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old vampire brain is not working....isn;t the next CoH holiday Halloween?

Was there Aethers for Winter or Spring? I do not recall anything specifically added and definitely do not recall teams running the content for those rewards breaking it down….it is just the Halloween stuff

This ROCKS

Christina Ricci still loves me. I know it in my unbeating heart

You know….. your computer algorithms direct you to where it determines you are usually trying to go….

With a little planning (having already got a MiDs build, emailing myself Emps, having food stocked and no tasks/errands RL) I can do that in a day. It is a grindy shitty day. But I would guess 10-14 hours. Lot of coffee. Bad mood. I have not farmed as many 50s since the AE nerf, but all of this would be AE until Alpha is opened up. Then +4 ITF kill alls and more farming (to test incarnate exp, I think both are similar. plus needed a break from tunnels....) Definitely achievable.

a good team (really one or two people that know whats up) can direct the team to targets on varikoss. i do it all the time. only issue is when people just decide (why?) to wade into thirty CoT and start AoEing even the surrounding mobs. like.....did you just shift into stupid and stand on the accelerator? or did you not need to shift? The Skyraider base is a challenge. But it is very doable. I do okay in there even on a squishy. Play smart. THat is what Redside teaches.

mine is 3 feet in front of me...

Redside is fine. i still solo it all regularly. every contact. every arc. every side mission.

I play on a 55” tv as a monitor. I detach the map and have it lower right, lower left is chat.

I have enough bodies down there. Find another hiding spot.

why does this not hit? I want it to HIT

DFB takes one or two runs to memorize. Then the only difficulty is in one fight against a boss you do not kill her zombies (badge) and teams will be unhappy (sometimes) if you do. Other than that it is easy to pick up. Think of it as training for the later Incarnate Trials and Dr. Aeon (do NOT do these....yet) Oh, and Welcome Home!

Definitely DO NOT separate the incarnate exp. I have gotten over half the Master Incarnate Trial badges on my 50 (50d sometime late Jan) and that is ALL through PUGs. Just jumping into whatever. The leagues are out there....for now.

not sure but you just made me hungry.

no you idiot. a lid!

Some pies are tart.

We can always dream. But the fact that the Homecoming Devs keep greasing the wheels and even adding parts to the old steamboat is really more than we could have hoped for. The further tiers (as I understand it) were to be in conjunction with harder Incarnate Trials. Those stories....would need to be expanded, along with writing full trials. Then the powers would need to be coded. and bolted on. and tested. While I personally do not like the Aeon, or the 4 star ITF I definitely appreciate the quality of the work. For the Homecoming team to tackle the above project seems like a lot. They would never publish it as a mediocre thing. Seems like a very big wall.

Fire Kin would be powerful on a Corruptor. Especially since you have a memory of the challenges and joy of Fire. I really am amazed at what my Corruptor can do now that I learned the powers and stopped playing like a Blaster. Since you ran this on a controller you will understand the powers and not make that mistake

I have only succeeded with one Blapper. Now, in my opinion Blasters were designed from the ground up as Blappers. Sets that do not conform to short/PB range suffer through less effectiveness in my opinion. That does not mean it was easy for me to play one. I find it a challenging style. FIRE. I have a few Fire/whatever Blasters. Fire Fire to me is the most effective. You want to kill. NOW. Your only damage mitigation is murder. Errrr. Arresting. My current Dark Dark Corr runs into a slight crossover to this at higher end content. In that shit starts to ignore stuns/debuffs/or the new content just throws 20xold content spawns at you. You stunned X enemies? Have 30 more. Nuked those? Have 30 more! The solutions are different but I bring it up for one reason. Have a Fing Rez in your secondary or epic. If you dont have armor/defenses aim for one in each. You will thank me later Back to Blapping…. Slaughter is your business. You need to John Wick an endless army of minions along with their Tank EB/AV boss (or multiples.). You may build for defenses of some type. They will fail. You need to know where to be in each room for maximum damage while presenting minimum opportunities for the baddies to plant you. That is your armor. Know the content, obliterate anyone not on your team/league. Good Luck 🧛

what the hell are bunny wings?

I have played with friends (really high end players) who swear by Dual Pistols, especially over AR. To the point everytime I mentioned AR they steered the convo to DP. I have only one level 1 DP. Based on a charicture of Danny De Vito in Its Always Sunny. “So I just started blastin” So the powersets are relatively solid. I will look at the build. You went Oppressive Gloom to layer with Suppressive Fire. Nice. How far into content does that work efficiently. I can stun into BAF and Lambda warworks but things get too hairy in even a speed Aeon. Too many mobs for it to be more than swatting flies at a picnic. It does work for me in a +4 Kill Most ITF due to the tactical nature of the team just rolling into the next group and killing. In Aeon they keep rolling into us.

As I have been beating this to death all year....hey, that was thematic!...I am on a Dark Dark Corruptor with Dark epic. (go Dark not Soul, the larger area on Soul Drain AND Oppressive Gloom leading to opportunity to Mag 4 Stun AoE as a part of your attack chain) This is my current iteration of my vampire main. Who started as a Dark Invul Brute, then a Dark Dark Brute, then a Dark Dark Blaster (so wonky for me) and now Corrupting. I may try the Blaster again at the end of this project. Maybe not. My goal is as many badges as I can get in a year. Pretty sure I will get over 1500 Time will tell.