Scarlet Shocker

No? I find the tone of this basic premise unfunny and concerning. Metaphorically feeding a woman to the sharks simply because she is somehow annoying in her efficiency and manner. Whilst I don't particularly like how she is portrayed - officious and pompous - it seems to imply that violence against women (which is a very real problem both in and out of gaming) is permissible and funny. It isn't and I wanted to make the point that this post seems to reinforce attitudes that think it's ok.

excellent 🙂 I plan on running again tomorrow at the same time, 2pm EST so let's see what we can get going

I can't make tomorrow but Thursday is possible. Join the Discord and let's see where it takes us

as I write, Monkey and I are destroying snakes.

Great idea with the discord: https://discord.gg/vFFWtGBU Dive in!

we might be overcomplexing this. We'll form a core team who can make the time and then as Snarky says there'll be others come and go. It might take a few goes to get it working but I'm sure once people know there's a thing it'll attract those who want to do more than PL in PD

ok, I'm going to say that I do not like how Dark Melee plays. Compared to Kin Melee, it seems to lack that certain something. I think it might be the fact it doesn't seem to offer that real "killing blow" whereas KM offers Burst which is a thing of beauty delivering a sea of orange numbers. I'm open to alternative suggestions to pair with Rad Armour

Snarky I was thinking along those lines myself. If we can get a good "core" team running of three or four of us I'm sure we'll get some more takers. I've known some guys run leagues doing the same content. We'll kick off tomorrow at 7pm GMT, 2pm EST in Mercy on REUNION - bring what you like and we'll take it from there.

I have characters on all servers. Mostly I've been on Excelsior recently but I do have a few on Reunion. I guess it doesn't matter because starting from "Year One" - I'm happy to start on any server but I guess given we're probably Europe biased Reunion would be a good starting point

Couldn't find an "Events & Teaming" section but I wonder if there's a mood for running through the content in a team. I would very much like to start at level 1 either Red or Gold sides and go through to 50 with a few consistent team mates. PL'ing in Pocket D is all fine and dandy but I'm up for something different. If there's any interest feel free to comment here but you need to know some things: I'm in the UK so I can't run much past midnight GMT (7pm EST, 4pm PST) I can run Tuesdays, Thursdays and weekends. Anyone up for it?

the 2nd mission in ITF seems to have moved recently to right across the map.

Have you considered perhaps a tribute to Doc Spectrum from Squadron Supreme? Not trying to throw a spanner in the works but it does give you a degree more flexibility with colours and power sets perhaps

thankees

Is there anywhere we can actually see this info?

"Show me on the badge where the villain touched you..." 🤐

Wretch continues to be one of the most finely crafted arcs in the game and everyone should do it at least once. Devs loved Villains.

There are so many Lore Pets - but they seem recently to being distilled into two specific types - Longbow Mechs and giant spiky blue things. I've recently been using Warworks, and I find Victoria VI very disappointing - she often spends her time simply standing around doing sweet AF whilst I'm in the middle of fighting for my very existence; "you carry on guv, I'm just rolling a fag for later" (a difficult challenge given the extended razors she wears so ineffectively.) I am beginning to suspect that the Lore is not equally applied to all - which is a terrible situation. If there are predominantly only two Lore types in common use it suggests to me they offer more combat effectiveness than others. That's a shame given the variety we have to pick from but also makes me wonder if there's a list from which we can glean the modal efficacy of their activities during combat. In short, what Lore works, why and how do we know?

I use a Razer Naga million button mouse and a Razer Tarterus game pad so once I know how to make a functioning bind I can glue it to a single keypress and Robert is your mother's brother.

ok so... given the "need" for Mystic Flight, I've reworked the build (again) so here is V4 I have sacrificed some Def but improved Res dramatically across the board - and I figure that if I can get the macro working, I can TP into a mob and the poor bastards won't know what hit them until it's too late. I do love the synergy of Shark Skin and the "Oh Shit" button in Hibernate but not too enamoured of the Coralax but hard to know what else to take. Open to suggestions. This Hero build was built using Mids Reborn 3.4.6 https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn Click this DataLink to open the build! Crimea River 4: Level 50 Magic Defender Primary Power Set: Poison Secondary Power Set: Water Blast Power Pool: Leaping Power Pool: Speed Power Pool: Concealment Power Pool: Sorcery Ancillary Pool: Leviathan Mastery Hero Profile: Level 1: Alkaloid (A) Preventive Medicine - Chance for +Absorb Level 1: Aqua Bolt (A) Shield Breaker - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge (3) Shield Breaker - Accuracy/Defense Debuff (3) Shield Breaker - Chance for Lethal Damage Level 2: Envenom (A) Achilles' Heel - Chance for Res Debuff Level 4: Combat Jumping (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (9) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (11) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All) (11) Kismet - Accuracy +6% Level 6: Hasten (A) Recharge Reduction IO (13) Recharge Reduction IO Level 8: Stealth (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (13) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (15) Karma - Knockback Protection Level 10: Weaken (A) Siphon Insight - Chance for +ToHit (15) Siphon Insight - ToHit Debuff (17) Siphon Insight - Accuracy/ToHit Debuff (17) Siphon Insight - Accuracy/Recharge (19) Siphon Insight - ToHit Debuff/Endurance/Recharge Level 12: Neurotoxic Breath (A) Ice Mistral's Torment - Chance for Cold Damage (19) Ice Mistral's Torment - Endurance/Slow (21) Pacing of the Turtle - Chance of -Recharge Level 14: Whirlpool (A) Achilles' Heel - Chance for Res Debuff (21) Pacing of the Turtle - Accuracy/Slow (23) Pacing of the Turtle - Chance of -Recharge (23) Annihilation - Chance for Res Debuff (25) Ragnarok - Chance for Knockdown Level 16: Tidal Forces (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff (25) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up (27) Rectified Reticle - Increased Perception Level 18: Paralytic Poison (A) Superior Entomb - Accuracy/Hold (27) Superior Entomb - Recharge/Chance for +Absorb (29) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Hold (29) Basilisk's Gaze - Chance for Recharge Slow (31) Lockdown - Chance for +2 Mag Hold Level 20: Dehydrate (A) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage (31) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/RechargeTime (31) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (33) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (33) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime (33) Superior Winter's Bite - Recharge/Chance for -Speed & -Recharge Level 22: Water Burst (A) Superior Defender's Bastion - Accuracy/Damage (34) Superior Defender's Bastion - Damage/Recharge (34) Superior Defender's Bastion - Damage/Endurance/Recharge (34) Superior Defender's Bastion - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (36) Superior Defender's Bastion - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (36) Superior Defender's Bastion - Recharge/Chance for Minor PBAoE Heal Level 24: Mystic Flight (A) Winter's Gift - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range/Endurance (36) Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance (20%) Level 26: Spirit Ward (A) Miracle - Heal (37) Miracle - +Recovery Level 28: Rune of Protection (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3% (37) Steadfast Protection - 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I happened to click on a Paragon City Community Information beacon in Talos the other day, just a moment's idle curiosity to see what they did these days. If you click on Character and scroll down it gives you this data. That to me is amazing. It made me smile but it also made me ask "why?" What could it be about that particular activity that is worth recording. Do you get a badge for doing it more than once? Well thus far it doesn't seem so. Maybe once a day for 100 days? Or is it just a junk stat that is recordable so it is recorded with no meaningful outcome? (Possible but the dullest of all possible outcomes IMHO) I still think it's one of those little gems we occasionally find in our city but I'm curious to know why it exists in the first place and what possible benefit it could have.

I think it's very important, regardless of suspension of belief that VFX that harm mobs should be visible to us. If mobs had VFX that were invisible, there'd be an outcry from the player base - and rightly so. Being able to actually see what your damaging effects are actually damaging is kind of vital in this and any game.

Excellent point, well made, one I'd not considered. Thanks. That'll prevent me getting slapped by the team. Hmmmmm interesting This I like - I think So... let's take this a stage further - I'm in the air, I want to select my target, TP there, turn off MF and then drop PT - can I do that all in one macro?

I like Mystic Flight/Trans - BUT here it has one massive drawback. If I want to TP into the middle of a mob I have an extra click to turn off the flight power so that I can lay PT. PT is one of those super annoying powers that you just cannot use even if at 0ft when flying. I perhaps might be able to remedy it with a bind but frankly I'm not good enough with binds to do that. I'm also unsure what I'd drop to get that TP power. I like the power and slotting that Stealth gives me, not to mention the fact that as a squishy it's good to be able to get thru some maps unseen. I appreciate the suggestion and I'm on board with why you think they're good options but I figure at the speed with which we can get Incarnate powers in the game today it's not too long of a wait.

I'm thinking Incan might be the way to go there... appear in the midst of mobs, stun them and... oh they never quite recover because VG and PT

I totally agree with this too - it's a circle that's difficult to square. When you've got a 24 person league all wailing on the same AV it can be almost impossible to distinguish anything of note - just a mass of colours and patterns, like a rainbow on bad acid. I guess I could look on the issue from the other perspective: some VFX are simple overwhelming. And again I need to reiterate I was not offering a critique of the efficacy of said powers, just how they look.