Steel_Shaman

I say nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

About the response I would expect from the Resistance.
And these are the people you Primal Earth folks think we should put in charge??

My dear, evil is a point of view. To the Loyalists, the supposed heroes of Paragon City are evil. They come from a world constantly teetering on the brink of destruction, see themselves fit to judge another world (such arrogance), and then decide to overthrow the government just because they don't like it.

So who, exactly, is evil again?

Bingo. Two of my SG mates made the mistake of trying to do a Numina the other day. . . .

Let's just say they got a teensy bit frustrated at the lack of regular mobs on the streets. After all I can't repeat what they really said in Vent without getting my forum account at least temporarily banned.

As has already been pointed out, if the OP had used just a bit less venom in their post they might have gotten a more positive response from the community. But ranting like a lunatic doesn't really accomplish much. I for one agree that some of the older arcs are in desperate need of a revamp. But I do not agree with delivering that sentiment in a rather inflammatory fashion.

Sad but true.
It always takes me significantly longer to get all the sets I want on a Villain than a Hero.

Rounding up the entire Resistance into one spot and then nuking it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

I think it's just 'cause you're evil Switch. (Sorry, just couldn't resist.)

On a more serious note, I do have a theory about this. I'm sure we've all had those times when the game just decides that our attacks are going to miss. A lot. It's like the random number generator gets stuck in a range for a moment. Hence the reason we have the Streak Breaker code.

Here's an example of what I'm talking about: a while back playing my Mind/Fire Dom I distinctly recall a mission fighting Longbow. I hit Mass Hypnosis on a spawn of 6 mobs and saw the word "Missed" 6 times. I checked my combat log and every single attack had a 95% chance to hit and the game rolled between 96 and 100 6 times straight.

I think that very same phenomenon is what contributes to the weird drop rates some people see. The game just gets stuck in a range and funnels all the drops to Team Member B. I've run with teams on which practically no one but myself got anything and my recipe inventory filled up almost every other mission.

Anyway, just my 2 influence. I think it's a quirk of our random number generator. I wonder, does the Streak Breaker apply to recipe rolls? If not, maybe it should.

Understood completely.
My bit of amazing luck last night was after a 3 month drought of my own.

That being said, I have grouped with Quantum_Particle several times over the last few weeks and I can personally attest to his entire account being very buggy. I've seen some pretty bizarre things go down with his characters that affected no one else on the team, so I feel for the guy.

And oddly enough, I got two in the space of 30 minutes last night.
That's the bizarre thing about a random drop system like ours: some people just seem to never get lucky, while others seem to get lucky all the time.

Granted we couldn't buy slots when CoV first came out but people pretty much said the same thing when it was looming on the horizon. And we got some additional slots when it launched.

So I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the Devs say.

I see.
So the fact that I have had to turn down people asking to join my mission team every night for the past three nights due to my team being full means a dead server right? And the fact that I can pretty much get a TF if I sneeze sideways also means a dead server I suppose?

Here's a funny, but related and true story: The other day I was doing an ITF. After Romulus died the last time and we took to the towers to finish off the Cimeroran Traitors I looked at one of my global channels to see the following (names changed of course, and paraphrased a little).

Randomguy: Anything going on?
Randomguy: This server is so DEAD. OMG this game is dying!

This was followed by several people in the channel basically asking him "lol what?". Because we didn't ALL drop what we were doing and instantly respond with "Randomguy! OMG JOIN MAH TEAMZ!" Our server is dead. Yeaaaah......sure. Never once did it occur to this little fellow that maybe people didn't instantly respond because they were busy doing things.

Oh and by the way, I play on Liberty, not Freedom. One of the servers I have seen people describe as dead. Let me assure you, it is very much alive.

I think the better question is: which med to PP forget to take today? Or if she isn't on any, maybe she needs to consider some.

This concept seems to trip up a lot of new players to CoH, doesn't it?
DocDominion, to make a long story short, CoH is very different from other MMO's in that a pure healer isn't really necessary. (i.e., you don't really need one person standing in the back spamming heals all day long to keep everyone alive). That being said, healing does have its place and can be a very useful thing to have around. But making healing the single focus of your character is going to in the long term prove very boring for you.

For example, my first (and so far only) level 50 hero is a Tank. He is softcapped for defense, which means that he rarely takes damage from anything short of an AV beating on him. He can literally charge into a very large spawn of mobs and sometimes take no damage at all from their initial strike. A purely healing-focused character on a team with him would get very, very bored.

In CoH, the role of "healer" most often takes the form of buffs for your teammates, debuffs on the mobs and (in the case of Controllers) CC'ing mobs so they can't do anything at all. Healing does play a part in that, but it to be honest it is not the most important part.

I know all the above might sound very strange to someone coming to CoH from an MMO with a more traditional setup for team support, but trust me, it's true. If you focus only on healing you are cheating yourself out of what could have been a much more entertaining experience.

Thanks for the advice. I hit 38 last night and built out both my Tri-Form and Human Form builds with level 40 IO's. I usually wait until around then as the 40 IO's are roughly +3 SO's in strength.

And you're right about Eclipse. As soon as I got it I jumped into a spawn of Fifth Column to try it out. Hitting the resistance cap was very very nice.

I've only managed two 50's over the years, and I stopped playing both of them almost as soon as they hit 50. I can easily see me not doing this with my Warshade. He's the only character I've played thus far that I'm truly interested in maxing out with sets. It's going to take a while to do so for both builds, but hey, Paragon City isn't going anywhere.

Afterimage, my experience was almost the complete opposite of yours. When I made my first VEAT, all I wanted was to play a Crab Spider. I did NOT want to be an AR corruptor. I agree that once you branch a VEAT feels like a totally different character. However, unlike you, I detested the first 23 levels and got them over with as soon as possible.

Same experience on my Fortunata. I didn't want to be a Claws scrapper/stalker, yet there I was, stuck with a totally different playstyle for the first 23 levels of the character's life.

I agree with Memphis Bill. The branching mechanic needs to come earlier. MUCH earlier.