White Hot Flash

Tuesday, the 12 of August, saw the passing of my wife @steelfrost, from stage 4 pancreatic and liver cancer. It was recently diagnosed but we were unable to treat it before she succumbed to it. She had played CoH since pre-ED days, mostly on Champion and Virtue, and was active in the RP community. She had too many alts to list (loved the character creator, and many of her alts were for RP purposes so only got played during those times). I met her through the game, her living in northern Mississippi (USA) and I in the Phoenix area. We just happened to be on the same team running missions or perhaps a TF or two, and we hit it off, and eventually I moved to her and we've been together for just about 20 years, our 5th wedding anniversary on Oct 1. She was a member or RP'd with many groups on Virtue and then on Everlasting. She even managed to hide the fact she'd been invited to the secret squirrel server after sunset for a couple of months, finally unable to fib anymore about it and getting me in as well. She was infamous, at least to me, for never having her powers slotted or enhanced because she would help her friends in AE farms and get to certain levels to be able to run RP content at the higher levels. She preferred Red Side content, and even tried her hand at PvP a few times. This game brought us together, and gave her many, many hours of enjoyment. If you ever RP'd with her, or ran endless Imperious TFs with her in Cimerora, hold a torch high for her. I love you and miss you, Sabrina.

Back on live, I pulled off something like this with my Ice/Ice Blaster in one of the Hollows missions in the Frostfire arc. It was one of the office building maps where there's a tight stairwell that just leads to an upper landing that goes nowhere but down another stair to the same room. Fighting Trolls, I managed to stay alive long enough after a mostly team-wipe for a couple of the dead to go to the hosp and make it back to the mission. I ran my little metal butt off (my character was a repurposed mini-fridge that was given one of Citadel's back up "brains" and turned into a robot to help fill the hero shortage). The rest of the team that didn't go to the hospital were cheering me on as I plinked and ran up and down the stairs trying to kite the mobs. It was one of my finer moments in the game, especially on a PUG team.

It's in order if you group the bladed weapon sets together, followed by the punchy punchy sets.

Thanks

Which is what? I haven't actually found the official name of it anywhere.

For those that can't seem to catch a donation window and would still want to contribute, is it possible for you to Paypal (or your money transfer method of choice) your donation to a friend who CAN make that window, and then they could do it for you? At the moment, there really isn't a better solution that will satisfy everyone since they're trying to stay away from gathering too much money and garnering the wrong attention, so it's time to find other ways to satisfy your desire to help. Maybe donate that money to a charity in CoH's name. It seems we're complaining about there being too much money donated (which triggers the cutoff), when that should be at the bottom of things to worry about.

Congrats on the great accomplishment!

Nice to see some familiar names again.

I'm still not seeing where the problem is, if you don't actually use the threads and merits you're earning post-50. Yeah, you're getting them, but they will just sit there in a pile until you're ready to use them. You might even hit the limits on having them and then not earn them at all until you spend some. No one is saying you have to cash them all in at once. You can still be miserly with them and spend them like you would have before the adjustments, and progress the way you want to, without anyone having to spend even 5 minutes coding something that you seem to be the only one that wants to make use of. Does it really bother you that much to see a couple of hundred threads, or a pile of Emp Merits sitting there in your inventory?

Yo.

Veteran levels are what you earn after level 50, when the normal XP leveling process stops. If you notice your XP bubbles once at lvl 50, they are still filling as you do content that earns XP. You still ding-rez and get the usual inspiration bonus, and every set number of times you totally fill all ten bubbles, you'll earn Emp Merits. I believe it's every three or so veteran levels for a bit, and then it happens less often. It's a way for you to earn your Incarnate stuff faster and not have to run Trials all the time, as some folks have a hard time getting to do them. If I have any info wrong, feel free to correct me.