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Laby’s a solid addition to the game. Keep up the great work!

Soothing is your cookie cutter heal. Shoal is the obvious skip, and everything else is a must have. If you wanna take shoal thats fine, but in endgame its not doing anything. But I guess in something like CoH that doesn’t really matter much

Yes it does

Go to the discord, you’ll find examples of modern min/max builds there.

Shifting on melee always. Less retoggling. Tide Pool then whitecap. If somehow the team hasn’t disintegrated everything by that point, brine the boss or EB/AV.

Skip Shoal Rush. It serves no purpose at 50 and has terrible proc rate. Everything else is a must have

It makes the most sense and gets me mad stacks since everyone’s in melee anyway

Not directed at you! Was just using your quote to segway that in. The forums isn’t always clear. If anything I think I was agreeing with you? **As an aside, I want to add this tidbit in for new folks. And this may sound harsh, I’m truly not trying to be that but I am blunt. The best builders are on the discord. Some will drop their builds on the forums later but a lot of builds and building is done on the discord. The order of build quality and advice goes: Discord>>>Forums>General/Help Chat. A helpful tip? Treat getting a build like looking at cars. If someone comes up to you and gives you a diatribe about how amazing car A is, odds are they are lying and trying to make a sell. No sales here obviously, and less lying, but you should be skeptical like in a car sale or what have you. If someone gives you what sounds like a used car salesman pitch about how great their build is and they don’t have video proof to back it or it reads like an aforementioned sales pitch? Be wary. A lot of builds work in 99.9% of content so its not like they’re trying to mislead you(usually). Just be mindful and very clearly state what you’re looking for in a build and for what content(this is very important)

This is why I also urge people away from getting advice from gen chat or help or even these very forums in general. This answer is too often given with no followup and/or build with at least some justification behind their choices and beliefs about performance.

No surprise Paragon Falcon thumbed that down. Telling on yourself a lil there pal. I’m curious, what part did you disagree with? Or did the example offend you 😂

Fixed it for ya 😛 But to be honest how would this be measured?

I share your sentiments in this. I usually go with the answer I gave in this thread, except substitute in whatever it is they're doing. If you want me to give a truthful blunt answer to the best of my knowledge I can and will do so. If OP asked if they'd be viable in say HM 4, or even say 3, I would say no. They'd be a carry spot but not exactly a hindrance except in 4* and even then ehhh with enough Cold doms and natures anything is possible. But I never like to go with "play whatever you want" unless they lead me to believe they are solely playing only in the kitty pool(i.e. the majority of CoH content). That's not to say that HM is some elite hard sweatfest, OP. Don't want you getting scared off it. It's really not approaching anything resembling difficulty.

Edit: Damnit I fell for a Diantane or whatever his name is, post. Taking a note from Glacier: [Insert snarky response here.]

If you were doing HM or going for +4x8 I would say yes there are objective high and low performers. But you’re not, so while yes your set is the worst melee set in the game, it still slaps around baseline goons so have fun!

Thats actually a good thing sort of. Mino scaling w/league size means if they don’t like the version present it should in theory be easier as people leave and a few stick around to smack em up. Less shifts needed, faster time for mino to be downed, meaning there’s a higher chance for the one you DO want. I kinda see it as a win-win

Join the discord ASAP. it has all the modern tips on builds, content, generally useful info. Treat the forums like a small run down town; stick to the only need-to-know’s(modern guides on making $ or some such thats generally pretty solid for today’s CoH.) and pass through as quickly as possible(try and focus your efforts on the discord over getting involved with the forums crowd. Not saying all are bad or even most are, just see my earlier comment about modern info surrounding the game.) I would recommend a playthrough of the content for your first 50, instead of PLing, but its definitely your choice. And always fact check any advice you get on Help channel in game with the discord community.

Haven’t seen anyone not care about lore. But I have seen people who don’t understand it posting about it constantly on the forums and claiming to be an aficionado on it when they haven’t even so much as read a single document surrounding it. And people naturally don’t like that.

Thats actually using your merits wrong. Doing it the correct way yields more than aether. Like a LOT more. *Edit: I never will understand why people sell converters. I mean, the hint to massive wealth is in the name; CONVERTERS. Enhancement Converters to be more specific. It can’t get more straight forward than that imo.

Neat, I didn’t expect an instanced Laby so soon but I suppose the tech was there with instanced MSR. Maybe one day it could mean instanced Hami? Who knows! But yeah for a first launch lab’s alright. Kind of a shame mobs are almost entirely ignored though. Was honestly expecting it to take the place of radios for mindless beatdown time but I guess not. Also I think the XP buff may be borked?

I completely agree. I do the arcs in a small duo or trio with the fam so I’m afforded the luxury of reading the stories. But its absolutely trash on a full team. Wouldn’t even pretend to try and give it a go in that scenario

I never viewed reading as an issue for these stories, more or less that they’re…ok. Not crazy great, but not horrendous. Nothing really stands out to me. Narrative in a game isn’t bad, granted illiteracy is at an alarming level now so maybe it is(not saying you’re illiterate Burt). But it isn’t for me at least. I love to read and am exceptionally fast at it to boot so unless I just get bored with the narrative I’m through it in a snap. But problem, like I said, is that most of the new stuff is literally borderline boring. I mean it’s okay but…well yeah.

To get things back on track: I’m very interested to see a dev weigh in on this. Just how difficult would this be on a technical level? *I am asking for a DEV’s response. Not one of you armchair lore hounds. I’m thinking it could be like the original power cust; a few years out but technically doable. But of course I don’t code. I’m simply basing it off of how perceptions and barriers were shattered by innovation and new tech with the AE ststem and Power Customization originally

But what gets me, is how is he going to cite the lore to back his argument, then proceed to show they don’t even KNOW who wrote the lore? I’m so confused. Thats like showing up to a court case with an argument and not having any supporting evidence or witnesses to cross examine? Then acting like a literal child when called out. I know it’s 2024 but goddamn dude do better. *Edit: He STILL hasn’t linked an article supporting his argument. No wonder he’s malding this hard. I’d be melting down if I was pulling shit from my ass and getting called on it too.

I’ll block your ass so no the fuck you won’t. *Edited because the last bit will get me no no points. Still applies if you read it bio.

I have a WS and PB at 50+1 triform. Cite that shit in the lore or please stop quoting me thank you