Apparition

Is the chat handle different than the character name you're trying to get?

Try /getglobalname character Like SaintD said though, odds are you've been ninja'ed.

On Excelsior, quite a few considering the Secret Champions SG forms Incarnate trials in Dark Astoria. :P

Speaking of Battle Maiden, I recently learned that she casts a mag 1000 immobilization power on herself so she can’t be pulled out of a blue patch. I find that amusing.

No thank you. I like being able to play with seven friends simultaneously. One of the reasons why I play CoH over other online games that limit team sizes to five, or (even worse), three.

Yeah. I farm the “Burdens of the Past” story arc in Dark Astoria to get eight or nine Tier 4 Incarnate abilities on every character. I avoid Incarnate trials unless I personally know the leader because too many people still lock the league before queuing, screwing up the teams and kicking people out of the league. I don’t feel like dealing with that, especially since I know it can be avoided.

Yep. Some people don't grasp that melee players need to leap frog and go on their own in order to feel useful. It's not like "squishies" need melee protection in order to survive at +4x8.

First of all, I'm sorry to hear that you've had a bad experience on Homecoming. However, every community has a few bad apples. Try to ignore them. If someone is harassing you, put the offender on global ignore by typing /gignore name and then alert the GMs by typing /petition Secondly, no one can force you to start over. If you want to go to a different shard, transfer your character(s) and rename them. You can also rename your global once if you so desire.

The only Staff Fighting attack I would skip is Precise Strike since you have to take Mercurial Blow. Serpent's Reach should definitely not be skipped as it is a ranged attack and every melee character should have at least one ranged attack, IMO.

Yep. There's a reason why the top speed runner teams have at most one melee character on them, and it's usually a EM/Bio Scrapper or TW/Bio Scrapper and nothing else.

Melee has always been second class in late game content. Incarnate content just exasperated it. It's why I always take at least one ranged attack on a melee character, whether that be Serpent's Reach or Gloom.

It has been pointed out by Jimmy before that the pool of closed beta testers has been expanding. Those who provided valuable testing and feedback of the various Issue 26 pages were invited to closed beta test Issue 27, Page One. Those who provided valuable testing and feedback of the Issue 27, Page One open beta were invited to closed beta test Page Two. I imagine it will only get bigger over time.

Yeah, the -regen only lasting 30 seconds is why my Dual Pistols/Dark Miasma Corruptor uses Longbow Lore pets.

That was probably due to the bug of stacking Tar Patches, which was fixed a few months ago.

Honestly, I think a huge part of the problem is veteran levels. Incarnate abilities are entirely too easily earned. The ability to earn threads outside of Incarnate content is nice, but Empyrean merits should have remained gated behind Dark Astoria and Incarnate trials. However, that ship has long sailed.

Yeah, that is why I recommended Brute or Tanker. I personally would never play a resistance armor set on Scrapper or Stalker as a good chunk of your mitigation goes out the window.

I would say that they'd be equally good for general content. Rad would be better for AV and GM fighting, but Dark Armor would be much better for tanking Hamidon raids if you care about that due to Dark Regeneration.

It depends on what you want to do. Radiation Armor and Dark Armor are both quite strong. But yes, Dark Armor is extremely endurance heavy. However, there are tools to completely mitigate the endurance issue at level 50. (Cardiac Alpha, Agility Alpha, or Musculature Radial Alpha in combination with Ageless Core Destiny and some decent IO enhancement slotting.) If you want an easier time while leveling, Radiation Armor will be the way to go. However, if you plan on mostly playing endgame content at level 50, and/or getting to level 50 quickly and then malefactoring down to lower level content, then Dark Armor will also be a great way to go.

I would pair Katana with a resistance armor set (Radiation Armor, Electric Armor, Dark Armor, or Fiery Aura) on a Brute or Tanker thanks to the +15% melee and lethal defense Divine Avalanche gives.

Corruptor. Blizzard + Scourge = ❣️

Anecdote isn't data, but if you hang out in Ouroboros long enough, you'll see a lot of level 50+3s without an IO enhancement set to their name. Also, yesterday I formed several level 40+ PUG TFs/SFs/Trials, and encountered several people without an IO enhancement set to their name either.

What player count constraints? You can have 48 people on an instanced MSR league, just like a zone one. Lately I've been running them with five teams.

Healers have never been needed in City of Heroes.

What he is saying that making GMs more difficult isn’t worth it because it would effectively lock out smaller teams, and GMs routinely being soloed isn’t an issue as the vast majority of people don’t do it due to the low rewards and high investment needed.

Not really. Slot one flight speed/endurance reduction IO (as Hover actually debuffs your flight speed if you don’t slot it for flight speed), and one Luck of the Gambler 7.5% global recharge IO, and call it a day.