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honest question. also, if played in game would this be a copyright infringement?

I cannot recall ever encountering this

I have some experience with this in CoH. One of the things Cosmic Council was doing when I joined were crawl teams. These have been led by Ukase. He does a great and consistent job. He was inspired to do them by two players that requested it. Who I think never even showed for the event lol. We’ve done a few so far including Gold and currently on an SO only run this time. The standout pattern is there is way more enthusiasm at the beginning with a slow departure of players until the die hards are at the end. My suggestion is to welcome everyone. Make a few teams for the first week or two. As the group shrinks you know who your die hards are. You want to recruit a good number of die hards. 4-8 is a great goal in my judgment. But be welcoming to anyone that might be interested and try to accommodate. You might find a new die hard by being polite!

Finished 30-34 Redside today and levelled up to 39. Picked up two Dark Mastery powers. Dark Consumption and Oppressive Gloom. Oppressive Gloom is a game changer, used in conjunction with Dark Pit it is a worthy stun. Even alone it keeps the minion’s entertained. I have the wee beast heavily slotted for End so have not triggered Dark Consumption yet. It is there as an O crap button in case I get drained mostly. My tactics are tightening up with the powers. I am soloing a lot to knock out these arcs and learn the basics of each power and how I can get the most out of them. As I team the strategies will change. But I can tell already I will never run this like a Dark Blaster again. Dark Dark Dark mystifies the mobs and is (in my opinion) a better form of control than a Dom. Sure, they can attack still. They will miss usually. My armor is having everyone near me immobilized, stunned, feared, and to hit debuffed. If they are a priority they also get a regen debuff and a few hard hitting ST attacks, usually while they are standing in tar patch. It is quite addicting. Not as fast as pure blasting. But soooo many more options

i always monitor my to hit, acc, dam, and stealth. on heavies i monitor my major def/res as well

yeah, one Blueside mission has (i think i remember this horror correctly...) rescue seventeen!!!

Doesnt Posi 1 scale down? I remember last year some madness where we started and were scaled down but then Doc Buzzsaw didnt scale. Man, that ate a few teams until they fixed it. Funny. Sad, but dam funny. Those blade sounds....

Yeah I finally opened MiDs on it. 25' rad. So, just less than a Nuke. So when I was on the other side of the room.... lol. Vamps make shitty healers. Sue my malpractice carriers; Dewey, Cheatam, and Howe.

As Uun rightfully pointed out the two cave maps are hard. I get this “unfair” feeling when I get one where I might have gotten a tiny two arm cave map. But how many of you have experienced the time sink of the Arachnos “reactor room”. This beauty is wide open and probably 15? Stories tall. Ramps and mobs everywhere. I got this map on a flashback badge run with no travel powers looking for a glowie once. There are elevators you have to know about to take you to platforms the ramps do not go to…..

Unfortunately there is zero room for TP on my build. I will try to get better about the rez though lol. Mostly I am using it now for the debuff. I lean heavily into the passive aggressive aspect of Corruptors and less into the heal and buff. My build has (or will have in the 30s now) almost all Dark/Dark/Dark powers available in it. Room for Hasten and Fly. I could maybe squeeze one other on dropping my sole ST hold

I did catch a Citadel later in the day. It was a mediocre run at best lol. But it was a run. Of note: On all the cave maps, every intersection seemed to encourage a team split. No idea why. We were at best two teams, sometimes 6. I am on a Corruptor (prob will be all year, that is the plan) so I followed the half that looked like it was walking into the stupidest thing they could do. I am not the best player, but I know those maps. Many times they found stupid. There were deaths. I think I was down 3 or 4 times. I am leaning heavily into debuffing during the first portion of the fight and blasting in the second portion. When enemy waves are coming in I cycle back and forth. I am more comfortable on a Blaster and know Dark Blast well. But I am starting to learn the tricks of the Dark Dark Corruptor. The AoE stun I used to turn my nose up at? Just enough breathing room to get off 3-4 AoE debuffs! I need to work on my rez. Do I need to be standing on my dead teammate? Damn I suck at healing lol. I do spam the heal, but other than being in close with melee I have no idea if I am healing those that need it. I mostly spam it as a debuff honestly. My ST heal self from Dark Blast hits like a truck. (and has 2 +end procs in it! that may change but it definitely helps at low levels) Also of note: No one had P2W powers like ATT and TT. (except me) They were all damn motivated to get to the next mission and run deep into the map before any other teammates showed up though! I blame sugar. Dont know why, sugar did nothing to me. Honestly they were probably just a dumb group. Sorry sugar. When I was able to take 10 seconds to prep a spawn before they clown car rolled into them (Tar patch, Fear cone, debuff toggle....) the spawn melted fast. It was a 55 minute run. It was not horrid. It was not great. It was the mediocre of times, it was the mediocre of times.

While it is absolutely true it is easy to make cash in CoH…. I too call BS on your earnings. At most you say you gamed 4 hrs for 14 days. It seems like you are saying less, but lets roll with that. That is 56 hours gaming. In which you made 2billion. That is 35 million per hour. With no using the market? So just inf grind and selling common recipes? Someone double check my math. My little phone calc balked at 2 billion lol. But i swear i am calculating this right.

Yeah, shit seem to have gotten heated. I offer the wisdom of a very grumpy old vampire. Do Not Let It Get To You. Get cut off in traffic? Let it go. Someone screams in your face. Let it go. Someone cheats you on a deal? let it go. There is a line....Some fool runs at you with the intent and ability to do harm.....(heres a hint...no words necessary; then clean up real good. And let it go.)

Someone who does understand the sheer joy of watching humans interact in their natural habitat.

This was a doozy. Thankfully only wasted a few minutes. I need on my little project a Citadel, a Hess, and a Cavern of Transcendence. I see an ad for a Citadel. I switch to Blue side and join. Eating breakfast, grabbing insp from AH. Not paying attention. We form. GO! We load in. to +4s. The lead is lower level that the TF and is set to +1. No idea. We fight for a few minutes, die, plan. Reform! When we reform it hits me. We are standing at Manticore in Bricks. (I am not a bluesider....but somethings seeeems off) I am like "Hey, this was advertised as a Citadel." "It was a mt" QUIT. Not even rage quit. Just laughing into my mug of blood quit.

There is a lot of backstory Redside. It always flummoxes me when people complain about being a Redsider always working for Arachnos. That is literally fully explained In Kalinda and/or Matthew Burke’s arcs beginning contacts. Then faithfully developed through the entire rest of the story arcs. But Redside has Arachnos as a backdrop. That is literally all it is right up until you hand Recluse his own severed head. There are so many complex and beautifully interwoven plots there.

I tried this.... no reflection. So.....it must be the idiots who cannot get the F-ing point I was making.

I had a Blaster based on this meme/character. It was suggested by a friend in Cosmic. I never watched its always sunny in Philadelphia.... The title really put me off for some reason.

The beautiful thing is I do not memorize the trolls names. New or old. I take pretty much everything at face value. You say blue. I acknowledge you see blue. Your ass may be crazy but you say it is blue. The best part is most folks have almost no impact on my headspace. I rent out no room. Shit still dont look blue to me though

There are players that will give you 20 million. There are players who will give you incredibly simple and easy steps to make millions in minutes. The cash you lose by not earning to 50 is NOTHING. Especially since the drops are most of the earning. Unless you just vendor the recipes and give away rare salvage. *facepalm. Tell me you dont do dat. I am not kidding. You want to make cash? Run a 50. They make cash. Or, if you dont want Yomo’s free 20 mil, and you dont want to learn how to make millions in minutes, turn on the double exp booster and run TFs. Earn merits. Turn these into converters. Sell those Or did you mean you want double exp, and earn cash, while you sit in someone elses farm to fifty and do not play the game? Spoken like someone who played on live when a new player was at the hard end of the fulcrum shift of we have stuff and you cant get it. Homecoming….just raise your freaking arm and it is handed to you. Of course on Homecoming people complain about having to raise their arm

It is actually not a negative. It is quite beneficial. Listening to you whine about this truly minimal penalty brings absolute joy and amazement to me Thank you. Keep the dream alive man.

I actually didnt see it was you I responded to until after I posted Ukase. Early morning not enough caffeine heh. I still do not think I walk on eggshells. Maybe because I truly dont give a shot about what most folks say. I thought I might be walking on eggshells once. Then I noticed I was in a china shop. And I may have knocked some things over…..

me too. I walk on eggshells. wait. have you read my posts? what do you consider "walking on eggshells?" Not being able to make Superman clones and/or have Xrated chat in game or on the forums? Because I suppose some would consider that "eggshells..."