[The Classic Hero Challenge]

On 1/30/2021 at 9:03 PM, ineffablebob said:

There was quite a bit of interest in doing a classic villain (CoV release) team night. I was thinking we could run a low-level mayhem or two - good for temp powers before you get your travel power, and besides, mayhems are the best parts of villainy. 🙂 When are people free? I could do Tuesday, Wednesday, or go for Friday evening again.

Any of those nights should work for me!

[Illusion / poison / mu - Looking for suggestions and improvements]

1 hour ago, DocMidknight said:

One question.......where's phantasm?

 

Phantasm dies pretty easily. I love it (especially since I got Overwhelming Force slotted to make cooperate with my traps and provide more control) but I can understand not wanting to take the effort to slot the power out and keep the thing alive. Especially here since this seems like a very tight build that is dedicated to chasing lots of +recharge and defense. Not sure how to optimize that further.

[Emp/Dark - am I doing this right?]

Expedient Reinforcements has the same recharge bonus for the same number of enhancements if you want to eke the most of those slots.

 

[Incarnate squishies, do you autofire Clarion or Hasten?]

If I don't have hasten on auto on a character that uses it I would totally forget to use it. As far as Clarion if I am mezzed I know that's when to use it. And considering I only get mezzed on occasion I prefer to have it up on an as needed basis.

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

Great run tonight folks! I'm really glad we could get Sythestesiatica up to the proper level so she could join us! Here's everyone about to board the tram for our pre-TF mission sesh:

[The monster war in Croatoa]

I suggested this for a wider range of zone events a month or so ago so I would definitely support this. A white conning enemy only gets easier as you level but having an enemy con white as opposed to grey makes things a little more interesting.

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

Oh wait I thought Citadel was the WST but its not. Sister Psyche it is then! And I am good with Friday!

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

So here's my crack at a classic villain. He's a fire/thermal corruptor:

Also are we gonna do Citadel this week?

[Grant Invisibility still not AoE?]

3 hours ago, Greycat said:

It may have been overlooked, or it may be that they don't want it to directly copy the team invis that's part of Illusion. (Or that it's considered something that should allow you to skip teammates that don't want it - I tend to hear tanks and brutes complaining if they're given it, for instance.)

Team Invisibility is the most complained about power I've ever had lol. I imagine Grant Invisibility with AoE might elicit some similar responses. Still, its hard to keep up single target buff these days. I think this would be worth looking into.

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

5 hours ago, cranebump said:

This was mentioned, for sure. But who made the group? I posted a pic of a redside char I had ready to go, but didn't actually make the SG.

I checked with the super group register redside and there's no registered "we have issues" group. Unlucky 7s is good too but "We have Issues" is also available.

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

Forgot about that. I pretty much copy pasted an earlier chart of issue 0 power sets and I didn't think to remove it.

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

Here's all the Issue 7 powersets

 

Mastermind		Dominator		Corruptor		Stalker		Brute
Primary	Secondary	Primary	Secondary	Primary	Secondary	Primary	Secondary	Primary	Secondary
Mercenaries	Dark Miasmas	Fire Control	Energy Assault	Assault Rifle	Cold Domination	Claws	Energy Aura	Dark Melee	Dark Armor
Necromancy	Force Field	Gravity Control	Fiery Assault	Dark Blast	Dark Miasmas	Energy Melee	Ninjitsu	Energy Melee	Energy Aura
Ninjas	Poison	Ice Control	Icy Assault	Energy Blast	Kinetics	Martial Arts	Regeneration	Fiery Melee	Fiery Aura
Robots	Traps	Mind Control	Psionic Assault	Fire Blast	Radiation Emission	Ninja Blade	Super Reflexes	Stone Melee	Stone Armor
Thugs	Trick Arrow	Plant Control	Thorny Assault	Ice Blast	Sonic Resonance	Spines	Dark Armor	Super Strength	Invulnerability
				Sonic Blast	Thermal Radiation	Dark Melee		Electric Melee	Electric Armor
				Radiation Blast	Traps

 

PLUS

 

PATRON POOLS

Mace Mastery

Leviathan Mastery

Mu Mastery

Soul Mastery

 

[Hostage rescues: Describe the hostage in the mission objective]

Awesome idea. It may be a lil bit of work though considering how many mission descriptions there are but this is an excellent QoL improvement.

[SUGGESTION: Unlock the four basic movement types for everyone at lvl 4]

Inherent Stamina and lvl 4 travel powers already free up a lot of choice when it comes to picking powers and I don't see any good reason to make that any easier.

[What should the aggro cap on Homecoming be?]

I feel like if you were to modify the aggro cap you'd also have to modify how AoEs work, how defense and resistance works, spawn size and positioning and above all other things, enemy AI. Herding is pretty easy even now so unless you modify the broader game to make even a marginal change in aggro cap interesting I don't really see the point. But, if you disagree, I'd be interested in hearing your particular case.

[Help needed finding COV trailer music]

So the full track of what starts with the villain fanfare? I found this track from Recluse's Victory that sounds close to it (https://archive.paragonwiki.com/w/images//7/76/M1_faded.ogg) the other track is the bank robbing theme which for some reason isn't under the mission themes on the paragon wiki page, even though its the quintessential one. Now that's the one I wish someone had a copy of.

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

I'm good with either although I'd bump the Friday time from 7pm EST to 7:30pm or 8pm EST

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

Hm. Sounds like the 17th would work best. Sometime in the evening like 7pm CST?

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

On 1/3/2021 at 3:58 PM, Jacke said:

 

Issue 0 Task Forces

Monday to Sunday for first WST in 2021

		10-15 Old Positron Task Force (Pillar of Ice and Flame L15-19) "The New Recruits"
		Needs Team Leader to be L16 to access TF

Jan 11 to 17	15-20 Synapse Task Force "The Fall of the Clockwork King"

		20-25 Sister Psyche Task Force (Pillar of Ice and Flame L25-29) "Clamor and Destruction"
		Needs Team Leader to be L26 to access TF
		
Feb  8 to 14	25-30 Citadel Task Force "Citadel's Children"

Feb 22 to 28	30-35 Manticore Task Force "Following Countess Crey"

Mar  8 to 14	35-40 Numina Task Force "The Soul of the Woodsman"

 

So it looks like Synapse is almost upon us, what is a good night for everyone? I should be available pretty much every night next week except for Thursday. Also is Sister Psyche a WST too? We have plenty of over +25s too to do that.

[Weekly Discussion 83: Task/Strike force revamps - in detail]

1 hour ago, Saikochoro said:

I’m going to have to disagree on making merits a random drop. I don’t think merits should be rng. Players should be able to go into a TF knowing how many merits they will get out of it. 
 

I wouldn’t be opposed to some sort of bonus merit system though. Have bonus merits awarded to the team upon completion for killing more mobs. 

- Less than 90% of total mobs killed - no bonus. 
-90 to 99% - a smaller bonus (just in case there was a super sneaky minion hiding in the deepest darkness corner of a map. 

-100% of mobs killed - larger bonus. 
 

Still that might be too hard to implement. I have no idea. But I wouldn’t want merits to become random. 

Bonus objectives would also be another way. Something like the astral merit challenges in the itrials would be a nice way to spice up taskforces and encourage more thoughtful play.

 

I'm going to echo everyone and say trim old task forces to size. I would also definitely like the Shadow Shard ones to take place only in the shard so they could maybe be co op.

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

I was hoping we could do a Synapse soon. Most of everyone in the group is now level 15 (or close to) so it should be feasible. I should be pretty available next week to do it.

[Is it time to buff Hami? How would you?]

6 minutes ago, Grouchybeast said:

I would much rather see limits placed on access to incarnate powers in non-incarnate content than see the non-incarnate content buffed to the level where incarnate powers have become a requirement to run it.

This is definitely a worthwhile point. MSR is 35-50, ITF is 35-50, Hami is 45-50. If we balance these to 50+1 (or higher) then we greatly limit the number of people who can participate in them. We can make people mad by either leaning into power creep or slowing its growth. Personally I think one of the best things about this game is its inclusiveness and it'd be better if more people in these forms of content had an easier time contributing than not.  How would this look for Hami? I'm not entirely sure. But I would lean on the side of looking at the players more than the encounter, although anything to spice up the encounter itself would be very welcome.

[The Classic Hero Challenge]

Just hit level 22 on Medic. This is how many SOs I could afford:

 

 

I recall when I ran Villains around i6 or i7 is could barely afford all of my SOs but I think I got a whole stack of 'em. It seems like now you can't just play missions and afford your SOs at level 22, you have to do some market stuff or use reward merits to make up the difference. While I have gotten some nice recipes, salvage and ~100 reward merits on this character I ain't using them yet. This is more interesting to me. It really makes you appreciate character progression. Even just a single SO in any one of those powers make them dramatically better.

[Which powerset has the best chance...]

I think Kinetics. We Siphon Speed off 2020 and use it to run far far away from it. Alternatively we Fulcrum Shift off a whole mob of 2020 and nuke it.

[Which sets would you like to see for Domis / Trollers?]

21 minutes ago, Vooded said:

Your example that all sets benefit from the aoe immobilized is a little... weird. How often do you actually cast your aoe immob on the dominators you play? Does the extra duration actually make a difference, vs casting again or using it for aoe damage? Using the single target hold as a example would have been much more convincing...

 

I uh don't play Dominators. I prefer Controllers. But even with Controllers in the span of about 90 seconds or so I will have cast a group immobilize atleast a couple of times. I will have probably cast my hold more though.