Returning Player Diary

Hey Nethergoat,

Thanks for sharing your experiences with all of us. I look forward to reading more about your continuing adventures .

Welcome back Nethergoat!

Glad to hear that the family is doing well.

When you get the chance, take a stroll through Dark Astoria. Its... different now.

Okay, time to get in a mission or two before bed.

Hit level 4 & checked out Lady Liberty's dialogue box as suggested.
HOLY WOW, tailor options? Hallelujah!
No more taking your lowbie life in your hands doing the Steel Canyon Run to fix this or that detail that doesn't look quite right in game. Well played, Paragon Studios.

And since when do pool powers open up at level 4?
And since when do SJ, SS, TP and Fly open up at level 4?

0.0

So far this is all pretty weird, seeing all this stuff we complained about for YEARS suddenly showing up in game.
Not bad, mind you, just disorienting.


Also, I forgot how much I love Ninja Run.
So much I'll skip taking a travel power at 4, even though INHERENT STAMINA (which I also forgot about) means I have so many discretionary choices I could make without messing up 'my build' I'm a little giddy with choice....

So I finish up my Hellion arc, and it's pretty cool- custom map with flaming pentagrams all over. Neat dialogue boxes when I chat with the computer at the end- solid first set of missions.

My next step along the contact tree, I choose Officer Fields because his murder investigation sounds more interesting than the other choices unspecified 'problems'.

Foolish me, now I'm knee deep in sewage staring down the barrel of a 'defeat 10 Vahzilok'. =/

Oh well, let's see if they still devestate lowbies with massive volleys of toxic damage, shall we?

Okay, not as awful as expected- the spawns are small and there's someone else in here with me so we're sort of tag-teaming them. Plus, plenty of inspirations dropping so they're going down pretty efficiently.

On to the next mission!
Run and talk, off to the ex-hero...nice theater she's hanging around.
And.....another 'defeat 10 Vahzilok'. Bleh.

Over to the hunting ground, engage a spawn...and here comes the ambush of course! You know I've been gone for a while when an ambush actually surprises me. Touch a go for a while there, but scrapper toughness combined with a few more timely inspiration drops got me through.

Enjoying the new liberality with cell phones- call in the mish, get the next one and it's pretty close.

Another sewer, rescuing some actors & looking for this Botte guy.
Things went pretty smooth, thanks to a mid-mish levelling and more helpful insp drops. The customized room and dialogue for the boss battle was neat and a couple of acc's made the Eidolon go down easy.

My guy booted me off to another contact- as I'm now level 5 I think I'll check out GG's suggested contact instead.


Time for bed, more later!

Yes they moved the power pools to level 4, overhauled the order of powers in the travel power pools (also added one more power in each) and they also lowered the level for APP/PPP to 35 from 41. They did this when Issue 21/Freedom was released.

Also were you around for the Fitness for All change back in Issue 19? All four Fitness powers are now available as inherent at Level 2. Old characters that took some will need to respec to get them all.

"I am making the air sounds at you" is priceless though, in any medium.

Welcome back, Goat!

It's nice to see you looking at COH through fresh eyes, but I am also waiting for you to return to your old, grizzled self.

Have you tried any of the Dual Inspirations yet?

I suggest you go on to the 3rd contact and finish the AP arc next. Twinshot is cool, but the range for her first arc is 5-9 while the range for all 3 in the AP arc is 1-7. Running Twinshot's full first arc could easily level you beyond the satisfying end of the story you are already in.

I'm a fan of the new low level content but the abnormal level range really caught me by surprise. I ended up having to do the first two contacts again in Ouroboros just to run through the 3rd's arc. Which brings up another point - O portal works at 14th level now.

Haven't seen it mentioned at all yet, but if you are looking for IO sets you can check out the Paragon Market now, they do sales/discounts on certain sets each month and the cool thing is you can start using them at lvl 10 and they are good all the way to 50 with no fall off in performance.

I recently came back after 2 years away from the game(had played since release) and love the new changes they've made to just about everything. Atlas feels like a relevant zone now where you can actually spend a good bit of time instead of just logging in and running sewers from lvls 1-8 and then going to Hollows, which used to be my old routine.

Also with regards to the Twinshot arcs, the 1st one is pretty boring, though it's kind of cool to run through Manticore's mansion. However the 2nd and 3rd stories you can get from her are pretty good, especially the one with the Praetorian Clockwork, and you get a couple of badges for doing her arcs.

okay had a few minutes so I headed to Wentworth's for my first drop off.

Sold my junk salvage & enhancements at the vendor, which gave me enough bankroll to list that sweet, fat green Heal inspiration for 59,000.

It insta-sold for 300k, and there's my lowbie bankroll. =D


While I'm at it I think I'll swing by the new Atlas tailor and get a screenshot to spice up this thread with....



(that's me enjoying a hot beverage...)