Spectral

I have 2... on different servers 😁 Main purpose: cool looking travel hub, crafting place and storage for my altitis 😋 Server/Shard: Excelsior Base Name: Midnighter's Retreat Code: SPECTRALS-23761 Builder Global In Game (Or the global you'd like comments sent to): @Sp3ctr4l Other players, either partner builders or owners: just me (some friends have access but only I do building) Special considerations: Fly is helpful (jump is ok, you will hate it with superspeed), but there is a rowboat if you fall into the water to get back up. Server/Shard: Reunion Base Name: Spectral's Hideout Code: SPECTRALS-6052 Builder Global In Game (Or the global you'd like comments sent to): @Sp3ctr4l Other players, either partner builders or owners: just me (some friends have access but only I do building) Special considerations: It was built a long time ago when I was still learning and does not have new shiny stuff. Also the weird glass construction was for a game and I did not want to destroy it (hampster race: get to the end as fast as possible, PS: you cannot see the tunnel from inside)

Le forum n'a jamais beaucoup été utilisé, mais si vous vous connectez le soir (heure Europe) vous pourrez contacter des français qui vous inviterons sur le canal dans le jeu. 🙂 "Mekki" et "foudre2.0" sont des joueurs extrêmement actifs et toujours prêts à aider les nouveaux.

Just a question: is there a reasoning why the Epic Ice Pet can fly but the Controller/Dominator Pet cannot? I still wish we could get a Pet-fly power, or Fly from the Fly Pool automatically also applying to Pets... (which would give it an edge over Mystic Flight... *sadpanda*

Bonjour, oui il y a une communauté et un canal francophone "Vigilance". Il y a sûrement qq1 qui saura t'inviter 🙂 Tu n'es pas seul. 👍

Hallo Camion, willkommen zurück (oder so 😉 ) Statt einer SG würde ich einen Kanal vorschlagen. Viele haben jetzt 1-Personen SGs als Lagerplatz für Zeug da eine Basis ncihts mehr kostet, alles ist gratis. Die Franzosen auf Reunion&Excelsior haben einen Kanal "Vigilance"... ein ähnlicher Kanal für Deutsche hätte mehr Erfolg da viele ihr SG nicht aufgeben wollen werden oder mit unterschiedlichen Toons in unterschiedlichen SGs herumlaufen. 🙂 SG sind out, Chat-channels sind in 😁 (und funktionieren Server-übergreifend).

I am very partial to an Ice Blast + Dark Miasma. With Ice Blast you can hold bosses quite easily and Dark Miasma is just a swiss army knife of support... heals, buffs, debuffs, and at T9 you get Fluffy 👻 to keep you company. Take Fire Epic to have decent resist against every type of damage... Take Sorcerer Pool for Rune of Protection to get out of the occasional mezz or oh-sh**-situation. Tar Patch + 2* Ice Rains = dead piles of mobs Use Howling Twilight as a crazy good AoE stun (ignore the rezz part... we don't care for solo). Ice/Dark Corruptor is a Blaster+Controller rolled into 1.

Is Dark Miasma considered top or not? I do see them as often as I see Poison... which is not very often. I love it... every single power can be used for multiple things... Howling Twilight is a _brutal_ CC power, when used offensively... The heal has neat debuffs added, too... Also.. I just love Fluffy (Dark Servant)... his AI is actually good (he cast 1 ranged and then runs straight into the enemy pack where his pbaoe aura will debuff mobs into oblivion). Put Enflame from Sorcery on him and he'll also be great dps. Max his -tohit with enhancements, he can put out silly levels of tohit debuff.

To answer the OP's question Any toon that is built with decent survival/mezz-protection + dps... Great for the job: MM work nicely, as do Sentinels/Scrappers/Stalkers, ... Kheldians and VEAT are also great candidates here Could do the job (really depends on sets and spec): Corruptors/Offenders possibly (most lack mezz protection vs Crey/... for example), Blasters hopefully (though most just charge right after the Tank to "blow stuff up"), Dominators maybe (if they already are perma-dom'ed=mezz-protection and have good dps, so most likely only higher levels) Really bad: Controllers don't have the dps (unless very specific builds), by the time they finish killing the stray leftovers, the team is already 3 packs further down the corridor. Defenders don't have the mezz-protection and don't have enough dps (except Offenders... see Corruptors) ________________________ I did not mention Brutes and Tanks because ideally - in case of 2 or more of them on a team - they should be leapfrogging and staying till stuff is dead-dead... rinse repeat... in an ideal world...

Character name: Spectral Mark Global: @Sp3ctr4l Base or SG Name: Spectrals (1 person multi-use storage/crafting place; with some friends who use it as a Hub) Shard: Excelsior Passcode: SPECTRALS-23761 Item Count: >2k Category for Contest: Utility under 7k Other associated contributors: Dacy's fantastic discord people with nifty ideas and awe inspiring creativity Additional Info / Must-See Areas of Note: - flying ship can be entered - map fully "functional" - all services present, some are well hidden (more or less, I know the judges will find them eventually 😄 ) - as all my toons fly: flying makes it a lot easier to get around (though walking is quite doable)...

@UltraAlt Using longer passwords with words is safer than shorter passwords with random letters+numbers+symbols that nobody can remember. Simply due to the exponential nature of that equation... https://xkcd.com/936/ Hence why I insisted on 15 chars minimum. And why I suggested tricks like S->$ or E->€ ... Humans can remember these passwords Of course 15 random letters+numbers+symbols would be best "in theory". In reality, they are a pain to type and users get frustrated with the entire password nightmare to begin with and "we" end up with passwords on post-it or in Excel/Word/... files that are not secured... At least the post-it/files should be replaced with some Password Vault thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_password_managers). With the Password Vault we go back to: you need at least one good and strong password... 8 chars is clearly known by all Cybersec people to be "not nearly enough"... 8 char can be broken in seconds via brute-force/rainbow tables/... Writing the password to the password vault on a post-it or file is equally unsafe... It's about convincing users to have longer passwords and make those less painful... or (what the cybersec industry is currently pushing) passwordless MFA (Biometrics + Token). But password-less MFA means upgrading a long list of legacy software. And until then we'd want to convince users to be safe instead of being annoyed&lazy. https://www.isaca.org/resources/isaca-journal/issues/2019/volume-1/nists-new-password-rule-book-updated-guidelines-offer-benefits-and-risk

Another big tip about passwords that people tend to overlook: length of password, aka more characters... 8 characters is NOT enough... but having 15-18 or even more makes it exponentially harder to break (or brute-force as it is properly called). And as super long passwords and massively complex mixes of symbols, letters and numbers are impossible for humans to remember without writing them down ==> use passphrases that is 3-4 words with at least 15 characters in total(because "you & me" kinda defeats the purpose...) like "Pacific Soccer 100%" Pick words that you neither love nor hate (and cannot be guessed through your social media accounts: kid/pet names, holidays, childhood places) If you speak multiple languages: mix it up 😎 If you feel comfortable with Freakshow lingo: us3 L33t b3c4u$3 1t'$ cººl & tr€ndy For each single character you add to your passwords, you make the task exponentially more difficult for the criminals out there... 12 should be minimum... 15 is good... 20+ you're a BEAST 🥳 by the way @Homecoming Staff: what is the MAX length of passwords that the server/software can technically handle? (and what happens if you use a password that's longer? 😇 hihi, no need to answer this second question 😉)

Bonjour, Il y avait un problème avec l'hébergeur OVH... ça a été résolu il y a peu... https://network.status-ovhcloud.com/incidents/xdklzwrtxyzg Aussi tu peux avoir l'état des serveurs COH sur discord: https://discord.gg/cityofheroes canal #server-status-updates

With groupfly they seem to be able to keep up a little easier...😇 now to have a petfly or "disable for teammembers that don't want it".... and especially: disable for other peoples pets that might not want it because rebuffing MM pets can only work while pets are on the floor

Bonjour, voici un lien vers le discord Vigilance qui ne devrait pas expirer... https://discord.gg/mu3XCxjtM7 (Les liens discord ont maintenant tendance à expirer au bout de 7 jours, sauf si on modifie certaines configurations.)

We know that the Fighting Pool, Speed Pool, Leaping, Leadership and a bunch of other get taken a lot... Are there statistics about what pools never get taken in level 50 builds...? could be interesting to check out and maybe fix that by making other pools more attractive? Presence, Experimentation and Force of Will could maybe be candidates for this? Or maybe they can be merged with other pools to make those less attractive pools more attractive? Like merging Presence with Force of Will and merging Experimentation with Medicine? It could look something like this? Experimental Medicine 1 Toxic Dart + Experimental Injection (foe) Ranged, Light DMG(Lethal), High(Toxic), -DMG(Foe, All), -Rech(Foe), -ToHit(Foe) 1 Injection + Experimental Injection (ally) Ranged, Ally +Regeneration, +Recovery, +Res(Status) 4 Speed of Sound Toggle: Self +Speed, (Special) > Jaunt Click, Self Teleport 14 Aid Self + Field Medic Self, Heal, +Res(Stun), +EndGain(Synergy), Special 20 Adrenal Booster Self, +To Hit, +Recharge, +Damage, +Special Presence + Force of Will 1 Weaken Resolve + Pacify Ranged, Foe -Resist, -Defense, -To Hit, Placate (Foe) 1 Project Will, Provoke Targeted AoE, Light DMG(Psionic), Taunt (Foe) 4 Mighty Leap Toggle: Self Long Jump, (Special) > Takeoff PBAoE Melee, Self +Jump, Foe Knockdown 14 Wall of Force + Invoke Panic Ranged Cone, Minor DMG(Psionic/Smashing), Fear (Foe) 20 Unleash Potential + Unrelenting Self, +Regen, +Defense, +Rech, +Rec, Self Resurrect (Special) used to be (for reference): Self, +Regen, +Recovery, +Defense Self, Heal over Time, +DMG(All), +Rech, +Rec, Self Resurrect (Special)