Postagulous

I was rather unimpressed with the 2.5mph speed boost. I forgot the other I got last night, but it wasn't too hot either. And I got the speed boost three times out of four.

Who is this?

At first I thought I had missed out on some amazing outfit until you mentioned NPC pet. Which, it would be cool to have actual person sized vet pets.

I feel for ya. But ours, Mediacom, just likes to shut things down for a few hours during working hours. We have phone with them also. But in CoH hours, everything's usually good.

I was on Rox's team. Rox grouped 'em tight and Quark locked them down hard. We're all running 900 mph since Kin is spamming us with SB and I'm able to see clouds of orange numbers flying w/o having half the earth try to eat me. And Pando is brilliant when I hit the "Help! Too Much Aggro!!!" button. Saved me several times. Void was doing all the good Rad stuff and helped us eat Babbage pretty quick, but I just wasn't feeling the DPS since I was single targeting. Also, he's so damn tall you can't see the orange numbers. Dicki rocked too, looking more and more like Steve Colbert when he did Crippling Axe Kick.

Very fun night, even if I was dizzy and unable to use stereo sound to find stuff because of a clogged and temporarily deaf ear from an ear infection.

I'm bringing up a katana/dark that I might swap in after a few more TFs. And any that Trixi Chalk, kat/wp 50, missed I'll put her in. Playing Trixi hurts my fingers though. She has a little recharge on her.

Note: I didn't read all that follows, so I figure this is redundant, but also validation of what others say.

1. There are only two true raids in this game. Hamidon and Ritki Mothership. Get on one of the umpteen teams and you'll see what it's like. Pugs in CoH vs WoW, not sure how they work in WoW. Here you just either search for those on teams and ask, shout your availability, or wait for someone to shout an opening on a team. Everything is instanced here, so you can't seen 90% of people. You can add friends and check to see if they're on a good team, but I've rarely had this work. But I'm on Freedom which is so large that no one ever remembers anyone else.

2. Supergroups. Some are inactive and some do stuff. Mine has only one event that I know of, a Monday Fire/Rad controller thing. I've always hopped into one so I can get access to the Telepads. Movement in CoH is much different than WoW, but that's another topic. I've watched WoW 30 minute long parades on Youtube and it makes me sad.

3. Galaxy City should be nuked so bad it looks like Boomtown. Nobody goes to Galaxy. But, even if you chose it, you can still spend your low levels in Atlas. I try to get out and into KR and SC asap. But, as I mentioned, I'm on Freedom and our Atlas Park is notorious for being full of idiots.

4. Like 80k or something. Dunno.

5. Drops are enhancements to your powers or recipes or salvage for those recipes. If you die, you keep them all. The only way to get rid of them is sell them or delete them. I guess you could hand/mail stuff to someone too.

Edited to add - Some drops are for temporary powers. Some of these powers are amazing. The new dagger is one of them and it alone can help a team take down a Giant Monster much faster. Though, best dudes for helping with a GM is a /rad controller IMO. And all these drops can just be bought at Wentworths. And Wentworths can also allow you to make tons of money so you can buy some great enhancements.

Enjoy CoH. It's less rigid in classes than WoW. As mentioned before, a full team of 8 fire/rad controllers is actually much more effective than most traditionally mad teams. And I'd love to see a full team of Night Widows.

Exactly my deal last night. Clockwork were putting me in the purple electric sleep cage and my defiance didn't work. It fired ONCE last night, just flares, while I was mashing the button.

Though there was the update yesterday, and not that this might have anything to do with anything, but my toon was not wearing any of the new costume pieces but was using the 2nd Mutation buff.

[Flares recharges in 0.9 on my toon. The fire blast in 2 or so.]

A question mark in the title would have kept my hopes fro getting up.

I can't find one either. There are tons of posts though. You'll start seeing a pattern among the good and bad advice.

It's a pretty simple set, with the ammo as the only freaky twist.

I want a Fire Blast/Willpower Mastermind.

It pulls great. Rain of Fire is a good pull too if you want a really robust pull.

You got it. While my fire/ice is hellish damage on teams, her mitigation is in the form of teams. Shiver is a control power. Hardly a damage mitigation after you have the aggro cap running after you due to Rain and Fireball, and breath, and just hurting them so bad.

Ice is for Build Up, Shiver, and...wait, that's it. Fire's for burninating the earth.