Ukase

Hey, can you elaborate on this? Is there a spreadsheet or something you used? Don't mean to be a pita, just curious as to what the method of testing was. And like..what does difficulty 13 even mean?

For me, buffs don't matter...until they do. For the most part, any buff that makes a stat "blue" or caps an attribute that I don't have capped without buffs...I just love that. So, an emp with fort or AB, a kin with fulcrum shift, or a cold with the ice shield + frostwork...all that stuff is great. But the one buff I like more than any other is Adrenaline Boost. So, yeah, I get that a dark/dark is going to be more valuable for harder content in most cases. But, I still love me some AB.

This is part of the reason why most folks afk after putting a ranged attack on auto-fire through their HVAS. To avoid this kind of thing. I will confess - I do tend to bore people with the absolute worst dad jokes I can find on the internet during an MSR, but only if it seems like folks could use a break from the silence. To the OP - you mention it was your first MSR. Congrats! For your next one, I encourage you to listen to some AC/DC Thunderstruck as you whack into a rikti or three. Then, once the GM is down, press the C key on your keyboard. The need for instructions is over. All you have left to do is endure the 30 minutes until the shields go back up. You can just fight or buff with reckless abandon (to a degree - you should still stay near or in the bowl unless you're a tank or brute, or an epic utilizing some buffs to keep you moving). But there's no need to let the chatter of others ruin your fun. When the shields go up, you can press C and the chat box comes back up. Your odds of missing anything important are very low. Alternatively - you can create a tab that displays private messages and keep THAT chat box open in case someone has something to tell you, specifically. and then press C to close the league chat, leaving your Direct Message tab open. I'd say ignore the folks who are doing the foul speaking, but that might take too long, and the ol' ignore button is kind of a last resort (at least it is for me)

This was very much appreciated!

So, the sad part is - as far as I know - without using the wiki, or asking someone, there's no way to definitively KNOW which offering is the start of an arc, and which is the start of some random repeatable mission. But here's a clue: As mentioned previously, there's that blue text - which USUALLY indicates a story arc. But, in this case, it's a badge mission. Maria Jenkins will trip you up in a similar fashion with her offering of a mission to defeat Marauder. It's got that nifty blue text, but it's not an arc with multiple missions. It's just for a badge. Ultimately, I think the best way to know is to use the HC Wiki. I think most players tend to have that site, along with City of Data, open when they play.

I think on the plus side for infiltration, you can at least slot for end reduction. I know when I'd be getting to level 7 or 8, leaving ninja run on, I'd be running out of endurance if I got into a scrape with some hellions and forgot to turn it off.

So, in all seriousness - brawl is great, right out of the gate - unslotted. You'd never think a character can get Cataclysmic badge from brawl, but that is how it is done the fastest. (arguably) Now, when I say in all seriousness, I'm being serious. But I'm not being entirely transparent. I use it in Mender Remiel's first mission to smack AVs until they're at 70-75% health, then switch to a different AV, and hopefully, the first one will have regen'd enough for me to continue. Certain farm builds will use brawl (and boxing) as set mules for faster recharge. Who'd of thunk you'd see a set of Absolute Amazement in brawl? Not me. But I have seen it. As for infiltration, I think the folks that take it are likely the same folks that are perfectly fine with ninja run or a jet pack as their travel power. And if it works for them, great.

Just so you folks know - I made another 40M overnight just by selling 20 insps. Again, this morning, just one super team red left. Granted, 40M is small change for some of us, but I feel badly getting this much when I'm not asking that much. And I don't even have to convert anything. Would love to see some competition here, so my lowbies can spend a million, fill up their trays with supers and blow through some content faster than otherwise.

a tip I read from one of Nemu's posts - proc that arctic breath. It's amazing all by itself.

I thought for sure I put a response to this and looked through it and didn't see one. According to the poll, I'm in the top 2.27%. Each character I have, unless I'm leveling the character up (they start with zero, usually) will have 1B on hand. Emails each have 1 inf shy of 1B across multiple accounts. Because we can only hold 100 emails, I had to make another account because I just don't have the creativity to make a character to specifically hold inf, and the email is 100X more convenient than logging a character off, then back on to access the funds. The reason for the holding only 1B, is if they hold more, then I have to work with the AH or another character to do something with the inf on hand to grab the email. As far as contests go, I might stop and watch, but I rarely even think about participating. If I were to win, it would take the prize from someone who likely would need it more than me. Now, if you have a contest offering 100B, maybe I'll think about it.

When you say "whomever is objective"...that's about 4 feet over my head. And I didn't really come here for grammar/English lessons. But - the latter part IS useful. Thanks.

So...we hear/read all this talk about DDR, and that's why Shield is slightly better than Bio. And we hear frequently how Fire is so bad, as it lacks DDR, it lacks KB protection, and Freem certainly likes to take advantage of that! It's difficult to pin down a "worst" armor, because while it may be "worst" for your tank, it could be just fine for a scrapper or a brute. Or vice-versa. I read/heard someone suggest that because scrappers have a lower resist cap, it made more sense for the scrapper to use a defensive armor. I'm not sure just why they think that, but they have their reasons, whoever they are. (or is it whomever? - Yeah, I think it's whomever. But I'm not gonna change it.) Over the years, I've been able to play a stone tank like it was a weak dominator without domination. I mean, I've even had a tank not be able to defeat trap door due to bad tactics. I am just not a great tanker, no matter what tank I'm on. So, there's your answer. The worst armor is whichever armor is on the tank I'm playing. In all seriousness, I'd say regen is the worst because it doesn't have any mitigation aside from more regen and higher hp.

Ancient Secret. My guess is Calgon.

I could ask one of my daughters about that..she could probably come up with a pretty good guide. It starts with using your first 100M to buy 100 Reward merits for a badge from Luna.

My only question is - did you do all this math from memory, or did you actually have to look up the formula. I realize the formulas are available on one wiki or another, for just about as long as the game's been around. At least, I think so. I haven't been around since the game first came out, but I recall using Paragon Wiki quite a bit, but I'm not real clear when - but I've lost my focus - I've just very curious as to whether or not you literally have the game that well mastered, or did you sneak a peek at City of Data and or HCWiki?

So, often I'll try to hurry things along in a story arc and look to super inspirations to help me do this. And, if there's an AV, or if I'm on a team, I will look to use Super inspirations. I usually get these from my base. But, occasionally, like in a Sutter, perhaps, there are multiple AVs on a team that has low DPS. So, the ones I arrive with get spent, and in between missions I'll just use the /AH. And...well, the folks that like this niche (if anyone) aren't checking in often enough. 3 super lucks? That's it? Wonder how much they're listed for that they're still in stock. No matter. My point is - supply of these is sometimes lower than I'd like. So, being the opportunist, this is how that went down. It's not real clear to me why I haven't been taking more consistent advantage - other than trying to keep my SG bins filled with them to make things faster when I am leveling up.

So, I think you've just re-created an option to bring into the pixel world what we used to do as kids, called "Tag". You see an interesting name, you quickly use /sea (or /search, or Find Member, and if they're of a different alignment, you're really going to have to hustle to change your alignment. Or, if you know the zone they're in, you can type /search +abyss (or whatever zone you think they're in) The game will let you know if you click on their name in the results if they're close by, and well...then it's just a matter of moving around to see if you're getting closer or farther. It's not perfect, because it's against the rules to let them know you're trying to find them. They could zone out. But, generally speaking, you can find them if you're quick and determined. And yes, lol, point taken. A lot of work.

I'm afraid you might be disappointed. The origin of Ukase has been changed many times since the character concept was first created in issue 3. The name stems from the Marvel comic series "Secret Wars". Doctor Doom had a code name, or password he used to "awaken" Ultron 5. That was "Ukase Rex". On retail, the character stuck with the full name of Ukase Rex. But, as you can imagine, with all the different players also using Rex in their names, I didn't want folks getting confused, so I dropped the Rex sometime around issue 17, maybe? I can't recall. I think the retail version of the origin story was something along the lines of some interstellar romance abandoning the child with a bartender in Talos Island. I actually have it saved on a hard drive, along with the old Sentinel file - but I've yet to hook the old HDD to this new rig to see it. Maybe one day, I'll take a look. As for the Bane that I made...his name is Yogurt Justice.

For the first time - ever- in my lengthy time of playing CoH, I made a Soldier of Arachnos. In the early levels, it felt like a very weak, but sturdy blaster. Kind of like an AR/Shield Sentinel..if such a thing can exist in nature. When I made this character, the only reason to make it was to milk a silly joke that I stole from a member of Cosmic Council that I heard a few years ago. About the Tuatha having some secret affiliation with yogurt. Why else would they be called Tuatha De Dannon? Again, not my silly thought. Too bad. Would love to claim it. So, of course, the first thing I did was grab 10 Prismatics, head to the Benovolab vendor...and become disappointed. I couldn't resemble a Tuatha. But that's neither here nor there. Upon reaching 24, I had the instant respec and went the Bane route. I have done widow before and found it just putrid. If Kaizen Soze's Widows make music, mine were like fingernails on a chalkboard. I'm sure that has more to do with me and my playstyle than the powersets. This bane, however, has been surprisingly fantastic. In the low 30's the dps wasn't anything to be excited about. It played like a lower dps stalker/scrapper. But, once I got into the mid 30's and could put some more slots in some attacks, I am puzzled as to why I don't see more of these on pugs. While the journey isn't over yet - level 46 at the moment - this is really a fine character. The only thing I wish it had is a taunt of some kind. Plenty of AoE. A satisfying crunch that makes me think fondly of my Shield/Mace tank. And my mace/fire scrapper. A critical hit with the opening attack. A fantastic stealth. A number of toggles that don't require endurance? What's not to like? There are a lot of options to experience with this character. It feels so much more well-designed than the kheldians. While, still not quite as much fun for me as ice blasting, this character may very well find itself on my first page of characters replacing...something. Not sure yet. But I did want to encourage those of you, like me, for whatever your reasons, put off making an SoA, to do so. And wow. Arctic Breath. Not a fan of cones, but with damage procs, this is a heck of an attack. It may just be Frost from ice melee, renamed and reskinned. Seems like it. I'll be looking into Mako's patron pool a lot more after this. Hard to believe I've never even tried it out before. I know Troo has his internet dice for us to use if we aren't sure of what our next character will be, but I'd say at least try an SoA if you haven't already. It seems a lot sturdier than any of my scrappers or stalkers, which is odd for a set of armor that's only using a steadfast, a glad armor and an unbreakable guard unique in it. (and the numerous defensive toggles)

There's a proverb that states many counsels assure victory. I'm no authority on hard modes. Or even advanced math. But I do know words. A lot of them. And the biggest key is what Doomguide2005 stated it is. Reading, and/or I suppose, if you're on Discord, actively listening. I'm not what I would consider a highly skilled player compared to others I've teamed with in the past. Just a notch above average on a good day. But, if the team just takes things one mob at a time, the entire 1*tf is time consuming, but easy enough if you've done it before.

In the level 30-40 section, No exit button when you complete.

I thought about putting this in the bug section, but I don't remember the name of the tip mission.************** ******************** Edited: The tip mission is a vigilante tip mission, "Investigate Longbow Base". I'll add it to the bug section. ******************* It's in the level 30-40 range, as my character is 39. The tip was in founders, entered it - and all the longbow were friendly until I clicked on a glowie. When I cleared the ambush, and clicked on the second one - I heard the mission complete sound, but no exit button. So, I've seen this suggested when others have had an inability to exit the map through using the exit button. /requestexitmission I typed it in - I got an error message. So, I checked the help section, thinking I remembered the slash command incorrectly. I didn't. There it is - clearly in the list of slash commands - but it doesn't work. The game doesn't even recognize it as a valid command. So, my suggestion is that the help section get some attention so that newer players can more easily help themselves.

Is there a way to buy Super/Winter packs on Brainstorm? Or does my character need to have them in inventory and then transfer to Brainstorm with them? I know some time ago, Bopper (I think) opened a ton of packs to showcase odds of getting certain items. I was wanting to get some Frostbites and needed some Candy Canes to get them - or direct from winter packs, But the character I was on didn't have any. I was able to get accomplished what I wanted to do - but the question remains - where would you get packs on Brainstorm?

So, I'm running an ouro arc, and I get a prismatic after completing a mission. And..there I am, all ready to get a pre-made costume from the vendor..and I see this: While I completely understand if I were in a TF that my team might be bothered by my doing tasks like this - this is just me on an ouro arc. I'm an adult. I ought to be able to do this transaction in the middle of any content if I want to. (I wouldn't do so on a team, that'd be rude. Unless my own costume was just THAT bad and they asked me to do so.) For something like this, I think the ol' TF warning should go the way of other ideas that have since worn out their welcome - like converting emps to reward merits. Just a suggestion.

So..it's just a thought - no idea if it's worth the time to code it, but we have two options - arcane and tech. I think I made a mistake going with arcane, because there's this Merit Vendor that looks like an ATM, and a crafting bench...well...they just don't look arcane at all. At least not to me. I suppose there would be a way to hide all but the screens, but since the thread does ask for complaints, this would be a minor one.