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I know on LGTF 4*, it was a learning run so had to get a feel of the fights, which imo aren’t hard but you still need to put forth a little effort kind of learning what’s exactly damaging you. So, this meant my Cold/Ice wasn’t contributing at max efficiency. I did alright, but the rest more familiar with the TF carried in that instance. But on Aeon? Nah I ripped for sure. But thats because I’m absolutely familiar with that and ITF. My point being, putting in the literal minuscule amount of effort to get familiar with the content is part II of making a contributing HM toon. Part I, the build? Easiest part imo. I smacked a HM build together with no mids. For any role(I have HM viable everything from tank to DPS. Hell even HM viable CC.) it’s seriously not hard. Unlike other MMOs with complex builders and nuanced meta it’s pretty laid out and solved here. At least till the procalypse comes.

If people are using discord they usually only advertise in said discord so you more than likely would never know they’re even in it & be on that team in the first place.

Elitism tends to get thrown around so much in this community that it leads me to believe its simply the person being salty they weren’t included and hoping by throwing out a buzzword they’d get others to agree with them and their wildly off base arguments. Not always the case, but usually.

I don’t have all day anymore to just dedicate to CoH like I did as a kid and don’t want to dedicate a good number of my recreational hours to the game either, so I don’t steamroll HMs. But I do respect your perspective LR. It’s pretty cool you have a crew to run with! Hope that continues for you 🙂

They closed access down temporarily as leaks were getting out. On one hand I do want more testers in but on the other hand I don’t think a lot of people would test so much as leak potential changes and complain about ones being proposed without testing. I see this happen a LOT in CB

Thing is I never said I was leaving, I said CoH isn’t my only game and I have options, which I guess they take to mean I’m leaving. Crazy how having options and not being ingratiated to a volunteer team means you’re quitting. I’d never announce me leaving, I just leave. Never liked the song and dance of making a post and making a scene over a departure. Being honest, I think a good deal of people here either only play CoH or play it as their main game which, I mean, great! Good for you! They’ll see a post like mine and take offense because maybe they view it as me attacking HC who gave them their favorite/only game back, and thats honestly not my intent. I just speak candidly about the team and CoH itself, I try and even mix in praises if its due, as is the case w/Marine Affinity. And my criticisms aren’t nearly as harsh as they have been in the past.

I can understand where you’re coming from, just like I definitely understand projector and can empathize as i have lead a good number of 3’s & 4’s. Its exhausting…just utterly exhausting. And why I don’t lead it anymore, that and what I am about to follow this up with is why. The reason you see meta comps besides the efficiency it brings in time to complete, is also because of artificial difficulty. Some here may disagree with me but after beating games where that shit doesn’t fly(Lies of P & Black Myth Wukong)and fair challenge is the name of the game, I just look more at what CoH HM is and go, “Yep! Got a good case of AD here”. It’s jacked up stat boost that, while not outright requiring meta comps, makes you notice and regret not doing so, as has even been attested to in this very thread. But thats not all. Barrier lets you ignore 100% of the difficulty of the HM content in ITF and Aeon, and 99.9% in LGTF(can’t ignore suits and gas) . Ergo, my claim of artificial difficulty. If in a game you can ignore the danger of a fight via an easily obtainable power or item, and there are minimal mechanics to counterplay but enemies are sacks of HP and stats, you have artificial difficulty. While fun to run with certain people because it’s quick and efficient, HM is artificial difficulty incarnate. Which is my second reason why I don’t lead these anymore. And why I was on the way out of even running them to begin with(saw a discord invite for Elysian Guardians and ran a few with them. They seem very chill with it)

I never say anything about Closed Beta as its highly experimental but wanted to provide some clarity on that.

Never! 😮 I think a lot of people forget about what I said. They don’t owe you, very true. But you absolutely don’t owe them anything. If they don’t want to be transparent, absolutely their right to do so, but if that’s what I need in a game dev group, then I also reserve the right to just dip. Also, I would never make a long winded goodbye post fab 😛 or a goodbye post at all, I’d just pull what I did with CO and dip quietly. Those long winded goodbyes are for community leaders(as it should be. Them leaving is heavily impactful to the game overall)

No I won’t. My time is also a privilege. If they decide to rescind theirs I rescind mine. You act like Xbox and PS5 aren’t popping off with games and top tier gaming PC’s aren’t becoming more common/Steam Deck isn’t popping off with its’ expansive and frankly amazing library. They don’t owe me anything but I sure as SHIT don’t owe them. Too many better options and too little time to be going back n forth or screaming into a void.

It actually was but it was mostly buffs to the T9. I say this as someone in Closed Beta

Thaumic Bifrost was me 😁

Its quirky, I like it. Will wait on reviews but it has Invincible in it which I’m a sucker for so it has that going for it for me.

It was very fun to run with you Projector through LGTF and Aeon 4*’s. My mind hasn’t changed on the nature of HMs and my main issue with them, but issues aside, it’s still pretty enjoyable if you’re playing with a group of neat folks.

OP, even though they seem to display serious narcissism and main character syndrome, it sucks that they got booted at the tail end of the TF. Which is weird. I don’t know if they were using GF all throughout the TF, and if so why not boot them at the beginning? Or if it were used in that one mish and then the incident occurred in which case OP subscribed to the FAFO method. Thats the only way I could see this being two sided, otherwise its pretty cut n dry.

Psst. Your MM isn't helping anywhere near as much as you think it was. Your bots can take a hit and literally almost DPS would be lost. You'll be fine champ 😉

The jokes write themselves with OP. I truly don't think they're capable of grasping they were wrong. Well subsequent boots and potentially being blacklisted from runs will result in more main character syndrome post like this, or them quitting. Either way this'll be interesting to watch for sure.

Yeah seeing the followups really reaffirmed what I said, they have main character syndrome. Best to ignore

This response right here is just what I was talking about on the discord. People who have this main character syndrome and have no understanding or care for others then always acting like the victim. You fucked around and found out, pretty simple open shut right wrong case here. They asked you to stop, you thought you were better and said no, you found out. Pretty simple if you ask me. It’s not on them, it’s really all on you in this situation.

Also remember, the companies want you in game longer to peddle more microtransactions at you or boost their numbers for the bottom line. Which makes sense. That does NOT mean they will provide an actually enjoyable leveling experience. They'll probably just put a bunch of busy work lukewarm quest or missions that are some of the worst aspects of gaming personified(fetch quest, kill 100 boars in a forest, more fetch quest...). So if that's what y'all want go for it. It worked for WoW apparently, all those fetch quest and boar killing.

Its always interesting to see older gen talk about younger and vice versa. Im I believe on the tail end of Gen Z(born in ‘97, so I think that was the cutoff year?) And honestly I have complaints about both. A lot of older generations are surprisingly, or I guess I should really be saying if I were pessimistic unsurprisingly, impatient and incompetent. To the point that most of their whining stems from a projection of their own ineptitude in the matter. I.e blaming phones because no one wants to listen to yet another unfounded and unhinged rant from grandpa about X or Y political topic they didn’t research and are simply parroting from Z news network. Or in regard to being impatient, I have seen quite a few old heads being very “now now now!” Out in the world, way moreso than younger kids which is concerning. The rudest and most impatient irritating little shits have been old people(boomers and some early Gen X’ers). Yes, we get it, you’re on limited time but being a whiney ass annoying shit won’t make the car in front of you go faster or get you your food quicker. Neither will being rude. And the opposite, a lot of my generation has this weird ass thing for trauma bragging and kink sharing which makes dating abysmal. No, Susie, I do NOT want to hear about what happened to you at 9 on our first date nor do I want to know your 69 fetishes. Im trying to eat my goddamn steak 🙃 Just my not exactly old person but not super green young rant as a borderline Gen Z adult

Yeahhh just let me make you a Fire build. Or get one from the discord. More importantly what do you want it to do? As in what content?

The best thing you can do for yourself is download mids and build your own 50s on it. It’s straight from the source and is respectful to the creator’s playstyle…you! Seconding that grab a build from the discord. I don’t know about all the forums builds but a lot are operating on outdated philosophies when it comes to build design, or are just straight up strange(no hasten for a good number of em) and have absolutely no synergy to them. I personally build my own. I never share any of my newer builds because I don’t exactly know how and I don’t want to share my older builds as they’re outdated imo and I don’t play the toon as much.

Fast or slow is completely irrelevant. If your content is boring, leveling is abysmal. Trying to force me to take several months to get a max level toon via boring content will absolutely result in me quitting the game or more likely not even wasting my time playing it. There are two things I don't want out of any game, a girlfriend of a game(having to log in daily, do a bunch of chores, and be inundated with a bunch of ads and nonsense marketing aspects of the game im not interested in) and a slog of a game. I will NOT waste 40+ hours playing through literal shit. I will play a 40+ hour experience if it is amazingly well crafted and enjoyable with a satisfying gameplay loop. With how limited game time is, if there was a choice between what will most likely be a boring as hell shitty leveling experience in a MMO or an actually fun game on Xbox with ~25 hrs of content, I would choose the Xbox every single time. Or playstation. Either one.

This post wasted 30 seconds of my life but I don't hate you for it 😛 Also bosses can be brought down to LT if you're really struggling...