Ironblade

Worth noting: You can add a 'local friend' at will. To add a 'global friend', you send a global friend invitation and they must accept it. Otherwise, it would be an invasion of privacy.

There are a few issues here. 1) Homecoming can take no actions via YouTube, Twitch or any other such service as they do not own the IP. NCSoft would have to act. 2) The only thing HC can do is take action against the perpetrator's account. 3) *IF* they can identify the miscreant. On a side note, streaming content from an unlicensed servers is against the ToS of most or all streaming services, so they're already breaking the service's rules. But, again, HC can't do anything from that angle.

Oh, snap! I teamed with you yesterday and didn't know it was you. I was teaming with Suddenly Annoying.

The Abyss Exactly. Not sure how other shards do it, but on Everlasting the raid leader divides everyone into teams by purpose. Just follow your team leader and attack what they attack. Yes. Founder's Falls --> Eden --> The Hive *OR* use a base teleporter to go directly to Eden and from there to The Hive. On Everlasting, there are A LOT of Hami raids. The scheduled is listed in the message of the day for the Everlasting TFs global channel. On weekdays, they do two raids at 7PM EST and two more at 10PM EST. There are also raids in the Abyss on the weekend, but I don't know the schedule because I'm usually busy. So... major thread derail but hopefully this information is helpful to someone.

Yep, but it's FASTER to do Ramiel's arc to unlock it. Also, you get some free shards at the end.

Cool, but that wasn't clear to me from: " Let's say you and your static team have now hit 50, and you want to start taking on the incarnate Trials, none of you have any level shifts, nor do you have alphas, so you're going to have to go about it the hard way. " I couldn't tell if you felt you were stuck doing it 'the hard way' or looking forward to it. 🙂 Also, a thread like this one has pretty broad appeal so I think a lot of people who are about to start incarnate content might be checking it out.

I've only ever rerolled two characters (one of which was discussed in detail in another thread). 1) Unarmed Wombat - from claws/SR to MA/SR at about level 20 after someone pointed out that having claws wasn't really "unarmed". Took him to 50. 2) Dr Smacky - MA/regen. Rerolled again and again and again as the same sets. This is the character I used back in the day for meeting new players. I'd play him through the early content, up to about level 14, then delete and reroll. I must have rerolled him 12-15 times. This was back when there was no Death From Below and people actually RAN MISSIONS through the early levels.

My brother had Triangle Man and his wife had Particle Woman back in the day on Infinity. I think you'd be surprised about what names might still be available. I had an invuln tank named Alloy and got the name again, not on Everlasting, though.

I would also make the argument that it's quite a powerful set once you do get IO's. Ironblade (BS/regen) is currently slotted with level 30+ common IO's and and I've participated in every iTrial and have the Master badges for some already. Do I die occasionally? Sure. But, the rest of the time, I'm tearing sh** up. Once I get all his IO sets assembled, I'll respec out all the common IO's (don't want to just throw them away) and he'll be even better. On a side note, the Spiritual tree for the Alpha slot reads like it was MADE for the regen set. My click heal powers are at around +125% heal and recharge using common IO's.

Before you even get into incarnate trials, keep in mind: 1) Mender Ramiel's arc will immediately unlock your Alpha slot. 2) You can get XP and incarnate components from all content. So, if you wanted, you could do Ramiel's arc and then do regular content to get incarnate components so you could get your Alpha to tier 3 for a level shift before even setting foot in your first iTrial - if you wanted. Doing a weekly strike target will get you a Notice of the Well and the level 50 task forces give guaranteed components at the end: Ancient Nictus Fragment from Imperious Dimensional Keystone from Kahn or Barracuda etc. This page on ParagonWiki lists where you get the different salvage: https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Incarnate_Component

My trick for the indestructible regen scrapper is simple and cheap. At any given time, my inspiration tray is at least 2/3 medium purples. I don't even buy them. I just combine drops since I don't really need acc, dmg or end insps.

You don't need a legion (supergroup) really. Just find out what the task force channel is for your server. I'm on Everlasting so I'm on the global channel Everlasting TFs. Between that and the LFG channel, I can always find task forces and iTrials.

You recall correctly. " Reunion Halcyon will be renamed to 'Reunion (EU)' and will be hosted in Frankfurt, Germany, instead of in Canada with the rest of the shards. " As for the OP's problem.... I'm at a loss. If other games aren't having this issue and CoH is having it whether connecting to the Canada or Germany server..... My GUESS would be that some game-specific setting is set wrong. Either in the CoH client or..... if you're using an OS that let's you specify settings for individual apps. I know how to do that in Windows, but not through a launcher like Tequila.

I've never seen a team turn away a defender. And with the Weekly Strike Targets you'll get around half a level of XP at completion (once per week for each character).

This. I was going to say that my favorite targets for this are on rooftops, particularly the Circle in Kings Row, since you can send them so much farther by starting at a higher elevation.

I'm skeptical. I think some small group of RP'ers got their panties in a bunch or took their cue from one person who took a dislike to you. I've teamed with you and you are middle of the road - a bit more vocal/snarky than some, but still so moderate that anyone saying your playstyle offends them should just be told to piss off. Anyway, I'll be sorry to see you go. I enjoyed teaming with you and I'm not on Excelsior at all (I'm like 95% Everlasting and 5% Indomitable).

Do you actually play these sets? I'm wondering if this is like when you buy a particular model car, you suddenly notice how many are on the streets. My main is a regen scrapper and I have an earth/rad controller and I've definitely seen other regen and rad players running around.

Whenever I see a question like this, my first thought is, "What do you mean by 'solo'?" Clearly a controller with pets is considered solo. My empathy defender can solo quite a bit with a Shivan Shard or Vanguard Heavy. But does that count as 'solo'? It doesn't take long to get a Shard and that gives you five charges.

I think they meant to enclose your multiple-screens-long-build-info in spoiler tags so we don't have to scroll past it if we're not interested.

Probably. I think Hand2Hand Wombat would fit now. The allowed character name length was increased many years ago.

Oh, has this become a discussion of toggles? I direct you to the story of Toggle Man.

I had someone mention an idea for this exact situation, though probably not practical since you're using 'off the shelf' forum software. I was at PAX East, talking with a friend who is a professional forum moderator on a big-name game and he was talking about ways to address this exact issue - ways to have the community feel more engaged without costing additional developer time. His thought (which he suggested to management - no idea if it can/will be implemented) was to have the forum software show that an individual post was read by a particular dev. Even if the dev doesn't have time to reply, the person who posted has the positive feedback that one of the developers actually read their post.

I originally wanted to name him 'Hand to Hand Wombat' but that was too long. Even Hand2Hand Wombat was too long. And he wasn't actually a wombat. He was lost in the wilderness as a child and RAISED by wombats - in the Pacific Northwest, but that's a whole 'nother story.

You say that the viable support sets are limited and that only two are common in endgame content, yet the recent stats post shows that Empathy is BY FAR the most popular defender primary. Radiation is 3rd and Cold Domination is TENTH. I think the community disagrees with your analysis. Yes, I recognize that those stats are not specifically level 50 or incarnate builds, but I still think those numbers are very telling. I strongly oppose this idea. Management by committee is generally an absolute train wreck in any context, game development included. We have suggestions threads - sometimes initiated by the devs to get our input. Also, we have the beta server to evaluate new content and provide feedback. These things work. Letting the inmates run the asylum is a horrible idea.

Well, there's annoying annoying and funny annoying. I think my sonic defender, named Mr. Shouty, was funny annoying BECAUSE HE ONLY SPOKE IN ALL CAPS!