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That'd be great, but I think you want this thread. This one is more for people requesting (help with) a costume design for one of their characters.

There's definitely a different feeling to playing CoH now vs then - I used to do a lot of street sweeping, and TFs or trials were never really on my radar. I felt a great compulsion to play back then, as I was paying to play, and any notion of just hanging around felt like a waste to me. Leveling was definitely a lot slower, but I don't know if that was just due to my general inexperience with optimizing my builds, fewer powersets to choose from, or the lack of any real farms or P2W powers, (or a combination thereof)...

So I've wanted something akin to a battle axe stalker, but since that's not available, I've been looking for alternatives. I leveled up a bane spider VEAT, but they're closer to war mace, and not exactly what i was looking for. I didn't realize that scrappers got ninjitsu, and with its stealth power, you basically get a guaranteed crit on your opening attack. I was just wondering if anyone has had a similar experience and/or what your thoughts were on this comb. My character is still fairly low level, so I'm looking for input, otherwise I'll move ahead and see where this takes me. Cheers!

The best solution is to form your own teams and to specifically advertise them as "casual" or "laid back". It's amazing how this filters out those whose only concern is "ECKSPEEZ" or "LEWT"...

What are you talking about? What is "tactical" about an enemy leaving no remnant behind with which to use your powers? Want to use victory rush on that GM you and your team just defeated? Too bad, they just poof away. Fighting BP and all the bosses happen to be the spirits? Well, I guess you're SoL. No other category of powers is penalized in such a way...

So there are several powers that require the body of a defeated enemy in order to activate. Some enemies, such as Jump Bots or the BP floating masks do not leave anything when defeated, thereby negating the use of these powers. I think it'd be great if those enemies, when defeated, left some sort of wreckage or residue when defeated, which can then be interacted with. Your thoughts? Thanks!

Isn't the point of day jobs that you progress them by *not* being logged in?

Does Blood Thirst bypass the lockout from exhausted?

I meant that if you, as a savage melee user, was near an enemy under the DoT of Hemorrhage, you'd generate stacks of blood frenzy, since you can smell their blood or something. Sine you mentioned it needing to consume those stacks when you're at 5, perhaps that could be when the +regen effect kicks in for you, while also applying the exhausted lockout. Another idea for consuming the stacks could be that you end the DoT and instead apply a massive hit of damage - think of it as rupturing the wounds you applied...

What Hemorrhage should do is play with Blood Frenzy in a sort of inverse way - being near the enemy, while they are under the DoT, should generate additional stacks of Blood Frenzy and apply a -res effect to that enemy. Heck, maybe being near them should provide you a +regen effect, to reflect you feeding off of the enemy as they bleed out...

This is a fairly popular request - check out the Suggestions thread up a little...

AFAIK, powers can only be activated by their name or by the particular tray and slot they inhabit. There is not way to activate a power by its type, (lore, destiny, judgment, hybrid), though that would be nice...

I don't think the CoH-offshoot "Titan" is the former WoW project you mentioned. I don't think Blizzard had any intentions of going into the superhero genre - it seems they found their niche in fantasy and sci-fi, (Warcraft & Starcraft, respectively).

I just checked in-game, and my tanker is getting 2.63% base for maneuvers and 10% base for tactics, so I think your chart is off... I also checked assault, and it said the base value for that was 15%.

For anyone that has read the manga or seen the anime for Made in Abyss, what AT and powers would you select for a delver? I'm not referring to any specific character, but in general. I'm thinking Willpower would be one likely set, but I'm open to suggestions. Thanks for reading!

The only thing I've seen is to use the mirror-image setting for Phantom Army, switch your own costume, summon them, then you switch back. I haven't seen an option where they just work off of some other costume that you don't currently have equipped yourself...

I don't know how recent the phenomena is, but lately I've seen people advertise that they're starting an ITF, but will only accept broadcasts from within Cimerora... so yeah.

I've gotten a few of those, as well as ones basically TELLING me to invite them. 😑

Something like a set of non-stacking buffs where the "leader" could designate a target, and teammates receive a buff if targeting that enemy, or designating a spot to move to, and teammates who move there receive a buff, etc...

The thing is, the origin of your powers is up to you - a thermal, radiation, ice, etc corruptor or defender can be just as much magic as they could come from technology or a mutation. What I would suggest is to focus on the dual nature of this set benefitting friendly targets and harming opposing ones, and retitling it accordingly.

Were you the only one running tactics, though? Getting those team buffs stacked is kind of the crux of this thread...

It ties back to the whole "selfish vs selfless" concept; Assuming you are not playing solo, should you take leadership powers that help you and your teammates vs ones that only help you? Are the buffs better/worse than alternatives? Do people skip these powers because they don't know or know better, etc?

From my understanding, the login server and actual shards are different "entities", and the login server hands you off to the appropriate server, once you have passed the initial verification. That process may utilize different ports, which your job/institution may then block, causing the error. Do you have access to a VPN that you could try?

Do you have your basters up front on one side and your melees on the other, attacking in different directions and at different groups? If so, then it does sound like everyone is soloing within the same instance, only caring about themselves. If so, and if that works for you, then so be it. If the mobs are as spread out as much as you say, then you are wasting a lot of AoEs and just slowing things down. I'm not saying you have to do old school dumpster-diving, but being so spread out seems inefficient. As I've said multiple times now, if it works for you, then fine. I'm not sure I would ever refer to stuff in-game as "real world", though...

You use the term "ought", but that doesn't equate to "does". So that 24-ish% means you're roughly mitigating half of the damage vs even-con enemies. That'd be less vs higher-con ones, but if we're making assumptions about people's builds, then if everyone had some +DEF from set bonuses, APPs/PPPs or other sources, then it definitely helps. It's sort of a "drop in the ocean" vs a "snowball effect" scenario. You have to start those buffs *somewhere*. A single 2% may not be a lot, but now add in buffs from 7 other people, (and from other sources, not use leadership), and then we're talking!