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I just finished moving from Fujian to Zhejiang today, and what I found is that the internet turning to crap later in the day is not a thing when you're really close to Shanghai. .....so WAY more City of Heroes playtime for me! Woooooooooooooooooo!

People are thinking like this game is 'in development'. It's not. The Coming Storm is absolutely not coming, and if the people running the servers bring it to us, it will be a massive disappointment. That's not a knock to them, it's reality. This is hobbyists toying with the assets left to us, not a paid development studio.

I've been playing Ninja/Time. I chose the most OP secondary just to give myself the best shot at it, since Ninjas have been endlessly lambasted for being fragile to the point of sucking ever since Live. She's at 24 now, and easily the most fun MM I've played since I played Beasts a whole bunch a year ago. I love the ninjas. They just kill, it's so good. They're not even THAT delicate while levelling so far, every other MM's pets die all the time too. Still, Farsight is coming up at a perfect time, they definitely need some beefy extra Defence layered on top of their inherent and my I/O aura. I would say that people should ignore the stigma. Ninjas are great. You just need to pick a nice, complimentary secondary. That means a chunky defensive secondary, because the Ninjas don't need help with murderin'. That's all. It's a damn sight better than having to heavily defend AND heavily improve the offense of Mercs. Layer a bunch more DEF on your Ninjas....then let them just kill everything.

Because instant healing as an easy toggle stacked with I/O defence and resist values. That's why.

Mercs and bots are, unfortunately, the worst possible choices. Mercs are just....bad. They do nothing as good as the other primaries, let alone better. Bots do something else unforgivable until the final L32 upgrade adds a bit of wow-factor.... they're so....damn....BORING. You can make them really tough pretty quick with the stacking +DEF and healing from Protector Bots with your traps shield, but then you'll just be watching them slowly, ever so slowly, grind through enemies one by one. Ninjas may be a hard to keep alive pack of suicidal psychopaths, but at least it's a hilarious ride of glass cannon carnage at all times. They'll all be dead, but so will everything else! If your theme supports it....go Thugs. They hit fairly hard, they have nice attack variety, and they help you out in defending themselves (Arsonist excluded). They're interesting and will get stuff done without needing you to be particularly good at being a Mastermind.

I made a ninja mastermind today out of curiosity. Never played one before.....just kinda never had an interest. First impressions are that Genin are absolutely nuts. Their damage is absurd. Naked, they have two full attacks instead of one and some filler garbage, and then you upgrade them and they get another two even heavier attacks. Four God damn attacks at level 6, no filler. They can grind down their endurance with just how many big attacks they have at LEVEL SIX, like no other pet can. Also, yeah, even at this low level there's a bit of a sense of how fragile they are without help, especially knowing that the next tiers of pets won't bring any mitigation at all to the table. Still, I feel that AoE is massively overrated most of the time, since the forum is filled with IO fine tuning psychopaths who only think in terms of x4/x8. Utterly obscene ST damage, especially when delivered by a cloud of pets just going to town, isn't much of an impediment if the enemy aren't arriving in numbers intended for an eight player team. So Ninjas probably still play excessively well if you pick a top-shelf secondary even if they're all ST oriented. By the very nature of being five pets, they're an AoE attack anyway.

Not to mention that when it was made, back in the mists of time, aeons ago.....they would have expected you to turn it on and off. You turn it on to stand in the middle of absolute silliness or in front of an AV, they didn't think you'd actually do everything with it on.

Oh man, it'd be kinda cool if when you hit level 50 you could just....pick one of almost any power in the game for your character. Just one. It'd be broken as hell, but man it'd be cool.

Rename it 'multigun' and then we can remake an actual assault rifle set.

I have only ever done Cimerora with two Willpower characters. One a Brute, the other a Scrapper. I literally had no clue they were supposed to be in any way difficult because I wasn't ever doing more than Frankenslotting I/O's on Live, and never had enough Defense to notice it getting ripped off immediately by the Cimerorans anyway. I actually found them easier and fought them preferentially, since Smash/Lethal resist and a sack of healing was my entire game plan. *LOL*

I live in China, so I can only play in the morning (when international internet isn't garbage and you're all asleep) with gradually increasing lag as afternoon begins until evening is unplayable for real missions. The Catch 22 is that I work in the evening and do all my chores in the morning. The result is that I idly build alts and slaughter Bads in the AE in the evening because it's all I can do with horrendous lag, and as such can never stick to a single toon, no matter how much I was enjoying it. There just ends up being a gap in playing it and I build a bunch of new ideas.

The majority should mod out the annoying sound instead of the minority modding to keep the annoying sound? .....how about no. Mod it back in if you want.

I wish we could glue the snake bodies on the bottom instead of legs and make angry nagas.

Trying to pander to such players is an unwinnable situation, and resulted in the relentless and ever more ludicrous vandalization of the story and background of Warcraft. Whatever additional cap you put in and extra achievements to be acquired....will be hit as quickly as possible. And then they'll go back to complaining for another bump. It's gaming power creep of the worst kind, and it's a cancer for long running MMO franchises.

I am relentlessly enraged by the Hellions in Atlas Park with their typo of the 'big bag purse snatcher' that has never been fixed in literally decades. Their illiterate failure has been mocking me for longer than many people have been alive.

Oh I also just found that Stone Melee is a reason to roll a Brute. *click* *dead* *click* *dead* *click* *dead* *cl-* *DEAD* Wow, is there anything I can click that doesn't ju-*DEAD*-st....kill....something..... ... ... ...I guess n-*DEAD* GOD DAMN IT.

You got ninja'ed.

I've had the issue before, I just relogged. The server seemed to have had a brainfart and acted like I was still holding the name I just deleted. It was probably a lag issue.

It's not a problem. Some bad guys are just there to be goons who get smashed. They're not a big focus of the game, it's fine.

Max height or 6' on the scale (which is actually proportionally 5' in CoX). Average is boring. I'm a superhero. I'm not here to be average. I'm a 'leg man' so I actually max out the leg length for female characters. CoX is actually rather unique in allowing me to do that and having a woman with notably long legs. I also like that it's not a huge slider, so I can't, through the magic of character creation screens never having a way to see the character in-game to compare it to the rest of the world and NPC's, accidentally make a woman with hilariously unnaturally long legs.

Yeah but I hate SS. The set is ridiculously mediocre without Rage, to the point of being garbage because boring is a greater sin than underpowered, and I don't want to be running a constant cycle of Rage/crash/Rage/crash. And even with Rage....the whole set pretty much has Foot Stomp as the only, singular point of actually awesome and interesting focus, which you get absolutely dead last. Oh and it's the only AOE. Basically, SS is trash on every level possible. No-one should play it, it's a trap. It should be completely remade and Rage should never have existed, but now no-one can conceive of straight up shitcanning it because the grognard minmaxers will cry.

Tank doesn't have Energy Aura. That is now literally the only reason I roll a Brute.

Tanker. The only archetype where Ice Armor turns into something worth playing is Tankers, and it comes out pretty good. The only archetype where Ice Melee turns into something worth playing is Tankers, where you don't mind the lower damage so much because you're not a DPS cannon, and the tanker inherent turns Frost from 'really good melee cone' to 'hahaha, this is utterly bonkers'.

You're trying to run away in a thread filled with Ninjitsu secondaries, the fastest secondary in the game. God luck with that.

Make it do -recharge. It does the same job of basically reducing how often the enemy can attack, and they don't 'cheat' it. Boom. Done. Fixed. I'm a genius.