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@TraumaTrain As tempted as I am do do a necro/nature, I'm gonna go ahead and bring the debuffs with Botanical Pathogen, my plant/poison Controller 🙂

I'm not familiar enough with most of the TF's/SF's in the game to really make a suggestion; I'm down for anything. And if it's something I can't reach level for in time, I will step aside for the week. 🙂 I can't decide whether I want to bring a necro/nature MM, plant/poison troller, or plant/martial dom. 😅

Just want to let you guys know, I'm online and in Steel Canyon; just want to go grab a shower real fast.

On the Character Select screen, there is a little icon on the top right near the delete character button that looks like a pencil. Select the character whose name you want to change, then click that and rename them.

@TraumaTrain I'll be there next Saturday on Cyber Sprite, an elec/shield stalker.

@TraumaTrain I look forward to seeing what you have up your sleeve, Rich!

I won't be there. Gonna be busy all day that day. I should be able to join again next weekend. 🙂

Was gonna say the same thing. Despite the misconception and the character creator labeling them as ranged, blasters are the masters of ALL damage, as Apparition said. Some of the strongest hitting blaster powers are their melee abilities. And it's fairly easy to build a blaster to be tough enough to survive in melee these days.

I haven't been able to put hours into this yet, and I'm by no means a hardcore player, min/maxer, or number cruncher or anything, but I love the concept of TA and wanted to go play around with it on the beta. I opted for a bots/TA MM as I have yet to make a TA MM (for obvious reasons on "live"). I figured the bots would be pretty tanky, they have some self heals and bubbles, so seemed like a safe pick to try out the new TA. Starting her out at level 20, with the MM ATO's and some basic IO's, and still only on basic mission settings. So far I like the feel of the set with the bots; damage is a little slow, but I feel as if the debuffs are helping the bots kill mobs faster. I really like the feel of the changes to TA so far. I have a demons/cold MM at 50 that can be a pretty devastating combo, but I wonder now with these changes how beasts/TA and demons/TA will fare.

Zapparilla Elec/Elec Blaster Slobber Hound Water/Regen Sentinel (the pinkish "slime" is supposed to be like she's drooling; went pinkish as if she had just eaten or something) Glitch in the System ElecAff/Dual Pistols Defender Dark Shifter Dark/Atomic Blaster (related to the other Shifter characters I've posted/created) Thundrassa Dark/ElecAff Controller Miss Fade Illusion/Traps Controller (going for a spy/James Bond theme with her) Pixielated Ice/Time Controller Frostie Pixie Ice/Nature Corruptor

I'm going to have to pull out (lol) of this weekend's Themed SF. My cousin's baby boy is turning 1 and having his birthday party at noon on Saturday, so I'll be busy with that that day. 🙂 Good luck to you all though!

You pulled that out of a post discussing level 50+, end game, incarnate content, where it's true; of course it doesn't apply to every level of the game. The other levels where those buffs are useful was not the discussion at hand nor @DSorrow's point.

I agree. I know HC is a small team, but typically people have different talents/specialties, and we know that @Piecemeal is currently creating new content to release with Page 6, but I do not believe that they are also working on game balance.

The web grenade from traps says "Hi." 😛

Oh, the name mr. verene sounds familiar! I have the worst memory ever. >_< It's like, after I quit playing the game regularly and it got shut down, everything CoH related just whooshed right out of my head.

Fire's Embrace is level 27, slotted even 😄 , and parked--I mean roosting--in Sharkhead Isle.

Now that I've figured out where I've come from... I used to play on Triumph! lol The only character of mine I can remember is Tiger Goddess (emp/arch defender). I played off and on from ~2006-2011ish. I remember seeing the Feline Fellowship around and the name Pride is definitely familiar. I think Tiger Goddess may have been in the Fellowship briefly. I ran a small SG for a little while as well, but I can't remember the name of it. >_< So hello Triumph peoples! I'm currently on Everlasting and occasionally on Indomitable.

I think I have finally figured out where I was from on live! I saw a couple of SG names floating around that totally clicked in my brain and gave me an almost deja vu like feeling, lol. I saw the Girls of Nukem High thread pop up a while back and was like, ok, I think I remember that SG, the name is super familiar, but two live servers were listed so I was like, eh, idk. Then I saw @cptgreedle bring up Feline Fellowship in the remembrance thread for Robotech_Master and that name is the one I had been trying to remember since I had created this thread! So with some research, they were on Triumph during live and so I must have played on the Triumph server. 🙂

Thank you for better explaining that than I did; what you said is what I was trying to refer to, but didn't do a good job of it, haha. 😅 I knew there was a minor issue with mobs running from certain fire effects, but got the details wrong. But yeah, I had not heard of anyone talking about or complaining about this user's issue since I found Homecoming. Dealing with runners is something MM's have to account for and is usually a bigger problem for melee pets than it is ranged pets like thugs.

I don't think it really is. I think this person was on Everlasting earlier complaining about this issue, but not listening to those of us trying to say your issues sound like they're more about pet management and such. It's likely not a fear, per se, it's probably the same issue that the assault bot has with its burn patch, that scrappers with fire aura have, etc where those fire aura/patches tend to cause mobs to want to run away. That's why a lot of people like to take dark with bots as tar patch can help keep mobs in assault bot's burn patch. Like I said in help chat earlier, of all the MM issues I have heard of, people complaining about this with thugs is not one of them. They're a top performing set for a reason, part of which includes the arsonist. Imo, it's an L2P issue; and I don't mean that in a mean way, though I think it's a bit silly that they went and dug up two threads just to complain about something that they didn't really listen to those of us in the help chat about.

@Ralathar44 I totally get what you're saying and have an anecdotal example of what differences you're making. My family is the kind of family that thinks gaming is a waste of time and doesn't particularly like the fact that during some periods in my life I have been a "hardcore" gamer. Ironically, my mom does a lot of what I consider gaming, but she doesn't see it that way because her little casual computer and phone games aren't, to her, on the same level as World of Warcraft, CoH, Halo, etc. So even the people who engage in all these different types of games see themselves differently. My parents see my gaming as a waste of time, yet my mom spends at least as much time as I do, if not more even, on her little games and yet it's not looked down upon. Also to your point, CoH has a nature to it that appeals to more casual gamers--you can put in 20 minutes or 20 hours and do quite a bit in this game, and if 20 minutes is all you did in a week, you're probably not going to be falling drastically behind. It's also a game that really encourages you to create alts and experiment--while there are "optimal" builds, there is no one best way to build an AT. In comparison, to really get into WoW and raid, that's practically a part/full time job. It often requires many hours/days of dedication, and while you can have alts, you're better serviced having one true main that does the vast majority of raiding/activity. If you miss a week of progression, you are likely to fall behind and potentially bring your team down when you return. Yes, I know WoW *can* be played more casually, and has headed that direction over the years, but for a while, and in my experience from playing many years ago, it was not as casual friendly as CoH. I'm from the fashion/retail world and knowing your target market is key. Professors are constantly telling my fellow classmates that your target market cannot be *everybody.* It just can't. You are not going to make a product that will please everyone, and, frankly, you're not really going to make money that way; not at first anyway (and yes, even stores like Target and Walmart have a target market even though they sell a variety of products). And as Ralathar said, this applies to gaming as well.

My thugs MM's have been having their pistols disappear, even just with the first upgrade as I don't have any past 32 yet. Bit distorting watching them fire out of their bare hands. 😅

This is why I like running with you guys--no judgement from those of us who are still learning and a casual playstyle. And you guys are just a lot of fun to be around. I may not have participated in the convo's much yesterday because I didn't want to bring down the mood, but I was enjoying watching you all joke around and have fun. 🙂 You guys definitely feel like my CoH family, lol.

I completely understand what you're saying, but as a roleplayer at heart, I have had a really hard time so far coming up with a gravity/* controller concept that I like and will stick with. But after reading your posts here and my own experience with gravity on my dom, I do think I will have to give a grav controller a try again. Would be nice if impact worked with the assault secondaries.

@Midnyte Thank you so much for all your lovely screenshots! I didn't really get any today. I spent a lot of the runs a bit grumpy at myself for picking an AT that wouldn't be able to handle doing a level 50 TF without being kitted out in IO's and actually having something in her alpha slot. And I still just don't understand the incarnate system whatsoever, so I couldn't figure any of that stuff out on the fly to see if it would help. And constantly getting myself killed wasn't helping, haha. I don't like feeling like I'm useless. Thank you all for being patient and letting me tag along; it was nice to have a reason to get myself a first 50 since I've been dragging my feet on the matter. 🙂 I have a lot of research to do if I want to keep playing Sara.