Clave Dark 5

I kept thinking about this while leveling up my AR blaster recently; I mean, so yeah, sometimes she spent a bit of time red side for a TF or something, but usually she was blue. And often going Full Auto on a crowd of foes. Not even Gene Autry could be "shooting the gun out of their hand" with Full Auto.

Maybe it could pop up once you've left the team only, and if it had been one of those revolving door radio teams, it would just go ahead and list everyone who was on that team with you. I mean, I dunno we NEED such a thing, but then again I don't see any problem with it either. If some dev wants to put in the time. I do like the idea that there couldn't be any griefing in there as these are all "positive" possible choices. Like player notes and its stars, no one else would see it later, etc.

I'm not hurting for them, but any "more" is probably a good thing. I think the original design ethos used to be to make them very signature by giving them outfits bits players couldn't have, so that might slow things down, but of course we needn't stick to it. I think setting up Incarnate NPCs would be OK too, but only if players opt in for that level of fight, like the new TF settings. I'd really hate to go fight in a bank and find out it's my Vet Level 30 hero, for example. I avoid PvP for a reason! 😃

"Nerfs to sounds"?

I'm not even sure how texture ended up in this discussion? I'm talking color here.

I was going to mention an MM that I recently made, Bots/Emp that I found very chill, but if you want melee , then that won't help. Since HC came back I've found melee to be too much often, always having to run and juggle my targeting from one guy to the next. I find it very chill to hover around followed by Bots who'll look very askance at anyone who dares take a pot shot at me, and do all my support from range. But if I had to go melee it would be a stalker, being able to walk around in Hide it great.

The tail's bushy enough to play the part for several creatures, don't let the terminology trip you up here. I'm guessing it would be easier to work on recoloring a pre-existing costume detail than just outright making a new one, so I was trying to be modest with my demands there. IIRC, the two cat tails: one has a more distinctive striping pattern than the other.

You know, that big furry tail that's wolfish, where you can only add an extra color to the tip? Put similar stripes up the tail so I can make the raccoon thief I've been thinking of all this time!

A mix of Ranged and Melee says "dominator" to me. But I know some people (cowards the lot of 'em!) like to only slot their Dom for ranged and avoid melee (make a blaster y'all), so they might not care for this idea of just one set for both. I think Six-Six's idea ther eis probably the best bet.

Don't forget to open up Options and find the sliders to automatically accept team invites for level differences. I mean, you still can team without doing this, but this saves you having to click "yes" every time. https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/The_Players'_Guide_to_the_Cities/User_Interface/Options_Window#Team_Options

If I roll a new character and think damn Clave my man, nice costume! now I wanna play this one, then I start looking round for a build. here and there as I level them up (no farming, but I have been known to join 50 radios in PI and so on), I might fund them off other toons to start following that build; otherwise I might drive myself down a blind alley of having not picked the good powers or something and thus killed my enthusiasm for the toon (I have been known to respec into another build if the first wasn't "me" though). I normally avoid purples (for obvious reasons here, and more to come later) and ATOs, although I have been slipping lately on ATOs... but anyway, by the time I hit 50, chances are I have a fair amount of that build in place. And then... by then, I've probably put together another toon and fallen in love with the costume, so I play them. I don't tend to meaningfully play my toons much after 50, so there's no point in waiting to 50 to give them some kind of a build (or for waiting to slot purples; too pricey too).

I know at least some of the faces still have some baked on skin tone shading anyway, like to highlight the cheekbones and stuff.

Why not also take the timer off the Rex window? You got rezzed, you get to choose when to take it, none of this OMGYOUONOYHAVESEVENSECONDS nonsense.

My most perfect build is the one I enjoy playing the most, of course! But, recently I built a Bots/Emp MM, because having to constantly replace pets ends up feeling onerous the longer I play an MM, so I thought why not? She was pretty good about keeping her robot friends alive, and I also insisted her build include the Pulse Rifle attack from the Bots set as well as Mystic Bolt, to help pile up more damage. I ended up dropping a hold proc into each of those, and it fires fairly often, which makes soloing with her even easier. I'll have to admit I didn't make this build 100% on my own, I posted a sad first attempt at it in the MM forums and some kind soul took pity on me and helped it along to what it became. It's not min/maxxed within an inch of it's life, but it's enjoyable to play.

IIRC, there's a way to edit the costume file for those ... well, I heard it was arms, not leg lengths... but anyway, it doesn't last, once you zone it resets (I think I saw people playing with it here shortly after HC opened up shop? Someone made a cop-outfit character and called him Long Arms Of The Law, which was funny). The giant players: they did hack something somewhere, and were promptly banned for it, ha ha. Or so I heard.

Yeah, I ran into him once too but thought I'd just not be a pest; sorry to deprive you of that serotonin boost, Snarky! Kind of like OP, near the end of my Covid recovery, I was leveling a toon and having a lot of fun with it and even had a chance to start showing up regularly at "events" like Hami raids and whatnot, and was starting to reach that level of recognition as well. Sadly, I got all better and had to go back to work, and have made probably ten alts in the meantime...

I may be a bad blaster, but my usual tactic on a team (solo might be different) is to open up with Full Auto, or to wait about a half second to do so after they've grouped around the Alpha-taker. Waiting for some effect to stack would probably end up with me using Full Auto on like two or three targets.

I'll have to check it later at home where I have MIDS. Will say though, the KB->KD proc makes Gale so, so useful for a Stormie.

Please post all of your builds, because I hate taking Fighting Pool ha ha. But as I don't have gobs of time to plan builds on my own I usually just run with one from these forums, and hoo boy is it a common crutch to make a build (just like relying on some Incarnate to take care of ridiculous End problems).

All true, but that's a lot of ifs, Imho. If you want another T1/2, if you take Kick and then Crosspunch, if you need another attack in general. Meanwhile, pretty much everyone ends up having to otherwise throw away a choice on it (not all of course, I have a couple of Tough+Weave-less builds, but they are kind of hard to arrange well for squishies).

Whoa, has someone still been trying to abandon this mission for two years now?!

Nah, this is like Cuba, the government really doesn't want people coming and going, it erodes their grip on their populace. And hey, the spider guy just got done building his massive spider-base in Grandville, give him some time to tidy everything else up... probably with more spider bases sure, but still. Plus more of its architecture is more human-scale.

I still do that!

I'd say Boxing / Kick, because they're bad and we have to take them anyway to get to something actually useful. So, I dunno, six-slot it or something.

Here we go again...