Santorican

Originally Posted by Avatea

81 Month Veteran Reward

• Uncompromising: 81 Month Veteran Badge
  
  
  
• For 81 months in City of Heroes you will also earn a power called Return to Battle that will revive your character with full health and endurance as well as granting you large inspiration buffs. However, it has a very long cooldown time.

84 Month Veteran Reward

• Loyal Customer: 84 Month Veteran Badge
  
  
  
• In addition to the badge, for 7 years in City of Heroes you will be able to remote access the Auction Houses with the slash command /auctionhouse and gain an additional Character Slot.

Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect

Problem there is, if the guy you know built that character specifically for PvP, he probably has purples and PvP IOs up the wazoo in his build. You are probably not going to get close to his build without using them.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

What about "Metal Depression" or "Bronze Gulch"

Originally Posted by DanZero

Statistically, more recharge = more damage. You want your heavy hitter up every third attack. You want Aim and Buildup up after every downed mob. You want hibernate up asap. You want Frostbreath and Ice Storm on as often as possible.

Even getting close to perma hasten makes a HUGE difference. If you can get 60% recharge and stay soft capped, you are golden.

If you're me, you skip defense entirely in your primary build, and crank damage and recharge to 140% with hasten up at all times, get your self rez on a short timer, use your holds and scare the crap out of other players when you decide to rip. Personally, defeat is only a speed bump. Soft cap defense is for soloing EBs and I don't do that much.

Originally Posted by AmazingMOO

We've seen a few costume pieces attached to screenies that are leading players to believe that it's possible NCSoft is going to release a new 'Animal' booster pack in the near future. Among them seem to be feline and avian head models, avian foot models, and 'Toho Films'-style reptile feet.

(If these are not called "'Zilla Feet" in the costume options, there is no justice in this world.)

Obviously, these teasers are doing a lot to get hopes up and speculation roaring. Knowing that there's no way that all of these will be in any given booster, here are my hopes for included pieces and goodies

- A 'Stripe' pattern for the Bushy Tail

- A 'Stripe' pattern for the bushy tail. I have a racoon character, and a good friend has a ferret character that could use this.

- Stripes for the cat tail.

- A curling 'Squirrel' tail.

- A rodent head, preferrably with big cheek pouches.

- Rounded 'retracted' style hand models that look like a cat's paw without the claws extended.

- A leonine mane

- An 'All fours' pose emote that would allow a character to drop into a digitigrade quadrapedal stance.

- An 'On the Hunt' run pose power that allows a character to run in a digitigrade quadrapedial fashion.

- A 'Dry Off' emote, which causes the character to shake rythmically.

- A Texture Compositor build in to the costume editor to allow characters to 'paint their own stripes.'

- A 'Go Fetch' emote that throws randomly a bone, a stick, or a frisbee

- And heres the big one that would more or less allow super animals to exist as a new 'Gender' in CoH -- A new quadroped animal body type.

So, yeah. Your guess is is good as mine on when any of this would ever be implimented. What hopes and speculation do you guys have for the pack?

Originally Posted by Werner

The cardiac boost is amazing. My Katana/Dark endurance numbers are almost that bad in Mids'. I'm not sustainable for AV and pylon fights yet, but it's more than enough for regular play. With the uncommon cardiac, he'll probably still bleed out in longer fights, but that's what blues are for, and the very rare will improve on that.

But if you can trade only a few decimal points of defense for significantly better endurance management, I agree that would be worth it, at least to me.

Originally Posted by Snowvein

Curious... has anyone played with updates to these builds (particularly the Moderate Elec/SD) for i19? I couldn't find anything posted, but my search-fu may be weak.

Originally Posted by War Witch

Hey everyone,

I was out on my walk at lunch today in the beautiful Northern California sunshine when I started to reflect on how lucky I feel to be working on City of Heroes and I began to do a mental checklist of what, specifically, I appreciate. So it triggered an idea of Friday Appreciation Day and what it is about City of Heroes I’m grateful for. So, being a positive sort of woman, and trying to be more pro-active about letting people know what I admire, appreciate or value about them as part of my New Year’s Resolution, I thought I’d start this thread.

So this #FAD could go the way of Bass Mouth Billy and Chia Pets or it could pick up steam and give you guys an opportunity to tell each other something that will make you guys feel – well – appreciated. It could be that you met your wife playing City of Heroes, or you love your Supergroup, or you were having a really bad day and read some freaking hysterical NPC dialogue that turned it around for you, or you love to fly and CoH let you do it for the first time. Truly, ideas and impressions are up to you guys.

I only have a few requests and I hope that you honour them.

• Keep it positive and be sincere
• Don’t hijack this thread to hop on a soap box about a non-related issue that picks you

That’s about it, actually. I like to keep things simple!

So I’m going to start us off, and you’ll notice that my appreciations aren’t just about the game, but about all different aspects of City of Heroes from NCsoft to coworkers to the players.

*cracks knuckles*

Okay, here I go. Don’t feel like you have to compete with me, as we all know, I’m a talker! One or two would probably suffice! But, since I instigated this craziness, I’m going to dig deep into several years of memories.

I appreciate / am thankful for / like the fact that / love / find enjoyment in:

• Being hired on this project in the first place; as a part-time office manager I just wanted to be part of something special, even if it was to file papers or clean out waste bins
• Having a job that allows me to take care of my family
• Having the opportunity to do something creative and exciting
• Knowing that what I do in the game makes people smile, even if it’s just to read some silly dialogue or find an easter egg
• The friendships I’ve made over the last (nearly) 9 years of developing City of Heroes
• The support from Real World Hero who promoted not only the MS Walk I participated in, but the Susan G. Komen 3 Days for the Cure walk as well (and, of course, everyone who donated so that I could participate!)
• The gifts that players have sent me over the years because they’re so kind (amazingly gorgeous rock formations, a scarf, brownies, Ascendant O’s, letters, chocolate, cookies (even Italian cookies!), gift baskets, Valentines (even if they were – technically – just to War Witch the character, not the dev), etc.
• Meet and Greets and Conventions where I’ve had the blessing to meet you guys, so I could encounter the real person behind the avatar or forum name
• The first time I ever loaded the game (being so used to fantasy) and standing in a real city and then, oh my gosh, FLYING
• The pranks we’ve played on each other over the years, even the early ones, where I’ve been punked several times from Oreo toothpaste cookies, electro-shock pens, Tootsie Roll shenanigans, and Bertie Bot barf-flavored jelly beans
• The wonderful company events the work has provided over the years from parties to celebrations to contests – just to keep us employees happy (my other jobs never did that!)
• Double monitors – where else would I get to have TWO (I never thought I needed two massive monitors until I actually got them)
• Special friends I’ve met in the game who have touched my heart – they know who they are (you are sweet and courageous and wonderful, each of you)
• Seeing City of Heroes on the shelves for the first time and every box since!
• Rikti Beta where I got to attack all our beta testers as a Rikti! That was super fun. They took it all in stride!
• Spending time with players in game with them never knowing who I am
• Laughing out loud as I read the Ascendant dialogue with Saul on the other end of the line – sheer brilliance
• The wonderful videos that players have put together using City of Heroes as a backdrop (Samuraiko – I bow to your skillz, too!)
• The stories about how City of Heroes has helped people through hard times

Ok, I could see myself going on for a few more pages here, so I’m going to cut myself off. But you get the idea!

Have fun! It’s Friday Appreciation Day! (By the way, this works outside of the game, too, so tell your neighbor, your co-worker, your mailman just what you appreciate about them. You'll make their day.)

Melissa “War Witch” Bianco