Ogi

1. The dysfunctional LFG tool, especially now that it's being used for other things, DfB and events. People dropping DfB if AVs won't spawn. Oh noes! My XP/sec is going down .1! Better make the LFG useless to everyone else to make sure that doesn't happen to me!

2. Slideshowriffic. Before the cutscene skip if everyone had seen it it wasn't until my third BAF I knew there was a cutscene. Going from TFs and world events Destiny, Judgement, and Lore can't have made things any better with the frames-per-minute issue.

3. Raiders and the "great" community they bring with them. I got into CoH to get away from them in that other game. Now that game is the pug friendly one and this one is getting the Mos Eisely vibe.

4. Lost in a sea of supers. I'm the 10th one from the right on the third row.

5. You gotta be super to beat up pedestrians. You go from smashing every AV in existence at once, solo, to smashing warwalkers in small groups to getting taken out by pebbles.

I haven't done LFR yet but max level LFD queues are generally 10-15 minutes for DPS and DPS waits are caused by a lack of the other two roles, a problem LFG shouldn't have, lacking roles.

It's funny that the game that drove me to CoH because of the cliques and being at their mercy to do things is now way more pug friendly (hello LFR, suck it "elite" raiders) than CoH and CoH with its endgame trialers has driven me back to that which I had fled. For the same reasons. The circle is now complete.

Hopefully there's some server out there where LFG works the way it was intended, well, where the players let the LFG work the way it was intended. Inaction aside, the devs didn't break LFG, we, the players did.

And if so, which server?

My biggest issue with brutes is that it really feels like I'm doing it wrong if it isn't a confirmed villain with the Frenzy power.

Cold starts on a non-villain brute really suck.

I just wish at least A-merits bought you the built IO and not the recipe.

If updating non-IOs wasn't such a hassle I wouldn't touch WW aside from dumping salvage and recipes for 1 inf. If they put a "update all enhancements" button on the vendors that'd automatically buy the highest level version you can use of each enhancement you have and do the combining automatically the only IO's I'd use on most characters would be -kbs, stealths, and the like.

Probably the best thing about this winter event wasn't in the game, it was in the store. Sorta bahumbug but being able to unlock halos for every current and future character was a win.

Not "needing" (come on people, just freaking queue) a mega-league for the two new badges is nice now that I've completely given up on the Lord of Winter badge after another 45 minutes in the queue (with a 5 min wait time).

Got to fight Lord of Winter once on Victory, was in the league right after the queue popped, did not get badge credit. After a few 45 minute waits in queue (with 5 minute waits listed) with nothing popping gave up on getting that badge this year. I made the mistake last year of not doing it the first night it was available. Between finding people for a present team and having enough people to take down the LoW it would have been more productive to ask people if they wanted their teeth pulled without Novocain.

Found someone to do the new presents with, they had no clue what they were or how they worked until I explained what I knew of the new badges.

In summary, yay for preformed closed leagues, bestest idea ever for holiday events.