The all-purpose CITY OF HEROES megathread [Archive] - Page 4

John S Osen

10-21-2004, 02:01 PM

THAT'S a tough call. I've heard it both ways. Quick recovery is better than Stamina, overall, and most find that it's more than enough to cover their End usage. Martial Arts, Katana, and Claws probably find that it's more than enough to keep the toggles running. Broad Sword guys tend to think, DAMN, I could use a little more End... The litmus test seems to be when you start using and depending on Instant Healing. I hear that's a pretty End-intensive power. I won't tell you WHICH way you should go, obviously. Personally, if I got to 30 without the need for Stamina, I might try to see if I could make it to 34. (Not 32, because EVERYONE uses 32 for their final big power.) You will be gaining a heck of a lot in your QR when you switch those 6 DOs to 6 SOs, too. I don't know if you have something better you could pick up at 30, or not. Here's the clincher: If you DO pick up something other than Stamina at 30, and then find out that your Stamina just doesn't seem to cut it when you get to 32 and start using that shiny new Super-power, you can always respec, and pick up Stamina.I agree with all this. I'm playing a secondary toon that's a Claws/Regen Scrapper and he uses no End and I wouldn't need Stamina, but instant healing can heal 90-100 points a second...so I took Hurdle at 12 which really sucks, because I'm only 13 and that means SS at 14, SJ at 16 (I agree with Guapo that Flight is prob the most all around useful, but it or Cape doesn't fit my character conception), Health at 18, and Stamina at 20 which means no fun powers until at least 22, not even Taunt! :( :( :(

Dreadstar

10-21-2004, 02:36 PM

I agree with all this. I'm playing a secondary toon that's a Claws/Regen Scrapper and he uses no End and I wouldn't need Stamina, but instant healing can heal 90-100 points a second...so I took Hurdle at 12 which really sucks, because I'm only 13 and that means SS at 14, SJ at 16 (I agree with Guapo that Flight is prob the most all around useful, but it or Cape doesn't fit my character conception), Health at 18, and Stamina at 20 which means no fun powers until at least 22, not even Taunt! :( :( :(

Question:

Why take both SS and SJ? Character concept only? Because if you went with SS only, you'd have 2 slots to work with. Of course then you wouldn't havevertical movement. If you took SJ at 14 not SS, you'd have 1 slot free.

And if the reason you want Stamina is Instant Healing, you can't get Instant healing until what? 26? Save the Stamina until 24 right before you need it. That gets you a slot earlier, either 18 or 20, depending on when you want Health.

Just some food for thought.

Guapo Méndez

10-22-2004, 12:15 AM

If you're above level 36 (which I think is the minimum level you can do the Sewer trial) and someone asks you to team up and farm Krakens, do it.

Fastest.
Level.
Ever.

Had to accrue some debt so I wouldn't outlevel my contacts. Tomorrow I finish the Terra Story arc and venture into Peregrine Island.

Carnies, Malta, Praetorians, Riktis, Creys...beware.

Xero Kaiser

10-22-2004, 10:18 AM

Thanks for the replies. Seems that adding stamina on would only fill my end 8 seconds faster. God knows I always seem to have more inspirations than I ever use so it doesn't look like I'll be needing it. At the very least I'll take Dreadstar's "wait and see" approach.

...hmm...for some reason I have this bug up my ass about playing my spines scrapper. guess I'll do that tommorow...maybe. depends on how close to 30 I am

If you're above level 36 (which I think is the minimum level you can do the Sewer trial) and someone asks you to team up and farm Krakens, do it.

my guild leader's always asking if people wanna team up with him to farm stuff. I'll keep this in mind. if nothing else I should be able to rake in some influence :D

Guapo Méndez

10-22-2004, 11:15 AM

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my guild leader's always asking if people wanna team up with him to farm stuff. I'll keep this in mind. if nothing else I should be able to rake in some influence :D

Oh, my mistake. It appears that minimum level for trial is 38 not 36.

XP is insane. 58-60k per Hatched Kraken. Of course, one mistake with them equals death. Their foot stomp takes me down 95% of my health even when he's debuffed with Darkest Night.

The mission goes like this: everyone in the team goes to the contact (maybe 20ft north of Penny Preston in Founders), get the first mish, which is a kill 150 rikti in Abandoned Sewer Network (you have to pass the Hydras and the CoH's to get there), return to contact to get the second part. Then you go back to the Abandoned Sewer into a place called Underworld. There is the door where you enter the Hydra Trial. You got 90 minutes to defeat riktis, get the guns and the like. But since you're farming...

You whack the first riktis on top of the Hydra pit. Then you taunt the Hatched Kraken that is close to the door. Defeat him.
Next, you use a stealther to drop to the bottom of the pit, he does a recall friend to all topside (Except for one, in this case was the invulnerable tanker, whom taunted the second kraken on the catwalks crisscrossing the hydra pit). He pulls the kraken to teh players safely hidden below.
Then the same tanker searches for the other 4 krakens around the hydra. After they are defeated, you log off.
Then you log back in (hopefully someone else has the mission in their roster (having defeated teh 150 riktis in one fell swoop previously) and another player gets the mission going on.

We did this 4 times last night with the obvious results. Now I know how players can jump so many levels in very few days.

Guapo Méndez

10-24-2004, 03:34 PM

I am level 40 as last friday night (Thanks, Vance!)
There have been some...changes. One cannot hope to fight using the powers of darkness and not have an effect on one's body.

Cyke

10-24-2004, 03:38 PM

Xero Kaiser

10-25-2004, 08:00 AM

Well, I hit lvl 30 last night. I didn't think I'd be able to do it because I only had about 2 hours and 7 bubbles to fill but it turned out to be my lucky day. the microsecond I log on I get a tell asking me if I wanted to group up and help be a "bridge" for this person's friend. I had no idea what that meant but she mentioned 'great xp' so I agreed. Went over to brickstown to meet up with them and had a lvl 36 scrapper as the leader and a lvl 7 scrapper getting PL'ed. me, the lvl 7 scrapper and a defender stayed down and hunted 30-33s (I sk'ed the lvl 7)while the higher lvl scrapper was in the red area of brickstown herding and slaughtering hordes of mobs and pretty much PL'ing everyone.

If I didn't have to go to work early today I would've been able to stay longer:(. at least I can get to work on my aura, Endurance SO's and that other stuff

Guapo Méndez

10-25-2004, 09:38 AM

Guapo... you're not so... guapo... anymore.

:)

Anyway, quick question: given the whole Kraken thing and the trials and all your other adventures, can you guess how long it took you, in terms of days, to get from level 36 to level 40?

Well, let's see: I was 36 around sept 27th, but I don't play every day. I play maybe 4 days a week, so that would make it 9-12 straight days of 4-5 hour sessions. Of course, the big boosts were the Sewer Trials, because if I hadn't done them I'd still be 39.

The major time sinks were the missions with Archvillains ('cause you can't solo them. The Envoy of Shadow you have to face and defeat twice and his damage-recovery is impressive). Terrra you face once but the map is huge, we had a full team and every spawn had 1-2 bosses and scores of lt's and even debuffed to the gills her damage is devastating) and putting together a team takes some time.

The thing is that there are so many things to do from that tier that by level 38 you seriously consider accruing debt so you don't outlevel your contacts. I still want to do the Eden Trial, complete the Sewer Trial and do the Respec Trial again.

Right now there are 10 levels remaining, major league missions, where the risks are upped 3 notches. Imagine a mission where you face yellow cons everywhere and by the end two red bosses. One boss teleports halfway across the map when he's low on strength and the other boss stuns, disorients, stuns (stacks them pretty hight) and then does a 797.89 head splitter damage followed by a 195.67 shuriken while you run on 2.86 caltrops damage (did I mention that you're disoriented since you spotted her?). That boss killed me twice last night. I managed to beat her throwing everything and the kitchen sink at her and it made me realize that I'm playing a whole new game.

Guapo Méndez

10-25-2004, 02:55 PM

In my last post I said missions were kicked up 3 notches in difficulty.

I was wrong.

First Tina McIntyre mission? A Portal Corp mission. You step into another dimension to find out the cause of a psychic disturbance.

Who do I have to defeat to win the mission?

A level 40, Archvillain Clockwork King.

He one shots my servant and one shots me. Debuffed and all.
Round two.
He one shots my servants and one shots me. Debuffed and all.
Round three.
He one shots my 3 servants and two shots me. Debuffed and all. He also shrugs off my 400 hp total damage (from his 13k health bar) in one or two tics.

Luckily it was on the Test Server, where Debt doesn't matter (Doesnt' matter much to me on live anyway) and I can try this and that way to see how I can handle it on live.

It's interesting. I'm just getting the feeling on the Malta Group-Knives of Artemis. They are like Devices packing riktis. Buy plenty of Disciplines and CAB's and you're golden.

John S Osen

10-25-2004, 03:19 PM

Made 29. Enervating Field is 6 slotted. Got my first Founder's Falls contact. 3 more levels and I'll have all the Primary Powers plus SS, Flight, and Stamina. Not bad. :) :D :cool:

bipolar danger girl

10-26-2004, 07:49 AM

Luckily it was on the Test Server, where Debt doesn't matter (Doesnt' matter much to me on live anyway) and I can try this and that way to see how I can handle it on live.

What's a "Test Server"?

Conn Seanery

10-26-2004, 08:45 AM

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/item238.html

Just recently had to use it m'self. Wheat Lad needed to respec some of his powers, so I went there to test out what I wanted to change.

Basically, you can copy your characters from any of the regular game servers over to the test server to "test" things out. You can see stuff they'll be implementing in the regular game ahead of time. (Thanks to Guapo for pointing me to the instructions)

John S Osen

10-26-2004, 09:03 AM

Lex

10-26-2004, 07:13 PM

I teamed up with a guy who had the best idea for a character ever.

It was on a guy named Fan-Boy. He designed his character to be bits and pieces of different heroes. His right arm looks like Iron Man's armor. His left arm looks like Batman's arm. His body is red with a lightning bolt for Flash. His head has a mask that looks like Captain America's with a visor like Cyclopse wears. And his legs looked like the Things with a Batman utility belf. The best part was that he was a Claw scrapper like Wolverine.

It was brilliant! And he was a cool guy too.

johnnyhammer

10-26-2004, 08:55 PM

John S Osen

10-27-2004, 03:59 AM

I just started on Victory a few days ago. Takes me awhile to learn how stuff works, still a little confused. Level 7 Science Tank, INV/SS. I was really happy with how my costume turned out. Is there still a CBR hero Group?Nice costume. I'm gonna be playin a new toon named Mace Windu. Send me a tell if you want to hook up. Feel free to e-mail me at j_osen@yahoo.com if you ever have any questions. :) :D :cool:

Dreadstar

10-27-2004, 10:50 AM

Damn, you guys haven't posted here in a long time. Dreadstar, I don't read all the posts. Are you still playing and do you now think the Smoke Grenade adjustment was in the best interests of the game?
Smoke Grenade was DEFINITELY in the best interests of the game to fix. I could have waltzed to level 50 with Smoke Grenade the way it used to be. Waltzed. Yes, I'm still playing. Now that I got the September Leech off my computer (long story) I'm back in the saddle. I gave everyone ample time to catch up with Dredd, by not playing him for over a month. Guapo and SJJ caught up easily, a couple others are close. But now I'm all about the Cowboy and getting "there."

I also have 2 other toons in the 20s, a 15, 14, 2 13s, and a handful of other alts, most at 10. Plus the 30 I inherited from the leech.

These guys are special cases, to be brought in as warranted now, or as a change of pace. I hit 35 last night, got Trip Mine and am headed for the wild blue yonder of the 40s. I have to, after seein the Malta group last night.

Right now, this weekend, I'm going for the level 35 TF.

John S Osen

10-27-2004, 11:25 AM

Cool! Dr Fate my Rad/Rad Defender is 29, TheBriide (it was a hard name to get) my Katana/Invulnerability Scrapper is 14, Quik-Silver my Claws/Regeneration Scrapper is 14, and my new toon is my Invulnerability/War Mace Tanker Mace Windu. I know you love the pun in his name and the lyrics in my sig! I dedicate both to you, Dreadstar. ;) :) :D :cool:

Guapo Méndez

10-27-2004, 11:26 AM

These guys are special cases, to be brought in as warranted now, or as a change of pace. I hit 35 last night, got Trip Mine and am headed for the wild blue yonder of the 40s. I have to, after seein the Malta group last night.

I was getting anxious by what I saw on the first missions of level 40 (first contact gets you a story arc. A looooong story arc), but the two missions I did with you and Trench renewed my faith.

Missions are +1, everyone of the bosses stun and have rapid fire attacks. YOu can actually see them run out of end, but that usually means that you are chain held and on the receiving end of some major damage.

But I gotta tell you, knowing that I can debuff the hell out of a Zeus Titan made me giggle like a school girl. The first time I faced one I was alone, so he stunned me with a masive 400+ damage volley (toggles fell, debuffs fell as I staggered away) and his 600+ damage second volley did me in. But Trench's holds (I love controllers) and your superior firepower (I love blasters), Zeus Titans disappeared faster than dollars on slot machines.

So you want to take on Manticore's TF? It's a fun mission. Kinda long, because you have to visit every zone in the game, but the XP is perfect.

I know what I'm going to do this weekend. I'm trick or treating.

SteelTownr

10-27-2004, 11:26 AM

I just started on Victory a few days ago.

Takes me awhile to learn how stuff works, still a little confused.

Level 7 Science Tank, INV/SS.

I was really happy with how my costume turned out.

Is there still a CBR hero Group?

Nice!

I have a controller with the same hairstyle but a different costume.

Mark B.

Guapo Méndez

10-27-2004, 12:58 PM

Here's a few pictures of last night. One with Trench, one with Vance.
The other one I'm soloing a red gunslinger named Paradox Black Alpha.
Can't imagine a kid going thru life with a name like that.

:D

Conn Seanery

10-29-2004, 03:45 PM

Guapo Méndez

10-29-2004, 06:13 PM

City-wide alert! Big, pumpkin-headed baddies sighted around Paragon city! Be careful when attacking, some people are overly-sensitive about kill-stealing! (as are most regular people during city-wide alerts)

AAGH! I'm at work for another 2 hours.
No matter! We'll hunt them down wherever they are.
And remember: mobs not currently engaged are fair game. Campers just confuse CoH with EQ (and thus waste their time).

Conn Seanery

10-29-2004, 09:43 PM

AAGH! I'm at work for another 2 hours.
No matter! We'll hunt them down wherever they are.
And remember: mobs not currently engaged are fair game. Campers just confuse CoH with EQ (and thus waste their time).
Well, to be fair, one of the three that my guy took down was technically a "kill steal", something i'm usually vehemently against. But as far as I was concerned it was a "city-wide alert", so that meant anything goes. You see one, you take it down.

The first one I took down with Wheat Lad, wanted to get him the badge. Flew through Steel Canyon, saw one of the poor things was a little more than half Wheat's level, took it down. Job done.

For the second I used Rash, my lvl 13 tanker. I knew there were some in SC, so I took him there. Lvl 18's for Rash weren't so easy, of course. But there was a good group of people in SC, everyone was making makeshift teams on the fly, running around to take the pumpkinheads down. No one was getting bent out of shape for missing their chance at a badge, it felt like the classic "heroes thrown together for a common cause" type deal, and everyone was having fun. But, I couldn't seem to get the badge for Rash, so I decided to search elsewhere where he might be able to take one on his own.

Took Rash to Atlas and started running around. Finally spied one in the corner, so I pounced. Then I noticed it was damaged, and that a couple of other heroes were taking it down. Now, this next fact is very important: I looked at the other heroes, and they both already had the "Hallow Spirit" badge you receive when taking one of these pumpkinheads down. So, not having one m'self, stepped in, finished the job, got my badge.

They both started cussin' me out in PMs about kill-stealing, I apologized, noting to them both that they had already gotten their badges, and I just wanted one too. I also informed them that I didn't expect people, especially those who'd already gotten the badge, to be so uppity about it when people in other sectors were having fun just having it be a free-for-all. People shouldn't expect "dibs" during city-wide alerts.

So technically, I was a bastard. But hey, at least I apologized.

Guapo Méndez

10-30-2004, 12:10 AM

A shot of the pumpkinheads, by the way.

Cyke

10-30-2004, 12:42 AM

I helped fight three of the giant pumpkinhead monsters. Two of them we fought at the same time, but it took something like 14 heroes combined to fight them and their army of minions (about 12 minions). Two of the monsters stomped me down at the same time, overriding my defenses and killing me, squishing me like a grape. Not fun! :)

Lex

10-31-2004, 12:44 PM

Boy did I have a productive day yesterday. I got all 6 Halloween badges and then did the respec trial.

I loved the Trick or Treating feature! It was so much fun! More often than not, the treats were really good insperations, that I later used to great effect during the Respec trial.

And this was the first time I'd done the respec, so I wasn't sure what to expect. But we were successful!

Then I respec'ed my character. I got rid of Hasten. My character is a Scrapper speedster. And, with flurry, I have enough attack powers that I don't notice their recharge rate at all. Once I've cycled through them all, they're back. Hasten was kinda useful at lower levels before I put recharge reduction enhancements in everything. I hadn't clicked on Hasten in over 10 levels. So, I changed it for another attack power.

All in all a good day.

Cyke

10-31-2004, 04:47 PM

The nice thing about this Halloween treat is the roleplaying value that it brings. If you're a casual gamer, or a gamer who likes to hit first, ask questions later, you dive into the game and you're up against a threat you've never seen before.

That alone is always a nice treat. But then when you go do your research and find out more about what you're up against, you, the Hero, find out that Paragon City and her heroes are in the middle of a resurging war between two mystic armies, fighting a war that's lasted thousands of years. Not only that, but the forces that the Heroes have to fight are just as old. With that in mind, it's up to us, the Heroes, to stop the war between the two factions and save the city.

Dreadstar

11-01-2004, 08:13 AM

Crap, I'm tired...

Got all 6 badges on my 4 guys on Guardian, in the SG.

...then I talked to my kid yestrerday (his band got several "Superiors" at the state event, WOO!), and told him what was going on, and he twisted my arm into getting me to get them for his 3.

Why yes, I DO need a life.

...and a little sanity, too.

Guapo Méndez

11-01-2004, 09:41 AM

Heh heh. I only got them for my main. The rest will wait for the christmas event (if there is one).

What I did on the weekend was finally complete the Sewer Trial, got my third damage taken badge, my second influence earned badge, my third debt repaid badge (damned krakens targetted me every single time!) and teamed up with a level 50 dark defender who showed me that we are good, but a rad defender's debuffs are better. Took us 15 minutes to take the Clockwork king to half his health and when he brought up his rad defender (he was a two-boxer), in less than 3 we got the rest of his health.

But in the fight, his dark dark character used hasten to spark 4 servants, added to my 3 and we had a little army with us. It was amazing.

Some screenshots, second to last one is really, really weird. I attribute it to creating characters while under the influence. Of what, that I don't know.

John S Osen

11-01-2004, 11:42 AM

and teamed up with a level 50 dark defender who showed me that we are good, but a rad defender's debuffs are better. Took us 15 minutes to take the Clockwork king to half his health and when he brought up his rad defender (he was a two-boxer), in less than 3 we got the rest of his health.I agree with this. Ever since I got Healing Aura, Accelerate Metabolism, Stamina, and especially Radiation Infection and Enervating Field 6 slotted hunting solo has been easy and at 30 & 32 I get Fallout and EM Pulse my 2 Extreme Damage Primary Powers which I'll 6 slot with Damage SOs so it's just going to get easier to solo. :) :D :cool:

Lex

11-02-2004, 12:34 AM

That alone is always a nice treat. But then when you go do your research and find out more about what you're up against, you, the Hero, find out that Paragon City and her heroes are in the middle of a resurging war between two mystic armies, fighting a war that's lasted thousands of years. Not only that, but the forces that the Heroes have to fight are just as old. With that in mind, it's up to us, the Heroes, to stop the war between the two factions and save the city.

Yeah, that was the best part! They took actual events and characters from Celtic mythology. When I heard about that, I thought it was brilliant! It made it feel a lot more like a comic book universe where ancient deities and forces are still playing in the mortal world. It's SUCH a cool idea.

Conn Seanery

11-02-2004, 04:26 PM

John S Osen

11-02-2004, 05:03 PM

I agree with this. Ever since I got Healing Aura, Accelerate Metabolism, Stamina, and especially Radiation Infection and Enervating Field 6 slotted hunting solo has been easy and at 30 & 32 I get Fallout and EM Pulse my 2 Extreme Damage Primary Powers which I'll 6 slot with Damage SOs so it's just going to get easier to solo. :)Also Guapo, your debuffs are not true debuffs. They do other things like transfer health and inflict damage which makes you much more flexible and powerful. I don't know how you decide what enhancements to put on them, because almost anything is possible. The Rad Defender's debuffs only debuff and therefore are more powerful debuffs, but much more limited in their functionality. :) :D :cool:

Guapo Méndez

11-03-2004, 07:49 AM

Grr...Wheat Lad never got to do the Positron TF, so i've been trying to join groups doing it (getting him Exemplared) so he can get the badge. The last three times, the Exemplar has gotten pissed or logged off for whatever reason right in the middle of it, leaving me remotely booted off the team.

Argh. Frustrating.

Man, that's too bad. But I got an idea.
The Exemplar system...it doesn't seem to have the limitations the Sidekick system has. I haven't seen the "my exemplar is too far away" messages, so my question is: can you remain exemplared while your exemplar is in another map?

If so, our low alts are approaching level 15, so we could set them up to exemplar our mains so they can do the TF.

How? I can think of several scenarios.
-You tell me when you want to do the TF. I exemplar you with Jackson. You start the TF (thus being the leader) and you go do the mission. I'm pretty sure the Autologout feature won't be available soon -too many complaints- so I can just leave Jackson standing next to Positron.
-I believe only you, SJJ and I didn't do the TF on the first time around. We can join the Low Alts on the day we're going to do the Low Alt TF. I don't mind if Jackson misses it, because Guapo is my badge collector. This time we have exemplars that won't flake.
Only drawback: if we don't finish the TF (most likely) we have our characters locked for a week.

So, if being exemplared doesn't break upon multiple zoning, let me know and I can set up Jackson for you.

Conn Seanery

11-03-2004, 10:37 AM

Man, that's too bad. But I got an idea.
The Exemplar system...it doesn't seem to have the limitations the Sidekick system has. I haven't seen the "my exemplar is too far away" messages, so my question is: can you remain exemplared while your exemplar is in another map?
Yep. Once you hook up, you're playing at a lower level no matter what the distance is from your partner, even in other zones.

If so, our low alts are approaching level 15, so we could set them up to exemplar our mains so they can do the TF.

How? I can think of several scenarios.
-You tell me when you want to do the TF. I exemplar you with Jackson. You start the TF (thus being the leader) and you go do the mission. I'm pretty sure the Autologout feature won't be available soon -too many complaints- so I can just leave Jackson standing next to Positron.
That would be cool, but that would take a major time commitment from whoever has WL Exemplared. I mean, if whoever Exemplars WL has no problem doing their own thing, or just sitting there AFK for however many hours it takes for the Positron TF.

Also, do you have to be teamed to be an Exemplar? If so, that might create extra trouble for the TF team if they have to account for more baddies with an AFK player.

-I believe only you, SJJ and I didn't do the TF on the first time around. We can join the Low Alts on the day we're going to do the Low Alt TF. I don't mind if Jackson misses it, because Guapo is my badge collector. This time we have exemplars that won't flake.
Only drawback: if we don't finish the TF (most likely) we have our characters locked for a week.
Yeah, I had that thought too, but came to the same drawback. If we don't finish, WL's stuck patrolling for XP until the following week (and I hate patrolling). Unless everyone quits, and WL tries to do the rest on his own (still Exemplared). But that would screw the rest of the low-alts, who'd have to start over the following week.

Maybe WL can be set up to do it all on his own from the start (make the team, start the TF, everyone quits except WL). But again, that would take a major time commitment from whoever's got WL Exemplared. And it might take him even longer to finish since he's alone and playing at a lower level.

So, if being exemplared doesn't break upon multiple zoning, let me know and I can set up Jackson for you.
It doesn't, but as mentioned, i'd be wary of imposing that kind of time commitment on anyone, especially if they're not participating.

Guapo Méndez

11-03-2004, 10:49 AM

We could give it a shot. I don't play tuesdays, wednesdays and saturday. I could leave the computer on at night or during the whole day, no big deal. But you're right about the number of enemies. That could jack up the difficulty level.

If only exemplaring didnt break if the exemplar logs off. That way we could log in with our alts, exemplar our mains, have the exemplars log off and carry on with our mains. Positron only needs 3 players, I think.

The other solution is doing the Task force twice. One for the main, one for the alt. But from my Mexican Eagle experience, it was the longest Task Force I've done.

Oh, and I created another character. A reformed Tsoo enforcer named Lost Moon. Storm Summoning/Electrical defender. Like him a lot so far.

johnnyhammer

11-03-2004, 09:08 PM

John S Osen

11-04-2004, 12:31 PM

I need help. I'm stuck at level 8, with 2 missions I can't possibly accomplish solo.Died a few times trying them, incurred a nice amount of xp debt.Gah, I just wanna fly, is that too much to ask?I love the game, but it's pissing me off right now. :DRecruit, seek team, go to King's Row and kill Skulls to level up but avoid Bone Daddys, go to Perez Park and kill Hellions but avoid the Damned. I have 2 toons that will help you. Mace Windu and Swat Woman. Add them to friends and invite them when you see they're online. If I'm on a team, send me a tell and I'll quit to help you. I like her costume. It's obvious from her name what her powers are. :) :D :cool:

johnnyhammer

11-04-2004, 08:10 PM

Recruit, seek team, go to King's Row and kill Skulls to level up but avoid Bone Daddys, go to Perez Park and kill Hellions but avoid the Damned. I have 2 toons that will help you. Mace Windu and Swat Woman. Add them to friends and invite them when you see they're online. If I'm on a team, send me a tell and I'll quit to help you. I like her costume. It's obvious from her name what her powers are. :) :D :cool:

Thanks, John. I should have ample playing time this weekend, I'll probably look you up.

Got my debt erased tonight, and made good headway toward 9th level....

...until a mission introduced me to a dude named Revenant, heh.

He made me his bitch......three times....ugh.

I almost had him the last fight, I stocked up on inspirations before I went to the mission site, but still no dice. Close, though.

Bah! Heroes never die!
:D

Jennifer de Vries

11-06-2004, 01:00 AM

Y'know, I just realised that I have no idea on what server all of you CBR type fellas are playing. Was it Guardian? Is there a supergroup? I'm so clueless sometimes.

Cyke

11-06-2004, 01:38 AM

Any word on when Issue 3 comes out?

John S Osen

11-06-2004, 04:52 AM

Thanks, John. I should have ample playing time this weekend, I'll probably look you up. Got my debt erased tonight, and made good headway toward 9th level.......until a mission introduced me to a dude named Revenant, heh.He made me his bitch......three times....ugh.I almost had him the last fight, I stocked up on inspirations before I went to the mission site, but still no dice. Close, though.Bah! Heroes never die!:DJust wanted to let you and Zero know I'll be playing Quik-Silver a lot from now on. :) :D :cool:

Xero Kaiser

11-06-2004, 07:24 AM

Retiring Dr. Fate eh?

Man, I haven't played in over a week. I tried, but I don't feel like grinding with my DM scrapper right now. maybe I should try out a blaster or something.

Any word on when Issue 3 comes out?

probably towards the end of this month. not sure if there's an exact date, but I'll check it out though

Cyke

11-06-2004, 10:04 AM

I'm having trouble with the test server as well. I put in the [space]-test flag at the end of the properties of the Updater shortcut, like the instructions say. But when I start it, it's stuck on the connection screen and never gets past 0%, plus the news item is dated May 23, when the test server was first released.

John S Osen

11-07-2004, 06:42 PM

Dr. FateI got him up to 30 last night. Check out his cool aura for his X-Rays. A Hasten (Glowing Claws is better than any Aura)/SS Claws/Regen Scrapper is the most fun toon I've ever played. Let's hook up. :) :D :cool:

Guapo Méndez

11-07-2004, 11:41 PM

Just made level 41. Finished my second story arc, the Rikti one.

Let me tell you something: if you think you hate the riktis now, just wait until you do this story arc.

You will loathe them with all your might.

John S Osen

11-07-2004, 11:54 PM

Just made level 41. Finished my second story arc, the Rikti one. Let me tell you something: if you think you hate the riktis now, just wait until you do this story arc. You will loathe them with all your might.Dude, where's the rest of the story!?! :eek: :eek: :eek:

Dreadstar

11-08-2004, 08:40 AM

Guapo Méndez

11-08-2004, 09:56 AM

Hey, Guapo.

Planning on trying to get a few guys together to finish off 2 of my story arcs, the last Envoy encounter, and the last 2 of the Dark Path missions, both of which seem to be very solo-unfriendly.

You in? Decent exp, even for you, I'd think... maybe not. What evening would be good, so I can try to line up AKM and SJJ?

Sure I am. If you got the time tomorrow at, say 8:30 central, I'm in.

To John:

*****SPOILERS!*****

Ok, here's the deal. There is a new critter, called the Rikti Magus. They captured a Circle of Thorns mage and forced him to teach them magic.
They are red bosses with, count 'em, lots of powersets: Charged Bolts, Psychic Blast, Ice Blasts, Stone Prison, Mesmerize and Foot Stomp. Hard as hell and twice as mean.

And in one map, there are 6 sets of bosses. 1 CoT Death Mage, 1 rikti Magus. Side by side. Thh magus is cake, but the Rikti? Ouch. Had to fire all my inspirations to tackle them. Luckily the mission could be completed either by killing all or clicking on all the glowies. So I got all the glowies, completed it and went back to hunt the bosses.

I got 5 of the 6 pairs of bosses and ran out of disciplines, Catch a Breaths and Respites. I pulled the last death mage, arrested him and I left the final Rikti boss. Servants, darkest night, pet gaze. I got him controlled. But the we all miss the Pet Gaze, he breaks from my hold and fires charged bolts, psychic scream, ice prison -got me nice and held- and fires away.

As my health dropped to the red zone with no possibility of liberation, I had to click on Mission Complete so I could escape with my life.

So, a Rikti boss with at least 5 different powersets. One, two, three, I can take. But six? Oy. Thank God it wasn't a mandatory "defeat all".

Cyke

11-10-2004, 09:46 AM

For those interested, here's my file at www.creyindustries.com

http://www.creyindustries.com/viewhero.php?id=9429

It's fun to roleplay as the other perspective on your guy :)

Guapo Méndez

11-10-2004, 04:26 PM

The Epic Power Pools (http://www.cityofheroes.com/features_update.html).

Damn, too bad I already chose my level 41 power.

Lex

11-11-2004, 03:41 PM

The Epic Power Pools (http://www.cityofheroes.com/features_update.html).

Damn, too bad I already chose my level 41 power.

There's always respec.

Guapo Méndez

11-11-2004, 05:12 PM

There's always respec.

Yeah, that's true. I'm sorry for all those who already used up their respecs. There is talk about giving them one more, but nothing's certain.

I like the pace the game has. As it is, I'm in line for some very good content on the next update.

Cyke

11-11-2004, 09:50 PM

Can't wait to see what Energy Torrent is. For the scrapper pools, I'm undecided between the accuracy buff and the shuriken :)

Edit: Btw, if you read my Crey Industries profile, it talks about the history of Armor Red and the Defensor Task Force Armor Rangers, and how the Rikti War pretty much ended them as a team. Here's a publicity photo of them before the horrific war:

http://www.creyindustries.com/images/reportpics/thm_4866.jpg

(so what do you think? :) )

Guapo Méndez

11-12-2004, 11:07 AM

John S Osen

11-12-2004, 12:31 PM

Ok, there is a problem.
Marvel is suing NC Soft and Cryptic (http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/041111/superhero_lawsuit_2.html) over clones of their trademarked characters. I would like to encourage those with clones to erase them.I'll delete Dr Fate, but my highest toon left out of 9 will be level 15. :Sob Sniff Sniff: :( :( :( Cyke, #4 looks cool. :cool:

Guapo Méndez

11-12-2004, 02:18 PM

I'll delete Dr Fate, but my highest toon left out of 9 will be level 15. :Sob Sniff Sniff: :( :( :( Cyke, #4 looks cool. :cool:

Well, DC is not being as litigious as marvel. You could apply for a name change.

John S Osen

11-12-2004, 02:24 PM

Well, DC is not being as litigious as marvel. You could apply for a name change.Cool! You're a very good writer and I really enjoy your stories. Except for getting him up to 32 for the power, he's retired anyways. I just deleted my 8th level Scarlet-Witch and am starting over with a new original name and costume. New Page! :) :D :cool:

Cyke

11-13-2004, 08:11 PM

I'll delete Dr Fate, but my highest toon left out of 9 will be level 15. :Sob Sniff Sniff: :( :( :( Cyke, #4 looks cool. :cool:

Hah, thanks. That's Master Ranger, the sixth ranger of the Armor Rangers. He's also the teacher and he was the most powerful of the Armor Rangers.

According to my backstory in www.creyindustries.com, Master Ranger feared that the Armor Rangers were killed by the Rikti. As revenge, he joined Hero-1 and the Omega Team. They dove into the portal and saved the Earth, but they were never heard of again. Therefore, it's presumed that Master Ranger died in the mission.

Of course, I also have it that if the other Armor Rangers did die, Armor Red is roaming Paragon City, looking for heroes to take up his dead friends' morphers. I have a friend named Sonicwylde who wants to become the mantle of Armor Blue. If that happens, all Sonicwylde would have to do is to make a space in his costume slot and then create Armor Blue's costume.

Lightbend

11-14-2004, 09:38 AM

Well, I have a costume slot open if you need a Ranger...albeit I'm at level 22.

Cyke

11-14-2004, 04:05 PM

There's always Exemplar/SKing, Az. Good to have you on board :) How would you feel about being Armor Green? Sonicwylde is level 21. So it's not bad at all.

I really want Slayven here now.

Also, because of the freedom granted by the game, and the fact that I based the story somewhat off of Dekaranger, I left the number of Armor Rangers open. If Green isn't your color, there could very well be 10 or more Rangers to choose from.

John S Osen

11-14-2004, 06:08 PM

If you buy the collector's edition CD, there's a cool power called power slide.

Some name suggestions are Capt Dreadnought, Fractal Man, and Senor Fusion.

Here's a couple new costumes I like:

Cyke

11-14-2004, 06:27 PM

What does power slide do?

Lightbend

11-14-2004, 07:59 PM

John S Osen

11-14-2004, 08:17 PM

What does power slide do?It's this cool travel power where you slide around like you're on ice and it has this really cool purple aura. :) :D :cool:

Cyke

11-14-2004, 08:32 PM

Armor Green it is! Just need to head to Icon and make up a new set of armor. I take it you go without capes?

Btw, what is Exemplaring?

Exemplar is the opposite of SK, where the much more powerful hero is reduced in powerlevel. This gives the hero the chance to get rid of debt much faster (as instead of proportionate xp divvied between debt and xp, all the xp is transferred into debt instead, doubling debt reduction), make some easy cash, participate in lower-level missions, and even participate in TFs that you couldn't have before (like, by the time I started to do TFs, I was already too advanced for Positron's TF. With exemplar, I can go back and do it now).

For Armor Green's costume, I'll type out the specifics and give them to you. I'm kind of ...meticulous... in my design. You know how detail oriented I am :)

John S Osen

11-15-2004, 03:00 PM

For Armor Green's costume, I'll type out the specifics and give them to you. I'm kind of ...meticulous... in my design. You know how detail oriented I am :)I have a female 14th level Katana Scrapper who already wears all yellow that would like to be the Yellow Power Ranger. :) :D :cool:

Lightbend

11-15-2004, 09:28 PM

For some reason, I can't take screenshots on the character selection screen or at Icon.

Also, any suggestions for making my files smaller? Won't let me uploard them because they're over 97 kb.

Cyke

11-15-2004, 11:25 PM

For the creation and Icon screens, when you hit 'print screen,' you have to go back to some picture program (like MSPaint or something) and then hit paste. I have no idea why it won't save like a standard screen shot.

As for making them smaller, maybe you should shut off all effects (like Hasten) and reduce the graphic settings, then save as a JPEG.

Yo, Az... when do you normally play?

And John... are you on Victory?

John S Osen

11-15-2004, 11:30 PM

And John... are you on Victory?Yes :) :D :cool:

Cyke

11-15-2004, 11:55 PM

And her name is...? :)

John S Osen

11-16-2004, 03:09 AM

And her name is...? :)TheBriide :) :D :cool:

Lightbend

11-16-2004, 06:51 AM

Lightbend

11-16-2004, 07:04 AM

Okay, how do I shrink these files? I'm shrinking it down to PNGs and Gifs, but the board says they're too big, still. How do I get it down to under 100 kbs?

Guapo Méndez

11-16-2004, 08:28 AM

Okay, how do I shrink these files? I'm shrinking it down to PNGs and Gifs, but the board says they're too big, still. How do I get it down to under 100 kbs?

I use irfan view (http://www.irfanview.de/). In one of the options you can crop the image a little bit and have it display nicely.

Best of all, it's free.

Last night we totally kicked ass on Low Alt Monday. Very few deaths, we're starting to get the mid-range powers, deck them with Double Origin enhancements and have our effectiveness improved.

After we finished our team ups, a kind level 33 decided to give SO's to whichever player found him in the Natural store in Steel Canyon. I raced there, but he was nowhere to be found. Then he corrected and said he was at Cooke's Electronics. Raced there too, but he was already out of enhancements. He was a sport, too, because he felt bad about giving bad the directions, so he gave me 99,999 influence. WHOO HOO!

Then I switched to my main. I had Countess Crey on tap. An archvillain whom I'm not supposed to solo. I broadcast inviting players to take her on and a level 43 scrapper answered. Between his massive damage and my servants-heals-blasts, we took her down.

Next...the Nemesis army.

Lightbend

11-16-2004, 08:50 AM

And....the Armor Green!

Cyke

11-16-2004, 09:50 AM

And....the Armor Green!

*falls out of chair*
*gets back up*
*falls again*
*gets back up*
*slips on desk*

HOT DAMN!

Now we can fight monsters together! :)

Cyke

11-16-2004, 10:01 AM

TheBriide :) :D :cool:

Yellow Ranger it is, then. When are your playing times?

John S Osen

11-16-2004, 01:40 PM

Yellow Ranger it is, then. When are your playing times?CST. Before 4 PM M-F and after 11 PM every night. We might not be able to hook up, but I still wanna wear the costume and I might be able to team with other Rangers. Do I have to join an SG? This is actually my oldest toon, the only one older than Dr Fate. My e-mail address is j_osen@yahoo.com if you want to send me the specs. :) :D :cool:

Lightbend

11-16-2004, 01:42 PM

*falls out of chair*
*gets back up*
*falls again*
*gets back up*
*slips on desk*

HOT DAMN!

Now we can fight monsters together! :)

I deviated slightly in the design for the gauntlets-I wanted to accentuate that Armor Green/Heavy Gear II's powers aren't melee-those hands are deadly weapons from a distance.

And who is Heavy Gear II? No one knows, least of all himself.

All that's known is that he came onto the scene a handful of months ago, weilding concussion-based energy powers and a nasty habit of running into the Clockwork. When asked for a motivation, he simply responds that he wants to find his maker, of which he started out with several options.

Considering his habit of fighting Clockwork, originally he thought he was a Clockwork himself. But, when he found out the reason the Clockwork came after him, because he resembled the hero who so badly injured the Clockwork King years ago, he eliminated that lead. Even moreso when he found out what the Clockwork really were. Even so, he played a part in Task Force Alcarity, defeating the Clockwork King and sending him into hiding.

Currently, he sees only a handful of options on his true origins. First, there is the fact that his designation is Heavy Gear II. There were rumors of a hero named Heavy Gear, but so far none of those leads have panned out, although there are rumors of a metal man with phenomenal energy powers carving up territory in the slums.

Secondly, it is well known that Vandal, of the inner circle of the 5th Column, has experimented with robots, but it is only in rare cases that these mechanized tanks gain sentience, and even so none of them have strictly human proportions.

There is also the Malta Group, but so little is so far known of their technology.

And lastly, there is one option that even he, mechanical as he is, shudders to think of. One last group that would have the technology and resources to create him. And an army of android warriors like him.

The Rikti.

For now, he's joined Armor Red in an attempt to revitalize the Armor Rangers, hoping to at some point find the truth of his creation, as dreadful a secret as that may be.

Cyke

11-16-2004, 04:51 PM

CST. Before 4 PM M-F and after 11 PM every night. We might not be able to hook up, but I still wanna wear the costume and I might be able to team with other Rangers. Do I have to join an SG? This is actually my oldest toon, the only one older than Dr Fate. My e-mail address is j_osen@yahoo.com if you want to send me the specs. :) :D :cool:

No, you don't have to join an SG. In fact, most of the other people I've contacted come from a wide variety of SGs. Though I didn't intend this, I think it brings a nice mix of characters into the Rangers.

As for you, Az, I *love* the gauntlets, and I figured you'd be using Heavy Gear. In fact, I like the golden tint.

If you don't mind, I'd like the helmet, the visor, and the boots to be the same as the rest of the Armor Rangers. I should've said that sooner, but I'll be more than happy to reimburse you for any changes you have to make. (A note on the helmet: the primary and secondary colors don't match even if you pick the same color. So if you want your helmet to look like it's one color, you'll have to play around with the different shades of green. It's weird, and I don't know why that is).

Cyke

11-16-2004, 05:14 PM

Okay, John, here are the specs. I can pay you back for any changes:

(Colors will be listed 1st/2nd)
Head:
1. Full Helmet -> Helm 2 -> 2 shades of yellow (like I said with Azrael, if you pick the same shades for the helmet, one will be darker than the other. So play around with the yellows till the helmet looks as close to 1 shade of yellow as possible, otherwise you look like you have a bald spot)
2. Detail 2 -> Visor 4 -> shade of black or grey

Upper Body: yellow/white
1. Tops -> Metallic
Stripe 3
2. Chest Detail -> Jewel -> yellow center, white rim
3. Gloves -> smooth/bare -> armored 2 -> white

Belt:
1. Tech 5 -> white/yellow

Bottom:
1. Metallic -> stripe 2 -> yellow/white

Boots:
smooth -> armored 2 -> white

John S Osen

11-16-2004, 07:06 PM

OK, all you fellow Power Rangers please add TheBriide to your friends list. I added Heavy Gear II. :) :D :cool:

Cyke

11-16-2004, 09:03 PM

I deviated slightly in the design for the gauntlets-I wanted to accentuate that Armor Green/Heavy Gear II's powers aren't melee-those hands are deadly weapons from a distance.

And who is Heavy Gear II? No one knows, least of all himself.

All that's known is that he came onto the scene a handful of months ago, weilding concussion-based energy powers and a nasty habit of running into the Clockwork. When asked for a motivation, he simply responds that he wants to find his maker, of which he started out with several options.

Considering his habit of fighting Clockwork, originally he thought he was a Clockwork himself. But, when he found out the reason the Clockwork came after him, because he resembled the hero who so badly injured the Clockwork King years ago, he eliminated that lead. Even moreso when he found out what the Clockwork really were. Even so, he played a part in Task Force Alcarity, defeating the Clockwork King and sending him into hiding.

Currently, he sees only a handful of options on his true origins. First, there is the fact that his designation is Heavy Gear II. There were rumors of a hero named Heavy Gear, but so far none of those leads have panned out, although there are rumors of a metal man with phenomenal energy powers carving up territory in the slums.

Secondly, it is well known that Vandal, of the inner circle of the 5th Column, has experimented with robots, but it is only in rare cases that these mechanized tanks gain sentience, and even so none of them have strictly human proportions.

There is also the Malta Group, but so little is so far known of their technology.

And lastly, there is one option that even he, mechanical as he is, shudders to think of. One last group that would have the technology and resources to create him. And an army of android warriors like him.

The Rikti.

For now, he's joined Armor Red in an attempt to revitalize the Armor Rangers, hoping to at some point find the truth of his creation, as dreadful a secret as that may be.

I went back to reread this. Great write-up. You know I always love your knack of little continuity details... Green Ranger is an android! Yes!

I also thought about incorporating the Malta into my own story as well, but only after they kicked my butts during my second encounter with them. Be warned, they aren't merely gun-toting henchmen like most other bad guys, but they also have a wide array of devices, some of which were powerful enough to shut off my Integration, thereby dozing me off and finishing me off. :(

Cyke

11-16-2004, 09:03 PM

OK, all you fellow Power Rangers please add TheBriide to your friends list. I added Heavy Gear II. :) :D :cool:

Thank you SO much!

John S Osen

11-16-2004, 09:20 PM

Thank you SO much!Thank you and your welcome! I hope you like my origin! Her hunted is the Tsoo. :) :D :cool:

John S Osen

11-17-2004, 04:32 AM

Thank you and your welcome! I hope you like my origin! Her hunted is the Tsoo. Played her from 14.0-15 last night and she's now my main alt. I really like her. She has temp. inv. and combat jumping so her metallic costume is very shiny. :) :D :cool:

Lightbend

11-17-2004, 02:50 PM

So, I get involved in this mission, tail end of it. Basically, board a train and it's like a door mission. As I step off the train, the mission ends and I get 1600 xp. Clears my debt completely, we leave.

I join a new team. She has the same mission, we do that. Very quick mission, to.

So I get about 3200 xp for about 10 minutes work.

I'd say that's a good damn deal.

Cyke

11-17-2004, 08:51 PM

Good show, Az. But one day, we'll make that possible on regular basis.

John S. Olsen, could you possibly get on tonight?

John S Osen

11-17-2004, 10:37 PM

Good show, Az. But one day, we'll make that possible on regular basis. John S. Osen, could you possibly get on tonight?I'll be on in prob about an hour once I get my son to sleep. :) :D :cool:

Dreadstar

11-18-2004, 08:40 AM

Holy CRAP!

http://www.cityofheroes.com/features_update5.html

Guapo Méndez

11-18-2004, 09:14 AM

I'll say.
Inherent flight.
Inherent teleport.
Lots of primary powers, lots of secondary powers...

8.5 levels to go.

Cyke

11-19-2004, 09:16 AM

Yo, Azrael, the surveillance report on Armor Green:

http://www.creyindustries.com/viewreport.php?id=5158

Lightbend

11-19-2004, 12:49 PM

Yo, Azrael, the surveillance report on Armor Green:

http://www.creyindustries.com/viewreport.php?id=5158

Oh, sweet. How do I get HG II a profile on that sight?

John S Osen

11-19-2004, 01:43 PM

Oh, sweet. How do I get HG II a profile on that sight?Get in the 30s and kill lots of Crey. :) :D :cool:

John S Osen

11-19-2004, 07:51 PM

Endurance gained and cost per second of Toggles

This is what I use for my calculations. Here's a list for those that were wondering, if any are missing just tell me, I'll look about updating it.

Regen

+1.67 Normal Endurance Recovery
+1.67 Quick Recovery (6 even SOs)
+1.25 Stamina (6 even SOs)
+0.56 Quick Recovery
+0.42 Stamina

Cost of Toggles

-2.02 Fly
-1.53 Instant Healing
-1.15 Whirlwind
-1.13 Mud Pots
-0.94 Hurricane
-0.77 Snow Storm
-0.77 Steamy Mist
-0.77 Integration
-0.75 Blazing Aura
-0.73 Quills
-0.71 Death Shroud
-0.55 Super Jump
-0.54 Super Speed
-0.46 Maneuvers
-0.45 Assault
-0.39 Cloak of Darkness
-0.39 Dark Embrace
-0.38 Fire Shield
-0.38 Focused Fighting
-0.38 Personal Force Field
-0.38 Stealth
-0.36 Targetting Drone
-0.35 Rock Armor
-0.34 Sprint
-0.32 Acrobatics
-0.30 Cloaking Device
-0.28 Invincibility
-0.28 Unyielding Stance
-0.24 Hover
-0.20 Tough
-0.20 Weave
-0.11 Oppressive Gloom
-0.08 Combat Jumping

Cyke

11-19-2004, 08:21 PM

Oh, sweet. How do I get HG II a profile on that sight?

Sign up to be a member at www.creyindustries.com. Remember, when you're writing up your bio, you're writing it from the perspective of a Crey Industries agent.

Oh, and Az, I'm wondering if you'd have more fun as a different ranger, only because you'd have far more freedom (especially costume), while keeping the mysterious aura of Heavy Gear. Of course, that's all up to you.

Lightbend

11-20-2004, 02:32 PM

http://www.creyindustries.com/viewhero.php?id=9789

Now I need to find out how to shrink my profile image...

Cyke

11-21-2004, 08:12 PM

Yo, Az: How often can you get on with Armor Green?

We have:
Armor Red - 39
Armor Blue - Ecutioner - 35
Armor Pink - Elementelle - 35
Armor Yellow - Troika - 39 (John, I'm developing a story for you. How about Blade Ranger? Or DIVAranger? :) )
Armor Silver - Ichigaku - 46 (He's our sixth ranger because he's stronger than the rest of us)
Armor Green - Heavy Gear II - 24

We all get on during the evenings, and we're only asking for a few nights a week, which I suspect you do anyway. The thing is, out of the entire AR force, only you and Troika aren't in our SG, the Hall of Justice. But Troika serves as a friend of the SG (that's how I really met her), and maybe you should at least check out the message board. (www.cohhoj.com) You don't have to join the SG if you don't want to, but it makes organization a bit easier.

We also created the reason to have this team around. We'd be operating as a specialized team under the HOJ banner. We'd be there for task forces, mission requests, invasion defense, and all out keggars. We're not asking for all six rangers to be on at all times. We're hoping that, at any given time, there'd be at least 1 or 2 rangers who'll be ready to answer a call for help (of course, if all six of us were online at the same time, we could kick all sorts of ass).

Lightbend

11-21-2004, 08:27 PM

Cyke

11-21-2004, 09:11 PM

Evenings would be good, but remember that a) I'm student teaching, and b) I'm on the East Coast. When I was playing last night, I didn't see you come on until 2:00 AM over here, Cyke. What about everyone else?

I think that was last night. On weekends, I work till midnight your time, hence why I got on so late. But I'm happy to say that the other four have MUCH more convenient times. They tend to get on earlier than me, except perhaps for Ichigaku. I haven't quite figured him out yet, because he's the only one that isn't stateside (He plays CoH from the Philippines). But usually, I'll be on at around 9 pm your time.

Don't worry about anything, I think you're on enough as it is. Now the next thing is, hopefully I can organize a meeting for all six of us and have a group shot (with our luck, probably the one and only time we'd all be together for quite some time :) ). It'd be perfectly fine to have a ranger on at any given time at night, and with six of us, it shouldn't be hard to have one person on. There are no set schedules, nothing that strict at all.

I just ask that you contact one of the other Armor Rangers, if only to introduce yourself.

John S Osen

11-21-2004, 10:18 PM

Armor Yellow - Troika - 39 (John, I'm developing a story for you. How about Blade Ranger? Or DIVAranger? :) ) Blade Ranger would be cool since I use a Katana. :) :D :cool:

Cyke

11-21-2004, 11:31 PM

I'm thinking that for you, maybe a darker shade of yellow, perhaps bordering on gold, and instead of white as the secondary color, go with black or dark grey, like Waverider.

John S Osen

11-22-2004, 03:41 AM

I'm thinking that for you, maybe a darker shade of yellow, perhaps bordering on gold, and instead of white as the secondary color, go with black or dark grey, like Waverider.Ok, cool! :) :D :cool:

Guapo Méndez

11-22-2004, 08:55 AM

This was a good weekend.
I got within 1 mission from finishing the Nemesis story arc, faced Nosferatu with a good team, put 4 bubbles on my XP meter and dinged to 42.

I also took my much neglected low alt, an elec/elec blaster to 19.5. I still got Doc Vahzilok to whack, plus I'm racing to complete 2 story arcs so he can have the souvenirs. I like the way he's progressing, but the lack of end is frustrating. I'll give him stamina on 22 and then I'll really work on his powers. Need Aim and Buildup, and I'll see how good his Voltaic Sentinel is. Then there is my scrapper, whom I love playing, and my very low reformed tsoo defender, whom I'll take to 15 this week (he's 5...aw!), and then...

Dear God, I think I've developed alt-itis.

Cyke

11-22-2004, 09:00 AM

Guapo Méndez

11-22-2004, 10:14 AM

John S Osen

11-22-2004, 03:01 PM

Yep. I thought I wouldn't become one, but as I approach the top levels and many missions require a team (and sometimes getting a team started is quite a chore if you don't know them), I've used the downtime to work on my alts.
The minute I added a sniper blast to my blaster and started to use DO's...the levels flew by.
And the first time I kept someone alive with my O2 boost in a very difficult fight (level 5 blaster vs 6 level 8 hellions), I knew I was trapped.Guapo, I did 39 HPs of damage at 4th level to a 4th level Lt with Psionic Lance and knew I was hooked. O2 is the next power I'm adding to one of my alts.

Dr Fate is level 31 and his big attack only does 44 to minions his level! His final 29th level mission was brutal! It was against the Pantheon with a 28th level blaster who was no help. He stupidly didn't have hover or combat jumping and spent all the time downstairs or going to the hospital. There were TWO SPELLBREAKERS! so it was almost impossible to do anything, but I got hover up, started debuffing one, put X-Rays on auto shoot, and kept healing myself. It took 6 minutes to kill the first one, but I never ran out of end. I've been sked on dozens of 37+ missions and TWO SPELLBREAKERS! are the toughest villains ever, because you can't do anything! He also has over 100K debt from being sked on level 37 missions! I've been playin my alts a lot trying to decide which one should be my next main. It's very difficult, but I think I've finally made up my mind. If I get her up to 16 w/o changing my mind I'll post my decision here. :) :D :cool:

Guapo Méndez

11-22-2004, 04:52 PM

Guapo, I did 39 HPs of damage at 4th level to a 4th level Lt with Psionic Lance and knew I was hooked. O2 is the next power I'm adding to one of my alts.

Dr Fate is level 31 and his big attack only does 44 to minions his level! His final 29th level mission was brutal! It was against the Pantheon with a 28th level blaster who was no help. He stupidly didn't have hover or combat jumping and spent all the time downstairs or going to the hospital. There were TWO SPELLBREAKERS! so it was almost impossible to do anything, but I got hover up, started debuffing one, put X-Rays on auto shoot, and kept healing myself. It took 6 minutes to kill the first one, but I never ran out of end. I've been sked on dozens of 37+ missions and TWO SPELLBREAKERS! are the toughest villains ever, because you can't do anything! He also has over 100K debt from being sked on level 37 missions! I've been playin my alts a lot trying to decide which one should be my next main. It's very difficult, but I think I've finally made up my mind. If I get her up to 16 w/o changing my mind I'll post my decision here. :) :D :cool:

I'm finding levelling them easier this time around. Mexican Eagle is now 20 (Thanks, Vance!), and he gets Health. I'm thinking he'll be 22 by next week.
I comment on the easy because when I took Guapo thru those missions, he was very low on damage. Today, the final Clockwork Story Arc, where you face Smoothbore, I remember Guapo folding like a cheap umbrella. Smoothbore kept pounding him silly. He didn't have time to snipe him and run... I had to ask Merl to help me out. With Eagle, I just chewed some blue and green inspirations and fulminated him before he got to melee range.

Incredible.

I can't wait to see Eagle fully slotted with SO's. Damage will be his name.

John S Osen

11-22-2004, 11:47 PM

Guapo, I've let my son create toons on Guardian before, but this is my first one! He's a midget Luchadore! :) :D :cool:

Lightbend

11-23-2004, 01:58 PM

So last night, I hook up with Cyke again and we go to Peregrine island. I get SK'd (I'm level 23, he's 39) and we decide to go hunting for Nemesis and Rikti.

I hate Nemesis.

I HATE Nemesis. Truly, deeply, from the depths of my blackened soul.

By the time we're about half an hour into it, I'm 6000 in debt. The game lags and a Fake Nemesis beats my ass. Jaeger robots are sodomizing me with their flame throwers. Everything, even at 38, is showing up PURPLE.

So Cyke tells me to stand back and charges a group of red (level 41) Jaeger and Lieutenants. He tells me to watch.

He kicks their asses in about a minute and a half. I snipe the last Lieutenant. But let's appreciate that for a moment.

There were 8 enemies, all two levels above him. They surrounded him. They should, by all rights, overpower him.

He kicked. Their. Asses.

Now THAT was cool.

Cyke

11-24-2004, 01:58 AM

...in classic Red Ranger style, at that :)

Az, don't worry. I'm pretty sure that once you get to 38 and you have the powers you want to compliment your current set, you'll be owning maybe more bad guys than I did there. I can tell you right now that if I were lv. 23 and I was SKed to 39, I still wouldn't have a chance against them (God bless you, Golden Dragonfly and Instant Healing). Of course, that's the one disadvantage of SKing and Exemping, that you don't have the powers you'd normally have at those levels.

Lightbend

11-24-2004, 07:55 AM

Yep. I only have 16 powers. You have what, 24 or so at this point?

Guapo Méndez

11-24-2004, 08:49 AM

Yep. I only have 16 powers. You have what, 24 or so at this point?

At 39 he's got 20.

I'm lucky in my powerset because it allows me to defang enemy damage, resist their attacks and hold them in place to blast them at my (or my teammate's) leisure. The only thing you got to watch on them, in this case Nemesis, is that when he gets around 1/8th of his health, he puts his personal force field and runs screaming "neeneer neeneer neeneer". Let him go, cool down and wait for him to return. Then he's silly putty in your hands.

I got pending on my mission roster the final one for the Nemesis arc, tiers 40-45. I gotta square off to the real thing in all his purple conned archvillainhood.
I'll assemble a team and let you guys know if he trounces us or if we trounced him.

In Lower Alt news, I got Eagle to 20.5. I got him his second costume and cape. I'm very close to outfitting him with stamina, but before that, I have to do Synapse's Task Force. It's one of my favorites, so sunday I'll try to get in a team.

Lost Moon, my reformed Tsoo, is now level 8. Oh, he's going to be an endurance sucker, so I'll give him teleport foe, teleport, sprint, health, stamina for the next levels. He's gonna be fun to play with. Storm Summoning/electrical is a nice combination.

Cyke

11-26-2004, 12:27 AM

Yo, Azrael!

The lineup looks just about complete, and I'm hoping to organize our first meeting for just some fun. Hopefully we'll also get some screenshots out of it, too. I'm *hopefully* planning on meeting at 11:30 pm this saturday. I can't do it any earlier on a saturday b/c of work, but the meeting is also depending on when the others can get online. Apparently, Silver, Pink, and Blue meet up more frequently than the rest of us :)

John S Osen

11-26-2004, 01:45 AM

I got my Controller up to 10th level! Yeah! I took Hasten. Hover, SS, Flight, Hurdle, Health,and Stamina are next. Has anyone ever looked at the 6-9th Grav Powers? They suck bad. One of them makes it so you and your teammates can't affect the foes. Real useful. I'm not just saying that because they don't do any damage either. No wonder I've never seen a 34+ Grav Controller. :( :( :( :(

John S Osen

11-26-2004, 02:15 AM

NON-DAMAGE DEALERS

If you are not a Blaster or Scrapper, put brawl on auto by holding down the Control key, then clicking on Brawl. When a villain attacks you in melee (hand to hand) and you click on him, you will punch him automatically. You might only hit him for 4-6 hit points a shot (depending on levels and enhancements), but the damage adds up quicker than you might think, recharges and executes quickly by punching him in between your main attacks, costs almost no endurance, and can save you from finishing off a villain with a more endurance costly slower recharging attack which saves more endurance and a more damaging recharged atttack for the next full hit points villain. This can make the difference in those close battles in which you are both down to slivers of hit points and/or endurance at the end.

Lightbend

11-26-2004, 08:35 AM

Guapo Méndez

11-26-2004, 11:59 AM

Last night we defeated Nemesis. It was a good battle. A team of 5, with Vance Dredd, Invader Zirn (both sidekicked to 42), lightthrower, Mortificus and Me.

Mortificus was a level 46 Kin/Dark defender and his speed boosts and power boosts gave a big boost to a team composed of damage dealers. True, we had deaths (over 15 jaegers per pack can whittle down your healt to nothing fast), but the Nemesis Archvillain and the whole nemesis army just rolled over and played dead for us. Beautiful.

And, since I was power boosted, I blackstared a group of oranges and got them all. It felt good to do Blaster level damages. Usually my blackstar only takes about 50%-75% of even cons health, tops.

Now it's time to work on the carnies and the praetorians...

Cyke

11-27-2004, 03:01 AM

Sounds good to me. Add me to the friends list and give me a tell, then.

We're going to rework the schedules b/c Troika can't get on that late. I'm hoping that we can meet up on a somewhat late Sunday night, when you and I have winter break.

As for Nemesis... I fought him with Shark Stryke, who SK'd me to lend him a hand. As annoying as the Fake Nemesis are when they run away after you kick the snot out of them, at least the Fake Nemesis return so you can finish the job. The Real Nemesis, we found, would get beat up, run away, get beat up some more, run away again, etc. etc.... I counted him retreating seven times. ARGH! We finally put him down, but the battle lasted longer than it should have.

Lightbend

11-27-2004, 07:21 AM

We're going to rework the schedules b/c Troika can't get on that late. I'm hoping that we can meet up on a somewhat late Sunday night, when you and I have winter break.

As for Nemesis... I fought him with Shark Stryke, who SK'd me to lend him a hand. As annoying as the Fake Nemesis are when they run away after you kick the snot out of them, at least the Fake Nemesis return so you can finish the job. The Real Nemesis, we found, would get beat up, run away, get beat up some more, run away again, etc. etc.... I counted him retreating seven times. ARGH! We finally put him down, but the battle lasted longer than it should have.

Well, he IS 100 years old. He had to change his depends.

Cyke

11-27-2004, 02:59 PM

Well, he IS 100 years old. He had to change his depends.

My helmet has a rebreather, and it couldn't withstand him.

John S Osen

11-28-2004, 08:19 AM

I saw the greatest name ever! It was a cat person and apparently a prostitute, because it wasn't Puss, it was PUS IN BOOTS! :D :D :D :D

Guapo Méndez

11-29-2004, 08:26 AM

The weekend was good. Mexican Eagle dinged to 21 and a half while doing the Synapse's Task Force. We had a good team: we started with a fire/SS tanker, an energy invuln tanker, a kinetics/dark defender, an illusion/rad controller and another elec/elec blaster. It took us around 4 hours, but it was damn fun.
For starters, me and the other elec/elec dinged up past the TF limit, so everything was blue and white to us, except for Babbage (red) and the Clockwork King (always purple). The kinetics defender simply logged off without a word. then we lost the fire tanker because he had to go. But we kept going. The elec-elec blaster died maybe 5 or 6 times, always pushing forward, always reckless. He'd engage the enemies before we were zoned in. the healer had a hard time but she did ok. I was half expecting the blaster to leave on account of the freaking debt he accrued, but he kept going just fine.

So I got the badges: TF, Babbage, Gears, around 80k in influence acquired and from the enhancements I sold and a nice accuracy SO. Now I'll start some story arcs to get to 22 and the long awaited Stamina.

Guapo was parked the weekend because I tried World of Warcraft. It's a nice game and all, but...CoH is so good it may have spoiled me for that type of game. I hated the corpse runs, I hated the auto-combat, I hated the travel...jeez, you walk on that game. Got a paladin to level 7 and I'm still getting my butt kicked by a wolf or a bear or some sort of multi colored urchins.
I don't know. I still have some free time to play before I make a final decision, but so far, superheroes trump wizards and warlocks.

John S Osen

11-30-2004, 05:11 AM

I finally got my Grav/Weather Controller up to 12th level which is huge, because I now have Hover and Hasten with +15 Defense Buffs on them which makes me like Dreadstar and Guapo on Ladies Night, a Player baby! I took down a couple 12th level Troll Lts for practice and yeah it took a long time, but between Crushing Field, Lift, the knockback on Propel, and my D they had a very hard time hitting me. I can't wait for level 22, because I get Stamina and with the extra end I can put Damage SOs on Lift and Propel. Sweeter than the other side of the pillow, baby! Here's a pic. :) :D :cool:

Lex

11-30-2004, 09:23 AM

Who is Armor Red? I was playing my Quickstep character last night (who I just got to 25) and he sends me a tell to say hi. But, I was in the middle of a hard mission battle and then my computer crashed. So I wasn't about to respond. Sorry, Red.

Dreadstar

11-30-2004, 09:48 AM

Last night (this morning, gah...) the Low-Alts of The Panthaeon completed the Positron Task Force. The missions leading up to the finale were not only fun but relatively easy.

The last mission included several group wipe-outs. 3 orange-red Eids in every room, with 2 groups so close together that 6 was a definite possibilty. But we prevailed!

Congrats to Jackson Fury (scrapper extraordinaire), King of Rock (fearless tank and leader-san), Second Tengu (weilding the Ginsu of Death), Dr. Everything (putting it all on the line all the time), Savant 1 (reckles, endearing and FUN), Rather Big Chap (whose bubbles and heals kept us alive longer than we deserved), Distraction Lass (for taking at least 2 guys out of the fight every SINGLE melee), and me on Beelzebitch (you guys are gonna get me my Medic badge in record time, y'know?).

Badgers all 'round! Dings everywhere. SO!

And fun! Did I mention that? F. U. Capital N. FUN!

Guapo Méndez

11-30-2004, 09:59 AM

Guapo Méndez

12-02-2004, 05:05 PM

According to Statesman, when issue 3 goes live, or a few days later, every archtype will be given a free respec.

Every one.

which means I can respec out of Hasten/Torrent and get Conserve Power.

John S Osen

12-02-2004, 08:17 PM

According to Statesman, when issue 3 goes live, or a few days later, every archtype will be given a free respec. Every one. which means I can respec out of Hasten/Torrent and get Conserve Power.Oh my God! I'd given up on Dr Fate at 31.5 with 100+K debt, but now I can get photon volley and get rid of my stupid 8th primary which only works when someone dies. I can also save all my $ for 35 SOs at level 32. Sweet! :D

My controller has travel now and I now have every type at least 10.3 (Dreadstar, my Mrs Silver Bullets Swat Woman. He was only 18 and her costume rocks!) in level. A dubious achievement, but hey. :rolleyes:

What do you guys think is the best damage dealer. I teamed with a 44 Dark Melee/Regen Scrapper who was the #s 1, 4, and 7 damage dealer on the entire server one day. Sorry Dread and Guapo, but even at 44 I think he does more damage than you guys (including Guapo's Dark Servants). :p

Time to go start workin that 100+K debt off. ;)

Guapo Méndez

12-03-2004, 12:43 AM

Me? Damage? I wish.

I teammed once with a claws/regen scrapper and the damage output he had was astounding. He'd fell +2 and +3 enemies in the time it took me to fire a moonbeam. A moonbeam! Amazing.

Well, this week I was playing with my alts. One picture has Mexican Eagle, now with Assault Rifle (it's a temp power, but I really shocked a player who saw my electrical powers and then shoot a beanbag. he wanted to know if I was an epic archtype...heh)

Then I got sucked into WoW. Got a paladin to level 14, having a good time in Azeroth. But tonight, I decided to play CoH.

First I did a regular mission for Tina Macintyre. She's the portal corp contact. I got a mission in Peregrine Island where I had to fight some robots. Piece of cake.
As I click on "mission complete" and log on the street, a timed mission activates.
First, it's 800 yards away.
Second, it's a "find glowies"
Third, I only have 10 minutes.
Fourth...it's a huge map.

5 floors, 3 different elevator sets, enemies everywhere. I got a screenie of one of the floors.

I stealthed it pretty fast and was able to complete the mission with 3 minutes to spare.

Then I get an invite for a portal mission. I'm invited to be the bridge from a level 50 to power level her wife's character, a level 16 tanker. How this works is that I'm in the group, the level 50 kills at leisure and my level allows me to give XP to the level 16. Usually, she'd get squat, but me as the mentor allows her to get a pretty good chunk of XP.

How good? check the pictures.

(but if you want to know, I'll tell you. I earned 2 million XP in one an a half hours)

So, despite having played another game for 5 days, I still levelled up on schedule.

Me like.

John S Osen

12-03-2004, 02:53 AM

Dr Fate did 2 missions exed with a 19 scrapper and another Defender level 18. Big deal you say, actually it was. The second one was the 16th level Hollows kill 200-300 trolls where you take 8 guys and 3-4 damage dealers. It took us 2-3 hours for one mis, but Dr Fate paid off 17000 debt and is now down to only 84000 which is not that big a deal at 31. I pray Guapo's right about the free respec, but even if he's not, instead of taking my last primary which will take a day to recharge (kidding) I can take the extreme damage sniper attack Proton Volley at 32 which has the coolest sound effects in the game. Not that many guys have it, because it's the 5th Rad Defender secondary, but if you've never heard it you don't know what you're missing. :) :D :cool:

Guapo Méndez

12-03-2004, 09:56 AM

I pray Guapo's right about the free respec, but even if he's not, instead of taking my last primary which will take a day to recharge (kidding) I can take the extreme damage sniper attack Proton Volley at 32 which has the coolest sound effects in the game. Not that many guys have it, because it's the 5th Rad Defender secondary, but if you've never heard it you don't know what you're missing. :) :D :cool:

Fear not.

From the horse's mouth (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=shibboleth&Number=1823545&bodyprev=#Post1823545).

John S Osen

12-03-2004, 03:01 PM

Fear not. From the horse's mouth (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=shibboleth&Number=1823545&bodyprev=#Post1823545).:In the tearful voice from some beer ad: I love ya, man. :rolleyes: ;) :p

I love this guy's costume. :cool:

Allenhood

12-06-2004, 05:53 PM

See that you all are organizing a SG and seem to be online a bit more. I have been away from the game for a month or so, but am going to be online more now. Feel free to add "Devils Own" to your friends list and give me a shout out if you need a hand!

Devils Own - Lvl 47 AR Blaster

See you all in the funny pages!

John S Osen

12-07-2004, 12:16 AM

Guapo Méndez

12-07-2004, 08:40 AM

Guapo, I started playing D & D in the late 70s since TSR was 20 miles from my hometown. I'd love to read your further impressions of Warcraft and how it compares to COH. :) :D :cool:

Everyone, I'd love to read your impressions of the X-Box version of Star Wars: KOTOR II: The Sith Lords and especially how it compares to COH. :cool:

Here's a new toon I like:

Well, the game is good. If it had been my first MMORPG, I'd might see it different. The Quests are fine, the rewards are substantial and you can pretty much go wherever your fancy strikes. Except for the first contact, there is no fixed number of contacts you get. As you walk thru the world you find NPC's with quests to go here and there. Sometimes that quest sparks other quests and so on and so forth.

What I didn't like is the sheer amount of time wasted on travel. If you think Perez to Atlas is boring, try doing that on normal run speed. I've heard some AT's can teleport, but my paladin did all the leg work.

Imagine being killed in the north side of boomtown, close to the wall, respawn as a ghost in, say, steel canyon, and either choosing to rezz there for a 25% damage on ALL your gear or having to run back to the place in order to claim your corpse.

Imagine also that after X number of fights, not levels, fights, your gear wears down. This appears to increase if you die a lot (which you do...mobs can and will overwhelm you, even if they are 2,4,6 levels below you), and sometimes your equipment gets so worn down you are fighting barehanded and bareassed (no weapon, no armor).
To fix your gear, you have to go to a NPC that fixes it. Nevermind that you can train as a blacksmith...apparently the fix your own gear skill is unattainable. So you have to shell precious copper and silver to fix your stuff.

Speaking of blacksmithing, you can train in a profession: leatherworking, alchemy, blacksmithing, mining, first aid, herbalism....that lets you gather resources to process into potions, armor and pretty much everything you need in the game. But to make stuff you need sometimes 1 ingredient, sometimes 12. And to gather those resources you either comb the world (on foot) or buy them (from other players directly or at the auction house, at either regular or murderous prices). You can sell your own stuff too, at regular or murderous prices. It works both ways.

Repeat ad nauseaum.

I parked my level 17 paladin in Thelsamar with maybe 90 silver and 40 copper coins, tons of resources, a half completed quest, 5 waiting to be started and maybe 10 spells.

The game mechanics are great, the landscapes luscious and the quests involving. But it is too much work. Too much time wasted on transporting. It feels like I have to live a second life there and I cannot make that commitment anymore. CoH is a game I play to relax from my life here. WoW was just a life away from life.

No thanks. I'll just up, up and away.

John S Osen

12-07-2004, 01:31 PM

Thanks a lot, Guapo! Hopefully, one of us will write about KOTOR II now. I'm having a very obscure trivia contest (stuff that even guys who know a lot more about the game than I do like Guapo and Vance might not know, because it has no relevance to game play whatsoever, basically useless info) in my SG and I'll post it here after the contest is over Sunday. Does everyone know the Skulls Dyne drug labs replenish your end. Sweet! I don't assume anyone cares, but I decided to make my Energy/Energy Blaster Red Rocket X my new main. Guapo chose his color. :rolleyes: Burst, Energy Punch, and Power Burst rock da haus!

Zero, I'd like to be friends with you even if you don't play anymore. Please PM me or e-mail me at j_osen@yahoo.com . :) :D :cool:

Cyke

12-08-2004, 12:49 PM

Yo, AZRAEL!

www.cohhoj.com

The founders are asking for ya. Fill out the bottom, and take a gander at the forums. Sign up as well. It's mandatory for SGers to sign up to the board, though we also have non-SG people sign up as well.

Guapo Méndez

12-11-2004, 01:25 AM

What a great evening.

Halfway thru the Praetorians arc, you really need to put together a team. It's almost one archvillain per door map. Fortunately, many upper level guys love archvillains and I had on tap the most sought after.

For those of you who don't know it, the Praetorians are parallel universe versions of the Freedom Phalanx heroes. Only difference is that they are bad guys.

First AV, the evil version of Positron. Antimatter leader is his name. WE trounced him like an old pair of socks. The yellow bellied creep gave us the slip when we were pounding him into the ground.

Then, a few of Bobcat's minions. Yes, Bobcat is Mynx's evil reflection. Mynx, as in the trainer in Skyway City. Tough as nails, but we vanquished.

Of course, Shadowhunter, the evil version of the Woodsman. His is a world full of wolves, and wolves are easily herded and disposed of. It was pure poetry watching a train of wolves chase our tank (Hollywood Hero).

Finally, Neuron. Synapse's bad side. Supposedly fastest bad guy alive, but we cut him down in record time.

In summation, a whole story arc completed, around 600-650k XP, tons of enhancements and one helluva time.

Only the Carnies arc remains. But that is a story for another day.

Cyke

12-11-2004, 01:43 AM

For City of Villains, I'm planning on starting a Praetorian version of the Armor Rangers, named the Praetor Rangers. An evil team of Rangers, yessir. The Praetor Ranger project was approved by Tyrant as an assassination squad designed to prevent any more 'proper' Earth incursions into Praetorian Earth.

I can't wait to start that team up... :evilsmile

John S Osen

12-11-2004, 02:59 PM

Can someone please tell me where there's a Technology store in either Steel or Sky? :confused:

Guapo Méndez

12-11-2004, 04:39 PM

Here you go. Every store in every map (http://coh.artphobia.net/enhan/stores/stores.htm)

John S Osen

12-11-2004, 05:35 PM

Here you go. Every store in every map (http://coh.artphobia.net/enhan/stores/stores.htm)Thanks! :) :D :cool:

John S Osen

12-12-2004, 04:12 AM

There is one badge that no character created before badges can ever get. What is the name of it and how do you get it? Extra Credit: Post a link or an attachment to a picture of it.

Guapo Méndez

12-12-2004, 09:13 AM

There is one badge that no character created before badges can ever get. What is the name of it and how do you get it? Extra Credit: Post a link or an attachment to a picture of it.

You mean isolator? (http://coh.artphobia.net/funthings/badges/achievements.htm) Yeah, sneaky devs.

John S Osen

12-12-2004, 09:53 AM

You mean isolator? (http://coh.artphobia.net/funthings/badges/achievements.htm) Yeah, sneaky devs.Give that man a cigar. If you were in my SG, 1rst is $1 mil, 2nd is $500K, and 3rd is $250K. Not bad. Red Rocket 1 has it. :) :D :cool:

Lex

12-12-2004, 02:47 PM

I'm glad the Isolator badge isn't required for anything cool (like Accolades). I would hate it if I had to get it on all my new characters.

John S Osen

12-13-2004, 06:34 AM

I'm glad the Isolator badge isn't required for anything cool (like Accolades). I would hate it if I had to get it on all my new characters.It's the quickest, easiest badge to get and you can team up to get it.

Snake-eyes

12-13-2004, 10:38 AM

Yeah, it took me just over 20 minutes to get it with a controller and that was without teaming.

John S Osen

12-13-2004, 01:06 PM

Yeah, it took me just over 20 minutes to get it with a controller and that was without teaming.We had 2 Blasters and it took us 5 minutes or less time than it took my 31rst Level Defender to kill an 18th level Kraken to get the Monster badge. :) :D :cool:

Snake-eyes

12-14-2004, 12:38 PM

My highest defender is only level 15.8(Emp/Dark) so he has a while before he can solo any Monsters.

I do have a 29.7 energy blaster, would be higher but I'm an altoholic, I have a total of 24 characters.

John S Osen

12-14-2004, 12:41 PM

I played with a Controller who had Ice Slick. Greatest power ever. The perps can't stand up. :) :D :cool:

Guapo Méndez

12-15-2004, 02:19 PM

Is anybody having problems logging in? I get "cant' connect to DB server" on Guardian and on Pinnacle I get into the character creator page, but when I tried to go into tutorial, the game crashed.

I'm trying to check the forums at coh, but they too are difficult to load.

John S Osen

12-17-2004, 08:13 AM

I was leveling my 2 Blasters together until I got them both 14 and realized you need Targeting Drone to consistently hit higher level baddies so I started playin my AR/Devices Swat Woman as my main. I was huntin hydras with a 14 party of another AR Blaster, a Fire Tanker, and a Grav Controller. I've always wanted to kill a Kraken at 14th level. We attacked a Kraken which with it's 4 monster levels is actually 18th level. Tons of hit points, damage, and damage resistance. 1 Foot Stomp almost killed me, but us 2 AR/Devices blasters were able to hit it, the Controller lifted it, and we finally killed it, and I leveled to 15th level! It was great! Highlight of my career. :) :D :cool:

jessecuster

12-18-2004, 10:28 AM

So call me slow but I just got the game what server is everyone playing on ?

Cyke

12-18-2004, 02:34 PM

Eh, supposedly, most of us started on Victory, though I'm pretty sure damn near everyone migrated to other servers.

I'm still on Victory, but you'll have to ask around. My name is Armor Red.

jessecuster

12-21-2004, 11:16 AM

It seems I kinda get this game now I have a couple characters up to 7 and will probably create a new one when I get home tonight, Anyone else creating new ones and starting over ?

John S Osen

12-21-2004, 12:40 PM

It seems I kinda get this game now I have a couple characters up to 7 and will probably create a new one when I get home tonight, Anyone else creating new ones and starting over ?I have a 15th level named Swat Woman on Victory if you wanna team up. :) :D :cool:

yeoman

12-21-2004, 03:05 PM

It seems I kinda get this game now I have a couple characters up to 7 and will probably create a new one when I get home tonight, Anyone else creating new ones and starting over ?

Yeo does all the time. Partially because it's just fun with the character creation engine, second because Yeo prefers to solo and that's a lengthy process unless you're using one of a few builds. I've got only three characters over level ten and only one at level 20.

But danggit the cape is mine now! MINE!

Jennifer de Vries

12-23-2004, 07:07 AM

Has anyone here done the free respec on the test server? I did it for two of my characters, and now I cannot wait for the free respect that comes with Issue 3. I just hope they enable the 'anywhere, anytime' /respec for it, even though it was hilarious to see fifty people all gathered around one little Freedom Corpse trainer. XD

John S Osen

12-25-2004, 05:19 PM

Swat Woman killed a Kraken at 14, Babbage by buying 20 Enrages during battle at 17, and Dr Vaz at 19. She's the AR/Devices Blaster Dreadstar dreams about being. :rolleyes: ;) :p :)

John S Osen

12-31-2004, 01:41 AM

Swat Woman is now a proud SG colors wearing Captain in Crime's Best Remedy! :) :D :cool:

Guapo Méndez

12-31-2004, 02:29 PM

Swat Woman killed a Kraken at 14, Babbage by buying 20 Enrages during battle at 17, and Dr Vaz at 19. She's the AR/Devices Blaster Dreadstar dreams about being. :rolleyes: ;) :p :)

Bah.

I've been wanted by the police. And rumor has it I killed a whole world in another dimension.

John S Osen

01-02-2005, 01:57 AM

Bah. I've been wanted by the police. And rumor has it I killed a whole world in another dimension.Comparing your 40+ to a 19 is very sad. :( :( :(

jessecuster

01-03-2005, 09:57 AM

Ok I have started about 10 characters already trying to find what I like and now am slowly building my character Im up to level 7 now anyoen else have a low level they want to team up ?

Guapo Méndez

01-03-2005, 11:19 AM

Comparing your 40+ to a 19 is very sad. :( :( :(

Well...to be fair...you started. :rolleyes:

Dreadstar

01-03-2005, 12:05 PM

Well...to be fair...you started.

Hehehehe...

They always think they got a better handle on things than the guys who've been around forever.

Then they get Full Auto at 32 and realize: "HOLY CRAP! That guy's had this godly thing for 8 levels now!!!! What was I thinking???"

John S Osen

01-03-2005, 02:45 PM

Swat Woman is level 22 now with Stamina and SOs and does almost 200 points of damage to minions her level! :) :D :cool:

John S Osen

01-05-2005, 02:15 AM

The new area, missions, and villains all rock! :) :D :cool:

Cyke

01-05-2005, 11:45 AM

Armor Red faced the Council yesterday. Actually, the Council ambushed Armor Red with about two dozen troops. Half of them armed with Anti-Kheldan weapons.

Three rounds. The Council defeated Armor Red twice. Each time, Armor Red went down fighting, taking out a dozen of Council troops each time. The third time, Armor Red got a hand from the Nemesis, though after the victory, Armor Red whupped their butts, too.

Guapo Méndez

01-05-2005, 04:13 PM

Team of 8.
Peregrine Island docks.
Battle Royale between Fifths and Councils. Oranges and purples.
Two million XP in 3 hours (500k went to pay debt accrued there).

It was like the portal behemoths never left.

John S Osen

01-06-2005, 01:07 AM

AndyAnime

01-06-2005, 05:38 AM

I've had CoH for a few weeks now (picked it up late December, just before Christmas), and it's pretty cool. My main is Kinryu, a Lvl 14 Natural Scrapper with Katana & Super Reflexes on the Guardian server (and Super Jump is so much fun :D ). But since Victory seems to be popular with CBRers, I recently created a Radiation Emission/Electrical Blast Defender named Atomic Cheetah there.

Hope to see you guys around. :)

jessecuster

01-06-2005, 08:21 AM

Fire'NIce is a level 11 fireblaster on the Victory server every night, im always willing for a team up, and everytime Im on a broadcast a "Any CBR here".

John S Osen

01-07-2005, 01:42 PM

Swat Woman is level 26 now with Ignite. :) :D :cool:

Guapo Méndez

01-11-2005, 05:17 PM

I did try on the new stuff at CoH and with my old configuration got royally defeated. I had too many enhancement slots overpowering some powers (had Tar Patch on the Slow cap, Howling Twilight on the Disorient Cap and two or three powers with recharge reductions, but Hasten only one slotted). Besides, I had only 1 of the epic line of powers and I really wanted to have two.

After being defeated by a yellow mission boss (he hit me for 540, 240 and 120 and my total health is 910) while I had him on the ropes, I respecced everything. Dropped torrent and picked up Conserve