[Iron man/Woman Challenge]

9 hours ago, huang3721 said:

I wonder, do you guys read the wiki before jumping into the mission? Let's say, checking for the ambushes, memorizing the objectives or checking if one of the missions in the story arc is "that one level"?

 

I don't really need to. I've done the missions enough times that I remember the problematic spots.

[Iron man/Woman Challenge]

13 hours ago, Yomo Kimyata said:

Am I right in assuming people are running +0/x1, bosses, no AV?

 

I've never changed the difficulty setting in all my years of playing CoH, and I don't intend to.

 

For this challenge, I'm not using the AH at all, but that's just me. I made my own solo super group just so I can conveniently craft IOs and store salvage.

[Iron man/Woman Challenge]

Radiant Cascade on Reunion (Energy/Energy Blaster) is up to 23 now, and no, she's not going to do that Dirge of Chaos arc. Too risky. Sometimes I get through that last fight easily, sometimes I get stomped by the ambushes.

[You -- yes, you, the person behind the keyboard -- wake up in Paragon City. What now?]

Go to the top of a tall building. Jump off. Land on my feet, taking no damage.

 

Walk around trainers and push heroes out of my way. Especially the big, tanky types. If they're AFK, maybe I can push them to the villain groups.

[Iron man/Woman Challenge]

Radiant Cascade update #1:

 

Reached level 15. I'm concentrating on the hero story arcs and badge missions. I've finally been able to afford a full set of DOs, so things are going good. I still have several story arcs from the lower teens to finish up,

[Part 1: How Do You Define "Playing the Game," Specific to City of Heroes?]

I'm a solo player with a case of altitis. I do missions, focusing on story arcs, trying to do internal roleplaying as much as I can. No powerleveling, no farming. For some characters, I might occasionally turn off XP gain to get more missions in. I'm not interested in playing a character after hitting 50, outside of finishing up story arcs. I'm also an explorer type, so I like to go after  badges, as long as they're not too much of a problem. (I'm not obsessive compulsive, so I don't mind missing a lot of badges.)

[Iron man/Woman Challenge]

Given my experience with the game, I have to go risky. Energy/Energy blaster (Radiant Cascade on Reunion). No auction house at all. 

 

And of course the server promptly dies. It's not my fault!

[Slot Machine's Random Challenge - 2021]

Okay, I now have Cyberblossom, a Bots/Nature Mastermind. She's a mutant born with the ability to fly. And then things got very complicated.

 

[How much cash inf do you have on your account?]

I have a lot of characters, and a number of them have between 1 and 4 million. So in total, more than 10 million, but much less than 100 million.

[Could you cut it in the big time?]

 

Sure, my main could hang out there. 

[Slot Machine's Random Challenge - 2021]

I rolled a mastermind with Robotics and Nature Affinity.

 

Hmm.

 

HMMM.

 

I will have to consider this oddball combination.

[One Wish Granted (COV/COH) (WWYW2021)]

Reduce AVs to EBs, EBs to bosses, and bosses to lieutenants on TFs when playing solo on the lowest difficulty level.

[Is Regen still worth playing?]

It still works fine for me, using a Kin/Regen scrapper, but I'm a casual player. I'm not sure how more hardcore players deal with incoming alpha strikes. I wouldn't recommend it for sentinels, since you don't get status effect protection until level 20 for some unfathomable reason.

[The Ultimate!!! ...thing you never got around to. Or dropped after half hour]

13 hours ago, Carnifax said:

Sentinels. Still stuck mid 20s with a Beam/Elec. I don't see the point. Yay. I have an armour set I don't really need, at the cost of meh damage. Why don't I just run a Corruptor with nice buffs I can apply to myself? Pity cos I love the Cossie I made for him.

 

Hah. I love sentinels. I prefer ranged attacks, and the reliable status effect protection is great. I'm okay with trading some damage output for damage protection. I now have a sentinel for each primary set. I'd like to get all of them to 50 eventually, doing story arcs solo.

[Is Level 50 your start, your end, or a foreign land?]

I only have one level 50 character so far in Homecoming, and that one's on hold due to my severe altitis.

 

I prefer the leveling process, but I'll probably continue playing level 50 characters now and then to do story arcs they missed. I have no real interest in the incarnate system. I tried that in the old game, and it didn't appeal to me.

[If your alts formed a team...]

Being a casual player, you guys would tear through my team rather easily. There's nothing really tricky here. My dominators and mastermind are still fairly low level, so they don't make the team. No corrupters, controllers, defenders, or tankers.

 

Lisliren: Fire/Willpower Sentinel
Dale Endeavor: Street Justice/Invulnerability Brute
Copper Cat: Psionic/Willpower Stalker
Yukihime: Ice/Ice Blaster
Sizzlepop: Fiery/Willpower Scrapper
Crystal Snowflake: Ice/Invulnerability Sentinel
Sarah Sorrow: Dark/Willpower Sentinel
Shandilok: Kinetic/Regeneration Scrapper
 

[Have you found your ‘forever character’ yet?]

My original main character was Yukihime, an Ice/Ice blaster. I recreated Yukihime in Homecoming, but I'm afraid I've fallen in love with sentinels. I now have a sentinel for each primary. My main is a Fire/Willpower sentinel named Lisliren, and she's my only level 50 character so far.

 

My very first character in CoH was an Inv/SS tanker named Birdy. With a science origin. And I'm a solo player. Imagine beginning the game for the first time soloing an Inv/SS tanker against the Vahzilok. That didn't work out well. Then later Enhancement Diversification plus the Global Defense Nerfs completely broke her build. But I kept that character until the game shut down, eventually getting her to 50, playing her entirely solo. I didn't recreate her in Homecoming, though. I'm done with playing tankers.

[Do you DO? (Dual Origin - NOT about enhancements)]

Splasher Umi is a sentinel with mystic water powers and natural ninjitsu skills. Her parents want her to be a proper ninja assassin, but she dreams of being a heroic magical girl.

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

Ah, I remember the days of fighting dual orange bosses solo. It was actually okay for my blasters and scrappers, but of course I had severe altitis, and just had to do it with defenders, tankers and controllers too. It could be very time consuming.

 

Easily the worst part though was getting objectives to defeat AVs in my missions starting in the upper 30s. I couldn't beat AVs, and I didn't want to get help, so when a character filled up all three mission slots with AVs, it was time to retire the character. Thankfully, things changed dramatically for me when AVs started downgrading to EBs and bosses to lieutenants, and we could autocomplete missions.

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

On 12/4/2020 at 12:29 PM, Vanden said:

You forgot about Dr. Vahzilok, who never appeared in the original Positron TF. Instead he was at the end of a regular story arc, which I assume is still in the game.

Although Dr. Vahzilok appeared at the end of the story arc, defeating him wasn't originally one of the objectives. You just had to click all the glowies. (Otherwise he would have stuck in my mission slot indefinitely, since I was a solo player.)

[How could we get you to try]

League of Legends is designed to be a PvP game. Players constantly complain about balance, and routinely declare that the developers just don't care, despite the constant balance changes the devs put in. In the old days of CoH it was worse. With far more assortments of powers available to players, there is no reasonable way to balance characters in CoH for PvP. Heroic attempts were made, and they failed to please PvP players, and the devs finally gave up. I would encourage the current developers to not waste their limited time with it. There are much more broadly useful things for them to be doing.

 

[When do YOU give up on a character?]

I'm also having issues with Ninjitsu for a sentinel. I have a Water/Ninjitsu as an experiment, and the experiment isn't working out all that well. Among other things, I'm really not wild about having to wait until level 28 for some knock protection. I'm having a better time with Willpower, which does everything I need a sentinel secondary to do. With status effect protection at level 10, I might add. (Why... Why does Regeneration have to wait until level 20 for status effect protection??)

 

I think I'll give up on my Electric/Electric sentinel too, just because the FX for the toggles bother me. I used to put up with all kinds of toggle FX, but I've developed a low tolerance for it, I'm afraid.

[City of Heroes Quiz]

130. Vahzilok before Frostfire? Hrm...

[Best Powers Against the Tsoo?]

I've fought the Tsoo for many years, but I think my most satisfying combination was a Fire/Willpower sentinel. Status effect protection at level 10, and nice ranged blasts with DoT. I never used to like the Fire Blast set for blasters, due to the lack of a ranged hold or stun attack, but I've grown fond of it for sentinels.

[Paperweights]

14 hours ago, fitzsimmons said:

Why else would someone choose flight and invis on a toon?  To fly to safety on any one of several farm maps.  No criticism if that is the case.  But that's the gist of my point.

 

 

I use those powers on most of my characters, and I don't farm at all. I use Fly to get around town. I actually use stealth because I don't like farming. Sneaking through some missions can help me avoid a lot of repetitive fights.