Chyll

OK, was just trying to make sure you hadn't overlooked anything.

GL finding folks, I know that fighting time zones like that has to be a challenge at times.

whoa, that is somewhat different than I had expected, but I wasn't speaking of the contribution of the slotting specifically.

Set bonuses is what I meant. On that same link, under set bonuses you see that if you exemplar far enough your level 50 set bonuses disappear.

Keeping your sets at a level 35/40ish if you can may be less effective than the 50 contributions, but you keep the sets for lower level activity.

Granted, my characters planning to partake in incarnate action are re-evaluating their slotting... but on the main watching the level of enhancements with an eye on exemping is good practice.

True enough, when running at 50, but what about when exemplared?

I do the same, I keep away from most IOs until 35, and then start working and planning sets from there, with an eye on TF exemplaring and balancing the better lvl 50 numbers.

My favorite Crichton remains "Eaters of the Dead" - a fun, though shortish, read. Not a bad movie either ("The 13th Warrior").

I always forget that about pets , but the +base damage applies on the other blasts.

They work the same as RoF... plus the base damage is higher than a def anyway... my knee jerk reaction is always corr>def now that you can start in Praetoria and go Blue early.

This was a pretty fair example of the tone and style it has settled into.

Yes, I was going to recommend Banks too, until I noticed it had been covered. Good stuff. (Incidentally, I also started him with "Player of Games".)

Ah, nice reminder. Bacigalupi is firmly on my reading list after I read "The Wind-Up Girl". "The Ship Breakers" was entertaining, though not nearly as good. I still need to pick up his short stories.

We do? Never noticed.

Ah, the only one of the series not in first person... Yes, it is markedly different than than the rest. I'd agree not the strongest of the series, but I wouldn't say awful. Regardless, a fun series.

I'll echo this - been reading this series since it started in the 80s - Brust is one of my favorite authors, because few people can manage dialogue as well as he does. (And I do not know which of these could be called a dud?) He has several others in the same setting.

Even if it does... then the sleep reapplies... and it interrupts again... and the sleep reapplies... and somewhere in there the mob lost all its endurance anyway... and the sleep reapplies... and your throw in a little knockdown just in case...

My electric control is a dominator, and I've been very happy with its play.

Elec/elec FWIW

I may be very wrong here, but I was pretty sure it only had a chance to proc on the initial target, and the jumping was a separate action/entity that does not benefit.

It is a popular topic, not least because it has been an occasional (maybe frequent) topic over the years. I have to assume there is some sort of technical reason it has not been addressed, given how nice it would be if I was a Dev just to prevent conversations like this from popping up. But assumptions are risky things.


My stance is firmly on the side of:

• an expanded range of options for body and costume styles in CoH would be welcomed

• a person's opinion can only be as informed as the knowledge and experience they have encountered

• a person's opinion is valid at all times, maybe more so if they admit a bias - which implies an openness to continue to be better informed

• attacking an opinion is bad form, seeking to help inform an opinion is the way forward

<related aside>
I had the opportunity many years ago to contribute to a school paper of a coworker's daughter. She was not familiar with comics, but needed some to read for a college paper, I loaned her a series of my collection to read as background material. The angle was originally, as I understood it, related to morality in media.

The paper became instead a tear down of modern sexism in comics due to the unrealistic nature of female depiction: from the heroic ones (and their impossible clothing selections for combat) to the critical supporting civilians who all looked like they had come out of factory. It prompted an interesting discussion, where I tried to indicate she had an opportunity to further shift the paper's point. I included observations about how most young men cannot hope to look like their heroic comic counterparts, either. I also tried to debunk part of her main thesis: namely the modern angle: Athena was a goddess of war commonly recognized for beauty, with just a helmet tossed on while wearing flowing robes - it seemed to me to be at least related and more of an ancient issue of depictions of strong women.

In fact, I went farther and tried to suggestion that perhaps it was an issue of storytelling and depictions of icons, of bigger/better/more, of the perfect image in all respects. And maybe, maybe, it was more important to explore that continued and consistent desire in human civilization. She wouldn't hear my arguments and submitted the paper as it was. I always felt like I failed that paper for some reason...

Gonna join the Repeatedly Chorus.

And the Tin Mage is Fun Ensemble.

The last mission isn't even the hardest in the TF, in my opinion, (Director 11 anyone?).

The OP is late.

what?
Leveling faster? This game is ridiculously easy to level in.

And I have multiple alts on multiple servers, that may get just a couple hours a week of play and I see progression quite comfortably. In fact, I stop playing them and move to other alts simply because I don't want them to move too quickly.

Flawed premise is flawed.

And free to play? Get out with that crazy idea. I like the pace of new stuff being added because we pay them...

no. not after 4 years+ no.

I am playing regularly, and making money.

Since I19 hit I have respec'd i think 7 50s, 2 40s, and a couple 20s. Between IOs I decided I didn't want with build changes, drops from running TFs for Alpha, & merit rolls from said TFs I have earned... rough estimate of 3-3.5 billion-ish.

The cash has been from crafted IOs, rather than recipes. It changed my income flow quite a bit. But every character that has been active (about 10) has been crafting, grabbing needed salvage with low bids, or emailing pieces back and forth.

Now, I've spent about 2-2.5 billion, but that's a whole other issue.

Ouch. haven't had anything like that in.... years on LG