Your favourite enemies
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Posted on: 2009-05-19 19:22 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Hmmm very often it depends on which toon I'm playing
On my elec armour toons i like Malta purley because i smile every time a sapper tries to zap me for some reason a little seen plays in my head of the poor sapper desperately firing his weapon at the charging brute and it not having the desired effect.
Freaks are always good for a bit of fun ands often fun to have stand up fight with one of the tanks and the poor minions getting flung about by the overspill from my AoE KB powers.
I love shivians as well and used to hunt them in the PvP zones till they made the PvP changes and now they just slaughter me 
Oh and hellions are great fun i dream of the day when they revamp DA and the hellions take up residence there in a big old abandoned church.
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Favourite has to be the void hunters and quantum gunners, a mob that can make a Kheldian (ex lvl 50) run screaming in terror from a map is priceless 
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EBs, Avs and GMs the rest are all nothing to me
Carnies I've always found quite fun (cos they really scream for me...)
Vanguard when ya come up against them have always proven to be one of my fave foes as they make heroes AND villains tremble. Also vanguard wizards = uber cool
Storm Elementals I oddly like too just cos they look so strange and just have some very cool attacks, they always stand out against any map.
And for some reason I've always liked fighting Crey. Probably their very 'LutherCorp' feel and approach to business.
Also agreed - 5th Column just rock. Destroy the atomic-space-nazis!
I love the Carnies, they're fun to fight and eye catching.
I love the Banished Pantheon too, and always the Totems...mainly because of my 1st 50 having a whale of a time rampaging through them, meaning that whenever I see them it takes me back...all those years ago.....eeeeeee
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My favourite 5 are:
Banished Pantheon - woefully underused, great backstory, Totems are just cool
Freakshow - very funny, well designed, CoV arcs give them added depth and pathos
Rikti - well designed, alien invaders are a superhero staple, nice backstory twist
Council/5thColumn - great backstory, good mob variety, love the scheming between Requiem/Arakhn/Center
Nemesis - I love steampunk & Nemesis is a proper villain (a ubiquitous manipulator): Viridian's last mission sums him up so well.
My least favourite would be Longbow, because they're overused (in CoV, which I mainly play) and have a dull and dubious backstory - they also need more variety in minions and especially lieutenants (oh how I hate Nullifiers, yet get bored of seeing them in every spawn). I hate Wailers too - they all look the same and fight the same way... then there's that sound...
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I think it's a shame that the BP only get a few boring one-offs and a very dull story arc (Wheel of Destruction). I'm trying to think of a decent story to write for them in the MA atm.
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I agree 100% - I'd love to see the BP get more content devoted to them. Their backstory is really interesting, especially where it overlaps with CoT and Mu history (which inspired my first MA arc).
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My favourite 5 are:
Banished Pantheon - woefully underused, great backstory, Totems are just cool
Freakshow - very funny, well designed, CoV arcs give them added depth and pathos
Rikti - well designed, alien invaders are a superhero staple, nice backstory twist
Council/5thColumn - great backstory, good mob variety, love the scheming between Requiem/Arakhn/Center
Nemesis - I love steampunk & Nemesis is a proper villain (a ubiquitous manipulator): Viridian's last mission sums him up so well.
My least favourite would be Longbow, because they're overused (in CoV, which I mainly play) and have a dull and dubious backstory - they also need more variety in minions and especially lieutenants (oh how I hate Nullifiers, yet get bored of seeing them in every spawn). I hate Wailers too - they all look the same and fight the same way... then there's that sound...
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I think it's a shame that the BP only get a few boring one-offs and a very dull story arc (Wheel of Destruction). I'm trying to think of a decent story to write for them in the MA atm.
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I agree 100% - I'd love to see the BP get more content devoted to them. Their backstory is really interesting, especially where it overlaps with CoT and Mu history (which inspired my first MA arc).
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Agreed on Longbow totally. They're so damn dull. They look like a meeting of the Casper the Ghost Cosplayers Association, there's bugger all variety in them and Villains have to put up with them for 50 whole levels.
My all-time favourite are Carnies purely for their costume bright cheeriness!
To fight - it all depends on what alt I am playing but Malta, Nemesis and Rikti are the top 3!
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I like the council. They are fun to fight, varied (at least at the lower levels) and not overpowered. The Ritki are fun as well, just love to fight big groups of them.
Longbow are one of the worst to fight, they are pretty much all the same and a bit to easy except a few of their bosses that are way over powered. And Malta for the same reason, either you totally flatten them or you get flattened.
Last one to mention is the high levels of the PPD, an army of PBs get boring really fast.
Carnies
Banished Pantheon
CoT and Vanguard for me
Council, Arachnos and Family for me. Although I like the Hellions and Skulls too.
Least favorite, CoT, Malta(well...actually only one type of Malta 
) and Sky Raiders.
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Carnies, Legacy Chain and CoT, not necessarily my favourite to fight but.....
Carnies: Best boots in game, scream when you defeat them, best contact in game
Legacy Chain:- Chainmail + Swords + Fireballs = Win
CoT:- long standing group, varied powers at different levels. Love to hate them, only think I've ever been the top nemesis of for a month
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Praetorians, Arachnos and Rularuu are all very cool, I think 
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My favourite enemies? Why, the Circle of Thorns of course!
I love them because they're challenging, unlike many other enemy groups. They hit you with strong attacks, mezzes and have those annoying spectres which have good resistance against many attacks and go invisible on you.
I also love them because of their backstory. I guess I've always had an attraction to anything magical and mystic and the idea of a secret underground world (Oranbega) ticks all the boxes for a mysterious yet potent force.
They're also great because they're available at virtually any level, so you never miss out on an opportunity to squash some druids!
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Praetorians, Arachnos and Rularuu are all very cool, I think
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I agree with GG.
The praetorians AV's are extremely fun to battle with. Since they are evil counterparts of signature heroes, it probably makes it feel more enjoyable in a vigorous way.
Arachnos provides a wide variety of different enemies, which also include a wide variety of different powers. Although, they have recently became a lot more common and seem slightly more boring now.
The Rularuu! They are once again, a wide variety of unique enemies. They usually have monsters, which is more fun than killing Skulls and Hellions. There is a large assorted variety of Rullaru enemies; natterlings, wisps, overseers, brutes, some mysterious objects, and the AV's are also unique.
However, this is only my opinion :P
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My favourite enemies? Why, the Circle of Thorns of course!
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I hate the CoT. They are extremely irritating at the low lvls. They never stopped kiling me as a newbie. I won't ever forget these dreadful memories! lol
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I have to say, handing the Malta Group's backsides to them on a platter is supremely satisfying.
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only time i have a smile on my face while playing gainst cot is when I'm using my earth dom. Watching cot fall over when I put earth quake down is so satisfiying.
Fav group is GM's not for there fantastic rewards but just for the fun of them.
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I think it's a shame that the BP only get a few boring one-offs and a very dull story arc (Wheel of Destruction).
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Two story arcs. There's also Scroll of Tielekku.
Malta - for variety, difficulty and the awesome Titans.
Arachnos - good variety and design of mobs
The Cabal - for being sexy
Probably the Malta Group. I also like the entire idea behind the Praetorians.
Clocks
Vazhilok
Family
Banished Pantheon
Tsoo
Not necessarily in that order.
I think it's a shame that the BP only get a few boring one-offs and a very dull story arc (Wheel of Destruction). I'm trying to think of a decent story to write for them in the MA atm.
Tsoo are just fun. I actually like fighting against them. They're like an early version of Carnies and can easily overwhelm the underprepared team.
Actually this applies to all the groups bar Family. I just love wise guys.