Solarverse

No affect sadly. As soon as you activate A.S., (or any other power for that matter) you lose your defense, even before it animates. Once you proc hide from A.S. (assuming that is where you keep the proc) you go back in to hide but lose the extremely high AoE defense that you get from your natural Hide.

I agree, I don't NEED to breath either, I can always just chose to die, but life would probably be a better experience if I keep taking breaths. IE, Stalker play is just a better experience with all of those procs. 😉

What I used is an expensive tool, but not even close to as expensive as some of the better tools that are out there. Hanz Zimmer uses one to create his compositions that I would die to get a hold of, it would be the best Christmas present ever. But yes, he is using a much better tool than what I have. unfortunately, what I have is all I could afford. One day, if the day ever comes that my musical experience pays off, I'll buy a much better tool and really get some awesome stuff going, but until then I am kind of stuck with what I have for the time being. Boy would I love to have a better program. I started off playing guitar at the age of 8 years old. By time I was in high school I was playing lead guitar for some of the local heavy metal bands. By time I was in my 20's, I had started an original metal band and we played the tri-state area, playing in some of the best clubs out there. At the age of 29, we had that one chance to make it and turned it down because we didn't like how the offer was presented. I don't regret that choice because now I am married and have three beautiful kids. If we had taken the offer, most likely I would be dead by now, heh. I started taking an interest in symphony orchestra (always had an interest in it, ever since I had seen Conan (the original) on the big screen when I was a child) a few years ago when I started creating Solarverse and the Ecliptic Comics Publishing Co. that I am still putting together. I didn't see the point in hiring somebody to write music for me, since I had the skills needed anyway...all I needed was the tool to do it, since I obviously can't afford to pay a real Symphony Orchestra to do it, heh. I have created a LOT of music since then and it's more of a hobby for me at this point. If anyone ever wishes to hire me professionally, I would absolutely spend the extra cash for the best tool on the market. But for now, even without having the best tools available, I am pretty satisfied with what I have for the time being. I appreciate your honesty. And I agree with pretty much everything you said.

Actually, that picture was taken while the game was shut down on the anniversary of the night City of Heroes was no more, on the Paragon Chat server. It was all we had...or so we thought. Every year on that night a bunch of us logged on, did the hold torch emote, and stood proud until the next morning. And thank you for the up vote to the composition!

I appreciate both of you for your kind feedback. I would like to see more feedback on this and get people's honest opinions. I know not everyone will like it; some will think it's too dark of a version, others will think it's not dark enough, so I tried to find a happy medium while keeping the piece heroic in nature and not veering too far away from the original, essentially keeping the spirit of the original. Even the version we have today is not the original. The one we have today is a remake of the first. I would be honored if people felt this one would be worth the title, but for sure wouldn't get my feelings hurt if people didn't like it.

Hate it when that happens! P.S. It's happened to me once or twice too, heh.

If your strat is to wait for AS and Hide, then you are playing a Stalker wrong. Pay attention to what others are telling you, a Stalker is a go go go class now, not a stop and wait class.

So I read what y'all wrote me and I agree, it needed a bit more umph, a bit more bass. So I took it a step further than that and customized it a bit. Hope you enjoy this one much better than the last...I think you will. City of Heroes Remastered

No...just...no.

My original compositions are known for being VERY dark. Trust me, I had to struggle to keep it clean and bright. 😄

We're showing our age, haha

I'm an ___ ____!

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Composition has been reworked, please see this link for updated version.

I don't never even pick them up. Of course I also always team and almost never solo, so then you have that.

I had the same situation happen with my Psi/Mental Blaster. No Psi for Epics kind of turned me off. Not all my characters are themed based around powers though, so I don't have too many characters that I have hung-ups on. We at least have Elec Blasters who can get Elec/Elec/Elec. Lots of fun to play back on live. I'll eventually get the one I have here and now finished up.

I rolled an Ice/Cold Corruptor pretty much within the first week of this game coming back out. Until I hit late levels and realized there are no Epic Pools for Ice. I don't know why, but at the time I could have sworn that Defenders got Ice Epics, so then I rolled an Cold/Ice Defender...and much to my surprise, I found out that Defenders don't get Ice Epics either. I was a bit let down, so much so that I hung up the two Ice themed characters and decided I would wait until one day if and when the Devs create an Epic Ice pool for Defenders and Corruptors. How many of you have done something similar and what were the circumstances?

Oh trust me, I have an EM/Regen Scrapper....errr...I mean Brute. I wanted a Scrapper, but EM is not a Scrapper primary. So I rolled a Brute and Scrapperfied him. He does not have Taunt, nor will he ever. Taunt gets Regen Brutes killed. Even IOed out, I am no Tank. So trust me, I understand the sentiment.

TA/Rad Defender. Radiation does poop damage and TA is just, well...ever seen anyone run TA? If you want to play something that will be a major pain in the rear to keep your endurance up, play Titan/Dark Scrapper and name him/her Toggle Dropper. It wont be your enemy's toggles dropping, it will be your own.

That sounds pretty messed up. What server are you on? I know a guy who requires you to have certain badges for certain TF's, but those runs are to obtain no death badges and whatnot. So I cant blame someone for requiring your character to be up to snuff before inviting a player to join something like that.

I think it's just you. Judging from what I have witnessed, you're very confrontational at times and it seems to attract the attention of others in a negative way, most of which (not always) I feel you bring on yourself. I can be a bit confrontational myself sometimes...I'm good at it. However, I carefully pick and choose my battles, where you seem to enter the battlefield at every opportunity. This may explain your common bad experiences, where the rest of us don't seem to share that experience with you, but instead feel an overwhelming majority of players are good and decent folks. From my point of view, bad apples are very far and few between in this game. Whereas other games the bad apples are far more prevalent.

I'm usually all for more options, but no effects for a Stealth power just makes no sense at all. I simply just can't get onboard with this.

So I thought about building a Fire/Rad Controller. The set looks like it would be absolutely OP as all get-out. However, it also looks like it would be one of the most endurance heavy builds in game, second to none, on par with Titan/Dark for Scrappers. It also looks like it would be a completely impossible to pull off everything that would need to be done before the mobs melt away. For an example, with Hot Feet and Choking Cloud running, you have this combination that follows: Smoke, Flashfire/Cinders, Fire Cages, Bonfire, Radiation Infection, Enervating Field, (and per situational) Lingering Radiation. That is a long list of powers having to be used on each mob that would suck your endurance dry and it seems like by the time you got halfway through this list, your mobs would already be melted away by the DPS. This looks like an endurance nightmare that might be completely overkill for anything in game outside of AV's and GM's. Anyone out there who has this build mind giving me a head's up on what I can expect? Or has my predictions hit head on?

The thing is, in City of Heroes, if an A-hole comes in to LFG and starts acting the way players act in WoW, the guy/gal gets booed off the stage and sent home packing. Being tolerant of this as you suggest only enables this behavior on a psychological level. Flocks of a feather stick together. If the A-hole personality is stamped out as soon as it shows it's face, i t discourages this behavior...we all know that if there is no consequence for behaving badly, then people will go on behaving badly. This is one of the many things I love about this community....bad behavior is not tolerated and will be met head on. Those people either change their behavior or they leave. Your stance on the subject is honorable and I respect that, however, I don't believe that will accomplish the goal of keeping this community free of trolls and toxic behavior. The only people who can keep this community the way it has been since its release, is us...the great community that I have come to know over the years who hold bad behavior from people accountable. I can't tell you how many times I have seen over the years a troll get on Broadcasting or LFG channel raising hell and trolling other players, just to be met with an onslaught of players with higher standards shut the troll down and run that troll off stage. If players were not vigilant in this way, those trolling "players" would still be at it to this very day and I believe there would be a lot more of them. WoW on the other hand, the players tolerates this bad behavior. It's the very reason I refuse to play WoW. I played for 3 months, and that was 3 months of my life that I will never get back. The players there were absolutely rude, obnoxious and downright toxic, both in game and on their forums. I get where you are coming from, and in a perfect world I believe your ideology would be exactly how situations like this should be handled. However, in my personal experience this simply does not work and only enables toxic behavior from toxic people. I may be wrong in my thoughts on this subject, I may be right. But regardless if I am right or if I am wrong, this is my thoughts on the subject and why I think on these terms. Keep in mind, I was born and raised in the military, and I think my thoughts on the subject reflect this. It may very well be why you and I disagree on how toxic behavior should be handled. I do however agree with what I quoted from you...be excellent to one another indeed. 🙂

This right here. WoW will never get dime from me because the players tolerate this crap. It's like every a-hole on the planet converged in to one place...and it's called WoW. Now, if we could just drop a nuke on WoW, it would rid the world of the a-hole population once and for all.