[People wonder why nobody plays villains, so I made a music video about it.]

This is just an ad for the musician buddy's page, isn't it?

[A MM style class where your minions spawn confused]

16 hours ago, Luminara said:

So... this is an archetype which summons... henches which con as enemies... and attack you instead of what you're fighting... unless you whup their asses and make them obey...

 

OH MY GOD, IT'S THE DRAMA QUEEN ARCHETYPE!

 

 

I was going to say "Oh look. It's the Troll AT."

But Drama Queen works, too. 

[How would your toon fit in the world?]

Some of my magi would be contacts in and around the temple ruins in Primeva on the villain-side... Their missions would probably involve getting artifacts and books back from various heroes, the MIdnighters and the Arachnos goons who've been shamelessly looting them. The Head Librarian has been making a stink about losing bits of his collection for years. They could be introduced by Maros.

 

Kai would have to be a Midnighter contact in Founder's Falls. Her missions would involve Old Magic, the university History department and a few misdirected boxes of mail-order Wailers.

[Proliferate Enemies for prismatic aether costumes and their costume parts]

'Still waiting over here for the female model to get the rest of the Oranbegan bits that the male models got years ago... If I have to play the stupid Aether game to get them? So f-ing be it. 

 

(No. I'm not going to just "give up and shut up" about that. My lady mages need those pieces! 😅 )

[Angels & Demons]

I have a whole flock of white-winged and black-winged characters... But they're neither angels nor demons. 

My "bird-things" are a non-canon species of Rularuu. They're Faathim's creatures. 🌞

[We all need to leave this game. It's too good]

I was ready to Ignore List this poster just for endlessly spamming the forum, but held off thinking that they might eventually have something interesting to say.

 

I'm no longer going to hold on to that illusion. 

[Patch Notes for March 5th, 2024]

I still have Win 8.1 on my ancient little second generation SurfacePro.

And yes. I've played City on it. 'Ran just fine.

[Homecoming Provided Shard and AT Breakdowns to Massively OP]

38 minutes ago, FFFF said:

Defenders and stalkers being relatively unpopular is a bit of surprise. Though upon recollection, you rarely see the blue shield nowadays. I think I might have seen a stalker on a team perhaps four months ago. Stalkers are definitely around, but they seem to be helmed by soloists.

 

 

I suspect that's it, yeah. Most of the other Stalker players I run into are solos.

Stalkers... The Few. The Proud. The Stabby. 😎

 

Stalker: 15,033

 

[What would you say to trash talk each enemy group?]

On 3/5/2024 at 6:15 PM, Go0gleplex said:

 

Circle of Thorns: *sings "I ain't got no body!" mockingly*

 

 

 

That's just COLD, dude. So, so cold. 🤣

[What would you say to trash talk each enemy group?]

<_<

 

>_>

 

I call Shivans "Gummy Bears".

[Hey, I didn't know this about Ninja Run!]

If you like bouncing around with Ninja Run, consider making a character with the Super Jump/Super Speed combo.  Running those together is just great fun... once you learn how to avoid every bus stop and powerline in the city.  🤣

[What difficulty you play at (solo)]

It's all over the place for me, depending on the character's AT, power sets, level and how they are (or aren't, as the case may be-) built. A leveling Stalker on SOs only? I go with higher level enemies in lower numbers... +2/x2, say.  I raised my last brute the other way around, Xi had much higher numbers of goons, but only at +1.

 

"Finished" characters also vary a lot. A good 'cruising speed' setting for my Demons/Time Mastermind is +2/x6. My favorite 'boss fight' Brute is one of those +4/x8-or-bust types. It's go all the way or go home with her. I don't have many like that, but it's fun to rampage with the ones I do have. Most of the gang are much lower key.   

[Badges, what they have become, and what they could become.]

I'll never say no to more cool titles, which is really what badges amount to for me these days.

 

I don't chase them for their own sake anymore, but toss out one with a title that I want on some member of the crew? Yeah. I'll jump through pretty much any silly hoops I have to to get the thing. 🤣

[[OPEN BETA] Patch Notes for February 29th, 2024]

Updated Master of Death and Master of Ruin AI to only cast one Tar Patch or Earthquake per spawn.

 

 

My melee characters thank you guys for that. Doubled-up Tar Patches really were a royal pain in the proverbial rump. (And head. And ribs. And spleen. And-)  

[The slo-mo pursuit of escaping mobs]

The player character movement suppression is a hold-over from the Old Days... And given just how **MANY F-ING RUNNERS** the game has amongst the goon-squad, I've been asking for it to die in a fire for literal years. Even back in the retail days. 

 

Either make them subject to the same snail-in-glue effect we are... Or set us free.

 

(And no, Chairman. It's in no way limited to Follow. Movement speed suppression hits all of us when our characters are actively in combat. Try taking off after a fleeing Longbow Eagle or a Sky Raider Wing guy when they jet off across the map. That few seconds of moving in slow motion as you watch them run for the far corner of nowhere at top speed? That's what we're talking about.)

[The Officially Unofficial Weekly Discussion #69: Do you use discord with or about CoH?]

I only use Discord to coordinate with the family SG... The nephews are all about it, so we use the voice-chat when we play together. 

[Seeking Grand Finale]

Dark Watcher's War Zone Arc, if you haven't done it already.

 

The title/objective of the last mission in the arc is "Save the World". 😎

 

 

 

 

[Swimming and underwater]

There's one little place in Grandville where you can go underwater as well... 

 

Exiting the ferry at the Grandville dock, go left along the outside wall. About half-way up the island coastline there's a grassy rise with a pile of rocks. At the base of the rocks is a small pool... It usually has a coralax swimming in it. You can jump in and swim in that deep little puddle with him.   

 

 

 

[Improvements to Buff and Vanity Pets?]

I just wish they'd stick around when you zone... As fond as I am of Spooky and Spark (Kai's green panther and Arcanus' lantern-), having to resummon them constantly is kind-of a bother.

 

I also wish that our Peacebringers and Warshades could keep their pets active when they're in crab or nova form again. We used to be able to, but that was removed late in the retail days when the old devs revamped the way Kheldian form-shifting and toggles interacted.

[What Is The First Thing You Are Going To Do In Issue 27 Page 7?]

Cute little bot is cute. ^_^

 

I want the Seedling, myself, but getting that one is likely to be... problematic. Going after the Mr. Big Goofy Jello-Whale has never been popular.

 

 

 

[New Alignment tip drop feedback]

Lumi's got a good point, there... The popups (Which, yes, are as annoying as all hell right now-) are only part of the problem. Losing the ability to easily curate our "to do list" tip collection, so to speak, is also an issue.

 

You've removed our ability to potentially get a favorite tip during a mission and say "Yeah. I like that one. I'll run it later." It's likely to have been replaced by the time we're ready to run it. o_0

 

 

 

 

[What Is The First Thing You Are Going To Do In Issue 27 Page 7?]

*has way, way too much fun galumphing around Atlas Park as a giant, blue-green jello-monster*

[Collaborative Completion]

The one big issue with individuals on a team trying to run their copy of an arc in parallel with their teammates is the random order in which some contacts present those missions... Stephanie Peebles in Striga is probably the most infamous example of that, but she's not the only one who does it. It can take quite a bit of patience and mission abandon-and-retake shenanigans to get everyone on the same mission at the same time.

 

That's fine when you have two or three on a team who are willing to take the time to get everyone "one the same page", but it would get ridiculous fast on an 8-member PUG.... and everyone having the same mission at the same time would be a requirement for any kind of "complete your copy of the arc as your team does" scheme. 

 

Now, if we could get rid of "random order" issue and talk Steph and her kind into giving out missions in a regular, non-randomized order? That would be helpful... But for some reason there are always people loudly opposed to that whenever it's been suggested. 

[Thanks For The Gift, Can I Give It Back?]

59 minutes ago, PeregrineFalcon said:

I liked getting XP for exploring the city. It was IIRC the only non-combat way to get XP. So of course it was taken away.

 

Although, I'll never understand the irrational hate some people on the forums have for patrol XP.

 

Agreed, there. On both points.

 

Introducing "solutions in search of a problem" is definitely one of Homecoming's signature things, though, so none of us should be surprised when they do it at this point.  

[AI Generative Art]

Oh, the finger thing is just ridiculously annoying... I've had to crack open Photoshop and do so many hand corrections on my "Birds in the 13th Age" images... So, so many. 😖