Triumphant

Yeah, I can see how folks might enjoy it for those reasons. For me personally, I think I just also don't like raids. Having so many people going all at once makes it nigh impossible for me to follow conversations and roleplay, particularly, isn't viable for me for that reason. Combine that with the fact that my computer really only handles teams of 8 players or less with any real reliability, and they just aren't any fun for me. Gratz! You're almost there. 😁👍

Really depends on whether you're more devoted to performance or concept (judging from your post, I'm assuming concept is king here, though) and which of the two characters powers your thinking of adapting to your own character. They both have red costumes, of course, but the powers are very different. Both SR and Ninjitsu seem like good choices from a thematic perspective, though.

Yeah, that's kind of how I did it too, Rik. Actually, I didn't even bother with incarnates at first. I just found the whole system too complicated. After a while I got patient enough to figure out how to parse the branching tree diagram that explains (rather muddily) how to craft your way up the tiers, but ran out of gas once I hit T3. Now I will usually (eventually) push my way all the way up to T4, but I don't get in a hurry about it, because it's slow, tedious, and grindy. But, if I don't think about it and just play normal content, eventually I build up enough Empyreans to construct the T4's.

It's something a lot of us would like, and I seem to recall it being brought up in past threads. Maybe I'm hallucinating it, but I even thought it was something that the Devs have actually put on their "future projects" list, to be done at some point in the future. Of course, it could be like nuclear fusion, that way. Who knows? 😄🤷‍♂️

For what it's worth, I also make characters this way. There are S/L (smashing/lethal) farms you can do. Just put S/L farm into the searchbox and some should come up. Boombox by Will lo is one I run semi-frequently. I typically run farms with some of my more well built characters, though I don't build characters "specifically" dedicated to it. It can work (depending on the character), but will not be as efficient as one made specifically for farming, of course. But it works just fine for those of us who just like to occassionally "dabble" in farming. You will want a decently built melee toon, level 50, well-slotted, with some of your T1 incarnates (alpha, judgement, etc.) to make it worth your time, I think. Otherwise, just join paper/radio missions and/or SF/TF whenever you need influence. Selling the drops you get from running these missions can net you a lot of influence pretty quickly. Folks often run Peregrine Island missions and many of them accept anyone of any level. You'll pick up a lot of lvl 50 enhancement recipes that way. Even the basic ones sell for like 100k a pop, and you can acrue a lot of these over several paper/radio missions.

Snarky might put it a bit more bluntly than I would, but I agree with his general sentiment. It's few minutes of flying from plyon to plyon, knocking each one down in the span of about 3 seconds, then planting the bomb, then standing in the bowl of the mothership for an hour or so, with the entire screen clogged into an unwatchable mess, while you hammer buttons until the timer runs out. I will join them if I'm desperate to grab some levels and can't find anything else. Otherwise, I avoid them like the plague.

I don't mind the idea of obscure teams/comics being adapted into films. Guardians of the Galaxy is definitely one of my favorite film franchises. Likewise, the newest iteration of Suicide Squad. I did enjoy the Black Widow movie and Red Guardian was amusing enough, but it wasn't one of my favorites. Likewise, the Thunderbolts and the new Cap movie don't really excite me that much. It's not even that I think they'll be terrible. I'm not a big Disney hater or anything. They make good stuff, they make terrible stuff, and they make stuff that is just... meh. I'll see both films, eventually, and I'll probably even like them okay. I'm just not really excited about them. Actually, not to derail the thread, but what I would really like to see in this vein is James Gunn try his hand at doing a L.E.G.I.O.N. movie for DC. That's an obscure team with a lot of cool (but not extremely well known) characters that could be as much fun as GotG, in their own way.

I could only find a reference to him in the Wiki that says he appears in Mothership Raids. You may just have to keep on grinding MSRs until you get the badge. Sorry I haven't got a better answer for you.

Meh. And... Meh. 🤷‍♂️

This installment truly is for the little kids, in the same manner that the old 80's Ewok movies were made for little kids. And yes, there are callbacks to other 80's youth nostalgia like Goonies and what not. I actually loved those Ewok movies back when I was a kid. Yes, they were not sophisticated entertainment or award winning television. But they were fun and endearing in their own way. I have occasionally rewatched them, as an excercise in nostalgia and a bit of a guilty pleasure. If you have very young children that like Star Wars, I suggest watching the series with them and watching their reactions, as I think this is how adult fans will get the most mileage out of the series (unless, of course, you are like me and also have a soft-spot for the old Ewok shows). Of course, I could be completely wrong and the show could be absolutely terrible, regardless of who is viewing it. I actually like what I see though, and feel fairly good about what we have been shown so far. I will, of course, reserve complete judgement until I have viewed the show in it's entirety.

@Digirium I don't want to be condescending, so try to take my response here as what it is: Just another point of view. None of the things that you mentioned in your reply bother me in the slightest. Though, if they did, I could easily fix it by using one of several AE buildings that are in regular zones. As to leaving effects on, that happens everywhere, not just pocket D. The solution is to turn camera shake off (which I have done). If you want to solve that problem, it's the only practical solution. I think that probably most players in this game (or any game, really) have pet peeves about things that they find personally annoying. One of mine is masterminds. I hate them, especially fire demon masterminds on constricted maps, because those flaming fiends clog up my screen and make it very difficult for me to see what the heck is going on in a fight and sort of impede my ability to concentrate. When I join a pug and there are masterminds on the team, it greatly impacts my ability to enjoy the missions. Maybe lots of other players have this pet peeve too (probably not, but I suppose it's possible). So, what's the solution? How about we just ask people not to play Masterminds? Except... I'm not going to do that. Players have the freedom to choose to play the thing that they want to play, regardless of how I feel about it (which is as it should be). My solution to this problem (realistically) are the following: 1) Lead my own PUGs and clarify that Masterminds are not welcome. 2) Only play solo. 3) Suck it up and live with it. It's okay to openly discuss your opinion on these topics. If enough people complain, then maybe you'll get enough traction to change the thing that annoys you. But don't assume that most people share your pet peeves (or mine), because that is not necessarily the case.

Yeah, I've never seen it in a non-AE zone. Not sure why someone would do it, given the very low return for farming via street sweeping in regular zones.

BRUTE SMASH DEER!!! 😁

I think you just need to take a break. Play a different game for a while, as a change of pace. There are plenty of games out there that you can grind levels on. Do something new, and then when you come back to CoH it will feel fresh and fun again. For what it's worth, I don't think anyone want's you to leave. It's just that the observations you make and the conclusions you reach in your posts often feel so left-field and so far removed from our own collective experiences when we play the game, that we're all bemused (and yes, often amused) by them. We all experience periods of burnout in certain hobbies. I quit playing CoH for almost 6 months once, for that very reason. But I came back to it and have been playing obsessively for over a year now (though I also change it up with a bit of Star Wars the Old Republic, throughout the week. This is a pretty good game for feeding your grinding obsession, btw. That's not why I play- I don't care for the grind, myself- but it's one aspect of game play, none-the-less).

I fear I have derailed this topic with one distracting (if well-meant) joke. Apologies. I now return you to your regularly scheduled Brute discussion... 🙏