EU_Damz

Physical location doesnt matter. If they want to play on the NA servers while based in Europe then it is easily possible. Long as they make a NA account and use a NA time code then it should be fine. Just make sure the CoH update launcher reads

"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe"

instead of

"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\cohupdater.eu.exe"

That is what is needed to get to either the NA or the EU servers. Just as long as their accounts are marked as the correct one, it should work fine for them.

Damz's view:

If your toon NEEDS a character to keep up with the rest of the team, then you need to go back to the drawing board

Just done the tin mage for the first time on my first time

Thanks to lady/soul and all the others! Made it much easier than i thought it was

Many happy returns on your baby

Thought of a name yet for him? Or is that a secret?

Seriously i used to love the snow, it used to bring back happy memories and remind me of a peacefull time

Then . . . . it snowed . . . . . it snowed hard . . . it snowed hard and long and wouldnt stop! I was stuck on a train back from the girlfriends for almost 5 ***** hours! Was only supposed to be just over 2 hours long but stupid snow meant i had to wait forever . . . . while standing because the thing was packed! Then the buses wouldnt run because of it . . . then the taxi took forever to get me home . . . . then my place is frozen solid and taking forever to heat up! Finish it all off, i was walking down a hill this morning next to an old lady thinking to myself uh oh she gonna fall! Then i slipped and SHE helped me up!

So what im trying to say is . . . . snow, i love you, but dont ever come down so heavy and cold again ok? We'll get along great then!

Though the country does look quite beautiful all white for a change

I too love doing tip missions Just the way how each one feels completely different depending on which choice you made.

Wierd but i prefer doing them as i level up a character since it feels like the main "tip characters" are leveling up as the same time as yourself and chosing their own morality at the same time. Feels more personal

I got busted by mod08 on Union earlier Everybody thanked him

Really speaking, the way i look at it is here is an enemy who is [in comparison] quite weak, however once a battle starts he gradually gets more powerfull over time. Now not in powerfull as in strength, but as in his regeneration making him impossible to kill and thus only a matter of time before he kills you.
Really speaking, it was about time we had an enemy in which you did only have a short amount of time to kill him before he started to overpower you.
Now lets look at the trapdoor fight in detail and try and work out whether or not it is too hard.

Trapdoors health/attack strength:

Both of these are where they should be for an EB battle when you think about it. His base stats are not that high when you compare him to other EBs and when you consider that he is indeed an incarnate. Yes he can one/two shot you if you get unlucky, however there are many EBs out there who can do a whole lot worse. Think Frostfire at a low level, remember how many times a whole TEAM used to wipe out back in the day? Even the fused titans at a boss level are imo harder [stats wise] that trapdoor. So when you compare his initial strength/health to other characters in the game? I'ld have to say that my verdict is . . .

Verdict: Thumbs up

The regeneration clones:

These have very low health and can be easily taken down in a few hits. I tend to leave one alive personally to save on time, however if you start to get two up at a point, then his regeneration gets to levels which you do have to take care of them. They dont move which helps a lot and are easy to spot. Maybe if they really were classed as being able to be one shot by ANY power [turn into a level 1 critter for example], then maybe people would find them easier to take down. A slight suggestion i heard people say is to get the clones spawn in a certain location all bunched together, i dont think thats a good idea because it'ld make it far too easy, if they went that route they may as well turn the clones into a stationery object like a computer or his incarate shard. To help against this though, im not sure if its possible but would it be possible to increase the regeneration of an enemy depending on the number of players on a team? So people who want the challenge can stay at x3 difficulty for example.

Verdict: Time frame that the clones spawn needs to be increased but apart from that, thumbs up.

Lava strategy:

This is the main strategy that i hear ingame on the chat channels all the time. "Pull him into the lava, it'll help greatly!", now is this a valid tactic or would you class it as an exploit? Personally i'ld say its using the environment to your advantage, when you are in a fight you have to use anything thats available to you to help you win a tough fight. The damage that the lava does though, that needs to be decreased because it is far too high and makes the fight a LOT easier [also, if he dies in the lava, its dangerous for the player to talk to him in the lava!]. Add it so that he resists a certain part of the damage [special suit?] and it'ld be ok.

Verdict: Using this strategy is fine currently and not an exploit, however the damage scale of it does need to be brought down slightly. For that point, i have to give it a thumbs down.

Snipe and pull:

This has been in the game now since the start. People on normal PUG teams in paper missions have been saying "pull the stormie/engineer" for years. Even against old EB's we have been saying to pull the minions/EB first and deal with it that way, its a valid strategy and the fact that its used on a taskforce as new as the ITF means that a lot of people [including the devs because its still not changed] think it is valid. Not all ATs have decent snipe powers and so for me, my verdict is . . .

Verdict: Thumbs up

Use of inspirations/temps:

My ill/rad would not have been able to have done this mission first time was it not for the help of inspirations. Inspirations are designed to help a character and it is true that they can make a character godlike for a brief amount of time, but that is an exploit that has always been in here. I do think however that temp powers and using a lot of them is a bad exploit in certain situations. This is one of those situations in which temp powers should be excluded imo.

Verdict: Inspirations = thumbs up Temps = thumbs down

Greatest thing for me? Hmm i dont think i can pick to be honest.

While i still did play my 50's a lot before i19, i've now more or less become solely on my 50s [with the odd low level thrown in]. With the incarnate shards and my goal of getting enough shards to build every single alpha power, i can see my main being used a LOT Though the plus side though is that im now doing the hero tip missions a lot again and crafting every recipe that i get while keeping the rare salvage [stupid mini game of mine, hard to explain].
Also attatched to that was the fitness change being able to pick new powers. On my ill/rad [main] i was able to pick up flash, choking cloud and rise of the phoenix and slot them to make them worthwhile [one +recharge IO + the alpha +rech = no slots needed! woo!] and i love the extra damage i am able to get from the holds and the danger powers.

On my fire/dark scrapper [noob buster], i used to play him a lot and was very proud of him since i dont really see that many /dark scrappers around. However over time i stopped playing him, now i've done the respec and even took breath of fire [love the new animation for it!] and got to admit, im back in love with it again. Taking me a while to get him back up to the standards i remember him as [what was classed as strong then, is mediocre now imo], but im slowly and i mean slowly, getting there

So i suppose my favourite feature of i19 is . . . . .

Getting the love for my oldest and [imo] best characters back again

They really need their own arcs of how they used to be before they turned

I've only just gotten my uncommon alpha yesterday [spiritual heal/rech]. I plan on eventually getting every single one of the powers so i can just switch between them.
My main is the only character that will do this however, since it is supposed to be my strongest and leader of all my alts, it should have the strongest abilities known.

Another good thing about it being an ill/rad . . . . . . all the slots seem to work great for it

Ultimate Damz

Ultimate is fairly straight forward i'ld hope, however my handle/RL nickname isnt. Majority of people pronounce it like "damn/z" but really its like "dame/z".

Annoys when sometimes, especially when i got announced as a finalist on the radios cossie comp ages ago and they said damnz, was like noooo thats not my name!

Once the entire incarnate system is released, i wonder how long it'ld take to level a brand new 50 character all the way through it