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Makes me think of this guy:



I rather like that dress, too.

What do you define as a regular spawn? My Fire/Fire died occasionally, sure. I don't recall leveling her to be that much of a chore at all though. Granted, that was with the use of IO and set bonuses on the way up. +0/x1 may be a boring way to play, but I certainly didn't find it that hard. I think at 50 I can handle for certain x2, sometimes x3/x4. Depends on the foe. It's not +4/x8, but I never run that on anyone anyway.

As for an open, I always preferred Blazing Bolt -> Rain of Fire -> Fireball. BB for the boss or whatever mob was going to be troublesome, targeting RoF while it animates. RoF deters the mobs enough from hitting me back (and stops them from reaching me) to clean them up. Bonfire at 41 further helped in keeping trouble mobs away from me. If they got through, Burn and Hot Feet made them pay for it.

I will concede that I leveled her many issues ago, so she has not had to face the revamped Praetorians.

Defiance 2.0 probably saved my hide more times than I can count. I felt like I had more of an out than I did on my Energy/Kin corr (and now my Beam/Rad corr). If I got held or stunned there, it was over.

Again, while I appreciate that Blasters aren't the most robust AT, this wasn't my experience on either my Fire or my Ice/MM blaster. I may just be patient to a fault. Or maybe I lucked out with the combinations (Fire could out damage, Ice could hold, slow and confuse). I guess my AR/Dev isn't nearly as fun (could be how I play - or misplay - Devices, especially in the New Ambush Order). Maybe I should dust off my Elec/Elec and see how that levels.

INF isn't an issue (I have characters with 1B+ in semi-retirement), it's just a matter of getting my act together and putting in the bids, really. I'd much rather use A-merits for rolls, and I haven't run an iTrial in ages.

As could I. But I'm cheap anyway (and I'm not likely to take on any sort of project that would have me working at midnight on a Friday).

Thanks - guess it was too obvious an idea not to have tried that, and I figured it could get out of hand w/o some really tricky balancing.

Very late to this discussion and I am largely ignorant of the Stalker playstyle (it is an AT I have barely touched).

I wonder though, would it be possible to scale damage across the board based on the class of foe? Say an attack does 50 damage to a +0 minion that has 250 HP. If a +0 boss has 750 HP (I am just making up values here), could that same attack do 150 damage against the boss? And even if technically possible, would it be balanceable? (maybe it's not scaled 1:1)

I'll echo this. I visit three forums continuously that use vBulletin, in one instance for the better part of a decade. One of them is running vBulletin Version 3.6.0. They have custom tags, plugins, etc. I've NEVER seen any of these problems at these sites. This is something that is unique to CoH's version of vBulletin, at least in my experience.

Also, I have the mod keys for a couple of these and have probably added a couple of dozen forum skins. If you have one that's working, it's not hard to save that style to xml, import it under another name, then tweak it to create a new style - all while the boards remain up. Just make sure your images are all where they should be and you should be fine.

edit: and I'll agree (and have guessed before) that verifying off of game account info seems like a likely culprit.

Now that I think about it (and I'm sure it's been brought up), why *did* the contacts stop at 45-50 anyway? Much of the time on my 50s, it took that range of contacts to get me there. Why never a new set of contacts that unlocks at 50, even outside of Incarnate content?

Yep - I was watching the football game. And while I doubt NC Soft would spring for a commercial during Sunday Night Football, the idea of the commercial would work, I think (maybe not SNF, but Cartoon Network?) I often zone out during commercials, but this one absolutely caught my attention.

Am I allowed to say? Not sure if I'm allowed to say. Think opposite of sinners, though. Looks like the commercial is on their YouTube channel.

Color it blue and call him K-Mart Man.

Atta was my first thought too. When I first started playing the game, a full team of my friends ran that mission starting at what seemed like a decent hour. We finished, I think, at 3AM. One guy ran headlong into one of the huge end-rooms because he had fallen asleep on his keyboard.

I must really be tired. I read this as "van control", and then wondered what powers would be in such a set. Then I thought of the A-Team and Scooby Doo.


/eyes glaze over

Not level 20 for me, but similar sentiments. I'll have plenty of play time leveling my WS, PB, Beam/Rad and Ice/Time before I feel the need to pick up Street Justice. And honestly, by then I expect there to be more sets to choose from which will probably leapfrog it.

(C'mon, Metal Control!)

No offense taken. Admittedly I sometimes (ok, a lot of the time) play the game on auto-pilot. If anything, for me it's a blind spot created in part by playing the same Orenbegan maps for six years (at this point I can find most hiding places...though I will say some Council nooks still fool me every now and then). I enter the mission, see a familiar setting that I've seen hundreds of times before, and don't think to really take a look at things.