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Crey Researchers use Freeze Guns. The Coralax Blue Hybrids have cold attacks. Circle of Thorns Nerva Demons and Hordlings have ice based attacks as well as The Hellfrost which are totally ice based.

Someone REALLY needs to lay off the Supermarket Tabloids...especially while on whatever psychotropics he's been prescribed. ( Oo ) I've not seen that much straw man double talk outside of political ads and ambulance chasing lawyers. The OP does realize that the context and content of fiction is a matter of relevant perception as opposed to non-fictional fact and logic and his posts seemingly point to a significant lack of said realization. This is why many fan fiction authors and some professionals include verbage to the effect of "no one is forcing you to read this so if you don't like it toddle off and don't let the door hit the backside as you pass on." @Scarlet: Far far too much to even begin listing I'm afraid.

Being too lazy to go back reading thru the pages of prior posts: (chuckle) Air Blast / Control- example possibilities; Wind Blades Air Hammer / Wind Ball Downdraft Dust Devils (multiple small tornadoes for AoE light damage and To Hit Debuff) Vacuum (dmg and sleep) Air Lance or Drill Wind Chill Humidity Control Implosion I know we got Storm type sets but those are more weather than simply air type manipulation and some can cross propagate... Would also be cool to see an Optic (eye) based Power set someday too. :)

Well...if being picky (grin) it should actually be "Command Detonated Explosive Device" if going by actual EOD standards.

I'm aware of that...which is one reason I'm not all that wound up about things or much on computer or board games. They're all limited by their very nature, be it thru programming, the board itself, etc. Hence why free form RPGs will always be superior (at least those with decent rules mechanics. lol ) :P Reality is that same way, you can make an impact but never fully get rid of the lice...errr...bad guys once they've gotten dug into an area. But as you noted, moving from one zone to the next would see a transition from one group to the next. Internal to the zones you've got the difficulty zones which can function in the same way and the borders being friction points where the gangs are fighting for dominance. The way CoH/V is set up, with planning and a bit more careful writing and mission flags, it could've gotten a lot closer to this than most MMO's. WarC**** achieved this to an extent so I know it's not unfathomably impossible. All that said though, as I originally noted, while a bit disappointing/irritating since back in 2004 it's never been enough to make me not wanna play.

While I disagree with the OP on many things there are a few issues with villains and their groups I do find to be a minor irritant; mainly nonsensical placement rather than set territories. I mean the Banished Pantheon for example...makes great sense in Dark Astoria and encroaching nearby. Croatoa is another good example of villain groups fitting into the zone...they don't really bleed out of it. Unlike Circle of Thorns which is like a band of roaches and lurking everywhere...like why the heck are they on dang near every rooftop in KR...I can get behind Perez, the Hollows, and the outer islands in Talos. The Vaz, Lost, and Skulls in KR make sense as do the Clocks. I think the Family in KR would make more sense than the Circle. Most gangs claim a territory and defend it against all others...rather than being mixed together like some large disproportionate urban fruit salad. The other thing just generates a little bit of disappointment (?) or annoyance (?) in that you complete a story arc taking down the bosses or AVs in a zone and then run into more of the same in the next zone rather than being done with that villain group...so there's no real sense of moving on / accomplishment outside of beating the stuffing outta the mobs. The exception to this is the Theiry-Arachnos arc. You bust their base, save the family, and they're done and gone and AP's warehouses are no longer burning down. Sure you still got Hellions and Clocks but they're street rats and it is their territory which you don't see them out of other than in the Hollows & Perez or on specific missions. None of it bothers me enough to stop playing...but that bit of bother is there.

I like to play around with power set combos and experiment with how they play and synergize like Rad Melee/Stone Armor. Mud pots + Irradiated Ground = dead zone for instance. Playing with the character creator is also amusing but I seldom go into things with something in mind other than "I wonder how..."

I'm strictly a solo player. Easiest to solo with are Sentinel, Brute, MM, Blaster, Scrapper/Stalker...in that order. Of course power set selection will affect things as well...

Major Holocaust would likely be one of those kaiju type 'flatten everything in sight' raids against any Longbow or Vanguard facilities given his twisted brain and thirst for seeing the world burn.

Right there with ya on the books and fanfic stuff Momentary...though being currently unemployed not a lot of reason to be up at a certain time the next day presently. *sigh*

OOOooookayyyyy.... ( Oo ) Someone seems off their meds. Paragon like a real city?! Professionally speaking...not even close. So much stuff that would never ever be built in real life the way they are in the game that it's cringe worthy. One of the things I like about gold side...Praetoria is a lot more 'realistic' that Paragon and Rogue Islands will ever by outside of Kallisti. Part of that is for the a) challenge and b) the original devs were going for the comic book larger than life thing. Time sink...yeah it is that but that's also a matter of personal discipline so if you feel you needs walk away 'cause you can't manage your day otherwise...bon jour.

I enjoy playing with the various power combos and just seeing how things work together....that said; I think rather than a signature character per se I lean more towards a signature character behavior. Most of the toons I really really enjoy have decent defense with fairly fast attacks with decent damage in the Brute and Sentinel power sets with Blasters being a third preferred AT. Toons that have really popped with me are my Fire/Rad Brute, Elec/Rad Sent, Staff/Refl Brute, Storm/Time Blas, Beam/Elec Sent, and Psi/Time Blas. I'm finding an Ice/Fire Brute to be rather interesting as well. Still no 50's yet since I rotate thru all 30+ toons while soloing. lol Getting close though.

Freakshow: Give it up you Decepticon never-will-be's! Tsoo: Okay...enough with the Naruto chunni routine you losers. Warriors: The Fonz will always be cooler than you muscle-brained rejects. 5th Column / Council: You call yourselves ubermensch? More like uber-morons if you ask me. Lost: I'm not sure if you idiots are trying to cosplay the THING or the Melting Man but you for sure got the ugly right. Sky Raiders: No matter how much you pretend to be a Sky Captain...you won't be in the world of tomorrow. Circle of Thorns: *sings "I ain't got no body!" mockingly* Banished Pantheon: Unfortunately for you deadheads I shop smart at S-Mart! *sound of chainsaw revving up* Arachnos: Strung along fodder and shoddy second rate machinery...you guys are an insult to arachnids. Family: Oi! Last century fashion disaster...the only thing good about that suit is the stripes won't be outta place in the Zig. Skulls: As dumb as you idiots are you should just call yourselves Boneheads. Hellions: Oh save me! save me! The cute little fire monkeys are gonna sic a daemon on me...*derisive mocking* Rikti: You be scarier if you went the chest burster route rather than the ugly mental case route. Devouring Earth: Sticks and stones? Talk about your Lovecraft let downs. Pathetic. Snakes: Thanks for showing up! I was needing a new jacket and pair of boots! Clockwork: Oh look...the tinker toy rejects finally showed up! Syndicate: You bozos are nothing more than corporate crooks without a politician to back. Mental...the lot of ya. Destroyers: Temper temper....tantrums will only get your spanked. Though from the looks of how y'all dress that might excite some of ya. *ewwww* Carnival: So which of you clowns feels daring cause I feel like making you fly through the air with the greatest of ease! Nemesis: Nice uniforms...let me teach ya why they're circa Napolean Blown-a-part!

I did heroes and villains. I write up blurbs for most of my characters either when creating them or a bit after I get a feel for them and/or decide I'm going to keep 'em around. VILLAINS Major Holocaust: Brute-Fire Melee/Rad Armor Major Allan of the USAF was the experimental pilot of a spacecraft with a new drive system reverse engineered from Rikti salvage. The test was fine until the engine engaged…and exploded in a massive surge of radioactive fire that plummeted into the atmosphere. Major Allan was presumed dead, however his mutated body washed ashore in the Rogue Islands with fearsome radioactive fire powers, his flesh burned away leaving only a skeleton trapped within his special space suit and a mind warped beyond all morality. General Killerwatt: Sentinel – Beam Rifle/Elec. Armor General Killerwatt is a former Vanguard officer that became seriously disillusioned with the direction of the High Command in regards to the Rikti and other existential threats. So much so that he allied with various underground organizations to develop his power suit and beam weapon, trading Vanguard classified information to these groups as payment. Just before Vanguard Intelligence could arrest him, he went underground disappearing for several months. When he emerged in the Rogue Islands as General Killerwatt, he went on a rampage killing many Longbow and Vanguard agents earning the attention of Arachnos. Volt Rigger: Blaster – Elec Blast/ Devices Quinton Wade is an opportunistic wazzu that had a bad habit of doing half-baked garage experiments. One such experiment blew up in his face, quite literally, damaging his eyes. However, it also gave him electrical powers and jump started his questionable IQ into the actual useful range. Seeing a way to cozy up to the power players in Nova Praetoria, he utilizes his electrical powers and gadgets to ‘fight the good fight’ on behalf of Emperor Cole (as well as rig many elections to always fall in the Emperor’s favor). Finally noticed by Powers Division, he has an invite to shine…or crash and burn in a spectacular fashion. Now in the Rogue Islands, he is ingratiating himself with all of the prominent powers while serving no one but his own interests and rise to fame. HEROES Subatomical: Sentinel – Rad Blast/ Elec Armor Subatomical is what happens when you let a kid watch too much MacGuyver, read too many comics, and then ignore them while they play with those old worn out microwaves they kept dragging home. A kid genius, Trevor Bekmond spent his teenage years building and perfecting his powersuit out of alley scrap and junkyard salvage with the unwavering desire to be a hero fighting crime and beating up bad guys. He succeeded just as he became an adult and now lives his dream…when he’s not on shift at his day job at the parts store. Rod Master: Brute – Staff / Reflexes Dillon Phillips is a retired world champion martial artist that was one of the few survivors of the Hamidon Wars. Taking up residence with his family in Nova Praetoria all was well with life; that is until T.E.S.T. showed up and forcibly took his daughter away to be inducted into the Seer program. His wife took her own life soon after the incident. Dillon vanished as he went into an almost self-destructive training program. When he resurfaced he had cast away his birth name in favor of his new moniker Rod Master. Accepted into the Powers Division, he works with Calvin Scott and the Resistance to take down Cole and his puppeteers from within and maybe rescue his daughter, or whatever is left of her, from Mother and her hospital of horrors in First Ward. Psi-Lent: Blaster – Psychic Blast / Temporal Manipulation Once a mere technician with Omni-Tek, a now defunct competitor of Crey Industries, Craig Williams was caught up in the terrible energies released when the Rikti portal device his lab bosses were working on exploded (due to suspected sabotage). Seemingly he was okay when examined by the responding Vanguard medics other than bruises and such from being thrown. Many of his fellow workers weren’t so lucky, a few even vaporized being closer to the device than he had been. Over the next few weeks, Craig began to lose his voice and displayed several psychic and temporal abilities. He went to the nearest hospital and was soon transferred to a Vanguard medical facility where he was pronounced a mutant. By this time he could only communicate with his mind, he voice no longer functional. Taking on the moniker Psi-Lent, he joined other powered individuals in their fight to keep Paragon City safe. And if he can dig up dirt on Crey, so much the better.

Just ran into a Lion-O (Thundercats) clone on Triumph named Leonardo and The Poison Ivyr (Poison Ivy Clone) Gold side (facepalm) I can appreciate the fandom but...oi.

Why do the Ouroboros folks always look so bored? Cause they're just doing the same thing time after time after time after time...

Best for solo is Sentinel if you like staying at range. Brute if you like to get in close simple due to the rage aspect. IMO they can take a bit more damage than a Scrapper though the Scrap can shred mobs pretty fast. Blaster can do decently solo as well, but if forced into melee range will get flattened fast if not careful. Those are the easy mode ATs. Depending on your tactics and play style, pretty much any AT can solo fairly decently though Controllers and Defenders are gonna have a lot more difficulty due to the nature of their power sets not being geared towards the damage side of things.

Dude! What happened to your car? It got recalled. Why'd it get recalled? Was something wrong with it? Well...some kids decided to egg it and the next morning I got the recall notice since it was a yolkswagon. They had to tow it though since it had four flat tires and was far-from-movin'.

Ratcatcher, Toy Man, Toy Boy, MODOC, Ra's al Ghul, Aquaman (telepathic control of fish which he used as his combat force...originally), Shadow King...off the top of my head. Also Swarm...their body is literally made of thousands of bees they control.

That's amusing. 😉 But if we're going IRL... I was in the same school and same grade with a person with the exact same first two names...same spelling even...and the same last name with the addition of 'et' on the end. We kept getting each other's report cards throughout the years I lived in that town. Never did meet in person, though the few kids that spoke to me said the guy was rather ticked off about the whole thing.

Good thing I'm on Torch and don't need to worry about extra garlic being on hand. :P lol

How does one define properly slotted? OCD crunching the numbers slotting? Playing and not having any issues with face planting? Having all invention or special enhancements? I mean...doesn't it boil down to personal opinion at the end of the day in relation to play style? (Oo) (comment is rhetorical. I'm pretty sure the OP was referring to optimal number crunch slotting) 😁

The painful reflection...I was a real shadow hound. :) Doing a recover/kill X mission in Night Ward this afternoon and one of the two kill targets was tagged with my IRL surname. Amused surprise since my surname isn't exactly common. Wonder if anyone else has ran into themselves in game this way. 🍩

Scratches that Superhero itch that tabletop RPGs are unable to reach. I've my tabletop tiny starship games and fantasy RPGs for the other moods.

That's strange...I've never ever encountered more than 3-4 mobs or 1 Lt + 1-2 mobs or 1 boss +1 mob on any mission I've been on with the exception of those that have the flunky wave attacks with most of my toons. I have noticed that depending on my AT at the moment those numbers can go up or down. I dropped by one with squishies like Defenders and Corruptors but increased with strong melee ATs like my Fire Melee and Axe Brutes...