[If you could make crazy costume requests...]

Extra body parts.  2 heads, 4 arms, etc

[Habits of the Hippopotamus by Arthur Guiterman]

Habits of the Hippopotamus

- Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943)

The hippopotamus is strong
     And huge of head and broad of bustle;

The limbs on which he rolls along
     Are big with hippopotamuscle.
He does not greatly care for sweets
     Like ice cream, apple pie, or custard,
But takes to flavour what he eats
     A little hippopotamustard.
The hippopotamus is true
     To all his principles, and just:
He always tries his best to do
     The things one hippopotamust.
He never rides in trucks or trams,
     In taxicabs or omnibuses,
And so he keeps out of traffic jams
     And other Hippopotamusses.

[Will we ever see the new things that Cake is getting?]

On 2/7/2020 at 3:27 PM, Haijinx said:

Wow.  This thread got dark. 

Eventually everything goes dark.  Rad is nice but dark is just OP.

[I'm seeing more tankers these days, are you playing more tankers?]

2 hours ago, Cutter said:

I've run on a few 2- and 3-tank teams in the last little while, and we've always ended up playing tanker leapfrog. Whichever tank jumps into the first spawn keeps them busy for the team, and the rest go on to the next (and the next) and start softening them up and/or dragging them back. Maybe I was just lucky to get that kind of coordination. Definitely made everyone feel useful!

I've had this happen on several teams recently.   I've also gone ahead too quickly and been beaten down before the rest of the team arrived.   Freakshow is the biggest problem for this when razzing freaks keep the team from moving forward. 

[I'm seeing more tankers these days, are you playing more tankers?]

I play tankers and controllers, so me playing a tanker is not unusual.  But lately I've been seeing other tankers on my teams.  I don't know if the changes have made them more popular or just sampling error.

So are you playing more tankers since the changes?

[Kat/WP vs WP/Kat]

WP/katana makes for a great low level tanker.  You get AoE at level 4 and by level 16 have mezz protection except immobilize and since you are based on healing not def or res you can tank any villain group.  You also have a great END recovery and have no END problem.s  But other powersets catch up and surpass it as you level.

 

If you want a level 50, I would go with brute.  WP recovery and healing will let you just constantly steamroll.  Since you are not res or def based, the higher tanker caps will not matter.

[Will we ever see the new things that Cake is getting?]

5 hours ago, Leogunner said:

So if their goal is legitimacy, once achieved, does that end up making the other shards illegitimate? 

the other shards are illegitimate now.

[Solo Redside update]

I wish I liked the tone of redside content.  There is so much more of it, it seems.  And it has so much more variety. 

 

What of the redside content so far do you consider "can't miss" that everyone should experience?

[A Valentine]

/Troo

[Lore AMA 2020?]

I would love to hear from the old devs even if it is not about lore

[Tanker Lvl 17 Willpower/Any Build]

Tanker Lvl 17 Willpower/Any Build

 

This is a build for a Willpower tanker level 17 that has decent resistance and self healing, mezz protection, taunt, taunt aura, and no END issues.  It can be used with any of the secondaries listed below that all have an AoE attack in their first 3 powers.

 

No Accuracy is slotted, it is assumed you will get the Accuracy buff from DfB or DiB.

 

• 1 Mind Over Body - 3 Resist Damage
• 1 Secondary 1 - 3 Damage
• 2 Secondary 2 - 3 Damage
• 4 Secondary 3 - 3 Damage
• 6 Fast Healing - 3 Healing
• 8 Rise to the Challenge - 3 Healing
• 10 Indomitable Will - 1 END Reduction
• 12 Taunt - 1 Range
• 14 High Pain Tolerance - 3 Resist Damage
• 16 Quick Recovery - 1 END Modification
• Stamina - 3 END Modification

 

Quick Recovery is 30% base Mod and Stamina is 25%, so you can put the slots in Quick Recovery, but then you will not have it below level 12 if you exemplar.

 

Secondaries with AoE by Level 4: Broadsword, Claws, Dark Melee, Electric Melee, Fiery Melee, Ice Melee, Katana, Radiation Melee, Savage Melee, Spines, Staff Fighting, Street Justice,
Titan Weapons

[How I feel about Excelsior Hamidon Raids]

so you need to do another raid at 10:30?

[i dont care how it preforms i like dual blades]

4 hours ago, nihilii said:

I'd rank it 1) Stalker 2) Tanker 3) Scrapper 4) Brute

 

I don't know stalkers or dual blades, but I saw a post that stalkers have to use placate as part of the dual blades combo, so that makes it lame for many levels.  Apparently once you get high enough you just spam one combo that doesn't require placate so it doesn't matter.

[Saving Costumes Question]

You can edit costumes at trainers.  But you can only change sex and sliders at specific icon employees.

[Do you have a "Process" for leveling your characters?]

I sometimes do missions for 1-4 but generally do dfb.

 

At 4+ I try to team on missions or tfs.

 

If I make it to 22 I slot iOS

 

By 32 I delete and start over because the game is too easy.  The most fun is levels 8-16.

[Fix Burn !]

Does this mean Fiery Aura will go from having 9x the number of level 50's as the next closest type of Brute to only 5x as many?

[Well that was fun]

2 hours ago, Bionic_Flea said:

Love: known.

Rules: known.

Thoughts: Full Commitment.

Other Rikti: Non-responsive.

Feelings: Communication desired.

Your understanding: required.

 

Give you up: Never.

Let you down: Never.

Run around and desert you: Never.

Make you cry: Never.

Say goodbye: Never.

Tell a lie and hurt you: Never.

 

You've been Rikti rolled!

 

Judging from others reactions this is supposed to be funny.  I don't see the humor in it.  It is just some oddly formatted text saying never a lot.

 

Maybe I'm not evolved enough to understand the humor.  But frankly I'm just lost.

[Phantom Army Customisation]

On 1/15/2020 at 6:51 AM, Erydanus said:

There was actually an entire supergroup where everyone was playing a PA clone. They also had assigned names that were permutations of lowercase L, 1, and 0, so their names all looked something like 11001010101011 but were actually unique. 

On Live there was a group all called Duke of Illusion.  They could mix the L's and i's of Illusion so they all looked the same and looked like the same name.

[Forum Game: Never have I ever]

2 hours ago, Pixie_Knight said:

Never have I ever soloed an Archvillain with a controller (or any other class)

 

Never have I ever used a Hami O

[Forum Game: Never have I ever]

5 hours ago, Pixie_Knight said:

I had gotten a Plant/Trick Arrow troller to 35 before the server shutdown.

 

Never have I ever ran a Respec Trial while playing a Keld.

 

I would skip the other and go from this one, but I don't think I have ever played a kheld at all. 

[Forum Game: Never have I ever]

Post something you have never done in CoX.  Someone who has done it then posts a response and says something they have not done.

 

Never have I ever done the Dr. Quarterfield Task Force

[A Call for a little transparency, just a touch.]

We do know what they are working on.  They have it on the beta server and post about it.

 

It is very likely that with a small dev team they are only working on what is in beta.  They may be thinking of other things, but they are not working on them.

[Who watched Crisis on CW and what DC shows are you watching]

9 hours ago, Redlynne said:

I finally finished watching Crisis on Infinite Earths (all 5 parts of it) and ... was seriously NOT IMPRESSED.  The whole thing felt like a McGuffin to not only "reboot the CW multiverse" but a way for them to bring all of their DC shows into the "same universe" so they didn't have to keep doing the Earth-1 vs Earth-38 thing and could do crossovers from now on whenever they feel like it.

 

That was the whole point of the original Crisis in the comics. 

[Optimal Tanker at level 17 without IO sets]

2 hours ago, Roderick said:

It's worth adding that Dark Melee gets Siphon Life at level 16, so if your Primary doesn't provide a heal, Dark is a great pairing. Of course, you'll have weaker AOE damage with Dark Melee, so you have to keep that in mind.

 

I think at level 17 dark melee has some of the best melee damage.  Unless the tanker switch made other sets get their aoe earlier.  Not a lot of tanker attack sets get aoe by level 17.

[Optimal Tanker at level 17 without IO sets]

6 hours ago, Rathulfr said:

Why 17?  Puzzled?  🤔

 

(edit) Why not just push forward to 22, when you can equip level 25 common IOs, which are the functional equivalent -1 SOs?  Or maybe even further to level 27, when you can equip 30s, which are equal to +1 SOs?

 

Basically, I no longer even bother with any enhancements (other than drops) until level 22 or 27, when I can equip common IOs that are functionally equivalent to SOs.  I have 2-3 bins full of 25s and 30s that I keep for alts.

 

 

I already have characters parked at 22.  And I have some parked at 11 - which is optimum for dfb, although I haven't used them for dfb since then.

 

I normally only get lvl 25 IOs, and when a character gets high enough to be boring (in their 30's) I email their IOs and delete them, then use the IO's for their replacement character.

 

But I find playing level 7 to 17 to be the most fun, so I want to park some characters at level 17.