SinisterDirge

I think an DA/Ice tanker would be an interesting combination. with all the hard and soft mez's, you will be able to toy with spawns. Ice is also a better damage set than people give it credit for.

My favorite has still gotta be the dust ball of death, Spines/DA. IOes can easily offset the high end cost on this build.

I think I might roll a Elec/DA brute sometime in the near future. Elec's big aoe's and the chance to gain more end back sounds like it might play nice with DA.

Be fun to debuff with Uranus.

In the end, reading the story gives you no extra xp. Does a long, drawn out story with weak mobs provide more risk than a single very intense mission? I thought it was risk/reward, not time/reward.

A single small purple inspiration instantly softcaps a toon that is sitting at 35% smashing lethal. They are pretty hard to find on farming maps.

Here you go. Say thanks to Smurphy.

/macro P1 inspcombine enrage luck$$inspcombine insight luck$$inspcombine awaken luck$$inspcombine respite luck$$inspcombine catch_a_breath luck

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This would be better suited in the suggestions and idea's area.

Now that that is out of the way, I can see you have put alot of thought into this. I would recommend making sure that suggested powersets are suitable for both factions. With GR on the horizon, and side switching... Defenders may want to defeat enemies with the black plague as well. I would imagine Disease would give Rad a run for its money in debuffs...

Hello,

In the last little while I have posted in a few threads talking about how it was in the old days. While I realize the old days are well and truly over (Bye States! See you never!), there where some things I miss alot. One of them is street sweeping.

COX is my first, and only MMO. I dont have the words to convey my amazement upon logging in for the first time. There were heroes everywhere, flying, jumping, speeding about, showing off their new powers. Joining a pick up group in Perez Park, and fighting our way to Everett lake. It was great. It is something I fear new players coming to the game don't get to experience.

The reason I am posting this is because I think new players should experience it. To a degree at least. Sure, you won't have 50 players in a zone all saying "Look at this!" ever again. I get that. However, It would be nice if new players can see how many people are actually playing the game. Too many posts have been made by players wondering where everyone else is. Too many players first impressions are that this game has only a few people on even in the busiest of times.

Now of course, they are cordially guided in how the team search works, and it is explained that most players are in instances and what not... and that is good. I can't help but imagine they would have a better impression of the game if they didn't have to visit the boards first.

Back in the day, everyone street swept. It was designed so that teams would street sweep on the way to the next mission, task, etc. Unfortunately, the dev's didn't realise that people grind to fifty the same way water gets anywhere. The path of least resistance. So they got kinda bummed that people forwent the instanced missions. The stories they worked so hard on and wanted to tell were ignored just so people could gain xp and lvl quicker. This is my shocked face. The solution? Mission bonus xp.

Almost instantly, the streets were bereft of heroes. Hooligans were on every corner stealing purses, and casing places, and no heroes to stop them. This hasn't changed. Guess what? People were ignoring developed content again, only this time, whole zones went ignored. Unless a team is badging, you are hard pressed to find one in a hazard zone. Hell, Skyway was never as popular as Steel Canyon, but there were always at least 5 teams street sweeping it... All they did was exchange one side of ignored content, for another side. Felt kinda like Australia introducing the cane toad to control the cane beetle population, and at the same time decimating other native populations. Not to mention the bad taste it left in my mouth being "guided" to play a certain way.

I digress... The point of all this is to get people back out into the zones. Hell, They don't even have to street sweep. I do think it would make a better experience for new players though.

The zone events are a great start. Until everyone has the badges they need. Then they are promply ignored again.

I think that there needs to be a better reward for street sweeping. Something to make it worthwhile for a team to hit the streets again. I hate to say give people more xp, because lets face it, it is already terribly easy to gain xp in this game. I would say, that perhaps Patrol XP should only be rewarded if you are out on PATROL. Of course, you can't take something away that has already been given. Not without doom crying. I don't really have a fix for this, but I figure this is the best place for this. Even if I don't have idea's, perhaps some of you do.

Or maybe people dont care. Maybe it has no merit. That is for you to decide.

If you have read this far, thank you. Hope it wasn't too painfull.

SD

Also. Logged off yesterday. Logged in this am after at least 16 hours away, and recieved the "This account is already logged in" msg.

Got the same msg a few times yesterday, but this is first time after such a long time being logged out.

Hello.

Not sure if this is a known issue or not. (I have searched.)

When I zone using the train, I need to retoggle my travel powers because they de-toggled in transit.

Hi,

Anyone else have difficulties with the character copy tool? have tried to copy a toon to test 3 times this am, and they still havent shown up inspite of the option to copy them becoming available again.

I would like to mention, that I am copying from Justice, and succesfully copied toons over on friday.

If I recall correctly, the stealth io refreshes itself every 120 seconds. Might have been spottied in that micro window. Or the mobs you were fighting may have +perception (drones). As for stacking, I know it stacks with superspeed, not sure about stealth, steamy mist, or thier ilk... Sorry couldn't be more help.

Old market UI. Was 300 mill short of the cap, and had yet to claim sales off of 3 hecatombs. I noticed a tiny button with even tinnier script on it. So tiny I couldnt read it. Figuring what could it hurt, I clicked it. Apparently it was the hit the cap instantly button, and I lost 600mill... hard lesson to not click anything you can't read...

One more for sale blueside. PM me here, or @Iguane, or @TheOtherWhiteMeat in game. Bids close May 13th AM. Buy Nao = 4 billion Inf, or some frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their frickin' heads.