Ironblade

Oy. It used to be that you and/or your team must do at least 10% of the total damage to get the badge. It might still be working that way. This is why Jack In Irons and Eochai were often problematic. If they had spawned together and were fighting for a while, they would have inflicted (and healed) enough damage on each other that no one could get the badges for defeating them. Some giant monsters use a different system. Lusca awards the badge to anyone within a certain distance when he dies.

I would agree with that choice, also. It was either that one or the one with the 2060 video card but I don't see what the second offers that makes it worth $150 more. On a side note, definitely install CoH on the SSD. My CoH directory is only 4.6 GB so you definitely have room for it. A 480GB SSD is *BIG* (until you start talking about MODERN games). I have a 480GB SSD for everything but my games and I'm only using 172GB. For my games, I have a 2TB SSD which is 2/3 full. On another side note, I was going to scream about financing through a vendor until I checked and saw that, if you qualify, the financing is interest-free for up to 18 months. I had a friend show off his fancy stereo once and told me it was financed through the store at only 1.4%. I looked at the fine print and saw it was 1.4% *PER MONTH*. That's the kind of BS some places do.

Three or four, probably. The Secret World has some great voice acting. There's one mission where you come across two agents arguing and I recognized the voices of Tara Strong and Tim Russ. And there's one super-creepy character who was voiced by, and actually looked like, Jeffrey Combs.

I guess he would be the sidekick of Pizza Delivery Man?

1. There are no bad AT's (although I think you meant powersets). 2. 'Fixing' problems with a powerset is EXACTLY what many people use IO sets for. Is that their only use? Of course not. Is it a popular use? Hell yes. On a side note, I have a WP tank currently working on her incarnate powers. Not sure how you screwed up your build so that it couldn't take alphas past level 30.

I have seen a lot of people saying the final badge is still bugged, even after the patch to the SF. By bugged, I mean that the blue beams do not behave like they are supposed to and also can still inflict damage after they have disappeared from the screen. That aspect reminds me of Tyrant's lightning in the Magisterium - you can take damage when there's no lightning visible at your position.

Nope. I run one big monitor so have never dealt with multiple monitors.

Are you a big fan of Tactics? I am and, as a result, hardly ever get confused since Tactics gives both Confuse Resistance (reduced duration) and Confuse Protection (enemies must exceed the magnitude of your protection to have an effect). I was looking at it yesterday during the Underground iTrial. If I recall correctly, it's around 75% resistance and mag 6 protection.

It's "reroll or suffer" until that entire section of the costume system gets rewritten. I found that, by going into the costume editor, you can pick your priority. I think it was whichever item I edited LAST. You can have either of the following: 1) Your dual pistols display correctly and your rocket launcher is invisible. 2) Your rocket launcher displays correctly but one of your pistols is invisible.

There is apparently some scaling based on level. I was power leveling a character yesterday and, in the process of getting to level 28, the door-sitter filled all 70 enhancement slots twice. My fire farmer got something like 9 enhancements over the same time frame. This was clearing all five maps of Briggs' fire farm twice. So . . . 50's just don't get a lot of enhancement drops. This is fine with me, since they're pretty much trash. I also got two purples which are worth way more than stacks of SO's.

Here is the official policy on multi-boxing. Worth noting, just because a shard shows 3 red dots doesn't mean you can't multi-box. Excelsior had 3 dots the other day with 1100 people online. You can view the exact number of people on each shard with the link at the top of this forum page - "Server Status". Multiboxing Policy We allow a basic level of multiboxing on the Homecoming servers outside of peak times. These rules apply on a shard-by-shard basis (by ‘shard’ we mean Torchbearer, Excelsior, etc). 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. If you are caught multiboxing when there are between 1500 and 1600 players logged in to a shard, you will be warned and expected to log off immediately. If you ignore requests to do so your accounts will receive a 24h ban. If you are caught multiboxing repeatedly with more than 1600 players logged in to a shard, all of your accounts will receive immediate permanent bans. It is your responsibility to monitor server status and current player count if you wish to multibox. You can do this both on our website and in the #live-shards channel on our Discord. An exception to this rule is Hamidon raid zones (The Hive, The Abyss) which have a limited population cap. No multiboxing is allowed in these zones. Breaking this rule may result in all of your characters being removed from the zone and short-term suspensions being issued for repeat offenders

You don't have to play the tutorial to pick a side. You can choose at the end of the character creation process. Also, note that you can choose to start in Praetoria (the alternate Earth also referred to as 'gold side') right at the beginning of the creation process.

Weird. They're being more restrictive than back on live? I bought a villain base back on live since someone was selling one and I only had one villain at that point and figured it would take forever to earn the prestige to build a decent one.

I am not reassured by that page. If you click on the schedule tab for '2nd Half 2020' it says, "This is the second schedule of 2020, and it includes items we have not accomplished yet." So I guess that page has not been updated since some time in the second half of 2020? Ouch.

The best result being, of course, getting to hit as many people as possible. 🙂

Yeah, not set bonuses. I got Worthy Opponent the day it went live and commented on these 'effects' still being active. (And when I say commented, I mean on voice chat so I guess that's how you missed it since you weren't there. 😛 )

Yep. Yep. I did exactly that back on live. I took every AT to 50. My other project was to take every tank armor set to 50. I had taken every armor set to 50 back on live (three times for invuln - that's my favorite) and I've taken radiation armor to 50 on Homecoming and my bio armor tank is currently 46.

Well, once upon a time, I was reading the manual while I waited for the game to download (took nearly 3 hours) and I felt broadsword/regen would be a good combination just for learning the game. So, I made Ironblade. He ended up being my favorite character. Maybe because he was the first one I created, or because I liked the powers. I don't have any other scrappers, but I have 22 other characters with a combined total of 124 vet levels. Ironblade has 127 vet levels. The proportion of play was similar back on live, with Ironblade getting about the same attention as all my other characters combined. I do have one habit that limits my number of characters. I don't make a character unless I think I'll take it to 50. At the moment, I have just six characters in the 1 to 49 range.

Flying? I want to ride the inner tube down the ski slope!!!

I actually found this one to be easier since you don't have to memorize your turns to plan them in advance; you can SEE where you need to go. There are only a couple of decisions to make. As I recall, the biggest help here is some form of 'air control' because you get going pretty fast and you can't let momentum make your decisions for you. Just like on the ski run, Inertial Reduction is a big help. You need to actually steer to stay on the track or your speed will flip you right off the edge. On a side note, since they changed the timing of the Teleport activation and animation, I wonder if teleporting along either of these courses is a viable method. I have not tried this.

Don't make me come over there! Because, by the time I get there, I'll forget why I was going there. And get off my lawn!

I played for 7 years on live and since HC brought it back and I still run into missions I have never seen before. Every so often, I encounter an entire MAP that I'm not familiar with.

The logistical difference is that Paragon Studios had a physical location while I'm pretty sure the Homecoming staff are spread out across thousands of miles.

I did this back in the day with no outside help (no kinetics assistance) and no second build, only using Combat Jumping to increase maneuverability. My method was to MEMORIZE the run. I found that counting the gates OUT LOUD made it easier to memorize which way I had to go so I could start my turns before reaching each gate. After getting the badges, I had a kin use Speed Boost and Inertial Reduction and, with the course memorized, I was able to get into the top 3 times on the leaderboard. Having said that, my plan now is to start off with Inertial Reduction as it really does make it a lot easier.

I was replying to the "After 2 hours, and 163 deaths" part. 😉