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Kinetics kinda ruins groups for me because there is such a thing as being too strong. When only one or two people are wiping the floor with max damage it kinda gets boring and you feel a little... just there. Try Fire/cold. sleet+rain of fire is a good combo

Wasnt there a problem with turning off server based double exp like 4 and a half years ago?

Magisters is the conclusion. theres nothing left for lavos to do but spread the seed to other planets

Fire control is for damage. While the literal archetype is meant for support and control, Fire Control is meant to do damage. Flashfire(start containment) (ATO set) > Fire Cages (posi or bombardment) > bonfire (bombardment 5/6 or epic taoe 5/6 + KB2KD) + Hot Feet (oblit 5/6 + 1 end redux) leads to a lot of small numbers stacking up Since all control sets have a similar template you can use Fire Control just for controlling. In that case there is not much use for Hot Feet as your Sleet will do it better Alternative secondaries: Trick Arrow - Oil Slick + Flash Arrow. Flash Arrow and Smoke (4/6 dark watchers) is like -20% to -30% tohit depending on your level and slotting. Oil Slick is just more dots dkp joke. And yes, [power boost] effects flash and smoke. Its been awhile since I did low level content on my fire/trick troller but trick and smoke added up to about 22%. thats huge at low levels Radiation - Choking Cloud blows all primary holds out of the water. Choking Cloud + Your single hold generally holds bosses right off the bat. Near constant Containment. Also Radi Infection (3 enzyme hamis) + Smoke might take a little too long to setup its also kinda phased out by Choking Cloud.

be more worried when you run out of ideas

I really really dislike this idea because every time someone gets a little lost and asks for directions on where to go (say Faultline) there is always 1-4 people in the group who spam their own personal bases info that takes up most to beyond-all of my chatbox. Being at the mercy of someone who insists to use their base to start something sounds awful as fuck.

I skipped Entangling, Ice, Poison, Acid. While I do have EMP I do not use it much. I pretty much play on large teams and task forces and getting use out of those abilities are few and far in between when I only have the time to setup flash arrow Assault puts out more damage than Entangling Ice is weird because you cannot control when your Oni does his hold to stack them Poison was close to being in my last build but i found it only useful for AVs/GMs which are not fought a lot leveling up And I do not take acid arrow because of the tohit check + not fully understanding what "-resistance to tohit" and others means EMP has a long cooldown and a rather small radius. sure it lasts a long time but this is not a stationary game. either a twitchy tank or an AV moving around JUST enough can suck

flash arrow and train ninjas will keep you well defended. i ended up 6 slotting genin and jounin early to get the 5% defense IOs in asap and that was pretty much it while leveling up. flash arrow on cooldown and throwing out some disruption arrows and working way up to oil slick arrow that the oni sets off or revoking your origin power for the taser because i skipped most of trick arrow i had plenty of room for Maneuvers and attacks nin/cold was far more passive and sometimes i preferred preemptive buffs over reactionary debuffs to keep pets alive

Its not so much motivation as much as what it is. If you stick your nose to the grindstone and hit up instanced mission after instanced mission you will have a hard time running into anyone else. And if you avoid others then you will avoid being in chats as there is no reason for said soloists to be in them, making them a non-issue. I do not know The Secret Worlds mechanics or anything about it to comment on that. But it is common for new MMOs to splinter off the higher pop servers only because of lag, extreme fighting for non-instanced spawns/resources.

Had this idea of masterminds zombies Clawing at something. with zombie brawl in reverse it can fit the want for necromancy t1s to get another attack

Because I cant imagine how this would happen unless said person likes to hang around Atlas, PD or in a raid. If you are just solo spamming instanced content you wont run into others unless you tried.

Ganna double down and encourage you to go Tanker for better low level melee experiences JUST because of Burn Fire/Dark is another fun one. buildup is late however Touch of Fear has that huge tanker aoe radius. And if you can get used to hopping while surrounded. Shadowmaul can hit things behind you because the Tanker version is just so fucking wide. Fire/Ice tanker. between the classic of classic combos of Ice Slick and Burn and the new-to-homecoming damage on Frost and Ice Stomp. The Hop+frost trick is amazing here Fiery Melee got buffed.. recentlyish. Fire/Fire tanks still mow things down with that shortened animation Combustion. oh man... and battleaxe. drawing in things into your burn after burn burned the others so you can reburn other nonburned things. sure cyclone comes in later(as a tank) than the others but that can be your brute. axe/fire.

If you can tolerate Martial Arts try that. Storm kick has +positional defense for brutes and tanks. with the two defense global IOs you will be pretty dodgey from an early level

I dont know where archived City of Heroes news is to check but didnt live servers have a merge?

I do not understand the "quieter experience" part. Outside of optional raids/events, avoiding pocket d and not spending more-than-needed time in Atlas you uncommonly ever run into someone else. My recent villain probably ran into 50~ others while leveling up to 50. As for the "toxic" thing id probably just dismiss it due to how broad the accusations are. people spamming to sit? people rushing task forces? people charging for farms? and what is the "lfg crowd"? someone not taking in said complainants level 35 alt to a 50+4 itf? too much shipraid recruitment spam? LFG chat before General chat released? Because if said person stopped playing over those things they probably did not really like CoH. Also since the friend of a friend did not specify what server it would be even harder to pin down what they didnt like. And to answer your question, all MMOs from live servers to private servers being on a smaller pop server was never attractive because of limited access to dungeons, instances and whatever other group content is there. If Excel ever does start to shrink and there is zero hope for server merges that will be a legitimate fear.

More bodies to fill task forces at all hours of the day for the most part. My playtime fluctuates constantly and trying to form a wst when a ship/hami is forming or late at night even on Excel takes time. And this is the first time I ever heard of someone thinking of quitting because there were too many people in an online game.

Many alts get abandoned on character creation. Taken names is the biggest offender I do not delete alts anymore because buffs happen randomly. Deleted an elec/elec blaster years ago and regretted it when elec sets got buffed. but this also means I have 10 regen scrappers living in denial.

You might wanna consider tanker for this because the only game changing thing I can think of is getting Burn at 18(13). my fire/staff tanker is one of my more played low level tankers just because of DoT stacking and guarded spin

Ever since everquest in 1999 to now I never had a good run-in with a roleplayer. I always avoid RP servers and overly animated/text rich people. And whenever someone on Excel wants to PVP they generally go on for an hour+ offering people money if they can kill them You are correct. Ingame I use Ouro and the LFGtab to travel around along with TT and MT and I do not see value/pride in bases. And I say this without knowing how deep the basebuilding is, but if you constantly build and alter.. cant you just go back to that on the theoretical new server? Or maybe ask the devs a way to "save" bases like AE arcs

this kinda dampens my hopes that the name release thing will ever go live because a server merge + name release going live would be the best time for it to happen. bases can be rebuilt. can probably even shake loose those that made bases years ago and been gone for 4 years names were hopefully one day meant to be released and im not sure what you mean about Globals. friend/ignore/@name? friends obviously come and go from the thread theme, ignores are a few clicks away and @name might be an issue but then again... a server merge would mean RPers and PvPbeggars to be... Maybe just merge Torch into Excel as a trial and go from there. And call the new server Full Circle as most of Torch split off into Excel

name release live server merges new global channel, SG/friend/Coalition recruitment. Give it a lockout timer every time you post in it. like a 15 minute lockout timer would prevent people spamming their SG or people using it just to chat

Just ask your friend to be cool.

masterminds? most anything. been rerolling cold doms past few years tho any other at? i wouldnt even.

Im seeing rare salvage down from 500k to 225kish There better be outrage because if something going for 1k to 15k is bad, something going from 500k to 225k means something bigger is happening

A lot of words for "go corrupter"