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Weirdly, the only character of mine that's been able to solo that one was my Demons/Nature Mastermind; neither tanks nor brutes were able to finish. I think it was because I could sit back behind my pets healing them after I parked them back in the next room and used the origin permatemp power to pull just the Honoree. But for the first mission I autocomplete, it's always the "Defeat 10 Circle of Thorns" mission you get from talking to the Perez Park security chief at level 5 or 6, when the CoT you'd be facing are 8-10 and in groups.

A random piece of cultural trivia -- firing someone on a Friday right when they show up to work is considered courteous in Korea; doing it out of the blue and sending them home spares them having to be at work with their failure hanging over them, and doing it on Friday gives them the weekend to put themselves back together. So the way NCsoft slagged Paragon Studios was respecting their 'face'... by their standards... no matter how crude and abrupt it was by Western standards.

I don't think it's because they're not pulling but more a combination of trying to pull too many and losing some of them when they aggro more (which loss gets blamed on the stealth auras) and, as you describe, people moving up the ramps to fight and stopping them before they get to the bowl, where the max visibility count causes the mobs on the ramps to be invisible from the bowl.

Level 6. You can pick your first pool power at level 4 and get either of them, but you can't pick the other power until your next power pick at level 6.

You mean like attacking dropping the stealth effect completely on you, the way it works now? Stealth only reduces the range at which you draw aggro (the -Perception effect) up until the point that you actually make an attack, at which point the effect goes away completely and doesn't come back until you're no longer in combat. And if you have one or more mobs' aggro, and you run into an AoE stealth field like Shadow Fall, nothing happens to the aggro you already collected, and you do not acquire stealth and become less noticeable.

It's a minor oversight, but the badge text for both of the accolades "Free Among the Dead" and "A Light in Dark Astoria" is "You've obtained this Accolade by earning every Exploration badge within Dark Astoria"; the latter should say "Echo: Dark Astoria".

And my memory immediately pinged back to this:

I started about a week after CoH went live, and I don't know if it was craziness with the RNG or not enough random missions in the list (it always seemed to me -- and more so after AE was released -- that it should be possible to create a virtually endless series of 'cabbage patch' radio missions to eliminate it), but after the ninth or tenth time you've recovered the Liquid Computer, it wears on you. It's like taking relics to Azuria to be filed under 'will call' for the Banished Pantheon or the Circle of Thorns.

It's not a bug that has any effect on gameplay, other than causing players to snicker, so fixing it should go into the bin of "when there are no other bugs to be fixed" (as if that would ever occur), but if you defeat one of the crystalline DE (Quartz et al), which blow up in a cascade of crystal fragments, the shadow of their defeated body remains on the ground. If I had to say why it happens, I'd guess that when one of these mobs is defeated, the game makes the defeated body invisible (but still casting a shadow, like invisible characters), and triggers the 'cascade of crystal bits' animation.

I have seen issues with the 'last spawn' markers and wandering mobs; in most cases the spawn marker shows up where the mob(s) were at the time the 'mark last spawn' code triggers, and won't update that marker until you get a sight line on the location of the marker, while a second marker appears at the location of the mob(s) when you actually sight them.

The thing of it is, street sweeping was a way of life back on live, because running around at 1x XP, you would inevitably find yourself, at some point in your career, find that you'd run out all of your current contacts, and the ones they forwarded to you just tell you "come back when you're level X", so you needed to join a team to run someone else's missions or grind task forces. The police radio missions helped some, but there were some points where it just wasn't enough. As more content was added, the problem eased, but it never went away completely, but Homecoming put all of that in the past, so that you may only see people street sweeping if they want to get the last fraction of a bar to ding, so they can train right away, instead of dinging 10% of the way into a mission.

And PvP Online, which started an 11-strip storyline where the characters in the comic were playing City of Heroes, and the POV moved into the game after the first strip in the series.

A bit of fourth-wall breaking in the "Find Amanda Gates" mission from Mercedes Sheldon: [NPC] Juicer Freak: Excelsior, don't fail me now! It would not have been funny if I wasn't on the Excelsior server at the time.

Specifically for the patron pools, you have to be a villain/rogue and talk to Arbiter Rein in Grandville to start a patron arc; if you're a vigilante, you can join someone else who's doing an arc, but can't start one yourself.

And 'from the same contact' is important -- at the lower levels, there are two contacts for each origin in each level range block, and if you have the same mission, but from the other contact, you don't get the option. For example, both Carla Brunelli in Skyway City and Athena Currie will give out the same missions, including the Clockwork Captive arc, but if you have the arc from Athena and your friend has it from Carla, you have to finish the missions separately (at least, that's how I remember it working on Live; letting you jointly complete the identical mission from the 'other' contact would be a useful upgrade).

Hermes is also the patron god of magic in the pantheon, which accounts for the references.

Not entirely for the same reward, although I concede that once you've pushed it to +4/x8, anything more is just bragging rights and personal satisfaction. Getting increased rewards for each of the challenge settings would add some incentive to play them.

Well, at least they found and eradicated the accidentally-included Fallout 76 code that was handing out bottle caps as mission rewards... 😄

Actually, yes. That's one of the things that get saved with demorecord, and how Samuraiko (IIRC) was able to assemble her Unity Rally video -- she ran a character into each of the AP instances with demorecord on, then went back to the saved files to extract the character data (costumes and sliders), and placed each character in AP to record the pullback shot.

And, as I discovered experimentally with other gaps, it only takes a tiny gap to thread a Teleport or Translocation bullseye through to allow you to port to the other side.

Taunt is autohit in PvE; it takes Accuracy because it's not autohit in PvP. I believe Flash Arrow is the same.

I noticed that Conductive Aura, in the Electric Control powerset for Dominators, takes Accuracy and Heal enhancements, but not Accurate Healing sets: With the Endurance Modification sets having been expanded to include sets with Accuracy (and sets with Damage), you can increase the accuracy of the power slotting Endurance Mod sets, but not Accurate Healing sets. This feels a bit like the regeneration aspect of the power is getting a bit of a short shrift in comparison -- and allowing Accurate Healing sets isn't going to swing the power into being something out of control.

...and anyone else with the code. Not that doing this for a personal SG is much of a risk, but with a more 'regular' SG, allowing knowledge of the code to get out opens the door to anyone on the server being able to join the SG whether you want them or not, and if you haven't been careful about the settings for base storage, rob you blind. I don't see that the 'extra effort' in creating a new character, starting them in the tutorial or straight to the first zone, making a note of their name, switching to an alt with invite, inviting them, then switching back is particularly onerous for something you do once per character -- a minute or less. Particularly if, when you switch, you're also mailing them a starting cash supply.

It does have the limitation of needing to be slotted in a tray where you have a key command to trigger it; slotting it in a tray where you have to use a mouse click defeats the purpose.

Ideally, the code would look at the set's level range and the conversion type, and make a list of all appropriate sets that overlapped the level range -- essentially giving the conversion the same 'any level' possibility that putting an IO into the AH does. So if you had an attuned IO in a 10-30 set, it could convert into other 10-30 sets, 20-50 sets, or 30-50 sets, as long as they matched the type of conversion (i.e., category or rarity).