The_Jersey

Back on the non-conspiracy side of raiding. How many Defenders with Rad Primary or Controllers with Rad secondary do we know?

I think the best current plan is attacking from one side with blasters, controlling the mito spawn with Pa Drop, quickly attacking from the other side, repeating the control of the mito spawn and finally rushing Hamidon for a big finish. Might properly write-up the plan for testing actually.

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Be warned: we already have a team of five, so don't expect to be able to team with us much, if at all.

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Well I'm supposed to be helping a friend who wanted to try an MMO anyway, plus the level difference is impractical. I'm pretty happy with the server though since I have neither been /spat on by eight people for 20 minutes nor asked to join a white power guild which were somewhat worrying last time I tried the game, good advice.

As for community events, trying to beat Hamidon is rather in vogue at the moment and we haven't had a good old fashioned death race in a while.

Here's how I'd switch up the power choices, slotting seemed okay

Exported from version 1.5C of CoH Planner
http://joechott.com/coh

Archetype: Scrapper
Primary Powers - Ranged : Martial Arts
Secondary Powers - Support : Super Reflexes

01 : Focused Fighting Empty(01)
01 : Storm Kick Empty(01)
02 : Focused Senses Empty(02)
04 : Agile Empty(04)
06 : Boxing Empty(06)
08 : Crane Kick Empty(08)
10 : Practiced Brawler Empty(10)
12 : Hasten Empty(12)
14 : Super Speed Empty(14)
16 : Tough Empty(16)
18 : Hurdle Empty(18)
20 : Health Empty(20)
22 : Stamina Empty(22)
24 : Focus Chi Empty(24)
26 : Quickness Empty(26)
28 : Dodge Empty(28)
30 : Dragons Tail Empty(30)
32 : Eagles Claw Empty(32)
35 : Evasion Empty(35)
38 : Elude Empty(38)
41 : Lucky Empty(41)
44 : Whirlwind Empty(44)

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01 : Brawl enhancement(01)
01 : Sprint enhancement(01)
02 : Rest enhancement(02)

Switched Practiced Brawler and Focus Chi for exemping purposes.

Switched Crippling Axe Kick for Dragons tail. It's AoE, great for fighting more than one enemy with knockdown and I hate crippling axe kick although I hear it's better than it used to be.

I also pushed Eagle's Claw and Elude earlier since both are more useful than Lucky and Whirlwind.

And since you're using SS, Hurdle is better than swift when you're travelling.

I also recommend an epic pool for your last two choices as well, I love conserve power since many toggles can drain your end when you're not using elude.

Okay then, Romirez the feisty level 3 Mexican human warrior is currently sitting in Stormwind.

I'm also adding all the CoV Strikeforces to my to do list.

And I forgot to add 'learn to play the guitar' which is a kind of game except with strings and frets.

Someone borrowed my copy of C&C Generals and hucked it at a passing car...

Incidentally I will now play through the rest of the Games hanging around my desk because it is cold outside and I don't feel like going out, starting with:

- Finish Half Life 2, with flaming Ninja rollercoasters etc.
- Play WoW, install indoor plumbing. Incidentally, what server should I start on?
- Create Broadway on Civ 4 again
- Play Carmageddon II

I agree with the advert, more high fiving is needed in everyday life. My advice, sort out the super high five with your friend where you jump up and high five in the air with both hands, while you'll occassionally hit each other in the face it's a sweet high five for extremely awesome things like if you, for example, buy a new hat.

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Okay, Bridger says he will ask Manticore for me regarding a few things. So before i send off my little list, is there anything anyone would particularly interested in regarding the origins of Hamidon? Just bear in mind that both Bridger and Manticore are very busy people, so no reply is guaranteed

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Well assumedly between radical scientist and giant blob there was an assumedly an interim stage. The Eden trial seems to talk about some sort of monstrous Hamidon, although evidently still capable of something other than just sucking up a crater, creating the crystal titan to absorb the energies of the nature linked heroes captured in the trial so I wouldn't mind hearing a little more about how Hamidon's transformation progressed if possible.

Beating up GMs! I'll let you know on the channel if I turn up since there's an extremely remote possibility that you'll discover a tunnel to a control room with a midget and an old bbc computer inside that controls Hamidon.

Also... Behold the cave of mystery

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Anyone thought of asking the Dev's if you are barking up the right tree? They may just tell you that the brute force way is the only way...or they may hint around something else...

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I asked Bridger, he said he didn't know of another way but developer responses to US users who have asked the same question have been very cryptic, never giving anything away and away being 'my lips are sealed :-)' or something like that.

Acid arrow debuffs defence and resistance, according to the description and defender version at least, might be a mistake in hero planner.

Glue arrow is better than posion gas arrow and so is ice arrow plus poision gas arrow creates a dark fog that obscures your view of everything.

Nonesense, his staticness is a grave threat and anyone who says otherwise hates freedom and wants the villains to win.

Just look at him, sitting there doing nothing. His neutrality sickens me.

I hate these filthy neutrals, with enemies, you know where they stand, but with neutrals: who knows. It sickens me.

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A cow did it... them Jersey cows look guilty all over...

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Ahhhhhh Mais non

I guess I'm looking for a big button that says 'nerf Hamidon resistance.' My logic is that if you could do that then you could defeat him with three or so teams and taking the mitos on as they come.

A question about Mito range though. Could we have half of the blasters at range on one side and when they die send the other half in on the other side away from the mitos and hope the first set spawned doesn't notice?

I'm investigating two things now based on This US forums thread

I may post my findings/conspiracy theories soon but riddle me this:

1. What purpose does the rest of the seemingly redundant Hive serve

2.Consider parallels between the Hydra head and the Hamidon.

-Both have enemies protecting them (tentacles/mitos)

-both have similar layouts (consider the placements of the Monster walls/krakens)

-both spawn enemies to protect them (mitos/rikti) and both were formerly able to be defeated by being held to stop the protecting spawns appearing.

-When the hydra head was held, its shield did not reappear, when Hamidon was held his resistance would drop to make him easier to kill.

- Both have been altered to prevent them being defeated the wrong way.

-Yet one has clearly defined way to beat it and the other does not. In a paranoid mind, the huge lag caused by the raids is beacuse there are more people in the Hive than intended. Consider again: How many people are allowed on an item of power raid? Why won't the devs increase the SG member limit? I think they intend to limit the number of heroes in one place and the number of heros fighting in one place. Should a raid then be possible with 25 people?

Also, looking at the devouring earth mythos I would like to know if anyone could decipher a clue from what we know about the Hamidon. It can write love letters and wasn't always a big blob, people are transformed into DE monsters by the Hamidon but what do we know that could be used against it?

Do keep in mind however, this could all be crackpot raving.

I'm okay for tonight and a big cancel next week.

Well after the 25%controlled spawn you wouldn't need to withdraw again because you'd have hit the home sretch. Hamidon 'might' spawn a final mito set at 5% which is unconfirmed as far as I know but my vote is for all out carnage after 25%.

Hamidon Regen can be floored with enough lingering radiation and thanks to some very helpful info from Defianteers people who are out of Line of site at a mito spawn wont end up dead so we can hide -regenners behind rocks.


Once that hurdle is overcome a mito spawning raid is possible. -res on hamidon makes it exponentially easier and tanks/scrappers will still have a less important role but there's possibility.

Also, after the second mito spawn we could also just let people wing it and beat Hamidon down.

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Updated the website, will there be a promotion story coming?

G-Force

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Survey Says!

I say week off! Since I'm off t'eat garlic bread and whatnot instead of being there.

Connobolations Sun!

Quick and mostly irrelevant question: Do you say the channel name as the letters 'G-G-O-O-C' or do you call it 'Ga-[censored]'?

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Merry Christmas to everyone with 2 Hami's from REAL raids...

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Merry Christmas Bob!

By the way, just realised I've been writing 'Chirstmas' which isn't even a word, even if it should be.

Like... seriously