Jiro Ito

This is true, unless the griefers are so organized that they all click the bomb at nearly the same time so the interaction bars are timing down simultaneously. Vanguard merits can be turned into reward merits, or a nice pet, or extra salvage space, or a piece of incarnate salvage. I enjoy going to hang out with my friends when @Apparition and @Anyad run them on Torch. Not everybody has fun the same way; it's one of the nice things about CoX that there's so many different things to do.

Can't wait to play it buddy!

Congrats @Ankylosaur and @Take One !

My main toon is an elec/energy blaster and I enjoy it very much. I've had fire/ and ice/ and they're awesome, and I didn't enjoy water/ at all, but I wanted something different and not so obvious for my main guy and badger, and I never get tired of him. I don't worry about the end drain effect at all in my build or playstyle as overall it's pretty negligible. Thunderous Blast does a nice job of draining end and leaving EBs and AVs without much to do for a little bit but I don't plan or count on it as a mechanic to defeat enemies; I just spec for as much damage as I can do, and it's plenty. The change to Voltaic Sentinel being a toggle was nice, as I went from hardly ever using it and considering dropping it to summoning ol Sparky every mission. Getting mezzed drops him but some good defense in your build will help that. Recommended!

I thought he oughta move to KW and hand out a TF. Maybe he'll get a Coming Storm TF.

Take a break buddy, come back when you're excited to play. This is supposed to be fun time; it's not like a job where we're paid to be here or anything. And I would always team with you if you're on a MM...like Number Six's bio says, it's the player not the AT. Wishing you well pal.

Just wanted to shout-out this thread and all the good info in here that helped me to my badges. As suggested, I used: Mender Ramiel's arc for Cataclysmic. My main toon is a blaster and after nearly a year he was almost complete anyway, a good afternoon of gathering up the AVs and setting Thunderous Blast to auto and I had it. A Malta mission from Crimson where I gathered up 2 blue-con Sappers to keep me perma-held. I switched to an alternate build with zero enhancements and just a travel power to get where I needed to go, and worked like a charm. Mercy Island fires. I slotted Rest and Energize with 4 Numinas just to make sure my regen was capped (maybe unnecessarily as I did not test Rest beforehand to make sure my regen was capped, but I had the enhancements on hand anyway so figured why not). I also slotted Paneca Chance for Hit Points and Power Transfer Chance to Heal Self. I used my alt account to create an Empathy Defender to have Heal Ally on auto, and my kids' accounts with a /time pbaoe heal and /rad with Radiant Auro on auto. I started an AE arc for the team, which kept us logged in (I didn't see that noted as a way to keep yourselves logged in, but it treats the team as a Task Force same as Ouro or regular TF and was easier as there is an AE building in Mercy Island). I put all 4 toons in the fires so the others could also work on damage and healing badges, at a slower pace, while my main toon I used fly/rest to drop into the fires and take 58 damage per tic. I did check twice and found myself dead from the fires for who knows how long, so it still wasn't quite enough. Had I thought to have my kids create a Pain Domination def, I could have probably avoided that. Immortal took much longer than any other badge, long enough that all 3 healing teammates picked up Empath easily. Empath was easy as I used Rebirth at a few Hami and MSR raids and knocked it out without much effort.

Well that's a bummer, guess I'll have to work it into the story. Thanks for the responses though!

I'm writing a mission arc where you start out in low esteem with your contact and they ask you to shadow an NPC hero they trust. Mission-wise, I was hoping to require the player to escort this hero to a terminal, and once done, it completes the requirement, as the hero does the downloading and retrieves the clue. I cannot make this work however, as in testing I still have to click the terminal myself in order to complete it. If I make the terminal an inessential task, it gives me an error. Is there a way to accomplish what I want? I know there are in-game missions that have this mechanic. Yes the player is able to gain the trust of the contact through the story 🙂

Congrats to the winners!

congrats to the winners!

This arc was so good it made me feel bad about the one I submitted

Congrats to Dec winners!

Would love to see it and run it. Successful completion triggers a Rikti invasion event?

I'm pleased to offer: Mistletoe's Task Force #45208 by @Jiro Ito 2 missions Santa Claus has been kidnapped by Jack Frost and Christmas is in danger! Help an overwhelmed middle manager with North Pole Industries mount a rescue and save Christmas!

Thank you so much!

Shoutout Liberty, I was in Crimson Island Avengers on characters like Jiro Ito, Highway, Kaji Da, more that I can't remember. Lots of familiar character and supergroup names, nice to see you all! Now playing on Torchbearer, @Jiro Ito

That's funny, lately I've been thinking, poor Back Alley Brawler, resigned to a seldom-visited corner of Atlas with not much to do, and have started to write a Back Alley Brawler Task Force. Cool to see you were thinking we need some more States as well. I enjoyed your Statesman arc! It was nice seeing a little Sister Psyche mention in there too, and of course Flower Knight!

Thank you so much @Take One, first for running the contest for the community and, humbly, for selecting my arc as the winner. All of you are inspiring writers and always give me great ideas to write the next arc!

I offer this, and may my efforts please you: The Defenders of Talos ID# 44578 Help a second generation hero investigate the whereabouts of the Defenders of Talos, a Supergroup that disappeared after the first Rikti War in 2002. Thanks for hosting the contest!

I was out of town for a couple weeks and missed the deadline to post my arc, but would still love feedback. "On the Claw-Tipped Wings of Betrayal" #43524 Thanks in advance for playing!