spidermonster_EU

Well, it's been a fun three years, but I think it's time for me to move on.

I effectively finished my time here with the Omega Sektor event. For better or worse, those three days were the burnout it seems, and I simply haven't been able to get back into the game since. Possibly, of course, because after three days of high-speed missions and levelling, nothing else can cut it. Go Team Solid! etc

Given that in the last two months, I've managed two missions and didn't really enjoy them, it's time for goodbyes. If you've teamed with me in the last 36 months, it'll mostly likely have been as Etheria, Dorothy Sparks, Constance Planck, Little Miss Squid, Neu-Romantik or of course Strong Nuclear Force.

I'll be ending my subscription shortly (although might reactivate at some point in future) and have deleted a few (but not all) of my alts, so there are some exciting bad pun names available on Union and Defiant!

In my time here, I've managed to get a creative writing prize, get just one level 50 (mostly solo until the late 30s), a couple of 30s and a bunch of level 20 and below alts. Not much to show for three years, but it's been fun - particularly Omega Sektor.

If any of you play Team Fortress 2, you can catch me in-game there with the Steam ID "spidermonster"

Ciao for now and thanks for everything. Keep the city safe from marauding villains/destroy the pathetic do-gooders [delete as applicable]

If I stop subscribing to CoH, do I lose my characters or do they persist and remain as they were for if/when I decide to resubscribe?

I haven't really been in-game very much these last couple of months.

I've had other demands on my time (work, Team Fortress 2, my newly rediscovered desires for Warhammer 40,000 tabletop gaming) and whilest I really, really enjoyed the Omega Sektor event, I think those three solid (ha ha! team solid reference!) days of gaming were just a bit too much for me and I just couldn't get motivated to spend a lot time saving/dooming Paragon City after that.

I cancelled my US account recently, but I'm not cancelling this account - I have every intention of lurking and maybe occasionally venturing into the game, but I think for the next few months I'll sit things out.

I will, however, be back. The city clearly can't look after itself, and one night when criminals think they're safe to lurk in alleys and punch their fist into their cupped hand, they will taste the bitter flavour of justice as I crash back into the City.

But for now, this isn't a goodbye - just think of it as au revoir.

Don't let the city go all to heck while I'm gone, citizens.

If anyone here is in the Tuatha de Danaan supergroup, please pm me - you have an influence sales spammer in your SG and I'll pass on their name.

For me, I find it's useful to say the name out loud a few times and imagine being -called- that. It might look good written down, but do you actually want your hero to be addressed that way?

It might seem like a great plan to be called Spikey Darkity Spookyguy but when someone in-game actually calls you that, doesn't seem so clever now....

I find that the name is usually a good guide to whether someone cares about the character or is just there to try out that AT/those powers...

I'm a few bars into 35.

I'll be around for pretty much all of the bank holiday weekend I think a week and a day from now, so hopefully I'll see you guys then!

Sorry I've not been online much - my connection is just being really bad at the moment - dunno why.

I'm away this weekend but hopefully after that I'll be back more! If you guys are all way ahead of me, I'll just SK up :-D

Hm. I've been having thoughts recently about a "for when I'm bored and want to mess around" solo FF/Energy aggresive defender who is all about the knock back/down/anywhichway.

This news excites me.

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or changed the colour of all the psi, mid powers fortunatas or nightwidows get.

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Did you miss the bit where they explained that you were playing a Fortunata or Night Widow?

*watches video*

blah blah blah blah CRAB SPIDER BACKPACK OMG blah blah*

Time to get to fifty, methinks. I want a spider backpack more than I want most things.

I'm all about Nurgle.

Flies! Flies for the Lord of Plagues!

etc.

*contemplates necro/poison mastermind with a certain nurgley quality*

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Freaky... I've just come home from GW

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Not -that- freaky when you consider that, along with the bulk of people on these forums, we are both colossally geeky :-D

FYI I'm gluing together a Defiler. Can't be in CoX at the same time because I'd end up gluing my fingers to the keys...

Will definitely be in CoX later this evening and chunks of tomorrow :-D

Right now though I'm getting all gluey in a geeky games workshop type way.

I can be on Friday night, and Saturday from around 1pm onwards - am at work before that doing overtime. But basically I'll probably be online through most of saturday afternoon/evening and much of Sunday :-D

Hope to catch some Solid action! If I'm on and getting all villainous just drop me a message and I'll switch for some hot rad action!

By your own admission, villains get an AT balanced around PvP.

That would suggest that the devs do not, in fact, love heroes for pvp.

Villains have not been ignored most of the time. What has been ignored most of the time is things happening in game, by you.

Have you heard of the villain epic archetypes? Or the powersets that villains are getting? Or people complaining about just how much damage brutes with fury up can do? Or perma-domination? Or masterminds in bodyguard mode? Or stalkers?

It's not constant, but it does in fact happen.

Maybe when you have actually played these "direct exports" that aren't in the game yet, you'll be qualified to say whether or not they're better hero or villain-side.

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Pretty nice... but could be rather boring in the long run to stay nova

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You're underestimating how much I like squid :-D

I tried working out an IO set bonus based build for a Nova peacebringer. The idea was I used the self-buffs from human form and would be in nova form at all other times. Any slotting in non nova-form powers was either for the self-buffs or just to get useful IO set bonuses/placing uniques etc.

I -really- like the look of nova form, so it was a total concept thing - I'm aware I could just play a blaster.

From memory, it was pretty tough. I six-slotted each of the nova powers, and I think the form itself but then it was still hard to get enough other things with enough slots to actually get to the good set bonuses (which are all for five or six slots).

I suppose if you have influence to burn you could get some purple sets and all the uniques available. That, imho, would make it workable. Just with regular set bonuses, it wasn't looking too great.

If you're wanting to use Nova/Dwarf form a lot then you don't need any extra travel powers or stamina.

Of the actual PB powers, I haven't found Pulsar to be useful.

The human-form blasts are lame if you take Nova form, though the human melee and PBAOE attacks are very nice indeed.

I haven't got any high level blasters/defenders so have no idea if this is right or not.

When I use Dawn Strike, if it doesn't hit anyone, my endurance doesn't crash - is this right?

I'll get some photos of mine tomorrow, it's a two person SG (but filled with our alts and padded with the recent prestige grant). It's small but works pretty well for stylish batchelor pad lounging.

If you're the tank, you can hopefully survive it though so you're laughing :-D

Of course, saying this, I saw a team wipe about half an hour ago when a Cyst spawned the Nictus. Of course, it spawned the nictus, which were all red to us, the rest of the spawn where the Cyst was were also red (or purple) and we were all around level 28.

We were trying to get it from range but must have edged too close :-(

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In most PuGs or SG teams I think there is only ever the bundle in like lemmings and keymash scenario. My last effort on one against a cyst near normal mission foes and a EB and I was a stonetank...and oh yeah thats really going to guzzle up aggro fast with trigger happy squishies in a pug who wont listen and won't wait...

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Sometimes you get lucky and the first one in is a tank or scrapper who has some kind of taunt or damage aura up which tends to get the attention of lots of the nictus. That works pretty nicely at times and keeps them bunched up for AOE from the survivors and the smart Kheldian who was shooting it from a distance saying "stay back, fools!"

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The other thing is that the Cyst itself blows up when you kill it, with enough force (Fire + Smashing damage) to kill anything short of a Tank or a Dull Pained Scrapper.

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You don't need Dull Pain. My /dark scrapper can take the explosion from a Cyst. I generally use dark regen just before it goes to ensure I'm at full health, and I've seen other scrappers take the blast. Blasters and defenders nearby, on the other hand, fall like flies.

Very helpful, thank you! I'll let you all know how it works out...

To be honest the medical etc stuff is so we can pretend to use it for something - really it's just to be our swanky batchelor pad where we relax after fighting crime.

I'm a little confused by this whole base-building...

A friend and I have a (padded) SG, so are looking to build a basic base.

All we really -need- is an empty room (or two) to decorate as our superheroic batchelor pad, one of those basic reclaimator things that lets you rez in your base and go back to the zone you came from, and somewhere to store salvage.

So to do that... how much space do we really need, and how much does it cost? I'm not really sure what items you need in order to set up other things etc...? The guides etc are all a bit intimidating...

Thanks!