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Anything to get somebody to click on a link. No matter how stupid. It is no doubt bot generated and just looking for victims with a wide net

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Someone has obviously mistaken our community for the jet setters of the world I f we had that much disposable cash we would have bought the rights to the game and hired a staff to start recoding it for modern platforms. (Faithfully reproducing everything of course…)

I started on invul brutes. Layered mitigation and big old health pool. I moved to Dark Dark Brutes. Stealth, Stun, Fear, hardy resists, to hit debuffs, and the best heal in the game. With a comfy health pool I moved onto Blasters built for Range and Defense. Hit and run Now I am on a Dark Dark Corruptor. Not built for range or defense. It takes all of the Dark Brutes tricks and puts them on steroids, then adds adds some ST holds and enemy debuffs and even a enemy 30 sec time out (black hole, just break glass). Not much resists or health compared to the Brute, but decent AoE and great ST blasting. With great power comes not giving a crap what your enemies plan. Stun them black hole them, to hit debuff and fear them, floor their regen and lower their damage, just make their lives miserable. Then, once you’ve said “hi” scourge them down. Defense? Resist? Yes please meat shield…. Go make friends. I will be right beside you.

it is early but my read is that defense at 45 stops minions at base 95%

Defense>Resistance>Heal. (Unless you are on Dark Armor and are stunning and fearing and stealthing and to hit debuffing and have the best heal in the game on a few second cycle with a hair trigger, but, edge case) But no, Resistance , in my opinion, has still not overshadowed defense. Layered mitigation is the key. Whether it be the tortured path Dark takes to get there or the classic Invulnerability that goes Defenses with debuff resistance, and heavy resistances, and Dull Pain.

as i understand it (so good F-ing luck...) it is your current value. even if through T9 buff, magic pool buff, incarnate hybrid being on, or a simple small orange inspiration. if that values soars to 100 you are golden. unless it is irresist... err unresistable this is a really annoying subject with one word being every term in the damn conversation.

It’s strangely straightforward for CoH. Although awkward to say, which I suppose makes up for it Resistance is its own debuff resistance to Resistance debuffs. Am I saying that right? If, as a Tank, you are at cap 90% resistance, and you did not bother to overcap (or could not easily) then when your resistance is debuffed you resist 90% of that. But if you did overcap to 100%? Then your resistance cannot be debuffed

Yes the “hidden” resistance value is used to resist debuffs, not the capped amount as you surmised. this is why it is important to 100% res values on tour Brutes and Tanks where possible. i never realized any of this until the Aeon where it became a debate topic. Now i build slightly different

What causes a player to become a forum regular? Is it an unquenchable need to know? A need for a place to vent or complain? Float new ideas, help people or copy someone else's build for a project your working on? I came here because I was lost. When I get found I will leave. How much time do you spend on the forums compared to actually playing in game? Do you play in-game with any other forum regulars, or do you keep business and pleasure separate? I actually play a lot more than I post. This may shock some of you. Do you lurk or post away? lurker. Big on the lurk... Do you worry about forum reputation or padding the post count like it's veteran levels? I am very concerned with my forum reputation. I try to say nice things to everyone. What draws you in and captivates you to use the forums? “Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!” ― The Tick

the pool power i always want...and never take. teleport. fold space is the new meta. i never have room

75 pounds of cocaine would indeed turn a happy go lucky bear into a giant honey badger in a dark mood….

Billy Mayes was a very VERY enthusiastic TV potch man for every product of dubious quality on late night tv commercials. He was loud and very sure you needed it. In a shock to no one it was found out he did mountains of cocaine. There is a current movie out about…Cocaine Bear. Who found and ate a bunch of cocaine, then found and ate as many people as he could. And I thought cocaine was an appetite suppressant?

Gold star suggestion. This is what will make or break a long term team in my opinion. Cannot believe I did not say it. Great catch Krimson!

youre going to have to find a regular time slot that works. Cosmic has had luck with Friday evenings. the holidays have really threw a wrench into it this year though. once people lose the pattern they can get lost

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…..