Nostromo21

Why can't you have 2 or more of the same AT/primary/secondary, with diff costumes/themes/builds...? ;) I feel very left out and under-represented by this thread, due to my rampant alt-o-holism, with almost 70 toons, highest at 39. :(

Were you running a 286 or 386 previously...?

No. One is obviously meant to keep the flavour in, the other one out. I will leave it up to you to decide which is which.

I'm reporting this post right now!

If that's true, then grind levelling trials like DiB & DfB should be nerfed to the buggery!

The only psychic characters I have enjoyed: Fortunata Shield/Psi tanker Psy/Time Corruptor my wife

Yes, some ppl need a team of randos to carry them. For me, hell is other ppl, so I prefer undead minions. ;-p

You mean like playing the game from 1-50 mostly solo, which is prob 90% of the time spent by most player in-game...? ;)

You obviously haven't played a fully twinked necro/dark MM... ;-p

Commie bastard! ;) Anyway, everyone plays Brutes, I have no idea why, when everyone knows that Doms are dominant and the best class in the game. That is all.

My early dial-up ISP back in the 90s let me have my own .vent local group, where absolutely anything goes - no censorship, user enter at own risk! They drew the line at subs comparing other ISP pricing & deals to theirs...anything goes, except risk to the bottom line it seems lol!

Loving my Dark/Dark Dom so far, she absolutely blitzes in groups! Ok solo too, though I do miss my Seeds of Confusion from my other Plant/Thorny Dom, eh. I'm going for a pure ranged build, as much as possible, although Heart of Darkness pbaoe is too good to skip and keeps dragging me into mob packs! :)

Yeah, now we have Reddit...

Why yes, he does: Name's Lucifer Morning Star. I made him for my wife. :D

God I miss the old UseNet... <feeling very old>...

I hear you matey. My wife is still angry with Gazillion, more so with Disney, for killing Marvel Heroes. Sonsubeyatches! ;) If only someone would/could resurrect that mmoarpg...but we all know how quickly Disney/Marvel would pounce to 'protect' their sacred IP!

Yeah, fair enough, and I understand completely the limitations (legal & otherwise) of them licensing the rights to a third party - I was there from beta, back when the Marvel scumbags sued Cryptic...personally, I think the whole IP oxymoron is a blight on humanity, but that's just me. At the very least, everything should enter the public domain after a year or two at most, but I'm weird and a bit socialist that way (just not of the lunatic left!). I've already had a throwaway toon I made a year ago called Barbierella recently pinged for copyright infringement and was forced to rename her. The irony is, I named her after Barbarella, the Jane Fonda movie (which was obviously already taken), just modified it a bit. And a device is yet to be invented that could measure my level of interest (or disdain) in the new movie, bleh. She is now called Babarella, but the whole thing is a complete joke, as she was just concept costume slapped onto a brute, which I never play.

I hate to be cynical (or do I...?), but words like 'guardrails' make me very nervous. I sincerely hope this 'alleged' 'relationship' doesn't devolve into a master/slave or publisher/dev type thing and NCSoft at some point demand that MTX/cash shop/loot boxes/season passes/gacha/etc be shoe-horned into the game, so they can take a 50% cut say, and make it worth their while, ahem. 'Licensed' now also means they can simply refuse to re-license at the next anniversary or simply issue a C&D for any reason whatsoever I'd be willing to bet, as HC have now formally and legally acknowledged them as the rightful owners of their instance/version. I simply don't trust any large gaming companies like them any longer, fool me once, twice, thrice, you canna fool me no more! ;) Out of interest, does HC have an 'untouchable' backup of the current build we have access to, and/or another 'secret' hosting location they can fall back to, should the need arise to go rogue again? I would like to think that HC would have the foresight to make a bullet-proof escape vector possible for themselves, even if the game has to spring up somewhere else under a different name. Also, do we as players and supporters have any access to our hero data (an export at the very least), so we have a Plan B, in case of a worst-case scenario guys...?

Ouch! The superior purples would be a killer for me - I was just happy I could get the normal Ascendancy of the Dominator for 8.25% lol! I guess I'll just get used to having dom on auto-cast, and I'll double-bind my WASD keys to casting Hasten as well - if that's not enough I can do a keyboard macro with my Razer to hit some bind key like 'H' every second or two to 'manually' cast it, so long as that's not going to get me into trouble, ahem.

Just curious if anyone knows of a good way to auto-pop Hasten, as I already have Domination as my auto-click power (and I think you can only have one)...? Also, I assume the minimum 123.75% recharge is 50% or so coming from Hasten, which would also need to be perma for both skills to work effectively together. Would love to be able to set up a macro and fire&forget Domination once I fill up my bar for the first time, but I know, you can't have everything, where would you put it? ;) Actually, just googled auto powers and found this very old Gamespot article which suggests this might work: /bind h "powexec_auto hasten" Is that actually as simple as it is lol? So, I CTRL-CLICK Domination (which seems to be persistent between logins, unless I completely drain my END); and then I just use above macro at start of session (or upon first Dom going off) and hey presto, that's it!? ---- NM - too good to be true - that bind just switches the auto-click from Domination to Hasten. If only there was a way to string both to auto fire... sigh ---- Here is an old thread I found on the topic with some clunky workarounds to get both auto-powers: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/4210-2-auto-powers/ Of course, this begs the questions, if you want to go perma-dom without Hasten, how the hell do you get 123-126% recharge without it lol? 8-/

Fabulous, I get it now, cheers! Back to working on 2 or 3 more sets and a couple more LotG slots for my perma-dom then, yay! ---- At 65% - only a 24sec gap to bridge! :) I wish there was a macro or some way to auto-fire Hasten, not just Domination - anyone have any suggestions pls? I know I'm going to forget all the time and miss hitting the Hasten button & therefore have my perma-dom drop... <sad monkey face>

Not sure how you guys have 'perma' dom, even with enough recharge to pop it off as soon(er) as it expires! My problem is, as a mostly solo carebear, how do I rebuilt the dom bar quick enough to make domination even feel like it's semi-perm...? As it stands, unless I'm in a big group doing trials say (which I've been dipping my toe into), it take far longer for me to refill my bar, than for the cooldown to get recharged. Even at just level 26, with a few of the above sets + 2 or 3 LoTGs, I only have 30 secs downtime between dom cycles, a but that's not the issue, refilling the bar i.e. killing a LOT of mobs quickly, after the cycle ends, is far more of an issue for me while soloing...

Excelsior still down. Did updates, restarted launcher 10 times. First Torchbearer showed up as online, now also Reunion + Everlasting. 2 most active servers still offline...of course. Launcher still saying "Error retrieving shard status", whatever that means. What have you done guys...? sigh ---- NM - rest came up 5 mins later. Client crashed and came back with login server errors a couple times, but I'm finally back in, YAY! :D ---- But wait - my 50+ auction items have disappeared! W...T...A...F guys??? ---- A couple logs later they mysteriously reappeared. Things are not stable...

First thing I do is get a few inf from my other mains/alts, and get the rocket pack from P2W vendor (among all the other free things). You can use the jump pack too in a pinch. I then used to go to the 8 exploration plaques and get my first 5 merits that way, which = 15 enhanc converters. Cool million right there on AH to kick off with. However, they recently changed the badge to require 10 exploration sites, so the Atlas Tour Guide achievement doesn't give you the merits on its own any more, I had to go and get 3 more in Kings Row for some reason, eh. Of course, if you already have 100s of millions/billions on alts you can just email yourself any amount! A true SSF hero would need to earn 2-3K the old fashioned way before you can even put your 1st converter on the AH to sell for ~60K usually.

Late to the party...(looking for an Aussie SG)...I mostly come at night...mostly. I'm predominantly a solo carebear, I spend more time making alts with certain themes/looks. Which is why I have only the 1st page at lvl 20-40, no 50s and the rest all drop off sharply (yes, I'm campin some of he best names - fight me! ;-p). Ok, so I'm really into my plant/thorns dom right now, loved grouping with her, she's a a bit slow solo, but very safe, eh. Would love to join an Oceanic/Aussie SG with her, if only to dominate better! However, I'm very time limited and would need a very casual group, mostly so I don't have to wait 5-10mins in queues every time, or beg in LFG chat to get invited, not my jam, so I mostly end up solo grinding some more he he.