Coyotedancer

Good catch... Defender was my thought. (I'm working on a build for one of my Illusion Controllers this afternoon, so I've got 'trollers on the brain. 😝 )

I'm... yeah. I'm just not really feeling Storm Blast on anything that actually needs to *do* something with its blast set... So maybe a Storm/Storm 'troller? Just because the blast set isn't all that important to its function? Normally my instinct would be to go with a Sent for solo potential, but I think a Storm Blast Sent would be even slower than my Dark Sents, with pretty much none of the fun things Dark does to make up for being slower than proverbial Christmas.

All I'm going to say is that there are plenty of pretty good reasons to solo in this game. Sometimes teams are one of them. 😝

Some people will hit the right one on the first re-try. ... And some people will spend the next ten minutes cycling through and *still* not land on The One. Again, I fail to see how that adds anything to the experience of running the arcs. Is it "fun"? Does it add "interest"? Does it add "challenge"? I'd say not. All it adds is another reason not to run with a team.

I've actually skipped Boggle on Xi. My Psi scrapper, Gentleman Spectre, has it but honestly I found it pretty useless for him. I doubted it would be any more useful on a Brute.

Run Striga with a duo and then try it with a team of eight. See how long it takes you all to get through, say, Peebles' arc. It's not a trivial time investment to get everyone on the same mission given the number of possibilities.

And I'll counter Switch's "no" with a "Please, for the love of Dog, YES!" I don't care if the missions are in different locations, with different maps.... That's not the problem. It's the random presentation of missions that's the issue. Contacts should offer the damned things in a consistent ORDER. Having to drop-talk-and-reaquire missions time after time after time after time while trying to get two or more team-mates the same task is a royal pain in the rear with long arcs, and the larger your team the more exponentially annoying it becomes. There's no up-side to that. There's nothing in it that makes running the arc more interesting or more enjoyable.

True, that. 😝

If it's a DE mission... the "trees" growing in the middle of the cavern. In the dark. With no sunlight. Yeeeeah.... Trees. Sure. <_< YOU GUYS AREN'T FOOLING ANYONE!

After busting some Skulls, curing the Lost and a bit of a rampage around Striga that did not go at all well for Maestro.... Xi the shiny cat-boy is mighty level 26. Next up? Vampire vending machines. 😎

The bat is pickled?! Darn it, Snarky. I told you it was a bad idea to keep that bat in a rum bottle. >_<

Isn't "this place is a total maze/I have no clue where we are" sort-of the point of Oranbegan maps? If I were going to start changing maps, I'd start with the archnoid caves red-side, myself. It's hard to tell what's a wall made of irregular rocks in there and what's a side-passage.

'Only to level 15 over here with Xi, my cat-boy brute. (I'm running solo-only, without big events, or TF teams or ship raids, just to get a better feel for how the combination handles since I'm new to it. He'll be a slow one-) ... But I have to say that so far. Psi/Shield has been good fun. I like him.

Yep. I'd love to see an update of the entire set.... I want to know how many of our "unicorns" still are.

Honestly? I'd move. As a completely normal, "non-powered civilian" woman I'd be utterly unable to walk cross my own neighborhood without getting into an hours-long tug-of-war match with some ganger over my purse. Even though the jerks would never actually be successful in snatching said-purse, the process would get old fast. So, no thanks Paragon. I'd rather move to the 'burbs. <_<

So, I have this set of guardian Elemental spirits... They're supposed to be the mystical security system for the Ordus Viatoris voyagers' base. Somewhere along the line they got bored, though, what with their masters and summoners being gone for fifteen thousand years and all that. In a moment of absolutely epic and monumental restlessness, the oldest of them (Cheongnyong, the Azure Dragon of the East-) decided that they should all go out exploring. You know, just to have something to DO for once. She also decided that it would be even *more* fun if they all did it in disguise instead of openly. (A wandering pack of Great Mythic Beasts might draw a little TOO MUCH attention, she thought-) An interest in mortal pop culture had made her aware of this concept called a "sentai team". And cosplay. You can probably see where this is going... I've had Cheongnyong herself, Tenkyoku (the Black Tortoise of the North) and Chujak (the Vermillion Phoenix of the South) as characters for quite awhile now, but I'd never settled on power sets for Xifang Baihu (the White Tiger of the West). The plan has always been for him to be the "front-line" character, so melee of some flavor, though I had no idea what. This seems opportune. He's my Psi/Shield Brute. 👍 You can't see them in this screen, but he's got wildcat ears and a swishy cat tail. I can't tell how he'll be later on, but his first dozen levels have gone pretty well. He beat the absolute snot out of an even-level Cherno in KIng's Row.

As always, I'm in! This is how I ended up with Cantus last year, and that was good fun. This year the dice give me: 12 - 57 - 72 Which translates to.... a Psi Melee/Shield Brute. Huh. I've had Shield scrappers and tanks, and Psi scrappers and stalkers, but I've never tried either of those sets in Bwootland, much less together. This is going to be interesting. I have not one clue how this character is going to handle in play.

Hmm... Are you after something like this fellow's stride? Pig's Strut Becomes Viral Hit - YouTube

I play fliers... so, yeah. I love the Shard zones. Gorgeous places just to fly around in, looking at things... I only wish we had more to do there. So, rather than adding or redesigning a zone, I'd say make use of a sadly ignored trio we already have. Let's go geyser-jumping and playing with storm elementals.

People instantly begin petitioning to make CoH2 a hard-mode, open-PvP grind-fest. Because that's apparently what's popular. So, City of Dark Souls... or maybe City of Fortnite. (Which would kind-of be hilarious-.) 😝

I hate doing respecs. I will if I *have* to... but I don't enjoy it. So unless it's something really broken, I let it be. Which is why I still have about 50 characters who have Stealth pool powers that no longer fit them. When the Powers That Be decided to completely change the powers in that one, mucking up almost every single one of my character's choices, I just said "to hell with that noise" and have never fixed them.

Back in the Live days, I had a Dark/Dark/Soul Corruptor named Seraphim Chanter. He was one of GW's folks, and the story was that he was, in his own way, just as devoted to her as his fellow Elysion red-sider Grey Kestrel was to Scir... To the point that I never did the later patron missions with him. (In Chanter's roleplayed personal canon, even though he no longer works directly for her or for Arachnos, he and Belladonna parted company as allies. He never did that "Let Daos talk me into betraying you"-thing, so she had no reason to get crabby with him.) When I made the character, I'd picked his power sets to intentionally mimic hers. I think it ended up working pretty well. His being a (mostly) living necromancer rather than a ghost was enough to cover explaining the differences. My Oranbegan Death Mages are typically DarkityDarkDark Defenders, which works out pretty well, too.... Although I've gone in (very) odd directions with a couple. Oddballs don't seem out of place to me when it comes to having a whole civilization made of magi. There are always going to be people who just don't follow the rules. 😄

'Haven't been on today, but yesterday the game was absolutely unplayable. I gave up after about half an hour of constant map-servers and rubber-banding.

I wandered away at the end of October and haven't really played much since then... I *think* I still need to finish my squash's Incarnate toys? I can't remember where I left him in the process, but I don't think he was done. .. And then there's Gnome on the Range. He's only 34, but I'm not at all sure I want to keep him, much less finish or equip him. I'm not big on joke characters in general, and I never even added him (or the squash for that matter-) to my character list.

For whatever it's worth.... I think I've spent a grand total of maybe an hour or two playing since the end of October. When I got enough Ethers to buy Snickerdoodles her MiniMe "tiny cat" costume thingie. Am I pretty much a burnout? Yeah. Was farming the Motel of Murder for days to get the badges to get the PAPs required the last straw that put me there? Hard to say, but I doubt it helped any. As cute as that MiniMe for the cat turned out to be, it was a pain. 😝