Confessions

Long story, but a TL;DR at the end for your summing up pleasure:

I first started this game approximately when Issue 16 first came out during a free trial/double xp weekend. My boyfriend had been a previous subscriber around when the game was first released, and after leaving for a few years wanted to come back and try it out again. I had been really interested in the game in the past, but it wasn't an option because up to that point there was no Mac version. With a Mac version available and a free trial up and running, it seemed like the perfect time to join my boyfriend and see what the fuss was about.

I needed to roll a villain, and so I chose the most awesome sounding AT out of the list, the stalker. I made my villain-y ninja girl a martial arts/ninjitsu stalker, and picked out a costume full of malicious bad-***ery. So things went great until level 8 when my supervillain began to eat pavement. A lot. I had years of mmo experience prior to CoX, and even more video game experience before that, so it frustrated me to not be able to troubleshoot why I was dining on concrete so often. I struggled to 14 and was about to call it for the game until I got Superjump. The power was so much fun, I realized i could probably be happy jumping around Cap au Diablo for a month yelling, "WHEEEEE," so I decided to try a month subscription to the game. Yeah, I liked it that much.

So at this point I decided to reroll something stronger, something tougher, and yet remarkably attractive. My boyfriend recommended a brute, and in order not to make the same mistake I made with the stalker as a starting class, I decided to research on the brute boards what primaries and secondaries work well together. I saw an incredibly popular article with an incredible amount of responses about an amazing brute combo. I decided at this point that I was going to make this combo and not bother to look at the thread. Yes, this Morrigana was almost Strong and Pretty. I had just decided to make the WM/EA brute when I thought I'd skim through the brute guides one last time, and Heraclea's DM/WP guide caught my eye. The way she (he?) talked it up and used song quotes to emphasize her points made it sound like just about the coolest thing ever, save for super jump, and I went with that. I couldn't be happier with my first level 50 character, and she's still my main
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TL;DR: Squishy Stalker Splats after Super Jump, Roles a Brute and Barely Misses Being Strong and Pretty by "This Much"

I did the same stuff, I Powerleveled characters never PvE'ing with them once just so I could PvP with them. I duped/farmed IO's so I could complete my build the quickest possible way so I could hop in RV or Arena.

In fact back when CoV launched I had an Emp Defender and a Fire/Fire Tank but I wanted a Stalker so bad for PvP, specifically a EM/Nin for Sirens Call so I paid 200 USD to a Korean Goldfarming site to get a lvl50 Stalker. I never regretted it I had so much fun with that character over the years in PvP.

All of this has nothing to do with skill it's just time sinks, how long are you willing to grind to get your characters and gear. PvPers want to PvP and PvErs want to PvE is that so hard to understand?


Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 doesn't have these problems.

I usually only ever found out about exploits after they'd been patched, but I do have a couple under my belt.

—I found a map hole in The Web that let you get under it and blast away at the Crey Protectors with impunity. I reported that one... after I got the Infiltrator badge out of it.

—I had a Level 1 villain with the Annihilator badge (LRSF). Early after MA's release, there was a bug where if you invited someone to a team while they were already on a 1-54 MA arc, it wouldn't check character level vs. TF/SF level and break the team upon entering the first map but no one was booted out. I discovered it when a friend padded me for a two-box old Posi TF and my Tanker running it entered the first mission at level 50. I talked some friends into trying it with the LRSF and a new character. Started the SF, logged out, logged back in before the badge mission and entered. Team broke, but everyone still got the badge. Never reported that one, but I deleted the character right afterwards anyway.

Though I wasn't the one to discover it, I did participate in and started several runs of breaking the old Abandoned Sewer Trial for buttloads of level 40 rare recipe rewards (buttloads as in however many 40+ characters you had per day).

My only other "confessions" are run-of-the-mill stuff. "Forgetting" to heal/buff jerkwads on my team. Faking disconnects when I didn't want to deal with someone's BS. That sort of thing.

I didn't find out about this but was told it by a fellow badger, not sure if it's ever been patched or found out by the gen pop, great tool for the WST 50 times badge...

TV respec, you can follow the hostage through the locked door....I think it's the very first hostage, free em, then let them run off. This doesn't work if you open any of the other doors I think....just let the hostage run through and open doors until they get to the locked one. Then follow them through (real quick, I think the door closes after them).

I also haven't done this in over a year, so I'm not sure if I even have it 100% right, I just know that that's the jist. The reason this is useful for that badge is that a failed respec mish is counted for the badge credit....run the trial as normal, cheat through that door, fail the respec, and you start over at the beginning of that mish, which takes like 5 mins tops. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I never looked at any of the build guides on the forums. I'd always go for something thematically appropriate for my characters' powersets... and then force it to work. I started out in I4 on a BS/DA scrapper (therefor before the global defense nerf and ED and thus when DA was clearly underperforming) and the only advice was given to my constantly running out of endurance and faceplanting was "Reroll to invuln." So naturally, I pushed up to 50. Stubbornness and spite do make for badass builds, I have to say. Of course, the changes to the game over the years have certainly helped too.

There's a few holes between the grating floor and the reactor in the TV respec trial. Just enough to aim a targeted aoe through.

Or a teleport.

For the last six, eight years or so, I've been teleporting teammates underneath the reactor. I'll initiate the TP, type "Trust test," and then see who has teleport prompt on.

I was never the victim of creative uses for TP friend, but I enabled the prompt the day it became an option on every character and never accepted a TP from someone I didn't know well enough to not expect them to be doing something I wouldn't like with it.

I bought City of Villains before City of Heroes. My first character was a stone/stone brute. I took flurry because I liked the name. Fists of Flurry! That character was quickly deleted.

The first character that stuck was a tank on the hero side. A SG mate told me that I was stupid for taking AS over hover. I believed him until I finally figured out he was an idiot. Which didn't take too long, thankfully.

CoH was not my first MMORPG. In other MMO's I'd played cosumables such as health potions were either expensive or otherwise hard to come by. So I was reluctant to use inspirations much except when I REALLY needed them.

Now, over eight years later, I STILL hoard inspirations for when I REALLY need them.

I was Cronos Light (FA/EM) on Triumph, along with Chaotic Imbalance (DM/EA) on Victory. I'd routinely forget to turn on my toggles before a fight, sometimes get two or three groups in before I'd notice. As a big burning fireball or invisible robot.

We had to explain to LadyMage why the /teabag emote made all of us laugh so hard. She'd never heard of the term before. I think she still kind of hates me for it.

We used to joke our SG needed shock collars for all the horrible, horrible puns we had, including someone having a toon named Sdrawkcab, and he spoke everything backwards, and remapped all the keys for it. He was fantastic.

I'd take recall friend and start my port at the same time someone else was porting me so we swapped spots.

I consistently for the old hamidon raids just put someone on follow and set my self heal to auto-fire so it seemed I was doing something. Then I put a hold on auto and went and played a console game until it ended. I was a fire tank, and I just really didn't feel like jumping up and down.

I also before the aggro-cap stuff went in accidentally pulled about half of steel canyon onto my friend's head because I forgot to turn off Blazing Aura. Then I did it more often on purpose.

I still have no idea what anything regarding Incarnates does. I stopped playing right before they came out, and when I restarted I was baffled, so I just stayed with my usual idea of "50=done"

I'd apologize if I'd ever pissed someone off, but honestly I can't recall any of it beyond thinking it was really, really funny.

Oh, and first day I played a friend took me to the Hollows by tram. I didn't remember and ended up running through Steel Canyon, INdependence port and afew other places at level 12 to get back to Galaxy. When he told me my response was "What tram."

EDIT: I just keep remembering stuff.

My DM/EA brute got high pain threshold when I logged him into the beta server for i7 beta - I didn't know what badges were needed, I ground Gangbuster just BECAUSE. He also had the 5th debt badge and Monkeywrencher solo.

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Originally Posted by Shubbie Im very good at taking a problem and making it worse.