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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...

I don’t play very much 50+ content. Tend to use my 50s to farm INF, so I’ll jump on to teams at just about any level range. Tend to play blasters and melee characters, with most of them being Tech origin because the store is close in Talos, and that’s where I may start buying enhances (assuming I don’t go with IOs or some of the cheaper sets). Hardly ever roll pure support, and seldom grab a tank. I like to have increased movement, enough where I don’t have to have something toggled on to keep up with a group. Also helps when it’s time to retrograde. As a blaster, I move around a lot when settling up cones. There’s an art to it. I almost always have “bail out” powers in the form of grenades, and the plasmatic Taser. You can sometimes knock everything away from you to get a chance to run or recover, especially early to mid game. I almost always buy the small jet pack for my non-fliers. I don’t like hovering. Even if I have it, I tend to ignore it (unless it’s a must for the situation). It’s not smart, I know, but I don’t care. Scooting along with my arms dangling down seems freaky. I am currently a bit fed up with seeing nothing but Council on radio teams. I’d rather take on Arachnos any day, or anything that might take us off autopilot. I like to chat on teams, and enjoy wit/humor.

Run every Srike/0Task Force solo, at the appropriate level (no flashbacks). Run the signature story arcs, too. Run them all with a support toon. or: solo regular content with the switches turned all the way up. Make sure this is the case when you take on Calvin Scott in the Marchand arc. Or when you bull your way up Duray’s weapon’s platform. Heck, Veles might even hand your rear to you in Blue Steel,s arc. Oh, and don’t use any inspirations. Should present something of a challenge then. (it’s pretty easy to make the game brutal, if you want)

I feel like the thread title is inaccurate. Feels like the OP is saying, "I don't get why you guys like CoH so much." Evidently, many of us are just plain insane since CO is "objectively superior" in so many ways. 🙁

Thanks, Yomo. You made my new toon's day.:-)

Because when I played CO extensively, it was a lonely experience. Hard to get teams. All in all, it just wasn’t very social. On CoH, even if I’m running solo, I can have the LFG and zone chat on to watch what others are up to. Teams tend to be friendly and casual and tolerant. I’ve made some hew friends thanks to CoH. My long stint on CO never got me any of that. its never been about the nuts and bolts of the game. It’s the feel of it, and the people.

Double XP has mostly killed the low level arcs. If you want Wincott, Flux, Julius, Talshak, you simply have to be on normal XP gain, and hardly anyone is when they run lowbies. I just ran all these arcs yesterday, but solo, of course. I also ran the KR banks because I had to level up to run the last 2. Teams abound. Just not content teams. You have to advertise and recruit those yourself, usually. On Excelsior, you can easily get an FF team together, though many will be exemplared down for it. People like Frostfire. There are still radio teams in certain zones. What I see more of, however, is skipping the bank missions. I have one toon who’s ran them all, and I had to solo all of them them to get them.

That’s a terrible experience. I have 2 daughters and 2 granddaughters. I know how I would feel if that happened to any of them. Unfortunately, we can’t reach through the screen and teach people some manners. It’s the unfortunate by-product of our online interactions. The good news is that stupid meme will go away. That said, I am hoping your daughter doesn’t give those bullies the satisfaction of quitting. In the meantime—and I’m sure you thought of this already—maybe try one of the other servers? Better yet, if you need a wingman posse for some backup if that stuff starts again, I’d be happy to serve as one of your recruits. We can’t really kick a**, but we can certainly take names and report these idiots. My globals are @cranebump and @cranebump2. Let me know if I can help in any way. And tell Karen to hang in there. She’s got supporters she hasn’t met yet. (P.S. I run on excelsior and everlasting, but if Team Karen is forming on Torch, signal me, and i’ll Be there. For now, best wishes, and, on behalf of the overwhelming majority of good people in the CoH community, know that we stand with you.)

I’d like access to the limited #/uses powers in a single pool called, I dunno, “weaponry.” Revolver, grenades (regular and stun), bat, throwing knives. I’ll snag these sometimes for solo toons. Realize I can just buy them, but the ability to slot that stuff might be interesting. If not that, the “pistol”pool sounds fun. Realize we have dual pistols, but a single weapon would be a nice option. Or something like the experimental blaster from Champions Online. Instead of chem/ice/fire a la DP, maybe it could have focused sonic/energy/elec options.

A blaster with the devices secondary, since a lot of Devices can be skipped. I have a Guns/Dev blaster who’s got 3 of the set. It’s mainly conceptual, but, if I were to go full-on blapper, I think it might result in some interesting utility, what with the usual blasting, plus Field Operative (stealth), targeting drone, and gun drone. I agree with a previously poster that using a weaponless primary would probably be preferable. I remember trying to fold fighting in with a staff character, and being annoyed with having to rearm the staff when I switched. Anyway, the main thing I find about having boxing on my guns toon isn’t that I don’t use much melee at all on teams. I might activate a boxIng strike to throw disorient on a troublesome target,

PB/WS and MMS.(I wish I could create a playable character just using the Whip powers though). I also don’t play any buffers where you have to monitor and target individuals (shields, kins). Lazy playstyle, I guess.

Give MA the Shuriken attack from the assault set.

I didn’t know they had less “kicky” MA animations until this week. That’s what kept me from running one. Went out and rolled up an MA right after that.

The Row. It’s got a gritty feel to it. It’s the Hell’s Kitchen of Paragon City.

This is one reason why I turn the General channel off, and stick Help in a different tab. It can get...noisy sometimes. Also: “good” and “bad” are subjective terms. Not everyone is here to powergame (so let’s not slam someone for not playing the 7,051st spines/fire brute). What’s good might just be what’s fun, or what fits the concept. Now, if someone specifically asks for an opinion, well, all bets are off. They’ll get one (or two...or three...or...). I do agree that we all should show basic manners in our interactions. And, for the most part, people really do. Haven’t met many who do not. Then again, I stay away from build discussions, so...that may be it.:-)