MoonSheep

i completely agree, especially “the journey” is one of the best bits of CoH along with the friends and community you make along the way

people announcing their song choice every 3 minutes to invite conversation is a lot better than the LFG chat being spammed every 30 seconds with “sitter LF farm” MMO’s have community and social interactions mate

people definitely need to be on their A Game, however if team members are at a different location on the map as they’re working on those objectives, e.g freeing sybils, it’s sensible for someone in the team to be going ahead to incan everyone to the next objectives. people need to work together to get the best speed run times

the ITF is popular as it has an enemy group with mostly non-mez, simple damage types. all mobs are close together and there’s a lot of them to plough through a lot of the TF is in spacious, open world maps too. the objectives are also simple and easy to understand Aeon as a TF is best experienced on medium difficulty in my view regarding your point on being left behind during speedruns - that’s a failure of the team, not of you. i have incan on my speed run alts and always bring everyone to the main objective. on iTrial speed runs, i’ll work with the team leads to ensure there’s always 1 person with incan ready to use, so we can move the league around where needed

challenge accepted

i’m really unsure which would have higher damage. i think the burst damage aspect from stalkers is also a bit outdated, having quick AS makes it part of a high damage attack chain for sustained ST damage output. controllable crits through the chance to hide proc also adds a fun dimension perma hoarfrost on either will be nice. will i miss not having icicles on the stalker? will have to find out

i made an elec/shield stalker for this same reason. i think my choice is between scrapper and stalker at the moment, both good versions of the combination will make both on test and see which i prefer

the data is really hard to align with perception - i want to make an ice/ice *something* soon and my brain won’t accept that the tank would also be a suitable option for good damage tanks are such a good AT thesedays, i agree with you that people are unaware however. i see a lot of outdated trends promoted

overall however, if you want to clear content - often the primary objective of seeking higher dps, then tanks are the best choice if one was wanting a melee pvp AT then yes, tanks would not be the optimal choice

brutes tend to have lower damage than tanks and scrappers in the current version of the game, they’re often the worst choice if you’re looking for a high damage melee AT a player did some comprehensive testing of brutes, scrappers and tanks recently. tanks are the highest DPS choice for melee players

surely any alt goldside will be a solo ambition? 😛 dom or corr would also work well solo if you want some additional challenge - blaster could be fun too if you enjoy the glass cannon playstyle

i’ve played my kin/sonic defender a crazy amount as it’s one of my 3 alts i play on HC since 2019 - it does speedruns (9min ITF), hard mode Aeon TFs etc.. it has a build of mostly SOs and a few cheap IO sets 🤷‍♂️ kin is such a forgiving set to play as your primary is 90% of your contribution. my advice as someone who plays a kin defender *a lot* is to genuinely not worry and just get on with it radiation would be an AMAZING secondary for kin. the huge amount of -defence irradiate gives will support your team so much at the lower levels, combined with speed boost hope you enjoy it, definitely don’t overthink it!

debt certainly feels less impactful thesedays

oh boy, wait until this guy finds out about the CoX badge system

perhaps those people are unaware you can auto level any character to 50 on the test server along with free IOs and all other unlocks instantly

when i play another alt other than my mind/fire permadom i realise how capable it is. it’s mostly used as a high damage ranged blaster, with the insta-lockdown mez controls for spicy moments

such is life

i use the macro noted by Chemist above this post. sometimes bind it to a key also /macro FIND target_custom_next enemy alive Sapper for ease of use if i’m hopping about i’ll put the macro on the first tray and mash the 1 key when i need it heavily. helps so much for things like vines during the CoV respec TF, or surgeons during ITFs

for future mishes, have you considered using a finding macro? i find it invaluable when looking for certain foe

less gimmicks with new powers would also be nice. i‘d like a normal powerset without a ton of janky combo builders, special effects etc

run TFs with enemies buffed and no insps mode enabled, makes for a very engaging and fun experience. a sensible balance of challenge and pace

tankers out damage brutes on the testing i’ve linked in a few threads bigboy tank best melee AT

it could hold a place in the morgue stalkers are relatively squishy, i just carry a T3 wakie and get on with things if i go down if you aint dying you aint living

show some sensitivity - people have been too upset to speak about it until now this is the ED of the modern era. the puke era has just ended, things ahead are looking dark and unknown. and slightly pukey

looking at the fantastic test results, scrapper would be the best bet for energy melee, followed by tank in my opinion and looking at the linked data, brutes are rarely the optimal melee AT in the modern area, save for a few very minor exceptions edit: i would also recommend creating an energy melee stalker on test. the ability to control your crits plus quick-AS makes it a ridiculously good ST damage combo