Clave Dark 5

Big-time bosses can't be taken down by one character, probably. The very first time I ever ran across one I had been invited to a PUG to fight the Clockwork King. My scrapper (who was a fifty after all!) goes skipping across the map and saw CK just you know standing there, so jumped right into it without any teammates.

I've had a sense of this as well over the past couple of months, but not so overwhelmingly that I feel I can qualify it as being anything other than dirty anecdotal evidence. I mean, I've gotten a fair number of orange recipe drops, but they've been "useless" ones like holds and confuses. But for some reason my Beam Rifle/Traps has had great luck with purple recipes whilst TOTing - three!

I strongly suspect the RNG rebalances if you're in combat to roll the monkey result more often.

Everything else aside, I think we can all agree on adding damage to the force bolt. I took it on my MM and have used it for the soft control it was made for, but yeesh, I feel like I might do them more harm by sticking out a boot and tripping them.

I don't think these zones serve "no purpose" or anything, and it's OK to have less well-used zones But I have no objections to them dropping in some new content in them, or even revamping some older to point you over to one, say, for the last few missions or something (just as long as we avoid the time-wasting back and forth of the worst TFs).

I did notice my Beam Rifle toons shooting at banners would face like 45 degrees in the wrong direction for most (but not all!) of their attacks.

Double kittens!

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. 😕