TygerDarkstorm

Wow, their guy went nuts with the creator; so many neat possibilities. Agreed with you all who would love to see this pushed to incorporate other races/ethnicities. I was just thinking how I wanted to make overalls in game, and I see Reaper from Rebirth did it, lol. I know HC doesn't want to copy/use what other servers are doing, but I hope maybe they'll consider seeing if one of our devs can push the costume creator like this.

I have an Energy Blast/Kin Corruptor named Energizer Bunnie that is amusing to play. Beast/Kin MM is also one of the few viable ways to use kin as an MM because the beasts are fairly tanky, and thanks to kin buffing damage, making use of the pets' defensive power (I forget what it's called, but it drops their damage and crits in exchange for defense) is not as devastating as a non-kin. It's also a very fast-paced up in your face style of play compared to some other MM's. Someone on these forums has a build that I started using on my Beast/Kin MM's that's pretty tanky and damaging, but I can't remember who made it. @Hyperstrike maybe? But as others have said, Kin pairs with pretty much anything on pretty much any AT that has access to it.

The clowns and medieval ones were the only ones I had floating around before posting; the others I came up with on the spot as I was typing, lol. 😅

I know it's not our server group, but Rebirth just added these and they look so cool

Oh yes, this would be a lovely option to have for Necro MM's! I don't think I have a /Dark MM yet, so do we get the Soul Noir option for it? (Actually, I do have one but now I can't remember if she has the Soul Noir option or not and can't log in right now.) If so, then even more reason I vote yes for this since I know that Necro/Dark is a pretty common and thematic pairing.

I was thinking the same thing. I hover on my water/sonic corr and my bots/nature MM and I don't have any issues jousting in and out of range of where I need to be to utilize my powers effectively. Often times you want things like FF and sonic's bubble on the ranged folks anyway and not the melee folks since melee tend to have their own mez protections built in.

Yeah, I figured at some point we would start hitting duplicate themes; but luckily some of the ideas we've done lend themselves well to repetition. Glad to have helped spur some ideas for our gang. ^_^ I always love seeing how everyone interprets these.

I don't think any secondary that casts shields lets them also affect the caster. That said, Demons pairs well with pretty much any secondary. /Cold, /Thermal, and /EA are pretty top tier pairings for them. And /EA is only as busy as you choose to make it; it plays similarly to /Kin, and almost feels made for MM's. /Dark is always a solid choice for any MM, so you can't go wrong with Demons/Dark either. Cold and Thermal both operate similarly. Cold adds defense to your demons' innate resistances and comes with a slew of solid debuffs, plus Infrigidate can be procced out nicely. However, after playing one to 50 myself, I felt it didn't really shine until after you can get it to 50 and trick it out with IO's (which I didn't do). Maybe I'm just a shoddy player as well, lol. Cold also works with demons because one of the second tier demons helps heal his fellows. Thermal is not only a classic and thematic pairing with demons, it's potent. Thermal provides a mix of heals, debuffs, and buffs, and, if I'm not mistaken, its debuffs are almost as potent (if not as potent) as cold's. And you get the resist shields that add to the demons' own resists. I feel like this combo offers a more solid and smooth ride to 50 versus Cold, but you can't go wrong with either. I can't speak to soloing AV's or stuff like that since it's not my forte, though I've heard Demons/Cold is solid for doing that.

I know I haven't been here since the beginning, so forgive me if these are duplicate ideas, but some theme ideas running around in my head: Clowns/Jesters Medieval Favorite TV show/movie Fashion Show Favorite toy/some sort of toy theme (see my pfp, she's based off of Polly Pocket) Using a single letter/color/word (e.g., name and outfit must include pieces/names that start with the letter F) Fairies Pride (LGBTQ support) Origin based (e.g., magic, tech, science, etc.) Spies

With Bots/Nature, you can use entangling aura to help mitigate the bots' tendencies to knock mobs about as well.

Omg this will be such a lovely QoL addition! Thank you volunteer devs! I was coming here to endorse the suggestion to already see that you guys plan to implement it. 😄

LOL I was not expecting everyone to show off their looks. I was building my costumes as I posted that and meant I was curious to see how everyone else interpreted it on Saturday. 🤣 But since y'all have been showing off, these are the two looks I've come up with so far for Hippie Hailey.

So y'all, I'm trying to make hippie costumes, and like, CoH just wasn't designed for the sort of authentic hippie look, lol. I am super curious now to see what everyone else is going to come up with for this theme. I think I will have to forsake authenticity and settle for a close facsimile, lol.

@TrixieKixx I plan to be there on Hippie Hailey - Plant/Psy Dominator @Burnt Umber Yes! to your last paragraph there. That thought actually occurred to me this morning after entering the trial and there was no minimap and I could not fly. I felt dumb for not thinking to ask for a plan given I was unfamiliar with that trial. I usually ask what needs to be done. Jax is also a bit of a hard tank to follow. 😅 He's one of those players who's always moving around and darts all about, so I kept getting myself lost trying to follow and figure out what was going on. So I admittedly ran off a few times to take on packs of the easier guys just to see what my dom was capable of if I laid my tricks out right. Next week I will need a refresher of how Hess works, please. 🙂

I agree with this. I'm not super interested in pushing super hard content. I'd be good with just doing Task and Strike Forces so it's not as drastic if we end up not filling our roster. I like that we're casual and laid back. I do these to test my creativity and have fun. Edit: I now won't be able to make it tomorrow, unless we end up doing something quick ish. Parents want to come visit my daughter and I, and I stayed up super late tonight and want to get some sleep. Sorry guys!

My Bots/Nature is pretty beastly and a joy to play. Easily my favorite MM atm. Bots/Traps, Bots/Storm, Bots/TA, and Bots/Dark are all solid pairings as well.

The character I was bringing is only like level 40. If we want 50's I need to bring Environmentabot or my demon/storm MM from Everlasting over, though neither are slotted well yet.

There's always the easier TF WST we can do. What is it, Citadel this week? Barring that, I'm not real interested in going to Excel, but we might get interest for these on Everlasting. Or, if needed, take a short break from these to see if people might come back over the summer.

I have been following this thread with fascination, especially as someone who has been obsessed with dragons ever since I was a kid. I would definitely say that were this about 15-20 years ago, I would have been one of those bad RPers without realizing why what I was doing was wrong (my very first CoH character was a demi-god, d'oh). Now that I'm older and have had some practice RPing (definitely had to make some bad characters before I figured out how to make decent/good ones), it has definitely never occurred to me for any of my dragon characters to be some sort of supremely powerful beings. I design them like I design my more humanesque characters--with weaknesses and flaws, and where they're often up and coming and figuring out their strengths as well. And I'm with y'all, I won't touch making any sort of god character; I might have minions or servants of a powerful figure, but never something as supremely powerful as a god that can stomp on others without question; that's not fun. I realize this thread and discussion aren't aimed at me, I just wanted to provide some perspective from someone who admittedly loves non-human characters. And I hope the discussion here provides others with insights about character building and interacting with other players in an RP setting in game. And granted, I have not participated in much in-game RP because I get super nervous, or am on a character whose story I have not quite figured out yet, and am not super into the Pocket D scene. I appreciate those of you here who are far more advanced in doing this than I am. I always enjoy learning something new, so while the way the OP phrased their post and their gripes rubbed me the wrong way, the resulting discussion has been very fascinating and definitely given someone like me a lot to think about.

Full-Screen. I've even dual boxed on this setup (though I think I probably turned at least one version of the game to windowed mode to move it to the second screen). I had to turn the graphics settings and stuff way down, but somehow my system managed.

I have dual monitors on my 6 year old laptop and run CoH fine.

Oh, if you do that I might be able to join if it's the southern region. 😄

Looks like the cell shading option

Aw, I'm so glad you guys had so much fun! That's so awesome. Video games bringing people together. 😊

Well aren't you all adorable!