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On 5/24/2023 at 12:15 AM, TygerDarkstorm said:
Theme Idea: Y2K (1999-2010 ish)
I'm not sure what this was like outside the US, but think all the craziness about everything crashing/world ending. As well as some of the looks that were popular then.
This is a neat idea! Would a cyberpunk/post-apocalyptic look also fit in with this? I remember a couple trashy shows and movies of the time having an urban post-apocalypse vibe to accompany computers and information networks collapsing.
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21 hours ago, TrixieKixx said:
I need more theme ideas! Or, we can start recycling some themes too! What were some of your favorites you'd like to revisit?
Here's a few:
- All magician/illusionists run (blueside would be my preference)
- Time-travelers (redside would be my preference)
- Mutants and monsters
- All brain-in-a-jar characters for a Synapse TF
- All storm blast/storm summoning
- All radiation (blast/manipulation/emission/melee/armor)
- All plant/nature
And, it's a bit down the line, but I'd be up for vocational/trade/apprenticeship jobs for Labor Day.
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8 hours ago, TrixieKixx said:
5/27 – Manticore (Level 30-35; Blue Side: Brickstown) – Corporate World…dress to impress Hopkins and Countess Crey! Any AT
I'll try to bring Caelum - Storm/Elec. Blaster.
And, re: that first Saturday in June, I'd be up for something short like a Market Crash? I have my Demon/Pain MM who's waiting to do that one. (How he'd look "touristy" I'm not exactly sure yet.) Though, if we just take the week off, that'd be fine too.
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7 hours ago, Bananiac said:
JP Gaulthier
A quick internet search (since the name was alien to me) taught me that a couple of the costumes for the character I brought today might have hewn close to some of his looks oddly enough. Fun to know!
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40 minutes ago, TrixieKixx said:
5/20 – Lady Grey (Level 45-50; Purple: Rikti War Zone) – Fashion Show - Put together your bizarre interpretation of something that might be seen at a fashion show! Any AT
Nox - Fortunata
I think I'll end up looking a bit boring by comparison but so it goes.
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19 hours ago, TrixieKixx said:
Is that Symphony/Thermal?
Ah, sorry! Yes, I did mean Symphony Control/Thermal Controller.
I wasn't sure if Symphony was "Sonic" even though it's "musical." Thanks for accommodating me (again)!
23 hours ago, TrixieKixx said:5/20 – Lady Grey (Level 45-50; Purple: Rikti War Zone) – Fashion Show
Also, to cut-off my confusion ahead of time, how should this look? I'm decidedly ignorant of fashion shows (or, perhaps even, being fashionable : P) so I could use some guidance.
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2 hours ago, TrixieKixx said:
5/13 – Citadel (Level 25-30; Blue Side: Talos Island) – Musically Inclined - Costume inspired by a genre of music, character of choice must have one of their powers be Sonic
Does Sym. Control count?
If so, I'll bring Nuntius - Sym./Thermal.
If not, I'll have to work something out.
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18 hours ago, FrauleinMental said:
Interesting, thanks for the suggestion! I'm gonna try that with Intuition Radial and Control Core. I'd been slotting Musculature Core and Assault Radial for the damage and doublehit, since I need damage, but it looks like your solution might do the damage and better control on top (which I also need).
Support Hybrid looks interesting if you have pets or spend a lot of time on leagues.
I'm glad my suggestion is getting seconded! I think that the common wisdom/meta of Musculature/Cardiac Alpha-Ageless/Barrier Destiny-Assault Radial Hybrid would be a bit limiting, if not outright hampering, for my builds. I've found that there is a lot of interesting options and interactions to be found in the Incarnate System once you start tinkering.
And, although I do have it slotted on a few characters, I'm a bit wary of Support Hybrid because I think I read somewhere that the "pets" for which it doubles its bonuses is actually only MM henchmen rather than all "pets." That said it does give some nice bonuses all the same so it works well (I think?) in settings where you're on a team and the extra team/league oomph is better than just individual effort.
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23 hours ago, Midnyte said:
To attempt building an incarnate controller!
The "Intuition Radial" Alpha is great on my Controller with /Rad, and I really like the "Control Core" or the "Melee Core" Hybrids. Not sure if that helps?
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Sorry I had to leave a touch early today. I hope the rest of the TF played out okay.
3 hours ago, TrixieKixx said:Lord Recluse (Level 45-50; Red Side: Grandville) – Soulless - Any power you consider dark, disturbing, or lacking in soul, plus your darkest costume
I plan on bringing Alichino - Demons/Pain MM. (Thanks again Trixie for adjusting the theme to accommodate.)
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On 4/26/2023 at 1:08 PM, SeraphimKensai said:
If you had you split your play time between blue, red, and gold, how much percent out of 100 would you say you spend playing red side?
I'd guess something like 80 - 90%? I have about two Redsiders for every Bluesider, and almost all of the Redsiders are 50 and along a bit (or completely) "Incarnated." I play them on Indomitable and Everlasting. I sort of wish there was a more robust population for Redsiders on Indom. so teaming was less a Herculean task. But, I have found that thoose I do end up teaming with seem like nicer folks, oddly enough. (Maybe, we're too busy being evil to NPCs to be so to each other?)
On 4/26/2023 at 1:08 PM, SeraphimKensai said:How do you feel about the current state of Red Side? . . . What do you think about the mission content of red side? . . . What would you change about red side in general if you were able to do so?
In a word, "complicated." For the most part, I like the mission content for specifically Redside: it feels dirty and dark as I do petty villainy like robbing Banks and beating up thugs as well as the super villainy like taking down a well-known Hero or ambushing a major establishment in Paragon. I find there's a great catharis in sometimes just being able to hop on and have my character puch some holier-than-thou in the face. The only real issue I take with Redside content comes with the frequent "need" to have parity between Redside and Blueside, which in turn, ultimately, translates into make co-op content written for Blueside and my Redsiders are stuck doing some act of heroism with only a nominal hand-wave toward my alignment. (I'm looking at you RWZ and Dark Astoria.) Mostly, though, it's nice for Redsiders to get a loose "win" without having to do heroics to get there- something done well in the SSAs and, more recently, in the Dr. Aeon SF.
Besides radical flights of fancy where I'd completely re-do St. Martial to be a tropical, lavish casino-resort with a dark underbelly, most of my wish-list for Redside is sort of mundane. I'd really love for the enemy groups I face to be redone and re-balanced. Longbow - a public hero group - shouldn't be doing the secret agent/espionage stuff that Wyvern was explicitly supposed to be doing. Similarly, it'd be nice if Legacy Chain and Midnight Club were re-balanced so it felt more natural when I interacted with a "magic" hero group. And, I wish I faced Skulls, Lost, Outcasts, Trolls, and Warriors in a more engaging and different way than just though paper missions (if at all). For example, why does Zephyr - a magic/elemental villain - have Goldbrickers - a tech-focused gang - helping him? (Surely, Outcasts would have been a better fit there.) Or, why do I never really have to deal with Lost before suddenly having it shoved into my lap that they're being converted into Rikti?
I think my hope for the HC Devs with respect to Redside, is that they don't perpetuate the problem of the old Live Devs. Making things for Redside shouldn't be thought of as wasted development time because the majority is Blueside, and Redside would feel less empty as long as Devs keep the on-going plots/stories from rotting into nothing.
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15 hours ago, Midnyte said:
Are you on CoH Faces?
Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding. No, I'm not; I was never much of a vocal/visible player back on Live.
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3 hours ago, Midnyte said:
Wow! Well surely we must've at some point! I have tens of thousands of screenshots that I could do a search for character names. The retail version of the game automatically filled in all your teammates' names as a file attribute (how I wish HC had done that!), so it's easy enough to search the file properties for character names.
Hmm, most of my characters got remade on HC and might be familiar faces to Theme Team. "Animus Raptus" "Umbrifer" "Ussiomnia" "Legatus Lanius" and "Atrae Noctrae" (or maybe "Noctrae Atrae"?) were all likely suspects for characters on those servers. I had several other alts. but they never got leveled very far so I'm not sure how much I played them.
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21 hours ago, TrixieKixx said:
5/6 – Lord Recluse (Level 45-50; Red Side: Grandville) – Soulless - Dark Powered AT's only (just one powerset needs to be Dark) plus your darkest costume
That's a neat one. But, I'd really love to be able to bring either my newly minted incarnate (Demon/Pain MM) or my DB/Nin. Stalker who needs the badge. Not sure either would fit though.
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Just now, TrixieKixx said:
Apr 29 - Faathim the Kind (Level 44-50 – Blue Side – The Chantry) All Controller or Dominator - "Night at the Opera"
I hope to bring Atomi - Grav./Rad. Controller. But, could I please get some guidance on this one? Is it an evening dress/black-tie thing? Or is it something else?
On 4/17/2023 at 10:53 AM, TrixieKixx said:I wanted to branch out to other types of toons, and I've relied on other people's builds for the longest time because I don't know the best builds for AT's I've never played before. I learn from them when I play and tweak based on what I like/don't like. For example, I used to put 3 spots in Heal and 4 in Stamina to deal with health and end issues, I got made fun of in the game (Help channel) because I asked about the best IO's to put in for maximum health/end. I'm just here to have fun, and may be wrong about a lot of things! I have been trying to learn more; however, numbers are really not my thing.
As others said before, I really appreciate that you're organizing these. To me, what matters is that we're having fun - not that we're "experts." And, it's fun to be able to do it casually without any of the baggage of having to be bleeding-edge or speedy. That said, feel free to post builds you're working on; I like tinkering with builds, and although I am by no means the best builder or min-max'er, I can always lend some help with yours.
On 4/15/2023 at 5:59 PM, Midnyte said:Do you mean that you deleted yours, or you still have it? If so, what level? The endurance drain was awful while leveling but now that I can play with set bonuses it's getting better. Also, during the SF today I got my Destiny slot to 90% so slotting Ageless is my main goal!
Sorry for the belated reply! Yup, I deleted mine a while back. Like you, I found it to have an annoying end. cost problem. And I wasn't exactly a fan of the needing to get into melee to make use of my armor set nor the sort of watered-down Dark Regen. But I was also on SOs only, so I can see how set bonuses would buoy the set.
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On 4/18/2023 at 9:35 PM, Midnyte said:It's one of the reasons that Rich and I used 4 servers. We had villains on Victory and Triumph, while our hero servers were Champion and...... er, uh.... drawing a blank right now. Guardian maybe.
That's funny: I ran mostly Redside with alts. on Triumph and Victory too. Maybe we teamed a few times on Live back then?
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49 minutes ago, TrixieKixx said:
Apr 22 - Imperious (Level 35-50; Blue Side: Cimerora) Any AT - All Royalty (are you a King, Queen, Prince, or Princess?)
I'll try bringing Amentia - War Mace/Shield Brute.
19 minutes ago, Midnyte said:What do you think of the name Flying Battress? I thought it was a clever play on words, but maybe just for today. When I changed her to a bat, I named her Battress. Chatting with Rich recently, he told me he heard "mattress" in his head 😆, so I decided on Battrix instead. But I still like Battress, but maybe with an E? Battresse. Opinions, please!
Hmm, "Buttress" -> "Bat-tress" works I think? I'm a bit poor on puns/word play though. I wish you luck on the dark/dark sentinel: I bounced off the one I made for a theme team a while back so I'd be interested on your thoughts on how it works.
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On 4/8/2023 at 2:29 PM, Midnyte said:
Apex initially assembled a team of control/pet types with relatively low damage. We should have informed him it would not go well. 😆 oof!
It was really rough - very reminiscent of back on Live when this TF was first being run. Our team might have been a bit low on damage, and I didn't realize that Blue Patches spawned for pets an players alike. But, really, I think we ran into two major mistakes that made it very hard if not impossible to complete: 1. we didn't stop to re-gather and tackle the AV anew instead of trickling in one at a time to get melted; and 2. We spread out too much, rather than stick together as a team, so patches were everywhere and there was no place for us all to go.
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On 4/8/2023 at 8:10 PM, TrixieKixx said:
Apr 15 - Silver Mantis (Level 20-25 – Red Side – Sharkhead Isle) All Ranged Team (any AT except Melee) - Dragon Costumes
I'll try to bring C. Abyssus - Water/Sonic [Corr.].
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2 hours ago, TrixieKixx said:
Apr 8 - TinPex (Level 50 - Purple: RWZ) Experimental - Any AT - Weird Science (Bring your best/favorite mad scientist or mad scientist experiment character)
Not sure he's my best, but long ago, he was my first. I'll be bringing Animus - Necro/Traps MM.
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1 hour ago, TygerDarkstorm said:
Just popping in to say that this is a combo that sounds like it shouldn't work, but is so much fun. Mine is like level 29ish, I think. No, higher because I got Nova the last time I played her, lol.
I'm a little over level 20 on him now, and I agree - the combo is really fun . I think it's the group-think that KB is bad that makes the combo seem like it might not work. But I find that the in-set tp let's you jump to about where any knocked mobs land. (Though that might be harder if I had/used nova?) At the same time, I'm not sure whether I'll stick with him past this weekend since it's more of an experimental build than anything else.
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On 3/18/2023 at 1:57 PM, TrixieKixx said:
Apr 1 - Posi 1 & 2 (Level 8-15 and Level 11-16 – Blue Side: Steel Canyon) All Blaster Team - Fruit Pies…costume to reflect your favorite fruit pie
I hope to be there this weekend with a (mostly) new blaster too - Brambleberry - Energy/Martial
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Haha, that's great Ban! I'm actually also going with a Lego-inspired character this week, but as that blue wizard fig in the old Knights set.
On 3/18/2023 at 1:20 PM, TrixieKixx said:Mar 25 – Tree of Thorns Respec #2 Trepsarciel (Level 34-43 – Red Side: Nerva Archipelago) – Favorite Toy from your Childhood (costumes) - Any AT
(Alichino - Demon/Pain MM)
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39 minutes ago, TrixieKixx said:
Mar 18 – Tree of Thorns Respec #1 Sparcetriel (Level 24-33 – Red Side: Nerva Archipelago) – Just Clowning Around (Clown costumes!) - Any AT
I plan on bringing my demonic jester Alichino - Demons/Pain MM.
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12 hours ago, Midnyte said:
Umber, that's an awesome name with your powersets. So clever! 👍🏼
Thanks! I was just temporarily renaming my character "Blarney Stone" but with the name taken I went for the more Celtic version. I'll revert it to the normal name afterward, so that name will be free for use.
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Themed TF/SF Saturdays
in Indomitable
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I'll bring my mecha Elec./En. Blaster.