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@Snarky working on my dark/ninja blaster and still having a blast! In adapting your dark/temp mids build Snarky, I have a few questions: 1. I can't afford superior anything just yet in Blaster, so am using the normal versions (still 7-8 mill each!) - hopefully that's a good approach 2. As I acquired some of the blaster sets, I ended up with Blaster's Wrath in Gloom, so may have to switch Defiant Barrage into Blackstar. Does it matter a lot which set goes into which power, as the overall bonuses look similar to me, and the globals will obviously apply anyway...? 3. I didn't understand the point of Cloud Senses:Chance for Negative in Umbral Torrent, as it does lots of negative dmg anyway, so I just stuck a 5th Bombardment in there - was that a mistake? Even SA:KB to KD is probably a waste as I mostly solo and actually want to keep the mobs at range as far away as possible...correct? Any other tips for a Dark/Ninja blaster much appreciated. I'm finding Shinobi and Kuji fantastic, but hardly use Immob Dart or Blinding Powder at 32. Golden Dragonfly is fun to smash elites/bosses with once they inevitably move into melee range :) (it just needs a lot more enhance investment, not sure if it's worth it at endgame - I may spec out of it into pools or epics by then anyway). Cheers!

We have a saying down under: fool me once...errr, no I meant: "first in, best dressed". Not sure if that's one you use in NA or EU as well, but I think it's pretty self-explanatory. Unlike ridonculous sayings like "don't come the raw prawn with me", eh. 8-/

Heh, I thought the vamps in 30 Days of Night were fairly Alaskan hillbilly feral, and gave these a run for their blood!

He he, I just recently made a fire/dev blaster called Ember Sparks :). I also have a elec/energy stalker called Elektralight. an elec/elec def called Elektralite, elec/elec corr called Electricksity, elec/temp blaster Elektra Chronos, grav/elec dom Gravelektra. And they're certainly not my favourite or best work by far!

Yup. I'm a huge fan of WH40K. I made a massive, armoured beast of a brute (broadsword/shield) which I wanted to call Space Wolf. Taken. No surprise. A couple attempts later I landed Romulv. Which I am actually happier with. It's really not that hard... And I have 20+ toons which I spent a lot of time on the costume and theme, picked a good name for, and spent very little time playing. So I should give those up just because some other whiney pimple-nosed tweeny wants the name...? F No. I even made a hero for my wife, for her favourite tv character. He's in a suit, dark hair, mo+beard, very good looking, with white wings, fire/mental dom from memory. His name is Lucifer Morningstar. Because Lucifer was taken, shock, horror! If she ever deigns to play CoH with me, she has a readily transferable name and costume ready to go (although she might need to play something less challenging than a dom first he he...although come to think of it, given her RL skills...hmmm....).

On the plus side, all the whiner-wajinas who couldn't get their beloved, Gods-given name, have left in a huff, so Excelsior doesn't have queues in prime time any longer!

ROFLMAO! They need to make a vampire-themed Deliverance...hence the banjo. I think it's long overdue and there is a market for it.

I think the devs should ban all fence-sitters and release all their character names immediately!

@Lunar & Glacier - Snarky can explain it better than me!

I'm back baby! I did not like Indomitable at all. For some strange reason it felt like I was solo levelling slower, dying more often and like I was living in a post apoc wasteland during Aus peak times, ahem. Snarky was right. 8-/

Don't let the HODOR hit you on the way out...?

I've just returned to my WS after a long hiatus. I'm trying to find a solid, simple rotation for my tri-form, but it seems to be very hit & miss. For ref, I'm still only lvl 23. Currently I hover or TP into the middle of a pack in human form (I have stealth on always). Then I fire off Mire, Gravity Well and possibly Essence Drain (if I've lost a lot of HP to the alpha strike). I then switch to dwarf, mire, heal, punch them a couple times and then to the final nova dps form, while I back straight up out of reach, then fling detonation, emanation, etc. If I get into trouble, I don't have the higher level skills as yet to get out easily, so I'll just TP or fly away, then use whatever to get my HP and End back up. I prefer the PB dwarf's direct self-heal, but you can't have everything. I find it odd that my human TP goes so much further than the dwarf one, with just one range IO (and an end red), it's almost free and jumps 420' per cast! :) Now, if I TP into a large pack of yellow and oranges, I usually end up in hospital. Seeing WSs are most powerful with bodies around them to leech off, I must be doing something fundamentally wrong with my rotation. I just slotted all 25 IOs, which has helped a bit (from 20 SOs), so hopefully only gets better from here. I imagine I should also try grouping, given that's where Khelds shine. I do love the innate TP, fly and stealth, I had to add hover so I had more mobility mid-air and didn't start falling if I moved or did anything, not sure how anyone could play without it, tbh.

Roentgen...just Roentgen. ;)

It's spelt Chernobyl ;) I have a rad/rad stalker called Roentgen, pretty proud of that :). My main is 'Pen Umbra' because you guessed it, Penumbra was taken. No biggie. And I just landed 'Darkfriend' on both Excelsior and Indom recently, super-surprised no one had taken it. I even have a couple costume copyright infringements called Spider-Woeman and Spider-Main, so sue me :D. Sometimes I think of a name and that becomes the theme, then I decide on the AT/primary/secondary and do the costume. I would be quite pissed if the name was just taken off me one day when I logged in, with no warning. At the very least, the devs need to give owners min 30 days' notice, both in-game and forum mail, as well as via email if possible. Case in point: I have a couple pages of level 4s and under that just popped up with the name alert, with only 23-25 days offline. And I am positive I just refreshed them and all of my lower levels a week (or two at most) ago. While the tracking system is as bugged as the whitehouse, please do NOT implement any changes to the policy devs!

I'm only sitting on 62 alts on Excelsior. I have a problem and taking my substance off me is not going to help with my addiction recovery!!! Seriously, OP's first post, he's been here for a hot minute and is already demanding policy/rule changes? Please.

Indomitable seems crapola. I feel like I'm def doing less damage than on Excelsior and certainly not levelling twice as fast. Does the double XP from the p2w vendor not stack with the server double xp boost or something...? Bleh. I'm goin back if this doesn't get any better. Server is a wasteland, especially in our prime time down under. 5-10min wait is worth it if all those negatives are the alternative. Yes, yes, I know Snarky, there is only Excelsior! ;-p

I just started a new hero on Indomitable (dark/dark stalker), and I called her...wait for it... Excelsior.! (had to add the dot at the end :). (it was good to find out emails are shared account-wide too, but sadly not SG membership) Been getting a lot of stares and challenges to duels, not sure why... 8-/

Crackers?

Ooooh, did not know that - I'm going to load up my current main I'm levelling with Inf and migrate over for a week to see how the other half lives! I'm only really after the double XP...call me a stinkin mercenary traitor if you will ;).

If you are a bookworm, I highly recommend Dan Simmons' Carrion Comfort. One of the best spins on vampires imho in modern literature. Necroscope was a damn good series, at least the first three, back in the 80s (very gorey from memory). There is also a great, not so well known gothic horror series The Adversary Cycle by F. Paul Wilson, one of which was made into an excellent gothic horror movie - The Keep (there are 5 or 6 versions unfortunately, only 1 or 2 are relatively complete & worth watching). The book is quite different to the movie & very vampir-esque...for a while :). This later spawned the entire Repairman Jack series which I also enjoyed. Children of the Night is another fantastic one from him, for a different look at Dracula's/Count Vlad's origin story. Song of Kali is a different but just as great horror of his. And I'm not even into horror normally. Even more odd, as everyone remembers him for Hyperion, which although I'm a huge sci-fi nut I wasn't a big fan of and stopped half way, eh. I was also a huge fan of True Blood back in the day, for all the wrong reasons.

Yeah, I can get all the info on sets say, but which are best to use for my build, and in which powers...? I have to go to the SnarkyMIDsDB for those answers!

I feel guilty when I put my third in. But hey, you know how all those one percenters get...enough is never enough!

Depends...Twilight faux-vamps, Underworld uber vamps, Interview WTV new age vamps, or Bram's originals...? ;)

If the number is > 100, is there a support group location for that...?