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Dig around in Guides or on the HC Wiki. There are ways to switch sides each time the opportunity is presented (need to turn off XP at key points) making it possible to clear all of Goldside in a single run. Good stuff. Don't forget the Undercover options that are only available if one has started Goldside in the Tutorial.

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Not sure if this is geometry or teleport related, but ... Madeline Casey's "Get the tomes from the secret library" mission. Approximately -1031.0, 55.5, -755.2 Using a targeted Combat Teleport or Teleport bind on this guy dropped me through the floor of the map where I proceeded to fall in void. Hilarious and repeatable.

Correct on Eagle's Claw. It and a couple other t9s (BS, Kat) get a flat 15% chance to crit regardless of enemy rank. Incorrect on Scrapper ATOs. ATO1 increases the passive chance by either 2% or 4% depending on Standard/Superior. ATO2 is a brief window of 50% increase, which is very good and hits often, but it is not a guarantee. Both Std/Superior offer the same bonus with a slight PPM rate increase from 2 to 3 for the Superior version. Sorry, I'm working on my "That Guy" Badge, which requires a great deal of "Well ... Ahkshually ..." style posts. 🍻

Vin Diesel is credited as an EP, which most likely means some of his money is involved. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13629530/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm Though it might be because he is the "President of Creative Convergence." at Wildcard now. Whatever that means. https://deadline.com/2020/12/ark-the-animated-series-vin-diesel-michelle-yeoh-elliot-page-among-voice-cast-members-in-new-video-game-inspired-show-1234654598/ IMDB Pro would have more detailed info, but that's a paywall I am no longer on the other side of.

Unpopular opinion in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ... I'm bored with Superman. Do Not Want. Even if it was Cavill again as he wore it best, but I'm done. Bored with it. Ditto for Batman, Wolverine, Jean Grey (Gray?) and quite frankly Bond. I'm all down for more 007s, but Bond's story came to a lovely end and it should stay that way. We don't need another Wolverine either. Let it sit for a while. Nothing anyone can do with the character will compare with Logan. Let these character's have their flawlessly concluded arcs and then leave them alone. It is not like DC/Marvel/Etc aren't spoiled for choice. Hell, give me a Rogue on film that actually does the character justice instead of that whiny teen-angst garbage we got with Paquin. Such a travesty the way they did her dirty in the movies. Paquin couldn't even get the accent right, ffs. 🤣 I like to think it wasn't her fault, that she was just a young actress doing as she was told.

https://lexandotis.com/about/ Looks to be your standard amalgam of experienced industry types having a go at their own animation house. Nothing out of the ordinary here. I'm confused by the question. Entering Lex +Otis into a Firefox address bar gave me their website as the first result. They've been around since 2018, and glancing over that list of their principals they are definitely not lacking for industry connections through which to get EP funds.

There's a joke here about issues keeping one's Warp "up" being related to not hitting the button often enough, but I'm not caffeinated enough to find it.

How to Pull with Combat Teleport: 1. Target center of adjacent mob ignoring the scrum and BAMF! 2. Fire AoE and Target a friendly who's back at the scrum while it animates. 3. BAMF! via target macro back to friendlies. 4. Profit.

Longbow dude spams his powers. Carnies girl spends all her time on her phone and occasionally looks up to cast Forge. Robo Drones Pet gives +5 def to all with their bubbling, and is decently active with the heal. These are the best behaved at sticking close, imo. BP thingy cheats and has the ability to affect foes.

No thanks. Losing the ability to slot Combat Teleport is a non-starter. Pop-up "bonus" powers cannot be slotted. Edit: Remember, the auto-hover period of time when using Teleport *is* Teleport's "bonus" ability.

I'm not sure I've heard or read a more jocularly condescending statement of the obvious. Well played sir. 🤣 Can we be done here now? The game basically vomits Fake Money Units at a player simply for face-rolling the keyboard anyway.

I don't think this would have been necessary. He'd have continued all on his own.

Ok, 26 levels in and this thing is a proverbial eraser. Just deletes targets like a Stalker should. Something for the Rule Of Cool crowd: Cremate and AS end up looking like blasts when kiting or catching a target on the move. I might keep Scorch over FS (despite that being less than numerically idea) just for the look of it, but we're stuck with the sword for GFS anyway. Was hoping for alternate animations during the Page 5 update to the set, but since -def has been added to the swords, I don't see that happening anymore. Staying a few seconds ahead of a team with targeted CT to fire off AS on the big bad such that it triggers right when the team arrives is a trick well worth practicing. Only change to the build above so far is that I figured I might as well drop a %Hold in the epic Immob. In actuality I'll try out both that and Fire Blast as my "tag the runners power" and slot up the one I end up wanting to use. Recharge on Fireball is just a touch long for using it that way, and far too endo costly to waste on a single runner. I guess it is just the way I build melee these days. Always with a ranged attack option from an epic/patron pool.

What AT are you running? At the most basic level, the conventional wisdom is that if your base damage mod is >1 (Scrapper, Blaster, etc) then +DMG Stacks are the way to go. Otherwise Double-Hit tends to net more damage. This is not a hard rule, and there are likely dozens if not a hundred plus reasons to flip the convention. Individual DoT ticks won't add +DMG stacks nor trigger individual "DoubleHits." It is activating an attack that adds a stack or checks for DH. Double-Hit can also be good if one is running primarily smashing or lethal (or other highly resisted dmg like Psi) as it adds an additional damage type (Energy). There are a couple of oddities and outlier cases as well. The thread that Bopper linked has the most thorough breakdown and does a good job of explaining the math to us "lay-folk." 😉

First draft of a target build. Thoughts and questions - -- I'm not thrilled with the slotting on Fire Sword, nor thrilled with that being the only %-Res piece in the build, but I wanted the 6th bonus from the Winter set in GFS in order to bolster Stone's complete lack of Fire/Cold defense. -- Tangentially I hadn't planned originally on using either the t1 or t2 from the primary, opting for the epic blast instead, but apparently that might disturb stacking Focus. I guess I'll see how it plays out. FB might just become something I use to tag runners, or I figure out how to just alternate in FS when I want to refresh the -Res. Something to figure out in game. -- Are the Preventative %Absorb and Power Txfr %Heal pieces worth the slot cost on a Stalker, or is base HP too low for them to be worth losing the slots elsewhere? Fireball is non-negotiable. 😉 Any and all thoughts and input appreciated. Full display in the spoiler, data chunk below. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1611;718;1436;HEX;| |78DA7594CB4F135114C6BF69EFF028ADBC5F160AA560914A7968E2D60712459A90E| |0BE99E050466BDBB45D006274E3DE67DCF822C6447CEC8CBA356E35F1F93FB8014D| |34262E4C3D9933072E122799CC6FCE3DF7DCEF9C73EF4D2D4E04DFBD9D3E0423743| |46B954AE9D9B2953D6B17CD949571E6FCA0A79ADE4ECF9C4ED959DB4E4E3A767189| |392C2313F6BC9D2BD9C9D9723E67A70F17CFE58B08CEE4F3D9E4B46D159C5CA6C9F| |D3945930AF962D92A3BF95CC8354D3A9985323904DCBFD9826D9F6E3A5670E69247| |B2D6B29D4E59A5322DD741327AE95D8A437F2A0A58A4774CC1871506850B02099F0| |B41BC266856A84AD01C636B36E11FFA762B0CA1D5707DABC9C5D05C4C03937E6F81| |E30C7B7082218E298193025E981A0AE3D7C2283F7EB24B137E0B6C30B4E007C308D| |A0D57CD3265696E09AD9826E6E1BA542123B0C0500347E00C415C2180CB9CF7F938| |F76F334C35DEFBBD8A7C60D8858F029F181AF059E00B432DE552AB85316A9130014| |A298038C30AAD54A70936EA9060557BB1C662DA484948AF7D080D5CAB31295A80E6| |D46B2EBE7A891FC557D6D28F75AF0914AE51F76D44D874477AD12D1061A8A3B8CD7| |A4F9BA5A72DD2D388F434223DEDC72FE5C12DCEE02225D9AA97B315B7D9A50D7704| |EE3274E09EC07DE565B9CA102435EDBAF2768C1A5EADC6050E305CA2253BF5253B7| |185A3ECC655816B0C5DB82E704379B9DC6408D19261BDF661A9FDE6BEF7513DBBB5| |95E8A7420FFC64EFD137728FA88D8ADA28F61BDEC118931332CEA068769F3EBB4F2| |A1F93CAC7A4F231A9FC88685A0D0103BAA601D6F480EC837A5506F14879E9AC310C| |E3B1C013E5457D2A8D78C6F090C2247471093CE7917D7821F052E095C43BC8BBA18| |F524B6AB391942D1FA391517D641461CE2CACB6DF5E95AE7F0CAE91329CFE8F7D46| |E9F717D90DB6AF07B65F6CF40EB3988D9D23833CF26DE74894657E0FECB826BDB3D| |02B67E1CD10E5A867F2179457C8B8| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Edit: I realize here that you are likely referring to the early contacts that do appear at level 6, not the Invention Tutorial Contacts to which the post just before yours was referring specifically. I'm going to leave all this here mostly untouched anyway, because having the University Tutorial contacts appear as a pop-up at level 10 and including them in the listing shown when using the Find Contacts Button are good ideas and easy to implement. My apologies, but I feel the need for more precision here. The 3 various "University" contacts (Blue, Red, Gold) do not show up in a pop-up at level 6 as they are unavailable until level 10. My latest toon just turned 6 and did not see them in available pop-ups and cannot talk to them as they are too low level: Nor do these contacts appear in the listing provided when using the "Find Contacts" button. I'll pay attention at level 10 on my currently leveling toon, but I do not recall them ever appearing at level 10 either. It has been a while since I have done either of the tutorial arcs, so I will take your word for it that the University is introduced there. Grym is literally in the SC University, but I don't recall text during Shining Stars explaining what the University is nor introducing the tutorial contact. Those two arcs are also Blueside. There might be Red/Gold equivilant arcs that send players to University, but I don't remember. Actually, now that I type this I vaguely remember being prompted to go there in Praetoria at some point during my Side Switch Every Time run. Still, they should be in the "Find Contacts" listing at level 10 and beyond at the very least, and a pop-up as you describe at level 10 would be ideal - especially if it mentions in bold red text that this is the introduction to CoH's crafting system.

On thing that might be interesting to see come of this (and doesn't involve creating new animations) would be incorporating Custom Sounds as an option in the CC alongside visual customization. There are existing assets for sound replacements out in the wild - but getting their creators to agree to give the HC team legal access to the IP is the biggest hurdle. There are a lot of reasons that adopting player created content is a massive can of worms. That said - while new animations are highly unlikely, there might be potential for adding audio f/x customization to the character design tools. Caveat - Since players can mod their local sound files anyway, there might not be much gain in spending Dev resources on the option.

Collect Reward Merits from Arcs, Task Forces, heck, even collecting all the exploration badges in a single zone. Go to a Merit Vendor and buy either Enhancement Converters or Enhancement Boosters from the Salvage menu. Enter the command /ah into the chat interface. Sell the Converters/Boosters on the market. You should be averaging around 5 million less market fees and such for every 25 merits spent. If converters are not getting you this net, then sell boosters. The only drops you should be selling to (NPC) Vendors are common recipes, IO recipes with 0 bidders on the auction house (unless you are patient) and white/yellow salvage. Folks will get mad at that last one because it means I'm not feeding low tier salvage into the open market, but imo there's plenty of seeded white salvage on market - which makes it vendor trash to the rest of us. 😉 Never, Ever, Ever sell Rare (orange) salvage to a vendor. Those are +/- 500k on the auction house, a vendor will give you 1/100th of that. Always put these on the Market.

Roll Katana/Anything or Claws/Anything and get back to us on how clunky/slow that feels. 😉 As mentioned, Mace, Axe, Broadsword, as well as Psi and Radiation have long animation times that will feel "slower" than other sets.

Peter Stemitz (Founders Falls, available at 30) has a Library of Souls arc that, aside from some zone hopping between Talos and Azuria's office in Atlas, is decent and quick.

A-yup. Fun fact: Power Transfer isn't unique either, and was fixed a page and half or so ago so that they will all trigger - previously only one would take effect because of the way they ticked. So, on a Brute running SupCond and PhysPerf it is possible to have 3 of each.

Look to the Energy Mastery pool powers. Brutes get Superior Conditioning, which is +5 Endurance. More Endurance == More Recovery. So much more useful than the Scrapper alternative, Conserve Power. This also gets you a spot to place a second Performance Shifter, which can be a significant endurance gain - especially if you're not already slotting them. Phys Perfection, the other auto adds more regen/recovery, but since they are lower base values than Health or Stamina (Half, basically) the best slotting would be a third Perf Shifter and other "effect" pieces (uniques, proc120) from EndMod or Heal sets.

Happy Fun Ball Knows.