Clave Dark 5

Y'know, circling back, I'd like to ask about this: Easier how, for whom? As has been pointed out elsewhere by smarter people than I, anyone leeching ToT in PI becomes a bigger problem because that fills up a PI clone faster. If anything, seems to me this change was tailor made for leeches, as spreading them out across sverela PIs instea djust say 2 helps them seem less wide spread and irritating, plus they can now multi-box across several murder hotels as well. Meanwhile, as someone not playing a hovering MM, I sometimes can only get into one PI after the others filled up and capped off and find the limited player count there leaves an anemic league, at best (this also hurts players who hop out of zone for a second and then can't return to the one thei league is in). I'm sure I must have that reasoning wrong however and would really like to hear what the dev reasoning is.

"Historical"? Ha ha I'm still seeing it nearly every time I ToT this year - same names same MMs. And there's the problem: AFK leeching. They're not active plus they're multi-boxing to boot. My usual description of this is: imagine if someone could just invite themselves into your next fire farm or whatever in the AE (assuming you're the kind of person who partakes), and then just sat at the door hoovering up some freebies based off of your time and effort.

As it gets rolled out in new missions (both here and in the game world, which I'm sure is going to happen), people will become more familiar with it and will know to avoid the floor is lava places, at least; I only died four times before I got the gist ha ha! I've only walked around in the map too myself, haven't tried to make it work with anything like allies or what have you.

Agreed. I was just running a ToT league and only kicked for standing around AFKing; if you're still clearly active, I don't care what else you're up.

Did they change that?

Challenge accepted!

I'm finding I'm having to remind folks how to run it, or , maybe more happily, we have so many new players that they don't know how to run it yet (I've run a GM hunter/league TPer for the past few years for ToT and have all this down pat, I know how to run this like some know how to Hami.... which I never really learned). Of the three times I've been around for banners so far, I've had to take the time to post a brief explainer in chat once it starts up. It's always slow to start, no, really, everyone: please leave the hotel and head to one of the colored dots on the map... but all three times we got our acts together and got it completed, even after the time the timer on one slipped below ten minutes before we even got the banners vulnerable.

And there's only one of them too, so you can't say have it six times on your list at once. You'd have to get it, run it, the get it again and again (which, I don't know if happens really)..

Does this mean/include keeping an eye out for XP leechers and working to reduce them?

Finished it finally. Lots of solid work and thought put into this in many ways, I quite enjoyed it! I said a bit more in my comment than I'll put here, but I will say anyone looking for a fun magic arc should run this one.

As an aside, why rush getting one measly level anyway? This game doesn't begin at 50, so instead settle in, faff about, get used to the basics of your new power sets, stop and stomp the flowers.

"Sphere of Influence" I laughed! I was just wondering the other day what you've been up to.

Scrapper-like, but go with a Shield/Electric Melee Stalker, and pick up Spring Attack. The BAMPFing lifestyle is so much fun.

I love a good magic story, I'm in, soon as I can. How many missions is it? ETA: never mind, started it up and after one mission it's already fun, great character for the contact, and always nice to see Hermes Trismegistus mentioned. Again, I'm in!

I was about to say "no" to this question but then I remembered that I have a stalker that I hardly play any longer that I've kept around for GM hunting during Halloween. He's seen work for the last 3 Halloweens I think. I genuinely like doing the work and porting everybody all at once to beat up on a monster, or back to the murder hotel, plus Halloween is my favorite event time in the game, so it's a way to keep at it after I've already taken down a trillion vampires at the hotel. I like the way he plays, even without the GM hunting I'd keep him, if I ever do go through and clear out the deadwood; I figure I should strip and delete about half my list of 50s that made it all the way but that I had no interest to ever revisit, or (I have more of these) toons that didn't make it to 50 that I still have no interest in touching. I do hold on to those though, in the wan hope of someday deciding I have a better concept for that power set combo, in which case I've just saved myself some rerolling time.

I don't like computer/video games, just waste of time when I might be reading, watch something, doing anything else. At least playing dominoes or cards of any variety with friends is about the time spent with friends, not "did I get an ace? I got an ace, go me!" Then in 2005, a roommate moved in for a bit who was playing World of Warcarft and CoH. WoW looked just as dull as any other game, but say, that City of Heroes looks sorta neat... it's like getting to design your own superhero action figure and then getting to play with it doing cool stuff... And that was that.

Even after all these years, no one had thought to snag ill met by moonlight until I did. Had to keep it all lower case so it didn't look like "[three hash-marks] By Moonlight."

There's something to be said for power sets that you can gleefully skip half of and still play very well. I like to go on weird side-jaunts with my builds when I can (just top keep things fresh), so this set would be a good chance to explore an Epic or pool power set that might fit or expand your theme, or pairs well with a couple of other powers.

I actually haven't run many Coors, but when I do - or make any new toon - concept comes first, so somewhere I end up considering a pairing of power sets that dictate either Corrupter or Defender. My natural inclination is to lean Corr for what's essentially freebie damage thanks to SCOURGE. This is often my same thinking for choosing a stalker that fits a concept over a tank or scrapper: I like having secondary effects, holds, heals all that, but I also really like to be effective in damage-dealing.

As I'm not a min/maxer, I don't mess with either purples or even Hami-Os. I alt a lot and after leveling a character, I'm often ready to start another by the time I hit 50 (and my last few toons have been stalling out interest-wise in the upper 40s anyway).

I just ran this and found it enjoyable and worth the time, especially for a first try! I left a bit more detailed notes in the comments... great NPCs yes! I hope you're still working on more.

The problem of some unaware dialogue (feels like "most") firing off the second you enter the mission was a problem that cropped up during Live and has persisted ever since. I don't know if they know what causes it and it's too hard/time consuming to fix, or don't even know why it does this. It too has spoiled a couple of my jokes. Such is life, sigh. ETA: whenever I'm messing with maps for this, I start by testing it with all the dialogue blanks filled in with their label, "UNAWARE DIALOGUE," "AWARE DIALOGUE," "PLAY INFLICTS DAMAGE," etc. Then I run a test and see what's popping up where and when, and if it's going to work for my plans; then I adapt and try to make my plans work for it. I hope you have good luck!

Maybe I've been lucky but I've never had this problem that I know of - and I use Unique maps a lot! *gulp*

Can't have the general populace exposed to non-farming AE, it frightens the horses.