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Given that the Strike Pack/i19.5 contains no playable content and only system stuff, can we wait until i20 to decide if the Rare and Very Rare boosts were meant to be soloable or not? Just like Ultra Mode was ready before Going Rogue and released accordingly, it could be the Rare and Very Rare boosts plus the Target of the Week were ready but the (hypothetical) soloable method/content for "Notice of the Well" and "Favor of the Well" isn't ready/finished yet.

I'm pleased with what I see. I've got characters who will benefit from the Strike Target who aren't doing the Incarnate stuff (merits! yay!). And honestly? I'm fine with the badges since it's another carrot to encourage people to participate in the WST. I likely won't get the 10-time badge anytime soon, myself, so someone has to pick up the slack

Arg... pity my internet is down at home!

edit: I was hoping a new booster pack would be made available today... darn

Point taken. Of course, I do recall way back when the question was "who'd want to be a hero/villain?" Of course, that was before anyone knew about Alignment Merits and Powers.

Badges and merits, I guess? If you can do ALL the task/strike forces that's a lot of merits. If you go for all the short ones, can't you get more that way instead of doing the same short one repeatedly and getting diminishing returns?

Just a thought...

You guys have been in closed beta of one sort or another for most of this year, so thanks for when you do speak up!

Fun fact: it seems like it snows more here on Maui than in Georgia! Craziness, you say? Nope! Might I introduce you to Haleakalā!

Thanks to everyone, past and present, that made the game what it is today! The hard work is appreciated, defintely!

I posted:

I can totally understand wanting to move on to new challenges! Enjoy, God bless, and I hope that you get back to work as soon as you like at a place that you enjoy with people you come to love

I have to admit I was wondering about this the other day... of course, I'm looking at the Windows Phone 7 devices myself. Something done in Flash could work for any device except iThings, though, right?

Two easiest choices for me right now?

Level 50 Energy/Energy/Energy Blaster with Flight, Fitness (not yet respec'd), and Presence.

Level 50 Energy/Dark/Soul Brute with Flight, Teleport, and Speed (respec'd for i19).

I'll keep their PVE builds as is and just use my second or third build for PVP. Will do export their full builds from Titan Sentinal tonight sometime.

Right now I'm wanting to expand what I do in COH, and PVP is looking interesting. I've got a long-time love with fighting games, so I'm curious to see how something more organized/multiplayer would go.

That being said, I understand that PVE and PVP are two different creatures. Mechanics differences aside (I'll go looking for guide tonight), just dealing with other players, things moving faster, etc. As such I'm not entirely sure what I'm getting into.

I'm on Freedom mostly, and am in Hawai'i (UTC-10, don't do DST), so I know that's likely putting me out of sync with most players... by the time I'm ready to play after work, dinner, family time, etc., many of you are ready to go to sleep!

From what I've done in the past in other games and in COH/V:

* I like Bloody Bay and Siren's Call (hot spot battles). I've even gone there on my own. Seems like goals agree with me.

* Hate death match type situations. I don't like those in FPS games, and would much rather play with teams.

* I don't really have any sort preferred playstyle/role just yet for these things.

* I would prefer to get involved with a group/community rather than random pick-ups.

* Due to my personal schedule I'm not really able to highly commit to anything

* I am far, far from being a min/max'er.

Any thoughts? Advice? I've got tons of slots available on all servers (I tend to cull characters and never had a bad case of alt-itis), but I'm a really slow leveler. Just trying to find a place to start, I guess! Do I have any obvious misconceptions here?

What? You guys don't want a Basia Trzetrzelew... er... Desdemona wall print?

Seriously though - its nice to see COH's favorite Canadian is so popular

Got to play for a bit last night before bed.

I respec'd my Energy/Dark Brute which went as expected. Thanks to the IO system and how it gives an extra bang for the buck I was able to go without a slot on all my attacks so I could then slot my new powers. I also went through and took out some IO's that I got just to have some small additional, but not substantial, bonuses. Those went on the market. As such, yeah, the respec was quite successful!

Oh - I took one purple, listed it for 100 million, and someone bought it for 475 million. While its nice to have the influence, I will say I was trying to get someone a deal

Went from there to get my Alpha Slot. This go round was more enjoyable than the first time on Beta as Trapdoor wasn't a silly pushover! Very good! I also got an Armageddon: Chance for Fire Damage IO which, rather coincidentally, was slottable in one of my new powers! I was very happy! Anyhow - getting the slot was fun and I'm glad to have it.

Rolled an alt, went through Breakout, and had some fun there. Then went to a recent alt in Praetoria who was now enjoying inherent Fitness. Took him through the Nova zone event which was a lot more fun teamed than when I did it solo'd on test.

Switched to another 50, changed the animation for Power Bolt, added the new Fireflies aura, and called it a night.

Yes, I'm liking i19 so far

I'm hoping we'll see more animations as time goes on. I personally (for no particularly logical reason) am hoping and expecting i20 to be a big issue, so maybe we'll see more then. If anything, I'm hoping its like Power Proliferations - an ongoing project.

"Full Alpha slot?"

I'd say its just overall a perception, communication and expectation issue.

I say we got the full Alpha slot. We did not get all the boosts.Some folks are saying that the Alpha slot is incomplete without all the boosts. I personally don't get that totally understand that - the IO system wasn't deemed 9/10th's or 8/10th's the IO system without the Very Rares (Purples) and PVP IO's, after all.

In order for us to not get "the full Alpha slot" (at least in my mind) it would be because we could only do part of the requirement to unlock it. Say Mender Ramiel's total arc was broken up into parts, with each part released per issue. Or we had to earn X, Y and Z to unlock the slot, but only X was available in i19, with Y in i20 and Z in i21 - that'd be 1/3 of the Alpha slot released.

Of course, again, perceptions and expectations will vary and most people will have a relatively sound reason for why they've got the position they do.

I'm quite glad to see i19 launched (only 7 more hours - minimum - before I can play at home). I was very pleased with the beta, and look forward to the new content. It'll likely be sometime next year before my SG can get around to doing Apex since most of us solo and alt heavily but we'll live

That being said, I should have my Alpha slot on one of my two 50's, should have one of my 50's respec'd, and generally be making progress towards getting a common Alpha boost tonight!

Speaking of PVP - Black Friday holiday shopping would be all the more dangerous @_@