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On a related note, Cheesecake Factory is a terrible place to eat anything at.

I only update to a new OS when I absolutely have no other choice; as in a significant piece of software I need to use is incapable of running on the machine(s) I have.

Oh my, sir or maam you just made my day and me a little bit tingly thinking about my Demon/Dark MM and the changes I am gonna make 🙂

AR/Devices - I had two on live, at the same time, both level 50, one male and one female. Like it was going to end up differently because I stopped playing them before Set IOs and Incarnates. There was no story, no reason for it other than guns and stuff. For a couple of years I desperately hoped they would develop something like a Grenades secondary (I still do since they could be like trick arrow excuse me tactical arrow but different) so I could roll a new one. Oh yeah then add to that the Mercs/Traps MM, aka soft AR/Dev Blaster because extra assault rifle from your mercs. I was a cliché. Well except that I didn't make Punisher clones. Munitions Mistress still holds a soft place in my heart however. I rolled an Emp/Psi not because of the reasons mentioned by Nemu but because I had a best friend in game who ran an emp/psi and when she left I created one in her honor.

Since this power applies to Corruptors, Defenders, MMs and Controllers I thought I would ask it here because I cannot find a clear answer; Does it require there be a dead ally to activate or can you fire it without it? I know it talks about certain aspects of having to be near the fallen ally to rez, but doesn't say if the other aspects of the power (i.e. the debuff and stun) will still go off if there is no fallen ally, as in using it for non-rez purposes?.

I know many have been said but volume speaks louder than validity sometimes. Back items: Sword sheaths (with and without generic handles); single sword or double, other low-profile jump pack concepts (like the Vanguard one), rifle cradles (Champions Online had one). Obviously a few more pistol and rifle options. But really some "power gauntlet" kinds of things to allow symmetry with projected powers. I mean really it would seem like it would be just tying a combat aura" trigger to a color schema on a costume piece in order to make it fire up when shooting flames or energy or etcetera. Would really love options for thigh pieces. Armor appliques, Low thigh holsters (single or dual), thigh pouches (no Rob Liefeld jokes). I could go all day but yeah, those are most pressing to my pea brain.

The worst thing you can do? Step on a caltrop in bare feet. Have scissors in your hands near a Ruin Mage. Wear suede booties on a sewer mission. Eat Hellfire Tacos and expect stealth to remain effective. Take fashion advice from Clamor. Oh the worst is people who feel the need to make their political or social commentary statements in chat. Don't care who you vote for or who you wouldn't vote for. Don't care about your race, religion, gender (or lack thereof). I play the game to have fun. Want to tell bad jokes, cool. Bad musical puns, awesome. References to pop culture, excello. Rant about Political X or Religious Y or Gender Z --> Ignore. There are places for that you can go to to express yourself but its not in a fantasy game land of people who shoot lasers from their eyes.

I wasn't a fan either. Not a good franchise.

I love mine and only this weekend did I slot any Set IOs or actually take the time to do the Incarnate creation, that's how much fun I have had with Di Di Guns. Yes I have died a few times but I am a Blaster who is blapping, but to be honest, it hasn't happened a lot. A poster asked about attack chain and here is mine: Burst of Speed, Scorpions Tail, jump back Empty Clips, Bullet Rain, Repeat. If the Alpha is up then Burst of Speed, Hail of Bullets, Scorpion's Tail, jump back Empty Clips (and sometimes another Bullet Rain) the survivors then go from there. Melts most mobs then I engage the Boss with Dual Wield, Executioners shot and Eagle's Claw. And that was before I build up my Defense through Set IO. Its just a blast to play, pun intended. Remember there is a +DEF from firing off Hail so the quickness of BoS-->Hail prevents alot of the return fire from connecting then Scorpion's Tail puts them on their hinders while you flip back out and hit em with the cone. Its glorious. It makes me tingly!

This is where I sit. Are they a pain in the buttocks, sure. But the fact is I have a CoH server to play on that has a pretty decent number of players on to where I find more teams than I did on live (Freedom). Now the spamming of farming requests and such are annoying but a few mapserver incidents I can deal with because the HC people aren't doing this as their full time job. Now am I saying I am not moving a few of my more seasoned alts to another server so I can play when Excelsior goes Tango Uniform again, I am not. Most of the mapserver incidents were short, much shorter than the guy who decides to go AFK in mission just before completion or takes a billion years to zone for a TF start.

Cherry Pie is the only pie, all others are pie pretenders, especially any pie that includes a vegetable or nut in it. That's right pumpkin and pecan, you are sad pies, mournful pies really. Also it is the name of the greatest stripper anthem ever so its like getting extra cherry pie with your cherry pie. Imagine the sad panda version, "she's my pumpkin pie, nasty tasting veggie gonna make you die, tastes so bad make a grown man cry, ick pumpkin pie." Jani Lane (RIP) would be weeping.

Still southbound.

Wentworth's is now claiming global supply chain issues due to COVID. This is sounding more and more like a Nemesis plot.

I have one . . . for now.

Right now Wentworth's looks like a Walmart just before the Hurricane arrives in Florida.

Thank you for this. Much of it was news to me. I tend to build my characters in three phases. Level until 30 where I shift to IO, then level to 50 picking up Set IO's that will stay (most if not all show up in your guide) and finally the level 50 now it gets real build. This is why Builds I see in the various threads are at best "someday" builds and I wish more people would post leveling builds. But this guide helps enormously because of your points at levels before 30. I have some real thinking to do.

Right in front of my face. Thank you.

Forgive my ignorance here but where do you select "attuned" in the buy process, or how does that even happen. The Homecoming Wiki says But doesn't get into the how part.

I have seen and read a lot of things in my life. 20 years in the Navy pretty much dulled any WTF moments I could possibly have, but this post, it's mind bogglingly stunning because I cannot figure out what the hell is going on. There are like fifty different thought threads dangling and none of them, none of them correlate! Its the Lament Configuration Puzzle of CoH.

What I am going to say is only a commentary on my enjoyment of playing an EM Tank; I never played one before and don't have the history or PTSD associated with live nerfs. I have fun playing her. She's slow and thematically that's her deal. She's a slow tank, not the fasted girl and not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But when she drops the pom poms on you, you are cooked. I have fun playing her as she is. Now would I complain of things like animation times were adjusted or say some sort of increase in disorient duration from whirling hands (or at least a name change) was put in place where the masses would stagger around while I slowly ST finished the rest . . . nope, I would smile and continue slow crunching of bones.

My two cents is based less on the kinds of fata points mentioned above but rather change in play-style. I have run up a Psi/Psi Blaster, a MC/Pain troller, Emp/Psi Defender so I naturally initially went Fortunate. But I then said, "Self, how about you try something different." So I respec'd her into a WIdow and have found it to be fun-ish. I am not a melee kind of person but there are moments when she is enjoyable. The point is, I was tired of ranged psionic characters so chose Widow. Make the fun from what you find fun.

I was a Freedom player exclusively on live and while there were plenty of ass hats to go around there, I rarely ran into a problem with the PUGs I ran with, really only when the OG Positron Task Force was the only Positron Task Force did I see players at their worst. Rollister would do that to you. I will also agree with Yomo Kimyata that there seems to be less ass hattery on HC and I do play on Excelsior. Societal norms are dependent on the society establishing, and enforcing the norms. If dickery is allowed because nobody has the stones to say "hey dude, stop being a jerk" then dickery becomes the accepted norm. The mindset of avoiding conflict is the reason we cant have nice things. As the immortal Patrick Swayze once said, "be nice until its time to not be nice".

I have one at level 38 and my only comment is that its a metric butt ton of button pushing.

Placate --> These are not the droids you are looking for. But don't take Presence Pool because that is the path to the dark side 🙂

I hate, absolutely hate the freaking Vahzilok! And that hate is for the same reason everyone else hates them. I love to hear carnies scream and hate Malta Sappers. I love punching Nazi's and related Fascists in their faces. But for me the ones I hate the most are the ones that I love the most because I respect them and their game. The Clockwork (Primal not Praetorian). It is so enjoyable smashing those little scavenging creeps, especially when they make that wind down and clank crash noise when dead. And because they are so prolific in King's Row and more notably in all of Positron and Synapses Task Forces, you are fighting them non stop. I especially am fond of this one mission where those clattering creeps actually say "I hate <character name>". You really feel that for a second you have truly put a dent in their world and you are like their life nemesis. But the kings of jerks I hate so much but love so much because of the satisfaction of beating them is the Circle of Thorns. You say Rollister and people cringe. Some have PTSD flashbacks of the original Positron Task force. Ruin Mages are so horrible early on because even tanks don't have their status effect shields yet so everyone is getting knocked on their buttocks. You see Ruin Mage and you forget strategy and attack him. Its Pavlovian. Madness Mages. Nuff said. An old friend in the Babes of War named Doctor Finetush once told me the three most scary powers in game are psionics, negative energy and Circle of Thorns. You fight them from low level, then in all of the Positron TFs, and Twilight's Son, and Sara Moore and Justin Augustine, and Ice Mistral. They have missions into the fifties and are a group with a deep and varied power set including some real painful types. The Envoy of Shadows is no joke. I hate them and their Oranbegan tunnels but when you beat them down you really feel like you have done good, that you are good.