Clave Dark 5

These are great ideas to actually integrate these "free resources" just sitting around otherwise going unused.

"Just when I think I'm out those heroes and villains pull me right back in."

My dad was an old school (meaning 50s) sci-fi nerd himself and much was done to pass it along. I also kept getting access to batches of old comics along the way that had showed me by the time I was 12 or so that there had been a lot of really good stuff in the past already. Then in my 20s I got a job in a comic book shop (remember those?) and got so burned out that I gave up caring. But City of Heroes is an exception to that rule.

I haven't even been to those doors since HC appeared and yet I can still clearly see at least two of them in my mind all these years later.

Who's the tall fella then? =) Did you do anything to make these look sharper or brighter?

If scrappers were that great, you wouldn't have to spend for ATOs on them! My first real main was a stalker, and I loved being able to explore without being seen most of the time. Scrappers are just deficient stalkers to me. 😃

Del, they're not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think they'd explain their master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? They released it thirty-five minutes ago.

This reminded me that there's already also a secondary wand design in the game, the one that you get as a temp power from a villain contact: https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Loa_Bone

Indeed: https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Divining_Rod Looks a lot like the black wand in fact. I've never had it that I know of though, so I dunno what animation is associated with it.

That may be it, that sounds right. Thanks for the quick reply!

Hey, this reminds me, I had my own costume question too, hope you don't mind me piggy-backing off your thread: I was trying to find that aviator's leather helmet-looking hat for a costume the other day and apparently missed it. Is it under hat, half helm, or what? And what's it called?

Hard second, the new clunky rock bits ruined a troller's look and it's hard to bring myself to dig her out anymore. I mean, she's tough and all, sure, but she might as well just be a horrible hodgepodge of clipping mismatched costume pieces now... BECAUSE SHE IS! *fumes*

But I want this sort of thing to be official!

Yeah, my first stormie was only a little while ago and I just had to take it to have fun pushing Cot off rooftops (sue me) but I only tend to pull it out when I need to block a choke point or when I'm fighting a big bag of hit points AV or banners or something like that, But I've never heard anyone complain about it either. You wanna complain about a power you can't see through, that's what water blast powers are for.

Now when can we choose custom sound effects for our powers? Mods, get on this!

"Thermal Radiation (Controllers, Corruptors, Masterminds): Fire Shield and Plasma Shield" Pretty sure that should list Defenders too, because that's how it works on mine. =)

Curious to know what you'd suggest then, rolling them back? Nerfing them? How much? It's been said and I'm sure you've heard it yourself, but you don't have to use either system if you don't want to. Heck, I've been thinking of rolling an "all SO" toon just so I don't have to worry and sweat over a build.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery from me as well. Hope's doing better already! ETA: I didn't understand just how badly he was doing. 😕

I'm going to have to put my foot down on this thread. You cannot make a monkey out of these forums!

I know they're not as controllable as say an MM pet, but with some stealth one can always drag a pet through a group of foes to tank for you, ha ha. But yeah, that's a rather solo tactic. I've never taken a Patrol Pool pet and was sort of thinking to just for the experience, but the point made about speed of teams does have me thinking it might be better to just just buff everyone around me and skip the pet. Now I'm wondering which AT would work best with a pet at all.

So I'm trying to plan out a build for a Thermal/Energy Blast Defender and was thinking of getting the pet, following some advice I saw here. The advice said that a Patron Pool pet was a good bet because with the Thermal buffering a pet can be made pretty strong, but I have zero experience with PP pets, so which one would be best for this? Any advice on that pet's slotting too? This also leads into a second question: I'm assuming having a good buffed pet might be more a soloing tactic, but I don't actually solo all that much, so would a pet under these circumstances even be the best thing to go with and should I consider another avenue and skip a pet?

But once you choose it for the character, you can't make it go away, right?

Yeah, I was on a few Excelsior teams over the last few nights and can second this, you leader guys and TP dudes and dudettes were doing the best job.

Funny, right now I"m currently sort of playing my next three alts - or at least I don't have plans for any new ones until I do more with these. They are: Thermal/Energy Blast defender (kind of having fun here, but slow going, partly because I have zero idea how to go about a good build for her), about 25th level. Beam Rifle/Traps corruptor (who's been kind of fun), at about 26th level Gravity/Darkness controller (high enough level to have all his pets too, so fun), at about 40th level I don't play all that often because of my schedule so it's been slow going leveling anyone right now.

But I like kicking around a discarded forklift like a beach ball, so no.