DougGraves

So the topic this week is - how long should special events last in game - Christmas and otherwise? Do you prefer non-event CoH and want events to be short? Do you want constant events so that there is always something special going on? Since I don't farm, I find events to be annoying when they suck most of the players into farming invasions and trick or treating. But I love the look of the wintery city and wish there were more seasons to change the look of the city.

I rarely play above 29 myself. I do join Croatoa teams with my lvl 34's. But even at +4 normal missions are just ridiculously easy and unfun. The game is best in the teens and still good in the 20's.

I am going to put Gravity Control for Dominators on this list. It gets extra attacks and less control - which is useless on a dominator. And it doesn't even start with a single target hold available. Gravity Control for controllers is fine, I think. It gives you an option for a higher damage controller better for soloing. But it should get a revamp for dominators.

All of my costumes look amazing in the costume editor and lose 90% of their detail when seen in game at a normal distance. The costume editor should have an option for displaying 50 feet away in a crowd so you can see what other players will see.

I've enjoyed symphony/sonic, what makes it pair well with MA?

I generally hate having pets. Unless playing a MM. I don't feel like pets are part of my character. They fee like just a thing that randomly does damage. So I get annoyed that control sets have pets and we can't take an alternate power instead. The only pets I like are the phantom army when players do creative things with their appearance. and I would remove all level shifts. They were fine when +4 was not standard. But the penalty with being an extra level down makes them so weak.

Not at all sir. If anything this is the Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion Thread Discussion Thread.

I did. I created this thread.

It's been a week and there is not a new one out. This game is going to die if we can't get basic things like Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion threads released in a timely fashion. Or at least this server is going to die. Other servers have cool new threads we don't have. And it doesn't seem like the reason is quality control. We get terrible threads all the time. It seems that our posters just are not as bold and innovative as posters on other servers. We just get limited content and people telling us more content will come out "soon".

I really like piercing rounds - but I have stealth. So I can line up a shot to hit 2 or 3. Without stealth it would not be nearly as useful.

I don't monitor any. On occasion when we get a whole bunch of team buffs I check out what the def and res are. About once a month or so I do that.

Welcome!

I still haven't tried an illusion dom - I need to come up with a concept

I've enjoyed martial arts on a dom with the look and the aoe. But I had tried multiple primaries and didn't feel synergy with any of them. But having tried ice again since its upgrade, I feel like I now have the perfect pairing and love my ice/MA dominator. What pairing of powersets feels right for you?

I work from home. So I often have some show on that I half pay attention to. Something I've seen before so I can mostly listen to it and catch the highlights (Star Trek TNG is perfect for this). I decided to rewatch Loki. I found that I was drawn into it and could not work while it was on. Hiddleston is just compelling to watch. And I remember it being slow with just a bit of progress each week. But rewatching it, it moves quite quickly. A major reveal or twist each week (or more than one).

Haven't tried it. Does it have the same feel as the movies? Fairly light humor?

It's been so long since I first did any arcs I don't really remember the storylines any more.

While redside has a nice variety in its missions and avoids streetsweeping, it is just so dreary it is unpleasant to play there.

I am definitely going by what I see advertised. I can't know what people are doing without making it known. Which is why I am asking here.

They've added a lot of variety to the game and players have come up with other things you can do besides standard missions. So what parts are doing well and what parts are effectively dead? This can be pvp and RP or such things as street sweeping, hazard zones, etc. The big things I see thriving are: TFs, particularly WST Farming GM hunting Mother Ship raids DFB Blue side The things I see being mostly dead are: gold side red side Special contact story arcs for teams (Faultline, Striga, Vahz civil war, etc)

I just started an ice/sonic dominator and ran through dfb a few times then Posi 1. Even before getting ice slick I now feel that I have good control. Arctic Air works well - and now it works with domination so I can jump into a group with bosses and not get clobbered. The new cold snap is far better than the old power - which I just didn't bother to take. And the fear works with domination. I activated domination, had arctic air running, then did cold snap on the shadows at the end of Posi 1. They were frozen in fear for a second while the AA confuse kicked in. I could actually dominate a group of bosses with ice control. So I am very happy with the upgraded ice control.

I would love to see an updated list of what powersets are actually in use, but barring that - what stands out now as weak or powerful? Have the revamped powersets been boosted up into the normal range of usefulness?

Seeing a bunch of Santa Claus and such around I decided to make a christmas themed character. I also was inspired by the pilgrim hat to make a pilgrim. What characters do you have themed for holidays or other events? I'm trying to think of ones I might want to make for next year.

When CoH closed and I thought I would never play it again I was reminded of it every time I passed a power station and thought it would be a great place to find clockwork. I still find the raw gameplay to be fun - at low levels. I am still entertained by creating a new character and running through low level missions. And another shoutout for Champions as a pnp superhero game. But it has gotten very complex. BASH (Basic Action Superheroes) gives most of the feeling of Champions and is 1/100th as complicated.

It's cool when players create content for other players whether it is forming teams, running costume contests, or other things they invent.