Snarky

Welcome to the greatest game in this time stream! I solo a lot. I have taken many Brutes and soloed all Redside. I stop experience (Menu, options) at levels 5, 14, 19, etc to ensure I get every contact, every mission. I thoroughly enjoy the Redside arcs. I am currently doing this on a Blaster. (See "Notes from Redside" conversation thread in General for a blow by blow. Really hope you enjoy the experience.

I run Villains and Rogues mostly. Being asked to get to the zone before the invite is so standard it is like getting mail in a white envelope. I frequently get asked to wait to be invited WHILE IN ZONE because it is a mixed team. These snowflake heroes who are distressed they cannot get an invite the second they wave their foppish hand in the air for attention are hilarious.

I was in the United States Navy at 17. I am an old man and i drive Semi Trucks for a living in a busy metro market. ( currently watching two truck drivers in a very small lot scream at each other while i sit in dock) If there is something you can type that will offend me i tip my hat to you. i will not need to put you on ignore if this happens. If you are that foul you will get your account banned. This will be for the simple reason that you are like that to more people than just me. That will send waves of feedback to the HC team

Thank you for leading great Leagues on Excelsior Oklahoman!!!

I never put anyone on ignore. If i am put on ignore. ? What? Some jerk doesnt want to talk to me? Oh my. What will I do?

Knockback. You say you have noticed more disdain of KB recently. This is perception. Disdain of KB with all the symptoms you seem to have accurately reported goes back to live. Probably back yo Beta testing but i was not there before around Good vs Evil edition Leaving life out of the game. Hmmm. Do you know what Art is? Being serious. Something told to me in an Art class stuck with me. When someone looks at something (painting sculpture whatever) and it brings up thoughts or feelings then it is art. It communicated something through an object. This is based not just on the skill of the artist but more importantly on the life experiences and inner symbolic language of the perceiver. When people “react” it is art. People react to MMORPGs. There are as many ways to experience CoH as there are people who play it. They will indeed bring “real life” into it

Actually i will be doing Goldside. Had actually decided to do First Ward and Night Ward as part of this. Will pick up older Goldside badges through Ouro. This project might not be done until Xmas but it will load into 50 with a truly epic number of Badbes and Merits (not spending any). Also dumping Transcendent Merits on him as my farmers get them. Once he does 50 finally should slingshot to all tier 4s lol

Okay, new update time! (I will be updating these as I finish each level range.) I just finished Port Oakes (and some Cap au Diable.) That finishes off 10-14. Because of the Going Rogue for DFB I decided this toon will be doing more than my Redside runs normally do. i will badge all Blue content through Ouro. I will get all possible Blue badges as available. This means I was able to badge every zone except The Hive and The Abyss. 523 badges at level 14! 711 Reward Merits. There were some GMs that I normally would not have gotten due to the costume contest. (I got runner up on Excelsior!) Plans for 15-19 include the four DiBs for buffs to 30. Cavern of Transcendence and Posi 1 & 2. My general strategy is to do the TFs and Trials as I am slightly over the maximum level. So no Synapse until I am 24 and doing 20-24 content for example. I do like an easy run lol. Highlight of the 10-14 range was the mission from Dmitri Krylov to kidnap Paragon citizens to be delivered to Vahzilok surgeons. People say they do not feel like a villain running Redside content.... Do they not actually do this stuff? Things are going slow this run. I am badging way more, doing more side content, and generally just bopping around. Also, a lot of my gaming time is doing SG events. My SG keeps a full (and fun!) calendar.

No idea. The problem is after you finish fire wires arc you have one last mission. Go talk to the guy. If he is dead you gotta call a GM to bump you past and get the complete. There is a badge for all Mercy missions so it has to complete Lt Harris is the Longbow traitor. I could not tell for sure about Webber. You look safe. Fire Wire specifically has the mission to see Harris listed Webber does not

I have always robbed the bank lol. Similarly for the Mercy Arc where the Longbow traitor helps tou I have to restrain myself from killing him. If i kill him he is not available for me to Ouro do the Fire Wire Arc and i have to get a GM to help me complete the stupid thing. I am a creature of habit. At least the dialogue for not killing him is appropriate “you will be useful to me later”

I know this genie. This is part of their shtick. They never actually grant a wish, they might be able to (who knows?) they just keep asking clarifying questions. I think they are a frustrated Psychiatrist personally.

I am soloing Redside on a Dark/Dark Blaster. This is at +0/x1 with DFB buffs and P2W and all the goodies. But it is a very chill powerful set up. The to hit debuffs do a nice bit of lifting when the going gets rough

One of the greatest (perhaps the greatest) strength in City of Villains, erm Heroes, is the ability to change and redesign a character from the ground up. Sometimes you cannot get too far from the core design. Other times you can get way the F out there and still be quite powerful. Perhaps more powerful than standard/standard build. This fluidity in character design allows for tactics to evolve beyond Tank/Heal/DPS Indeed, more than any other MMORPG CoX will see a team/league switch roles based on the fight. It is actually part of the design where in things like Hami you need very specific functions that are not necessarily just the big three. It shows its head in the varied damage types and the ability of a lighter 'DPS' role to 'Tank' something specific while the 'Tank' has to fade back due to a weakness in that fight. You can play the game using the Trinity, you can also play the game using Single Origin Enhancers. But when you start bending reality and surfing the content based on wisdom and practice you find all sorts of interesting niches.

That's Fantastic!

Also, no "O Crap" power is guaranteed in this wild game. I just took a level 14 and badged every zone possible for it to get into. The hardest parts were Shadow Shard and The Abandoned Sewer Network. This is due to the floating eyeballs and Rikti drones. I had a build set up with Flight, Stealth, Super Speed, Teleport, and Phase Shift. Phase Shift I think of as Personal Force Fields better looking cousin. Still got killed when I had that up. Should not have happened since i was "out of phase" with enemies. versus Rikti. (You can buy a temp power Phase Shift "Ethereal Shift" from the P2W vendor as well...) When the RNG hates you then your ticket is pretty much punched. But I personally like the odds of getting out of hairball situations with PFF and Phase Shift. Not that I use it as much as I could. If I know I can Rez easy or there is a quick way back into the fight I will sometimes blast away with 3% health trying to burn down more mobs. If however the goal is not to kill or it is horribly difficult to get back to the fight when I die then I love options like PFF and Phase Shift to *usually let me break the rules and survive otherwise really crappy tactical situations.

There is a contact in Sharkhead, Leonard, 20-29, that has you fight your own clones some. I do not remember if it is a parallel story line or just similar.

They never said it would be a farmer. The sets indicate it might be. But it might be a concept regular game toon as well Your advice is spot on for a farmer though

I never did feel like I got an answer on how much of the Auction system you could use. Currently deep into a solo all Redside project but being confused here just left me unwilling to even take a swing at it. Also not sure what "levelling once per stream" means. Are you saying this only counts if you broadcast this? Because that is not stated even in the strict (if confusing) rules in the OP. It says it was designed with streamers in mind. Then, again, is left up to interpretation. Is it a tree, a snake, a wall or an elephant? Hellifino....

post it

I am a fan of building defenses onto a Blaster. Two of my favorite sets are Dark and Ice. Ice is fully ranged. At softcap range Def you can screw with bosses a long time. Dark has -to hit debuff all over it. If you focus on that one boss that wont go down easy he probably cant hit you for squat either.

do damage

Forty-two.

....if you have 9 slots left over on a Brute you seriously did something wrong WAY back in the planning phase....

Too bad too because the 6th slot in that is range defense (I love it like way too much...) and the set starts off with 5% Range boost on all powers. But yeah, you lose a hard hitting alpha strike permanently.

For me the “slog” is Sharkhead. Once i hit Nerva there is a LOT to do left, but it feels better. Honestly there is almost no content on Mercy and Port Oakes. Cap has a decnt amount as does Sharkhead. But not a ton. Do not forget to run the four DFBs then the four DiBs for buffs until 30. Also remember that you can drop 3 enhancers into Health and 3 into Stamina ( Panacea, Numina, Miracle ) ( perf shift proc, perf shift end, regular end mod ) for tons of End. Then respec out as you level later. Your low level build can be stand alone for that time in your career. Stop exp at 19, respec, do all 15-19 content. Level to 24 stop exp, reapec, do all 20-24,etc