Aeroprism

Not going to lie, I really, really love what I'm seeing so far. I just read @Laucianna's guide. Comprehensive, well made, pleasant, sexy! I'm not going to let myself be worried by difficulty ratings, I don't intend to excel and impress. Heck, I can't even impress with the ATs I play well, I'm not really a talented player. I just want to have fun and play. So it's going to be tri-form all the way until I'm comfortable enough to try that Infinity Changeling/Shifter thing. And THEN, it will be time to try a Warshade because why not.

Lovely, thank you! Hasten was the only exception, because Hasten! 🙂 As for LOTG mules, I'll see. My objective is to make a character with all the powers I "want" before I start worrying about the LOTG mules. But if I have room left at the end of the build, why not!

Hello beautiful people! Got a quick, almost rhetorical question that fits in the "asking the question is pretty much answering the question" but I'd be curious to gather some healthy opinions nonetheless. So after decades of enjoying this very fine game, I'm ready to dip my toes in the VEAT pool. (Well, I tried a Wodow last year but haven't really played her). I rolled a PB last week and played it casually since. I'm also introducing my daughter to CoH and next to the few hours we spent playing Valheim together, it's her first real game. Only the best for her. So we're taking it slowly, I'm having all the time in the world to appreciate the AT and learn it. My first observation is that Multi-form is going to be the most fun experience. It's a dynamic playstyle that I know I will enjoy and besides, if I wanted to only play a bipedal blaster with toggles, I'd roll another sentinel. So, having read a lot of guides and docs about PBs here, I feel I understand the class a bit better. The thing about guides though, is that they become deprecated with patches and changes. Now, most PB guides make mention of the hassle of Toggles because switching forms removes them. Well, that doesn't seem to be true anymore, when I switch from human to Nova and back to human again, my light shield is still going. I am however going to assume that while I was in Nova form, the shileld wasn't doing anything: a theory I will test tonight. My main question: if I go all out and squeeze most of my effort/slots into native PB powers, once in my life ignoring the Leadership pool and Fighting pool and possibly even the quentessential CJ/Hover, am I shopping for disappointment? I don't intend to solo +4 x8 with my PB, if I want to do that, I have an arm-long Tanker list waiting for me. I would really like to have a tri-form PB but most of the powers are so cool. I really want to test that out. An inf for your thoughts.

Oops. Code of conduct. Deleting my post. Thanks for that reminder.

Hello beautiful people. My game crashes systematically when I try to move that "Z" (See screenshot). Did the test 3 times, it crashes every time. Note that my game is extremely stable, in all my homecoming time, the game never, ever crashed once. Edit: Actually, other things make it crash now, such as navigating base creation menus. I have a hunch... let me try something before I post. Annnd found my culprit. Not like you guys don't give us a warning beforehand: Disabling this allowed me to play around my base as much as I liked. So... non-bug I guess but it's still relevant info. Cheers!

So yeah, spent a little while dipping my toes in the market these last few days. Holy moly... there's so, so much supply, the demand can't keep up. The prices are still somewhat reasonnable but it's become much harder to sell. Looks like everyone and their sister learned the conversion game. I think I'll stick to creating the sets I need and keeping them home, bypassing most of the reasons to have INF in the first place.

Also consider that English is my second language so, double the effort for me! Still, we love our resident Yomo. He's the man.

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer me. I understand everything you say here and it kind of reassures me that I'm more or less doing everything ok already, just on a smaller scale than most. I guarantee you though, had I been there when you explained things, I would have lasted the whole screen-share session. i have deep appreciation for people who take the time to properly explain things and I love complex systems. I already read everything Yomo wrote. That dude is fantastic. If only I was smart enough to understand half of what he says 😉 I'll try new things, see where they take me. But for the most part, I don't really need a fortune in my treasure chest. I love the market game so much, all my alts play it so, they never need a rich parent 🙂

Being reported by a frustrated crybaby is actually the first step in getting the [HERO OF THE WORLD] accolade which allows you to become invisible in General chat. ... ... Don't worry about it. Don't let trolls get the better of you. Keep cool. Kill Skulls.

With a hand like this, I might finally be able to learn how to play Piano.

Even when I'm away from the game, I read this part of the forum semi-regularly because I'm fascinated by how you guys do things. I don't have your smarts or your business acumen so I admire you guys a fair bit. I'm in kind of the same boat as Bananiac there: Converting and selling for reasonnable funds and yes, the profits have been lesser lately. I came back to Homecoming maybe a month ago and I was surprised how basic conversion is not as lucrative as it once was. It's still enough for me though, It keeps my alts well geared. I think that I have maybe... 3 billion tops in INF waiting to be spent. Everything else is in the form of ATOs, Purples, PVPs and Winter-Os stashed in my base. I sell almost nothing these days, if I have everything I need, I don't need that much inf. 3 billion is a drop in the ocean compared to most of you but I like to think that I'm doing ok for myself. It's all a matter of perspective: I had a thought for you all the other night, I was in a lowbie team and someone suddenly said "Wow! I just got a [Very rare salvage I can't remember the name], my inf problems are solved forever on that character". A prismatic something... I /AH'd it out of curiosity, it's a thing that sells 3 Million. To that person, 3 million was a fortune, it made their day. To me, 3 billion is "enough to feed my alts forever" And you guys give out billions in the two digits. CoH: the market. A great game within an excellent game. That said, I wouldn't dislike the idea of upping my game, just to see if I have it in me but I have no idea how to do any of that beyond basic conversion.

Thank you for your answer. With your vast experience making builds, you probably know better than me but I repeatedly read here that in the long run, Smash and Lethal were really not as bad as people make them sound. My "main" character is a Claw melee and she was nothing but extremely satisfying. Then again, I'm really not looking for top-tier performance. God knows this game is already ridiculously trivialized by the epic sets and incarnates, it takes very little effort to make a machine ouf of almost anything. I was mostly going for "what's the feel and the quirks of each of the melee sets". My first 50 on Live was a Katana scrapper so I won't go that way, and I already have a Mace Scrapper in his mid 30s and to quote @Uun, satisfyingly-crunchy indeed. So while I was factoring all 4 sets for comparison, I was mostly looking at Axe VS BS. And I found that most axe options (graphically) are pretty meh, while there are loads of wicked nice swords. So there's that.

I did a really basic, really neophyte comparison. Axe has mostly KD/KU, Mace has disorients and a bit of KB, sword and katana are mostly about lowering target defense. Katana is the fastest set of the 4 and does slightly better with AoEs. Mace hits HARD and is a bit slow. Broadsword is essentially Katana but is slower and hits a bit harder. Axe is a mixed bag, tends to be slower than the other three, a bit more damaging than sword but is the only one with a ranged attack.

Hello beautiful people! I haven't been here in a while but the old CoH itch started itching again and for the last few days, I find I can't get away from the game, looks like I'm here for another round! Last time I played, I was all about Tankers with a bit of Sentinels, but now I just want to Scrap...per things. I want my character to wield a weapon. I'm looking at the one handers: Broadsword Battle Axe War Mace Katana (Ok fine, Katana is a two-hander) I find all four powersets similar but different. I was wondering, in a very few words, how would you describe each? What makes them stand out? It will be most likely be played with a /Radiation Armor because I just love that powerset so hard. CLICKS CLICKS EVERYWHERE! So yeah. Hi. I'm home.

Heartfelt congratulations to the Team!! I have been away for a few months but the itch to play is real. And now that I'm introducing the MCU to my two daughters, I won't be coming back alone. This place will always be home.

You had me at "little rocket boots"

The current build I'm using is super efficient in that regard but she's still in her 20s so, not much challenge so far.

The Tanker. This is 100% how I want to play my MM.

I have absolutely no argument with what you just said, it all makes perfect sense. It'S one thing to be thankful for the effort of a team but it's another to apply blind devotion and ignore any other option because of that enthusiasm. That said, all I feel here IS enthusiasm. I don't go anywhere else because I never felt my experience was compromised at any point, I'm just happy here, and while I can understand why some people may feel differently, I felt it was pushing it a bit to just point and laugh without an explanation. Now I have an explanation. Thank you.

So I just did a bit of reading. Cringe indeed. I don't know if the situation changed since this place opened but from what I know, this place is still managed by a very small, very dedicated team of people who do this for free, just because they believe in their product and their passion. Whenever I tell someone about this game, I always get the same question. "Wasn't this game closed for good a few years back?" To which I answer "Yes, it was, but these Homecoming guys gave it back to us, they improve it, they diligently create new and interesting content and they do it at their own pace because it's a small team." Most people don't even bat an eye and go back to the latest WOW expansion because CoX is a pretty niche experience, but I did manage to get 3-4 people to come back here, try it and stay for a while. But hey. We get this chance to play the game we loved for free by people who work their asses off, yet there are people who go pitchfork and torch over a change they didn't like. This is why I'll never work on a project like this, my skin isn't thick enough. In the 20+ years I published video game remixed music, I was fortunate enough never to get that sort of flak.

All right search bar, let's do this. "People laugh at me when I like this server, why?" On a more serious note, thanks for the pointer. I'll check that page 5.

Debates are healthy and fine, they make us discover new perspectives, so long as we're opened to see what the other side has to say. Even though I have no intention of leaving Homecoming, I am absolutely not closed to the idea that there might be different and better servers out there but flat out laughing at people who disagree with you gives them pretty poor promotion. The point here isn't about agreeing or disagreeing. There's still no argument to challenge my original statement, therefore there is no debate. All there is is my statement, and people posting memes that indicate that they don't agree with it and laugh at it. There is still no reason for me to want to lean your way. "Go ahead and check it out for yourself" is not an argument. Well, what I had in mind was "Put your Inf where your mouth is" but hey, whatever floats. 😛

I see several people making light of my comment but none coming up with explanations or reasons. You know what they say...

Very fun so far! I She was 22 before I took my break, she's level 25 now. Soloing at x3+0 and I'm having no end issues and no danger at all. First mission was a pain: Radio mission with Tsoo in purple caves. I mean, what spells FUN better than teleporting mobs in a 3D claustrophobic clusterfuck. But I managed. I was confused and I had no idea what I was doing (I have NO memory of my playtime with her to get her to 22). From then, it was easier groups in regular maps, quite fun, if not a bit slow. I'm getting more and more used to the AT and it's really, really fun! Thank you for your help!!

Well no matter, unless there's a real gamebreaker reason why other servers are better, my guys are all here and I love the place.