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Aww, there goes my favorite drinking game...

Yup: I remember keeping Dreck or the Axis America Council missions in PI unfinished simply so we could restart them over and over and over and over ...

Whoa, LotRO. There's an acronym I haven't seen in years. That game still alive? I thought Turbine went out of business?

/bind F12 "powexectoggleon Hover$$powexecname Fly" Problem solved: this keeps Hover on all the time, and toggles Fly off and on as needed.

I loved that he was just Doctor Who with hi-tech hair curlers. Perfect casting, great performance.

I prove that myself: I still play both CoH and WoW, for entirely different reasons. I play CoH because I love it for myself -- it's my "thing". However, I have family and friends that prefer WoW, so I play WoW also, because I love them enough to join them. I've been playing both, off and on, since 2004.

Having played both WoW and FFXIV, I can tell you that most folks migrating from WoW to FF are doing so because FFXIV is very similar to WoW. Tab-targeting, gear-based rewards, skills/talent progressions, NPC-driven quest lines, dungeons & raids, etc. all contribute to FFXIV feeling like WoW, except with a weeaboo style and moe avatars. But of course, I think that is by design: if you recall, FFXIV started out badly, and had to make significant changes in its first few years to attract western audiences. It did so by mimicking WoW, plain and simple. So what makes FFXIV successful today is the same as what made WoW successful in the first place. CoH has never/will never scratch the same itch that afflicts WoW players. It didn't in 2004, and it won't in 2021.

Interesting, because in all my years playing this game, I'm shot by snipers in FF or PI at least once or twice a week. They never do me much harm, but it's pretty common/routine. I guess that either they like me more than you, or I travel more dangerous routes than you. 😄

Oh, I caught that right away, which is why I asked him which shard, to which he replied "Everlasting". I'd hate to think this person is intentionally trying to deceive us or waste our time.

Unable to reproduce. I'm logged on to Everlasting, in Pocket D. I also logged on to different characters in AP, KR, and Ouroboros.

What zone/map are you in?

Which shard?

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Great, now I gotta roll a bear alt. Again.

A few of my alts have separate builds that are SO-only (or with level 25/30/35 common IOs), precisely for this kind of game play. I guess I imagined that I'd start or join a group with similar parameters, such as "no IO sets or Incarnates slotted". But that hasn't happened for me yet.

An easy trip around AP nets you 5 Merits and the LRTP accolade power. Exchange those for Converters, sell those on the AH, and you've got a tidy sum at level 1. You can then buy yellow IO recipes without Rare Salvage requirements, craft a couple, convert those to Rare IOs, and sell those for >$1M Inf each. It's not difficult the make several million in short order, that way. When my Iron Man character died at level 22, he had 11M Inf on him (after buying/upgrading SOs from levels 1-22). Yes, I know I complain too much about the cost of SOs when making 10M Inf on the AH is pretty easy, or running my spines/fire brute through a farm nets 20M Inf in cash without even considering drops. But it's the principle of the thing, dammit! Why spend 10M when you get better for only 5M? It just seems wrong to throw good money after bad that way. And I've got plenty of common IOs just sitting in bins gathering virtual dust, so there's that.

I respectfully disagree. Buying and upgrading SOs as one levels up is more expensive than simply buying/creating level 25/30/35 common IOs. I've done a couple of different challenges recently, including the The .38 Specials (level cap 38, enhancements cap at +3 SO percentages, and no IO sets, only uniques) and the Iron Man/Woman Challenge (self-sufficient toon, no transfers from alts/SG). I can assure you that buying and upgrading SOs is more expensive from personal experience. For example, buying and equipping +3 SOs for my .38 Specials character cost me almost 10M Inf, before they changed the rule to allow common IOs up to level 35. I swapped them all out for about half that, around 5M Inf (this doesn't inlcude what I had/spent on unique IOs). As for the OP suggestion: I'd gladly play along if I was allowed to use level 25/30/35 common IOs, instead of SOs (because SOs are damned expensive). These common IOs are functionally equivalent to SOs at -1/+1/+3, respectively. I have SG bins full of these common IOs, and would prefer to use this existing inventory. In fact, I usually build all of my alts this way: I don't usually start equipping IOs of any kind until levels 22+. This is why I have so many of these mid-level IOs laying around.

Blaster's Log 2107.04 - levels 21-22. IM Blaster 1 is dead at level 22. He was ambushed by Chaos Spirits at the end of "Stop Amanda Gates!".

AFAIK, no, I think they can only be slotted in an AT's primary or secondary powers. But I could be wrong, as I'm not familiar with every ATO nor every Epic pool power.

My apologies, I conflated the two things in my head. Procs need work. Sentinels need work. Agreed: a single Epic Power Pool shouldn't render useless an AT's primary power pool, IMO.

Yes, it is appalling, and it is bad. I don't think the design flaw is in the Sentinels, though there are design flaws there that do need to be addressed. The design flaw is the procs, which are ridiculously OP and can completely override any base AT/power/character design. Many procs totally subvert and/or fundamentally alter powers into things they were never intended to be.

It's official: we're old.

Blaster's Log, 2106.10 - levels 20-21 While I was still in Faultline, I paid a visit to Doc Delilah and ran missions for her. Picture below, here we are bathing in the afterglow of defeating Captain Castillo. After my play date with the good Doc, she introduced me to Agent G, who had me infiltrate Arachnos and the Sky Raiders as they battle for control of southern Faultline. I earned Entrusted with the Secret for defeating Arbiter Sands, along the Aftershock badge for finishing all of the arcs in Faultline. But I didn't quite make it to level 22: I still have about 2.5 bubbles to go. It was a long night, so I'm going to bed.