GrinningSpade

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To quote Futurama : "Thank you mysterious heroes. The value of the Gemerald you saved is slightly greater than the cost of the damage you caused to this museum. A net gain for our great city!"

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I can see why being a hero is so much fun. Maybe I am in the wrong profession here. Nobody appreciates a villains work.

You have to admit that a negotiation where you are the only person left standing is quite succesfull.

All in favour please stand.

This one could use a sticky perhaps? At least for the foreseable future?

Glad you appreciate the bit of good news. It wasnt the getting a team bit that shockd me. That happens more often. It was the getting team as an empath that shocked me.

Btw i also met three newbies today on defiant. Gave em a few pointers helped em get a zero g pack. Now they need some tender loving from others to keep em happy and content.

I was minding my own business soloing when i heard about this tf and i thought why not. I got an empath in the correct level range and asked if she could join. Well the TF ran like a charm and i had to develop my inner blasterness as my healing was not in great demand. The team was just that good. But i had a blast and a good laugh now and then.

After the tf i went to do some shopping and thought to log of when suddenly....

I was asked to join a team. Me as an empath at a time when only a handfull of people are online. I was tired but this was an opportunity I couldnt ignore of course.

Sometimes wonders do happen!

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broadswords could use more models. So do a lot of other customizable weapons. So

/Signed for more to all weapons.

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Broadswords have the most weapon customization options available and unlockable atm... lets see some love for the other weapon sets first ><

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Wasn't i saying that?

But for the record:

I want more customizable weapons. For every weapon! I also want those unlockable customizable weapons unlock at a reasonable challenge. <rant on>Not the kill 500 illusionist decoys for the bleeping mallet for example. Or the tommygun for a mobtype who can only be recognized by reading his info and appears in exactly 1 single spot on the server.</rant on>

Just CoX thank you.

My computer would get confused with so many things running and frankly so would I.

I am a rpg'er to. Albeit i preserve my rpg'ing mostly to the tabletop. I know and appreciate the time and effort put into a character. I also understand that having to change your name hurts.

But when things change and they sometimes do. I got the choice between following the change and continue playing the character I love even if he or she is changed a bit by the change or throw it all away. Now a name change while not fun would not make me throw away the towel. Because after all I love my character. If Grinning Spade was taken i would try something very close to the name. Like Grinning Spade. Same name for all purposes. No harm done. Annoying at best.

Or I could see it as a challenge. A roleplay challenge. No longer am I Grinning Spade from now on i will be named Grinning Reaper. I will be the same person but I choose to change my name. Or something happened that made me decided to change it. Anyway, it would give me as roleplayer the opportunity to turn something annoying into an interesting roleplay opportunity. In my case, he choose to change the name to reflect the inner darkness that brings him further and further away from the gentleman he always has claimed to be. Ever considered things that way?

Most of my names are so good that they are unique and in no danger of being taken by others. But it probably will happen to one or two of the more obvious names. Thats a shame, I would try to make a nice vatriant of the name that would satisfy me.

I would NOT cancel my subscription because of this.

BTW, to any of those objecting. Have you tried to see if your names are taken allready? I sincerely doubt that a lot of you will face that problem.

Nothing wrong with a greatsword powerset either

broadswords could use more models. So do a lot of other customizable weapons. So

/Signed for more to all weapons.

Keep it as it is.The millions will return once new and exciting recipes are added.

Things that were worth millions are worth almost nothing nowadays. Markets change, fluctuate.

To have the information from a year ago would be a bit silly. Can you imagine seeing a wing recipe priced at 100 million while nobody is willing to pay more then 100k these days?

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Well a badge for saving small street crime sounds like a good idea.

Crime fighter You stopped 100 street crime attempts and helped keep the city safe for the pedestrians.

PR man You stopped 1000 street crime attempts and your face is as familiar to the pedestrtians as it is to the thugs.

and for the villains:
Purse snatcher Easy money you call this, you robbed the robbers.

Protection Racketeer Your presence makes the small time thugs cough up their dough so you don't bust them for their hard earned money.

The idea of a timed mission is of course that if you dont hurry you will be to loate to stop it. Thematically i approve of this idea even when it is sometimes a bit of a bother when you dont have the time or you just get an invite to a nice team.

You can avoid most problems with just reading the mission briefing though so i can live with this. It is the involuntary reasons that you cant finish the missions that bug me. Especially when there is a badge involved that cant be obtained through other means including Ourobouros.

You have come furthest with a scrapper. Ever tried a dual blades scrapper? With dual blades you can either choose the first attack available or try to hurt them with those combination moves. I find them more interesting to play then a normal scrapper because of this.

For blaster try an AR/dev. It's a tricky one with some fun gadgets to play with. Strange that I just can't seem to play dominators I want to do damage OR do somehting defensive both at the same time is weird. It is hard to do a good job at both of them. To often you see dominators go all defensive in groups.

Finally there are the tankers. You loved one and want to see your friend come back. Well there are other tank combinations for you to try.

About the storyarcs i agree wholeheartedly. Compared to CoV they are a bit bland. But CoV arcs get bland as well when you have to redo them time and again. The good thing about CoH is that they have many more arcs available. Try checking out wiki and look for a few arcs you havent done yet.

Still....

A sawed of Shotgun and a chainsaw as temp powers for the halloween zombie thing would be a nice thing to have.

But for this one I will dust of the trusty holy shotgun shells and the shotgun from one of the villain arcs.

A badge for the void hunters and being sk'ed/malefactored look to me like a good thing indeed. The rest of the badge ideas are nice as well but these two I really favour.

My PC likes to freeze at random times and intervals for no apparant recognizable reasons when i play this game. Including unfortunately timed missions. It is always frustrating to have to restart a mission from scratch but with timed missions this can mean failure even when there is nothing you could have done to prevent that. So I would love to see that when you crash on a timed mission, you would be able to continue from where you crashed.

Sometimes you get lucky. Other times you wont get a team no matter how hard you try. Even on Primetime. Thats why I use toons that are fun to play even when I am alone. On Def that means EVERY toon on Union I take more chances.

I guess I will have to do without these then. Which is a pity because i like cossies as much as badges. But those events are a bit out of my range and erm about that PvP thing?

I hope in the future it is possible for us non eventers to 'earn' fun stuff like that as well. I understand the reason for giving them first to the eventers but I hope we are not left out.

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Further, any development primarily aimed at PvP can have beneficial effects for PvE as well. For example, while the Multi-builds feature is being discussed as a large boon to the PvP community (allowing them to have a full PvP build and a full PvE build on the same character), it will also be of use to pure PvE players (eg solo vs group builds; TF/SF builds vs regular builds etc).


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As a non PvP'er myself that is exactly what I am planning to do with my multi builds. This also seems an interesting thing for Peacekeepers and Warshades. One build focussing on Dwarf form and another for the light form for example.

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Problem is Empaths cant solo even one tiny bit.

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There's a difference between solo'ing and solo'ing as fast as a Blater or Scrapper.

If you're unable to solo I suggest you take a look at your build.

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Well you can slot yourself to be good at your primary task or semi good at your secondary task doing a bit of damage. I prefer to make my toon good at the primary job. But with dual builds in the future this could change.

But even then soloing badly is not my idea of fun.

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MY EMPATH CAN'T SOLO AS WELL AS MY SCRAPPER!! I DEMAND A DATAMINE!

ATs and powers are different in this game and is for the most part geared towards teaming. Imagine that.

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Which is fine and dandy if you can find a team.

My Empath couldn't solo to save her life, but back then I didn't need to.

I wouldn't play one now; not in the EU anyway.

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Yep harsh truth is that finding a team is not easy these days. So why bother making a toon who needs a team to shine? Nowadays I play only toons that can manage well soloing but dont mind teaming. That way I can still enjoy this game even if it is designed for teaming. Which brings us back to various threads about server merges etc.

I am on a SS/WP Brute right now thanks to col_blitz advice and I love her. My biggest concern right now is that I go through levles to fast because I play on Ruthles the whole time and probably could go relentless with ease. They are that good.

However I am a big fan of Mastrminds. There is nothing beating the sight of your thugs beating some poor unfortunate while you twiddle your mustache and cackle evily.

I managed to level my THUGS/DArk MM up to 50 without much pain and with only one keybind. A handy target nearest enemy bind. More is not required. I tried out more MM combinations but I find the running around of the melee pets anoying and dislike the zombies and ninjas for that fact. Pets with long range attacks tend to stick closer to your zone of control which saves you a lot of resumoning time. For MM's keeping your pets in control is important. The bigest thing is not let them follow runners. Because that will often trigger additional mob groups with all messy stuff happening.

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Problem is Empaths cant solo even one tiny bit.

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There's a difference between solo'ing and solo'ing as fast as a Blater or Scrapper.

If you're unable to solo I suggest you take a look at your build.

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Well you can slot yourself to be good at your primary task or semi good at your secondary task doing a bit of damage. I prefer to make my toon good at the primary job. But with dual builds in the future this could change.

But even then soloing badly is not my idea of fun.

Law enforcers generally don't like others coming onto their turf. So they probably don't like the hero thing one itsy bitsy bit. So the police are trying. With swat teams, robots, psi cops and kheldians to try to prove that they can control the streets and fight superpowered threats. To prove to the government that heroes are no longer neccesary. So that law and order will be restored to the proper authorities. Politics at work.

So they won't be happy with a policeman going out of the team. Especially when that hero is wearing their colours.

Also note how the police is dealing with the super powered beings they must fight. At high threat levels there are no non enhanced policeofficers at work anymore. There is a limit at what flesh and bone can do unenhanced.

Of course you can point out that lot of opponents are unenhanced which imo is a terrible mistake of the developers. For example a freak minion should be able to beat up a an working at the docks. Yet they can't. So whats the point enhancing yourself when joe doe is as strong as you are? And a dockworker is just a john doe on strike.