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You talking window colors? You can adjust those to whatever you want in the graphics options.

Yay! Another Burnt Matchstick for me!

And now the results! Congratulations to Liz for winning this month's battle! And I'm sorry to say goodbye to Tartyrsause as he had the fewest votes and is eliminated from this year's battle. I've enjoyed seeing your art and I think you would have gotten farther if you had been able to finish more of your pieces. Full results:

Liz - 41 points
Battlewraith - 33 points
Airhead - 15 points
Christopher Robin - 13 points
Defiance Jones - 10 points
Darth Delicious - 9 points
Tartyrsause - 1 point



And here's the current points standings, pretty much the same as last month, as no one has used any points except Battlewraith who's not using any of his points. I think someone else might have also announced that, but I forgot who it was. (also, I just noticed it's labelled as "June FArt results" when it's actually the points standings - oops)

And I'm back, full results will be posted before too long.

Quick answer to DD's question as I just got my internet up and running at my new place - #4. I'll read through this discussion and post my thoughts about it a bit later.

Other names are being discussed in this thread, but there's no real consensus on a serious name.

Personally, I think Freem is an excellent choice for the VIP server. Yes, it's an inside joke. But it's a very popular inside joke, and it's comic book related too. I imagine this would need a lot of player support to make this actually happen, so show your support in this thread. Show the devs that we like the name. I'll try to keep this original post updated every few days with the total number of people who support "Freem" as the new VIP server name.

Freem as the new VIP server name, yes or no?

Check @The Cheshire Cat's The Beating Heart of Astoria: A Play in 5 Acts (Or Astoria in D Minor, I forget which) - the final mission used to have a "boss" that you can attack, and killing him fails the mission. If it still works in that mission, then it's possible. If not, then it's no longer possible (I imagine).

Entries are closed, and quickest turnaround ever on the voting thread here. Now go vote!

Thanks everyone for your amazing Tarot entries. These are really the best batch to date. I'm posting this voting thread early since this is the only chance I'll be online in the next few days probably.

The Voting

Anyone can vote.
Everyone must vote for a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice.
1st choice will count as 3 votes, 2nd choice will count as 2 votes, and 3rd choice will count as 1 vote.
Darth Delicious and Airhead get one free 3rd place vote for their "Early Bird" entries.
Voting will be open until Sunday night July 3rd at midnight Eastern time.

The Elimination

The artist with the fewest votes will be eliminated.
Since I am posting this early, artists have until midnight June 28th to use 40 points to buy immunity for this month, if they have that many points available, they may inform me of this through PM or through posting in this or the June entries thread.
If the artist with the fewest votes buys immunity, the artist with the next fewest votes will be eliminated.
The top 3 artists based on votes can not be eliminated.
The winner of this month will also get 10 million inf sent to them in-game through Gleemail.

The Entries

Darth Delicious

Strength

Airhead

10 of Pentacles

Liz

Justice, High Priestess, Chariot, Star, Empress, 10 of Wands

Tartyrsause

The Hanged Man

Battlewraith

The Magician

Defiance Jones

The Tower (reversed)

Christopher Robin

Queen of Cups

Nice to see some more almost-last-minute entries. There's still one more day to get your entries in. I'm looking at you, CR, and you, Defiance Jones. And I would be pleasantly surprised if anyone else who previously declared their leaving the contest comes back for the elimination rounds. I'm looking at you Techbot Alpha, and Henri.

I wrote a Bot / Trick Arrow guide a while back and decided to update it as I've came back to this character playing the incarnate content, but I'd like to get some advice from anyone willing to give me some.

Link to current guide here.

Notably, I'd like to hear some opinions and advice on the new APP choices, and on incarnate abilities. Also, I wouldn't mind hearing any alternate options for IO build direction. Is what I have still pretty valid? Is there anything I'm completely missing the ball on? Is there any changes that I haven't adjusted for?

Thanks for your time.

My first thought when watching the video - "One of these days, maybe I'll make a video that gets 100 views in less than an hour... One of these days, maybe I'll make a video that gets 100 views in less than a month."

And then the video started and I got lost in it. Very nice, very nice indeed.


(and of course I then realized that if I posted a video saying "i21 teaser" instead of something about an AE arc, I'd also get a lot more views, but that's beside the point)

She hasn't made the switch yet, but I've been playing her again recently and thought she might make a good heroic candidate.

Scarlet Deviant (Originally named Scarlet Sentinal until I realized I'd spelled Sentinel wrong) - She was originally a lab assistant for Dr. Aeon until a lab explosion took out her right arm and one of her eyes. She continued her robotics work and fashioned a new arm and eye for herself, as well as a few robotic minions and trick arrows. She abhors doing any violence herself (she has no direct damaging powers outside of Acid arrow, which doesn't count), and she could easily become a vigilante based on her desire to seek revenge on Dr. Aeon.

Alpha Slot:

For this guide, I would suggest that the Alpha Slot is a good choice to fill any hole that you may have been missing through IO sets thusfar. Throughout this guide, I've suggested to slot IOs for recovery bonuses, and mentioned where you can get some recharge bonuses as well. Either way you go, the alpha slot is a good way to add some bang in the other category.

Cardiac: If you have been slotting for recharge through your IOs, then this is a good choice for an Alpha Slot. For Rare, you get 45% or 33% additional end reduction on all of your powers. This is also helpful for your summons and upgrades. The additional range is also slightly useful, though the resistance, fear, sleep, and intangibility don't get any real use.

Spiritual: If you have been slotting for recovery through your IOs, then this is a good choice for an Alpha slot to get a lot of those good arrows up more often. You can get up to 45% recharge with a Rare, or you can get 33% recharge along with 33% heal bonuses - if you take the medicine pool, and 33% slow bonuses.

Musculature: This is another possible choice to get more damage out of your robots. Although you should be near the ED cap for damage already, so you won't see much bonus out of this option until you get to the rare level, which ignores half of ED. You can also use this to buff your to-hit debuff from Flash Arrow, and defense debuffs from Acid and Oil Slick Arrow.

Nerve: This is probably the least desirable option out of the current Alpha slots, as many of the arrows are auto-hit, and you should be able to slot enough accuracy in your bots already to compensate. Unless you're trying to go for a high defense build, in which this will give you some bonuses there. You also get bonuses to your holds.



Judgement Slot: Your AoE attack, it pretty much just depends on your taste for whichever theme you would like. My character is one with no personal attacks at all, so I'm planning on skipping the Judgement attack entirely. My quick notes are - Cryonic is useful to help stack with your other slows, or you can add a chance for a hold. Ionic also has a chance for a hold. Pyronic is just straight up damage, and it can light your Oil Slick Arrow, though you won't need it as much after the Pyronic. And Void has the -damage chance.


Interface Slot: This is the proc ability, which works with all your pets' damaging attacks, as well as any of your own damaging attacks. Diamagnetic has a chance for a small to-hit debuff - which will stack with any of your defense, and flash arrow, and -regen, which is helpful on AVs. Gravetic has a chance for -recharge and slow which adds to your glue arrow and oil slick arrows. Paralytic has a chance for -defense which adds to acid and oil slick arrow's debuffs, and -damage which stacks with poison gas arrow, and void judgement. And reactive is what many consider the best for pure damage, with it's DoT as well as -resist, which adds to your acid and disruption arrows.

Nice stuff so far, but we need more! More! MORE!!! This is your last weekend folks!

I don't know if you've ready any guides for it, and even though this is geared towards a mastermind, I think there's still some good trick arrow info in it - http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=124394

I think one of the most annoying things is that Trick Arrow has been buffed several times (reduced animation times, I think minimally reduced recharges, though it's still right at the bottom of the list. And this is from someone with 2 level 50 TAs and a level 40+ TA.

Thanks! I'll add them to my queue! Though uberschveinen, is there one out of the two arcs you would prefer to have reviewed? I'd rather let others have the chance to jump in rather than doing two in a row for one person.