NightshadeLegree

Alternative stances would be great. I love the fact the different WoW races stand and run differently.

But... WoW's character animation is, in every other respect, far less complex than CoH's. I imagine ensuring that every single power animation worked properly with alternative stances would give BaBs rather a lot of work.

On the other hand... now that power customisation is almost here we might as well give him something to do. right

/signed.

I solo'd Faultline with my AR/Dev on diff 3 - the EBs ranged from not too bad to downright frustrating, and while I completed it eventually I wouldn't set my sights that high if I ran Faultline again on another character... maybe.

I usually go to diff 2 by the early teens and diff 4 by the mid to late 20s. Admittedly that's on exceptional soloists like masterminds, scrappers and brutes. I'd imagine the post-40 game on heroic - when even unyielding/ruthless only gives about 1 bar of xp per mission - could feel very slow.

I'd like to see the story advance, with the existing Praetorian missions relegated to Orobouros, and Peregrine Island reworked. After all, in one of her debriefings Maria Jenkins does say...

Everyone agreed that the GMs had been unusually creative when they genericed S1lv3r Surf3r.

There's a level 20-something undead warrior sitting in the Barrens waiting for me to get bored with City...

Weaken (and some purple insps for the Bruiser) will wreck his accuracy, and what he can't hit he can't heal from. Envenom will floor his regen.

I'd alternate Weaken and Envenom, and use Alkaloid to keep the bruiser alive as long as possible. After all while he's trying to kill him he's leaving you and the other pets alone. Bring blues if you don't have stamina (or even if you do) chaining those 3 powers will tire you out fast.

I had less trouble with Nosferatu on my thugs/poison (admittedly at 50 exemped to 39, and Noxious Gas makes a great opener for any EB fight) than I did with either my 39 brute or my exemped from 50 scrapper - but then he is notoriously deadly against melee characters.

I like them all. Mender Tesseract is probably the easiest, and has a brilliantly atmospheric second mission. Mender Silos is a good choice if you're looking for a challenge - the final mission is VERY difficult.

As good as they are though, I'd go with Mender Lazarus's Fall of the Fifth Column, because the final room is epic. Just epic.

Before the euro population rush the thread to declare that their servers aren't dead, I'll just say why not get a NA account? Yes, you'd lose the benefit of your veteran rewards, but just think... eleven extra servers just waiting to be filled up with lots and lots of new alts

I'm in the UK, but I've been playing on the NA servers since I started a year ago. It's fine, so long as you can handle the occassional 1 a.m. ITF

I've seen quite a few 'lowbie for AE farm will pay' broadcasts already, especially since the AE farmers seem to be getting a lot more picky about who they'll take on their teams (over 35, /Kin only, Dom or Brute only etc etc etc...)

On the day I16 goes live I'll be very tempted to roll a new lvl 1 hero on Freedom or Virtue and just street sweep in Atlas Park while enjoying the drama in Broadcast when the PLers realise they'll have to either pay up or do (gasp!) real missions

The first time I encountered them was with Nightshade (Thugs/Poison Mastermind) It was a team, and someone else's mission, so I had no idea who they were but they died pretty easily.

I've yet to fight them with a melee character though. That should be interesting, since after fighting Rularuu with Nightshade I thought they were easy, and then I took my /SR scrapper into the Shadow Shard and couldn't believe the combat results I was seeing (Watcher HITS you! Chomp had 88% chance to hit... huh, what? I had Elude on!) Same deal with Nosferatu, who I genuinely thought was overrated until I ran the Mender Lazarus SF with my Brute...

Great read.

Whenever I hit a new zone for the first time I was always aware that it would never be as new for me again as it would be for the next few hours, and I'd make a point of taking the long way. The random door placements of radio/newspaper missions would often lead me into areas way above my level, but it was always fun trying to get there, and seeing the sights along the way.

I've got a lot of fun memories of those occassions. Getting through Aeon City at level 13 took hours (I was new, and barely understood the con system, so the significance of most of the enemies being red and purple was lost on me...); all four story arcs of the Hollows, start to finish, without so much as a raptor pack; going to Nerva at level 26 and getting a door mission in Thorn Isle (I got as far as Agincourt before I gave up on that one...)

I think my favourite was my first time in Faultline, with a level 15 scrapper (fresh from the Hollows) I didn't know then that you don't need to be introduced to Jim Temblor, and the third radio mission I picked up was in the Arachnos base in the dam. I still have no idea how I managed to get in and out of there alive.

One of the things I like about Cimerora is that when you talk to Imperious as a villain he actually acknowledges that you're not likely to have many scruples about getting blood on your hands.

I play on a Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop, and when my second account is active I can log into them both simultaneously. That's with the graphics settings turned way down admittedly, and I only use it to invite my alts to my personal SGs, but I daresay a more powerful machine could run two accounts at a decent performance.

1. Appearance, both in costume and powers.
There are a couple of powers I refuse to take solely due to disliking the accompanying animation - I respec'd my claws/ scrapper just to drop Eviscerate, and my MA/ stalker stopped dead at level 6 after I saw the Assassin's Blow animation.

She'll be back in business once I16 goes live though. I love the alternative animation

2. Soloing Capability.
I solo a lot. Even when teaming I feel like a freeloader if I'm not on a character that can solo. One day I'll set up the solo-friendly dual build for the Fire/Thermal corruptor who's been in limbo for the last 6 months. I do try all of the ATs, but MMs, Scrappers and Brutes make up the majority at the moment, since I've found them to be the best soloists.

3. Fun vs Power.
I'd sooner have some decent action with the risk of dying if I get careless than sleepwalk through missions where I wreck everything at little risk to myself. The barely controlled chaos of my Thugs/Poison MM (I actually miss the KB from the Bruiser's handclap) is much more fun than the unkillable monotony of my Bots/FF. Likewise my Claws/SR Scrapper became so effective she frequently bored me in the second half of the game, because there was basically zero chance of anything killing her except if I got really careless or feel asleep at the keyboard, whereas the frenetic fury fuelled rampages of my SS/Inv Brute are always entertaining.

Brutes are disconcertingly squishy at low levels, and it does get frustrating since by the time you've built up some decent fury you're almost dead. I put as many slots, if not more, into my secondary as my primary early on with my SS/Inv.

My second Hamidon Raid. Thanks to the organisers for making my introduction to Hami such a painless experience.

I still haven't slotted the Hami-O I got from the first raid some weeks ago. I'm tempted just to keep them in my base's enhancement table (well, when I get one) as trophies

I've got several concepts for dual pistols characters lined up for GR (even got the names saved in a couple of cases) but I'm also very tempted to reroll my main on a new server as a Dual Pistols/ ... I'm just wondering what secondary to go with, since /Poison is MM only. Probably /Kin or /Dark.

So when Going Rogue hits will you be tempted to remake your Thugs MM as a Dual Pistols Corruptor?