Grey Pilgrim

It's a single mission, and you have to make sure you are past the level range the mission is (not sure if you are or not, but sometimes that's the sticky wicket for people). So if it's in the 35-40 range, I think you have to be 41 to see those missions in Oro (or it's 40, can't recall off the top of my head).

Yeah, I find that to be shocking. I pointed out issues with this for the ITF back in October to Arbiter Kim, and he said, "thanks for letting me know, we're looking into this." That's not him saying anything about WAI, but I don't know how this could be an intended feature or okay in any way.

Works if you're playing a set with sleep powers, though, Eric.

I ran a Moonfire TF tonight with two other tanks (I was on my Macer, Swedish Fury), and it was great. We had good buffs and a couple of Scrappers, too. Burned through everything, and it was a very safe TF as well... we did have a couple of deaths, but that was more from people running off away from teh group than anything else.

It was nice... I hardly had to taunt all night, and it was hilarious to see three visible clumps of enemies in the bigger cave rooms, as all the enemies were drawn in by Gauntlet to the three tanks.

Safe and fast, what's not to like about that?

I really hope I17 comes out before GR. I'm excited about GR and all, but if I have to wait until 2nd quarter for another issue after I16... that's way too long. And I think it would be a bad plan on the dev's part. That's a long time to wait.

In fact, marketing for GR, etc. is a little flat, too. Posi seems to realize that letting us know about GR's graphical requirements is a good idea during the holiday season, so some other tastes of what is to come would be a good idea. Heck, you can't even get official info on what they talked about at Herocon yet, either.

Up to you, Tal.

I can't play all four hours in a row (I never have that long of a block of a time in game), but I could do two blocks of two hours just fine (or whatever ends up working). If you have any MA story arcs you'd like to work on, I'd be more than happy to help you test them and work on the writing, as I do that on my own (writing and MA writing). Ummmm, we could work on TFs or story arcs, too... I have every AT up blueside, so I could add on whatever you're needing for a TF or story arc. I have a level 42 Stalker that would be able to do a lot redside as well.

If there's some badges or annoying badges you want to work on, I can help out there, too. I don't know much about PvP, so I don't know that I could help much there if you need it.

Problem with that, though, is that the new players have no way of telling the new from the old. If you're running more of the old and stale content, that might seem like that was all CoX had to offer.

I like new content as much as anyone else, but I really would like to see revamps made of older content. According to the dev's with other statements and design approaches, the whole game is supposed to be content as you level and when you're at 50 (Orobouros, super side-kicking, etc.), so this whole focus on "new content only" doesn't quite follow to me.

I had a longish hiatus from about I15-I16 to just before I10, and I was thoroughly impressed at the little changes made to liven up the game, just as much as I liked the new content. Ignoring one for the other isn't exactly a good thing.

And Afterimage, I would like to see more zones as well... I would like to see Perez remade a bit and to have some story arcs there... same for DA and Boomtown, actually. It's hard not to want it after the amazing job they did fixing up Faultline (and given how different those zones are from other ones). It sounds like they are going to have a lot more to do in Cimerora in the future, so that's a good step in that direction. And sure, I wouldn't mind a moonbase or anything like that, but there is a lot of variety in zones in CoH right now that the devs could easily exploit to address what you are feeling (which I don't think is uncommon, so don't feel I'm painting you in a corner with that).

After GR, the devs really should add another zone and new content to redside. I'm not one of those that say they "hate" redside, but CoH has a lot more variety in content (Hollows, Faultline, Striga, and Croatoa provide some nice options to regular story arcs blueside) that make it a much more deep route to go.

I do hope they add a bit more for the +40 range along with whatever system they have for 50s... 40-45 is okay, I guess, but 45-50 is very heavy with AVs and Praetorians.

More on track with the OP, you can buy the Architect Edition off of Steam for $10. If you don't mind getting it off of Steam, at least.

Hmmmmm, interesting. Though I was keen on getting this also for having updated discs... I assume Steam would just provide the code? I don't see any mention of actual discs in their listing.

Well, to be fair, I think CoX's storylines are usually more interesting and worthwhile than other games. There are a lot of fun characters and storylines to go with the whole "drop x amount of foes."

I do agree that the devs need to get more content in the game now, after focusing on adding more varied systems for so long (I14 and I16 are fun, but they were light on adding map types, missions, etc.). I like all the customization, but I want more new content to run through.

Gah, thanks Eric. Making way too many mistakes while posting, lately. Fixed it up in the OP.

The Orobouros TF where you fight the Jade Spider has a goodly amount of Arachnos, and Toxic Tarantulas. Forget the name of it, but I believe it's the one Mender Silos hands out. You'll need to grab other people to run it, but it's a pretty fun TF to run. Just look out for all the psychic damage the Jade Spider dishes out.

Eh, you weren't doing that bad, EB. How IO'd out are you? You're going to get a lot stronger with more recharge and +health (for that heal... energize, right?). Getting some defense is a great addition to any resist set as well... even getting to 20% would make a big difference. Especially since you have a couple of heals (I know it makes a big difference on my MA/Regen Scrapper).

Resist sets are a bit more tricky on Scrappers (heck any defense set is too... WP feels downright wimpy compared to how it feels on a Tank set), so I get what you mean about SR... it's quite nice unless the RNG hates you (or if you're doing a bunch of MA missions... it seems like most of those mobs get +accuracy when created).