Ironblade

Just updated the Homecoming Wiki. It now has the correct coordinates for anyone else who is looking for her. 🙂

Another good reason to have multiple accounts. In equipping a character on another shard, I needed to move about 25 enhancements that I crafted on my main. Emailing that many single items is way too tedious, so I have a character who was made purely to ferry items across shards.

Disagree strongly. Not sure why you're making an issue of this but most computers can absolutely run multiple accounts "with no problems". As I pointed out, the computer I used to play CoH fifteen years ago could run THREE accounts with *NO* problems.

At the top of the forum screen is a button called 'Server Status' which gives the exact current population on each shard (and also breaks it down between red and blue).

That's an understatement. The computer I was using to play CoH FIFTEEN YEARS AGO could run three accounts. The key sections are as follows: - If there are less than 1500 people logged in to a shard you may play with up to three accounts at once. - If there are more than 1500 people logged into a shard you may only play with a single account. Also, the Hamidon raid zones (The Hive and The Abyss) NEVER allow multi-boxing.

No, that looks right. I just logged in and checked. It looks like 54 accolades related to getting all exploration badges in a single zone, plus 1 for completing Atlas and Echo:Atlas and then 1 more for completing all of Praetoria.

Well, since a well-known marketeer is asking, I guess the context is clear and the answer is something like: Hordes of people start hitting the market wanting to equip their characters NAO!!!! I had noticed something was up but hadn't made the connection to the Mapserver Event. I have Ironblade on every shard and the one on Reunion is self-funding his build by buying garbage IO's, converting to something valuable and selling them.

It's a pretty big gap between having to plan how you spend your inf and having more than you can ever spend. And while it may not be a difficult transition to make in terms of funds if you apply yourself, it can be a huge step in terms of mindset. Back in the day, on Infinity, I was duoing with a friend because they wanted to hit 50 that night. It was going to be their first 50 on Infinity and the first 50 in their SG. We played, they dinged 50, then started talking about their inf situation. They explained that most of their characters (and money) were on Virtue so they planned to move about half their available funds to this character for their final build. I asked them how much that was going to be and they said they had about 100 million on Virtue so they would move about 50 million over for this character. I opened a trade window and offered them 100 million inf. They hesitated and asked, "Are you sure?" I explained that 100 million was 5% of what I had just on that character. From my viewpoint, that was an excellent use of that inf. The recipient was excited to be able to do a better build then they had expected and would have some left over for their next character. If I had kept it, it would just have been gathering dust in the Scrooge McDuck vault.

Nah. We have cars, trams, helicopters, electronic devices and a wide variety of food choices. These things require a civilization to produce.

I would also recommend Cosmic Council. I'm on multiple servers so I'm just a 'casual' on Excelsior but they're very friendly and I take part in regularly scheduled events at least once each week.

Actually, the most annoying to get is Among Friends, just because you need to get a full team. (Although as Jacktar pointed out, only the mission creator has to enter the mission and everyone gets the badge. I can confirm this.) That one wasn't the most time-consuming for me as I chose to write a full-length arc to get most of the badges. I came up with the idea back on live, but never got around to writing it. Doing a full arc and writing all the dialog is really tedious. I wrote an origin story for Mark IV (the tech contact in Founders Falls). If you need help with any of these badges, I have them all and I have 3 accounts.

Well, Paragon City is supposedly in Rhode Island. Connecticut is expensive, so I'd probably move to Massachusetts. I sure as hell would not stay in Paragon unless I had superpowers.

Eh, no reason to get it done in a day. My Ironblade on Reunion is using the market to self-fund his build. I've bought all the low level stuff and his purples and HO's will cost about 330 million. I've been buying trash recipes, crafting them and then converting in category to anything that will sell for 1 million or better. I log in every few days and make about 20 million each time. He's only level 33 and he's at about 160 million inf now. He will easily hit the 330 million mark long before level 47 so . . . good enough. 🙂

Ironblade was the first character I made, because /regen seemed like a good set to keep me alive while I learned the game. He's broadsword/regen and I have Ironblade on every server. So far, three of them are level 50, one is 42 and one is 33. So, wherever you may run into Ironblade, it's me. 🙂

88% so far.

Yep. My badge hunter is melee, but for the RHW runs I use a beam rifle/kinetics corruptor. I can keep DPS'ing at range and fire off Fulcrum Shift when we all run back in. We run this every Sunday on Everlasting.

No, because the original piece says he puts Conserve Power on auto-fire and pretends it's a toggle. 🙂

Yes, I know it says that, but I think that might be a bit of exaggerat. . . excuse me, 'poetic license'. If anyone wants to see the full Toggle Man text, it's here: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/34683-bad-build-decisions-youre-willing-to-admit-to/page/2/#comment-450081

Well, I don't use Mids so I wasn't building toward some equilibrium point. I just piled on everything I could think of. Toggle Man has: +53% recovery from IO's. Two Performance Shifter +END procs (one in Stamina and one in Physical Perfection) The Panacea proc And two pieces of Unbreakable Guard give a 2.5% END discount on everything. He has that bonus four times. Using the right IO pieces/sets can get you about 35-40% END discount on every power without messing up your damage/resistance/whatever. Currently, he's a bit short of the smash/lethal resistance cap for scrappers but the Cardiac Alpha power gives endurance reduction and resistance so he'll be in a great place once I get that. I could have gotten a little more +recovery with purple sets, but wasn't willing to invest too heavily in what was essentially a joke build. I wasn't sure if he would be playable before I started. It was pretty bad at low levels and he has END issues if I exemp down to level 20 or lower. Clearly, I could have made him a wrecking machine if I was building for a balance between damage and survivability - but I wasn't. I was building to see if I could run a stupid number of toggles just because. 🙂 Since his attack chain is Lunge, Boxing and Jump Kick, I run him at +0 level and solo with a team size set somewhere between 3 and 6 depending on what level he's working at. The vast majority of his damage comes from his AoE toggles. If you're building toward one goal, you can hit some pretty wild numbers. I have an invuln tank with more than +350% regen from IOs. And that's with no purples or PvP sets since I was trying to see how cheaply I could do it (under 60 million back on live, as I recall).

In my experience, NOTHING burns through endurance faster than you can keep up - *IF* you build to accommodate that END usage. I built Toggle Man based on a prose piece back on the live forums. He's a spines/dark armor scrapper and runs: Quills, Dark Embrace, Death Shroud, Murky Cloud, Obsidian Shield, Cloak of Darkness, Cloak of Fear, Assault, Maneuvers, Tactics, Tough, Weave, Combat Jumping, Acrobatics, Sprint and Focused Accuracy. And he can actually use melee attacks while running all that. I've played him to level 49 so far. Was the build a challenge? Sure. But note that he's actually playable with no Alpha slot yet. Once I get the Alpha, I'll set Hasten to auto-fire so he can attack faster. And maybe turn on Whirlwind, although I suspect that will just be annoying.

I worked with a group on Infinity that ran it regularly and we didn't focus so much on the primary. They just needed to be corruptors for the increasing scourge damage to counter Tyrant's regeneration (which went up as his hit points went down). On a full league, we wanted at least 18 corruptors and 4-6 kinetics (who could be corruptors or something else). On each run, we had spots for 2-3 'carries' to get them the badge. I didn't create a character specifically for the badge runs so I brought a fire/thermal corruptor. It's a lot easier now. The Everlasting TFs raid leaders run the Really Hard Way every Sunday. On the run yesterday, I think we had 14 people. We definitely had six corruptors because I always count them as my key metric to judge the odds of success. It was not an ideal league, as we had two kheldians and two tanks but we succeeded at the badge.

Fire and Beam Rifle are great. From what I've read, they are top damage sets for AoE and single-target respectively. Tons of fun. When I wanted to make a character JUST for Really Hard Way badge runs, I went with a Beam Rifle/Kinetics corrupter.

It might be worth noting that the entire saying is, "Jack of all trades and master of none. But better than a master of one." So the actual wisdom there is that being a jack of all trades is better than being a narrow specialist. I'm seeing several people suggesting that you really need to have high defense to survive in iTrials. In my opinion, getting high defense on something like a blaster gimps the other aspects of the character far too much to be worth it. I NEVER build for defense unless the character inherently starts with a noticeable amount. I have a blaster that's all tier 4 incarnate, a radiation defender, a corruptor, an empathy defender - all tier 4 and none of them have any defense (aside from Maneuvers, which I take to help teammates). My dark defender has defense, since she starts with Shadowfall and would be taking Maneuvers anyway. If you're dying too much in iTrials, change your play style instead of going for some cookie-cutter 'high survival' build that someone posted on the forums. Stick with a group. Follow a tank, scrapper or brute and let them take the alpha. The incarnate trials really aren't that hard except when you're trying for specific badges. Especially since you don't have to do ANY incarnate content to get your first level shift. I guess you could also get your 2nd and 3rd level shifts without doing incarnate content, but that seems like it would take pretty much forever. But the first level shift is built around task forces.

I'm guessing the more obelisks have been clicked, the more likely they are to chase you. That suggests you should get all 8 (or as many as you have) in position to click before clicking any obelisks. Then click 'em fast and rush Koago.

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