SteelRat

Is it me or does the artistic talent in this games playerbase grow exponentially by the week?

Jaw droppingly superb. And I'd agree the comic style is the best of the three.

Cerikey O'Riley! Superbly done.

Best.
Digital Work.
To date.
Bar None.

Do you do commissions ?

I've had an idea for a while that I'd love someone with infinitely more talent than me to have a stab at. My first main character Tiger Slash and his evil twin brother Tiger Doom

The basis of their story is that one brother who was born noticably larger was whisked away by Crey Technologies for Project Revenant. The doctor present at the birth, himself a Crey Scientist told the mother that the son had died shortly after birth. In fact, the son was to spend the first 8 years of his life trapped in a cage in a lab being poked and prodded. All the time having the belief that his family had rejected him due to his appearance. He superior strength, agility, his natural born claws and his tiger like ability to blend into the shadows completely unseen enabled him to escape and kill his captors, swearing to do the same to his treachourous mother and brother.

The other son meanwhile who didn't develop his claws, tiger like appearance and the ability to heal himself till he was about 10 was taken into the Super Group, the Amazon Stars who not only gave the young lad an education, but also helped him hone his fighting skills before introducing him as a fully fledged member.

The picture I'd like someone to do for me would be entitled "Brothers At Arms". Essentially a face off in profile between the two brothers who having learned of each others existance finally meet each other for an epic show down!

If possible I'd like the back grounds of each side of the picture to include faded images of each brothers life up to that point. Tiger Doom being trapped in a cage, being involved in street brawls, whilst Tiger Slash sitting in school, training with a Sensei or enjoying a drive in a open top car with a pretty girl by his side. Then in the middle above them and slightly below the title an image of their mother (perhaps holding two baby boys in her arms?)

Just to give a bit of extra detail, in case it's not obvious from the pictures..

Tiger Slash - Claws / Regen / Body scrapper. Normal male body type

Tiger Doom - Claws / SR Stalker. Huge body body type.

Anyone up for a challenge ?

Well - got Sigma-Burn up to lvl 7 last night with a team of chaotic masterminds. I'm already beginning to see the attraction of fire / rads, and looking forward to a full team of AoE decimation

Will be out tonight, but should be available most of the weekend if there's going to be a team going

This is a fledgling SG with a single member. Me. It's my first stab at SG'age and as such there is likely to be a learning curve - but I'm a fairly easy going bloke, so all suggestions will be considered with an open mind

Primarily the SG is going to be for maturish (i.e. over the age of 25) players with Tech origin toons. On joining there will be a 30 trial period before I consider promoting members.

Any other questions, feel free to ask here, or send me a yell at @steelrat.

Put simply, if you can create works like those examples Swissy gave I don't think it matters how you got there. Additionally, so long as your work gives you pleasure in it's creation, whether or not other people enjoy it is surely secondary? From what I've seen of what you can do, I really don't think you have to worry about that score

Just a mention about Burn... it's in the Firey Aura set, not Firey Melee.

Filled up my slots on defiant (including 4 50s) and have been enjoying the wonders of the Onion. Already have a nrg / fire blaster on heros, and this looks like a perfect opportunity to create an evil nemesis for him in the guise of a fire / rad.

You guys meeting up tonight, and would you mind LKing up a lvl 1? (or how ever far I get before people start appearing)?

My leccy blaster who was one of my first ever toons finally hit level 50 on Sunday at around 8.30pm. Rather fitting that he dings around now, because I started playing CoH a year ago today.

woohooos, gz and s alround then

Fairly well sums up my interpretation of its use too. I was in a team yesterday where a guy who "knew what he was talking about because he has 4 Illusion 'trollers" told me that I was wasting my time using decieve and that I should be more agressive, and contributing to the team.

Essentially I was using it on bosses or stragglers which strayed to the support players (and of course me.. far better to be concentrating on buffing / healing the rest of the team than having to mess about with an enemy that had decided I was going to get it's full attention). Quick decieve sends them back into the mob and everyone's happy.

It's good to know therefore, that I wasn't wasting time and I was in fact, contributing to the team! Controllers and defenders are a bit of a new thing for me because all my other toons are essentially the up close and personal kind (2 tanks, a PB and a scrapper)

As a general question, and bearing in mind the slight xp penalty, what is your opinion of using Decieve at lower levels? Both from a trollers perspective and from the perspective of being on a team with a troller that uses it.

OK, this is Tiger Slash's build as it stands at the moment. There's a couple of things that probably need tweaking for the best effect (as I'm sure people will be quick to point out), but the main point is, this toon plays quite happily on invincible and doesn't suffer any end issues at all, despite not having Stamina.

01) --> Strike==> 2xACC 3xDMG
01) --> Fast Healing==> 2xHEAL
02) --> Slash==> 2xACC 3xDMG 1xDEFDEBUFF
04) --> Reconstruction==> 2xHEAL
06) --> Quick Recovery==> 4xENDMOD
08) --> Combat Jumping==> 1xJUMP
10) --> Follow Up==> 2XACC 1xTOHITBUFF 2xENDRED
12) --> Dull Pain==> 3xRCHG 3xHEAL
14) --> Super Jump==> 2xJUMP
16) --> Integration==> 3xHEAL 2xENDREC
18) --> Focus==> 2xACC 3xDMG 1xRANGE
20) --> Boxing==> 1xACC
22) --> Tough==> 2xENDREC 2xDMGRES
24) --> Resilience==> 1xDMGRES
26) --> Eviscerate==> 2xACC 3xDMG 1xENDREC
28) --> Instant Healing==> 3xRECHG 3xHEAL
30) --> Hasten==> 4xRECHG
32) --> Shockwave==> 2xACC 3xDMG 1xRANGE
35) --> Super Speed==> 1xRUN
38) --> Spin==> 2xACC 3xDMG
41) --> Conserve Power==> 3xRECHG
44) --> Laser Beam Eyes==> 1xACC 3xDMG
47) --> Focused Accuracy==> 3xENDREC 1xTOHITBUFF
49) --> Revive==> 1xENDMOD

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Damn, I dont even remember how many insp slots you have at lvl 11 o.O

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It's 8 I believe.

I found that the hero only sees through Hide the first time he attacks you. Once you've broken out the jail and got back to the bank, he's as vulnerable to AS as anyone else. I think that's how I got through the Mayhem missions with my claws / SR stalker at that level (in fact I think I did that right the way through till about lvl 20). OK so it's not the best strategy, but I always found at that level, the debt was low enough to be manageable.

For me was when I soloed Anti-Matter 3 times in a row. Once on my own, once with a disbelieving blaster SG mate, and then again with said blaster and a troller SG mate as well. Both the latter times the squishies died leaving me with a mob of robots and a miffed EB. Claws / Regen scrappers. Gotta love 'em.

All this would seem to explain why DM / Regen is quite a popular choice. /regen gives you QR for mitigation against endurance issues, and Integration for built in mez and knockback protection.

The irony of having to take Acrobatics with /DA, is of course it in itself is a big end hog as well!

Absolutely agree about TB; best nuke of all the blasters imo - so there's no way I'd be slotting that with end mod. I have it on my lec / lec and 3 dmg / 3 rchg is exactly how that is slotted (aim and buildup take care of the acc buff) The only reason I was thinking about slotting some of the standard attacks is because elec / elec blasters have power sink and iirc that's only available as a Defender epic; but then of course I was forgetting about Kin's transference.

Either way, sounds as if I'm going to have myself a Malta nemesis with a Kin / Elec hehe.

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95% of the posters don't seem to understand the changes.

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Business as usual then

Isn't Tough a 8 or 10% increase to S/L resistance or something for scrappers? I have to say that if I took it out, there's nothing I'd really want to replace it with so that extra bit of resistance (how ever minuscule) I'm quite happy with.

As is often the case with these kinds of questions though is that different peoples opinions how ever valid to them don't reeally mean squat. Only way you can be sure of whether or not a particular power suits you or not is to try it! (for me that's half the fun hehe)

Difficult to comment tbh.. my understanding was always that tough was worth having (as a scrapper) but weave was not. I had weave, but took it out, and the only difference I noticed was the fact that I could survive without stamina, and thus had room for other things, rather than a drop in my survivability.

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thursday at 7 sounds good for me - i'm not sure what has good synergy with kin though. energy or electricity for concept perhaps.. hmm!

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Electricity works well with Kinetics, you can get some pretty good endurance drain going on. Energy doesn't really, as ideally for Kinetics you want the bad guys to be grouped, and near you. Knockin' 'em all over the place will probably leave you swearing at yourself.

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I've just built a Kin / Lec defender for that very purpose (as a sapper). I was considering sticking a couple of end mod enh's in the electric attacks. Is the end drain component of LB, CB etc worth that, or just better stick with damage?

My Claws Regen runs with tough and hasten, without stamina and has no end problems at all. I have end rdx's in Tough, FA and one each in Shockwave and eviscerate. 2 accs, 3 dmgs in all the attacks.

I'll post my full build later, if you're interested

The only defender I've ever taken past level 6 is Tempeste my Storm / Elec, because I usually prefer melee characters. She's currently at lvl 20 and is really something to behold when in full flow - not from the point of view of my skill particularly, but just the way the powers look and the effect it has on the mobs. You've gotta love it when a tank or scrapper gets in above his head and comes to rest inside your Hurricane.

(I had to chuckle over the 'my dad's bigger n your dad' levelling speed comparison)

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An interesting point, does fur count as nude?

I recently made a cat who had to be 'nude' in order to get the fur pattern all over. I'd have preferred to give her a bikini at least, but this doesn't seem to be possible.

So its all the dev's fault for forcing poor innocent catgirls to go nekked!!

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Cat girls, and tiger boys! I've already asked on the cossie request thread t shirts and vests to be clothing types like jackets, rather than just being bundled in with "tight". I wanted a "casual look" cossie for Tiger Slash which was essentially jeans and a t-shirt, but of course, that's not possible is it!

Back OT.. my first impression of (particularly) a scantily clad female toon (and especially if its obvious certain sliders have been maxed) is simply "bloke".

"Hawt"-ness is not necessarily inversely proportional to amount of skin on display. That rule is universal; it doesn't just apply to characters in a game.

Have toyed with the idea of a fire troller for a while and rolled a few then deleted them. Sounds like a good way to stave my altism for now hehe. Have created a lvl 1 Fire / Rad called Pyrotoxa. Sent you a tell and will be on around 6 / half 6 tonight

Viking Furnace - Firey Aura / Battle Axe / Pyre Mastery Tanker
Luminesque - Luminous Blast / Luminous Aura PeaceBringer