Expeditor

Group name: Alternators?

Group colours: change it every week - it fits with the theme of the group

I'll probably have to shy away from this myself - I've been cutting down on my alting as best I can, so I mostly play 2 heroes, and then I have my defender and corrupter teams on Tuesday and Wednesday.

But if you need a (presently lvl 39) scrapper or (presently lvl 24) blaster for team gubbinses, just holler

EDIT: and I gather a human form only epic can be pretty powerful done right - just check the Kheldian section, there are some good guides on there

Just a reminder to all you radiation folks that we'll be meeting at 7pm in Port Oakes, at the Arbiter (next to the arena).

Hope to see a new face or two

Hi Idris, Ilservian is up to lvl 39 and making a push for 40. If I can get sidekicked up to make myself half useful I'd be interested in joining you

When did you have in mind? I have my defender team tonight and corrupter team on Wednesday evening, but elsewise I'm all good.

Oh, and I've never fought Carnies before, so I might need a few pointers as to their unique quirks

Weren't the devs looking at pretty much all the blaster secondaries with an eye to improving everything except nrg and devices? I confess this is from a fair long while ago - one of those "Yeah we hear you and we might do something. One day."

I know electricity is a good bit more popular now than it was, but fire and ice are both very sub par, as can be seen by a) how few people take them and b) how few powers are chosen from those powersets on the rare occasion they are taken:

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with my fire/fire blaster i only took fire sword and build up

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Now I know this is only one example, but buildup is available in every secondary except devices, and nrg and electric both have attacks at least as good as fire sword. I think the only real draw for people to take fire secondary is pure concept.

Fire might make a good secondary if you have a good supporting team - maybe a couple of force field/sonic controllers - basically people who can keep you alive while you stand amidst a large group of mobs inflicting obscene damage on them all.

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Fire and elec are basicly the same for the two powers since both bonfire and static discharge suck for PvP. So that leaves the hold and the armour and elec has the best armour.

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Why is the elec armour better than the fire armour? Just out of interest.

I personally don't find defiance terribly useful, but then perhaps it doesn't have to be.

As has been pointed out, the CoV ATs were designed with their inherents being integral to how that AT works:
without Fury, Brutes are [censored]!
without Hide and the critical damage attainable from it, Stalkers are worthless.

In CoH, some of the ATs had inherents from the start, they just weren't presented with a little power icon - Scrapper criticals, a tankers "gauntlet" - and these ATs were balanced taking these inherent abilities into account.

Controllers were given their inherent to make the earlier game more viable, and having their ability to summon multiple pets was removed to even out their abilities over the long term.

Blasters and Defenders were given their inherents simply because someone decided every AT needed an inherent power, and they're both of limited utility because the ATs were already deemed balanced without them, so adding any significant power would make them overpowered.

So yes, defiance is [censored], but only because blasters never really needed it.

Of course all the tweaking and hacking at powers has skewed things somewhat, and ED has affected pretty much everyone to a degree, so yes, maybe blasters could use a more effective inherent, or simply have their base damage scaled up a little.

But then other ATs have been messed up something rotten too. Personally I won't touch a Tanker now, but I'm still pretty happy with my Blaster.

(apologies for the ramble - I do that sometimes...)

Not to worry - just had a wee frolic for an hour. I didn't really expect much of a turnout over Christmas anyway, folk generally having more important matters to attend to

How are things looking for this evening?

I thought I'd make a more explicit recruitment thread for the Wednesday evening (7pm til 9ish) Radiation Corrupter team.

To join, all you need is a corrupter with the radiation emission secondary (any primary - we presently have 2 radiation, 1 dark and 1 ice for primaries).

We're currently in the region of lvl 12, although there should be a couple of slots available for lackeys for new starters and the like. Obviously picking up Accelerate Metabolism is desirable as it stacks real nicely

Just send a /tell to "Transcendent" on a Wednesday at 7ish for a team invite.

Refer here for the team thread.

Don't get too worried about keeping bubbles on people full time - we usually stop and buff every fight or two anyway!

I've got the Atta mission lined up (and I've finally upped my mission difficulty to invincible, just to keep things more interesting ) so that should keep us entertained next week I would hope! I'm still hoping we can run through Talshaks missions all the way through to the Caverns trial.

Anyways, hope to see you all next week folks - have a fun New Year!

I recall one or two people said they probably wouldn't be able to attend this evening, but how's it looking for everyone else? Duckdee, might we be meeting our new bubbler?

Is there going to be a thread for supergroups to put up a sales pitch for Aero?

Maybe someone could organise one of those charity auction type affairs - highest bid gets Aero in the group. Proceeds go to the Make a Snowman's Christmas foundation. Apparently so-called heroes keep stealing their presents and ruining their Christmas's. You should see the sad little faces on those Frostlings.

Good luck in your endeavours anyhow Aero - keep adhering to the blasters credo, that's the main thing.

I wasn't lieing when I said I wasn't being impatient - besides, it's a bit short notice. For those that would be interested, what days next week would work? The weekend is obviously out, but I'd be good Monday, Thursday or Friday.

That would be pretty cool if we could get everybody together

Might have to drop my mission difficulty to Heroic tho - it's on Invincible at the moment and Terra is at a rather intimidating (for an arch villain!) lvl 40. It's going to be difficult enough without the net arrows

What's everyones schedule like for this evening? Just a thought, I'm not being impatient or anything!

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Tufty is at 37.. we will have to team at some point

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That'd be keen. I've got the Terra archvillain mission at the moment - I thought I'd try to solo her, armed with a tray full of gift inspirations - it didn't work out!

Anyone else got a lvl 30+ alt? We can do a couple of sidekicks

I am sorely debating making a mind/radiation controller. I've just been so good this last couple of weeks playing my now lvl 38 scrapper (he hit lvl 36 about 6 months ago!)

But I suppose if it's for a good cause I could do just a widdle bit of alting - it's just a one-off after all! Just got to decide which of my 12 existing characters on Union I should delete

I know what an absolute pain in the behind soloing with a */psi defender can be, the animations are just obscene.

So does anyone else want to make an alt and join in the fun?

When would be a good time for playing? Obviously the next week or so is going to have some issues on account of the whole Christmas and New Year thing, but elsewise I should be good for lending a helping hand

Whoa, got so carried away on my scrapper I almost forgot it was Tuesday! Well I just got thoroughly decimated by Terra, despite using a snowman, a warwolf and a tray full of gift inspirations - in my defence, I did manage to knock maybe 1/20th of her health off. I think I'll leave her for now - she seems happy enough scampering around her little den.

See you all shortly.

I really doubt we'd have a problem finishing tomorrow, we've already done the worst of it!

For the week after we can look into the whole Caverns trial/Doc Vazh story arc so as to get something ready for when everyone's back again.

See you all tomorrow anyways folks.

Would be grateful if I could get my scrapper exemped onto this if there's room?

EDIT: I'm not going to be able to make it, just so you don't go waiting on me or anything. Good luck folks - bring me back one of those nifty jet packs will you? And a force field generator

So is everyone up for an hours villainy before the PvP event kicks off?

The first mission kind of struck me as the complete opposite of those Romero zombie flicks - an unstoppable tide of defenders wiping out all of zombie-kind!

We did own most heartily and made excellent progress. Those christmas jet packs even came in handy against those <insert expletive here> Rune mages.

After we're done with it, I'll check to see if we can get the Caverns trial, but failing that I think we should at least pay Doctor Vazh a visit before doing Synapse - what do you think?

So we've got another Assault running? I'm looking forward to another Tactics or two, at the very least in time for Paragon Protectors - MoG huh? *smite* And I'm sure they'll come in handy if we ever find ourselves in a PvP zone, seeing stalkers from way out and exposing them to the masses (before killing them of course)

And it was nice seeing Fortitude being thrown about - I got some pretty sick damage on top of the res debuffs and with a couple of siphon powers on top I do confess however that it'd be better used elsewhere - as it is I only have a couple of single target attacks to my name, and with the 2 leadership toggles and spamming siphon power, I just don't have the endurance to be playing too offensively!

Anyways, that's more than enough rambling for one evening! I'll bid thee all good night. Until next week folks.

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Well just to let all of you know: it's actually quite easy to take down Frosty with a team of just 4 rad/rads!

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It's actually quite easy to take the entire final room all at once with 4 rads apparently! Certainly the highlight of the mission

A fair point, we could meet for an hour (7-8), then leave it up to everyone whether they carry on or go there. I'm still debating whether to go myself.

It is veeeeery improbable that we will ever see radiation or kinetics as secondaries for masterminds - there was a discussion about it on the CoV beta boards. I was just saying if e'er the devs got really drunk at work and put it in "for a giggle", then masterminds would be in (no other CoV ATs could have Radiation Emission accessible as a powerset).

Part of my interest in this idea is having teams of radiation corrupters, each armed with Accelerate Metabolism. If the group took off, I'd hope to form some coalitions, so when a team was formed any extra spaces could be offered up to masterminds, brutes or any others who might be interested in having several stacked Accelerate Metabolism's on them (not to mention the debuffs et al).

But just to reiterate, I have received no indication whatsoever that Radiation Emission will ever be available to Masterminds. My apologies for getting everyone excited

I already run a regular radiation team night on Wednesdays, but wondered if there would be interest in a radiation (corrupters only until they give masterminds radiation secondary ) supergroup.

Only prerequisite is radiation emission secondary, any primary will do.

From my own perspective this would mostly be an alt thing, I just play my character on Wednesdays, but if others wanted to run other things, such as PvP events or whatever, then they'd be free to organise that kind of thing. Obviously the whole ranks thing is there for those that would be interested in organising things.

I rather fancied group TP for a mastermind - with a couple of players, both with grant invis, invis everybody up, TP right next to your intended victim and let your minions go to work.

Of course you can get much the same effect from TP foe, I just thought it'd be cooler having an army of the undead turn up all around some unsuspecting sap and vomit all over him.