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Sorry I had to leave early. Hadn't had much sleep the night before and really needed to catch up! But I got to knock the dust off of Samurai Houston's err.. duster with the mission team. I'd play him more if Titan Weapons felt more... titanic. But it's an odd combination of massive weapons and the feeling you're swinging them through sheets of tissue paper for all the impact sense it gives you in the attacks. Maybe I just need to start a variant using a proper Katana. Could knock another one off the "Do Rad Armor + everything" list, right @Warboss? 🤪

Which is fine, some do. But most do not. We wouldn't be having this thread at all if a majority of people were more focused on the story of the game and morality of their characters than they are at gaining the easy XP and lasting buffs of the DFB. I mean, that's the funny part about veering off on this red vs. blue tangent and then talking about morality. The DFB is right there telling everyone that those incentives matter more than the quality of the content. If they didn't, you'd still see more people running missions from 1-10 as they've added some even to Atlas that are far more interesting than the old creaky origin-based cookie-cutter "kill x" and "go fetch in other zone y" missions.

Probably this. Just the fact you can get booted from a mixed team when you go to a co-op zone like Ouroboros shows how brittle that code likely is. It was probably a massive hack just getting Going Rogue working in the first place back on Live. I bet the HC devs don't want to go near it with a 100ft pole. 🤪

It would definitely have at least one medium range attack ala Hurl. What would likely get you in trouble is a chain AoE attack that looks like Cap's shield bouncing around several enemies and then returning. The rest of the set would be a mix of shield bashes, sweeps, and punches/kicks.

It isn't. Some people just like projecting. They look at the fact blueside has far more content, more task forces, more missions, more zones, more everything (hell, it even has better weather) ... and then they say "Well clearly people just don't like playing bad guys!" There is no way any significant number of players give two shits (or even one) about the morality of their characters. Hell, the one server devoted more to roleplaying than any other even has a LARGER proportion of its population as villains than any other server. Note to people gearing up angry replies: This doesn't mean YOU don't care. It means not a lot of people do. Most people engage with this game mechanically and that's all. They enjoy playing it, not pretending to be heroes. For the most part. The problem with any game that has factions is you're going to be extremely lucky if those factions ever stay in balance. Once one side gets more people, the mere fact it has more people attracts more people. Without some incentive to drive people towards whichever side has fewer members, it's an unstable system. They sort of acknowledged they couldn't (or wouldn't) fix it when Going Rogue came out and introduced side-switching. But they didn't go far enough dropping those barriers. People need to be able to join teams from anywhere. Even just having to cross sides to join a red team is a negative that helps prevent people from even bothering. And why be a Rogue when it causes all sorts of problems teaming blueside where all the teams usually are running?

Shield Melee Just saying it has probably set off alarms at Marvel Legal.

Not the one!

Fun as always! The early start let me catch up a bit more on XP thanks to these two gentlemen... After a few roster adjustments, Pally was in trouble. Give... me... my... snacks! Okay, I am pretty sure I saw this move in The Matrix. Whoa! They were more sharply dressed. But it didn't help them!

You can avoid the "not ready" sound by using powexecauto instead. This is the command equivalent of ctrl-clicking a power to set it to auto. This way, you'd need to set up two keys, e.g.: /bind A "+left$$powexecauto hasten$$powexecauto active defense" /bind D "+right$$powexecauto active defense$$powexecauto hasten" The reason to have the middle command in each of these binds is apparently because otherwise the green ring doesn't stay on the power. Something to do with movement keys activating twice (key up and key down). But you can try this. It then just causes the auto assignment to switch back and forth based on pressing left/right movement keys. That said, I think I've tried this sort of thing before and found it still sometimes resulted in one or the other power not going off just by dumb luck. There ARE situations where you might not be pressing movement keys. A stationary AV fight for example. Or maybe you zoned in and are waiting for a team to gather. Meanwhile your mez protection drops unnoticed because you weren't moving and it didn't happen to be the last key you pressed. Auto-fire also doesn't fire sometimes if you are actively chaining other powers during combat, so you can have the auto-ring move back and forth to powers that are ready to activate, but won't because you have an attack chain going. Try it maybe, but if it doesn't work all that well (it didn't for me), it really might be best to go with your option (2) and get used to manually activating hasten. Nothing too terrible will happen if you forget to activate Hasten every now and then. Same can't be said for mez protection. And because the DDR in AD can stack, you really do want to have it firing as often as possible and as soon as it's available every time.

Nah. It's later to the east. 10:30am CDT. 11:30am EDT. It's more about you Pacificans, 'Boss. You gonna be awake and appropriately caffeinated that early or are we gonna have to teleport you around "Weekend At Bernies" style? 🤪 Works for me in Central. I took Robin Hat on a vacation to Excelsior yesterday to tack on some levels. Have him up to level 18 now which hopefully gets me back in range of the group. I even randomly ended up on a DFB run with another character named "Maid Marian." so that was chuckle-worthy.

Yes, we have already switched clocks. @Warboss , are we moving the start time here to keep the time same on Reunion this week? Gonna try to remember to make it this month. 🙄

We brought the ice... Warboss brought the Ice Pick! This one just looks neat to me. Cool on the left. Hot on the right. Plus some innovative err... propulsion technique from our Martial Artist on the left? I really need to make some macros to tone down particles for screenshots. Otherwise I only occasionally get lucky enough to show the team without too much obscuring effect. Case in point, there are TWO Radiation Tankers in this shot. My Misty is easily visible... Warboss's Axe is somewhere in that green glow. Trust me. (Meanwhile, Larry the Ravager is about to demonstrate why you shouldn't be the slowest Cimeroran on the team). I don't know what Romulus is doing here, but he looks FABULOUS! And finally... I almost feel bad for this minotaur. That's just a perfectly aimed kick. And now I want to roll up an MA Tanker. 😈

Sheesh! Relax and have a biscuit, why don't you?

It will fire reliably 30% of the time. So in a pack of enemies where it's able to hit its 10 target cap, expect 3 of them to be hit with 10s of -20% res (against an even con enemy. Around half that if you're fighting anything worth fighting). And you don't get to pick which 3 so think of it as a very minor damage adder for your AoEs. I have it slotted in there myself for the same reason you mention... can't think of much better to do with its one slot. Speaking of which, it's not really worth adding any slots to Beta Decay. You can use that slot much more productively elsewhere. Pick either the debuff enhancement or the Achilles. Yes, max res and recharge. Def is a distant third priority because you've no DDR to protect it. At best, it can be considered a base for team buffs to build on, rather than something you can rely on by itself. Res and recharge you can always rely on, so build them as much as you can. After that, and I can't stress this enough: Focused Accuracy. You NEED its toHit debuff resistance. Lacking strong defense to dodge debuffs, you need to resist them instead, just like you do damage. As a nice side-benefit, you can laugh at the auto-hit toHit debuffs as well from Cabal Witches, Tsoo Sorcerers, Dark Servants, etc. But without it, you're little more than a taunt bot against anybody with even ordinary toHit debuffs like CoT ghosts. Get FA at level 35. Next up: Slow resist. You wanted to buff recharge so that Particle Shielding is refreshing as fast as possible. Slow debuffs can screw that up royally. Fortunately, Rad Armor gets some slow resist built in. For the rest, you want at least the Winter's Gift, which you have, and preferrably, when you have the funds, start slotting a few Winter IOs for the two-slot slow resist bonus. Then tap-dance your way out of those unresistable NPC Tar Patches (speaking of which, DO monitor at least one of your resistances because those debuffs can be hard to notice in a chaotic battle... you have a second or two probably to get out of those patches before your health starts dropping like a stone). Random other stuffs: - Ground Zero wants more procs. If you can shuffle some around, you will be happy. It's a good place to eventually put a Winter Avalanche pair, including the knockdown proc. Funny thing about GZ is that it can hit up to 30 targets and it has a huge radius. Seeing that many NPCs take a seat at once always puts a smile on my face. But also, just any damage procs you put in there will very reliably proc just due to the large recharge time in the power. Good value proc nuke. - Rad Armor has a few annoying holes in its mez protection that aren't easy to fill. Fear and Confuse among them. You can get some Confuse protection if you manage to fit in Tactics. Not sure what if anything can be done about Fear. It is fortunately not that common. Confuse isn't terribly common either. You'll mostly notice it going up against CoT with Succibi in the mix. You'll end up taunting your teammates for a few seconds. A small annoyance. Might not be worth trying to fit Tactics, which you don't particularly need otherwise. - ATOs. I know you said no purples yet, but as purples go, ATOs aren't the most expensive thing out there. The non-superiors go for around 8 mil a piece. Worth saving your pennies for first. Might of the Tanker proc at the very very least. If you can fit it into an AoE, it won't stack on a single cast, but the AoE will make it fire at least once pretty reliably. The +res is very very nice.

"Yeah, them damned capes keep going around jigglin' door handles 'round here like.. what... they are gonna steal my mop? They got nothin' better to do? So you knows what I does?" "What's that, Ned?" "I gots one o' them wizardy types to hex the door. Freaks people right the hell out when they touch it, hee!" "Whoa! How'd you pay for that?" "Cookies." "Oh now you're pullin' my leg!" "No lie! You wouldn't think so but this guy says, damned if everyone doesn't promise him they have cookies if'n he just joins their heroey team and casts his spells for 'em and what do you know but THEY NEVER HAVE COOKIES! So he was happy as a clam. Gave him the whole bag!"

Just ran a PI Mayhem to confirm all that. Yes, no waypoint for jailbreak. Every other waypoint came up as normal before doing the vault. I have four waypoints in the map and was able to run them all. Racked up 30 minutes of time and then hit the vault.

Yeah, the good news (or bad news depending how you want to look at it) is that it's a lot more generally useful to my zero-defense Rad Armor tankers, so I take it at 35. Basically any group of toHit debuffers can otherwise disable me by stacking toHit with normal attacks that a Defense tanker would dodge.

Focused Accuracy is another solution for Tankers. I never skip it on Rad Armor because I get hit by every debuff in the game. Tankers get the best toHit debuff resistance out of FA, topping out at 86.5% at level 50. On a Katie Hannon at level 34, it would be 70.5%. Still very nice and means I mostly laugh at Cabal Witches and Tsoo Sorcerers and their hurricanes... provided I am not exemplared below 30. 😏

I didn't even know you COULD reset a timed mission. In any case, I'm pretty sure I've done these things side-mission first before. Will have to try it again.

Hey... occurred to me when I joined 'Boss's team doing Crimson's arc that it could be cool to get multiple teams doing that on a future TT. If we all kept in sync on the missions via TankHQ, we could cause several Kronos Titan ambushes to spawn at once, couldn't we? We'd at least have to coordinate leaving this mission at the same time: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Crimson#Check_out_Project:_Wildflower_and_look_for_Dr._Hedia_Lamarr Doable? I am not sure how long this whole arc takes though. Might have to check it out as it's been a long time since I've done the whole thing. And we probably want to save it for the next Excel TT since the number of teams we get = the number of Titans we get. Or... we could try teams of six Tankers each. Or both! 😈

I think I took this one a little early. Not everyone gathered yet: You get a car in the face... and you get a car in the face... and you... Red, White, and Blue... (and some green) Nice place. Peaceful.

Except Babbage just spawns once. The weird thing here is the two or three Titans. I just assumed that was GMs having a bit of fun whenever it happens.

City of Data is also a good place to look: https://cod.uberguy.net/ Very detailed info parsed from the game data files and updated regularly when patches land. If you are trying to Google information on this game, you will very often be directed to old Wikis like Paragon Wiki that are describing the state of the game back when it was Live.