SpyralPegacyon

My claws/elec used it last night to grab the redside exploration and history badges. I found it a lot easier exercise than when I did the same run last week using a super jumper. Primarily she'll still be using super speed, but, well, she is Valley Kitten. When she needs to fly, avoid water, and look totally cool doing it? Surf's up, dudes!

Ricki will be using the rocket board frequently, since we both share the same amusement at seeing a night widow in full armor surfing across the Rogue Isles. Tide Shifter will definitely be using it up until he gets pirate ship travel powers.

So, yeah, if its fun and its cool, its rocket board time. Its the little things like this that make me giddy for Freedom.

Got the one I really wanted: Fire in the Sky.

Also got Valley Kitten and Bane Spider Ricki, but, yeah, it wasn't as if those would be in high demand.

I saw an WM/EA in Atlas Park on day 1. It was a moving experience.

Maybe even more moving now, I did just open up a name on Virtue and WM/EA would fit...

Huh. I'll have to check when I get back home tonight. If so, Valley Kitten will just have to get her future tickets the old-fashioned way.

Though it does leave me wondering. First we find out the devs are tracking inf/XP gain rates via MARTy, then we find out MARTy's no longer shutting anyone down in Live, but now CEBR is a dead farm? Connect the dots, and its an interesting picture.

Hover board? Check.
Beam rifle? Check.
School backpack? Check.
6 character transfers while ubercheap? Check. Now I have more slots on Virtue for barbarians and laser rifles!
Pocket D badge I never got around to getting? Check. Hello, Tiki Bar!

That turned out to be a bit over my 1600, so I dropped another $15. And that may not last me much longer as I'm chin-stroking over the barbarian pack.

A MMOer and his money is soon parted.

1.) Start thread by tossing bomb.
2.) Wait for dozen plus pages reacting to said bomb throwing.
3.) Play victim card that nobody is taking topic seriously.
4.) Profit?

Time to start planning those 'Goodbye Galaxy City' vigils.

I'm hoping this means Transgaming has been beaten into submission and all is (relatively) well in the Mac world?

Valley Kitten is now at level 32. Another run and she'll clear 100 million in inf. She also has a background and a costume I'm mostly happy with. My plan now is to use CEBR to get her to 40, then do the patron arc, then finish up her redside explorations while doing rogue tips.

Which brings me to the normal play build. While I wasn't surprised at the lack of defense, I was in the lack of Power Sink. I imagine a sacrifice had to be made in the name of damage and recharge, but that's a handy sap to have - especially for a high recharge build that's going to be hammering hard on the blue bar. Granted, having Energize up as often as possible will help with endurance, but is it enough to keep from being stuck on blue skittles?

Ideally, there would be a way to gift a Free player who won a CC some Paragon Points so they can make the jump to Premium. Sure, its real cash, but think of it as an investment to the community.

But I think Giant and Zypoid are right, I don't think Free players will stay Free for long.

A month or so back, I'm part of a Citadel with my BS/SD scrapper. Being Council cave country, we're having issues trying to keep together but more or less we're sticking without problems. And then we hit one of the central chambers that look like the Normandy defenses as designed by M.C. Escher. I think I have support with me as I go leaping into a spawn, I'm pretty sure I saw a green name nearby for the first minute. Nobody else though, but that's no problem. I'll just finish these guys off and go find the rest of the team.

There's just one problem. We never cleared the room, and I'm sitting there with AAO shouting to every mob in the room 'FRESH MEAT', and I'm stuck in a corner. So more Council piles on. Still more. And I'm still standing and hacking them down, thinking this will be the last wave.

Turns out the rest of the team had speed run to the end, I see 'Mission Complete' while I'm hacking away knee deep in fallen Council. And none of the team is there with me. I'm still swinging when the TF leader starts the next mission, by that point I still had almost finished them off.

It was at that point I fell in love with my BS/SD. Now if I could just get her off of her endurance addiction.

On one hand, I don't think I'd ever run Keyes without having a quick self-heal. My widow has Aid Self, so she's run it a couple times and succeeded - somehow. When I can't see running it with my Invulnerability toons, then I know there's a problem. Undefendable and unresistable 50% damage on a wide open map is, uh, yeah, bad. I hope its a lesson the devs have taken to heart for upcoming iTrials.

On the other hand, said widow has run a bunch of other trials and has T3s in everything except a still locked Destiny. (I'm still IOing her out, so I'm saving inf for that instead of converting threads.) If I feel like running an iTrial, the option is there, so I'll go and run it if I want. If I don't, I don't. I don't feel the need to completely trick my 50s out as soon as they unlock the Alpha, heck I don't even have that many 50s to begin with.

The thing is the option is there to run iTrials and pick up the goodies if I want. I like having that option. If I don't, oh well, there's plenty else to do around the game.

And that, I think, is why CoH has been the MMORPG for me and not most other MMOs: There is no pressure to do anything in-game other than the pressure you put on yourself.