Snarky

I know, I know…. Just jinxing the crap outta myself. Next gaming session will be tragic. So, much like the old tootsie pop commercial I was slow leveling a Fire Fire Blaster…then rampaged to 50. Now, my preferred method to level is to do every TF in (last available) level order. Red, Blue and Trials. This run I missed a Hess, a Dr Q (not unusual), a Treespec 2, a Sutter, and a Mort Kal. Some were slightly out of order because if someone else is forming an Ice Mistral or a Respec Trial you just jump on it. I formed probably a little over half. Taking first seven to send me tells. The posi 1 was a crapshow, and I wrote a bit about that. Everything else was good. There were some comical mistakes. On my part, as well as random teammates. Not sure why a Posi 1 is batshit crazy half the time. I want to say some people just run low level toons and never learn. But if they run low level they would know Posi. So maybe they just hang out on steroid 50s??? No idea. But it was a very comfortable experience. I knocked out 1/2 of Gold and almost all before 20 badge content before taking off the brakes and installing a rocket motor. I am starting to get the feel for Fire Blaster. It is an ambush predator. You just look at a group, size it up. If you can kill everyone there or 95% of them…. Just walk up to them and Blast. No apologies. If you cannot…. Wait for something to change the odds, distract, or find a way to pick part of them off without agro from everyone. There is no fall back once you commit. Just keep blasting until the spawn is down or you are. Funniest exchange of all my pugs this run. (Besides the crap posi i wrote about in tale of two task forces) was in a Terra Volta Trial. Me; “can i ask why you keeo teleporting those mobs out of the giant damage patches i lay down? Serious question.” Mad Wormhole Abuser: “what?” Me: “i was just thinking you may be a SkyRaider double Agent, because you seem to be helping them.” Mad Wormhole Abuser: “no lol. It stuns them. You can totally see the effect of me casting it”. Me….(to myself)…does this guy really think i am parsing out particle effects from different abilities to read combat situations? Really? Me (typed back) “so, you know you can teleport them back to the exact same position, right? So you do not screw up your teammates AoEs…” Mad Wormhole Abuser. “Alright Snarky. Just for you.” I swear. One time, fresh spawn, I went in, Aim, Buildup, Point Blank Nuke… wait, where the F. Oh…fifty feet over there. Huh…. Well, guess i will wander down to the reactor and do some defending down there. They probably going to be angry when they shake that stun off…

I am on a Fire Fire Blaster now. When I pug, leading or joining, I do not comment about team setup. But, since I usually run Dark types, I really ache at the lack of Defenders on modern teams. We see Tanks/Brutes 3/4 time. But true blue Defenders? Pretty Fing rare.

I madly obsess on my current project. What is in the past....

So… Rain of Fire does use and needs accuracy, right? Cauterizing Aura does no damage and does not break stealth even though wiki and mids say otherwise? Burn??? Needs accuracy?? Hot Feet…. Part of it needs accuracy? Which part? Bonfire…. Does mot need accuracy? Melt Armor does need accuracy? also, any tips on clever frankenslotting these powers?

oh! you saw...

I run a lot of Dark but I hate pets. In every game. IRL I love dogs and enjoy how cats disparage human existence with a glance. But in any game I abhor pets. So when I build anything with access to these I do not use them. In the few (like Dom) that I do take them on I do not activate them nearly as much as I should. Because I F-ing hate them. But…. Yeah, nope got nothing. They also add to the cannot see a damn thing in this cave fun…

considering turning off exp on my new project ang getting to 30 to get widowmaker badge. anybody know 1) is this still available. 2) when the event will end?

why you are a great team leader. where i just start to say things like. "Everyone ignore what i say and run around in circles grabbing agro.... GO!"

looks at the two tanks...

So that was the guy what used the pac nade eh. that was some sad shit.

and if they had said anything about the tactic before hand... i would have bowed out before we began. I expected, like 99% of all TF on Excelsior, to run at top TF level.

New alt....Snarkistopheles

very nice. always leave them wondering

….. so, there are some very good costume artists in CoH. I an not one. I even casually know one or two. But I do not compliment unless it is deserved. Some of these folks either hit random or they have the fashion sense of someone dressing for a comic con while on a three day drunk…

The important thing is you are enjoying the playstyle. Have fun!

On my new Fire Fire Blaster last couple days. The plan was to do all Gold and then Ouro blue red badges 1-20. But I forgot to turn off exp after doing all 1-9... So i levelled him to 20 and stopped ecperience. Then i badged all Red 1-9, including the Ouro badge challenges. Then Blue 1-9. Then i respec'd the thing to be at peak for 14-15 content. enhancers are at about .65 value 20 down to 14, and .7 20 down to 15. i micromanage this crap because to me it is fun. I rand 4 DFBs, then got lucky and on a variety of teams got 4 DIBs. I love those cheesy buffs. Was feeling good about my project. Time to test the puggish waters. Caught a SBB and got all the badges in one run. big grin. Then i joined a Posi 1. Just a standard Posi 1 ad. PUG. We started and i realize my plan is off. Level 8... I think i asked "why are we Fing level 8? response, because leader is 8. funny. chill. I was like, okay. odd but okay. 3 missions in, still level 8. I ask, is this some odd experiment? "This is great because the end fights are easier at level 8!" I mentioned there was a bug and Doc Buzzsaw can show up level 15. Might have been fixed, I dont know. Leader "if you do not like it F....... leave" I left. Joined a PUG Posi 2, and it went well. So i started my own Posi 1. Which went well, a little loose on the team cohesion, but going pretty good. We get to the last mission. i type out my longest statement ever "Please do not go near the 4th hero until we clean around the city hall steps" 6 of us can read. That is good numbers in any population, 75% then one peeled off to try to save the idiots freeing the 4th hero. While i say. 'please. stop. don't" There were deaths. Mine, of course, fire blaster. We get inside City Hall. Me "ignore anything I say and charge in all directions, and GO" They did one better and ranged both groups so they charged the front door. It was glorious mayhem. We make it to the shadow simulcrum fight. I got 2 big red inspirations, one medium, and 3 med blue, I checked my email items. One lg team orange. I grabbed that popped it, popped the reds, and charged forward like a Tank, aim build up AoE and down i went. Now, i did a helluva lot of damage in that charge. I may have dropped at least one. The team finished at least 3-4 of them. Then they started dying. i turned the blue into a wakie. got up, aim build up, killed a shadow firing everything. Then helped someone finish off a mage. Oh, during this time they somehow managed to piss off the room of mages. Because.... why the hell not. We finished another shadow, then i blasted what little was left in the mage room. 33 minutes. It was stupid fun. I think i will enjoy Fire blasting...

So i joined CoH/V when I bought a Good vs Evil boxed set from the local comp / game store. The game had been out 2? years. I ended up making a lot of huge Brutes that I ran forever. In an effort to learn about teaming (red, always dead) I went Blue for a minute and made a Tank. But, and this is the fun part.... I did not know how to change the camera angle. At all. So if I made a giant character.... I was staring at the back of my own head. So i made them as short as possible for a few weeks until I figured it out. Mini Me!

Then it says I need to make a deposit, so they can transfer trillions in infamy from an offshore account. And they will kick me down 20 billion. I just need to help them out with some funds to set up the transfer. I am so lucky!🍀

I run content a bit. Almost always two types. TF/SF/Trial or I post a badge mission is up and see if anyone wants/needs. I run all TF/SF/Trial at +0/x1 as speedy as possible. Ads loom like: “Posi 1 8+ speedy” or… “RED Tarikoss SF 15+ Cap Au Diable RED”. I still get people 20%? Who try to join villain content and I have to go back and forth 1-4 times with. I accept players in the order they send tells. No matter how confused they are (unless they give every indication of not being able to figure out what RED means…). If people send a tell they are alting I reply okay, get their global, and save a spot. I almost never run a TF where an AT matters. Sometimes I do look at the team content and start praying for a Tank, but I never alter my methodology. A couple days ago I posted this ad “RED Mako Patron Badge mission Sharkhead on last mission RED PST”. So, I got a few good responses but I must have had 5 Heroes try to join. And the conversations with each one were confusing and tedious. And I was juggling the 5 lost in space convos while grabbing real players and trying to not let Snarky out of the coffin. ⚰️ I think two of the 5 finally made it to Redside. I started to wonder if the average age of players Blue was heading to 7-8.

Solo i run default: +0/x1, AVs are EB. I do not enjoy farming but i can roll in this forever.

Yeah I am solo. Is it bad that I look at your obvious statement if truth as a gauntlet thrown down lol? I will be running with full P2W, errr start kit. As well as doing anything required to finish a particular task… including whining in LFG….

I have tried one or two of these in the past. Things that stood out were 1) I was not a good player 2) The fire special effects are some of the best in the game. 3) Danged. That is a damage sandwich with a side of damage. I still pretty much struggle to not play like a Brute. Which I played for years. But I at least now mostly try to plan before I do crap. I have decided now is the time to in depth explore one of these edge case monsters. Can one survive by damage alone? The plan is to badge every story arc in the game. By that I mean a limited completionist run. I will run every contact who offers a badge from 1-50. After I get the badge I move on, arc done or not. I will not do any arcs that do not have badges, unless required to unlock a badge contact. I will be stopping experience to achieve all badges in a level range before moving on. I will be starting in Praetoria. All arcs there are required for a badge. It is easier for me to just knock them out normally. Then Ouro the 1-19 badges red/blue. Then proceed on to 24, stop exp, badge. Then 29, 34, 39, 44. The current character look is a Black Knight, visor down, flaming eyes on a black soectrum (empty) suit if armor. Looks pretty good. CoH really does a great job with flame art.

I mixed the two concepts. Some recharge, some def/res/+heal/+end I find the Crab a muddied up mix or armored toon and Corruptor. Unlike Sentinel armored/blaster. I just built to its strengths and patched a bit and walked away thinking...meh... Arachnos Soldier (Crab Spider Soldier - Crab Spider Training) Crab 2024 1.01.mbd

So… took up the weekly challenge and been on a pure Redside toon last couple days. I chose a Crab, an archetype I played for a couple weeks on live and a few days on HC about two years ago. It is very different. Coming over from Corruptors and Blasters I have found a new respect for the quirky Crab. It has one KB AoE which easily takes an Overwhelming Force. It is not as strong at damage as many ATs. Shocking I know. But you know what? If you put it up against volume… Oh My Gawd. At 43…with a decidedly slapped together “build” that I am slapping things on as I level and using unslotters because I have little to no plan. I joined a team assaulting a Longbow base for the Mako arc. This was a real fight, especially since our team split, there were team deaths, and we were in an Arachnos base for some reason. The terrain sucked. The Crab? Performed like a champ. You see, the thing has strengths. One…huuuuuge AoE. From webbing grenades to 60 arc to large blasts it does not suffer from “missed you by that much” syndrome. When the ambush hits eat a med purple. Guess what? Since you have mediocre native defense and resists…a medium purple insp puts you in a decent neighborhood. Back to work. And what tools do we use? The Ghetto nuke. Which is not great. It is slow. It does not have a great range. But you know what. It tanks! Thats right. You stealth up and plop that in the middle of LB. Or, if ambushed, drop it into the wave coming at you. Then you casually pop a can opener into the area. Can opener? Thats right. Venom Grenade, and it has a powerful resist debuff. That goes off, then the Nuke, which has been taunting peeps hard, then you follow up with a ton of AoE. Sure the damage is not mind boggling. But it will clean spawns. And you have the tools to web large areas, taunt people into the kill zone, and debuff res in the kill zone. Oh, and the venom does okay damage too, more AoE. It is a systematic playstyle. It is not sexy. You are driving one of Capt Makos murder machines. Building it. So, I have just begun to contemplate what I am slotting at 50. I will use bombardment sets (2 of each in 5 powers) to increase overall range +25%. This is (for me) a desperately needed must have. I will not chase big defense or resist numbers. No DDR, so just carry insp and work the terrain (hide behind whoever decides to tank). I will get some global rech. LotG and whatever else fits naturally. I have noticed I need to watch the End curve. This may be solved with Alpha, but I need to pick one still. I want a +damage Alpha. Prob Misculature Core or Intuition Radial. (+33% dam, + range). Odd since no holds but the +range and +taunt (that crazy mini nuke….). Building a Crab looks like it is going to be that…walking sideways to victory! 🦀