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  1. Whats are deal for LvL/XP? Can we level outside the team or not? I mean with Super sidekicking staying static is less important these days.
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    Dopplegangers...

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    Originally Posted by Zombie Man View Post
    Branching was added to the game in Issue 12.
    Branching is not what I was talking about. I referring to Dopplegangers and there use.
  3. I just do what I do becuase I want to do it.

    I never saw a good reason to jump on something becuase it was popular.

    I never saw a good reason to avoid something becuase it was popular.

    I only ever seen a good reason to do either becuase it either interested me or not. If your only reason not to do something is becuase you don't want to be "one of the sheep" and want to be different and unique your most likely picking a poor reason.

    After all everyone is unique just like everyone else.
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    Dopplegangers...

    Personally I was a little let down to see this is only within a hand full of arcs and not some more wide reaching addition to the game.

    Hopefully we will see it added to more content later.
  5. Make an alt... Name him Bank.

    Email him Inf and Items.

    You now have your own personal bank just log in collect and re-mail out as needed. And if it is passable to mail to yourself his personal storage limits our moot only the hold time on email inbox would be an issue.

    If you can send to your @global then you don't even need an Alt at all.

    Just my 2 cents and most like how I will be doing it post i17
  6. I can hook you up with the salvage its only about 1 mill inf. Hunt me down tonight I'll drop the inf on you from one of my other toons.
  7. personally I usually just set it to Cryo and forget it. I do not find the debuff from chem or the dot from Pyro nearly as useful as the Slow/Hold of Cryo.


    YMMV
  8. Honestly I would not fault you for not having taken a Rez.

    Its goes along with that whole build stereotyping some teams have. Just becuase a set has some powers does not mean that is HAS to be in the build.

    As long as you are upfront about it when to do join a team and realize some will kick you for it. But these are normally the same people that would kick you becuase you don't have a Set Power Bonus list that scrolls post lvl 30. So most likely not the sort you would group with.

    And since you will rarely be grouping anyways as you stated I don't think it should matter at all.

    Personally I have Grav/Kin with only 3 powers from the Kin set and none of the buffs. Its an RP build and I like it like that. And yes the few times I join a Pug instead of my normal RPers I usually end up with someone calling me a Noob Since I don't have all them tasty farmtastic Kin powers they have become dependent on.
  9. Storm is actually a good set just a little underrated because its a bit different then most defender sets.

    O2 boost is a much unrated heal it is the only one in this set and its single target but it is also a short buff +Res(Disorient, Sleep, End Drain), +Perception and will pull someone out of disorient or sleep.

    Steamy mist is your standard aoe toggle res buff/stealth

    hurricane is one of them misused powers that gives the set a bad name. Its a toggle that makes a field around you that knocks mobs back but it also kills there tohit and there range. It is actually useful for protecting the blasters in the back where you will be anyways. But a lot of tards like to rush in with it knocking all the mobs away from the tank.

    Your top tier is lightning storm a nice dmg aoe that just looks cool.
  10. Nice... went from 24 to 42 that is 18 months. Must have been all my half months from coming and going so much over the years since I started my account in 04.

    Thank you vary much for the new system mmmmm 6 more vet teirs.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Bookkeeper_Jay View Post
    Masterminds. More and more Masterminds. So many Masterminds, in fact, that we'll crash the entire server list for an hour. That is my dream event.
    all MM Hemi raid?
  12. On blue side I'm picky about the pugs I join as I like to have fun I normally avoid anything that looks to farmy. But the actual ATs are never really a concern. Red side I'm a pug woman of ill repute(hmmm guess the forums don't like that other word) I'll pretty much join anything.

    That said I'll be rerolling one of my toons 'Night Messenger' as a DS/Dark

    All that said as an MM I love more MMs go go army of 8 MMs!
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Paradigm_Shift View Post
    Recumen will be online again in Freedom Court for quite a while if anybody cares to drop in today.
    I'll cook up a costume for Mu Outcast when I get home tonight but that is not going to be until sometime after 10pm EST.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Garjzla View Post
    I might have to make a new character as mine randomly stopped earning xp so my character AT may change
    Really? That is one epic bug there have you sent of a /bug on that?

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    Update on my toon.

    I got the basic idea down. Start poking around the costume then got roped into some random Troll is TROLL stuff so put it aside. So now I'm at work and can hammer it out a bit more.

    Camping "Mu Outcast" while I figure out a costume. (as a side yes I know Charlemagne is a guys name)

    Charlemagne Keraunos was born as part of a energetics program in the Rouge Isles. Her mother and father both were high pure blooded members of the Mu bloodline. With the help of fertility drugs and all manner of mystical assistance Charlemagne was ushered into the world as a complete failure. She even started out as a still birth that the doctors spent hours to breath back to life. Her childhood was harsh in the Isles as she spent all her time being watched, trained, and molded into what she was born for, to be one of the greatest Mu adepts. But in this to she failed never developing the ability to harness her bloodlines powers. She was deemed a complete failure when she turned thirteen. So like many other failed projects in the Isles she was resigned to fill in one of the many support roles. In her case it was to be trained as one of the many researchers.

    For a time Charlemagne started to enjoy her lot in life. The private training center was more pleasant then the harsh training of her Mu teachers. She also showed to have a knack science quickly gaining awards in the field of genetics. But her failure to her bloodline always haunted her. She would never be more then a cog in a greater machine. Once trained and assigned to a lab she spent years working away and slowly becoming used to the life of a researcher. It was early 2005 when she stumbled onto what looked like a hidden set of research files on the labs computer network. They did not appear to be official or even ear marked by any of Recluse's agents. Digging around she found these were the work of a spy and of all things he could be trying to get it seemed he was studying the Mu bloodline and energetics program. Deeply interested and not wanting to reveal him for fear his work would be locked way she started to shadow this unknown agent. He was trying to find a way to suppress the Mu bloodline powers in order to create some sort of anti-mu drug. And he was close but in all his paper work and research Charlemagne saw a glimmer of hope for her own lot in life. The drug he was working on had many failures one of these formulas seem to actually enhance the bloodlines power. She quickly started researching this on her own.

    It would be a year before she isolated the part of the drug that was responsible for unlocking the bloodlines power. In theory it would only amplify the power slightly but it was a start. She started testing it at her lab hiding her work as other related work. She was making sure it would not have any deadly side effects before she tried it out. But her brake through was short lived. The unknown agent had go to far and had drew attention to himself and indirectly to Charlemagne. The lab was stormed and all the researchers rounded up and taken away. She quickly found herself in a holding cell with the rest of her coworkers awaiting to be questioned. She knew the data files reveled that she had known about the mole and not done anything she was as dead as he was. She started to figure out an escape plan she had on her one dose of her drug. She knew it was not deadly but she did not know what if any effect it would have on her. Also she did not know which of the people around her was the mole that would be her only ally it looked hopeless.

    But then the building rocked from an explosion. Chaos erupted as guards rushed to deal with the attack. She looked around the cell everyone was scared except for Mark a fellow she had know since she started at the lab always quite and kept to himself. He was a lower lad tech but she knew then that he had to be the brilliant mind behind the files she found, he was the mole. A crab soldier came into the cell block he could only be here to make sure no one would escape. When he broke open the cell door and stood looming over them all she had no time to think. She quickly jabbed herself with her untested drug then grabbed Marks had.

    "We have to run." She blurted out and rushed the guard.

    She had no plan and had no idea if the drug would do anything but she had to try. When she hit the armored man it was like hitting a brick wall and bounced off landing on her back. He looked down and laughed while everyone on the cell looked on confused. But then the whole place exploded in red light as the world turned into a maelstrom of electricity. And her world went black. when Charlemagne woke it was to the sight of white and red suited people. She was strapped to something and the world around her was blurry. Someone spoke maybe it are one of them, maybe it was mark she could not tell be they told her.

    "your safe now." And that was all she wanted right now to be safe.

    She drifted off and dreamed of red storms. She would not reawaken for days and when she did it was at a Vanguard medical center in Paragon city.

    She had unlocked something deep inside her and broken free of the fate she was originally allotted in life. Since then she has taken up the life of a hero so maybe she was not the failure her parents had thought she was. No she was just not on the right path was all and now she had something greater to live for.

    ----

    Charlemagne taped into her bloodlines power via a chemical booster. This opened a connection to a primal fount of elemental electricity. While not truly Mu magic it was her bloodline's power that allowed the connection to be forged. Her origin is Science becuase of this.
  15. I am perfectly fine with Lightning.

    And I don't have many blasters at this time so I'll be the divinely inspired(or powered) Blaster... Origin Magic .... I'll spin something up tonight and post info.

    Question are we going to try and stay the same level or is Super Side kicking fine for the group with off team/side/downtime leveling?

    Edit... Oh wait brain storm.

    Going to do a exiled/escaped Mu as my blaster That would be an interesting thing to run with. *runs off to see what Mu (something) is open as a name.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Paradigm_Shift View Post
    Any origin works, methinks. It's just the elemental theme that's important. I'm found of natural characters, myself...

    Hmm. Incidentally, have we settled on a server ye?
    I believe it is looking like Virtue as it already has a high number of RPers and would allow for a better chance for outside RPing with the group.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by The_Robertroid View Post
    Well, you don't have to limit yourselves like that either guys, With power customization, we open doors for stuff, since you can color it as something else. And im guessing Magic is our chosen origin?
    correct. But I stand by my statement that what element I get would focus what AT would use. Its not a power selection issue as a flavor issue for me. I just happen to like the elemental powers for the elements I picked is all.
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    Originally Posted by Garjzla View Post
    Just to throw this out there dont you think that people should throw out what AT they would like to play as well just to make sure we have a well balanced team it isn't nesessary but it might be helpful
    Well honestly it all depends. For me what element I'd use would limit what ATs I would feel would fit it better. Like say fire while sure you can make all sorts of ATs out of fire I personally would end up using fire for some sort of go get'em sort of build and that would most likely end up a Blaster or Scrapper. But that's me someone else would take that same element and run a different direction with it.

    But to try and push things along here is what I would most likely build with my selected three choices.

    Void. = Dark/Dark ... Either a Defender and going with that weird sort of talks in the 3rd person sort of not totally in touch with reality sort of guy or a Tank and go with a more grounded fatalistic sort of 'we all die' sort of person that does what they do becuase it is just how things have to be. Think Eeyro as a tanker.

    Lightning = Elect/Elect scraper speedster. A impatient busy body. Or a Elec/Elec righteous blaster. Someone that fully believes they are on a path that is divine.

    Fire = Blaster and hands down the cheeriest person alive. One of them always on the bright side sort of people. Or Fire/Fire Scrapper(maybe tanker) that is a walking ball of chaos and just shy of being on the wrong side of the Blue/Red line. Think barely controlled pyro.
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    Originally Posted by Pious View Post
    On elemental personalities, I believe;
    • Water/Light: Rational, relaxed and dependable. Can be emotionally sensitive.
    • Fire/Electric: Energetic, pro-active, passionate and domineering. Sometimes self-destructive.
    • Air/Spirit: Social, entertaining and light-hearted. Can also be arrogant and impulsive.
    • Earth/Ice: Humble and grounded, thoughtful and creative, often perfectionist.
    I always find it amusing that there are these elemental stereotypes. Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_element for a dose of the various views on the elements from different cultures.
  20. Having recently returned to CoX I'd be up for something like this and might be able to bring my SO along with me.

    EST 10pm to 3am sun-Thursday or almost anytime Fri/Sat but prefer evenings.
    Already have lots of characters on Virtue so might have an existing toon that would work.
    Can poke me in game @Saice

    Tend to like tanks but also enjoy dark/dark defenders should that be wanted/need but all things are open I'm a vary flexible RPer so would be willing to roll something to fill in what ever ends up the unwanted element.

    edit forgot the pick three.

    Void, Fire, Lightning.... but honestly I'll roll almost anything.
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    Drugs in CoH

    I believe there is also reference to dyne coming in a black pill form too.

    edit: The wiki has this to say.

    "The drug itself is described as a green liquid, and is distributed in small doses in elegant black capsules, to make it appealing to those who are always looking for the latest designer drug."

    http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Dyne
  22. Hey thanks for all the feed back on this. Going to poke it a bit more then toss it into Mids and see how it goes. Yeah I do agree with moving stama up I currently have a WP/DB tank i've been playing with that I respeced to get stam into earlier to help with the toggles and the lack of endredux on the attacks and its working better so I will do the same with the WP/SS build.
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    Originally Posted by Pyber View Post
    You mean where its showing my Inf, HP and such? You can get that from your Combat Attributes window. Just open that up, right-click on the stats you want to monitor and choose to monitor it. You can have up to 10 stats in the Monitor window at a time.
    Thanks and mighty handy
  24. off topic... but how do you get that little info box there? That was not there last time I played CoX.
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    Origin Powersets

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    Originally Posted by Shuriken_BladeX View Post
    I don't know, it feels like generic power sets will get boring sooner or later. Sticking to elements and a couple weapons. Where do we expand from there?
    currently (and I might be wrong on this) but there is like some 580+ combination currently possible with all the ATs and powersets. So it will be a long time before we start running out of new things to try.