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Here's a summary of just how asinine your post is. - CoH didn't have those numbers on Live at the end. - The game is 20 years old. - It was shutdown 12 years ago. - The current version known to the public has been running for 5 years, How dare a game like that can't simply draw the same numbers as a current GotY contender. Maybe you should compare it to other games in a similar situation. You could also show actual data of how the numbers have dropped off versus your gut feeling. In all honestly, I've never been so bored that I wasted time telling a player base how much their game sucks as much as you do. I've tapped out on numerous games. I've never then gone to the game's forum and posted a single negative post about the game. I simply left. At some point, you need to ask yourself WTF you are here. Either you stay and shut the hell up, or you just leave.

I don't deny there being a transition period, but Spider-Man is still around. My wife and I babysit her nephew, and you better believe we are watching the new Spider-Man cartoon. Doom, for however that turns out to be, is coming. So is the Fantastic 4, and no, I'm not exactly excited by it as I think casting is a bit of a misfire. Daredevil is coming back, and lets just pray they don't screw that up because it is the rare thing I watched more than once. X-Men are here in mostly cartoon form, and that thing was fantastic although with the writer being done, we'll have to see. I fully expect more and more X-Men to start showing up. Arguably one of the most important castings might already be done in having X-23 take over as the new Wolverine as she did in the comic. If she on the level of Hugh Jackman? Hell no, But honestly, he nailed the character so well no one was going to fill that role unless a generational fit happened. They just need to nail Xavier and Magneto. I don't know how long Ruffalo wants to be Hulk, but he and Marvel absolutely want to do World War Hulk, and they have been working on getting the storyline there. There is no movie I want more. Honestly, I think going forward Marvel's biggest problem is that they have a 'other studio' problem where said studio is just going to put out steampile after steampile of content and then Marvel has to ignore or incorporate it into the MCU and pray people aren't simply worn out by it.

For the record, you are including Captain America.

Weaker damage but better utility.

Note, it takes your higher Def number for the actual Def against an attack, so, 40% Melee Def is 40% against all melee attacks regardless of the type, see T/P. If you have 35% S/L Def and 40% Melee Def, then a melee S/L attack is going against 40% versus 35%. In short, Positional Def armors based sets are easier to Def cap all damage types due to only needing top cap the three positions and get the highest DDR to keep those Def numbers up. The con is the lack of a heal. Type based armors are incredibly difficult to Def cap to all types of attacks and have less DDR. On the plus side, they get a heal, and likely more Res.

I don't think I've entered one of the stores since Live.

I would do this type of slotting only really with uncommons when leveling. I would do this since slots are limited, I don't care as much about their set bonuses, they are less likely to be impacted by ED in terms of values, and if they are low level enough sets, they might only have 3 pieces to them. I vastly use attuned versions of IOs so uncommon IOs which scale up to Level 40 are great ones to pop in early and just leave them for whenever you want to do an upgrade. Note, the more impactful set bonuses come as you slot more of the same set. Note, Def bonuses can be highly valued depending on what a person is going for. I self PLed two characters to Level 50 with Level 25 common IOs. Once I switched to even a budget build and ran it, it was "Oh, so that's what this is like." I can't recall if I flipped from +0 or +1, but I know I was suddenly doing +3 after the switch.

How many aspects are boosted. A dual Level 50 set totals at 53%. That means each aspect, ie Damage and Recharge, are boosted by 26.5%. For a triple set Level 50, that means 63.60% boosts Acc, Damage, Recharge by 21.2% each. If you slot both of them, you are now getting 21.2% Acc and 47.7% Damage and Recharge. Compare that to a Level IO single where those two slots give you 42.4% in Damage and Recharge and no two set bonus.

I didn't take Dominate on my EA. I don't really proc bomb on builds. Plus, I'm not really seeing slots for it. I 4-slotted Mind Probe as is. Granted, I just looked at my build and saw where I should add in a few procs. Note, I went Fire/ea. I skipped adding an Epic for my Ice/sr simply due to wanting RoP instead. Initial test on Beta made me roll that version onto an active server.

It is also reasonable to go Corr for Ice, but Ice can further stack with its holds. My TA/ice feels very Controller like.

I don't really know. I feel like a feed is more for the people who get added to it, so whatever they want to talk about gets added to that feed. I haven't really posted anything CoH related nor am I part of the feed TMK, but I would absolutely post political stuff on my account. I did a search on the hashtag of #cityofheroes, but you are getting older posts from it as someone has to add the hashtag for #cityofheroes for it to show up.

FYI, I've literally taken it to 50 across the four ATs which have it. Much of that time was done solo.

Unfortunately, there's little reason for a Sent to be in melee depending on the powersets involved.

Bluesky has over 10 million users as they celebrated that mark a month or so ago. It's not Twitter/X or Threads, but it is also tolerable.

Trapdoor clear times are rather close. The advantage for a Brute is the added mitigation and a possible damage aura being fueled by Fury.

I looked at my EA Sent build, and my Ranged Def is in the 20s. That's going to be a hell of an ask to get that to 45%. Can it be done? Sure, but I would wonder what other sacrifices would need to be made to get Positional Def to work on a Typed Def based set. I can get Positional Def capped on an SR and use the T9 as nothing more than a mule if needed be.

Time's -Regen is subpar. If I'm soloing something like an EB, I would gladly take Dark over Time.

I found it. https://bsky.app/profile/lunarronin.bsky.social/feed/cityofheroes

PB has +50% Resistance (Running Speed, Flying Speed, Jumping Speed, Jump Height) which MB does not. CoD also doesn't list the Confuse protection as needing MB, so again, the text for powers should be better.

EA is always going to have a Psi hole. If I had to pick one for end game content, it would be SR.

I assumed you were talking about MMs as you didn't say +1 overall. There is zero reason for me to believe Bots would be the number one overall primary when as stated HC's own data completely disagrees with it.

Bots were the #1 pick according to the 2020 CoH data from the HC team and by a decent margin.

Average level being under 9 is interesting.

It just seems weird to complain about losing a name so shortly after the name policy kicked in. I made sure all of my non-50s were logged recently so none of them were flagged. If you took a break from the game, came back 6 months later, and saw what had happened, then I would have a bit of sympathy. To paraphrase Beyoncé, if you like it, put a 50 on it.

Depends on when they bought it and what it sold for. One company said they initially used a different URL as the one they wanted was priced at $600k. They did eventually get it. My guess is they talked the seller down to a more reasonable price.