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I think when you find a group of folks who make things more fun, racking up vet levels is pretty mindless. (easy) I also think afk farmers can easily rack up countless levels while they do something else. But it's pretty simple to tell the difference between someone who really enjoys playing their character outside of the farms, look at their badge count in conjunction with the vet levels. As a general rule, anyway.

This is very cool. I'm happy for the players that get to join us. It's absolutely none of my business, but did they get to keep their SG bases, influence and stuff like that with the transfer? If so, that's really amazing. If not, I'd like to know that, too. I could drop in there and give some inf away.

Forgive the sloppy screen shot - But there are 2 accuracy percentages given, the 101.5 and (48) I assume you're referring to the 101.5. The 48% refers to the base unslotted accuracy? Seems like an odd value, if so.

I'm never going to celebrate NYE in New York City again. They really dropped the ball!

I am more inclined to consider titan/bio scrapper coupled with a fire/natty corruptor. The scrapper is survivable enough; and the damage is far superior to a tanker. And I just prefer the natty buffs to kin. Kin is exceptional, but it's really click heavy, in my experience. You're so busy using the kin secondary, you're not using much of your primary. Whereas, Natty tends to just let the buffs fly initially, and has nice debuffs as well. That said - a couple of exceptional players could likely take any 2 ATs, regardless of primary/secondary, and outshine two others with classic meta AT/powerset combos. Still, skill levels being roughly equivalent, I'd go with my initial suggestion, simply due to the click heavy nature of kin. I have some bias against kin, to be fair. Or maybe it's just bias for natty over any other corr secondary, with cold being a close 2nd.

This shouldn't be too much of an issue when you're teaming. Solo...you'll have to rely on a little inspiration, and of course, your experience. You already know what to expect. The one caveat I will speak of is the leveling of the corruptor, particularly as your secondary isn't something like radiation. Your endurance may be a little tough in the early levels, even with the the miracle and the panacea and the perf shifter. By the time you get to use a numina, if you're so inclined, you'll likely have the endurance handled. That's at least been my biggest struggle leveling the corruptors. The blasters, they have the sweet sustain. The corruptors are left to cheap tricks with START vendor and unique IOs, and the clever slotting for max end and end reduction, and of course, passive accolades.

Not sure if you've been playing enough to realize something about Kronos in Talos... Sometimes (anecdotally, it's rare) it's just one. But I've never been the first one to see one, but when I see the comment in LFG, I head on over, maybe it's dead already maybe not. I turn on the jets and look around on the hill; down the cliff, on top of the buildings surrounding the hill. Generally - at least in the past several months, I've seen as many as 15 of them spawn. Sometimes in pairs. Sometimes, just one. And then...they stop spawning, or a Babbage spawns...and that's usually the end of it. I never saw this on Torch or Indom, only Excelsior. So, blood-thirsty fanged one, I encourage you to just wait a few minutes and see if another appears. And then, remember the $loc command, as it will reveal the /loc coordinates in chat. Example: Kronos here $loc And what shows up is Kronos here 1124.4, -23, 555 that everyone else can link and go right to it to assist. (helps to say what zone for those out of zone) And when those folks arrive and it's already down, you can laugh at your coincidental hypocrisy.

Gonna cut you some slack there. Dealing with file structures and such..it's just not intuitive if you haven't done it more than a few times. And credit to those who painstakingly tried to get you through the process (@michiyo). It can be a challenge trying to explain things when folks typically have accumulated all kinds of stuff in all kinds of places. My own installation of HC:CoH is a mess. The additional installations of a few other flavors of CoH don't make it any easier. Some day in the future, probably when I upgrade my mother board and CPU to adapt to Windows 11 or 12, or whatever the version will be up by the time I have to abandon Win 10, I might endeavor to do fresh installs of everything. Certainly not any time soon!

I have edited my post to adjust them to just being useless to me. I get the jetpack at level 2; And I can level from 1-2 in the time it would take me to travel to pocket d, so yeah, no need for a Jingle Jet when I get a free jet pack.

One of these days, I intend to do a bit of a rabbit hole dive and determine just what this is? CCA? Like Tipper Gore was for records in the late 80's and early 90s? Making sure there's nothing too adult in them? Or is it something more sinister?

Ugh. Canes are largely useless (to me), aside from the recipes from the Candy Keeper. Sure, folks might pay a bit of inf for them - but retrieving them from my email is soooooo tedious. I think I lose inf just by taking the time to pull them out, lol. At least, I would if I were still neck deep in "ebil market" manipulation. But, I've made the big stacks, now is time to just give some away here and there to our favorite vampire on occasion, and maybe to a few of those folks who like to hold the squirt guns and herd kittens lead leagues for various trials/raids. And the occasional noob that thinks 10M is a lot of inf. And, actually play, without tabbing out to check on an afk farmer.

heh, a lot of my self-funding alts will visit this vendor year round. I have no idea why, but there were some long-standing bids for 3-5M for these recipes when the IOs were patiently bought by some folks at 700-900k. It's nice to have some utility for other-wise fairly useless candy canes.

My father used to tell me, "When in doubt, do nothing". To this day, I'm of a mixed opinion on how good or bad that advice is. Sometimes doing nothing can cost you. For now, I think nothing is a good idea with respect to effort to change these sets. Do I like the idea of making all sets 10-50? Very much so. The idea they weren't that way from the initial placement is beyond me. Why the original dev team thought we'd be slotting those is unknown to me. But, that's where we are. Does having Stink of the Manticore available at level 10 make it a more viable set? Not so much. Most folks aren't going to use that set, outside of the damage proc until level 30 anyway. Well, scratch that - for reasons of your own, many of you don't use sets until 50. I guess if I were blinking and found myself 50 that fast, I wouldn't either. But, since I solo more often than not, it's generally not that fast for me. But, making Touch of Death, or Kinetic Combat range from 10-50, that sounds more useful to me. Did the devs really anticipate us doing respecs at levels 35, 40 and 50 to change out these sets? I can't recall unslotters being around. If they were, it was a Free 2 play option, only available in the final year or so. I don't like the idea of changing the set bonuses of any set I'm currently using. Would I want to have to do a potential respec because now I want to use 6 slots instead of the 5 I have? Of course not. Even if was for the better of my character. I've trimmed a lot of characters from my stable. Deleted over 50 level 50's in the past few months because they weren't played in the past year. But still, the tedium of even looking at character builds to determine if they'd need to respec or burn unslotters - no thank you. But I'm just one guy. I'm sure I'm not alone in that specific regard, though. Others in this thread have come up with interesting options, so perhaps something will come of it. I'm not forward thinking enough to come up with any strong logical reasons as to why or why not.

I have a few categories, so to speak. The first shout out would go to @Snarky because he is amusing. Especially when he's not trying to be. A real renaissance man - studying German and music in his spare time, doing Pilates and some basic weight lifting to keep old age from catching up to him. (Run faster, Snarky!) The second is harder to articulate. In my experience, behind every good leader are good people who help that leader accomplish the goals. Now Guardian Maiden leads a hami on Tuesday nights - but also helps in the afternoon hamis when they're not leading. But it's not the Tuesday lead that gets them the shout out, it's the assistance they provide the other hami leaders when they're not leading. And GM isn't alone in this category. I'll likely butcher this name, and probably leave some folks out - @Lauciannacan perhaps elaborate a bit if she has time, I read somewhere she's fairly busy outside of the game this week. But there are a collection of players that seem to be quite useful. Wispur, Queen Maya, Deidre in the Disco, and lord help me...I can't recall the name of the other character that shouts the /loc for those 2 folks who got in, but can't fit on the league, letting them know where the Giant Monster scrum is, and where the staging area to tackle hami is. And as magical as the Goddess is with her many macros, without those folks helping her with the timely incans (in the labyrinth/murder room, too!) I suspect things would be quite a bit more challenging. Guardian Maiden is usually one of the tanks, and the other two..(I cannot recall at this time but I know Will is in one of the names somehow) Tanks are often doing thankless stuff, and it's easy to forget how badly things would go without them. And there's a Screaming Scuttie - I have no idea if they add any strategy but the commentary is usually silly, which is generally appreciated. Oh - special shout out for Amethyst Angel who read my comment that I was 36 prismatics shy of going mini-mode (or something like that) and they tried to gift them to me! I imagine they had never checked my global and was unaware I'm quite capable of buying all the prismatics if I want to. It was really a selfless act. Or maybe they don't visit the forums. Or just didn't care and had a bazillion prismatics. I know my alt that holds most of my stuff has a bunch, but this character was going to earn them. And lastly, @Bionic_Flea. Flea has probably forgotten more than most of us know about CoH. And still knows more than most of us. He is really selfless on the help chat channel, and must have City of Data, HC Wiki and who knows what other sources of information he has available - but I don't think there's anyone that has helped more people in that channel.

I have felt this way before...and really it was just about the latest patch with the name policy began to be implemented that I decided to simply play my level 50 fire/natty. I am somewhere around vet level 38 or so. Got about 1220 badges or so. Somewhere around 200 hero merits. And the inf keeps rolling in. When you don't make alts, you don't have to sweat farming or marketing. Just do the stuff that might be interesting on a given day. A break from CoH isn't the worst plan. Just be sure to check in for new content so you don't miss anything.