PartyKake

I was hopping between alts recently, grabbing exploration badges and logging them out in various areas to get their day job buffs maxed out, and for most of them I noticed that they didn't have the exploration badges from the pvp zones or the combat shield day job power (but most of them had the duelist/predator day jobs), so I figured I'd knock out a bunch of birds with one stone and as I was going through the area I realized I had a few characters with no travel powers to get the "Triumphant" badge in warburg. Since it's a pvp zone, all your temp powers are disabled like the jetpacks... And there's a badge high in the air on top of a globe, so you need super jump or teleport or fly (or arcane flight, or combat teleport, or the willpower jump I guess? or the electric powerset teleport power, etc) And it occurred to me, a few things. 1. PVP is almsot nonexistent even on high pop servers, even though all of us in our rp builds would probably have a great time since nobody is optimized. 2. There are probably a few people who wouldn't mind teaming up across sides to get that one badge 3. As long as nobody gets ultra competitive about it, there might be a little fun to be had taking the least useful builds into the pvp area. I figure if there's any interest whatsoever it might be fun to start up some sort of "wet noodle warburg wednesday" or something. date and time are negotiable of course, since I'm fairly certain interest in the topic is going to be on that lowest of low ends. The only thing really necessary would be some sort of group effort to fight around the center of the map so that we can teleport people (friend and foe alike) up to the badge. Thoughts?

This is City of Heroes, Blapper is a valid AT.

Not the little man in a red outfit I was thinking of. Was that the inspiration for all those lawn gnomes people used to have? Or was that inspired by those. I guess it doesn't matter.

Would probably be that Sentinel archetype I almost never use. They get ranged damage and armor sets, right? Though... perhaps a ranged set that includes some melee abilities alongside their ranged blasts. The energy assault thing dominators get I think tracks. ranged damage, lots of knockbacks, hard hitting melee (with more knockbacks) And then the armor set could get interesting. I'm thinking something where: you get a lot of resists against multiple types, but with a big drawback. After taking a certain number of hits, you get battle damage and have to get repaired to continue the fight. Opens the opportunity for some other creative uses of it as well. clockwork, android, gory cyborg, etc.

Adding a few that I grabbed recently. Monumental - for my earth/mental dominator, using the statue costume I've had in storage for a long time. Intrusive Suggestion as a newer version of my much older character Sinister Thoughts. Might name swap these two because psi/psi makes more sense than psi/elec Master of Dungeons I grabbed last night. AWFULLY tempted to make a gnome costume of him inspired by a certain old cartoon character.

I think this is my current record, at 16. May have figured out how to get one more (Come Full Circle) but not on this character. This is having a bunch of day job badges saved up but doing the null the gull morality change to trigger all of them popping off at once.

I noticed that as well but I still don't know what it looks like, and I'd have to turn off the rainbow path aura to get it, so...

The first tri-form Warshade build I got dramatically changed the way I played because it came with some form-shifting macros that would switch you to a new form and replace your main action bar with one set up already for that form. BOY HOWDY does that change everything. Suddenly it's like you are walking, flying and tanking at all times. You get stacking, double-dipping aoe damage boosts from two versions of a similar power. And every single group you encounter becomes a source of power, and then they get obliterated. Ragdolls everywhere. more candies than you can chomp down on. The game went from zero to ludicrous so dang fast. And it also helped that I really liked that character's outfit. (outfit added for reference)

I wonder what powerset would be the best fit for a war pig.

Snagged "Aura Borealis" just recently, because Energy Aura was given to tankers. "On the Rocks" for a ice/ice dominator. "Guntroller" for an arsenal/arsenal... Dominator. hehe

Was just going to add, this one worked for me: /macro TP "team Hey $target, buckle up and sit still for teleport!$$powexecname teleport target" Looks like the space was the culprit. Special thanks to Arklide from the community discord.

I gave it a few tries, but even /macro TT "team Teleporting $target $$Powexecname Teleport Target" didn't work. I'm not sure what the command is, but I'm pretty sure your command to execute the power is the part that's broken. It just isn't using that power.

Just to be sure, you're not trying this out on another player are you? They might have the option set to auto-reject forced teleportation from allies. This is what I see after typing in that macro. Did you insert those quotation marks at some point?

I have characters lying around that have collected all the day job badges and I don't even remember what I was thinking when I created them. But between costume changes being cheap or free and renaming them later if it suits me, I don't think I'll need to delete any before I hit the limit of 1000. I did, however, at one point reorganize them so that they were sorted by archetype. But all that did was inspire me to create more characters until the archetypes were more equally represented.

That sounds like fun but I think I only have 50's on one server. (Everlasting)

I'll be honest, when I saw this thread I thought you were talking about his height.

This is totally in my head as to how it really works, but I'm going to go with Vorpal Kick. Love that power. Apparently it's in the category of powers ineligible for discussion. But WHATEVER. Villains don't play by the rules anyway.

For some reason I completely glossed over the vidiotmaps in the error message while trying to fix it and thought I'd messed up something in the HC install. Hooray for reading comprehension!

I just quit out of homecoming (because my badgesetlist popmenu wasn't working), relaunched the city mod installer, clicked add to launcher, chose HC Launcher, then closed it and tried to relaunch homecoming to get this: any ideas? verifying files didn't seem to stop the error. HEEEYYY I FIXED IT! If this happens to you just uninstall and reinstall the vidiotmaps mod in the mod manager.

As SeraphimKensai mentioned the teleport to mouse cursor effect is very useful. The Warshade build I use binds it to shift+lbutton so that all I have to do is press shift and then left click where I want to go. This does have the strange side effect of occasionally having to teleport twice because just hitting shift starts the cast, but as long as you remember to lift the shift key before clicking you should be good.

I found myself with that problem with teleport, and then I played a warshade, and got its bindings set up - someone had created a bind for shift-left click to teleport, and I was like... "huh." And on that character I used it all. the. time. If you haven't tried it, see if the MF'n Warshade build helps you out with remembering that. 😉

One of my absolute favorites, found this completely by accident. You can only see this if you screw up a mission. This one is also accidental. Thanks to my character's name, Twinshot made a clever pun.

I have a cow-themed character named "The Smell of Barbeque," he's a fire/kin controller.

Attempting to install new client, I get this: any ideas what this means? (I read the thread first)

Chatting with some people on the discord, I joked about the name Dodge This, and wondered out loud if it was available, and someone said "Not any more!" but lo and behold, an hour later, I snagged the name. I like all my character names though. If I can't come up with something good I don't even bother making the character!