Burnt Toast

The "downtime" of 43%+ defense to all is 2 seconds... On live I did have the Glad Proc - BUT I am not using any purples or pvp IOs in my current builds. This character was a beast on live and can easily be made that way again now. I actually haven't been playing my Fire/Time as I have been focusing on other characters (mainly Sentinels).

I could actually see a healing arrow - in that you have Disruption Arrow it could be the same mechanic - A "Disruption" effect that send out healing akin to triage beacon's radius heal. Heck you could simply add this effect to the current Disruption Arrow and not have to invent a whole new power.

On live I had a Water/Dark Corr - it was a lot of fun and very good at soft control and damage. I decided on Water/Kin this go around because... well... I wanted a /kin hahaha. Water is a pretty good set that seems to do well with most Corr secondaries, but I think excels when paired with dark, time, radiation, kin, and storm.

Since we do not have a Supergroup subsection of the forums - I figured I would put this here. People can post their SG in here and what kind of SG it is, what kind of players are in their SG, and what they are looking for. Players can also "advertise" themselves if they are looking for a SG; especially the type of SG they are looking to join.

While I love the massive amount of new items available - it makes me miss the base building that was actually on live. Having to figure out how to build your base with the tools we had then was part of the challenge and uniqueness of bases. With that said - I have been spending so much time in my personal base just in awe of all the new options.

I always hated having to do the arc to get the Villain Epic powers - at least now with Null - switching sides is just a click and not a 4 day process.

Ehhhhh... saying they were copied doesn't tell the whole story - they were copied and given away - which both parties involved knew was illegal. So technically no they were not stolen, but that doesn't make the "transaction" legal. Just because you believe something... doesn't make it true. While the game CoH may have appeared abandoned to you - NCSoft still used characters from CoH in another game (Master X Master) which was released just two years ago. Discounting a law because it is a civil law is a bit much. I mean sexual harassment is a civil law... as is employment discrimination. Belittling the importance of civil laws does not make your argument stronger. I'm sure there are still many people who think it is nonsensical that they can't hire just Caucasian men, but ya know... that pesky civil law. To the OP - to be honest I am not sure what Homecoming's stance is on these types of characters. I saw a Thor the other day (War Mace/Elec Brute) and a Hulk (Inv/SS Tank) and a Deadpool (Dual Pistols Blaster) and... well you get the idea. Oh and I never saw a Dr. Strange when the game was live, but guessing since having his own movie and being in the last two Avengers his popularity has obviously increased as I have seen a Doc Strange, Dr. Stranger, Dr. Strange, and on and on.

The draw on the servers... you have no idea how much it was wreaking havoc on the servers because literally 80% of players were in AE. You said "We started out with AE farms..." uhh no WE didn't - AE wasn't even a thing until Issue 14... before that farms were mainly done in PI and Grandville. Not sure which server you are on, but I know on Indom you can catch a team 24/7 within 5-10 mins max - then again if you are a lowbie trying to get on a PI team - they may not want you there because you are not as effective as someone slotted and with more powers. Solution - make friends with some farmers. Another solution.. make a farmer..make friends.. get farmed by friends. I love AE farming, but I think you are being quite a bit hyperbolic. I am working on my second 50 (level 38) on Indom... took me 6 days to get first to 50 and will take me maybe 4-5 to get second to 50. None of this was done in the AE. You act like they are against AE farming because of "farming" when in all actuality it is a quality of life/server issue that affects everyone - not just you. I would rather the servers run as smooth as they have since the AE nerf than you be able to farm to 50 in 2 days AND I am a huge farmer. Adapt... do it the "old school" way because for 5 years out of the 8 the game was live.. there was no AE and we manage to farm just fine LOL. I sort of see your point but these XP buffs are currently in game now they cost inf I tested the 10mil boost for an hour and running that and AE with the current rates is about the same XP rate as pre-nerf but you get ZERO inf as a penalty I see this is a fair trade as this prevents the market from getting completely ruined due to inf farms as the server wide rate changes effect the inf gains. My point is it seems to be playing favorites with one type of game play. Oh well if you want to play in the real world you can have all these bonuses, but if you want to use the AE then no you get nothing. In fact we will make it even harder then normal to level. And yes I get the idea of what they were saying about a draw on the servers, but other things put a draw on servers and I have not seen them stop Raids or pvp etc. All I am saying is that if you spent 8 hours earning no influence and leveling up a character to even just into SO level, then you are going to need a set of hancers fast. Fastest way is to go to the AE and farm tickets. Which IMO then really means that this xp change/boost is going to put people back into wanting to farm the AE therefore working against the entire point of nerfing the xp there to begin with. So either put the rewards back to normal so you are given incentives to get the bonuses in the real world but not punished if you don't choose to, just leave a flat bonus in the real world without killing influence earning, or leave the AE nerfed but give it like 3x ticket rewards so that people wont have to farm for as long to get their SOs. Frankly we started out with AE farms and everyone complained about the farmers and how it bred ignorant level 50s. Then they killed the farms, and I now spend an hour a night at least trying to find a team. Because frankly it seems that all those that don't want people to farm also don't want to invite anyone to their teams to play. And now the chat is filled with DFB team spams. People just changed the farm. And in the new system they can do that farm, earn double xp and then hit level 50 and go and team with people with no enhancements in their slots. Which I am sure will be the next round of complaints about PLers and how they don't even know how to or afford to slot their toons and suddenly we can make another change. If all these changes were brought about because of the lag on the servers these farms in the AE created, seems to me the simple answer was change the rules of the AE so that you could not exploit it putting like 40 helper bots into the same map or whatever the case was. But it seems like rather then fixing the AE, they are just creating more work for themselves by taking from here and giving there and that will cause another issue and another etc. Fix what was broken and put an end to it and everyone is happy.

Freeze ray is my quick hold power - whereas bitter freeze ray doubles as a second hold and damage. The slotting I have in freeze ray is to extend the hold time (which you cannot do with bitter freeze ray) as well as the 4th enhancement bonus of recharge time. I love being able to hold bosses easily.

Please don't "focus" on heals - focus on buffs and doing damage. Keeping a team buffed - especially your Tank/Brute/Scrap (whoever is taking alpha) will benefit the team way more than healing. Empathy has some heals, but it really shines in its ability to buff individuals and the team. In other words.. don't be a "healer" be.. a Defender :) My main is an Empathy/Ice - Aside from buffing and the occasional heal I am busy slowing, hurting, and holding enemies.

All these people going all hyperbolic about latency/ping who are not even listening to current US players who say it is not an issue currently unless the servers are hammered and then..and only then... are there random ping issues. You guys act like all of a sudden you will be seconds behind the action LOL. Quit being so dramatic. These boards are getting to be more and more like the original boards where people will complain at just about anything. Most people didn't even know where the servers were located in relation to where they live, but now it's all "OH NO MY PING!" hahaha. You honestly think it will be that bad when the majority of the players are from the US and haven't complained about these issues except when the servers are bright red and queued? Stop complaining about stuff that has not been an issue and shouldn't be one... and instead just enjoy the frickin game.

I honestly think there are way too many zones already; especially blue side. Typical journey of heroes and widely used zones: Atlas, Kings, Hollows, Steel, Talos, Bricks, Founders, and then Peregrine. So many zones get ignored almost totally like Croatoa, Crey's, Boomtown, Eden, Skyway, IP, Perez, Striga, Faultline, etc - Not even mentioned the all but empty Praetorian zones :( Heck even when CoH had 100,000+ subs most of these zones were pretty much abandoned.

They haven't stated an end date for XP bonus. If/when they do decide to reduce or get rid of it I am sure there will be an announcement. I am a fan of the bonus as I have already spent 8 years doing the story arcs etc and am glad my ride(s) to 50 will be somewhat faster.

Per yesterday's announcement: "XP bonuses have been normalized across the board. That’s +50% XP above standard for all shards! Still plenty of leveling to get done, get out there!"

Not much to explain - they created a company as a non-profit to protect themselves and allow them to receive donations to help with the costs of running the game. They are transparent as to the costs and what is needed to run things and are only requesting that which is needed to meet those costs. You cannot create a company in a day - but they have taken the needed steps to get the process going. They are not looking to make money and so are only accepting donations to cover the costs to pay for servers etc each month (hence... non-profit). i dont know much about US law, but for me thats not really a trustworthy move i need further explonation

Well shoot - went to donate and goal has already been met. Will have to be faster next month :)

MIDs is a great resource for number crunching...just saying.

Not sure why you would think we are on borrowed time... As far as the Homecoming team has stated - this venture is not a short term one. Not even kidding! So long as we're all thinking the public servers are on borrowed time, though, it'd be great, if possible, to fire up all the holiday events at once. The only downside would be it would be dark all the time from the Halloween event... but imagine the Winter Lord going on a rampage and meeting up with Eochai while there's a zombie apocalypse going on, and everyone's at the theater for the Heist and Gladiator action anyway. The LFG system needs to be working for a lot of that stuff.

Indom had a small (75) person que a few times on Saturday... not sure about any of the other ones

So a question that has been raised... since these 4 shards have been at max capacity most of the weekend... are there talks/plans of introducing a 5th shard or are you going to simply wait it out and see if demand/population decreases once the "shiny" of everything wears off?

I have never heard or seen this bug until today and now it is starting to happen to a lot of people.

You posted a request for a PL in a completely unrelated topic. LOL @ "owning" comment.

Exited a mission and some of my powers will not recharge. I have logged..logged...switched characters...used other powers...logged..and logged again... Nothing will make them recharge: Heal Aura Fortitude Regen Aura Recovery Aura Hasten So we found out the only way to fix this is to go see a trainer.. switch builds.. and then switch back.

Here's hoping they never implement anything like that... because it is pure pay to win. Buying your way to 50 and uber IOs is just a bad idea. With the double xp... extra xp.. etc.. leveling is much easier than it was on live. I went from 35 to almost 41 in probably 4 hours today - three of those levels were gained from doing the ITF. If you want to buy IOs... do task forces. All IOs can be purchased with merit rewards - even PvP IOs.

Glad you guys clarified about i25. There were rumors going around that Sentinels would be wiped etc. Luckily I asked in private and was reassured they were here to stay... they are my new favorite AT. As for the super packs.. nah I am good.. I need that influence to help cover some IOs hehe.