i19 does not bode well

In i19 I have gotten 29 Shards so far and 0 Purples. Just a personal anecdote, but even without it you are very very wrong here.

...I always thought your views on human/animal relations were just pure spiteful full myth.

I knocked him into the lava with my MM and defeated him so fast I never saw any clones. That was the first time I ran thru the Arc. So I was surprised when I saw people advising others to kill the clones to stop his regen.

^ THIS


I love Sadako.

where the heck have you been!!

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tactics!

1) kill the easily killable clones that grant him regen
2) keep him in the lava
3) pull him into the cave away from his clones that grant him regen

sorry if some things just require more thought than "target, push button"

I did this earlier today with my electric/ice tanker (at +1/x3 woo hoo go me). I ignored the clones and knocked the guy into the lava, then stood at the edge and kept him from getting out, all the while spamming the bruise attack thingy and alternating the more damaging attacks. Didn't take long.

I thought the bully boy in the last part put up the toughest fight. Anyway, once it was over I was all like... okay, got the slot, got a shard... now I'm gonna go do something else!

You're surprised no Aussies are playing with you after midnight, and no Yanks are playing with you at the break of dawn?

You're just transferring anger from a different game. Shame about that

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

... is Cricket even a proper game?

*hears a knock on the door, opens it, and is assaulted by cricket bats*

ow...

Okay, I really didn't have anything to add to this thread except for the I don't understand cricket line of jokes. Yeah, I do think the Original Poster is well off his rocker for a variety of reasons, most of which I think have been addressed. That being said I'm not entirely sure the Original Poster understands what lipstick on a pig means, much less having a firm grasp of time.

Just because a game is old does not mean it is bad. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, and Valve (Steam) are still posting rather tidy profits from old games made available through their various download services. Games that were taken off the retail market years ago, like Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic, still sell.

I guess I'm left wondering if the original poster really understands what they want or what they are asking for. If they want a new game because they don't like how CoH plays, well, why even say anything to Paragon Studios? All information so far suggests that if NCSoft decided to have Paragon Studios work on a CoH2 title, Paragon Studios will continue the game balance and mechanics already in the existing game. So if they want a different play experience, they aren't going to get it from Paragon Studios or NCSoft.

Updating this game isn't putting lipstick on a pig. Now, if the original poster really wants examples of putting lipstick on pigs, I'd be more than happy to give the forum moderators a list of examples they would no doubt have to delete.

If the original want a new game because they don't have anybody to play with... well, then there is the entire issue of they are in Australia, they are playing after midnight their time and before whatever time it is in the US. One of the... things... I tell new players to CoH is to spread out across servers. I tell new players not to get too hung up on being on just one server and having all their characters on that one server. Ergo, it's my opinion that if the original poster was even remotely interested in participating in the game's community, they should try different servers, see whose up when they are playing.

One of the facets of an MMO is that sometimes, believe it or not, content is designed for teams, and requires players to be online to run that content. I don't agree with the notion that everything should be solo-able. I think this point has been addressed already. Why would somebody play an MMO if they were not interested in forming a team and playing with other people.

Okay, in all fairness, MMO's can suffer from the availability of players. Real life events like the economy, school, national holidays, other video game releases, and so on, can have a dramatic effect on the visible population of any given game. While CoH does have a large number of casual gamers, hard-core games like Donkey Kong Country Returns and Kirby's Epic Yarn are still going to pull a visible portion of the player-base away. Then there's stuff like Call of Duty: Black Op's which will also put a dent in the number of CoH players.

From a long-point, this is why MMO companies generally don't base performance on the game on a narrow section of time. The indication has been that CoH is running a healthy number of subscribers, Going Rogue met sales expectations, Issue 19 made it out only a few months after Going Rogue, and so on and so forth.

Looking over the thread, I don't think I'm the only one that is genuinely confused by whatever viewpoint the original poster has. The impression I get is that the Original Poster has the same entitlement / I want it nao attitude that permeated that thread claiming the Incarnate System was an insult to skilled players.

You're overexaggerating. I ran tips last night with my husband. After 5 tips he had gotten 3 shards and I had gotten 2. We went straight for the objective on two of the 5 tip missions.

The other day I ran my farm map, just to see how long it would take. In about 45 minutes I got 5 shards. That's about even with 45 minutes on an ITF. The thing is, it just *feels* like it takes forever for them to drop when you're solo. And they are not rarer than purples. I've gotten 1 purple compared to about 50+ shards. I already have uncommon boosts slotted in 3 of my 50's, 2 of them with just a common boost slotted.

Nope, not hard to get a team together. Some of the best teams are found early Aussie evening. My husband teams on TF (Justice) regularly around 5 - 7pm Aussie time...possibly even later. The other night at about 7 your time, he ran a STF and a Tin Man.

So far Solo i have run 7 tip Missions, 3 Radio Missions and 6 normal missions and have yet to see a single shard drop, but my luck has normally been fairly bad when it comes to drops of any kind. , oh and Yes i have compleated the arc and have the alpha slot opened.

That said i am not complaining just sharing, latwr i ran in 3 TF and have recieved enough to make an uncommon also got two purple recipies. Maybe my luck is finally changing.




Edited to add last sentance.

WRONG!

I'm pretty much a soloer and am working on getting my alpha slot filled. You can get the alpha slot filled without doing a single TF.

TFs/SFs just allow you to fill the slot faster than doing it solo.

You can use knockback to put him in the lava. Or you can lure him into the hallway out of range of his clones and he goes down fairly easily.

This means you defeated him. Now you click on him to talk to him.

This and he goes down like any other enemy. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

In my case, because I enjoy the general gameplay and the costume creator. I tried joining PUGs, and even an actual super group when I first started playing. I found PUGs less than likable because I seemed to constantly run into people who were bad players, or actual build fascists. And I ended up setting all my characters to hidden from my own SG, because I quickly got fed up with the other members *demanding* that I come team with them, regardless of what I was already doing. (Quite often, they didn't even have the courtesy to phrase it as a request. Not "Oh, hey fellow team member. Are you busy? Would you like to help me out with this?" No, instead I got "You're in our SG and we want two more people for this team. Get over here now.") Now all my characters are in one of my solo SGs, and all of them are hidden from searches as soon as they are made.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I play MMOs because I like something about the game enough to tolerate the fact that there are other people logged in at the same time. I play *despite* the massively multiplayer part, not because of it. Of the three MMOs that I spend any time playing, none of them particularly require teaming most of the time. I don't PVP, and I don't have any interest in "raid" style content. In fact, the main reason I'd stopped really playing the zillion pound gorilla of MMOs a good six months before I actually quit was that it became more and more apparent that there really wasn't much to do at the level cap if you didn't want to sign away your soul to a hardcore Raiding guild.

Now, for the original poster's complaint about Trapdoor - I did this mission solo, on a Necromancy/Dark Miasma Mastermind that is *not* a Tankermind and that actually has a significant number of slots devoted to personal attacks. As soon as a clone popped up, I'd order my zombies to take it out. I think the whole fight might have taken three minutes, and I believe I lost one zombie.

The fight with the Honoree originally looked pretty intimidating, so I did ask a friend for help. However, by the time they got done with what they were doing and made it to me, I'd cleared out both of the portals and had just finished of Holtz. Alone, I think the worst that might have happened is that I might have had to make a hospital run to restock on the various purple inspirations. (Honoree does have a nasty habit of trying to stunlock you.)

Since then, I've been playing that character solo, and have only managed about five shards. They have a bit higher drop rate than purples, so I might actually be able to make one of the basic boosts in a month or two. Building towards the higher pieces solo would be quite tedious, if that was my only goal. (I rarely attempt to join any kind of Task Force, beyond whatever it takes to unlock the costume pieces for the ones that have some.) I went to the trouble of unlocking the alpha slot mostly just to see how hard it was, and because the basic shards are essentially free extra loot once you've done so. I have no intention of doing the Apex or Tin Mage task forces. If future Incarnate slots require doing a TF to unlock, I won't hesitate to skip them.

I stay mostly on Virtue (am aussie too playing similar times).

Make sure you have joined global channels. And be willing to alt.

On virtue this includes virture TFs/Virtures taskforce 2010, Virtue United, Virture LFG Alpha. Often tfs all hours of the day, and always groups to be had.
If you're willing to start one, you can have a team/taskforce any time.

If you are a regular justice player, make sure you are on the Australia channel. I lurk on it a lot (less use for me as its 99% justice server orientated, and I'm not on justice very much.) and they run taskforces at least twice a week, more since i19. Go to the australia section of this forum, and see thier schedules.

In comparison to.... curling?