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It just me or is KM really painful to play. I mean slow as balls painful. I have mostly been soloing at normal difficulty because of the slowness. But I just came out of a TV respec and freaking defenders using Blackwands were doing a better job damaging enemies. I've played energy melee and Illusion controllers before you get the good stuff so I know slow, but this . . . and I just picked up Concentrated Strike and wow, terrible. I knew going in that this set was a lot of style over substance, but really. I am Level 31, what am I missing? Shoudl I just battle through or what?

Its on the list for me of "lets see if its worth the respec" to test on brainstorm when I get to it.

It will probably get smoothed out once they drop the next issue with the things they wanted to put in first in this issue, before the stuff they released, but didn't have finished. I had to ask around too about this when it was on Brainstorm.

Stop your messin around.

The Sky Raiders have been a mess since the writers had Virgil Duray and his people side with the Praetorians, Zero sense made there considering what motivated Duray through all story canon.

Agreed.

Yeah, what he said. I like almost everything; the new BWI group (their design not their reason), Skulls (their design not their placement), new powers, improvements, changes and I know many like the things I don't like. So yes, thank you very much.

Well that saddens me. Then again the new KW brings a lot of sadness. Oh well back to the many other things from this new issue that do not.

I think maybe they reduced the amount of mobs spawns in Khallisti Wharf to something more reasonable. I mean there seems to be a less dense saturation of all of the misplaced villain groups there. Still need to work on improving the civilian population numbers but I think they listened to feedback on the density. Then again I could just be projecting my desires there.

Dont forget the Warriors in torn tuxedos . . . everywhere, sometimes in groups of eight. And of course Skulls because it will be explained later.

Le Sigh.

I see that Part 1 of the Lords of Death Arc (Superadine Ring) was bumped up in Flashback to a higher level now paired with Part 2 on live. Hmm.

It is an absolute release from how I have to be when working. When it went dark other games did not fill the void. Its return is absolutely the best thing that could have happened, especially now in these trying times. SO I am super thankful of those devs that get it done. Yes I complain about things, or make fun of them, but in the end, it beats whats out there across the board and sure beats a sharp stick in the hinder.

Remember, Steel Canyon, King's Row, etcetera are just districts of Paragon City, there would be one football team, one basketball team, the Paragon Pummelers or the Paragon Champions. the districts would be more high school teams or college. there is also no way they would have rebuilt those insane elevated roads in Skyway. Then again my head canon and 6 books so far have Paragon in a different state as well.

For me the answer is simple and doesn't require explanation or extrapolation. No. Variety is the spice of life.

I have never found water Blast to be lacking (Water Jet yes but not the set). I have a Blaster and a Corruptor and both wreck and are rarely wrecked.

Farming and powerleveling is far more tolerated and accepted on Homecoming than it ever was on live. There were going to be changes to AE that would have severely hindered the farmers. I think you don't realize how good farmers have it on Homecoming. As for powerleveling being a crime. Well, The Babes of War, back on live on Freedom had three hard and fast rules. 1. Must play a female characters. 2. Don't be Creepy. 3. No Powerleveling. We straight up kicked out members who we discovered doing it. You may not like that idea, a lot didn't, and that it fine. But that was our decision and it worked out pretty well for us. What we didn't do was go around trying to push an anti-PL agenda nor did we engage in hyperbole using falsely applied words like toxic. Player please.

I loved that game. Played for Umpteen hours. Thanks for the good memory bump there.

Wretched map. The overclutter diminishes the dread the place is supposed to inspire.

Contrary to HGTV's insistence, the Tiny House trend is not sweeping the nation.

Oh that one is wretched.

I have mellowed I guess. The Layer cake room still bugs me a little but I am over Oranbegan maps because I do tend to marvel at their design and in my head remind myself that this was once part of a city. The two maps I despise are the aforementioned Arachnos room of massiveness. And Grandville.

I am not a market trader. I would likely be considered the kind of market user those who make giant sums on depend upon. I have never won a costume contest, and the influence donations I have received are small numbers. I started on Homecoming in January 2020. I don't Farm and don't PL. I have just shy of a billion influence. And that is after the fact that every character I have created that is above level 27 is fully kitted out with IO Sets. I know I am not doing it optimally but my process is simple. First is that I sell all purples. Period. I am not that OCD min-maxy so the Ragnadoodles and other are immediately put up on the market and I put them up for 5 influence. I have never tried to play the guess what the going rate is. All purples sell. I have builds planned (via mids) and yes I have a spreadsheet so I know what recipes each toon, even the lowbies, will need in time. That recipe or one in the same family drops, I keep and mail it to my badger and crafter. This is doubly true with the more expensive special ones (LotG, Panacea, Gladiator's Armor, etc). I keep all Enhancement Converters (again mailed to crafter) both types. Then as leveling falls in range I craft that enhancement. I do play recipe roulette but not for sale, rather for slotting (again those expensives ones). The end result is that the majority of the crafted (and attuned) enhancements I am buying I am getting smaller cost. Early on I sold all orange salvage, getting 400-500K per sell adds up when you play. Later as I had a nest egg I adopted a policy of saving Orange Salvage until I had 5 of each in the bins (for the aforementioned crafting). From there I sell them all except ones I know I use all the time (Deific Weapon, Mu Vestment). I use the orange converters to attune stuff I craft. I sell most medium inspirations for 5 inf, again I don't even pay attention to what it is making because. Others in this post have given good advice, they are likely better at market. The tip about comparing orange recipe sale value on market compared to vendor is excellent once you are badges up (if you are a Badge Hunter). I do that, same goes is there are zero bidders for a recipe at the time I am unloading. To some, the market is a mini game and good on them. It isnt to me, its just where I shop yet I dont struggle to equip my characters, with whatever, nor am I unable to be charitable. I am the Middle Class of CoH. Thankfully, the obscenely rich in this game are also obscenely charitable. It is something that desperately needs emulation in RL.

I am an American and I detest Friends and found Seinfeld as funny as a laser colonoscopy, in fact most of the "comedies" on TV (then and now) blow chunks. Its hard to make me laugh, not because I am some jaded, humorless person but rather I've had to live through all of the tropes repeated over and over again, a child of the seventies it was reruns of the really old where the tropes were created then the seventies and eighties where they were recycled under the pretense of different colors and costumes and on into the nineties. There is/was so little that was actually original or creative and then if they achieved that, it wasn't often funny. Yet they get the ratings, they get the eyes on boxes so clearly its funny to someone. And there is the crux, if its funny and its not hurting anyone then groovy, you do you. You can enjoy reruns of Seinfeld or the Office while I watch reruns of Community or My Name is Earl. Pax