[Posi 1: Come with me if you want to live]

5 hours ago, Snarky said:

Get the accolade redside.  With an alt acct 50 who has Schweinzschtupher unlocked you can get the Accolade at level 1 in 30 min tops.  Would be less if the damn doors would cooperate 

 

ooh, i’m interested in this - can you link a guide?

 

i’ll let you smash up my computer as a thank you 👍

[Posi 1: Come with me if you want to live]

I enjoy a bit of chaos, this is why I run the Posi TFs.

 

I ran a Posi 1 team yesterday led by my incarnate kin defender, it lived up to its chaotic nature. The only ‘tank’ type on the team was a brute with no taunt, so the aggro was spraying everywhere. We wiped a few times on the last mission, so I immediately left the team, smashed my desktop with heavy boots and went to the pub with @Snarky

 

..so I decided to do what I can to contain the chaos. I made the best aggro holder I could think of - an ice/ice tank. Chilling embrace, icicles, taunt and ice patch should do the job.

 

No.

 

No..

 

On my second Posi 1, boy was I holding that aggro good. Man they were huddled around me.. Just one problem, where were most of the team?

 

Answer: Continuously running after a scrapper who had a death wish and repeatedly dying along with 4 or 5 team members several times during the TF

 

So I quit again and phoned @Snarky to come over and help me smash up my gaming laptop

 

..so I issued some directive instructions which seemed to help a bit. The blaster and dominator who stuck with me remained unscathed the entire TF

 

Despite being a team of 8, there was no support AT to help me through some of the wild encounters, my insp tray was working hard but managed to keep it together and contain the aggro nicely

 

Overall a surprisingly rewarding experience. I’ll continue with the ice/ice tank and see how it develops

 

7/10 Posi 1 experience

[Are people leaving?]

3 hours ago, A Cat said:

I come and go.

 

yes, you are a cat

[Are people leaving?]

someone posted a few graphs several weeks ago and it showed things are mostly stable over the 3 years

[Happy Holidays]

have a good one mate

[How big is Santa’s sack?]

i hear it’s swollen and uncomfortably enlarged this year

[Been back 5 weeks after 11 years to find 2x xp buff and 100% influence loss...WHY?]

3 hours ago, Spark Inferno said:

Maybe just get rid of the xp buffs and let ppl play how it was meant to be played in live and not rush to lvl 50 with nothing to show for it other than badges.

 

that is still very much an option which is chosen by many people, however the double XP buff is optionally available for those who want it, such as people like you who want to rush to lvl 50

[Question about location/splat-based powers]

why not test it on beta?

[S.O. enhancements... let's make them affordable for new players]

buy DO’s instead

[Any teaser what is being worked on? (January 2024 edition)]

6 hours ago, Clave Dark 5 said:

The population's really been down as of late, and my conspiracy theory is that everyone's had enough time with all the toys in the toy box that they're burning out and leaving; one of the only good ways to keep people is with newer stuff. 

 

i think because the game’s difficulty and challenge has been watered down so many times to homeopathic levels of interest, everything feels bland and uninspiring

 

every archetype is any archetype, you can simply button mash your way to success in HC CoH

[What's the best way to get a character Portrait?]

3 hours ago, Azari said:

Please explain why it’s apparently so harmful to post in an “old” thread. I’ve been trying to comprehend this for years. Feels like nitpicking about something that really doesn’t matter to me… Yet it’s so common to see people complain about it. I don’t get it. Isn’t it a waste of space to make a new thread about an old topic if the original thread still exists?  Why not keep the whole discussion in one place, rather than have tons of threads cumulating over time about the same subject…?  

 

because you shouldn’t necro threads, but you should also use the search function rather than making a new post because the topic may already exist

 

schrödinger’s forum whingers will never be pleased!

[Farming?]

here we goooooooooooo

[ISO - a Dominator Sommelier]

8 hours ago, Bellicose said:

Well, thank you all for your advice. I really went back and forth a lot between Ice/Psi/Ice and Plant/Psi/Ice; but, ultimately, decided on Plant/Psi/Ice.  The speed and effectiveness of Seeds coupled with the 'portability' of Creepers won out. I think it was just a little more DPS, and more sustainable for my tastes.

So, now it is time level up and play Psychedillic.

 

my good friend @Xiddo has played that combo for a number of years. i’ll let him chime in with his thoughts 

[Yellow Salvage, what's up with that?]

On 12/12/2023 at 3:45 PM, Necrophidian said:

It's not you.

A person (or persons) has raised the price floor for uncommon salvage by placing hundreds (thousands?) of bids at an inflated amount (currently 20,002, was 13k a week or two ago). They appear to have actively kept the standing bids at around 125k (I've watched it steadily drop to 122, 121, only to be jacked back up again).

This has been going on for maybe two months now? Three? Somewhere around there.

I'd say encourage everyone to sell their uncommon salvage to help clear the clog.

 

i don’t think it’s possible for one person to manipulate the price

 

as an experiment on another thread complaining about the price of common salvage i spent about 200M buying up every common salvage above the 10K seed price. the value immediately fell below this as soon as i stopped, despite theoretically the only stock available now being the 10K seeded price

[Feijiqiluo288 joined the community 25 minutes ago]

what an active contributor!

[I just can't make myself do the low level regular contacts - too many street sweeps]

36 minutes ago, Snarky said:

That is nothing.  I have do e many Red “completionist” runs (every contact, every mission).  But only ine red/blue/gold

 

There are a few (too many) kill x carnies (20?) in PI.   The issue?  They only spawn in one place.  A few at a time.  Boring, long, stupid

 

so true, “kill X amount of Y in a zone they never spawn in”

[It gets lonely out there...]

yeah redside is quite dead, it’s mostly TFs that are ran

 

do you monitor the LFG channel? it’ll make it easier to spot redside TFs forming

[Thermal Radiation T9 Discussion]

it’s a real shame Melt Armor is so crap, i have wanted to love thermal for so many years but it massively lets down the set

 

if only one change, just halving its recharge time and leaving all other attributes along would significantly improve its worth

[What kind of snacks do you eat while playing?]

wasabi peas, yumyum

[Why was Statesman killed off again?]

[Do you think City of Heroes helps make you a better person in real life?]

i find the community of CoH is on the side of “lets all get along”, it’s certainly different to L4D2 which is a real roll of the dice depending on who you play with. tends to be quite civilised and friendly - most people are up for a chat

 

my only criticism of the CoH community is the occasional “i have an extremely fringe niche use case, why doesn’t this change cater for me!?!?1”

[Ode for a Kin - Top general support?]

accept no substitutions, kin is S tier forever

[Had a fun pug TF interaction that Snarky would be proud of today...]

your biggest mistake was joining a TF led by an MM 😛

[A general guide to defender primaries.]

i came back to this thread to make sure you didn’t smack talk my boy Kinetics.. all looks good 

[Defender Duo for Pain Dom]

the self damage boost is only +31.25% for 15 seconds. if you wanted a pocket buffer, thermal may be a better option, forge will give +50% dmg for 2 minutes, along with thermal shield and plasma shield for useful +res

 

i would go with a pocket defender and a scrapper or similar for the fighter, i think you’ll find it a more effective combo