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I would think it would be more likely for us to see these then new power sets. I'm saying that because animations that could be used across multiple power sets would be just that. Useable by multiple power sets versus just one. As only using optic blasts as a stand-alone super-power is so closely linked to Marvel's Cyclops of the X-men, I'm sure that is one of the reasons that Cryptic stayed away form it. The same probably for the chest blast which is often linked to Marvel's Iron Man. That being said, being able to blast people with ice and fire (looks like fire) from the eyes or chest really shouldn't have any copyright issues (versus say a Cyclops' concussive eye blast (laser like, energy damage w/knockback), Kryptonian heat-vision (laser like, fire damage), Iron Man's chest-mounted repulsor blast (energy damage w/knockback), etc.) I'm not sure what attacks from the head would look like. Are you talking out of the mouth like the breath fire attack? or?

It's pretty much what I expected as well. I have a couple of poll ideas and I thought this was a good place to start from a community involvement standpoint.

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You know - you could post your own ideas instead of tearing apart what you don't like about what works for other people. All these things work for me. They are all valid in game play. If you don't understand how to break Line-of-sight to lose agro (move agro to your teammates) or how to fall back to string out enemies to make them easier to defeat, that's on you. The tactics are valid. If you want to face plant. Feel free. That's not the way I like to play.

Yeah, well. Works for all support sets. Is this Monkey? Yeah, I was a Repeat Offender as well. If you have a good group going then all support teams are great. You know PUGs can be a mixed bag. Playing with those that are you are used to gaming with is very different than teaming with people that you haven't gamed with before that are joining with whatever level and preconceptions that they may have. Some may not understand what is going on and decide that they know better for whatever reason and sometimes try to talk big to show how tough or knowledgable they are. We all react to this in different ways. We can accept it. Learn from it. Disregard it. Simply leave. Use ignore. This thread is old, so I think at the time I was replying someone that was getting killed a lot as a defender and that tricks that I posted do help keep you alive as a defender if you are having issues falling in battle frequently. I labeled these as tricks and not rules. There is a difference for sure. Using a melee character as a meat shield is no different than using a wall as a shield. If you can use something to take the agro then you are playing smart and not being a child. if you are playing smart to avoid falling in battle, you are not behaving as a child.

A cool power, but can be horrible on a team. I rarely take it. Meanwhile, in a "Kill All" mission somewhere in the heart of Pargaon City ... "Where is the last guy in this mission? We have been all over the place," types out frustrated player. Everyone turns and looks at the controller that has been casting telekinesis on every other group during the mission.

I get these on Controllers for sure. (Don't play my doms enough...or really don't pay attention enough if I'm playing a dom half the time to think about if I have the AOE hold for them or not) * It's an "Oh, guano!" power. When the team gets in a bad situation. I fire off the AOE Hold and fall back. Sometimes it is more than enough to turn the tide of a battle that is going south. I generally only use it once or twice during a mission due to the end expenditure. *So many characters, so much character/server jumping!

I'm pretty sure that I have received merits for some mission arcs. I don't remember which ones or how many of the missions in the arc that I was involved with. I'm also pretty sure that there were situations where the arc completed and the leader did get merits and I didn't. But as usual, I might have just had a City of Heroes dream and thought it actually happened. (I like City of Heroes dreams much better than Dynasty Warrior dreams/nightmares.)

There is more than one way to play. Sure. A good tank can herd and gather a group-up tightly so everyone else can pounce on them. Makes the tank feel like they are the most important player on the team, too. However, that is not the only way to play, and it can become very boring to always use the same method of game play. (especially when it is tank-chasing and the tank "cores"/defeats-the-boss-and-maybe-another-enemy-or-two and runs off to the next group) Are the other methods riskier? Sure sometimes and depending. Walls have more Resistance than a tank, and a good controller can lock down group and dodge behind a wall before getting to much of the alpha. (Blasters can pull with a snipe too and pretty much avoid all the agro. Tank can taunt them as they come around the corner) They may be spread out a bit, but most tank damage auras can cover enough area and a tank can use taunt to catch those on the fringes. When things start getting out-of-hand (random people running off helter-skelter, multiple groups getting agro'ed, etc.), sometime I'll yell out "who's the point man?". These days most people don't know what I'm talking about. I might as well be yelling "Watch the LoS!" when someone is pulling with a snipe. On the other hand, I've been on teams where people were saying "we need a tank" and I've said "Our Storm defender will be tanking this evening." and quite a good job of tanking they consistently did. If you are a leader of a team, isn't it a little impolite to make everyone else wait while you are reading through all the mission stuff?

Ack. Forgot the original line up was clean shaven!

And I guess you know, Jack "The King" Kirby's Challengers of the Unknown "... The adventuring quartet the Challengers of the Unknown debuted in Showcase #6 (February 1957)" Meanwhile, GI Joe "The original 12-inch (30 cm) line introduced on February 2, 1964, centered on realistic action figures." Gotta wonder. They look more like the later Action Team, but look at their descriptions and hair color. (No beards and mustaches, but even so ..)

I think all the graphics for this are already in the game. Instead of using a bow, the character would have the option to change to the graphics for throwing shuriken or grenade. Normal archery arrow attacks would have the Tsoo shuriken throw graphics option. Any exploding or FX attacks would have the grenade throw graphic option (including oil slick). The thug minion molotov cocktail throw as a graphics option for the fire damage attack.

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How do you use 2XP boost from the P2W vendor?

That does appear to be the case after a web search. I had recalled that I hadn't been able to get an Epic Pool at some point because I already had 4 power pools. I'm getting old and I dream lot about THE CITY at any rate. Could be a memory slip or remembering something that happened in a dream. Sorry about that.

Kind of glossed over everyone else's posts but you can only have 4 pool powers and that includes the Epic Pools, so, if you already have 4 pools, you can't gain access to a (hero or villain) epic pool set.

If you don't use Geforce Experience for video or picture capture I would turn it off that feature :: youtube video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7ej-SBLpzY

Like I said, the instant replay is set up to record 5 minutes (I'm pretty sure that is correct) by default, so, if you don't go in and turn the instant replay stuff off (not sure if that is the correct term and being lazy to switch to my ADMIN account and ferret it out), it is constantly recording the last 5 minutes in a loop of storage, so at any point after you manage to do something epic, you can push the button and the last 5 minutes (or more or less depending up on if you changed the settings) will automatically be saved as a file. So that is taking up CPU, GPU, and hard drive access time while it is running. I do use Nvidia Experience and I have used it to capture gameplay and screenshots (it's my default for screenshots at this point.) It will record any microphone you have on if you don't mute it. So you can narrate or what not with it, or shut it off to stop ambient room noises or background sounds from filtering in over the gameplay footage. I did to my best to shutdown or maximally nerf the instant reply storage. I can't remember which I achieved. * If you don't use Geforce Experience for video or picture capture I would turn it off that feature :: youtube video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7ej-SBLpzY

Are you talking about the mode where it is actually always recording the last "set length of time" (I think the default is set at 5 minutes) versus starting to record when you tell it to start recording?

I'm guessing you are not running Window 10. Is that correct? When Windows 10 came out, Windows 8.1 told me that my Toshiba laptop was good to go for the upgrade. The Toshiba website said it was good to go for the upgrade to Windows 10. Over the course of the next several months, I re-installed Windows 8, upgraded to 8.1, and was told that the model of my Toshiba computer could upgrade to Windows 10 repeatedly - probably 3 or 4 times. Eventually, the Windows 10 updater and the Toshiba website said that the model of my Toshiba computer was not compatible with an upgrade to Windows 10. Along the way, Windows 10 damaged my built in NVidia graphics card so that I could not play games that I was previously able to play. While Windows 10 was installed, it was apparently doing damage to the battery on my laptop as well - system kept giving me warnings that the battery was going bad. It would not shutdown properly. It would act like it was trying to upgrade for days at a time (slow interface, slow connection, so-so CPU speed, no progress prompts, so no way to know what the actual problem was). So that was the end of any upgrade to Windows 10 on my Toshiba laptop. Toshiba pretty much kicked the ball down the road. Microsoft doesn't give a $#$% if it damages someone's hardware. At around that same time that Window 10 wasn't letting me attempt the upgrade again due to incompatibility , NVidia started adding Vulkan that was also incompatible with my laptop graphics card. I can't remember if this was due to the age of my graphics card or due to the damage. I'm running the Legacy NVidia driver on that Windows 8.1 Toshiba laptop at this point and set it up (somehow, I can't remember as it was years ago at this point) so that it can't look for updates ... it doesn't even fully function at any rate. I was never able to get it to play the games that failed to play after the upgrade to Windows 10 after reinstalling Windows 8.1 and not upgrading to Windows 10. Before the attempts of upgrade to Windows 10, I could easily run Planetside 2 on my Toshiba laptop computer. Now it won't even run City of Heroes. It's not just the NVidia driver. Obviously, if the laptop could run Planetside 2, it could easily have handled City of Heroes. In fact, I loaded it and it was running it and crashed out with an error and wouldn't let me run it again on the laptop. Windows 10 installation damaged my graphics card somehow. It was also affecting my laptop's battery health. I have no idea what else it was doing to cause negative impact to my system (fan speeds, voltage changes, who knows?). Was it an issue with hardware specs that Toshiba provided to Microsoft? I have no idea. So, yeah, that's why I'm asking if you are running Windows 10.

I guess Scarlet Scarab was taken, but I guess that ain't blue.

Memorization page :: https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Memorization_Badges

I wouldn't even bother doing that (I never have). On the basic non-Set IOs they are almost always going to be cheaper - especially below level 35. Before the Sunset, I did buy some from the workbench, but I haven't done that since I have played on Homecoming. The Auction House has always been cheaper in my experience. I refer back to :: Specifically to the level 15 recharge memorization. Making 7 level 15s and 6 level 20s Recharge or Interrupt IOs would unlock the memorization of level 15 and 20 Recharge and Interrupts along with earning the "Hired Gun" badge.