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Honestly, I didn't even know they existed until I set out to get all the badges back on live. I must have played for a couple of years before I was aware of them. As far as I can tell, the game never calls attention to souvenirs, and it's under the tab called "Clues". Because of this, and my familiarity with the content, there's never, ever been a reason to look in there and see what's there. Aside from the badges for them, they're useless to me. Until now, I guess, explaining how this PsychoMetronChrono thingie gets destroyed.
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There's Agent G, a blue side contact in Faultline, and there's Mr. G, a red side contact in St. Martial.
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On 10/18/2021 at 12:55 PM, Krimson said:
At this moment. Rebirth claims to have 13351 Registered accounts with 37711 characters...
Also at this moment - 20 players online.
Costume bits might draw people to that server, but it sure looks like they don't keep them there.
What may not be widely known is that Rebirth has things set up in such a fashion where they encourage multiple accounts. It's not an unusual thing for some players to have 8 accounts on at the same time.
The reasoning is partially due to the tiered reward system, which I would think most are familiar with. Once you get to that tier with the hero/villain packs, getting 2- 4 packs each week, with 8 accounts...you can get your ATOs & purples now, for free fairly quickly. And the outrageous 5 reward merits and 250K for one converter exchange...and the packs tending to have a lot more reward merits than HC's does, for sure, your alts can do the converting when your primary runs out.
The folks there are every bit as knowledgeable as many are here, and yes, they have some clueless folks there (and here) as well. But overall, the community is the same, just smaller.
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10 hours ago, Shenanigunner said:
Now, now.
All snark aside and all due respect to the Devs and their precious donated time... not all of us Discord. The website would seem to be a better primary place for game notes etc., maybe with links from all the other nexuses. Nexi? Nexicles? Necksicles?
I completely agree. I have no idea why HC uses Discord. Never even heard of it until HC made it's existence known. But, it's their game, I get to play for free, so I'll deal with it if/when I need to.
That said, I read the patch notes here in these forums. There's never been a patch where the notes haven't been in the forums. It may not be instantly, like as soon as the servers are up, but within 15-30 minutes.-
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2 hours ago, Glacier Peak said:
You get the device to Penny, who in turn uses her psychic powers to destroy it.
From the souvenir:
"...if a powerful enough psychic were to order it to alter it's own history so that it would never work again, the threat could be neutralized, permanently. As Agent G explained, the amount of psychic power that would take would be beyond Aurora Borealis, but would be well within the limits of the most powerful known psychic on the planet: A girl named Penelope Yin..."
To this day - until this post, I have never, ever read a souvenir!
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I have this page bookmarked and find myself referring to it prior to slotting a proc. To work the formula, I have to have Mids open to see the specific values.
Rule of thumb - a superior Winter-O, a very rare (purple) - those have a 4.5 ppm and can reliably be slotting in any single target power with a base recharge of 10 seconds or more. If you slot a recharge in that power, you'd have to plug in how much of a recharge boost you've put in to determine the odds of the proc firing. Using procs, you're best off relying on global recharge from set bonuses, rather than specific recharge IOs in that power with the proc (s), unless the recharge is long enough to allow them and still have the proc fire consistently.
Caveat: if you stumble across a build in the forums or reddit or whatever - half of these folks are so clueless about procs (and builds in general) that they genuinely have no idea how bad their builds are. If a build has a proc in it - verify the odds before you slot it. If it only has a 12% chance of firing, I see no reason in using it. Opinions will vary, however.
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Really? Let me think when I first did this...Eden Trial was the weekly...I tried to look back, but they screwed up the weekly tf displays so I can't look back, only forward. My guess is the Eden was about 6 weeks ago, and it was the time before that one..so maybe 4-5 months ago, about 19 weeks. Stitch & I and a few others ran at least 20 of them, maybe even 50. It was a lot. Made a small fortune off the 53 cytos. (They're all in the same bucket - a Hami-O, a Titan-O, a Hydra-O, as long as they have the same buffs & same level, they're in the same bucket.
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4 hours ago, Tailcoat said:
I was looking in the AH at Dark Watcher's Despair. There were listings for recipes and enhancements up to 53, but nothing was for sale (from what I saw), so I'm not sure if that's some kind of bug? There were other IO set enhancements like that and I don't think any were for sale. I didn't check the merit vendor.
oh my. For a fellow who spends as much time in the AH as I do, I should have realized this was the point of confusion. <smacks own forehead>
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1 hour ago, macskull said:
While these special enhancements can be combined, they can only be combined with an identically-named enhancement (no combining Hamis with synthetic ones, or Titans with Hydras, etc. etc.).
Because I am often mistaken or wrong, or I might misunderstand words even when English is my native tongue, I figured I would spend some influence and actually prove this is not accurate before I do any correcting - even though I was pretty sure @macskull is mistaken here, or misstated things.
So - as we can see below, I over-paid for some trash-O's (hami-Os).
I slotted the level 48 Titan O first - then combined it with a hami-O with no issues.
My best guess is Mac was trying to unload some micros for more than they're worth. Good play.
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I saw this doing Agent G's final mission today.
If I'm supposed to destroy the PsychoCronoMetron and it's in the helicopter - why don't I see it in the helicopter? Why can't I target the helicopter to destroy it? Seems like something is not adding up.
Done this mission at least 4 times and it's the first time I've noticed this. -
So...let me see if I can clarify something here.
There are Single Origin enhancements that can drop as high as level 53. Pictured below:
You cannot boost these. (the ones that are 53.)
And then there are Invention Origin enhancements:
These can be boosted to 50+5.
Now, if somehow, someway, you encountered an IO that was level 53, the game would probably let you boost it to 53+5, but they don't exist in game, outside of some glitch unknown to me.
Now, this is a "Hami-O", or Hamidon Origin enhancement.
This can be combined with Titan-Os (from Eden trial) and Hydra-Os (from the Abandoned Sewer Trial) as well as Synthetic Hamidon enhancements, provided they buff the exact same attributes. They are also bucketed in the AH identically when they're the same level.
Example: a level 50 Hami-O that boosts Accuracy and Damage (Nucleolus) can be combined with a level 48 Synthetic Nucleolus, or a Titan-O that boosts Accuracy and Damage, with a 90% chance of successful combining, to get a level 51 enhancement.
The cap for these is 53, and they can't be boosted either.
As to the HC Paragon Wiki, yeah, we could stomach a lot more info in there, but the forums, if your "search-fu" is strong, can be very helpful. As can the help channel, if you're on when the right folks are on. That's hit or miss.
But for the most part, if you can deal with the occasional troll who didn't quite read your question correctly, you'll get the answers you seek here in the forums.-
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In that level range, there is no other Accurate Defense Debuff set. Analyze Weakness is a 30-50 set. Shield Breaker is a 10-30 set.
You might be able to get somewhere with a level 30 IO, but I'm not in game to verify.-
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Never take a break. Folks took a break from live - and we saw what happened. Never, ever take a break!
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59 minutes ago, Crysis said:
…..except for Scrappers. God and the Devs love Scrappers the most.
That's hilarious. Scrappers are trash, man. Low HP, random crits. Better off with a brute. Or a blaster. never a scrapper. They're weak. Feeble. And certainly not loved. Blasters get the most love here on HC.
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Just my opinion, but it makes no difference to me if your avatar is short, fat, male, female, naked or not. I'm zoomed out so far - I honestly can't tell whose costume looks like what. That's why I use the RNG for the costume creator most of the time. Costumes are ...well, meaningless to me.
Rebirth does a lot of things "right" - as in, in the spirit of the way the old CoH was played. But, I like the improved incarnate system, getting those lumps of Emp merits & threads. I do like the cheaper converters. I also like being able to sell or trade away surplus catalysts. Ya can't do that on rebirth.
But - hey, nothing says you can't play here and there.-
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I'm omitting contacts that don't give story arcs, FYI. Also omitting the ones on that initial table in the original post.
I encourage you to review the Homecoming's version of the Paragon Wiki. (Pronounced like WiFi, of course) https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Main_PageObviously, you can forgo Shauna Stockwell and Eagle Eye if you like, until you're level 20.
level 1-7 (Atlas)Matthew Habashy
Officer Fields
Sondra Costel
Aaron ThieryLevel 5-19 (Atlas) Level 5-9 (Hollows)
Twinshot David WincottFlux Level 7-20 (Kings Row)
Shauna Stockwell
Level 10-14 Eagle Eye
Julius the Troll
Level 12-14
Talshak the Mystic
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On 10/16/2021 at 10:21 AM, Yomo Kimyata said:
Huh, interesting! I assume this is on two accounts logged in at the same time rather than listing on one alt, logging off, then logging on on a different alt?
Correct assumption.
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Yeah, hate to pile on, but the a farm brute, built properly need absolutely no assistance from any other character, empath or even another brute. The only reason to have the other character in the map is so the other character can gain some inf, some threads & emps, drops - that kind of thing.
An emp still has utility in this game. But if a brute needs an emp, they're better served doing a respec and building the brute properly so the emp isn't needed. Use the other account the emp is on and play the game while the brute sits in the map with burn on auto. Reset, repeat.
I could see a case for maybe using the emp for levels 28 to vet level 3, though.
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17 hours ago, BurtHutt said:
The poor may have more convictions but I am quite certain the rich commit more crimes than noted in stats simply because they get away with it.
Very fair point! I remember when I was in college, my first year. I'd opened a 2nd checking account, because cashing checks back in the mid 80's was a pain if you didn't have a bank, and I was going to school out of state. Long story short, I'd once paid for a pizza with the wrong account, subtracted the amount from the wrong account, and the account from back home bounced. (yeah, I'd only had $5 in it, needed 10!) I won't digress much about how my bank should have just covered it and then charged me a fee for the trouble. But, they NSF'd it, charged a fee. It got re-presented a 2nd time, another fee. A very simple, but obscenely careless & stupid mistake cost me quite a bit of change, over $100! Very expensive lesson.
It took a measure of resolve, humility and assertiveness for my 18 year old self to go back home to that bank and explain the situation and get them to refund those fees. But I still owed for the pizza! No free lunch! Okay, enough digressing. (I could go on, lol. I still remember that as a tough lesson!)
My father, the professor of economics was truly livid with me. More out of embarrassment, I think. Because it was stupid. Kind of like a cop's son getting in trouble for drugs or stealing. In any event, the old man bailed me out of that particular jam. (Did I mention that the pizza place sent their "Pay us" notice to my old address that was on the check, and not where I was living? Yeah, the District Attorney's check enforcement unit ended up charging a nice fee, too!) So, yeah, without the old man giving me a hundred bucks to get out that mess...I've no idea how that would have played out. Could've been a slap on the wrist with embarrassing community service, or it could have been 2 years in the fun house, making little rocks out of big rocks.
No question in my mind that our D.A's have way too much latitude on what crimes they can prosecute, how they prosecute them (Jail, rehab, house arrest - all kinds of ways to get their pound of flesh if they want). But, this is probably too far off topic for a chat about the neighborhood differences between the two halves of Kallista Wharf.
Just wanted to say there's more than one side to every story, and there's almost always a perspective I haven't thought about - so thanks for sharing those. -
You want my theory? Too bad - you're getting it.
I don't know the precise term, but in my head, I call it server lag.
I will pull up accounts 1 and 3.
Account 3 will list a level 50 Shield Wall 5% res(all) IO for 7m.
Account 1 will try to buy a level 10 Shield Wall 5% res for 7m. (For earlier slotting)
In theory, this should work. And it does work. But sometimes it takes the server up to 40-45 seconds for it to work. As far as reasons for delays beyond that, I got nothing for ya. No idea.
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Winter packs, historically, have gone on sale the first Tuesday of December. (server maintenance/reset) I have seen nothing to suggest this sale will happen again this year, nor have I seen anything saying it won't.
It's a strange thing. I fully expected a Nemesis event this Summer, to follow the previous years experience, but it didn't happen for whatever reason. So, we never really know. For a group of GM/Devs that are historically transparent, they sure aren't very transparent about Nemesis...but that's probably by design, a Nemesis Plot.
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On 9/17/2021 at 1:37 PM, PeregrineFalcon said:
This is absolutely untrue.
Statistical work from criminologists has proven that poor people are far more likely to commit crimes than rich people. Part of it is from wanting money and part of it stems from the same mindset that keeps them poor in the first place.
The poor are statistically far more likely to commit violent crimes in addition to being more likely to steal money or resources. It's just that when the rich do commit crimes it's far more likely to make it into the news.
I saw this reply just now. And I see a lot of thumbs down.
Historically, this may be the first time I agree with what PF is saying here. It is true. Those who are poor are more likely to commit crimes. At least in the US. Why? Because they don't have hope. I'm not saying that their perspective is accurate. I do have hope for them. But many of them don't see any hope for themselves. And their perception is their reality. That's not to broadly stroke ALL poor people with that brush. But statistically, it's true. We can debate as to why it's true, but it has a lot to do with the rich getting richer, and the revenue from the prison industry.
Consider the algorithms at work in social media. You - the one who detested Trump even before he got into office - your algorithm shows you a certain set of articles and videos. That fellow - yeah - him with the hat - his shows him a completely different set of articles and videos. And that gal over there - all she sees is Lululemon, Margarita recipes and Bongo jeans.
We all see different things because our algorithms are different. They show us a little bit of what we want to see, and a little bit of what they want us to see - for reasons that escape me, but I speculate it's for ad revenue and political motivations.
But - this is totally off point, I just wonder why folks would give a thumbs down. Is it because you disagree, or you just don't like that statement? Both?-
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Yeah, the email limit per account is 100, confirmed.
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OK, what was that big patch?
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I apologize if I was in error. I honestly didn't realize there was a patch on the 19th!