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You're probably right, I'm sure this topic has probably been covered thoroughly before. I'll start treating this as an archive rather than a discussion board. Thanks.

True, I could start my own team. In-game though I'm not really the leader type (in four years I've probably started only a handful of teams, and those have been for GM/events) nor do I really like recruiting. I'd be worried that I wasn't doing a good job with the star. Much more comfortable as a follower or doing my own thing.

edit: yeah...what CoyoteShaman said, basically

I'd consider my Emp/Psi both hard AND slow to solo.

This is what might typically happen when I log on my Emp:

1. I log on, set my flag to "looking for team", do some standard toon maintenance (selling, marketing).

a. I get invited to a team. Yay!

b. I don't get invited to a team. I don't really have any up-to-date contacts, so I do a paper mission (or a level-independent mission like from Montague). I enter the paper mission, and encounter a spawn of CoT. Take care of them in what seems like way too long of a battle. Next spawn - 2 +1 thorn casters and a +1 Behemoth lt. I get pwned. I think to myself "Self - that would have been a trivial spawn given one of your blasters, controllers, scrappers, your mastermind, maybe your corruptor. Eh, forget this - time to play one of those."

There is, actually. The link has to be something like:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/searc...61,562,563,564

At least, I frequent another board where something similar works.

Maybe treat the clues like Recipes - you can store a certain number of them, or delete them if you want to make room for more.

The theory on my build is that I would try to keep mobs bogged down with immobs, then hit them with things like Creepers, Thorn Trops, and later Water Spout. After using Seeds, of course.

As for the order of taking powers early...I suppose I could have done the early levels differently, if I moved up Skewer to 2, Seeds to 8, and moved back Roots or Entangle to 12. I was focusing on Immob/range powers first though I guess, and honestly the time difference between levels 8 and 12 isn't really that much, so I didn't obsess over the order.

Similarly with Spirit Tree, I didn't feel I necessarily needed it at the time. Pushing back Seeds pushed back Spirit Tree to fit in the travel power and the fitness pool.

As for Vines...I'm not big on AoE holds. I rarely used Total Domination on my Mind controller, and the same goes for GDF on my Grav troller. They were handy for Bosses and panic situations, sure. Having Seeds hit will certainly be important. If it doesn't, I'm going to have to do my best to lockdown or distract problem mobs/bosses (and I'll need an alternate plan vs Nemesis, etc.). Having Domination up is going to be a key there.

Heh - I'm STILL slow then; my Merc/Poison just dinged 50 yesterday, and it took him 210 hours. And I felt like he was really fast.

Still felt like a nice accomplishment though. I did it myself (I teamed twice I think - once to help a *brute* with his patron and once to help a small team out with Aurora Borealis). In the last stretch yesterday I defeated four Vindicators, Mynx another time, Dr Aeon, Synapse three times (since when does he actually BLUR??). I wasn't undefeated, but it was challenging and I felt some satisfaction at the end of the fights.

After that I got on a team with my lvl 40 Emp/Psi, who has been bogged down forever (toon's been around 4+ years). Joined an AE team that was fighting huge boss spawns. Gained about a level and a half in what, 45 minutes, if that? I was buffing and healing just as I usually would (well, much more buffing than healing), but it felt empty. I mean, I won't return the XP, but I was kinda glad when I got mapserved as it gave me a nice smooth exit.


edit: I will say though that the AE team I was on had some players on it that have been around longer than I have, and knew what they were doing. Probably would have steamrolled regardless with Emp buffs, Fulcrum Shift, creeper patches, etc. Get a tank that is particularly suited to the incoming damage though, and you have less risk than you otherwise might.

I want my mercs to wear black t-shirts and bowler hats.


I didn't have a huge problem with mine. I had Envenom to help with resistances and to stack -DEF with the Mercs, Assault and Tactics to further help with ToHit and DAM, and NT Breath, Paralytic Poison, Web Envelope and Web Cocoon to add to overall slow/immob/hold. I thought things overall meshed quite nicely, though I've not really played the other sets to compare.

I don't think I have any, but I will still buy the game - under the assumption that there will be things there for characters from both sides to do even if they aren't switching, and because I'm guessing you'll be able to create new players in Praetoria.

(And if I'm wrong about the above...I'll still probably buy it. Twice.)

I think style might be part of the issue too. I've used ones like the following, and on the right background they look fine:



But yeah...size would still be an issue for these over contrast/style.

Ack. I just failed one of Pither's last missions because I couldn't find the last couple Council in a defeat-all. That was really annoying.

Back in the days before the AV->EB scaling, I had to face the Envoy of Shadows with my BS/Regen. I'd get him down, only to consistently use Healing Flames to get back up again. I think it was over two real-time years before I ever spoke to Cadao Kestrel again.

* Kadabra Kill gave my Merc/Poison fits, dropped him the second time I faced him.

* The mission where Black Scorpion has you down 4 Portal Corp portals. Like the CoT portals, these summon...but they summon Longbow. After the first summoned a mess of Longbow including a couple Flamethrowers and a boss...yeah, so much for trying that. If one portal was going to be that bad, I wasn't facing FOUR.

* Pumpkinhead Goaltender (Prevent 30 Fir Bolg from Escaping). On any character.

* Calystix the Shaper.

Thanks; I have talked to Pither.

The badge isn't really a big deal, not being needed for an accolade and me not being a major badge hound. It was just very irritating beating the bosses, setting the bomb, and then realizing that I wasn't done. And then failing on what seems to amount to a technicality. Which I suppose is part of the point of the Pither missions...it's just - bah. I don't like failing.