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“That’s no moon! It’s a potato in front of a desk lamp!”

Bane Spider Ruben, for sure. I’d also run the signature story arcs on the redside, at least once. Mr. G arc is pretty good, but hold on to your butt if you decide to betray him.

Ah, but what kind of cookies? (Waaaaaiiit for it...)

Champions has the chain attacks.

One of my favorite melee secondaries. Allows for a wide range of capabilities, including a nice movement buff that works perfectly with Ninja Run/sprint. I wouldn’t change it at all.

D'oh!

I inadvertently ran right into the cape mish villain side recently. Ran the thing anyway, even though the character costume was meant to be capeless. I was like, “Oh yeah...I remember sometimes teaming up with folks to run these.”

It’s also a whole other country because we have a special kind of crazy down there, which you may have seen exhibited by some of our politicians. Of course, I say “we” as a former resident (albeit of 50 years). Don’t miss anything down there, except breakfast tacos. No one seems to know what that is anywhere else.

Surely made them lose their minds, didn’t it?:-)

Today I rolled up Mighty Mike the Mighty Mite. Or was it Mike the Mighty Mite? Mighty Mikey Mite? Mitey Might? (Actually went with Mighty Mike as name, but info screen has him introducing himself as the first one—I just couldn’t find any combo of Mite available, so I basically made an annoying little claws/dark armor scrapper.)

Yeah, my autocorrect on the Pad did all that. Didn't bother to check after I posted.

Forgot about Striga That would fit with sorta going back to those old runs. I should probably work Croatoa in, as well. I tend to skip that one, as I don’t care for the theme. But, it’s been awhile, so...

Put together a team that ran Frostfire today (after I ran Wincott and most of Flux solo). Afterward, we went all the way through Julius the Troll and Talshak the Mystic. I know that’s the first time I’ve run the major Hollows arcs since return. I was actually surprised how easy it was to maintain a full team all the way through. Had a few that wer there the whole time (it was a great group of mostly support characters). I guess there’s more interest in those old story arcs than I thought. And since I’m not running 2XP on that character, I should be able to run through some Sky or Steel contacts, maybe Faultline. Anyway, it was a nice run. Made me rethink my typical mission paths these days.

I’m originally from the San Antonio area, and spent my last 10 years in the state near Austin. Finally cut ties and moved. I do not miss all that stupid heat (nor the perpetual wearing of flip-flops by everybody. They’re not for goin’ out on the town, y’all).

Same here. Well, used to be. Haven’t heard this since I left Texas 3 years ago.

I've GOT to try that. Gym Beam's been semi-retired too long.:-)

I’ve been seeing various callouts in LFG for such things as “master ITFs,” as well as the occasional “all X” team (where “X”=a specific AT). And, of course, we have our usual completely full teams of random 8. I am wondering, though, if it’d be worth it to conjure up some additional thematic/creative teaming, just to add some variety to the PuG types. For example, I remember the “Star” formations in the old Battletech game. The clan mechs worked in units off 5–like points of a star. I am wondering whether something like this could work In CoX. You announce a “star” run, indicating its a team of 5. I’m also wondering how to conjure up other forms of thematic shorthand. For example:, what would these be called? *A team with no duplicate archetypes (lone rangers?) *all ranged (bombardment team?) *all of the same origin (X-Men?) *costumes of the same base color (who aren’t in an SG) What other “theme team” ideas do you have, or have seen put into play? Better yet, what types of teams would you like to see more of (I’m a big fan of trios, but hardly ever end up on a team that small).

One of my favorite characters back in the day was a TA/Archery Def. Loves the quick attacks, setting the slick on fire. Just a fun, fun set. My current archers, however, tend to be sentinels or blasters. I’m finding I really like archery/martial for a solo blappee. Not quite as awesome for teams due to all the KB (explosive arrow, dragons tail). You purchase some grenades with all that, though, and your enemies will spend so much time flying into walls you can just pick them off while they get back up. All that said, though, I do need to trick out a Trick Arrow Def soon. Thanks for bringing back some great memories!

This is true, and has been so, in my experience, for every game I’ve played since the first min-maxers showed up at my tables to play DND. “Optimizers” (power gamers, munchkins, etc) aren’t going anywhere. Neither are crusty old grognards. But, as long as we’re not all accusing each other of “badwrongfun” it’s all good. This is just a silly computer game, after all. It shouldn’t be the hat hook for anyone’s ego cap. Life is short. Have fun, whatever way you do it.

Don’t know if I posted here or not, but I’d say my best is a BR/SR Sentinel named Gym Beam. also rans: Rad/Nrgy Aura Brute: Glogre staff/ninj scrapper Acrobattle

Just now ran across this in the final mish of Johnny Sonata arc. Wailer: Youuuuuu Suuuuuuuck! hehehehe

If this is the typical tone you assume in your discussions, I can’t see them going anywhere good. “I get that you’re are simpleminded?” Really?

Ran into this today in a group of five. Our tank and brute kept moving forward leaving stragglers behind for myself, playing a blaster, and another player playing a PB. The strays tended to make a beeline toward the peace bringer. The two of us would end up working together to knock out the straggler, when we should have been concentrating on using our attacks against the mob. As we were running a mission arc in the mid 20s, which was bumped up a couple of levels, the strays tended to be orange or red. So it wasn’t like we were having to pick off minions. Meanwhile, the tank and brute spent a lot of time discussing their fire farm builds, how many different characters they had, how many were level 50. And then the conversation strayed off into a discussion of quarantine, wherein one of them proceeded to tell us how no one had actually died of Covid-19. So this was sort of a trifecta of annoyingness. Unsurprisingly, the team (politely) broke up right after that mission.

Calvin Scott tends to hand me my arse in the Marchand arc. Silver Mantis is a consistent pain. Some specific things: 1) The other day, running Stockwell arc, we nearly team-wiped in the undercover fight-club mish. I realize none of us were using our normal powers, and the mish was bumped a level or two, but I ended up taking cover behind a column a couple of times to regen my sliver of health enough to shoot back. We managed to get some disorient via the cross-punch attack, and got out with 3 of us left. 2) Every now and then, the shadow sims in pos1 can be brutal. 3) the mender 5th column arc that has the huge ambushes and 3 bosses. I’ve seen that one go bad more often than not.

I did this quite by accident to Valkyrie. We were running positron. In between missions I went over to train up my character. Unfortunately, there was a Rikti raid going on at the time and she was in the middle of a gaggle fighting it out alongside Positron. Several of us made comments about “how dare she defend the city!” And so on. Then off we went. When we returned later on to train up, I slapped her and said “that’s for not being there to train me at my convenience!” It probably would have been funny except that my character was so short compared to her that he only came up to about her waist, resulting in...well, you get the idea. Needless to say it didn’t look very good...