TheStarscreamer

All my chars are conceptually driven in some way so heres a fun list of my team/TF boys.

Dom - Gravity/Thorns, Plant/Elec
Corr - Energy/Rad
Night Widow - ftw!

And hero side could do :

Defen - Empath/Psi
Troller - Illusion/Storm

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Perhaps, but oooh, it would be nice

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One small addendum:

- Social Exile: You do the Westin Phipps arc, no-one from either side wants to talk to you again. Ever.

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I so want that badge lol

Fare thee well mate. Shame to see ya go and all the best for the future. Hope to see ya back misbehaving again one day.

Take it easy mate.

Better add my little band -

Starscreamer gravity/thorns/soul dom
Starslugslinger energy/rad/soul corr
Starshrapnel dualblades/elec/mace (retired for being pants)
Starsixshot night widow

I got my beloved Night Widow to 50 (muhahhaah) and full IO perfection (double muhahha), got my plant/elec from 15 to 31 and my new baby corr off mercy at about 2am last night lol

Oh and then used my NW to give all my mates a boost too

Not a single good drop all weekend but i don't care - was a tremendous laugh the whole time had 1 dud team the whole weekend. Truly great time had by me

My buddy's crab has the 6 spider army via Black Scorpion's patron pet. All i can say is - it looks hilarious watching them in action as I'm a Night Widow in that teaming and all I see is blue electric death flying over my shoulders and being flanked by fricking giant spider robots man! If nothing else - do it for the truly vilainous look of being a horrorific cyborg type with spider robots - CoV's version of Alistair Smythe complete with spider-slayer robots xD

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It just goes to show, that despite the rants and raves, when something happens to one of us, we all rally round, and give support, when and where needed.

Not so much a community, as one big extended family. I for one am proud to be a part of that.

Swift recovery my friend

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Thank you for proving my point so perfectly. And thank you all

Thanks guys and gal - although I am out now came home a few days ago. And while many of the nurses weren't much to look at - the housekeepers had some talent! Although did make a few of them blush a few times and one housekeeper even got a free show when she was tidying up and walked in on me getting changed behind the curtain. Apparently women have trouble maintaining eye contact sometimes too.

Interestingly after that she kept offering me a wider choice of desserts too at meal times.... funny that eh.

But like I said in my OP - please add your own things of how the CoX community have helped you all. And the repeated wel wishing above helps to only emphasise my original point

Sucks don't it - I wanted the big Fury Claws for my NW!

And I myself have the following news...

Saturday 26th July 7:30pm GMT

STARSCREAMER INVITIATIONAL PvP TOURNAMENT


Oh yes it’s baaaaaaaaack! It’s been about a year since the first so it’s time to shake things up a bit now there’s been plenty of new game changes, powerset proliferation and of course the lovely villain epic archetypes. The format will be as it was last year:


This is open to ANY members of UD of any level range and AT. I am also extending this to ALL of our coalition friends and some select individuals I shall invite solely to make things that bit more insane. And before someone tries to be clever - villain only chars.


Non-PvPers are happily welcome (and heartily encouraged) as well due to the fact I will be setting up matches based on fairness, challenge and excitement for the spectators. Once again I will not be competing in order to officiate the proceedings accordingly.


Matches will be held at the maximum range of the lowest combatant to allow 100% fairness overall. This is a test of true mettle so inspirations and accolades are banned overall. BUT, I will be making some “unusual” quirks in certain matches as we go through the competition so you will have no idea what to expect in all of this! There will however be only 1 char per player to allow maximum participation. And there’s nothing saying that insps and accolades, or even temps won’t be allowed later in the competition...


But you may wonder: “why bother? PvP gives no rewards!” Well you are wrong. Just like last year, to the victor go the spoils. After racking my brain I came up with the ultimate prize for my champion...


A premade Numina’s Convalesence Regeneration/Recovery IO!!! Yes you read that - PREMADE!!!


There may even be spots opened up for others to be invited to this that have not already been.....


VIOLENCE FOR THE PEOPLE!!!

Recently I have found out just how fantastic this community really is.

As some may/may not know I recently was rushed into hospital with a severe problem of a collapsed lung. I spent weeks in hospital had to have 2 chest drains that failed resulting in surgery to remove the top of my lung and permanently fix it to my ribcage. Trust me when I say thats the really, really, really short version of that saga. Naturally this was a painful and traumatic experience.

And even before I came back I had a number of global messages, ingame emails, text messages and even a couple of calls to my hospital bed along with my SGs own running thread here of people giving their love, well wishing and just general support for me. Not just me as a player, or as a teammate but me as a true person.

And even since I've come back and told people about it, I've had nothing but a very warm, friendly and highly supportive return.

I'd like to say that this for me is the crowning glory of the whole CoX community when I have so much feedback and support from just so very many - many of which I very tenuously know. To me this is proof that the CoX community is truly a cut above the rest.

Thank you to all the black-clad villains and white-spandex heroes out there for your support and care. You make this game what it truly is.

I'd also love to keep this thread going less as a sympathy vote for me and more of a "what has the community done to help you out like this?" kind of way. So please do add your own

Kindest thanks and regards to the whole community,

Star...

I said it elsewhere - so I'll say it again. Uber gratz on the big ding dude. And about ****ing time! lol

Now place bets on how long before 50 number 2.... anyone.... anyone.....

Ok after last night's casual grind by members of UD and GSC and fact finding task after grinding some EOEs, I have many musings to post below. Time for more of my trademark mad strategies...

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The range at which you are safe from aggro is approx 130 yards from the nearest blob, once one is aggroed however, any adjacent will automaitcally attack with a range of approx 200 yards. No EOEs = dead as disco.

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The yellow blobs also have a quirk, during the DoT part of the damage they deal they have a chance to negate all of your powers - yes everything. The chance is low from what I've seen in practice only being hit by it twice in all my suicides, but still its a factor to consider as they could just negate all auto powers and shields in a single blast! Therefore I think these may need to go down REAL fast due to the extraordinary threat posed.

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But heres an interesting strategem I have mused over and already discussed with freeda and fatal last night before I crashed. The proposed idea of support healer/rez/tpers have a great addition. When you die in the Abyss and opt to goto the base rather than grandy hosp you can restock on EOEs. But heres the clincher - when you exit the base via the proper entrance, you auto tp back to where you died in the Abyss. So the rezzers tp everyone out, rez those they can, then tank peeps can head to base fast to restock on EOEs to take it on the chin over and over like pros - particularly after each bloom. Obviously theres the danger of not getting back to the zone or crashing, but thats a possible risk that may be worth taking.

Also the heal peeps should invest in aid other, stimulant and resuscitate. A proper healer like /thermal, /rad or even /storm can then tp friends out (tp team preferred here for blooms) then rez at least 2 (except for the stormy) and then can all use aid other, their respective heals to get anyone else back up HP wise, and then use stim to stack with aid other to negate the stun and fear effects of the blobs.

In my case, Starslugslinger being a /rad will be using aid other, stimulant and AM to give mez protection in this case. Plus he'll have tp friend (maybe tp team) plus mutation and resuscitate to rez at least 2 at a time and hasten + AM to sort the rech of both. Plus a highly slotted AM for end mod, and a friendly neighbourhood /kin with all the SB to help combat the blue blob end drain would be the [censored].

This to me seems like a very wise investment and he's only a /rad. A /thermal with forge and thaw would be even more handy. It's also a worthwhile idea for the tp-heal-rez peeps to hopefully try and squeeze in vengeance if possible. Thus EVEN MORE mez protect, more dmg, more tohit and a good amount of def which some guides indicate does help - whether that is true remains to be seen , i doubt it tho - but it's worth it for the prior reasons I mentioned. Naturally leaving only 1 teammate dead to veng up those that need most, but with thought and care we could have all the heal peeps in a SINGLE safe spot, tp everyone there and get veng on all nearby meaning only a few need it as it doesn't stack anyway.

As I think we'll be low on support imo, it seems SSS's days as the human bomb are gone solely for this carnage - I'm respeccing him into the afformentioned support behemoth. I would also call on anyone with a great support char to join me in getting our bad boys, girls and non-descripts up to muller the hami over and over.

The above rant is the first of my musings and I will have much much much more to add to this as we go on more EOE runs.

My rants will also be found here:
http://udsg.proboards59.com/index.cg...amp;thread=353

....and on the day the Hamidon must PREPARE TO BE HORRIBLY MUTILATED!

Star.....

(oh btw - SSS will be respecced BACK into a human bomb after this raid - muhahahah)

Ok then it seems I'll be angry enough and have enough of my strength back to get in on this. I'll even volunteer to lead one team as required on this beautiful madness. I have a small list of possibles now so I'll use which is most appropriate once discussed.

GLOBAL - @Starscreamer

SUPERGROUP - Ultimate Darkness

VILLAINS AVAILABLE -
Starscreamer - Gravity/Thorns Dominator - crowd control, mixed offense, 2 strong pets (including the flying singy)

Starslugslinger - Energy/Radiation Corruptor - average ranged, superb aoes, good debuffs and minor support (including heals and rez - possibility to be respecced into more support role just for this - altho i kinda dont wanna unless i got enough freespecs lol)

Starsixshot - Night Widow - soon to be lvl 50, strong melee, very high def all round, possible tank once finished, also moderate ranged attacks as well as ally buffs and foe debuffs

Regardless of what I do my [censored] is gonna be on the raid channel as well now as I'm (nearly) well enough to be fired up.

Lets send the big Hami jelly back to the mould!

VIOLENCE FOR THE PEOPLE!
PREPARE TO BE HORRIBLY MUTILATED!
WAKE TO THE RAIN OF BLOOD!

Firstly - welcome back to CoX.

Secondly - I'm one of the leaders of Ultimate Darkness and we'd happily take ya onboard as we love to have lots of new blood over on the villain side of the world Linky to our site is in my sig

We are a relaxed and friendly group with chars over all ranges (I myself have yet another baby dom in the works atm). If you'd like to dig in and do a bit of everything all over the place then can contact me on here (via a PM) or holler ingame to @Starscreamer, @Agent or @graviton-x

We have no restrictions on char, experience or anything - its all about fun first and foremost (and slaughtering hero types - muhhhaha)

My main, the great dominator Starscreamer has only one choice:

Marilyn Manson - "Astonishing Panorama of the End Times"

"VIOLENCE FOR THE PEOPLE! They always eat the hand that bleeds. VIOLENCE FOR THE PEOPLE! God who cares what they need? Kill your God - Kill your TV!"

And when Starscreamer is with his lovely tag-partner Healing Sabby it has to be Marilyn Manson's "(s)AINT" as that's the theme of the King and Queen of Perversion.

My corruptor Starslugslinger would get another Marilyn Manson track - 1996 (I was listening to Antichrist Superstar when I made him)

"Light a candle for the sinners, I'm gonna set the world on fire..."

Starsixshot my Night Widow has to be Pendulum "Granite"

"...this is a new time, of a different kind of the future..."

and lastly my new dom Starsunstorm gets Combichrist "Enjoy the Abuse"

"You will enjoy the abuse, 'cos you've got nothing to lose, I swear I'll fist**** your brain until I'm smiling again"

And those are the themes of my current 4 monsters of villainy ;D

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I fear Im gonna succome to SG mate pressure at this rate -Points at Agent_ and TheStarscreamer- If I do, and end up rolling a Dom, you two better be prepared for the million questions that are likely to follow :P

On topic, in my experience Dom's are few and far between, when I had one (Plant/Thorns) I was literally one of the only Dom's I saw.

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It wasn't me..... oh wait... yes it was

As I'm always lurking in this section as well as our own builds forums Cel (as ya saw from my augmentation of that plant/thorn ya had) I'll always rant about what is still my fave AT of all..... esp now Starsunstorm has made it to the rogue isles (he's gonna get serious love once I get my NW to the 40s ^^)

But yes doms overall are relatively sparce even now, but thats not because they suck - its because people just can't understand the insanity required to be a dominator in the truest sense of the word!

Control for the f'ing win peeps!

imo one of the best methods to 6 slot a ST hold is this:

3 Acc/Mez HOs
2 50 Rech IO

6th slot can be tailored accordingly, imo either an End Red 50 IO or a chance for hold. No holds do decent damage and even slotting a whole damage set on them still won't yield decent results overall. However, a chance for psi may be a good idea as with the huge duration can milk the ticking of the proc. The above slotting will mean you can basically stack and stack and stack those holds. I have almost exactly the above slotting on 1 of my doms and he can happily solo hold any AV/hero and even a GM with domi up.

Well first off welcome back to CoX dude.

And I'd be the first to say that Ultimate Darkness would happily give ya a fun, friendly home. We're not a specific SG as such - we do everything - TFs, normal arcs, bit of arena fun and even occasional base raids. We are capable of being mature (sometimes) as most of the playerbase is older (and more often than not - perverse lol). Oh and good luck with the studies too (we have several on and off due to the same thing).

Before I start my crazy ranting - you can contact me ingame @Starscreamer or can also contact @Agent and @graviton-x. Also check out the site and info from my sig

1st - Welcome back to CoV

2nd - no it is kinda annoying as its always been to get blinds lol I myself get bloody annoyed with it sometimes. Thats the way it is though as theres lots to do in game that requires not actively teaming like making IOs, swearing at the BM to give you what you want or just randomly ranting and creeping out your coalitions.... oh wait maybe that last bit is just me...

But yes blinds are annoying.

So far I have been thinking about all this and have only 1 real question - has anyone ever even vaguely paid attention to what a bane does when they attack you? They open with strongest ranged attacks usually involving KB and then either wait for you to come to them for them to then placate/AS you or charge a fallen KB'd foe to AS them - I've seen 3 players use this style of play and have no trouble fighting alongside anything. Beginning to believe the stuff of banes being underpowered is actually untrue - people are trying to use them as low level stalker/brutes and thats not what they are. They are a sup'd up corr with an AS.

I believed the placate nerf was a bit odd but seeing as I've never been placated twice by the same bane it all makes sense. I urge people to try opening with ranged blasts as funnily enough the ranged def of a bane is much higher i believe than their melee (whereas widows its the other way around). I'd recomend trying this method really I do - and regarding the widows & banes comparitive def - how many times have you had trouble hitting a widow and how many times have you had trouble hitting a bane? Think about it seriously and you'll see it all makes sense balance wise in my eyes. Only thing I think banes could do with is a small res increase to bring them a shade more in line with the bane spider executioner bosses, aside from that though they are perfectly fine as is.

Very good mate - and some additional writeup for ya as I've gone the NW path Reword and add to as desired

Night Widow Primary adds far better melees, psionic attacks and the Smoke Bomb (a powerful aoe blind power like the NPCs). Night Widow Secondary adds stealth (meaning critical hits from melees), superior ally buffs with Mind Link and Vengeance, a lightning reflexes clone with Mental Training and a godmode with Elude.

Fortunata Primary grants ability to make a pure psionic blast char, with strong Mind Control powers. Very aoe oriented with best aoe being Psychic Wail. Fortunata Secondary gives access to stealth (again critical hits from any melees you may have), superior ally buffs with Mind Link and Vengeance, a lightning reflexes clone with Mental Training and Aura of Confusion (pbaoe confuse).

I've been playing my night widow without the godmode shield on using a rough design that i was thinking for live i12 - and i have to say its amazing. Your so squishy - but generally are just so very powerful. With careful design you can happily drag a fight out quite long. Noting though that mine has no ranged attacks atm or decent aoe and he's 28. But, he's a great alpha aggro taker for a big bunch of crab spiders

I'd just like it so we could select the whole armour as one of the top level preset ones and then it would swap to the outfit - i really wanted to have 2 full widow looks but one without the armour and the mask i made for him, why not make it that way? So then both cossie creators are seperate and the choice of Soldier or Widow preset respectively would then swap to the VEAT cossie creator. That way it wouldn't break the existing architecture and people could make several different coloured outfits/armours. Still won't intermix but at least people have the options of a full arachnos style look with the badges and one alternate multicoloured armour say.

So far my main gripe is i wanted the widow shoulders and collar on all my chars outfits as well but meh.

Attention boys, girls, children of all ages and those not so commital...

I have been frenziedly redesigning the UD forums recently and have just completed the final stage of design and testing. The revamped UD forums are now live at: http://udsg.proboards59.com/

This includes a new dedicated PvP section, a now fully functional calendar system for scheduling events and a newly designed public guest area for all those lovely members of The Ghost Shadow Clan, The Horde and The League of Villains to post in (along with anyone else wanting to say hello!) and discuss anything. This is to allow even easier scheduling of events and discussion, plus to help strengthen our existing dark political relations

Theres all manner of additional modifications I have just completed including a newly revamped Queen of Thorns costume request system! Big thanks to QoT for helping me design it better for his use and our community.

Full release notes are available here:
http://udsg.proboards59.com/index.cg...259&page=1

Our community is getting even stronger and thank you all for your support and patience of it all being buggy as it gets for a few days while I bloody sorted it all out. Feel free to check it all out peeps. Coming soon the newly revamped UD main site - currently in design stage for deployment in the coming weeks.

And I would also like to say that we are also happily looking for any and all fun peeps that are looking for a friendly, chilled out community group that do a little bit of everything - PvP, TFs, coalition events and tons more - to just holler on here, our public guest areas (on our own forums) or can contact @Starscreamer / @graviton-x / @Agent ingame to get in on all the lovely fun and filth that makes our SG truly Ultimate Darkness!

This rant was brought to you by The King Of Perversion, The Sinister Sinful Dark Overlord Starscreamer