Memphis_Bill

As an aside...

Aren't weapons set given an Acc or tohit bonus specifically to "make up" for having to have redraw?

Hmm.
1. Start on blue side.

2. Seconded with "Roll a stalker" unless you absolutely hate melee. Just because the freshly revamped playstyle is quite different now. And if you rolled one before and did AS-placate-run, *don't.*

3. Run Matthew Habashy, Death from below (once) to get introduced to the trial system, and arcs from there. Absolutely try the new/revamped areas out - so, yes, Posi 1 and 2, fit the new Steel Canyon contacts in (they're short and leave room for favored arcs,) the new(ish) Talos arcs, Sutter, etc.

4. As a "freshly returned" player, ignore set IOs (barring a -KB protection one dropping on a character with none) for the moment. Wait 'til the 30s. (But if you still - as a returnign player - have an SG, see if they have common level 15s available for everyone's use when you hit 12, so you can save your INF instead of blowign it on DOs.)

Suggestion, then:

1. Person making the request must be the superleader.

As mentioned, this sort of thing is exactly what the "rank" was created for.

2. Person (or the person's account) must have been superleader for 90 days minimum.

This should reduce "investigation" - if someone's just managed to snag said red star, I'm assuming there's a history CS can look at for other complaints. ("So and so just hijacked our supergroup.") This is two *maximum* rank-drop cycles - if someone's held on to it that long (or their account has, in the case of small or personal SGs) then they're fairly obviously the leader.

Really? You had to come in here and do that? I did make some specific requests on starting the thread. If you'd like to make some actual, realistic and non insulting (which, frankly, that is) suggestions, feel free to edit your post.

Honestly, I've got to say "Why is your old build 'redundant?' " What are you not happy with about it? A fire/fire blaster is *STILL* going to go in and melt face fairly quickly on SOs. You're 100% about damage.

Asking for help here, you're going to have people insisting you need perma-something, softcapped this-that-the other, all powers recharging within a quarter second of use. You don't. They can be *nice,* sure - but the game is *still* built around SOs (barring Incarnate stuff, where you'll want level shifts and such for the higher trials, but as a non-VIP, you're not getting into that anyway.)

Assuming you can use IOs (again, how high up the reward tiers are you,) about the only IO I'd say "Get now" is fairly cheap - moreso if you also have AE access and feel lke burning some tickets after burning some mobs. And that would be a -knockback IO - either from Karma or Steadfast Protection. (Alternately, you can try to get the one from Blessing of the Zephyr, but it tends to be more expensive, and slot it into Fly.)

Side note, if you're using Mids, grab Titan Sentinel from the same place (cohtitan.com) - it has an option, once you're in game, to grab your current live build. You can copy that here and point out what you like, don't like, or think needs changing as well.

Last, if you're not sure about some build change and want to give it a test drive, go to a trainer and use the second build. You won't be sharing enhancements - it'll be like leveling up another fire blaster from 1-50 at a trainer - but you can try it out without having to load test or sacrifice your current build.

While not *exactly* what's described....

I played Aion for a while. There are some missions (this is, admittedly, in The Abyss, the open PVP zone "between the worlds" - kind of a PVPVE zone full time) that can be unable to be completed depending on the results of raids and the like.

For instance, I was handed a mission to talk to some NPC. The problem with that mission? The location I was sent to was hostile - it wasn't one that *directly* changed hands via Fortress control, but it was affected by either the fortress or who had overall control of the zone. (It's been a while.) And this was not related in the mission information - I had to do some digging to find out. Ended up with a few deaths (and unlike COH, those could get *expensive*) trying to figure out JUST where the heck this guy I was supposed to talk to to continue the mission was.

Another had you going to free some prisoners. Again, though... my faction controlled the zone area the prison was in... for *months.* So the mission was just not able to be done at all. I held on to it for the heck of it, to see how long it would take before I could do it. A few months later, the Asmodeans FINALLY took control of that island and I just sort of scythed through the (very grey) NPCs to finish it.

Would I mind it? *In general,* no. However, having it done in a way that wouldn't be exceptionally frustrating to one side or another (or pointless, for the other extreme) would be exceptionally difficult, I'd think.

I'm assuming it creates a log or output file of some format he's used to and/or feeds into something else, where Herostats doesn't.

Pure guess.

Hint:

RPers *ARE* normal gamers.

So are PVPers. So are min/maxers. So are people running concept builds. So are people on SOs. So are people hanging around for a costume contest.

And even on Virtue, I have never seen broadcast "spam" of RP - SG recruitment or TF recruitment in an RP vein, sure, but nto "spam." Local, sure. Solution: Move two feet farther away. If you're getting one side of an RP conversation in broadcast, go tell (or /tell) the person "Hey, you're yelling that to the entire zone, use local or team chat, please."

I'd say just to know that whoever's controlling aggro has the grenades, and enough of them to last through the slog.

Me, I'm usually on a squishy and staying at some sort of range, so I'll just dump them on the melee so I don't have to worry about it.

I did leave for a little bit. It wasn't "one minor" thing, and I can't think of "one minor" thing that would do it. One "minor" thing on top of a bunch of other things can be that "final straw," though.

Everything I can think of that would make me quit - head to account - scramble PW and unsub would be "middle" to "fairly major" though.