Psygon

Took a few screenshots after the raid but most were a bit rubbish. Best I had was this:

Defiant's Successful Hamidon Raid!

Whoop, nice one all - and thanks to Omega for organising. Was much fun! Cyas for the next one!!

(go go yellow team uber!)

About two years ago I got stuck on the idea of making my own superteam... I gave them a name and began creating the members, but while I got the Defender, Tank, Scrapper and Blaster made I couldn't come up with an idea for the controller. A few weeks ago I finally had inspiration and the controller was born.. and the inspiration just kept on coming as I ended up doing some new character pictures based on them and creating a website for the pictures and their bio's:

http://www.icon-forever.co.uk/chikara5/

Apologies if it's a little slow loading.. I've made it quite image heavy :S

I've also only tested it in Firefox 3 (which it looks best in) and Internet Explorer 7 so I hope it loads ok for people...

Hmm true I guess...

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Hmmmm, lots of empty spaces this time in the raid, we're still going on?

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still a full week to find more people

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8.- The cycling tank system is great, but as no possibility of heals inside the jello, maybe more empaths needed on Leader Team to always have some form of +regen buff ready, so certain empaths can be assigned to buff a certain tank.-

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tbh, I think that this is overcome by the empaths on cowards hill paying more attention to when the tanks come back. And by the empaths on cowards rock I'm mostly meaning me as I wasn't paying enough attention to the tanks coming and going. Fairly sure my buffs were available and unused quite a few times...

Please sign me up:

Psygon, Emp/Dark (with recall) for Yellow Team 2 (tho I could be persuaded to join a different team, only Yellow Team 2 was uber )

Well done and thanks for organising omega! Shame to fail but we'll beat him next time!

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Oh man... now I have to respec again. I knew someone would eventually want me to have recall friend again!

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You could just use the second build as a Hami build or something? I'm thinking of making a ship raid build on one of my scrappers, but it does cost inf having the second build going I guess

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Yeah G convinced me to make a second build so now I have one with Recall... just with SOs tho, not sure I can face hunting out the IOs I got for the primary again :O

Oh man... now I have to respec again. I knew someone would eventually want me to have recall friend again!

Trying to follow what's still needed but can't totally work it out so if a buffer needed:

Psygon - Emp/Dark/Power
Arysane - Kin/Nrg
Purotekuto - Bubbles/Psi

debuffer:
Sigh - Rad/Sonic

Or if it's a controller:
Hallucinate - Illusion/Emp
Shpongle - Ice/Kin
Jane Deluxe - Mind/Kin

Just had fun...

Joined a nice ITF first thing on the Friday and got my Illusion/Bubbles troller (Fluoro Neuro Sponge on union from 46 - 48.

Teamed up with SG friends for most of the rest of the weekend (aside from another fun ITF on Friday evening on defiant), getting my tank Kichiku (Inv/Fire) to 50, and my controller Jane Deluxe from 41 to 48. Thanks to War, Manc, and G for making a fun couple of days of teaming

Not really been into COH much these last couple of months and I think this weekend may have put an end to that

Yeah me too... though I think it's going to look better on a tighter top. Would also look great if you could have it as a top with skin (so only having the white bits in Morgana's pictures)

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In over 3 years of playing iv never come across a player ingame whos moaned about not being able to have capes from the get go

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Me neither.

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It used to be a really common complaint from people who had purchased the special edition version of the game that promised them a special cape. Only they didn't realise they still had to get to level 20 to get their special VIP cape.

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Maybe in the mid to late teans you will see an advantage but I usually find I am running out of stamina if I use to many powers at once so the extra slot can only be a little benefit.

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So freeing up an extra power slot can help go towards getting stamina - which can often be a painful 3 powerpicks to get?

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Never been for me
Swift at 6, Health at 14, Stamina at 20!
Been pushing away travel powers to the late 20's since over a year back now. The Raptor Pack and Zero-G always last at least into the mid-high 30's.

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or to 50 if you are cautious!

Personally I think that given you have stamina at level 20 I think you are being overly cautious with your slotting of end redux in your attacks - and not cautious enough with your buffs and heals. Firing off heal other or heal aura when the going gets tough is going to drain your endurance far more than your attacks will...

If I was changing your build I would do the following:

1) Take Recovery Aura down to 3 slots only (frees up 3 slots to use elsewhere) - just use recharge. I've had empaths who've 6 slotted this power and tbh I really think 3 slots of recharge is enough. The recovery you get from it out of the box is great...

2) Add an extra slot to Healing Aura and Heal Other and drop an end redux in both new slots

3) Add an extra slot to snap shot, change the slotting to: 1 x Acc, 3 x Dam, 1 x End Redux

4) Change the slotting on Aimed Shot, Fistful of Arrows and ranged shot to: 1 x Acc, 3 x Dam, 1 x End Redux (I'd say you could do this with Blazing Arrow as well and move the 6th slot you have there somewhere else. My vote would be to drop it on hover and have 2 x Fly enhances on it - but that's mostly personal preference... love hover on my empaths!)

5) Change the slotting on Fortitude to 3 x Def buff, 2 x recharge and 1 x end redux. I don't think this needs the to hit slotting really...

6) Potentially change one of the end redux's on Rain of Arrows to a recharge

I have an empathy/archery/body mastery defender without stamina and slotting similar to the above (or it was until I IO'd her build) and she doesn't runs out her endurance, she's able to do a little damage as well She feels very handy in teams!

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What's the build number, guys? Then we can see which patch notes it relates too...

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18.20081210.7T3

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also Superleap?? is time becoming a travel power too

Oh Boy!

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That's Quantum Leap, you noodle!

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...oh boy.

Anyway, highly shiny bit of news there. Also, note the other new bits of news - one bonus free toon slot per year could now be on the cards...

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You get that anyway. A few months ago they gave me 3 slots for my three years plus another 2 slots because i was a paying customer at the time. I get another shiny slot in april

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Yes, but if I read the Vet reward correctly, when you get the 60-month badge, they give you ANOTHER 5 for free, on the spot.

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Think it's just 1 character slot and 5 merits?

wow, that's an awesome vet reward...

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I'd think Psygon would see this as all her birthdays come at once.

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heh... I was reading this thread last night and thinking that I didn't think a 50% discount at Icon was *that* bad... so had to check which way the conversation had gone this morning...

Fortunatly I play COH because I like the game not because I think the Veteran rewards are fantastic, well, that and Icon. The one thing that has stopped me playing other games so far is character customisation/Icon so a discount in my favourite shop... well has to be a good thing. Sure my main 50 has got 3 costume tokens left... but by the time I get to 57 months I reckon she might be sitting with none...

My main concern is will this 50% discount stack with that 25% discount from the fashion designer day job. Here's hoping.

Not sure if people have seen this but came across this app today that I thought may help budding creatives out there to make piccys

http://www.sumopaint.com/web/

It's very cool... only had a little play about with it so far but will be trying to make a proper picture in it later!

What Monkey?

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2. Solo a GM. I remember a loooong time ago, Psygon solo'd Lucsa, I think it may have been on her Dark/Dark Defender, but I could be misremembering? Has anyone else done it? Or a different GM? Babbage or Jurassik for instance? Again, does it have to be a tanker?

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Good thread... I should point out though that I never solo'd Lusca, and I don't have a dark/dark defender I *did* solo the paladin with my Empath tho sometime before ED... when my real PC is back up and running in the next few days I may post a pic :P

As for other challenges, the only one I set myself when I started playing COH was to level a defender of every flavour to 50... however, with the release of new defender sets over the years the challenge keeps getting harder

So far I've managed Empath, Rad, Bubbles, Kinetics and Storm... leaving Sonic (35), Trick Arrows (23), Cold (38) and Dark (34). I'll get there one day I'm sure...

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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.

Really liking some of the costumes here - got a few ideas for future costumes

Here is another of mine: Kichiku - Inv/Fire Tank

Like Sapphic I quite like the big boots on small toons