Targoth
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1. Are you male or female?
Male
2. What ATs do you mostly play, and for what reason(s)?
Tanker / Scrapper / Mastermind / Defender. ( I enjoy beating the missions using different playstyles )
3. Redside, blueside, purpleside, or any combination of the above? Mostly Blue. I just enjoy the missions / scenery better there.
4. What are your favorite story arcs?
I used to enjoy soloing the old version of Positron when I had the time. Portal missions are fun too.
5. What makes you like this game?
Wide range of unique playstyles.
6. What other games do you play?
Everquest / Everquest II / DDO
7. How long have you been playing?
CoH? a few years. MMO's, since EQ launched
8. How many alts do you have, what is the average level range, and how many are level 50?
At least 20 alts that I actually play. Only one level 50. Some of my most frequently played characters have xp disabled.
9. Do you bother with softcaps, set bonuses, and all that numerical stuff? What difficulty settings to you normally use?
Yes, I use all the numerical stuff. I love set bonuses. Difficulty is based upon the capabilities of the character, I turn it up high enough to have a need to actually think about what I am doing. (My level locked 22 dark / willpower tanker for example does not even take damage with difficulty less than +1/x3 for example) -
Quote:Of course, Rikti are modified humans not aliens.Originally Posted by Zikar
No, they could be Rikti from an alternate dimension to the Rikti we know. Alternate dimensions allow for more than one dimension filled with Rikti, just like there is more than one dimension filled with humans.
Not all of them are from another dimension.
Some of the Ritki have managed to regain their human identities and / or defect to Vanguard. -
I wish for immortality of the type possessed by Solomon Gursky in the short story "The Days of Solomon Gursky."
This is a nano-tech form of immortality, though while not absolute, does permit him to live long enough to witness the end of the universe, and the rebirth of an infinite number of new ones. At one time he also creates thousands of copies of himself, which are seeded across the galaxy at random, though that is separate from the immortality itself.
In the end he gives up both his godhood and the memory of his godhood to enter a copy of his original universe, with the singular alteration that he never discovered the secret of immortality. -
Quote:Maybe for the first few thousand years.Originally Posted by Daystar_NA
i don't see what's wrong with not being able to die but healing at normal speed. as long as the healing includes the complete regeneration of any and all body parts that might be cut off, destroyed, ect. this power would be fine by me. sure it's not as good as invulnerability or super fast healing, but the not-being-able-to-die part is better then what i have now.
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Quote:Matter Eater Lad: The power to eat anything.Originally Posted by Castle
Wildfire -- "Hi, I'm a being made of superheated plasma contained in an environment suit." (Legion of Super Heroes)
Mr. Immortal -- He can die, over and over again, in horrific ways.
Basically, any power that made it impossible to have a nice, relaxing easy weekend.
"We kinda have this indestructible object and we need you to dispose of it."
Same issue where Wildfire flipped his visor open and released ALL of his energy in one blast, trying to stop an unstoppable demon that had already defeated Superboy. The demon was created by the device in question, and Wildfire was the last line of defense while Braniac and Matter Eater Lad were inside.
Eating the device drove Matter Eater Lad insane. -
Quote:My decker had a full set of rigger wires back when I played (I had the 1'st edition rules).Originally Posted by Castle
Your Decker should be hacking the enemies Smartlinks or tossing Drones at them during the action part of a run. In that regard, 4th and 4a are considerably more friendly than previous editions. You're right though, in that during the legwork portion the parts of the team not involved in such can get bored...but then, that's the case in any game where some characters specialize in non-combat and others specialize in combat.
A good GM can keep things going and/or integrate even the most hardcore min/maxed sam into the legwork mix.
I ran the vehicles, and I ran drones. While I was never quite as good as the people who where combat specialized, I could certainly hold my own.
On a side note, both of the street samurai in the group also had decks. It was a secondary skill for both of them, but they made good backup. -
Quote:Most of the guides I could find on /regen were written prior to Issue 9 so that is the information I was going off of. It is also why I am asking questions. I know things have changed but there are not many current guides explaining why specific choices were made.Originally Posted by Umbral
MoG has gone through some pretty severe changes over time. If you read a guide that was written prior to Issue 11 (wherein MoG was changed to its current awesome form), you most likely got truthful advice to avoid it like the plague. If you read one a guide that was written post I11 or received advice from another */regen player, that person is a complete idiot and needs to be slapped upside the head repeatedly until the brain damage they're obviously suffering from is corrected.
Current MoG is 15 seconds of complete unkillability that you can get nearly 20% uptime on. I would skip IH before I skipped MoG, and I haven't even designed a build that skipped IH. -
Thank you.
1. I am planning on using Ninja Run as my movement power. That will free up a power slot
2. In the short term there is no way I can afford the +rec uniques you have slotted. Will I be crippled if I drop Stamina before I get them? I will lose .84 end / sec
3. Without Health I will lose 8.95 hp / sec regen (just under 25% of my baseline)
4. I was already considering moving my augments in follow up over to Focused Accuracy
5. I was not really sure about MoG, I've read both good and bad about it. I'll take you advice on it.
I have been hoarding merits. Maybe I'll get lucky on my rolls once I hit 50 and get some of the more expensive IO like Numina's or the uniques.
I'll probably do my respec later today or tomorrow and gradually move from my current IO sets to the the ones you have listed as I aquire them. I want to hit 50 an see how my merit vendor rolls turn out. -
I am finally approaching level cap on my first character, my claws/regen scrapper. I know I've made a few mistakes in power choices as I've leveled up, and outgrown a few other powers that were useful when I took them.
I have been looking around for a while now for guides I can use for a respec to put my powers in order, but have yet to find anything really useful. I was looking for some advice on my build allowing me to maximize my resources.
For a start. I plan on dropping Manuevers, Tactics, Super Speed, and possibly Hurdle. I also plan on taking Combat Jumping and Shockwave. I have a fair amount already invested in IO sets, and will reuse much of what I have as I upgrade. I have around 50 mil to invest and plan on farming but know I cannot currently afford a fully purpled out build or most of the really nice uniques.
My goals are for solid PvE. I mostly have this, and am currently running at +0 +2 and would like to ramp up the difficulty. If anyone has some useful advice or ideas I would welcome them.
Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
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Level 50 Technology Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Claws
Secondary Power Set: Regeneration
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Fighting
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Swipe- (A) Accuracy IO
- (7) Damage Increase IO
- (33) Pounding Slugfest - Accuracy/Damage
- (34) Pounding Slugfest - Damage/Recharge
- (A) Healing IO
- (3) Healing IO
- (3) Healing IO
- (A) Analyze Weakness - Defense Debuff
- (13) Analyze Weakness - Accuracy/Defense Debuff
- (31) Analyze Weakness - Accuracy/Recharge
- (34) Analyze Weakness - Defense Debuff/Endurance/Recharge
- (34) Analyze Weakness - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Harmonized Healing - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (5) Harmonized Healing - Heal
- (5) Miracle - Heal/Endurance
- (40) Miracle - Heal/Recharge
- (40) Miracle - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (40) Miracle - Heal
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (7) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage
- (13) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance
- (39) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge
- (42) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge
- (A) Endurance Modification IO
- (9) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod
- (9) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge
- (A) Healing IO
- (11) Healing IO
- (11) Healing IO
- (37) Recharge Reduction IO
- (43) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Run Speed IO
- (A) Healing IO
- (15) Healing IO
- (15) Healing IO
- (A) Healing IO
- (17) Harmonized Healing - Heal/Endurance
- (17) Harmonized Healing - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (43) Miracle - Heal/Endurance
- (43) Miracle - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (46) Miracle - Heal
- (A) Entropic Chaos - Accuracy/Damage
- (19) Entropic Chaos - Damage/Endurance
- (19) Entropic Chaos - Damage/Recharge
- (45) Entropic Chaos - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (45) Entropic Chaos - Chance of Heal Self
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (21) Recharge Reduction IO
- (21) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Accuracy IO
- (23) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff
- (23) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge
- (36) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance
- (37) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance
- (37) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up
- (A) Serendipity - Endurance/Recharge
- (25) Serendipity - Defense
- (25) Serendipity - Endurance
- (A) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance
- (27) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge
- (27) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge
- (46) Endurance Reduction IO
- (48) Damage Increase IO
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (29) Recharge Reduction IO
- (29) Miracle - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (36) Miracle - Heal
- (36) Harmonized Healing - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (46) Harmonized Healing - Heal
- (A) Rectified Reticle - To Hit Buff
- (31) Rectified Reticle - To Hit Buff/Recharge
- (31) Rectified Reticle - Increased Perception
- (A) Endurance Modification IO
- (33) Endurance Modification IO
- (33) Endurance Modification IO
- (A) Empty
- (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
- (39) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (39) Titanium Coating - Resistance
- (48) Resist Damage IO
- (A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance
- (42) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge
- (42) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- (48) Red Fortune - Defense
- (A) Resist Damage IO
- (45) Resist Damage IO
- (A) Run Speed IO
- (A) Jumping IO
Level 1: Brawl- (A) Empty
- (A) Empty
- (A) Empty
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Been awhile since I last tried Nosferatu. I just finished a mission arc that put me up against Nosferatu again. Things have changed drastically. Not only did I win, I never even used my Dull Pain or Instant Healing. (Claws/Regen scrapper).
I've never even had a Shivan or HVAS 8( -
Fusionette and Faultline got engaged
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Quote:Champions is even worse.Originally Posted by Gorgar
I'm in the opposite camp from the original poster. I've played a couple of games where everyone can fight (AoC, CoV), and overall I find it dull. Too much self-sufficiency takes the fun out of teaming for me. CoV in particular often feels like a group of people soloing together.
Since anyone can take any power, no one needs anyone else. Even when you get a group, no one bothers to work together. -
A new Lycos keyboard
A new cookware set
Two happy children
A happy wife -
Quote:Probably too desensitized.Originally Posted by beyeajus74018
OP, what was so offensive about the name? Or am I far too desensitized to understand anymore? lol
I have two daughters I play this game with. While I expect general chat to occasionally get rough, there are limits. If a characters name is something that you would go to an adult orientated store to watch, its probably not appropriate. -
Quote:If it was spaced and capitalized in that manner, I would not have even blinked.Originally Posted by Vitality
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Nothing wrong with that.
Capitals might make parts of it stick out...but nothing truly wrong with that name.
What they did was very blatent, and tossing in the extra letters in lower case to get past the filter does not make it alright. -
Thank you.
I also reported my own post here, since it both has an offensive name and I named the offending character in a public post. -
Level 49 haracter running around Protector named ***************.
If you can't figure it out, I can draw you a roadmap. -
Quote:I just finished the Indigo arc.Originally Posted by DeadSkip
This is a little misleading. If you've ever tried fighting Malta inside a building with a blaster you'll know that
(a) sappers and gunslingers hang around out of sight around corners until you aggro their group and
(b) if you're playing on the same difficulty as you play against most other factions you'll often find yourself held by the titans/gunslingers, or long duration stunned by the operations officers(?) And you can only carry so many break frees.
The hardest arc I've ever done was the Indigo arc with my (solo) ice/ice blaster.
However, this doesn't mean I think they're the "worst mobs ever" - I think they're great. Let's just not pretnd that they're easy!
Figured I give Carnival of Shadows a try since everyone was saying the bosses were evil.
First time I've had to use Instant Healing against a normal boss
I'm loving it and I'm picking up all the rare magic salvage I needed to work on my IO sets. -
Quote:I love team teleport. I have it on my mastermind and my wife has group fly on her mastermind.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
How about that Team Teleport power in the Teleportation pool?
Concept aside, there's only a few edge cases where it's actually useful. This is more a limitation of the game engine than the concept of the power being all that bad IMO, but still i can't recall the last time i saw someone who took it and used it.
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Quote:Nosferatu is the only EB I have not managed to solo to date on my claws / regen scrapper.Originally Posted by Celestial_Lord
Nosferatu overpowered just a tad?
I have a level 41 Force Field Defender that's currently soloing the Maxwell Christopher mission arc. I am at the "Capture Nosferatu & his assistants" mission. Except he two shotted me. Okay, dumb luck right? Rezzed, rested up, buffed up, hit Power Build Up, ate a medium purple and a small red.
Except, two shots later, and I'm taking a dirt nap. Again.
I take it I should just forget about Nosferatu and drop the mission?
Yeah, yeah, I know, "Get a team!" Tried. Repeatedly.
I can usually last quite a while against him, but he always manages to heal himself. -
I want a Magic Booster Pack II with alternate spell casting animations (applicable to most ranged powers).
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Quote:I did my vampire as a katana/dark scrapper and I have never regretted it.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Dark is a serious contender in part because it has a copy of Alucard's Soul Drain AND it has a bunch of debilitating clouds. It even has Cloak of Fear, which I've never, EVER been able to justify taking, but that might work as mind control in and of itself. Most importantly, it has one of the most impressive self-resurrect powers in the game, and to me that counts a lot. One of the key aspects of vampirism is that you can shoot them, you can cut them, you can crush them and you can essentially kill them as many times as you want. They won't die. True, Regen and Willpower do have their own self-resurrect powers, but they're uninspiring by comparison. Draining the life from the living and using that to return yourself to life is very much what seals the deal.
The katana goes well with the Blade concept of a vampire and the dark armor has most of the other cool vampire powers, including assuming mist form. -
For sheer annoyance: anything with caltrops.
For threat value? The only time I ever really feal threatened is if I don't spot a Malta Sapper before I pull.
Oddly enough, the groups people are listing as most annoying have actually been my favorites. I practically leveled 15 - 25 on CoT and Tsoo and I've been running Mostly Malta missions the last few weeks.
I pretty sure I way overcompensated both accuracy and endurance regen on my claws / regen scrapper very early on. Even sappers are more of an annoyance than a threat unless I don't see them and they get several shots off. Even then, I can usually duck around a corner and have a full endurance bar before they catch up. -
Quote:Myshaman back in EQ was named Targoth.Originally Posted by Mr_Squid
Pretty simple question, where did you come up with the handle you use on the forums?
Me? Well, I always liked squids. Okay, maybe like is too weak of a word. More like from ages 6-11, I was OBSESSED with squids. I have really no idea what triggered this fascination, all I know is that I read books about squids, watched tv shows about squids, dressed up as squids for halloween, and even had a four foot long plush giant squid that I slept with like a teddy bear.
Thankfully the (rather unhealthy in retrospect) obsession waned over time, and now squids are more like a subdued interest rather than a full blown obsession. Even so, my forum handle will attest that my inner six year old never quite left.
Before that, I had used the name for a necromancer npc in a D&D campaign I ran. -
Quote:It should be pointed out that the type of people that are going to go to a fan fair are almost always long term hardcore players.Originally Posted by warden_de_dios
Very Very interesting. I find it's a bummer the room was all NOOO!!! to tying names to globals. It would be nice if there was an option in the game to display names in chat and team search as playername@playerglobal. Stars are great, but I can't see them in chats and using a popup window to pull globals off a team search is rather lame.
In other words, they got in early enough to get some really good names on established characters and have a vested interest in not having those names available to others.