Ironblade

Yeah. My main has two Lore pets and six of the Destiny powers.

Of course. It's your karma.

Well, with those two characters you have very little damage output. My usual solution for that is that every one of my characters will have a Shivan Shard temp power from Bloody Bay and, once they're high enough to join Vanguard (level 35), the Vanguard HVAS temp power. Two players could have done it if one or both had strong debuffs. Having said that, I would not even attempt that TF with just two people since the AV at the end (Reichsman) is STUPIDLY TOUGH. Every team I have ever been on absolutely curb-stomped Schadenfreude but some had a real slog when we got to Reichsman. If you haven't figured out what to do with incarnate shards, that means you're only level 50. Once you create powers using those shards, you can become level 50+1. You don't get any extra powers but you fight as if one level higher, which makes a big difference on tough enemies. Also, it sounds like you're using SO enhancements or possibly generic IO's. You need to look into set IO's, ATO's and purple IO's. Are these needed for normal content? No. But duoing the Kahn TF is *NOT* normal content. That requires a high-end build. Personally, I have never done the Kahn TF with less than 8 people on the team. I would never attempt to duo it. And I duoed the Imperious TF with my scrapper and a tank to get the Master badge (no deaths).

Exactly. But I don't have to remember the command because it's in my file of keybinds so it takes just a single keystroke. 🙂

I add a step in between these. I manually type the long string command that loads my main keybind file. Then I hit the single button to customize my chat window.

eh, I can't be bothered to go to the forums to look this up. I have an Excel spreadsheet for CoH and, on one tab, I set up a list of all the weeklies with their contacts, locations, and space for notes. And I set up a formula to check the current date and highlight which week is current. I just have to update the date at the top of the list once every 13 weeks.

Works well for the damage dealt badges. One of the freem powers gives all of your attacks a MASSIVE DoT. - so massive that any fast recharging power will just kill off the AV's. Use one of the Judgement powers.

I think it's entirely possible. I started with using Excel before Mids existed and never switched. To be fair, I don't make a lot of new characters - one every few months. If I made a lot more, my way would probably be burdensome.

It used to be called 'Longbow Warden 2'. The name was changed to 'Longbow Defender'.

It looks like the forum update that Cipher mentioned has removed the reputation displayed next to our number of posts. I haz a sad. 😭

Running at +0 is too boring except when you're really low level. I run Positron and Synapse at +0. Penny Yin and onward, I run at +1 so we don't fall asleep. I do not communicate this because most task forces at +1 are EASY MODE. To me, +0 and +1 are default settings.

I don't think so. I made a second build on one character and there is no way in hell I would have re-bought those powers (since I would not need them on this build) and yet, he has all of them.

No. Every character had to have, at a minimum, rabbit ears You see, on the Chinese calendar, this is the year of the rabbit. I was playing my dark/archery defender named Dark Devices. She has a costume that is basically a cross between a ninja and a Playboy bunny. Conveniently, I have a screenshot from a previous all bunny ITF back on live. She's the one with no name overhead since I took the screenshot.

I would disagree on that. I run the weeklies a lot and, since we're mostly there for the rewards, there is a lot of stealthing missions. Having the Stealth power (which actually grants full invisibility, despite the name) is very useful. Most of my characters also have Teleport Target and *ALL* of them buy Assemble The Team. And, of course, you can put a LotG +recharge in Stealth. My default answer would have been Assault and Tactics because I take those on most characters - but you said you already had those. If you also had a rez power, I would have said Vengeance for sure, since you would be running over to the dead teammate anyway. It's still a good option (since it can also take a LotG) but not as compelling. Overall, I would lean toward Stealth and Teleport Target. Being able to summon that one person who always gets to the mission last, or gets lost on Orenbega maps, or who has Assemble The Team charged and ready, etc - very team-friendly.

Before I started, I set up a spreadsheet with just two categories. 1) All the Ouroboros challenge badges with the level range and requirements. 2) A listing of every zone with one or more exploration badge. Then I just played the game for a while (over a year). I enjoy task forces and iTrials and the Everlasting TFs channel does Master runs regularly so I got tons of badges that way. Any time I didn't feel like teaming, I'd get all the badges and plaques in a zone or two. Once I got past 1500 badges, then I actually sat down with a listing and took note of all the ones I was missing. This was a while ago, so it wasn't too many (there are 1596 currently and I have all of them). I noted the badge name and requirements in my spreadsheet and worked my way through the ones I was missing. Most fell in one of the following groups: - fifth/sixth in each set for damage dealt, damage taken, time held, influence earned, etc. - Arena badges - Architect Entertainment badges - ski run badges

The rez range is pretty good. It's a good AoE around you *AND* the target enemy can be pretty far away. I was on my dark defender on an 'all bunny' ITF yesterday and used it. I was standing on top of the dead teammate but my target was at least 40 feet away. One thing to remember about the heal, it's an AoE around YOU. Unlike kinetics where the heal is an AoE around your target. That always annoys me since I play both sets. tsk tsk. I'm pretty sure that I only have 3 characters who DO NOT have Teleport Target. One of my tanks skipped it. My fire/fire brute did not have room for it. And Toggle Man didn't take it because, obviously, it's not a toggle.

*her Her full name is Wilhelmina Marlena Dietrich.

(shrug) I think that's completely wrong. I play a lot of games and every single one has features I don't like. You boldly showed them they don't like the game as much as they claim to? And yet, here they are (myself included), playing many hours per week and being active on the forums. If we didn't like the game, we wouldn't be here arguing about it WHILE ALSO playing it.

"Nearly every player is encouraging them to"? That seems like a gross exaggeration to me. I buy the double XP booster, do 2-3 runs of Death From Below and then delete it and never buy another. I actively discourage people from using double XP because we already level so fast. As for characterizing this game as having a an "xp grind to max level", that seems laughable when there are constantly new threads complaining about how it's too easy to level in this game and it's all 'easy mode'. I think the different tiers of XP boost were a good idea and, if there should be any change, the top booster (double xp) should just be removed.

No, this is wrong. In fact, you directly contradicted it in a later part of your quote (below) where it says a booster works "without changing the base level of the enhancement." Furthermore, you can't make level 53 enhancements by using boosters. Boosting it 3 times does NOT make it level 53. It makes it level 50+3 as shown in this screenshot.

Let's not forget getting to missions in The Hollows when you didn't get your travel power until level 14 and there were no temp power jet packs.

Firstly, last time I checked, people played games to have "fun". Second, the original state of the game is not some idealized state - it had serious problems (and still does). But being a "valid facsimile of the original" is, in my opinion, NOT something to strive for. Would I rather play a vanilla server or this one? Definitely this one. While the Homecoming team has made a number of changes I do not like, I feel this is outweighed by the quality of life and other improvements that make the overall experience more enjoyable.

An amusing story about the 'confusion' aspect. The Beatles founded Apple Records. When Apple Computers came along, Apple Records sued over the similarity in the name. They lost and the court pointed out that people were unlikely to confuse a computer company with a record company. Fast forward to when Apple became the largest seller of digital music.

Yeah, he's one of the aspects of Rularuu. Without looking it up, the only ones I recall are him, Ruladak, Faathim, Lanaru and Chularn. We meet three of them in Shard task forces.

And when they brought The Tick to television, they changed the character to a Hispanic hero named Batmanuel.