Snarky

Well this screws Dark Armor Brutes in normal content as well then. For those unfamiliar a very significant portion of Dark Armor mitigation is non suppressed stealth and control toggles. But that will be overwhelmed by having multiple groups past agro cap wanting a piece of the action.

I stopped running endless TFs when i set up a second acct to PL my new 50s. Prior to that I would run all the TFs pretty much in order on each new alt until 50. It was faster and more profitable to PL myself

Git gud

Tell me you are not calling vampyri “Snarkys”!!!??? They aren’t even real vampires. Grrrrrrrr

AR is beloved bu some folks. I always thought I should solo the game on an AR (redside of course) due to the mini game of building forts and then luring spawns to their death with AR/Dev. Never got around to it

The fun of having endless cones ( and I have done this) is two fold. You never have to “line up”. Because you are firing off endless cones you are basically sprayimg a fire hose and just position incrementally. Second, you can tailor which cones you fire based on what effects you desire more. Granted, the damage is not T9 Nuke then Judgement but it is a lot of AoE and is a fun mini game

Counting years living, years undead, years in torpor, or what combo?

I got a thumbs down for saying dark/mental is a cone lovers dream? Tough crowd lol

A lot has been said about incarnate effects of 50. There are big (not as big as incarnate powers and level shift) advantages to a 50 in terms of build opportunities as well. Purple and Superior Winter/Archetype enhancers become available. This almost always is the final push to a seamless build in at least one category as well as sweetening the entire build overall. For me I always felt the build was the first power bump in the 50, the level shift second, then some of the incarnate powers start to help. A full suite of maxed incarnate powers is a beautiful thing as well. But everything relies on the build. And always, always, always knowing how to play the character

I do a lot of parody stuff

Reminds me of an old gaming group. Anytime someone mentioned “crazy as a shithouse rat” the shithouse rat anti defamation league sprang into action

I have seen a few egregiously insulting names in the last few weeks. I only log on two days a week now for SG events. Almost every time we see something truly rancid. Many times by an account with the same name. Which I am sure gets banned And they make a new acct. wash rinse repeat. Wackamole. Great name Wackamole. Someone grab that

That monkey F-ed U up in the D? Damn. That is some messed up stuff

All Goldside 1-20 is available in Ouro. Not sure about all First and Night Wards. I played those as I levelled the project. The only Gold you miss is the intro level 1 starting zone. Only badge there is available at 50 in Ouro by talking to big blue guy

Long wait there my friend. Might as well sit on a dock and wait for the Titanic to arrive.

I have done everything on one toon in order except goldside. By stopping experimece at 4, 7, 9, 14, 19 etc and side switching. All gold is available tbrough Ouro and was do e asap. That toon still needs to finish all 35-50, 40-50 and 45-50 to be “complete”. It was a hard run

All Goldside and content added with/after Goldside is pretty much the Mr G and Dark Astoria incarnate zone. Almost (not all, but nearly) of red and blue are stories from before Now here is where it gets interesting, if you are ready to jump down the rabbit hole… Due to the ETREME influence of Ouro on the timelines and the beautiful way (rare praise and much deserved) the storytelling in CoH/V continually use going back and forth through time NOTHING is before ANYTHING!!!! Think of your character as a Hero or Villain who is aware of Ouro (should be, right?) You are now a Time Agent, reeling through the years and accomplishing whatever you choose to do. Sure, a lot of the people you interact with are “stuck” in their timeline. Unaware of Ouro or your meta time nature. They go about their lives. You drop into their story and run a few missions. Then slip back into another timeline. Maybe even redoing your time with them. Or an alternate them. Or…..okay it gets a teeny bit odd here…..you might even be part of creating whole new dimensions when you go back!

I run storylines in this (and another huuuuge mmorpg) mostly as a mental fidget. There are some moderate rewards. Sometimes i learn something. Sometimes i get better at the game. Sometimes i have fun. Sometimes it just makes the voices go away….for a while…..

It does build super fast. Almost every time I have got the badge I race there and am lucky enough to find a few other fanatics trying and we PUG it. It does not go smoothly every-time however.

Epic. Keep Rockin’!

This is a bigger issue for me than I like. Any game I play I want to have as much logic as possible. This helps with immersion. Defeats complicate this greatly This is one reason I favor Villains. Immersion. You are killing people and taking their stuff. Heroes are “arresting” people and, erm, “confiscating their influence?” For safekeeping? The greater good…. O bother The defeat issue is one reason I favor undead and robots. Or a personal favorite undead robot mashup. Try keeping that monstrosity down! But, yes, in every game defeats are just an inconvenience I am playing another MMORPG a lot recently and they have areas that look EXACTLY like the are they send you to quest in, a few yards away, instant death. So you kind of have to just swallow the immersion pill and suffer

If you turn off experience and solo a lot of content at lower levels you will knock most of that nostalgia away pretty fast 🙂

Always comes down to how you play. Do you play "vanilla"? solo, x1/+0? You'll have a great time. Are you trying to keep up with badging speedrunners on +4/x8? You'll be miserable.

I think Dark Dark reaches its ultimate on the Brute. It is easier to be survivable on the Tank but achievable on the Brute. Like almost same survivability. Then there is the fact that the Dark Armor “Tanks” really poorly. Not in survivability, but in design. Part of the survivability of Dark is the stealth field. In survivability Def>Res>Heal. Dark literally stands this on its head. No defense or nearly none. No defenses debuff resistance so worthless to build. Instead Stealth, two toggles that do crowd control, massive to hit debuffs, and the best heal in the game. But that stealth, non suppressed stealth. Bad from a Tanker perspective. Great on a Brute

The yellow salvage wars also led me to reconsider how much I post on the boards. Which led me to spend most of my gaming time in another mmorpg except for two weekly SG events. Cosmic Council is just too chill to not stay connected. But, for now, I am just burnt on most of it