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Ya know what Pipsy, I didnt even know that thread still EXISTED til after I posted this idea! I scrolled down and you can imagine my shock because I remember when that thread was first started, so I was like WHOA! So hell yeah, Big Red Ball should/could be included in the Sports Pack!! AWWWWW YEAH!!

Also, just thought of hockey and other face masks.(Casey Jones themes hero for CoH or Jason themed villain for CoV anyone?)

Ok basically just expanding on CybinMonde's post in another thread about travel powers. His idea, and I like it.

Flying Platforms you can stand on and they can be made of energy, electricity, fire, metal and some other suggestions that Cybin made, I thought this was a great idea for a travel power. (Silver Surfer, Gwen from Ben 10) The power is basically fly but you are standing/riding a platform of some sort.

Dont know how exactly to implement it, or even WHEN?(CoH2 maybe?)

So CybinMonde if you out there this ones fore you!

WHOA! hold on a sec! Maybe I came off wrong in my previous posts, I am NOT a pvper, or at least I'm not a REGULAR pvper. My fault for the misconception there. I would LIKE to actually enjoy pvp and feel kinda like I have a chance for once, thats why I was askin about it.

I'm really more of a pve guy. Its just that I have a handfull of high lvl heroes, I've been around the block in this game and experienced just about everything but my pvp experience is limited because I like to play blasters and I kinda get envious of players that LIKE their particular hero, concept and all, and as a BONUS, they are dam near GODS in pvp AND pve, like most Tanks and scrappers I know.

But I will take this knowledge and advice and go forward with rebuilding my energy blaster and see what I can come up with.

Yeah Bill thats what I meant, the childish comments I see regularly across the forums. No need for that, but I am very open to criticism and honest feedback. Thats what I'm lookin for. So have at it!

Also, I like the SG hoop idea, and the "catch" idea, AND the "get hit by baseball and stunned" idea! Hell, we're off to a great start already.

I figured you would come in here with something good to add tho Bill. Thanks.

AWWWWW YEAH!!

Ok, hear me out now. I was flying around and landed on a basketball court in Brickstown and thought, "Dam, wish I had a basketball to shoot in that basket maybe to pass the time or somethin". And then it hit me...

A SPORTS PACK!

Similar to the Magic Pack and the other packs that you can purchase for your account in CoH!

Ok, I didnt sit down for days to come up with this so dont bite my head off but I was just thinkin something like this if they ever decided to create a Sports Themed Pack or Athlete Themed Pack.


-Baseball
Ok, you know the Mystic Fortune power right? Well this could be a power where you click on a player, then click the power and suddenly you are in a pitchers stance with a glove and ball like a pitcher staring down a batter right before the pitch, the prompt comes up to the "Batting" player..."Superguy would like to throw you a pitch, do you accept?" They click YES and a bat appears in their hands as they stand in a batters stance, you throw, he swings, and sometimes you hit a homerun, sometimes you get a STRIKE! If they hit a homerun confetti pours down on him or something.If you get the strike then confetti on you I guess. Not sure what kind of bonuses should be associated with this if any, but maybe yall can help?

-Basketball Courts
Ok, there are several b-ball courts in differnt zones and I was thinkin, what if the Devs made the actual Baskets on the courts clickable, where you can click on it like you would a badguy, and use your OTHER sport power BASKETBALL and shoot a basketball at the hoop, maybe each shot gives you like 2 influence, the further away you are, the more inf. you get and if you have AIM, if you click that BEFORE you shoot, it increases your chances of makin the shot. Of course the ball would just magically dissappear and reappear in your hands after each shot or somethin.

-Sports Costumes
With the sports pack you also get access to sports uniforms, pants and jerseys and the pads that go with them! Baseball, basketball, football, lacrosse, hockey, etc. You have the option of wearing the associated pads under the uniforms, or just wearing like, a football jersey with your choice of whatever else. Also, the option for black marks under your eyes like football players, cleats, and if you use weapons, then Golf Clubs and cricket bats and things like that as an option. Also sports helmets too.

-New Sports themed Emotes
1)Remember that classic Michael Jordan celebration they always show on TV where he makes the winning shot and jumps in the air PUNCHING the air, then lands and punches the air over and over in celebration? Something like that maybe? ya know, maybe you took down an AV with your team and it was a rough go, so now its time to for a well deserved, SPORTS THEMED, celebratory emote!(not that the VICTORY emote isnt cool too devs)lol

2)Golf Swing emote-self explanatory, golf club appears in your hands.

3)Trophy Emote-well, basically you hold up a trophy like the true champion you are as if you just won the championship game. And the trophy has a big "#1" on it lol.

4)Ready Set Go Emote-you get down like you are on the starting blocks at a trackmeet, then the next second your in the SET postion like you are about to take off...what follows is up to you!

Cant think of anything else at the moment. And I know I know, SOME of these things like the whole basketball court thing MIGHT be a little "extra", but hey, I figured they got "Juggling" and "Fortune Telling" in the game I figured why not?

If I think of more please believe I'll be back lol.
NOTE: Please dont come in here with negativity, I aint got time for nonsense. Also, I understand the devs have more important things to do, but this is the place for future ideas, thats why I'm in here. Just wanna add some fun to our already fun gaming experience.

AHHH! I think I'm gettin what you guys are saying now!

So if I try and focus on maybe ONE type of bonus it makes life a lot easier in terms of maximizing IO's and rebuilding my hero! You know what I kinda figured that!

Ok so you guys have convinced me and I'm gonna do it. I got a lvl 50 energy blaster just waiting to be tested and I"m currently runnin AE missions, selling, etc. to gain inf. to buy stuff. Now the only question is as a blaster, do I go for maximum offense and whatever bonuses that come along are icing on the cake, or go for defense because I'm made of wet tissue paper?

Either way I'm lookin forward to it and I'll keep yall updated. Thanks again to everyone, that was a BIG help.

Ok I've been in this game for a LONG time, but I kinda dibbled and dabbled in WW and the whole invention thing. Wasnt a big fan AT FIRST, but very slowly as I learned everything I got into it.

Now, I only have ONE set out of all my blasters and thats some Knockback set on my energy blaster I did just for kicks. All the stuff I really want was too expensive at the time. But it just seems that all people talk about in-game is "gotta set this guy out to make him ultra-mega-super" or "Nice sets such-and-such" after clicking on that hero I guess and seeing their info.

Now me? First off I"m a blaster, cant do too much about defense but my main concern is damage. So it would seem to me that I need my powers to be effective vs. having I dont know...3%regen increase from buying a superexpensive set and losing the ACTUAL effectiveness of my power.

Now, this is all my perspective and as it has in the past, it CAN change with the right people helping to give me a DIFFERENT perspective, I'm very open-minded.

So I gotta understand...I lose the overall effectiveness of my power, lets say PowerBurst, because I used an IO set to help increase very small percentages of OTHER stuff?

Guys....Is it worth it? Help me understand. Not at all a flame or complaint. I'm a nice dude. lol

ahhhh ok, so this is exactly what I thought. Its still unfair for us in pvp no matter how strong our defenses are. Yes we're harder to kill, but it still explains why I always see the Villains in the pvp zones always goin for us blasters first.

And as far as pve its what I thought as well, it definately makes more of a difference. It's just gonna either cost a lot to get to that point, OR I gotta carry go pick up lucks in between every mission. lol

Hey I wanna thank you guys for comin in here and helpin a fellow blaster out. When I get a couple more tens of millions of influence I'm gonna test it out. For now I'm gonna slot up for damage and equip the Lucks.

Ok, I keep seeing blasters in-game talk about the IO sets and purple IO's and stuff they have on their blaster for defense.

I've tried every kind of defense this game has to offer a BLASTER on here and it still doesnt do much good. Yeah it helps slightly, but I'm still the first to die in a mission though.

I even had a blaster once tell me she had something like 10% defense from her sets and I quote "I'm like a tank on my feet". I couldnt LOL because I didnt know if she was joking or not.

So because I'm not about to waste MY inf on expensive IO sets just to be disappointed I'd like to know,

-Can IO's really provide scrapper, even TANK like defense?

-Can anybody here go toe-to-toe with a tank pvp and win using these sets?

-Is it worth it?

-Or should I just skip defense and go for more damage?

hey go easy on the OP, I understand what he's sayin because I felt the same way but BEFORE I14 came out. Like, "why do I wanna spend my in-game time makin a mission when I could be doing something fun like...playing the game?"lol

But then I thought about it. Half the fun IS makin the missions if thats what you are into. Then, the other half is gettin people to congratulate you on how dope your mission is. OR, you could just make a mission the way YOU like missions and play through yourself!

So my attitude changed about it and I never once made a MA mission yet! lol

My issue would be why cant I find any CREATIVE, story-driven missions in the MA? lol

"American Welcome", here I come!

Man there are so many different little tools and stuff in Psychic/Mental you almost dont even feel like a blaster!

Knockbacks, holds, stuns, sleeps, confusion, AoE's, some pink Tornado thingy lol. Oh, wait, dont forget, you are a blaster so DAMAGE off tops!! The possibilities are HUGE! Lotta combat-oriented eye candy, and not just cuz the powers are pink lol.

Man I had to put my lvl 48 blaster on the shelf cuz there are SO many ways to play him I'd need all you guys' influence PLUS my own to slot him out the way i want him on BOTH builds. I just dont have the time to mess wit that dude right now! LOL

so I'll be skippin YOU GUYS' arcs, thanks. lol

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2) Disagreed.

As pointed out low-level Blasters bloom very early. As in, you create it and hit the Tutorial and you've bloomed. Early-game Blasters are the easy street going up to the rocky road of the end-game content.

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Bloom early then they wither quickly

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No they dont wither quickly, its all about building them right and playing them right. My first blaster was a Fire/Fire when CoH was released and I never had a problem soloing at any level.

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Cuz you were fire/fire. I breezed through HELLA lvls with him too and almost had to stop and wonder if the game suddenly got easier when the devs put in the new patches lol but he still ate tons of pavement on the way. Wasnt much I could do about that except pop purple pills lol.

Look, blasters suck at defense, you're gonna get hit.

They have not the lowest, but pretty low hitpoints. Wont take much to kill you naturally at ANY lvl.

There are definately plenty tools in their arsenal, but after playing EVERY blaster in the game, the only difference is what they actually DO and HOW you play to your advantage.

Thats it! no extra nonsense about blasters being "easy to play when I play them" and "you're not doing something right". It just takes time to figure out how to quite simply "last longer".

I personally aim for highest damage dealing guy first with a heavy attack, if I have a "Hold" attack use that, and run in guns blazing, or stand back guns blazing.

To the OP you hit the nail on the head with everything you said, except having a short list of powersets? Yeah I cant help ya there. I pray for more myself everyday. So maybe the prayers will help? lol

Yes Folonius I tried it last night with the same question in mind as I'm choosing CJ like "man I hope this works" lol. But yes you can use hover and CJ at the same time. I like to fly tho, sooooo maybe flight pool and fighting pool?

Captain_Apple I however am in a GREAT mood! How bout yourself? lol

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As you can see from all the unnecessary arguing/fingerpointing/I'm right you're wrong nonsense here in the forums...
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The mood isnt great...

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Well, this is an Internet Forum, of course there's going to be unnecessary arguing/finger pointing/I'm Right You're Wrong nonsense, I'd be surprised to find anything else

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Which is one of the reasons people like myself hate coming into the forums. I can only take so much negativity and its just a game lol.

However, I think I may have played (or started playing?) your mission Xenite! I remember seeing it and sayin "dam, I gotta try that one", but maybe I was sleepy or got invited to a team or somethin. LMAO Either way I'm gonna go check it out not now but RIGHT now!(as well as Wicked, Wicked Wonderland lol)

So to the OP, to sum it all up...


As you can see from all the unnecessary arguing/fingerpointing/I'm right you're wrong nonsense here in the forums...


The mood isnt great. LMAO Enjoy the game! I know I am.

Well I'm not really a tanker type of guy I tried it once or twice and wasnt feelin it. I like to dish out damage, as much damage as possible.

Now, I know my flaws in being a blaster and all that but I'm dead set on redoing my eng/eng build so that he survives much longer. This is the first time I've actually really cared about number crunchin and all that to be honest, so I'm gonna take some advice yall have given me, and we'll see how it goes.

P.S. Rebuilt him on "build 2" last night but didnt read your post til this morning and DAMMIT Folonius why didnt I take the fighting pool instead of combat jumping and hover?! LOL I'm an idiot.

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a) Toons I farm with are arc/mm blaster and fire/kin troller. Fire/kin troller is the better of the two, but with AE, you can sorta make anything a farm toon with the right power choices.

b) They only lowered rewards for custom groups I think. If you use a premade group, the rewards remain the same. And yes, swarms of guys is the only way I farm. I usually go in with an 8 man team, and finish with a 3 man team because everyone quits cause it's to hard. I spawn the entire map before I start because of this. I have an Ice/SS tank that isn't real good on the AoE attacks, but he can solo 8 groups of winter horde at the same time, and it's alot of fun.

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Now see? THIS is why I have "hero envy" NOW. The tanks that can take on 8 groups of ANYTHING and live to talk about it. LMAO

And Another_Fan I do agree my aoe's get kinda nasty, especially when teamin, as a long-time player I know how to use my "soft control powers" properly. but dam man, sometimes ya just wanna blow [censored] up and in every direction ya feel what I'm sayin?! lol

Naw but seriously, maybe he needs purples to kill quicker? But then if I aggro more than 5 guys its a wrap for me, they kill quicker than I can. Maybe its just not meant to be on a eng/eng blaster? Again, not for farming purposes but I'd like to at least feel super for once in his career, ya know?

Either way, thanks so far for the insight guys.

ahhhh I see!

Well thank you so far JKwervo and Another_Fan, I didnt know exactly how people were doing this. And man I'm so glad to see people still enjoy this game after the big mess.

But I'm assuming my energy blaster is the wrong way to go then huh? lol He just cant do that type of stuff and he's 50.

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That is a sad story, STL_Heroes. That type of behavior is one reason I dislike the farming culture. It is a good example of a definite negative impact that that culture has on other cultures in game.

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Yeah man it is, but I try, because I like to see this game flourish and everyone having a great time. I remember when getting FLY was a BIG DEAL to some people so they could stand on top of the Atlas Statue. lol Now you log in and its like...

"Must...


join...


AE team..."


And then we all eat brains afterwards. It's nuts!

Since "farming" is the taboo/magic/orgasmic word of the month, I was sittin here wondering...

When folks talk about farming, especially those that farm solo...

a) Are you guys just using Tanks? I got a scrapper that gets down but even he cant last that long solo.Quite frankly I'm a blaster at heart(my main heroes are blasters) and God KNOWS he cant solo no farm by himself. Unless the badguys were created to be superweak. lol

b)It's not a challenge or fun anymore because the devs lowered the amount of xp/rewards you get? Cant you still make/do a AE mission with swarms of guys and still have fun?

I know I know, we've been over this but I havent really gotten a straight answer about either of these, it keeps coming up wherever I turn in the forums about AE, and was just curious to see what you guys think.

Note:I am not for or against anything as far as this is concerned I could care less what happens in the end. Been here since CoH beta. I love this game regardless. I'm playin a superhero, thats good enough for me!

See ya Chaos and Chrysalis! Wish I got a chance to play with ya. Good luck in everything you do and your future. We loves ya!

GOOD QUESTION!!

MY answer? Its not a good mood for the game.


It's funny because I've always been the guy on the Victory server in Atlas tryin to reach out to players and add a little fun to the game, on teams or just in general. Well, I log into Atlas tonight with my usual "HELLLOOO ATLAS PARK!", and no response. There were at LEAST 20 ppl there and no response. Usually I get a "Hi Mike" or a "Go to hell Mike!" from one of my friends or regular players I know from the game lol, but not even a smart aleck response from anybody.

Tried once more to conversate with folks via local OR broadcast just to liven things up like I normally do, and nothing. I even tried pushin a few buttons by sayin "Seems like everyones in a AE farm-grind trance"....nothin.

It's scary, crazy, and really kinda strange for a player like myself to see this type of thing. Oh, but wait, THEN I playfully said on broadcast "AE team forming, 1 spot left, send tell asap!!" and guess what? Yup, you guessed.

Of course I wasnt formin no team I was lookin for creative missions to solo myself, but its becoming pretty sad in Atlas Park, the mood is "Hypnotized by AE grinding" as I like to put it.

However I see things straightening themselves out for AE and everyone, theres still plenty of ppl that do OTHER stuff and are fun to hang around in-game, and I still have fun playing CoH and will continue to make the game as fun as possible for everyone around me.

Sorry the post was so long, had to get this off my chest. LOL

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Also, dont know if anyone has seen Ben 10 but maybe some kind of crystalized-style powers like that green diamond/crystal hero from season one that can either shoot the shards from his hands, or cause the green crystal rock to come up outta the ground and encase the badguys like ice freezes people. And the best part is he doesnt have to be touching the ground to do either one of these.

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Take the existing animation for the 'Fortune' power from the Magic booster, and change the power visuals so that, instead of a whirling shroud of cards, you have either a whirling shroud of stones (dealing Smashing damage) or crystal shards (dealing a mix of Smashing and Lethal damage).

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AHHH! Now we're onto something! I like this idea right here. Also to reference another character, what about that chick from Teen Titans, the blonde chick Tara that could...wait she was a controller, nevermind lol.

Also to windenergy I got the visual now and yes I could definately see that working.