Tired Angel

It’s hard to say goodbye when you don’t really believe its ending

I haven’t necessarily been the most active member of the CoH community or Defiant community (where I call home) but I have always been there lurking in the background reading, watching and playing.

I haven’t posted yet as when I found out the news I was in complete shock and denial and to an extent I still am. I haven’t posted on the forums yet because of that but I really need to let my feelings known as it has hit me so hard.

I have played CoH for almost five years and although I have tried other MMOs (Warhammer Online, Champions, DC Universe) none of them held a candle to it. There are so many different reasons for that.

The first is because of how CoH plays. The character creator, the power selection, the level progression and stories all contribute to how much it has sparked my imagination. Every character I have created has a story attached to them (if not in bios, in my head) and are alive and dynamic. I have tried to create other characters outside of CoH but none of them have the depth my in game ones have. I have vowed, if CoH lives on or not, that I will get some of my stories written down and will endeavour to share them with anyone from CoH who wants to read them. My characters mean so much to me, whether that is Black Karhu the earnest Fire/Fire tanker who carries the death of his best friend with him or Tired Angel the fallen Grav/Storm angel who hides great faith and kindness behind a jovial joking exterior, that I don’t want to say goodbye.

So I want to say thank you to all the Devs, past and present for making all of this possible. Thank you Positron, War Witch, BaBs, Castle, Arbiter, Black Scorpion, Noble Savage, Tunnel Rat, Dr Aeon, TheNet, Black Pebble, Television. Thank you all.

The next reason is the community, like I have said I don’t always post much but I read the forums a lot and always have my home channel Defiant Events EU open to watch the banter back and forth. So thank you to all the players out there that make the game what it is. Thank you for the teams, the task forces, the information, the discussions, the fun.

Thank you to the Tanker Tuesday crew for brief, but exceptionally fun, time I had kicking butt Tanker style.

And thank you to the community team (Zwil, Freitag, Hit Streak, all of you) for helping keep this community together.

And thank you to the team of Mids and Titan Network/Paragon Wiki. I spend just as much time on these as I do in game at times and your work has just added to the experience of bringing the game and community to life.

And foremost thank you to my friends from GGRRR in game. Thank you to Rosie, Night Hornet, Neo, Pixie, Major Control, Fezzik, Hitman Joe, IMPersonator, Tech, Virtue, Clickwork, Salla, HAILST0RM, Shada, Lady Shada and everyone else who has been with GGRRR over the years. You’ve been there for me over the years through thick and thin and we’ve become a family in our own right.

I have been through a lot in recent times. My marriage fell apart and I’ve had to move twice in the last couple of years. But through everything City of Heroes has been there, a place to escape to. Its hard to imagine that this may not be there anymore and it really does saddened me. And its because of all of you that this has been possible. Thank you everyone

Thank you!

I'll throw in some votes for a Mind Control/Trick Arrow Controller, Ice Armour/Stone Melee Tank, Radiation Emission/Dark Blast Defender, Gravity/Thorns Dominator, Electric Melee/Fiery Aura Brute and Dark/Radiation Blast Defender

I've had one of each of those and not seen/heard anyone else really talk about the combos

Im going to chuck in another vote for Gravity/Storm - Tired Angel, my main, is a Gravity/Storm/Stone and he is a very solid toon.

Since the change to Wormhole so that foes aren't agro'd you can position foes where ever you like and can let rip with your powers (propel, freezing rain, gale, tornado and lightning storm) without causing scatter.

However, anything that will benefit from positioning/grouping foes for debuffs such as Radiation (the toggles), Dark (Tar Patch), Time (Distortion Field, Slowed Response), Dark (Tar Patch), Trick Arrow (the -res powers, oil slick), etc is good as people have already mentioned.

A couple of my fav combos:

Grav/Storm/Stone
* Stacking multiple stuns with Wormhole, Thunder Clap and Fissue
* Positioning foes with Wormhole so they are grouped for freezing rain
* Positioning foes with Wormhole so they are in a corner for Lightning Storm and Gale (so they don't scatter)
* As Crushing Field doesn't prevent KB it works well with Freezing Rain, Fissue and KB>KD'd Tornado keeping foes grouped and yet providing soft control
* Boosting defence with Stone Armour and Steamy Mist

Mind/Trick Arrow/Fire
* Stack sleeps with Mass Hypnosis and then Poison Gas Arrow
* Lighting Oil Slick Arrow if Fire Blast/Fire Ball without having to be Tech or Magic origin
* Using Mass Hypnosis on a group allows you to set up Oil Slick Arrow, Disruption Arrow, Glue Arrow before without agro before using Fire Ball (for containment boost) and Acid Arrow

I think the idea of shapeshifting (ala Clayface) is a cool idea. Warhammer Online had a class that did that, the Marauder, which was fun to play when I first tried out the game. And with how they are handling Bio Armour, I could see them applying a similar thing to the shape shifter and have customisable in terms of look (similar to how you can with Spines). I could imagine it following something like this:

Tier 1 - ST melee attack
Tier 2 - ST melee attack
Tier 3 - Shapeshift
Tier 4 - Cone attack (only available when Shapeshift form is active)
Tier 5 - Stronger ST melee attack
Tier 6 - PBAoE attack (only available when Shapeshift form is active)
Tier 7 - ST ranged attack (only available when Shapeshift form is active)
Tier 8 - Advanced Shapeshift
Tier 9 - Powerful ST melee attack

How I see it would be the character would perform basic attack movements (such as punches from SS, element sword melee sweeps and spins etc) and when Shapeshift is active it will replace the users hands with the weapon shape chosen. I have said 'only available when Shapeshift form is active as they wouldn't make sense without it (and would work in a similar way to needing Momentum).

The basic attacks cause low smashing damage and could gain the following from the different shapeshifting forms which would work like the swap ammo toggles (these are just examples):
* Sword - adds additional lethal damage to attacks
* Hammer - adds additional smashing damage to attacks (highest bonus of all forms)
* Spiked Mace - adds additional smashing damage (less than hammer) and minor lethal DoT
* Rapier - adds additional lethal damage (less than sword) and minor defence debuff

Advanced Shapeshifting forms could add additional benefits to attacks depending on the Shapeshift form (again just examples and would work like swap ammo):
* Lethal form - "You enhance your shapeshifted weapon into its most lethal form to cause additional damage" - boosts the damage caused by the Shapeshift form
* Finesse form - "You enahnce your shapeshift weapon into its most finely tuned form to improve its overall effectiveness" - Sword gains minor lethal DoT and defence debuff, Hammer gains chance of KD, Spiked Mace gains chance of stun, Rapier gains Resistance debuff
* Fluid form - "You enhance your shapeshifted weapon into a more fluid form to enhance its speed and defensive capabilities" - minor amount of global recharge plus Sword/Rapier gains Lethal/Melee defence, Hammer/Spiked Mace gain Lethal/Smashing resistance (these are always on rather than per attack)

One good way of doing it like this is that you can pair it with whatever secondary you like rather than having it as an AT

I always take Taunt on my tanks, Brutes sometimes if I have room and never take Confront on Scrappers.

I like taunt as it is useful at pulling larger mobs together and grabbing stray agro. I don't like tanking on my Brutes so don't feel the need to take it. Similar with Scrappers and because it is single target I don't see it as worth it.

I like Taunt because it doesn't need any additional slots to be useful, but can be slotted up for some nice set bonuses. I usually end up just Perfect Zinger: Chance of Psi Damage in there so it becomes an occasional AoE damage power that is autohit and doesn't require any endurance. I've defeated Paragon Protectors through their God Mode powers like that before

Illusion does have an AoE hold - Flash

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Illusion_Control#Flash

I'm not sure about the suggestions but its hard to compare AoE holds to each other without then comparing the whole set to each other. Earth may have a better AoE hold compared to Fire and Plant but both of these sets considerably out damage Earth

I'm not saying no to any changes but I don't think a universal change to all AoE holds would work and each needs to looked in terms of balancing the set

Tater did some testing of the enhancement and posted about it in this post in the Defenders forums:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...9&postcount=24

In his words with the enhancement it works like Ice Patch but with some damage over time! So it could be worth slotting there

I want to slot one in Gravitic as well for my Warshade but Im low on slots.

Overall I think the most use you can get out of it is AoE powers that do knockback (e.g. Tornado, Bonfire, Shockwave, Solar Flare, Gravitic, M30 Grenade, Explosive Blast, Explosive Arrow)

In that case I am doubly lucky then! I assumed you could, I hadn't actually tried

Just gotten my hands on an Overwhelming Force: Knockback to Knockdown enhancement and slotted it in Tornado on my Grav/Storm controller and... OMG!!!!

Ive never been against Knockback as it can be a very useful tool, but on my Grav/Storm Tornado was always a power I saved for tough targets (AVs, EBs etc) because it would scatter mobs. However I've slotted the new enhancement and now it just does knockdown and it is excellent.

It provides excellent control with the knockdown and lots of extra damage!

I thought Wormhole no longer agroing when used a game changer for my Grav/Storm but this turns him into a beast!

I just wanted to share that

I haven't actually used the power on my Grav/Storm before or after the change but could it be to do with how the pseudo pet summoned applies the immobilize?

Looking at City of Data it says it has a "2.25s Immobilized (mag 10)". If this is applied as an AoE every 2.25s rather than individually to each bad guy. In theory it could be possible for the bad guy to run through the field before the next immobilize is applied giving the mixed results you have seen.