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Just finished Skystrikers new costume.

Skystriker - MA/Invul Scrapper - 3rd Costume This one is my basis for a dark martial artist type, i do have feet tendrils on but its not showing in the screenie for some reason, i know if this was my concept I should have had Dark rather than invul but dark is a very endurence hungry set. Epic wise im going dark too.

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question for burning fist, how did you get the chest part on the monk? i havent noticed that anywhere before.

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That's the Toga piece. It was part of the 2006 Valentine's Day event. I can't recall offhand whether you can get it from the later Valentine's events, but probably.

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You could - infact if you know anyone that still has the mission from DJ Zero you can get that toga... failing that next valentine's day I imagine it will be back.

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Ahh thanks a lot, didnt realise they gave costume pieces at valentines day but i still have to ask the question, what does a monks robe have to do with valentines day?

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Because it isn't a monk's tobe, it's a Roman toga. I highlighted the bit in my post, which you didn't read, which would have explained that. You fail reading comprehension!

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*puts dunce hat on and sits in the corner*

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question for burning fist, how did you get the chest part on the monk? i havent noticed that anywhere before.

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That's the Toga piece. It was part of the 2006 Valentine's Day event. I can't recall offhand whether you can get it from the later Valentine's events, but probably.

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You could - infact if you know anyone that still has the mission from DJ Zero you can get that toga... failing that next valentine's day I imagine it will be back.

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Ahh thanks a lot, didnt realise they gave costume pieces at valentines day but i still have to ask the question, what does a monks robe have to do with valentines day?

Very nice costumes here guys
question for burning fist, how did you get the chest part on the monk? i havent noticed that anywhere before.

Chunky boots look best if they have a big set of pants to go with them I find.
For instance, Armored pants or Tucked In set dont work as well with small boots because you look like you have pin legs

Also nice work Sapphic, I wanted to make a catgirl myself at some point but the choice of a belt or a tail is what keeps stopping me, I get a good costume and think 'actually this belt would go perfect here' and it ends up being saved for my next costume plan.

Alternate costumes:

Shadestar - Claws/SR Scrapper 2nd costume

Not sure whether i like this one. Might get redone in near future, looks a bit too much like a wedding outfit to me

Starcrash - Peacebringer - 2nd costume - Flying and Powers activated

Vet rewards rule

Bombardment- AR/Dev Blaster - 1st Costume - With Weapon Drawn

Bombardment is a lot similar to Starcrash, if you like the design, might as well keep it

Bombardment - AR/Dev Blaster - 2nd Costume

Didnt bother with a weapon drawn one for this, i think it needs some work yet to complete it.

Bombardment- AR/Dev Blaster- Costume 3 - Weapon Drawn

Although I would love to claim i designed this, I asked Warscythe if I could make a female version of his costume and he agreed. All credit goes to him for making such a brilliant design.

Figured we were long overdue for this thread, i hope it gets stickied!

*nudges GhostRaptor*

Skystriker - MA/Invul - Current Main

Just finished this one, inspired by Sublimate's costume.

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Why do I have to find these posts when im at work and on this bobbins machine??

Will post my full list this evening and have to say nice pieces so far...always a firm believer we have some of the best original minds regarding cossies here, would love to see braddack post his, some of his like Deep Earth and Positron star are really nice

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Well I hope you post Warscythe didnt post my female version of him yet, I'l wait until you post yours since your the original

EDIT: In fact just checking i still have a bunch of screenies of Warscythe want me to post one for you or you want to do it yourself?

Wow nice costumes guys, particularly a fan of ADAOS and Jan Boa.

I think ADAOS would particularly suit a white and black star2 pattern cape if/when he can get it

Good work and keep em comin'!

Ok my best 3 designs are:

Sublimate - Energy/Invul Tank

My heroic hero one

Shadestar - Claws/SR Scrapper

Gimped charecter but still good costume.

Starcrash - Peacebringer

My favorite costume, suits the powers of peacebringer as well pretty good.

Following a post on the american forums, I think we need to show them that we are not inferior to there designing skills

So with that being said, screenshot your best costumes and upload them here.

Use print screen to screenshot your charecter and it is located in the screenshots folder of your CoH folder.

Il post mine underneath in a minute, just getting a decent angle

Say Cheese!

EDIT: almost left the american linky out
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showf...Number=8890356

Whilst the city's themselves are actually well done, the main two things that spoil it are the war walls, and the players charecters themselves.

Whilst i appreciate the game is getting on a bit in terms of graphics, the player models are the worst part of the game as far i see, i mean, even WoW has animated hair.

Speaking of WoW, its also been announced recently that they are planning a full graphical update, I cant find the post currently but i will post the linky if i find it.

Animated hair would be the best thing really, but also, i still think female models have manly legs as well its always annoyed me, and the current facial editing options arent really a lot and the faces always look flat.

yes 8 people trying to fit through a doorway is a pain in the butt at the minute, even more annoying is that female charecters can be pushed out of the way by just about anything.

its really annoying if you running over a bridge or something for instance and someone superspeeds past you sending you flying down below :/

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Indeed. So 6 people move from the US to the EU, and 600 move in the other direction.

Such a merge would kill all the EU servers stone dead. If there is going to be any kind of EU-US merger it would mean simple closure for the EU servers. Wouldn't really be a problem for the English speeking players though, just NCSoft employees, the French and the Germans.

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Thing is though people are already paying to move to the US servers anyway, the biggest problem with this game was they kept them seperate servers in the first place.

If the EU servers went with the same list as american ones, at very least its going to generate more funds for future updates from the paid transfers.

Making the choice difficult isnt really helping anyone the vet reward vs more population argument because if it bothers people that much there likely to move anyway, just like we have seen recently.

Regarding power customisation, in the current engine it was said it was impossible, or very difficult to do at very least, but on my friends american version of the game he has colour change already via mods.

He has green energy blasts etc that he said he found somewhere on the net, thing is, surely if an illegal mod site can do it the original game developers can?

Im willing to bet that rogue comes around i15/i16 though, these devs dont heavily hint like that in any interview unless they are definately sure its been worked on.

Graphics changes we had a few minor ones in i12, the bloom and the water changes and those had a lot of problems already, im thinking if they do a full graphics change its going to take a very long time, and most likely will be a paid expansion seen as when the game changed companies they stated 'we are looking into more paid content'. I think you can almost guarantee it, plus its extra advertising for the game on the store shelves now DC Universe and Champions Online is coming.

If they didnt have a shiny new box on the shelf the game will just look outdated compared to the others and wont hold much longer in the market but i really dont think anything will be done before there expected release date except i13 and i hate to say it, but with way its sounding that could fully wipe out the euro servers for at least a couple of months until people realise that sony fail at making mmorpg's

Still more static logo placement should be simpler and easier to place in game, it would be great if more options were available it would give new meaning to being a supergroup, since you could have a proper costume dedicated to your sg.

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I used to get plentiful rude tells, usually in badly-spelled or sometimes impossible to read txt-msg code just for politely declining invitations to join a team. Even if I amended my search comment to 'Do not ask me to farm, fill, or bridge unless you have 100,000,000 influence, payable in advance.' people still asked if I wanted to perform one of those three activities. When I directed their attention to my comment, I was met with a readily ignored stream of expletives and scorn. I find it odd that I am in the wrong, for their lack of reading aptitude. They could have saved themselves ten minutes of fury. Ah well.

Then the Dev's introduced the multiple /hide options, and I routinely hide from /search. It's been a blissfully peaceful few months.

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This has happened to me too on more than one occasion, I dont reply to the original tells when they ask so I dont end up with the agro.

They cant be bothered to read my search comment, I cant be bothered to reply simple as.

Instead of the usual Chest Emblem only, which is always covered by my Reaper Detail 2 head part, how about having the choice of making a cape with the SG logo?
Or maybe even pants with them on?
Or a Generic belt with the logo in the middle?

Also a feature i would really like to see would be the ability to move the logo around the selected area, this should technically be possible in the current engine although I have no clue to how much work it would need.

For Jacket parts, maybe instead of the small logos you can have on the chest area we could have it on the back a lot bigger?

Those are the ones that are easier to do, but eventually I would like to see resizeable Emblems too but I understand this one would be a bit more difficult coding wish.

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Hm, now if only I could think of a decent concept for a Spines/Fire/Dark that makes sense, I'd give one a try.

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Ok i think i got one, how about you got burned to death which melted your skin and exposed your bones, but you were ressed by CoT with dark magic and forced to be there slave until some random hero freed you and you decided to join them?

Ok other than that no idea lol

thank you for the information, I didnt know the debuff was only 10 seconds.

Only other question i have to ask, as a scranker is there anything else generally more effective to pvp with?

I know i should be waiting for i13 but Im bored with my current alts lol. I was thinking maybe a fire/fire if not fire/ss, just because of the extra damage on fiery embrace too as well as build up.

I have built a few tankers before but they have always been defencively built and dont do well in pvp situations. Reason I havent gone scrapper is just because concept wise i want some form of range type attack too, even if its weak its just the concept of it really, with a tank i could have a fire/fire/fire.

Basically im looking for a jack of all trades type that specialises in melee, I have a peacebringer currently on 38 but i prefer to solo things rather than team things and a peacebringer just cant solo at all effectively.

After the effects of Rage on super strength wear off, the power states it has a special weaken effect on mids hero designer and also in game, can anyone tell me how much -damage this is in %? thats if the weaken effect is -damage, im assuming its not just -defence? also how long it lasts for would be helpful.

Its not listed on the power information bit.

Thinking about making a fire/ss scranker type but if rages -damage is heavy i might as well make a set with build up instead.

The problem with SR is that unless you have soft cap, your pretty bad, and unless you have a lot of endurence to spare you cant hit that before elude unless you have a gimped attack set.

SR takes loads of endurence with the toggles to run too, its definately worth it if you can cap defence but up to that point you go down easily.

If you are wanting a charecter to level fast and easier, you definately need regen with stamina so your heals dont steal your endurence, thats up till i13 anyway, when the -25% heal effectiveness comes in it will be another story...

I dont know about corrupter but i have an AR/Dev blaster, i can smoke grenade first, walk into a mob with stealth, drop time bomb and walk away and wait for the boom. It doesnt work with the Invisibility pool power, or any other affect self powers, I tried that too

The main drawback with timebomb is the time it takes to place it, 8 seconds, damage wise you should have been able to hit several attacks in that time.

Also its really gutting if it misses...

I recently tried purchasing a respec for my blaster, and after pressing charge my card, it comes up can not be accepted, after pressing ok it says FRAUD SUSPICION.

Can someone please explain whats going on and anyway to purchase without this coming up?
It is my card under my name that I have bought respecs with before 2 weeks ago, I cant understand why now it refuses to work.

Currently set wise, wp/energy seems to be a pvp popular choice because energy is rarely resisted in pvp at the minute and it does a lot of damage, plus its mostly single target based meaning endurence cost isnt as high.

That being said pve wise it struggles sometimes because of its lack of aoes etc.

The proposed pvp changes currently plan on giving everyone equal resists in pvp zones etc, this is why people are saying you may as well wait. If people can resist an energy attack the same as a super strength hit, then you may as well wait because rage would put your damage higher than energy since its just a permenant build up with -defence on it.

The thing is currently I would say that energy would be best but in a few weeks ive got a suspicion that wont be the case, thats why you should just wait a while or try a few builds out and see what you find fun to play rather than trying to build a pvp tank.