Primal

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And this was a Warwolf? Which I believe are scrappers? That can do critical hits? Color me unsurprised.


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I believe Warwolves are listed as Tankers. I'm not positive about that, and it doesn't necessarily mean that they can't do criticals, but there you go. Wait...two criticals in a row? I remember doing that once. Once.

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All I can say to those who think the game is tough the way it is now is: don't play CoV.

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You realize that's a completely non-sequitur comment, right? Unless you're very well-informed and know that in CoV you'll have to routinely defeat x number of player characters to advance...which I truly hope is not the case (although it'd make sense). Even if that IS so, however, I consider other players to be the basic equivalent of AVs, or Elites. We're talking standard run-of-the-mill Bosses here.

Like many, I'm also gonna have to /agree that the bosses are a little too difficult. Not for me though, as I'm MA/Regen. I can leap into a mob of 7 +1 mobs including a Boss at once (unless they're Warriors) and take every one of them down with barely a dent in my hp (and with only single-target attacks, at that).

However, I too would like to eventually level up my many alts, including a healthy share of squishies, and I fear the day taking one of them against the new Bosses. Even as a Scrapper, I fear some of them. I exclude Warriors above, because the damage they do is horrendous at the best of times...I can't imagine what a 25+ Warrior Boss would do to me these days.

I took on an even-level (25 at the time) Consigliere (Family Boss) last night, and frankly, I wish MY Gravity Controllers had that kind of damage! His Propel did better than 300 damage, and I have my damage resistance 6-slotted and loaded with green SOs. If I had been any other AT, that would have been a nice chunk of debt. As it was, I got some VERY nice xp for very little risk, but I don't really want to rub that in.

In other words, yeah, I'm sitting on my Defenders and Controllers for the moment. Maybe forever.

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The missions you get around level 7ish where you have to hunt for Circle of Thorns in King's Row should also be looked at. There are a few CoT that like to hang around on the ground, but the rest perch up on top of buildings.

Maybe a Temp Power where you get special boots with springs on them so you can jump up onto rooftops.

That way I don't have to bug one of my teleporting friends for teleportation duty.

Zuri

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You can also take the fire escapes.

However, I'd like it known that I also hate this mission. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't inevitable, and there weren't thirty other people looking for the same thing, and there are only a few of them to go around, and....

Honestly, I think this mission was probably designed to remind those with some sick and perverted sense of nostalgia about the various other MMO's they came from. Most of them at some point also required you to be at location C-1 on the seventh day of Eventide so you could fight with the twenty OTHER players who are waiting for the Spiral Orc to spawn and drop his Orc-Tooth Chain. The CoT Mission in KR is just Cryptic's way of showing you how grateful you should be.

Btw OP, if the Hollows are really getting to you, you can do what I did, with your level 39. When some Igneous one-shotted an alt, I was sufficiently annoyed with it that I got my main (who was 22 at the time), came back to the Hollows, and kicked three whole groups of the sorry bastards into rubble. Naga Ooga One-Shot, you stupid rocks!

It made me feel a lot better.

I have an alt Natural Katana/Dark Armor Scrapper on Virtue, named Sangrenacht, who I now fear is a cliche, based on a thread in the general forum. I would appreciate any comments on originality (or lack of):

Katrina van Nistelrooy was a Dutch plantation owner's daughter in South Africa in the 14th century, but was bitten by a powerful vampire, and kept as a mindless enforcer for hundreds of years. One day, by pure chance, she bit a nun, which restored her reason, if not her humanity. She killed her mistress and escaped, and ever since has been hunted by her former friends, who mean to torture and kill her. She can't return to pure humanity, but there is a legend that if enough good deeds are done, she can feel the sun again, at least. Of course, good deeds need doing in Paragon City, so here she is.

I'm not the world's best RPer, but I try to keep all her speech very formal (as she's just learning English, since her old language is dead). She's in full leather including a helmet, but when she reaches level 20, she can behold the sun again (i.e. she gets to wear street clothes). When she comes up against 5th Column (or Council) Vampires, I'll RP it like these are her former friends, looking for her, so she'll switch back to full leather (so they can't tell it's her). I might try to come up with a good story for her sword as well, but there's no need until we can customize weapons, right?

I took inspiration from several sources, chief among them being an excellent book by Wilbur Smith called Birds of Prey (it's not about vampires at all, but one of the characters provides some background and a first name)...but the basic story is mine. I'm sure someone else has come up with something similar, but I'm not familiar with it.

So how is that? It's not terribly cliched, is it?

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The office buildings crack me up too. Paragon City University offers advanced degrees in anti-ergonomics.

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The candy machine companies must lose money by the bucketful since you apparently have to have been raised by circus monkeys if you want to leave your office to buy a Snickers.

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Lol, every time I get an office mission, I ask myself the same sorts of questions at least once:

"Why the HELL would they have a staircase leading to a series of blank halls that leads to a single windowless office? And why, in order to access said staircase, do you have to climb a different set of stairs and then jump over a railing?"

I'd hate to work in Paragon City.

On-topic, I think Balanced has the right idea for a dynamic environment. There's an single- and multi-player RPG called Sacred that does this, on a small scale: when you complete enough quests (toning down hostility in the region), groups of monsters spawn less, the people react more favorably to you, and the merchants' stock improves. It makes you feel like you're actually accomplishing something.

Whoa, Louis Train, that shoulder tattoo is awesome. Seriously.

When it comes to tattoos, nothing beats tribal.

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Dark Astoria is rather empty too. That place just creeps me out.

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I don't know, I saw another player there. Once.

A search for other players in that area generally yields one other character, a high-level who's probably on their way to a door mission.

It's a shame, because that is an awesome-looking area. My first time walking into that place is a game highlight, right along with getting Hover for the first time and taking in the view from atop the Morway Theater sign.

You know, I hate to rain on the parade, but...well, you know how sometimes a runner will jump off a building to get away from you? And how if you're really lucky, you can occasionally get an attack to connect while they're in mid-flight?

Well, if you were TRULY blessed, you were MA, and you used a Crane Kick as said final attack...

And the enemy would get knocked back while in mid-fall.

I will miss that, sincerely I will. Okay, actually it only happened once, but oh what a glorious sight it was.

I'm just messin' with ya, I too want to donkey-punch the bejeezus out of things.

You all scoff, but I seriously, and I mean SERIOUSLY considered writing in Statesman when I voted last week. (IS that just a Georgia rule, that we can vote a week early?)

There was only one sticking point: would it be just "Statesman", "Statesman of Paragon City", or do I have to be honest and write "Jack Emmert"? It was a tough decision, but in the end, since there was a line grumbling more by the second, I went with "Cthulhu".

Well geez, what are the other choices? Tweedledum and Tweedledumber? The next four years are really gonna suck.

I myself am most KEENLY interested in this Forensics skill. I'm a Forensics major myself, in RL, so this is right up my alley. Also, my main is a college student, taking a couple of semesters off to be a Hero, so the idea of a Paragon University (or several) is intriguing indeed. Somebody help me to remember to change her bio when this system goes in...she's listed as a zoology student, and I don't see how they'd implement a skill for that (but hey, maybe they can).

What I'm trying to say is, this system sounds bloody cool.

Ya know, I'm really torn here. You see, Ivan the Terrible is fast-approaching, and it'll hit Wednesday and last through the weekend (supposedly). Now on the one hand, we're talking 80 mph winds, rains, flooding, possible tornadoes and electrical storms, general mayhem.... "Dogs and cats, living together! Mass Hysteria!"*

On the other hand, if the weather's really bad, I get out of work, and can play CoH so I can die pathetically during the event.

It's a moral dilemma.

(Just watch, the event will happen while my ISP crashes. That'd be my luck.)

*-guess that quote.