Eva Destruction

So, um, what was the big complaint about introducing the incarnate system with i18? Nothing new for 50s to do. So now that we're getting incarnates for stuff to do we get....new task forces? That's it? And the new arcs are going to be for a level range that got new arcs in i17?

Am I the only one that thinks they got it backwards, and the new arcs should be for level 40-50? Or even 45-50? Since it doesn't look to me like 50s will have a lot of new stuff to do with their new Incarnate abilities at all. Soloists will get a grand total of nothing (well ok, there are new tip and morality missions, but those aren't specifically incarnate content and all level ranges get them) and everyone else will get a frenzy of people running the new TFs for the badge and then abandoning them in favor of more speed ITFs unless the new TFs give a good enough reward to incentivize running them. In which case people will speed-run them. I hate speed running, so I'll get new tip missions, which hopefully will be good because they'll mean the Malta Gunslinger Action Figure and Doc Quantum's Moral Quandry show up less often.

So I guess what I really want in i19 is new arcs for my 50s, and more tip missions featuring stupid crazy chaos on convenient terrain, kamikaze Scrapper allies, and/or the opportunity to punch Nazis in the face. Oh, and some level 50 hero tip missions with CoT, because there aren't any that feature them as the main enemy group.

Actually, the more I think about it, the more I think "instancing" the glowies wouldn't be necessary. If they're random and decently hidden you're unlikely to have "glowie-stealing" issues unless you're looking for them in Atlas park on Freedom or something. Keep the glowie spawn points far enough away from enemy spawn points to avoid the issue of other players coming in and sniping them while you're fighting off the enemies, and all is good.

Hmm, perhaps make glowies in hazard zones give a better chance of giving out the good loot? Of course since they're in hazard zones getting them would have to be more hazardous; maybe when you get one another one is marked on the minimap, which you must also click to get your loot, but it's surrounded by a fairly large group of enemies scaled to your level. Or instead of a glowie you rescue someone from a group of enemies, and then a glowie appears that you must lead them to (not too far, because that's annoying) and there are ambushes. Just throwing some ideas out there to maybe give people some more incentive to go into the hazard zones. The increased quality of loot would have to be worth the extra hassle required to get it of course. Yes, we're back to fighting our way through piles of enemies, but the hardest part would probably be finding the glowie in the first place.

Another idea: random NPCs that give out missions, or direct you toward loot, etc. They could be walking down the street mingling with the regular NPCs that tell you the time, only when you click on these NPCs they give you a mission. Or it could be one of the guys you rescued from the Tsoo handing you the relic he was fighting over because you're awesome and you deserve it. On redside, you could "rescue" people to take their stuff for yourself, or you could kidnap non-combat "captives" friendly to their captors (an Arachnos scientist guarded by Arachnos troops, a shady lawyer meeting with his Family clients, labor union advocate hanging out with Scrapyarders, etc). The rescues would probably have to be tied to player level though, else the 50s would sweep through the lower-level zones in a wave of carnage that would put the Great Pumpinhead, Reindeer and Underpant Gnome Hunt of i5 to shame.

Destroyers can be repurposed as standard gang members I suppose. Other than that, all the new additions are glaringly and obviously Praetorian. I also don't see War Works or the Imperial Defense Force in the list. Where are my War Walkers? I demand War Walkers.

The Super Stunners and Chi Masters and such should definitely be added, along with the new and/or improved Rogues Gallery characters. Kinetic Melee and Electric Control should also be added for custom critters.

The thing is, I haven't seen a lot of arcs advertised in this forum or in the MA Arc Finder channel (read: none) that take place in Praetoria. The setting itself is somewhat limiting, whereas Paragon City and the Rogue Isles are wide open, and full of little backstory tidbits that have never been fully explored, enemy groups and NPCs that are underutilized, and story lines that have never been wrapped up. I'm sure we'll see a slew of arcs made just to take advantage of these new options (although again, I ask, where are all the high-level groups in an issue that includes making your 50s more powerful), but so far I see nothing here I'm going to use.

Consider also that your low ratings for the earlier version of the arc aren't nearly as damaging to the overall rating as random drive-by 1-stars.

My Katana Scrapper wants that Rikti sword, because Katana has so few options, even fewer when you're a 6'6" female and half the swords scale down to the size of toothpicks.

Unfortunately in order to get it an invasion has to happen while I'm not in the middle of doing something else, and at least eight other people have to feel like fighting it off. This is the only accolade that depends on a bunch of other people feeling like doing the same thing you're doing. At least with TFs you have time to talk people into doing what you want to do; the invasions, not so much.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=129153

I fail to see the funny. It's so unfunny in fact, that I'm copying him. Level 33 so far. I don't see how 33-50 will be any more difficult, especially since the ally reward nerf is gone.

#351727: The Hammer and Sickle of Paragon City
Why I chose it: I honestly don't remember.

I'm helping out some former Soviet heroes who have gotten caught up in a 5th Column plot. That means I get to fight Nazis. I even get to fight a Commie Nazi. Some minor nitpicks but it's a good arc overall.

#209473: Standing Within the Mists
Why I chose it: PW's list.

In this arc, I'm a villain trying to play it smart by gassing the place I'm trying to rob rather than just slaughtering everything in my path. It's a good concept, and set up well, unfortunately the execution doesn't seem to work out as intended.

Usually I have the opposite problem; I come up with a powerset combo and a concept and sit around trying to think of a name. Sometimes though, I snag a name I like and just have to use.

Smothered Hope: Was a Dark/Mace tank. I don't like playing tanks. I never get them to a decent level. I don't like playing Dark Armor at the levels my tanks usually make it to. I don't know WHY I decided to roll her as a tank, except the name screamed DARK ARMOR to me and I didn't need another Brute. Then GR came out, and now she's happily awaiting inherent fitness as a KM/DA Scrapper.

Jenna Cyde: Is on her fourth incarnation. The first was a Mercs/Poison MM shortly after CoV release, then I realized I don't like MMs. Then she was a Rad/Cold Corr....dumb since I mostly solo and /Cold sucks solo until you get up into higher levels. Then a Mind/Thorns dom who made it all the way to level 35 before Electric Assault was announced. So now she's Mind/Electric. The name is generic enough that any powerset fits though, as long as she's a villain.

Dire Winter: Cold/Dark Defender. I don't like playing Defenders. And, um, then there's cold. I planned on teaming, since she was a Defender, even though I despise how the cold shields look, WHY would I foist them on others again? I ended up giving the name to my Ice/Ice Blaster during the free server transfers.

Crashing Light: I thought it was a good Peacebringer name. Too bad I don't like playing Peacebringers. Since gone bye-bye.

I avoid DE. They're pretty easy to avoid at 50. When I can't avoid them, I Shield Charge into the mob instead of gathering them up for Soul Drain first. The knockdown keeps them from spawning the quartzes right away, so I can kill the quartz spawners before they do so. If they drop one, I generally drop dead, since I play at high difficulty so they kill me in seconds. My /SR Scrapper, with no Shield Charge, just avoids DE.

Nemesis are easy, I pull the spawn around a corner (so they won't Vengeance the next spawn) and kill the Lieutenants last.

Rularuu, I kill the eyeballs first, and fast. Once those are down, they're just like any other enemy group. If it's an eyeball-heavy spawn, I eat some oranges first.

I start slotting procs, uniques and lower level sets as soon as I can (ie, I can afford them and they are available at a reasonable price, or I'm high enough to slot the max level for sets like Steadfast and Eradication) and throw in some of the cheaper good sets (Doctored Wounds, Crushing Impact, Thunderstrike, etc) around the mid-30s. Lately I've been building my toons to be exempable to the mid-30s, so I'm slotting stuff when the slots become available and when I can afford it, which means I'm pretty well kitted out by the time I hit 40.

Still, I don't find it hard to give newbies advice at all. It's not like I've forgotten what my powers actually do. I can still tell someone "take power X as soon as possible, it's awesome because it does X and Y" or "power X sounds cool but it's very situational, it won't be as useful as you think it will be" or "if you do this instead of this you won't die." The basics are the basics no matter how many purples you slot.

The first five that come to mind:

"Teen Phalanx Forever!" #67335
"Mercytown" #6017
"Captain Skylark Shadowfancy and the Tomorrownauts of Today" #337333
"The Invasion of the Bikini Clad Samurai Vampiresses from Outer Space" #61013
"The Curse of the Emerald Parakeet" #1567

I think this broke around i17. It may be related to betraying allies awarding XP, and thus breaking all their assigned behaviors.

If you're planning on teaming a lot you might want to think about DM. You'll be able to saturate Soul Drain on a team, then go to town on the bosses.

On the other hand, if you're doing a lot of PuGs with a regen, yeah, what Werner said. I'd go with Katana too, because I find Broadsword painfully slow.

The last time I tested ally behavior, allies set to Fight Defensively were following the player no matter what. It looks like this might also affect escort behavior.