TheCrown

I dont know what you are looking for in the form of a "mocking" Paragon Protector costume.. but here is this...

maybe it will give you some ideas

Why do people get so downhearted about the Marvel MMO?

Look..COH isnt going anywhere. Chances are it WONT be seeing regular updates eventually, but so what?

MMOs dont last forever.. and you should ecstatic that COH was such a big hit that it pulled DC and Marvel into the fold. Now, the same guys who made the game you love, are going to make another game.. next generation, with rights to memorable characters that you grew up with.

How exactly does this equate to a bad thing? You shouldnt be crying that COH is gonna go away, you should be jumping for joy that you will have another good superhero game to migrate too. New content, new powers, new world, same great development team.

hey glad I could help .

Unfortunatly, the head piece that I used is the only one that will work right on the regular human body.

However, if you make a male hero with the huge body type, you can use the pointy crown thing and it will flush correctly.

I dunno if that makes sense to anyone else heh.. if ya fiddle around with it you will see what I mean

I look too good not to be immortalized.

The Crown

Very few costumes come out looking "really good" with just two colors.

You have to have some touches of a third and even 4th color to make a costume that really stands out.

That being said, here is something I threw together. I had to go with the blonde hair because

A) I dont think the black hair looks good with all the black

and

B) White hair is overused.

My version

Lots of great memories here .

I remember spending 24 hours killing hydras so that me and all my friends could reach level 14 before the 3 day head start ended.

I remember when the pre-order auras were something to brag about.

I remember when Inv+SS was the most popular melee AT combo in the game.

I remember when Rad/Rad defenders were the uberest of ubers (omg choking cloud is uber omg!)

I remember when Ice was a defender powerset, instead of electricity. (at least I think i remember that)

I remember reading about some lucky testers who got to test out the new mobs before everyone else. ("ooooh.. whats a devouring earth? are they cool? what? plant men? LAME!" hehe)


this is a long one.. funny story though

I remember when the Rikti invaded. They had recently wiped the servers and most characters were not above the 20-24 level area. So in every zone the rikti were invading, and no one was in Talos to kill them (they were too high level). So all these heroes got together and invaded Talos island. hordes of level 16-22 heroes trying to take out level 30 Rikti. Then, of course, here comes a dev playing the part of the Rikti commander.. he starts talking smack in RP and some of us start the RP smack talking right back. Finally we find him and everyone RUNS to the hospital where he and some minions are killing everyone. We take out the minions.. and then here we are, about 30 heroes crowded around this commander, firing off everything we have.. no NONE of us are hitting. This fight took a good 45 minutes. We actually never really hit him.. he had to lower his health for us in increments to make it look like we were actually doing damage. Funniest part was when he would cast mass hypnosis, and hit EVERYONE. Seriously.. we would all be standing around "rofling" cause everyone would be sleeping. Finally.. he killed himself.. and of course someone just HAD to see if ressurect would work on him... it did. 45 minutes later.. after another round of mass hynosising and "whiffing" he killed himself again and left before he could be ressurected . I used to have a bunch of great screenshots of this but they got deleted when I wiped my computer a while back.. dang it.

hmmm.. ok thanks . Ill try again.. im having a real hard time fitting stuff into my build early enough though. I wanna get hover and 6 slot it as soon as I can.. just because I want to be able to take advantage of it for the bulk of my characters playing time. And I want to get 6 slotted tactics as early as possible cause it will let me get by with fewer slots in powers at the early levels. And so Hasten i need to get too.. and Stamina at 20-24 so I gotta take swift and health.. and then Siphon Power id like to get fairly early.. but I guess i can wait on the slotting if I have tactics. then I need to slot at least one attack up.. probably 2.

tough tough decisions. thanks for all the info.. im gonna have to do alot of tweaking.

so does the range component in these enhancements apply to cone powers as well? or are cone powers just out of luck?

hmm.. is the damage on Psychic Scream alot better?

with hover.. I beleive cone attacks can be very effective when used from above the mob. (since it effects a complete circle below you)

thanks for all the info Razorbane. its been real helpful.

Thanks for the advice.. Ill grab tactics.. unfortunatly ill have to get rid of concealment to do that.. but oh well.. im sure the accuracy is more important, especially with the way my heals and such work.


as for Scream and Tornado.. my goal is to be an AOE machine. but perhaps I can just take one of them since im slotting so much for recharge. It seems like Tornado would be the better one since it can be used for crowd control as well as damage... and its a ranged AOE instead of a Cone. What makes it so useless?


Also.. Inertial Reduction im taking for when I want to get somewhere fast.. but im 6 slotting hover.. so that should take care of the knockback and such.. mostly.

Also.. looking at everything I want.. well.. hmm.. I know that I can 6 slot 13 powers.. and 3 slot 1 more. SO..

Stamina
Haste
Hover
Tactics
Transfusion
Siphon Power
Transference
Fulcrum Shift
TKBlast
Will Domination
Psionic Tornado(?)
Psychic Wail
Mind over Body
3 slots in Speed Boost

thats 13.. leaves no room for Psionic Lance or Psychic Scream.

I suppose I may be able to 5 or 4 slot some of those.. but im not sure which ones.

Taking your advice and asking my questions here. They have actually changed some since I sent you that PM. Your build looks very similar to the one I want to make. Im trying to make a guy with fast recharge, and lots of AOE damage. here are my questions.

1) Do you suffer for defense? It seems like soloing would be very hard when the only defensive power you really have is Hover and Maneuvers. Personally I only planned on taking hover for defense, am i gonna get spanked?

2) Is it a mistake not to take Maneuvers and Tactics?

3) Is 4 slots for Fulcrum Shift really enough?

4) Im taking alot of secondary powers and 6 slotting them. Specifically I want to six slot TKBlast, Will Domination, Psychic Scream, Psionic Tornado, and Psychic Wail. And I am taking Psionic Lance and not slotting it. Just for pulling. I noticed you taking less than this, and not 6 slotting them.. can you tell me if im putting in unnecessary slots?

5) Are the 4 end regens in Speed Boost necessary? At higher levels it seems most everyone would have Stamina and such and they are more interested in the faster recharge than the end recovery. In my latest build (posted below) I have it 3 slotted.. but I wont be putting in those slots till the 40s.

6) I was thinking about 6 slotting Siphon power too.. 2 acc and 4 recharge. mistake?

here is my current build to level 41


Slot[03] Level 2 : Siphon Power /Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[04] Level 4 : Psionic Lance /Empty
Slot[05] Level 6 : Hover /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[06] Level 8 : Swift /Empty
Slot[07] Level 10 : Psychic Scream /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[08] Level 12 : Speed Boost /Empty
Slot[09] Level 14 : Health /Empty
Slot[10] Level 16 : Telekinetic Blast /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[11] Level 18 : Inertial Reduction /Empty
Slot[12] Level 20 : Stamina /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[13] Level 22 : Will Domination /Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[14] Level 24 : Hasten /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[15] Level 26 : Transference /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[16] Level 28 : Psionic Tornado /Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[17] Level 30 : Grant Invisibility /Empty
Slot[18] Level 32 : Fulcrum Shift /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[19] Level 35 : Invisibility /Empty
Slot[20] Level 38 : Psychic Wail /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty


and here it is at level 50.


Slot[01] Level 1 (Starting Primary) : Transfusion /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[02] Level 1 (Starting Secondary) : Mental Blast /Empty
Slot[03] Level 2 : Siphon Power /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[04] Level 4 : Psionic Lance /Empty
Slot[05] Level 6 : Hover /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[06] Level 8 : Swift /Empty
Slot[07] Level 10 : Psychic Scream /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[08] Level 12 : Speed Boost /Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[09] Level 14 : Health /Empty
Slot[10] Level 16 : Telekinetic Blast /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[11] Level 18 : Inertial Reduction /Empty
Slot[12] Level 20 : Stamina /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[13] Level 22 : Will Domination /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[14] Level 24 : Hasten /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[15] Level 26 : Transference /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[16] Level 28 : Psionic Tornado /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[17] Level 30 : Grant Invisibility /Empty
Slot[18] Level 32 : Fulcrum Shift /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[19] Level 35 : Invisibility /Empty
Slot[20] Level 38 : Psychic Wail /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[21] Level 41 : Mass Hypnosis/Empty
Slot[22] Level 44 : Mind Over Body /Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty,Empty
Slot[23] Level 47 : Phase Shift /Empty
Slot[24] Level 49 : Increase Density /Empty



any advice you can give me would be helpful.

lol

Ever since I got my associates in computer science.. i have had two jobs. one as an overnight stocker at wal-mart and one loading deer blinds on the back of trucks .

Yah.. lemme tell ya.. that associates degree sure proves something to people.


Anyway.. im currently a full time student working on getting a REAL degree so I dont have to work the rest of my life as a manual labourer.


Anywho.. I may not know anything about the industry.. but I know that the guys at Cryptic have done something awesome and that they have worked their tails off to make this game great. Name another MMO that hands out free expansions like candy? name another one that interacts with the community like this? They do ALOT right.. and when they do make a mistake, they arent afraid to admit it and fix it. If there is one thing that gets under my skin.. its punk kids who think their 15 bucks a month entitles them to "slave master" type control over what goes in the game and how fast it happens.

Anyway.. ive been a part of ALOT of MMO communities.. and some of yall just dont know how good youve got it over here. I played wow, and it was a fairly good game, but I missed the V.I.P. treatment I got over here with cryptic .. so im back in COH and im going to stay here till they turn off the servers or release COH2.


Keep up the awesome job Cryptic. Yall have more than earned every cent you make.. but more importantly youve earned my respect and gratitude, and hopefully the respect and gratitude of alot of the other folks playing this game.


wow.. I didnt intend this to be a long, drawn out, a** kissing post. I need to go shoot an animal or something.. im turning into my wife.

I didnt read the whole thread.. but thought id throw my 2 cents in.


being able to be a part of an SG is great.. but personally what I would like to see are more in game benefits to being a part of an SG. Nothing that would make being in one mandatory.. but, something that would bring SG members closer together.

Like.. for example, special combo attacks between SG members. Sorta like how Colossus and Wolverine have the fastball special . Possibilities would be like, SG members using Ice Storm and Fire Rain at the same time would create an ice slick (cause it melts the ice.. get it?) Or using Inferno in a choking cloud creates a huge explosion. That kinda thing.

Also.. Special missions for SGs.. difficult missions that would require a good mix of different ATs to complete the objectives. This would promote some diversity in SGs.. and also would maybe lead to a bit more planning when adding people to an SG, to make sure you get a good mix. The idea above would do that as well.


Basicly.. anything that will make being part of an SG feel more like being a member of a group in a comic book.

Just wanted to point out that when it involves manipulating a real force of nature, there isnt much that marvel or anyone else can do about it.

Manipulating forces is a staple of comic books.. and any force is fair game as long as its done right. Meaning, magnetism is fine, but it would probably be prudent to not give the powerset something that allows them to float around in a big blue bubble. (meaning.. its all fair game.. as long as no obvious references are made to an existing comic book character. WHich is the only reason that the Claws are questionable. Personally.. id have liked claws better if it was just one long claw instead of three short ones. but thats just me.)

Ive been part of a lot of MMO communities.. and actually I recently left COH for 2 reasons.. one, I moved and couldnt get a good enough connection.. and two, i was interested in WoW.

But after spending some time in the WoW community.. I realized just how spoiled I was by the Cryptic devs . You guys do a great job of listening to, and supporting your community and it really makes a difference.

needless to say, now that im getting a better connection im coming back to COH and getting geared up for COV

Statesman cannot reply to every thread that asks him to.. this is just how it is. Anyone who would expect him to because he replied to this thread.. well thats just stupid.

Yah I "called out" the devs when I said I was gonna keep bumping till i got a reply.. and honestly when Cuppa said stop.. that was all their was to it.. the fact that Statesman replied afterwards shows ya the kind of quality developers that COH has.

Anywho.. he didnt reply because I "made" him.. he replied because it IS a popular issue that alot of people wanted a reply on.

If someone else has a very popular issue that they really really want a devs reply on.. im sure Statesman(or another dev) would find time to reply to it eventually..

If I had been the only person who cared about whether or not scrappers get a punching powerset.. I doubt I would have gotten anything but a deleted thread and a private warning :P.

Anyway. Thank you Cuppa for taking the time to tell me to shut up .. and thank you Statesman for telling us that a streetfighting powerset will be coming eventually.. but not to expect it soon. I guess ill go ahead and make myself a DM/regen scrapper then to pass the time.

Thank you for taking the time devs!

Reasons why we need a punching powerset for Scrappers:

The logic behind Archetypes was that comic book heroes all fit into certain "stereotypes".. tanks, blasters, controllers, etc..etc..etc..

Therefore it is logical that in each archetype, you should also provide the powers that are stereotypically available to those comic book characters. Which is why Tanks get Invulnerability.. a kind of "catch all" powerset that allows for a slew of different character concepts. The same with Super Strength, and Energy Blast. These are somewhat generic powers that let you make many types of characters.

Thats why it is kind of surprising that scrappers do not have a punching powerset. There are so many different comic book characters.. notable ones.. that punch.. but arent tankers.

Heck.. plain ol punching can probably account for 75% of heroes in comic books.

SO.. that is why this powerset is important for scrappers.. Not having it severely limits the fanbases ability to create characters that fit the concepts they have come up with.

Ill list some notable punching scrappers later, just to reinforce the fact that a punching powerset for scrappers is very important to maintaining the integrity of the comic book atmosphere.

You are probably right, but I figure the more views and replies this thread has come monday, the better chance of them taking a look at it.

Well maybe every time I "bump" this thread ill give another reason why scrappers need a punching powerset heh.

yes I know its breaking the rules.. but hey.. im a paying customer who just wants some kind of answer to a question..

Tell ya what.. I could copy and past this post into a new one and post it again every time this one scrolls off the page.. would that be better? :P.

least this way im keeping it all in one place.

and if they delete it.. ill repost it.

Devs.. if all you can do is post and say "we cant talk about that" then do that. I wont be happy or at all satisfied with that answer :P..but ill quit bumping.

Well I hate to be annoying.. but like I said ive been waiting for some kind of comment on this since beta, and its getting to the point where it is becoming a hinderance to my fun.

I want an answer, and im gonna keep bumping this post till I get one, or im told to stop by a dev.

Sorry for the inconvenience folks.. but like I said, my football team lost (freakin 0 and 2 now) and im having a crappy day..and by god im gonna get some kind of response.

so.. here is the first *bump* .. hopefully it will be the last.

If im not mistaken (and i might be) arent the new sets in issue 3 supposed to be epic powersets? meaning you have to be level 50 to get access to them?

If thats the case.. it would kind of suck.. but at least its something.. id still like a dev to post and say "there will be an epic AT that allows you to be a punching scrapper" so I can at least know that my character will be possible and can instead keep focusing on getting my tanker up to 50.

why SHOULD there be a punching powerset for scrappers?

Beast
Iron Fist
Power Fist
Superman
Batman
Captain America

to name a few

I personally am not that special .. however the hundred or so other scrappers who want the same thing.. they make it special.

and ooooo.. the boxing powerpool.... power pools are SUPPLEMENTAL POWERS.. you dont base your whole character around the boxing powerpool.. not if you want to make it past level 20.

as for martial arts.. i said punching.. not kicking. kind of hard to pass yourself off as a brawler when you specialize in sticking your pinky toe in someones eye.

I am aware that not everyone cares about this.. but there have been more requests for a punching powerset for scrappers than there have been for any other powerset for any other archetype.

And btw it wouldnt have to be a whole new powerset... It could be Energy melee or Super Strength from the Tanker powersets (prefferably energy melee)