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Also be sure to learn the game mechanics and develop your own playstyle even outside of AE. There have been so many times I've teamed with individuals who are extremely daft who have never touched AE but instead learned bad habits or tried to adopt another player's playstyle for themselves. But yes, avoid AE until you've leveled naturally first.

My favorite homage I have is Iron Apostle, who is meant to be a homage to Invincible from well..Invincible. She’s got a totally different story and costume(in fact, she’s only an homage insofar as having a cobbled together starter costume, invulnerability and super strength, and having to fight to get stronger instead of just being like superman.) Another lovable homage I have is Doomsinger Warlock who is basically a love letter to Dresden files and John Constantine. Once again, completely different story and costume but loved the spirit of both works and tried to capture that in him. Homages are wonderful fun if done from the viewpoint of not wanting a direct clone

So you think people should waste time traveling as a herd when you can expedite things by moving at least a group ahead? Never understood this mentality. Why do we all need to move as a herd? That is an objective waste of time if a few people on the team can effortlessly handle groups of enemies

Thats what I did immediately. Got me a Stone/Regen scrapper in 2 hours to 50

Makes sense. I was wondering what the deal was. Was able to PL a Stone/Regen scrapper to 50 in 2 hours on Torch. Will probably come back for some rikti action to get elusive mind

I have 98(?) 50s. Im at the point where I’m done with alts and entering my retirement years with CoH(making AE arcs and running TFs with family who play still.) I say just get your cash cow 50 and get some merits to fund your alts and ride the wave. You will eventually run out of steam and stop making alts or nearly as many alts and become like me, a retired(in CoH) hermit who makes AE arcs and bets on what the next page of updates will be.

Very good questions.

Ehh not really. Holiday season usually means less traffic, plus people take breaks. Coh is in an alright spot. Now when that proc nerf hits though…jk it’ll probably be fine then too

Usually in a gaming chair. Gotta keep the buns comfy lol. I’ve got a nice desk, but plan to upgrade soon for an even better one. TV is on in the background on YouTube usually. Speakers are on too for glowies and the occasional zone music that I enjoy. Sometimes the fam plays CoH with me, other times alone. All 3 of us only play for short burst unlike in the early days where we’d play for hours. Game session can vary. Sometimes its as little as 5 minutes(get bored on an alt and just log out) to as long as 4 hours(A string of TFs, or back when they were new, a HM TF)

I know it sounds all doomy and gloomy but I promise its not 😂. I guess it was more me venting than anything else and speaking my mind. The issue I think is this was technically my first real game that I was invested in(played since I was a kid) and I just kinda got to a point where its all just rote memory. Plus I’ve been seeing a LOT of heinously stupid post from forum regulars hence my lashing out. (And while I do still dislike the forum community I still love the in game community which makes up a majority of the game). I’m taking a much needed break from CoH, so maybe in hopefully 6 or so months I’ll have a fresher look on the game(and maybe the next page will be out by then :P) And to scarlett, my thanks to the internet peanut gallery :P. But seriously got a great network of IRL friends. Not that you’d know or care, but I’m actually very happy IRL. I just react badly to what I perceive as dumbass responses. I saw your reply, thought you were suggesting to remove XP boosters, and chalked it up to another dumbass response from the idiotic side of the forum community. I see thats not the case, so I owe you an apology. Be well !

This time it aligns. A solution's a solution, and thats what I was offering. Still hate the forum community with a passion and love myself so that's not an issue.

Every time I see post like this it makes me hate the CoH forum community more than I already do, and that's saying something. In any case OP, just avoid using the boost, it's fairly easy to avoid. At 50 the INF starts rolling in, but before hand you're not missing much. Personally, if the XP boost weren't here I wouldn't play CoH period. The game is boring as hell pre 50 and the gameplay loop is shit without all your powers. This is coming from an i6 vet, the game's nice and all but it ain't good enough to where I wanna do the original grind 98 times(as many 50s as I have farmed).

I get what you're saying, but to rebuttle, relentless isn't all that difficult, just....tedious. So very very tedious. At least Aeon makes it kinda worth your while by giving 10 extra PAPs for the AV fight. I think HM overall is a big failure and waste of resources that could of been spent elsewhere, but that's a rant for a whole 'nother thread. And just using the smallest amount of common sense, two TFs aren't going to satisfy people for long.

Pretty much hit all the big ones during my time out: WoW: Got me a lvl 75 or so druid. Very fun and pretty decent at PvP on that toon. Then came back again in WoD(hated it) and got a priest to the late 60s before quitting SWTOR: Made an inquisitor and a counselor. It was okay, except for the whole nickle and dime thing they did with power trays. CO: Ended up here the longest. Got a lifetime sub and honestly didn't hate the experience completely. Very holy trinity garbage and constant nerfs later on though. Kinda makes me paranoid when I see lots of nerfs lobbied for here, as well as my fear initially for HM being holy trinity WoW experience(it's mostly just a zerg with 7 corrs and a scrapper/tank, so not sure if that's better really) Honestly, as controversial as it may be to say, I enjoyed my time away from CoH. It provided me with a lot of time to reflect, and forced me out of my socially awkward phase of my life. The best thing to ever happen to CoH was the shutdown, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Homages have always been allowed. Problem with CoH players is that a lot take homage to mean direct copy, so they get rightfully genericed to the point where I think it would be beneficial for someone to pin a message with the literal dictionary definition of what homage means.

My condolences to her friends and family. May she rest well and be at peace.

Usually some form of chip like Pita chips, lays. I'll also eat apple slices and peanut butter just to have something healthy every once in awhile.

It's in your best interest to do like everyone else on the forums does and put this person on ignore.

As soon as I get one, maybe I will 😛

Nope! I'm worse as a CoH player in my opinion and average as a person in real life. I try my best to be cordial to people out in the real world, because you never know who you're interacting with. But in CoH i'm meaner (i.e. I will never as long as I live offer another farm to this community, especially since the fire farm nerfs and seeing how farmers were viewed. Nor will I donate, outside of Dacy's base stuff, to any CC's or individual events.)

I have too many alts to count how many are of one origin. If I had to make a pie chart, it would look something like this: Magic: 85% Science: 5% Mutant: 3% Technology: 6% Natural: 1% I find most of my magic toons are normal spell caster types who are young adults trying to find their own way in the City. They usually fit into the rogue alignment, as most wouldn't bother with heroics (When there are literally thousands claiming to be heroes, why would they waste their time joining the ranks when they could find a better use of their powers elsewhere and make more money? Plus, they have mystical problems to deal with, leave the mundane, to the mundane.). The other origin characters are usually various other supes or hero/villain types they encounter in their journeys, or, in some cases, the relatives of a certain magic character who themselves weren't gifted with magic but decided to take up the hero mantle since their relative won't do it themselves.

I made a Doomsinger Warlock who's whole shtick is this. He's poison/fire. Poison is subtle, like curses, and fire for hellfire reasons.

We went from me and my brother watching our dad play CoH back in i6 as kids to adults playing it together as adults with HC after the shutdown. We play together from time to time, but we've all kinda gotten a bit burnt out so we're all collectively taking a mini break with the occasional TF run.

Movement: 4/5. Positioning in CoH has some benefits, and over the years I've gotten pretty good at it. Compared to a lot of other games its next to nothing in difficulty (some games have INSANE movements to try and maximize). Leading taskforces/raids: 5/5. I used to lead every iTrial on the virtue days, still could now if I wanted and could get enough people. I also lead multiple starred (3 and 4*) content while inebriated and succeeded on HC. Thats not necessarily a skill thing, CoH has very easy content overall, so leading it isn't as demanding as it could be. Character Builds: 5/5. I can build to any goal I have in mind reliably and affordably. I've taken builds and have done insane things with em. I'd love to eventually share them all once I've got time to do so! Badging: 2/5. Dont care to do it besides explorations and the occasional accolade Key binds: 1/5. I only know how to do the targetting AoE bind and the base TP macro, In-game knowledge: 2/5. I know the major things, but a lot of minor things that add up I tend to forget or just not care about.

Yeah im loving my EM/SR stalker for exactly this reason. It's not the 6th best, it's most certainly second best or best for ST melee easily. But, if Ston thinks it's 6th, that's fine too (for him).