Chaos String

My fave for the "squishies" (eheh) is Clarion. Mez can get bent.

The first time I played this arc, several things happened that made a very bad impression. 1. There was a countdown timer. By itself, this is fine. Give me some duress. 2. I had to click a bunch of glowies while being ambushed. Now, this is annoying. But it's fine. 3. I needed to read a lot of exposition in order to make a moral choice. Okay. Wall of text aside, I enjoy character growth. The problem was, I had to deal with ALL THREE OF THOSE THINGS AT ONCE. That's right, I had to read like 18 lines of text to make a character-defining moral choice WHILE A TIMER TICKED DOWN AND WAVES OF ENEMIES AMBUSHED ME. Or so I thought. Turns out that I had missed a glowie. When I ran the arc again with another character, I was able to click all the glowies and stop the timer/ambushes before making that moral choice. But I was very reluctant to run that arc a second time after how mind-bogglingly stupid it seemed on my first run through it.

Ordinance Possum. BR/Dev blaster, an homage to Rocket Racoon. "Next humie to call me, 'O. Possum' gets shot out of a cannon." Just couldn't pull together a costume that didn't look like hot garbage.

Fire/Kins did it before IOs existed. Who needs softcap defense when all the mobs are stunned and immobilized and Fulcrum Shifted? Any damage they deal is easily healed. So firekins were a legacy FOTM long after they were theoretically obsolete, which was issue 8. If you ever decide to have a go at playing with just SO enhancements, you can't really make a stronger choice. But if you use all the tools of the modern game to stack defense and recharge and damage boosts on a brute, the Fire/Kin can't really compete in a solo setting. It still provides great support for a variety of team comps, though.

I'd love to have access to the Ouroboros Mender costume pieces. Since my best characters are Menders in some capacity or other.

Wait a minute, so if our characters pick us, and we pick our noses, by the transitive property of picking things, our characters pick our noses? ....wow, that could save me some time.

Before the snap, Chaos String was a Grav/Kin controller who, after glimpsing the entirety of the multiverse for a fraction of a nanosecond during a particle accelerator accident, attained a unique understanding of both chaos and string theories, and found himself able to manipulate spacetime on a fundamental level. I find that a bit trite now, and anyway I don't much enjoy playing controllers anymore. So, after playing Cyberpunk 2077 I reimagined the Chaos String as malicious code that can infect any hero or villain with cybernetic augmentations, creating an alter-ego with its own agenda of vigilantism.

My Thugs/Time MM is a former assistant to Dr. Aeon who swiped the Temporal Deflector designs from his desk while bringing him coffee. She photocopied them and perfected the design in her spare time, then used it to rewrite past events to steer her ex-boyfriends into a life of crime, then blackmail them to serve her. Her name is ForgetMeNot, and she's a rogue (I don't do morally unambiguous). An absolute beast too, solo or teamed.

I remember teaming with a MM on live whose Assault Bot was named, "DoorBlocker 9000." I also remember the patch which no longer required MM pets to be resummoned on every map change. I remember thinking, "Great, I'll never be able to go to the Black Market again without wading through 3984738 bots making clankity clank noises jumping over themselves to bubble each other." Therefore, it's hard to say with a straight face that people's pets do not annoy me. That said, no, they don't annoy me.

Hey @Snarky, do you do all the unlockable contacts, too? I ask because I'm doing an Ouroboros completionist run currently, and I found I needed to take the time to do the miner strike event in Sharkhead to unlock one of the 19-24 contacts, as well as Crimson Revenant a bit later. And there are a lot of contacts like that redside. I know that Veluta Lunata used to be one of them: you had to spirit trap some ghosts at Fort Cerberus to unlock her, but apparently not anymore. Here's a list of the ones that still require badges to unlock: https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Unlockable_Contacts Anyway, I do my redside completionist runs a little differently: I don't bother to exhaust the contacts; rather, I run all the content through Ouroboros. But I am a bit of a stickler about having all the souvenirs in the correct order. Currently I'm doing it with a DP/Nin blaster. I really wish the unique Ouroboros costume pieces were available in the costume editor. If they were, I'd have a bevy of proper Menders in my stable, but the approximations I'm currently able to make are unconvincing, so I just have regular vigilantes and rogues who work alongside the Menders. Anyway, good luck on your run and tell Veluta I said hello.

Here's the build I'm following right now. Only 30ish level at the moment but I'm slotting attuned enhancements as I go. At 50 it will be softcapped to S/L and ranged. With hasten up the ST chain will be GD - SotW - P - ES - SotW - P for what looks to be decent damage. Hasten isn't quite perma, and with it down you'll need to throw in a CP after ES. Not the best blapper ever but I enjoy the simple playstyle and looking badass. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1392;652;1304;HEX;| |78DA8593EB4E13511485CF74A6D69696D25228050ABD405B8116F0054C143431402| |A35FE6D2630B4834DDBF492E04F5F83ABFA00BE80AFE22B2826826250EB66D6021A| |FE38817EE7AC73D96BEF3DB3BEB7E2FFF8ECED23A5059ED4CC76BBFC587E3B56CBB| |36176BA2DB3A6E409AC9B7B76DD4AACEEEC345A1D8F2813DC55DE34EB156BBBB0D2| |356BE5A2DDEE346AEDA9EBB552B7D994FD850DBBBE6B965FB64CBB6ED72B2A506C3| |46A85A776A5DA91A9DF99AD596653263E67526A5AD676F05ADFB65AEDAADD8CAD36| |EDADC2F5D5EBE696253F57E33763E22725FFB121C5A7E75647826543B98EC17B27A| |0EF1D38F81E9CFA007ECFDD9C953F79D499289A86DBB41DDE56E16D55D06F8363AF| |C1C95DF05CCEEA74A2D3894127C67F9C4C4A166EC4EDC565ECE13D9E7DDD59BF7F4| |01E82FE2370EC044C1E833FC48397FEBD3ECDD11E0C907E3200CE0D9241D0254107| |10571F285E95577C6D820B2FC812382A7B0388A30546707E3102FE140F417A085EB| |A1C6DE837F9078C28F81DFD8B79BE074E4BEE21E61E620DC3AC6198358CB086A377| |6A7821718711571F4E5C695E95271767C0655217FF23F438129541DC50330FE169E| |68C3C07172EC0E55FA02167A338EB8A32F72C73CF0F8129D913637D62F388394E86| |656D026B6A22092D2D5A9C6F62FC336A91945A4CB316D3CA70B48446BA481D4C1AA| |41BBC94B329D622458F697A4CD3637A18BC94BACDB216B3EC5786FDCAB05F19F629| |CB3E65D9BF90F8CEB11639C699639C45C689C89E79E636CF3D51D10AD40ACCF7933| |47E89DA126B95947414BF8B49E3EED7BA76BB2AAF3D6E291A9444D39C5D5F7C37DF| |B4D2F27857BEF66B3968A7B79A4B4B22BFF1E72264A5F7AFE0FB5BFFB953D47A5F7| |CBB11B177D0373EEC1BFF03B215D045| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Nitpicking here, but Johnny Blaze is Ghost Rider. Johnny Storm is the Human Torch. And I'm pretty sure Human Torch would be Fire Armor, not Willpower.

I had a Rad/Mental/Ice too, back in the day. Did S/L farming surprisingly well, before incarnates were a thing. With softcap S/L, Drain Psyche for regen and sustain, three good PBAoEs (the nuke, the DoT and Psy Shockwave) and two matched cones, you could just jump in the middle of a ton of baddies and spam AoE. Kind of an AoE blapper. Pretty fun. Did okay on teams too. Single-target damage was suspect, for a blaster. Fell apart soloing villain groups with mez or a lot of exotic damage, but you could easily plug those holes in today's CoH. 8/10 would recommend giving it a go. My current favorite blapper isn't a really great one per se, as it has no Aim or Build-Up, but DP/Nin for the Deadpool / Deathstroke vibe is crazy fun. Lots of stabbing. Lots and lots of shooting. 7/10 almost doesn't suck at all.

Literally epic!

If Hide is inherent, how do I escort hostages? Call a brute?