Paladin

/signed and /doublesigned.

There's no reason I can see why these powers aren't provided with some small bit of untouchable status. They're insufficient as combat revives - it's as simple as that.

From the mentioned Q&A:

I tried it just now and it's working fine for my character in his base. Is this a new problem for you over multiple gaming instances? Maybe it's just a temporary bug that will squash itself if you restart the game.

Thanks for the thread, Doc! I only recently got into the Dresden files after my brother loaned me a few, but I'm hooked! I'll be picking a copy up tomorrow after work.

Glad to hear it's not the end of the series either.

The server's up. Come on down and camp yourself a spot.

Sounds like the party's in Cimerora, but you never know.

I had a wonderful time with so many people in a Keyes. While it wasn't a PUG Hamidon raid, it was the next best thing. A lot of chaos, a lot of KOs, and a lot of enjoyment was had.

Special thanks to Avatea and Freitag for coming out and joining us for some crazy mischief. We'll have to run it again to completion during the second phase of this event.

I'll be attending!

If there's enough interest, I'd love to run a heroside Hamidon Raid with the Devs taking part. It would be a lot of fun!

I approve of this film being made on the sole condition that every other sentence involves groan inducing puns. If the theater's screen is not pelted with popcorn at least five times due to terrible word play.. it is unworthy.

I've "threatened" to kick people if they cutscene bomb, but that was me being entirely not-serious. Said fans of cutscene bombings then became serious and thought I was being serious, and..

Entirely too much serious business going on everywhere.

But seriously. Force me to watch your offensively ugly costume during a cutscene? That's a kick.

Just think back to that scene in Batman Begins, Big Boss. "Why do we fall?"

You led the team to the end, earning them experience, influence/infamy, prestige, recipes, and incarnate shards. You took it upon yourself to form the team from nothing which, looking at the amount of people who are content to sit and broadcast "LFT" endlessly, is a significant accomplishment itself. And you didn't start blaming others when things went south. That's excellent.

Failures happen - in this case, it was a lack of level 50 characters that affected your run. You've learned from it; you can either start denying lower level characters, or maybe pick up a few Vanguard Heavies/Shivan Shards on the off chance that a team make-up like this occurs in the future.

While it can be tempting to go over in your mind what could have been done differently, the best way to put this minor failure in perspective is to just run the trial again and show yourself that this was a fluke. Preferably with chatty, fun loving teammates.

If you're on Virtue, send me an invite and I'll be happy to join you.

Paladin would look mighty fine as a Broadsword Brute.

With trials and other content no longer stressing alternate characters as an end-game, is there any thought given to reexamining the "No" to archtype/powerset rerolling for existing characters?

Hey Oz,

I was there under Paladin with you last night. I just want to let you know that (with the exception of myself towards the end) everyone was very supportive of you and your disability. I have to admit, I thought you were engaging in some epic trolling towards the end, but you have to admit yourself that asking someone to stay with you while you were KOed on the ground in a previously completed section was a little extreme, right?

We also tried to explain how to find us - how to leave the hospital, then to click on the team members name to locate someone who was part of the big group that you could follow. I understand that while you were under a lot of stress that even basic things can be difficult to do, but there's only so much we as other players can do. I would have come and caught you up if I weren't busy drawing Anti-Matter around. But - I have to say, the entire raid was extremely gracious and concerned with your safety, stressing that if you were having health issues to please take care of yourself, and that we wouldn't hold it against you if you had to stay either in the Hospital or leave the raid entirely due to stress.

I provided the detailed instructions to you in tells because I didn't want you going in blind, and I hope that at least giving you an idea of what was going to happen alleviated some of it. From your comments while our team leader got the raid together, it seemed like you were concerned, so I took it upon myself to at least try to help.

No one on the team was really motivated by putting himself above others, but rather coming together to accomplish something great and fun, as a team. And as a team, I again have to stress that everyone was very gracious, even when you made it clear that you would most likely not enjoy yourself.

From your comments before the raid it was clear that you weren't entirely thrilled to be there, but I'll commend you for giving something a shot at least once. However, if you do have a medical issue it's a good thing to let your teams know that before a raid is under way or before you start to exhibit symptoms like you said you did. But as the raid went on, and without any notice that you had these issues during the 20 minutes+ while the team was ready and waiting to start, it honestly seemed like you were trying to troll up a horror story.


It crossed my mind that maybe you had waited until we were sincerely engaged to tell us about your medical condition, and begin asking people to stop what they were doing to stand by you in order to evoke a hostile response - one which I was pleasantly surprised did not come. Everyone was considerate, and with the exception of one comment from me ("..epic troll is epic") there was nothing even remotely negative that went on in league or team chat. I do apologize for thinking you a troll, but I'm confused where the idea that people were off focused on winning comes from, when everyone did all they could to accommodate you, short of either stopping the raid entirely or removing you from the league in order to free you from the stress.

However, now that I see there's a post on the forums about this I don't know what to think. It doesn't really match up with what I saw, though.

I can appreciate a good rant, and it can be frustrating to get knocked down often. But the only real threat that surrounds these trials is cascading morale failure - when one person complains that it's too hard due to a hiccup, then someone else thinks it's doomed so they stop playing, etc., etc. Like with nearly all content in this game, you can fall and pick yourself up like nothing happened - and only be out of a minute and a half of your time.

Given how the game's favored buffs/debuffs for so long, I can't say I'm surprised or unpleased to see an encounter that favors healing for a change. Mixing things up isn't a bad thing as long as it doesn't invalidate other content.

What's the command string to post in font size 9,000 again?

Woohoo!

Welcome back, Xanatos!

It's strange to think that CoH now has a post 50 game, isn't it? Only took 7 years. Ah well. Enjoy the incarnate abilities!

It can get nauseating if you go overboard; if you know that there's other content and options on the way, why not pace yourself and take your time? You don't have to rush through and cram as many trials in as you can, or get the powers right away - that's the Well talking!

That said, do you lead the runs yourself, Mr. Grey? If you're looking for ways to make these trials more interesting you can start leading them yourself, and put together unorthodox teams. It wasn't until I started managing the league formation that the trials really became an engaging experience - and once you see how easy it is to form them it's much easier to dial it back and run other content as the want strikes.

I've been pining for any sort of endgame for CoH outside of Hamidon for about 3 years now. What we've got is excellent, and very casual on its own. I can see why players who go overboard by needing a T4 right now can be pulling their hair out over the repetition, but playing 20 trials in a sitting is their choice - it's not inherent in the system, but found in player's choices.

Thanks for getting these up and running, Ransim. It was a lot of fun, and you deserve kudos for getting things started again.

Schedule permitting I'll be around next weekend at the same time to go it again.

I'm assuming you'll all join me in personally kicking the stuffing out of anyone who pirates this wonderful piece of animation. Am I right? We've got to support this enough to warrant a few more movies. And I can't wait!

Also, welcome back, ShoNuff.

All these puns are making me see rad.