairly major new item, plus several cool smaller things buffered by sales on existing stock.

I don't know how it'll compare at higher levels, but right now it has one good and one great AoE, which combine to keep me happy...and I'm a guy who *loves* AoE.

The cone is tricky and took me a while to figure out, but now that I have the 'wiggle' down it's a consistent performer. And the PBAoE with the combo ring up is a thing of beauty.

I still don't really know what I'm doing with his /shield secondary, but that's fine. I'm intentionally avoiding doing any research on it- it's fun picking powers I'm unfamiliar with and don't already know the ideal slotting for. Plenty of time to work all that out when he gets to the higher levels, if I feel like it.

I had the same problem with JPGs, plus they were lower quality to start so it looked even worse. The new card arrived yesterday, I may try installing it tonight if I can get an early enough start- these things rarely go smoothly, and I'd rather not sacrifice my evening session to the hardware gods.

Happily I caught one last night on a good team that knew what was up, and had a fun time.


Was on futzing around with my electric controller The Almighty Dollar when someone started agitating for one last summer event team, so I signed up. As I've done nothing but take 'the hitter', I have it figured out. Aparently the rest of the team knew their roles too, as I ended up getting a pile of "perfect ______" badges.

I still don't think it's the best 'style' of mission for this particular game, but it went okay. I still don't quite get what's happening or why- what benefit did we accrue for me doing my job well? There wasn't much difference I could tell between this 'perfect' team and one of the less talented squads I ran it with. Still got randomly teleported around to fight waves of goons & a couple of bosses.

Anyway, this team was plowing through the bosses for some reason so we finished up fairly quickly, and on to the better of the two 'films'.


This team rocked the gladiator arena like no other I've been on- I got the little "incite the crowd" button twice, we managed to summon the God Boss, we mowed down everything in good order and only had one fatality.

One sort of frustrating thing with Dollar is the boss/av's were all pretty much immune to end drain, which is his big thing. So I mostly just plinked away with my hold and my knockdown zap waiting for my sonic debuff to recharge. I wasn't able to get much use out of the Ring of Doom as we had no melee on our squad- a corr, a defender, a bots MM and me. I ended up putting it on the big robot because he at least occasionally got close enough for it to work.

So, fun fights but again the underlying mechanics were totally opaque to me- what was the point of inciting the crowd? How did we trigger the power in the first place? Why did we get the God Boss this time but not the last time I ran it?

Now, I know people here can explain all of this to me, but it seems that a special event aimed at the entire playerbase should do a better job of 'showing its work' so to speak.

Anyway, my final impression is similar to my first impression- pretty fun, strong on fights, weak on story.


After getting my son to bed and running that event it was fairly late. I logged back in on Cathode Ray intending on doing a bit of enhancing, but was unable to resist the siren song of someone starting up a Posi 2. They sounded like they knew what they were about, so I figured it wouldn't take us all that long.

I lucked into what was by far the smoothest run of this TF I've ever had. Everyone knew what to do way better than I did, and aside from a couple of fatal accidents involving our stalker there were no deaths. We got rolling pretty fast so I wasn't able to take my usual inventory of team composition, but I think the majority of our success came from having *two* thermals + a FF defender on the team. Everyone had a double helping of both therm bubbles, plus the FF, and on the hard targets I was getting out my rad debuffs- I almost felt bad for our enemies.

No tank, again, or even a brute- we had a couple of scrappers, a spines & a broadsword, who took turns.

I had a terrific time with Ray on this one- huge spawns, plenty of attacks to play with and not much need to worry about return fire. As with /shield I intentionally don't know anything more about Beam Rifle that what I got from the power descriptions, and it was fun figuring out an attack chain that would maximize disintigration spread. And while I don't think his AoE is that great damage wise, all those little 'disintigrates!' floating up makes it *feel* like you're laying waste even if the individual numbers aren't amazing.

Also, on a corrupter I gotta say there's a special satisfaction when you get into the range where you're seeing SCOURGE! DISINTIGRATE! at the same time. =D


Got done late, but not super late. Picked up 3 levels, made a few friends and confirmed my opinion that Ray is destined to eventually join my small group of 50's.

spam moar, noob@!


=d

make the Shard co-op.

DONE!

Story arc: something in the Negative Zo...er, Shadow Shard.

Task Force: Fix/replace Quarterfield in the Negative Zo....er, Shadow Shard.

Zone: Spruce up the Negative Zo...er, Shadow Shard.

Levels, say 30-50.
They could add some incarnate stuff later if they wanted.

Shadow Shard is the greatest untapped resource in the entire game.

Hilarious!

I'm hoping he was a Zombie MM....

yeah there's no way they could gate it, that would be totally impossible because there's nothing else in the game that you have to wait a certain period to access.


Not that this is much of a suggestion anyway because it would take much more work than it's "worth", but if someone theoretically wanted to create such a system it wouldn't be difficult.

Yes, that would be quite handy.

I find it comes in handy for defeating cows.

You know what's a lot easier?

Deleting junk and not messing around dragging it into the market window to see if someone out there is bored enough to place vendor-bait bids on stuff.

Why?

I just converted several billion inf into prestige because someone passed the Crazy 88's as the "#1" supergroup on Virtue.

Vendor prices for anything in the game are literally meaningless to me, as they are for anyone who engages the market in a meaningful way- "meaningful" here defines as regularly selling your good drops for market prices.


You're missing my point.
Nobody is going to bother listing or vendoring garbage recipes regardless of how convenient it is.

The sums involved don't make it worth anyone's time.

A recycling bin would be a fun mini game that would re purpose all that junk the community has declared "garbage".

Time Bomb is absolute garbage.
I find Beanbag to be essential, not only for utility but for the 3.3% ranged defense set bonus provided by Stupefy (my guy is capped for ranged def).

Gun drone isn't a good power, but it is a useful one- the instant cast means you can just drop one whenever you're taking too much heat and it will distract some aggro. And again, it's home for a 3.3% ranged defense bonus from Expedient Reinforcement.

Taser is mildly useful for stacking stuns, but I have it for a ranged def set bonus. If I wasn't after capped range def I wouldn't take it.

I don't have M30 because it didn't fit in my build, but it's not a bad power.
Especially if you could stick one of those KB to KD IOs from the summer event in there.

CoH isn't rocket science.
Anyone who cares to can figure it out in short order.

well, obviously they must play THE RIGHT WAY* or it shouldn't count!




* the 'Right Way' coincidentally aligning precisely with the the speaker's playstyle =P