Your Crowning Moments of Awesome

Winning about 100 mil infl from a costume contest.

Having someone tell me in game that my main's main costume inspired many of that person's costumes.

My first ever teamup in this game: I was TeddyRoosevelt; my teammate was Vengeful Santa.

Yep. Theodore Roosevelt and Santa Claus.

A long time ago, I would PvP a lot in Warburg and Recluse's Victory; something which I hope people remember the good things (being good) and not the bad things (getting angry at losing/other people). The following is either an exact retelling of that memory or the story shifting so dramatically that it sounds amazing when it actually wasn't.

I would do 1 on 1's with other people in Recluse's Victory on my EM/FA brute, back when energy transfer was really over-powered. I forgot who they were, but there was about three or four heroes who wanted to do a consecutive 1 on 1 with me, where as soon as one of them was defeated, another would jump in to fight me.

I managed to take all of them without even having to use Rise of the Phoenix. The best part was the last guy I fought, who was a something/regen scrapper. I already had full fury (uh oh) but I knew as soon as he got near 50% health he would pop dull pain, instant healing, etc. So I wittled him down to near 75% health, crossed my fingers and hit build up and fiery embrace
(back when fiery embrace added +damage) and WHAM'ed him with energy transfer, taking him down.

I thought it was so amazing that I had defeated all 4 of those guys on a build that had no unstoppable tier 9. I immediately thanked them on broadcast for the fun times and logged out so the moment couldn't be taken away from me.

I remember when the Master of Statesman Task Force Badge came out and my Trick Arrow Defender was one of the first 8 people to get and register the badge on badge hunter. I mean, not only did my team accomplish it, and most likely as one of the first to do it on Live, but they did it with ME. On a TA. I mean, come on.

Oh, and I remember also taking Lighthouse (remember that guy?) on his first Statesman Task Force. And waiting for like an hour for him to slot up his DevPL'd AR Blaster.

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The best memory I have playing Yoru-hime was a long time back on an STF that was trying it's darnedest to fall apart. Ghost Widow would heal off the tank, then hold him and rip him apart with his defenses down. Finally, I got frustrated and charged in with my Dark Servant without waiting for the rest of the team to get back from the hospital. Between our stacked debuffs and probably a nice dose of dumb luck, she never landed another blow. I politely refused the offer to try the same on Lord Recluse.

The thrill of finishing MoSTF back when it was the ultimate badge for heroes is also way up there.

Well, I did finally get a FPARN today. Does that count?

Back during I2 or I3, before IOs, soloing half a dozen AV/GMs with my Dark/Regen scrap, Shadow Kitty, including Countess Crey and the Kronos Titan. This was during the Emmert days of "A Boss is more than a match for one hero." Another time, still around I3 when the power level of the players was pretty low, the same scrap was doing Citadel. A pull went bad and we were swarmed with 5th Column. The entire team went down, except for the Kitty. I just kept punching and punching until they were all gone.

Beating an 8x4 Arachnos paper mission with my Widow, before Incarnates.

Also, I'm still pretty proud of the Architect missions I made. Anyone looking for some light-hearted fun, search for @Interface and try any of the three.

I don't think I have any "crowning moments of awesome." I wasn't the first to solo a pylon or complete the original rikti crash site challenge or the newer war zone challenge. I don't even think I was the first claws scrapper to solo an AV. Certainly wasn't the first scrapper to survive a team wipe and save the day.

I just looked good doing those things.

I remember some of my favorite memories came from the STF (I will never it call the Ms. Liberty TF). It was never as difficult as the RSF, but it had its moments, especially in the last mission. Often times teams feel that double or triple-pulling AVs is a sure-fire teamwipe on the last mission, but that doesn't have to be the case.

I remember a specific TF particularly well. The team first tried to pull Scirocco, but ended up getting Ghost Widow as well. After they killed the squishies, I managed to get the aggro of Ghost Widow, and led her away from the team. For a while, I was damaging her more than the team was damaging their AV (though of course, they had to respawn several times due to dying). Eventually, I used my Lore pets to try and beat her before the team could take out Scirocco, and I almost succeeded. She was at 25% when she killed off my Lore pets, and I only managed to take off another 5-10% before the team finished.

And then they proceeded to do the same thing with Mako and Black Scorpion. This time I took Scorpion, and did the same thing to him that I did to Ghost Widow. And I always have had fun on fighting the Arachnos Flier with a Dark Melee character, because the tentacles are enormous!

Finally, we fought Lord Recluse. After dealing with the red pylon (I think), LR managed to kill the tank. Before he could do his super-fast teamwipe, I jumped in front of him and started wailing away. I didn't do much damage to him, but I did manage to distract him for two or three minutes while the team defeated another pylon and the Tank respawned.

Anyway, that is my crowning moment of awesome that actually had a story. Most of the AVs and GMs were just long, annoying fights that I did mainly for the achievement aspect of it (I may be the only person to complete Portal Jockey solo, against +4 AVs). Of course, I'm far less likely to tell people about the embarrassing things that have happened to me in the game.

By character:

Shatterware: ... was sort of built for this. The first time I got into a rolling team wipe with her and pulled off the full combo of things she can do to change that situation. Power Build Up->Vengeance->Aim->Fallout->EMP Pulse->Atomic Blast->Catch a Breath->Mutation. It's, like, a once-a-month occurrence for me to get both the situation and the time to do all of that, but it's glorious.

Liora Kate: Soloing an AV with no inspirations on a Dominator by chain-holding him through PToD. It took me a dozen tries to figure out the right approach, it was very touch-and-go since I had to rely on Volcanic Gasses for some of the mag and I still have a downtime on that, and it took forever since my attack chain was basically 50% holds, but I got him.

Aisha Adelaide: Aisha was an /EA Brute back before it was cool. Back before IOs allowed softcapping, back before the set got buffed, and when it was used as a punchline for jokes. I was on a team of 8 with an Invuln brute who was taking the alphas... and we ended up getting multiple spawns in a Longbow mission, resulting in us fighting four or five Wardens. The Invuln brute died. I tried to control the spawns, but the rest of the team died. I hit Overload and kept fighting. Before it dropped, I ate a pile of purple inspirations, then munched a blue, hit Power Drain, and kept fighting. I was still fighting when the rest of the team got back from the hospital.

Those seven, at least, didn't make fun of Energy Aura after that. At least, not until they asked me to tank a LRSF for them and I died to the alpha strike of the first spawn. I think every defense-based character gets one of those mobs where every enemy rolls freakishly high to keep their ego in check.

Silverbuilt: Sort of the same thing as Aisha, but much more recent. I was on a team with a /Invuln Tank fighting +2 or +3 Malta. He was getting his butt kicked and needing to pop godmode every time it came up, but we were making progress. He was also being One Of Those Tanks, telling us feeble non-tanks to stand back while a real man took the alpha for us and ordering me to stay behind him until he had aggro under control, even though I was a Stalker. (Which is probably why he died so much.) He got killed, the rest of the team got killed, I munched a lot of inspirations, alternated Moment of Glory and Shadow Meld, and soloed the rest of the spawn on top of the tank's butt.

On Pinnacle with the Carl and Sons SG, late Issue 3, maybe Issue 4.

I exemplared down to join in the fun of a Nemesis arc with my namesake fire / fire tanker.

I looked at the combination of controls and (de)debuffs and said, "How about I grab the first room and bring them back to the entrance?" I think I had 70 purple Nemesis chasing after me. One of my teammates was frozen for a few seconds just gazing at the spectacle -- she thought you needed a granite tanker to pull off something like that.

And, OMG, seeing the AoEs we lit off? Amazing, crazy. FWIW, I'm glad the herd 'em and burn 'em days are gone, but that one moment crystalized the crazy, zerg-filled fun that is CoH's hallmark

Issue 3 (maybe 4)-- the first time I tanked the Psy King. On my dark / dark defender. Chickensh** tanker wouldn't run up to him and smack him in the face. So I ran up the Psy King, brawled him, and called the tanker a "***ing wuss", to everyone else's great amusment.

Hmmmm ...

IIRC, there's one point of the LGTF where there's a bunch of Nemesis bosses clumped together. I stealthed into the middle of them with my fire / fire dom, hit Cinders and then typed /drumdance because I hit all of them with a domination-boosted cinders. My teammates were ... surprised.

Issue 3, my first Hami on Pinnacle with Spark-1 rocking the bubbles (so we could see from afar where the group was). LOVED the vibe we had.

Issue 9, soloing my first AV with my thugs / traps MM.

Good times

Thanks for reminding of these memories!

Several years ago, my Force Fields Defender was part of a team on one of the Oranbegan maps. Entering one room (the crystal jail, I think) we got in way over our heads with at least two full groups aggroed, and most of the group was killed in seconds. I retreated around the corner, threw Force Bubble, and with it kept the boiling mass of Thorns at bay while recalling team members into the safe area. We got everyone rezzed and buffed, then recovered to win a very hard-fought battle. I felt pretty heroic that day. Most folks consider Force Bubble useless. Yeah, it's very situational, but I love that power.

Long before then, sometime in the first year of the game, I was with a trio of my first SG the first time we discovered a Circle portal room. Having no clue that the portals would start spawning critters continuously, we aggroed at least two of them and were quickly surrounded. So there we were: my Illusion/Storm, an Empath, and a Blaster, huddled in my Hurricane disk, making a desperate last stand. Eventually, we were overwhelmed by more demons than any of us had ever seen. It was awesome, though.

Back before aggro caps and target limits, I remember an Eden run where our Granite Tank quite literally collected every devouring earth critter in the Crystal Titan room. He herded almost every one of them into an enormous mass. Of course, I threw Fulcrum Shift, and the buff icons from the cast crowded out everything else. Our crazy fire blaster leaped into the group and cast Inferno, annihilating almost every crystal critter ... and replacing them with an even more enormous mass of crystal midgets, almost none of which were aggroed to the tank! He was killed in about two seconds. None of us could help him. We were too busy laughing.

Ages ago, I was in some zone with my (still) favorite Earth/Rad controller, going about my business. Abruptly, I get a frantic tell from a friend. They're down in the bottom of the old Sewer Trial, time running out, in trouble. This was long before Ouroboros, unified trains, mission teleporters, etc., so after joining the team I go blazing to Steel, to the Sewer, to the Abandoned Sewer, to the trial door at the bottom of the sewer, and leap into the abyss of catwalks, all the way down to the Hydra head. We get the situation under control and win the trial with a few seconds left on the clock. Heh, we still occasionally mention that rescue, to this day.

Much more recently, Bright and I taking our Scrapper/Stalker duo through the Dark Astoria content. My titan sword, her dual blade, taking on the army of Romulus and the hordes of Mot. As I've said in another thread, that level of fun is addictive.

Also, the combination of my Robots/Time Mastermind and her Ninjas/Force Field Mastermind. We didn't set out to create such an exceptional Mastermind duo, but they have incredible synergy with complimentary buffs plus debuffs and good damage. Fully incarnated, we've duoed pretty much every GM and routinely aggro multiple mob groups for the sheer glorious spectacle of it.

There's been more. I could go on, but that covers it pretty well. I find that many of my best moments have been on missions, trials, task forces, etc., where it looked like the whole team/league was headed for humiliating defeat, but in sheer defiance of numbers and chance we actually struggled back to even footing and then to win. That doesn't happen too often, beyond a certain point of no return, but when it does occur the satisfaction is grand.

Doctor Scotts (Time/Fire Defender): Two man MoITF, MoKhan, and MoSTF. My friend Faero and I were simply unstoppable. Also, leading a Repeat Offender coalition string of iTrials on him.


Bladeshine (Electric/Titan Tank): Autoclicking Defensive Sweep against Mot and grabbing a drink.

Umbral Mistress (Dark/Dark Controller): Soloing the entire DA story at +3/8 on a squishie and never dying. I felt... well, super.

I've played since right about at launch, so there have been a fair few of these moments over the years. They're a big part of what's kept me around, too: you get to feel like a superhero!

Just one of many CMoA memories:

On my primary D3, her being new to Peregrine Island and doing a bit of streetsweeping (and this is back around, oh, I5 or so). Dove into a full-size spawn of red-con Nemesis, which were always more of a challenge since you can't stop them with Fearsome Stare. But Spookie had 'em wallowing in tar, caught up in tentacles, and ToHitDeBuffed all to hell...and was whittling them down while she dealt with what incoming damage there was with Twilight Grasp. About halfway through the process, I get an incoming /tell: "How are you not dead???" I replied, "Well...I make 'em miss a lot."

Grinned my fool head off for about half an hour after that one...and I've never forgotten it.

The very first time I used Ice Slick on my Ice/Ice Dom.


Fighting the two big bads on the Alpha Slot Arc (Honoree and whositsface) to a standstill, on my Elec/Kin Corr, until my partner could make it back to actual cause meaningful damage and take them down.

Pulling out three Thunderstorms on my Plant/Storm Troller.

I think me finally getting the hang out of Architect Entertainment.

I had this idea to run a storyteller driven AE arc. Basically, it involved me narrating the scene while we went through the mission. Less pow-pow, more storytelling. And I said I was going to do this to the SG I was in without ever seeing if it was possible.

The idea was a Freakshow rave. I had the story pretty much say that the Freakshows had taken over a Dr. Vahzilok warehouse. And naturally they decide to throw a rave a few weeks later. Half way through the race, I wanted a Freakshow to accidentally release some chemicals, dose the rave with zombie juice, and turn the entire dance floor into a killing group for our heroes.

It took me awhile but I finally was able to work it all out. All it required was some luck and my theory work coming together.

So, I originally was only going to bring four people on the arc because it was one of my first. However, I ended up with seven people including myself. So, we RP with the intro-contact (Freakshow Bouncer) to let us in. The story for our heroes were they were legit just looking for a good time!

So they get in and they walk in to the Cesspool. I had seven bosses up on the top of cesspool all surrounded by people. I made them all allies with no fighting abilities. Anyways, all of them are dancing. I tell my crew to go to an internet techno station and they RP dancing in the rave for about twenty minutes.

Then I start putting in the narration in team. Like how there is a VIP section in the basement for the actual Freaks. Or how they start hearing screams from down below - wow! The party much be a real rager down there! Then I have the bouncer for the VIP area vanish into the elevator after grabbing his shotgun. So, the heroes start getting a little cautious...

Then I click on the two hidden glowies around the room. Suddenly from the elevator, we have zombies attacking the allies! Since the NPCS aren't designed to fight, they go down easily. AND I have it every time one of the bosses die, more zombies spawn around the room.

The heroes are so confused what's going on, by the time they get it together, the entire dance floor is just crawling with violent zombified ravers. The crew barely put them all down after ten minutes of fighting.

They go down to the VIP area, save the few survivors there, and they leave as heroes.

I got mad kudos for the effect. I was just so happy that it actually worked out. I know it's nothing like getting a Master of Statesman badge (Never got it! >_<) but it was one of the moments I was most proud of.

Namesake:

Got Master of Statesman's Task Force for about two months on complete pugs on Champion. We made it work. This was way pre-Incarnates and only a few on each team were IOd. The most hilarious team had:

Neuronia Mind/Bubbles
Peacerbringer (Bi-form, had the Crab and Human)
Warshade (Tri-Form)
Emp Defender
2xFire Rad Controller
2xSpine/Regen Scrapper

We had two Cysts in the last mission and a Cyst in the tree room but the Scrappers, Warshade and FRads were so killtastic we only saw a handful of unbound nicti emerging. Total pro points to the PB using Glowing Touch to heal the Emp who had been stunned by some random Psi blast.

Relentless Pursuit Mind/Fire Dominatir - Infinity:

So my friend @Shotty Mario and another player made a trio of super villains called the "Relentless Girls". We all had base Mind Control and a different secondary, I chose Fire and Des wsa Mind/Psi and Lust was Mind/Earth.
And we all had identical costumes at tier 1, each of us designed one for tier 2, 3 and 4. Lust unsubbed but Des stuck around. Recently we did all the "hard tfs":

Duo LRSF, took us an hour, So much easier with States and Psyche pushing daisies.
Duo LGTF, Hami took a while...but we used all our pets and cracked the egg.
Duo ITF, about an hour the panel was the most tedious part and Romi eating his Nicti the most fun!
Duo Master Tin Mage. This was long...about two hours because War Walkers take FOREVER to kill duo...and confusing them doesn't help much. Bobcat was hilarious too as we were hoverconfuse and blasting but her claws cone would eviscerate us in a most unkind fashion. Best part of that tf? Ghosting the computers then waiting outside and having Director 11 spawn on top of us and getting Midnight Dodger in a duo, hellz yeah!

PvP Stuff:

So it's been pretty uneven for me but one of the BEST matches was Integrity vs. Pingu City Justice League. Integrity was a bunch of stragglers from Infinity, Pinnacle, Champion and Triumph. We had good players but weren't elite/crazy good to push for top spots. PCJL were basically the Pingus from Champion. Since I'm originally from Champion this made for some nice trash talk during TFs heh.

So anyway, PCJL always brought Storms. Like always. Didn't matter which opponent, which (random) map, who they had on, it was Storms. We knew this so our jump team drew Atlas Park so we congregated on City Hall while PCJL was on the globe. At this point @Syphonics AFKs to watch Heroes (>.<) becaue Syph ALWAYS AFKs during matches...but still kept you Sonic bubbled, sopro.
Anyway, Syph comes back from his AFK with about 3:15 on the clock Syph is like: "I'm just gonna sonic nuke these kids, Kara just hit me with Adrenalin Boost and Absorb Pain." Proj is like: "Syph if you do that I *swear* I will find your house and give you a swrily."

So with 1:05 left all hell breaks loose. We leave the roof, PCJL leaves the globe. Yosef Vanya gets a kill on his Fire/EM, Killobot gets a kill on his Fire/EM. Ping gets one back...

30 seconds left!

Fire races across the plaza, Stryker and I cast AP (Absorb Pain) like crazy. We [b]cannot heal[/i], each other or ourselves becaues of the NOHEAL on the power. I start getting spiked...

10 seconds left!

I pop oranges.

5 seconds left!

Damage starts coming in, health drops!

3 seconds left!

Phase Shift enables, I click!
The last two blasts from PCJL meet an Unaffected as you could NOT attack through Phase at that point, and we win!

We took fourth place for a week. PCJL and we would swap that middle rung for ages. On vent, people were having heart attacks. They couldn't believe we won but there it was, 2-1 and our little gang of server misfits had seized the day.
That's what PvP was all about, close fights and some total mismatches but just friends fighting other friends.

Then there was the 3 v 3 league on Champion. That was kinda meh but we had one hilarious match against ELF STALKER's team. The rule was if you left the map with under X minutes left you forfeit. So we didn't have the damage to fight them and...TADAA...a brainstorm! I had a Human form PB on Champ with Group Fly. Philly GIrl, myself and Exit (I think) all gathered up and chose Skyway City as the map. Why Skyway? Well it has these really, really tall buildings that you can't scale unless you have flight packs (not everyone buys these) or flight (no one takes flight in PvP...) so we just went up there and waited for 10 minutes.
They left before time was up so we won due to a technicality, bwahahahaha!

I have quite a few, but this is the most recent one for me, and as such sticks out the most in my head.

M30 grenade is recharging
Cancelling M30 Grenade and preparing Burst
Your Burst rattles the Avatar of Hamidon for 36.4 points of Lethal Damage!
You have defeated the Avatar of Hamidon.

That, my friends, made my night

Quote:

Originally Posted by Venture I'd never use a nuke in a superhero universe. You nuke a city, you kill 1.5 million people minus one. The last guy not only gets superpowers from the explosion, but ones that let him survive a nuke...and wow, is he torqued off

Hmmm I can think of a few:



1) Back in December of 2005, it was my first Eden Trial. I was using the character that would become my main character, Shadowrush. We made it to the boss but got overwhelmed by crystal monsters. My teammates slowly dropped one by one, until only I was left and the Crystal Titan had only 1/5 of his life left. Surrounded by crystal mobs, I popped Elude and aimed at the Titan. In the end I defeated the Titan and won the Trial for us. The group cheered. It was the most exciting MMO moment I've ever had at the time. My hands were shaking afterwards.



2) There's also the time back in 2008 that I built the first giant robot in a supergroup base and posted it in the forums. Here's the thread



3) In 2009 I created a Mission Architect story arc called Pandas vs. Rikti, which received a Dev's Choice Award! It also won in Projectionist's MA contest. The prize was free art of one of your characters. Of course I chose Shadowrush and here's the art poster I won. It's now hanging on a wall in my house.

4) Also, in 2010 I won the title of Mr. Freedom 2010 and won 1 Billion influence during PERC's annual Mr. and Ms. Paragon Contest.

5) I'm also an avid AV soloer and Pylon soloer in the Scrapper forums. Defeating my first AV before IO Enhancements, and more after the introduction of IO Enhancements. Also soloing my first pylon was also an awesome feeling as well. Although my best time can never beat the best guys at the Scrapper forums, but I am somewhere in the middle of the records list there.

Duoing the ITF on my BS/SR Scrapper and my friend's Emp/Dark Defender, around I13 or I14. Not the most impressive thing since people have soloed it and all, but I'm still proud of it. Could have maybe been faster, but we poked around a few of the maps to see what was getting ignored, such as computers that disabled the turrets on the third map. We also charged up Lag Hill rather than pulling the bosses!

Bulwark of Darkness - Tanking LR on a MoSTF on a DM/SD scrapper, tanking Hamidon during an actual raid, tanking AM on a Keyes trial, tanking Tyrant on a Magi trial.

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