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I suspect you will have very similar issues with /Devices Blaster. THose sets (Traps and Devices) were made for a game that does not exist anymore. In my opinion, they are great for concept, RP, soloing and fun. Damn things suck on ROFLSTOMP teams. I have a Beam Rifle/Temporal Blaster built up as ranged only with softcap ranged defense. It was my weekly Really Hard Way Magisterium and Master Incarnate Trials go-to toon. It did one thing really well. League Fire Support, especially on ST Hard Targets. Trying to get close enough to use Devices on it makes me think 1) too much effort 2) not enough reward to switch from very nice Temporal, the Blaster answer to Willpower.

Damn. And I have been meticulously moving them around the pages on the startup screen. Danged. So simple. So brilliant Thank you!

That is actually part of the story for my "main" this year. a Dark/Dark Corr I started 12 27 02 (for Holiday badges) Of course I had 50d a Dark Dark Corr and incarnated it and ran it. Truth was I sucked on it. I did not understand how the powers worked and I built (and played) it like a Blaster. Then was unhappy with the damage... I would come back to it every couple months and play it for a day or a week. Nope, still a crap Blaster. Parked again. I looked at a lot before I decided the 2023 toon. I realized I needed to learn how those powers worked. From the timing to the exact effects, and how long those effects lasted. I started a new Dark Dark and soloed every Redside contact to 50. (standard practice for me of avoiding any contact that can be run at 50, ie 35-50, 40-50, 45-50) So all pre 50 Redside contacts. I was casual, running at -1/x0. The goal was to learn the powers not anything else. It took me about a month. Would have been faster except the winter badges ate a large chunk of my first week. I learned how powerful Dark Corr are because I was alone and needed every power to DO something. I even had Black Hole for a while. It was only useful grabbing glowies solo, and eating purps works there. I respec'd out of that a couple weeks ago and have the TP pool. Still learning that. Now that I understand the powers my build is not like a Blaster at all. I build to Mez/Debuff, then support an attack phase that continues the debuffs while scourging. It's a beast in +4/x8 ITF, and BAF Lambdas. It is slightly squishier in speed Aeons. Getting better with that, but you really gotta know where to be in the dance.

The "build up" in Kinetic Melee is situationally okay once in a while. It was designed for a combat style that CoH is not (at least not currently) By the time you warm up a Blaster has nuked the mobs and the team is racing down a tunnel.

We had two tanks on the 4 star. Which was a red flag. That i did not pick up on because i thought it was a two star. At the end the lead (one of the tanks) said he thought it would be smooth. I read that “fail to plan, plan to fail”

Bullshit. I accidentally joined a 4 star Aeon a couple weeks ago. (I thought it was a 2 star badge run. It was a 4 star badge run) I am not great but I am not horrible. There were 4 star vets on the team. We did not finish. It was a miserable Fing experience and an example of why I hate the new CoH game

I love concept toons. I built THE TANK MAGE. An invul kinetic tank. All ranged. Or almost all. Okay damned short range but ranged lol. All done up in mystical outfit. It was lulz. The animations were perfect for the concept oh, Kinetic Melee still sucks

Oh, if only my psychology were that simple. I mourned and let go Cosmic a while ago. This thread is about the unnecessary (in my opinion) tendency to require a lot of effort for something that should be fun. What affect that has on the players. The role of Cosmic in this thread is as an example. As I said upthread the Leadership may have been planning this migration for a year. I do not know. If that is me blaming Cosmic's demise on Prismatics you will need to diagram it out for me.

By memory....so faulty....it is 150 for all badges. which sounds vaguely like what I spent two weeks ago, Again, all I had earned on every toon since they came out. Scraped together and dumped on my 2023 badger

Cosmic is/was a Legacy SG. The original leadership handpicked the current leadership. Honestly I do not know how they can be as good as they are. Both with the game and with people. That level of quality attracted some great players. I offer none of that. Just a grumpy old Vampire throwing out Snarky remarks. I could maybe replace one of these guys in a pinch

Yeah. It is even worse. Some of those super smart gamers were selling prismatic from day 1 for stoooooopid high buy it now prices. Because they were grinding them and knew the price would drop. So when the market stabilized they could turn the one they sold into many more

Every time I bring up a certain AT powerset I get told there are so many things better. And I laugh. What is better than effortless fun? I speak of Willpower Armor on a Sentinel. I got addicted to Willpower on Brutes when it first came out. I ran a LOT of pre 50s and mostly SO builds. There was no inherent fitness. Willpower was a dream come true. With I/Os being (relatively) cheap for me now Invul on Brutes is the way to go. But on Sentinels? It is just back to what it was on Brutes for me. effortless lulz. You always have health, you always have endurance. You are not a Tank. You have to play smart. But if you play smart your green and blue bar will require no eye contact. ever.

and i dont. my biggest badger is 1450. my current "main" dark dark corr i plan to run all year (started dec 27 to get the damned grindy presents lol) is 1060 there are badges on him i am unsure how i will get, like some of the RV badges if it happens it happens. But my friends in Cosmic were maniacs. At least one was a RL badger, a danged Eagle Scout lol. Now maybe they would have moved on anyways. Maybe they had been planning it for a year. But the timing was real precise. the new badges/content dropped. they badged like meth addicts. then left.

with badgers.... if you say there is a badge for doing 50 synapse in a one week window....they will get that badge. but that is what this whole thread is about. isn't it?

That is what perplexes me. They added new content. The whole leadership team disappeared soon after. The only other data I have is I know the whole leadership team are hardcore badgers and therefore ground out the Prismatics for ALL their badge toons. I wish there had been less “pressure” to run the newest content into the ground. In my mind I wonder if it was WAY more relaxed to get the Prismatics if Cosmic might still be around and leading events through the new stuff. Instead of obviously being dead tired of it weeks after it was dropped

I semi seriously badge. I collected all prismatics I received on all toons from the time they came out onto one toon a week ago. I was able to afford the badges. Barely. And, again, I play a lot. To me that seems stupid Also I look at the change in Cosmic. From leading content nearly every night to grinding the newest content for badges and prismatics to gone. Old SG. Literally a ghost town for last 4 months

When I discovered Homecoming I was ecstatic. Even more so when I discovered all mu favorite costume pieces were unlocked and P2W had all my old vet rewards Fast forward. Prismatic Aethers. Not just them, but the entire design theory that led to them. Hard to get. Need a massive number for badges and a stupid massive number for the best costume adaptations. So large even I do not believe I will ever get one naturally and I play all the time. I heard someone post recently they almost burned out on the game farming them even though they love the game I find it a strange coincidence that right agter everyone in Cosmic Council farmed theirs….they all left. And they show no signs of coming back.

Agreed. A new currency for badges and then cool stuff locked behind a month of grinding. Nice throwback to early CoH days. If only they made you take the Prismatic to the far end of each of the shadow shards to have them “activated” they would have made the vision real. One Prismatic, visit vendor at end of each shard before the prismatic is fully active Only one prismatic can be activated on each run.

I run a lot of Dark in various ATs. And it consistently has end issues across the board om my current main a Dark Dark Corr the end issues can be extreme, especially if you ise the debuff toggle (and I do) I put in Health the Panacea, Miracle, and Numina procs and then in Stamina a Perf Shifter EndMod and PROC then a I/O endmod. This hells a bit. I also squeezed on two Theft of Essence +end procs. You have to tend your blue bar carefully if you want to succeed oh i also chased the +end set bonuses and accolades. Sitting at 130 end. Helps….

waste of blood...

i think i will just grab a quill and parchmen....erm, pen and paper. write down all the suggestions above. i will then gimp the shit out of my graophics as the msr team builds. then reload my normal afterwards. thanks

Now is there a way to save all these “gimped” settings for MSR or do I just have to manually switch everything back and forth?

Striker is correct. A little more detail. Getting your Alpha to Tier 3 (or 4) and slotting it grants you a +1 in all 50 content. (45+...i think lol) Getting your Destiny and Lore, separately each to Tier 3 or 4 (and SLOTTING it!) grants you +1 for each. ONLY in Incarnate content. (Which i think includes Dark Astoria?) I said a little more detail. Sorry for the stuff my memory did not think was important enough to store

You jumped the gun. There was supposed to be a “Be prepared get ready to get ready!!” Thread first

I don’t (think?) i was on one. I think 2. But somehow my badge tracker has me at 3 bombs and 1 AV. I know i had one AV before. I am only doing these for the badges. I hated to cut out early. I normally am very active (OCD) and on my corruptor hang just at the bowl rim nuking and debuffing to help the forward melee elements. Sometimes even hop to the ship top and pull. But when things lock up…