Snarky

I have the character at 39 now and just did the first major respec. Threw on about 2/3 of its final i/o build. I am liking it. I made the toon. Very weird and the wavy arm thing is just hilariously stupid. Then the race car noises and a crapton of damage. when i say weird i mean weird. I took a robot using almost the bulkiest pieces i could find. I put a brain in a jar head on it. I used the Large Body build and then made it as wide as possible in every slider. Then i made it as short as possible on every slider. Oh, it looks odd. Then having it doing its wavy arm madness and knocking enemies down everywhere. Very nice. Of course i proc’d the cone to KD. Threw a lot of winter and brute sets along with unbreakabke guard a 6set Aegis. All the usual procs and globals. Cost a ton (raided my base and spent everything i earned from 3 synapses lol). I can see at 50 its going to be a beast. Glad to add it to my stable of odd toons. But i could never take KM on a regular Brute. Maybe in some weird CoT ripoff melee mage

Why? Are we really that bored? I’m gonna go craft enhancers. Make a ton of Inf. Run storylines on a experience nerfed toon. Then maybe tonight have someone PL a new alt i havent even thought of yet. Without advertising. Or paying. Because that is just how we roll on Everlasting-Homecoming. Cheers

CoX powers are more customizable than i have seen. My opinion as i am not a player of every video game the “wall” that you hit in doing this is that you are in a videogame. In a storytelling environment you can have a fully functioning character that does jack squat for weeks of interesting gameplay storytelling then drops a nuke once. Then goes back to being an interesting oddball who doesnt do much. This is not true in most gaming sessions clearing content. Roleplay is a distant tenth or thirtieth behind functionality competence knowledge luck speed and a bunch of other crap so you can take Archetype Squishy. Gimp or not take most of the good stuff for concept reasons. Drop armor i/o on until you run out of room. There. You made your dream. Please do not bring it to a speed ITF. Or even a Posi if everyone is not aware and onboard that your character is a basket case But (for a videogame) due to the sheer number of costumes archetypes powersets power choices and the i/o choices we have fully customizable toons. For a videogame.

I have gold. I will give it to you to PL me. Real gold like from the earth. What hole in the computer do i shove it in to get my fiddy?

Uh. I started on Liberty back on live. I did not even realize it was a dead server. Redside to boot i migrated to Freedumb and was invited to a neat community on Virtue named Brickhouse i abandoned a huge base i had been working 6 months to build on Liberty i spent a year on Freedumb. i left a smaller base there look. Server transfers are free. If you dont like where you are i suggest you look at may e Everlasting my main complaint about Everlasting is when i see a post for a team or TF if i dont jump FAST i will miss getting a spot! Should the Devs step in and put in a mechanic to split pooulations or slow team building? Or do we just figure out how to make it work? (When i start badging in earnest i may even have to lead teams. Grrrr)

This is almost exactly the build i am looking for. EXCEPT i need to crank it by into a short range AoE build. Which should be somewhat easy considering that is what Crabs do. I will be putting on the expensive winter sets and really anything that will make it more effective. I will be cutting back the melee madness and going back to buff powers and range

I like rollercoasters. I think it is unfair that ither people get ti ride them without byilding their own. I mean i didnt exactly build my own all by myself. But i feel like i did. And that is what counts make other people build their own rollercoasters

I am going to disagree. I am not sure about true Comic Books. I havent read anything smaller than the trade graphics in a very long time. But those all reflect a depth that is pretty incredible. Sin City for instance. Not a black and white character group. Even the Campy old Batman movies with Schwarzennegger Clooney and Thurman had some depth. Okay not a lot but some. The Punisher movie with Travolta as a villain? That portrayal was not a villain. Pure Vigilante. These are my opinions of course

Everlasting PUG Synapse last night 1:07. Good times

Rogues are varied. In fact Villains (and yes they are bad Bad BAD) are not one size fits all Many villains do not set out to be bad just for it’s own sake. Their motivation can sometimes be singular, nearly always pursued with complete disregard for others and usually a train wreck of tragedy. But that does not mean they set out to be bad. Some are straight up seeking world domination and/or destruction it is true Rogues are even more complex than villains. Generally not bent on world destruction or even a single minded focus that gets people killed en masse. Yet they are everything from armed robbers who will shoot guards to scientists seeking to create the perfect X without care for environmental impacts Heros...yeah Blue Shield beating down a teen and creating Clockwork King? Vigilantes. That is a fun take on villains. Is Dexter a Vigilante or a Villain? the conversation is deep waters

Why do people keep posting here? Everytime someone posts it makes the conversation seem new and... nvm

Werent they from that TV show Sha Na Na?

I solo’d Prae on a few. Rutes when it first came out. I am very good with Brutes. It was not easy and a couple of the missions challenged me pretty hard which is unusual when i am soloing. But the mechanics of one vs an endless wave is never good. And u think there is a tv station mission which is all but impossible on a Brute unless played just perfect due to spawn size and chain agro. Been many years so memory is not perfect. But it made my Brutes feel like Blasters.

I agree with this and i am taking the rwo AoE melee on my crab for theme reasons. They are niche useful not anything to write home about. They really fit my theme and i think (hopefully) i can mule a set bonus or two in them

I like the sounds. The last attack where the toon inexplicably puts both hands in the air and then rotates them in a huge circle? Wtf

You sort of typed out the answer. Look at each issue that added the content you mention and your answer is revealed. Paragon Wiki

Bring back bridging!!!!

Yeah most of us did the Q this week. I hit it Sunday midmorning. I think we finished midnight. No not really it was 3.5 hours though. We killed a lot we didnt need to but it was pretty chill. I was on my main SS/Invul Brute. We TPd to nearly every door but man did we grind. I got over two vet levels from it lol. Someone else who wasnt quite 50 yet got 5.5 and at least one person 50d but to the topic. Yep i got zapped a couple times too. But on a SS you learn to be regularly somewhat useless. Take the time to combine inspirations check the map look at the time drink coffee wonder what design to put on crypt. The big questions. Oh wait we are fighting again! i think break frees work? Never had one to try and it wasnt a big deal to me. They were just slightly postponing their doom. The lowest my health got was 70%. I hit my invul dull pain once More out if boredom than need i will not be doing that task force many more times in my life. Unless they triple the rewards

Be the Backpack! So i have not run a SoA since they first came out and everyone 50d one or two. Last few days the backpack fever hit quick leveled one to 29 and then ran a Citadel. Thus will be a good alt for me for weekly TFs the build i am going for is the one i enjoy the most. I know from reading all the posts that Crabbermind is the Win. Not my thing i will be building with all backpack powers except the ST melee strike. I Brute a lot and i like trashing something with the wicked claw arms when it gets in close i will be taking almost all soldier and crab powers. There us not much in the build left for anything else i will not be taking patron pools to get pets or even the fighting pool i would love some advice on building this odd duck. What are the sets that make the positional defenses work best while increasing resistance? what is the res cap? I will be taking the heal as well as the Omega and if course spiderlings. I an not pushing pets but that is just a one pick free damage rather than change whole build thanks

I read every bit of dialogue in the story boxes and try to read the npc chat as well. Being immersed in Redside is what it is about after all my character is a Zombie who woke up in a lab that was under attack. There were at least three major factions of combatants and he was laying in a hospital / experiment bed unbeknownst to him ( because part of his brain was fried due to drug use, part to ‘dying’ and part to the revivification process ) he was a family member of some heroes with magical powers. Rather than do any study he tried to obtain power through Excelsior and Superdyne Supplements sold to him by someone at “Supergym” ( registered trademark. ) It had a odd effect on someone from a magic bloodline. One of the effects was zombification the body was grabbed and right after he was jumpstarted by the lab techs is when all hell broke lose in the lab. He escaped through a random portal someone opened during the fight and ended up in the Shivan fight timestream at Galaxy city. Afterwards he met Kalinda and Burke. What they told him has remained his factual basis ever since. On Burkes advice he went Rogue but continues to wear an Arachnos cape i am probably digressing lol. Snarkrot tanks everything. He is an invulnerable tank i/o’d to tank more than damage. I keep the slider at +0/x1 and he usually kills what he needs to and ignores everything else. He will walk through most stuff. Not run or fly because caves and most buildings make him grumpy He will ignore 20 longbow attacking him. Then when he gets to the glowy he will either pop a purple and just grab it or use Duplicity and set the Longbow on each other Snarkrot views himself as a mercenary. He is curious about the many crazy contacts he has worked for Some irritate him but most amuse him. But he just wants to het the job done. He knows there is great power out there and he is exploring how to get and keep it. He is smart. Not doctor smart but pretty clever. so yes very interested in the story. The combat? To quote Hyperstrike “if you want to be a God run a tank”. Snarkrot uses Dark Melee to destroy anything he needs to. Not much puts a dent in his health. The combat just immerses more into Snarkrot’s world of being an all powerful zombie tank merc who is making contacts and getting jobs done

So continuing with my solo every story arc and side mission from every contact Redside. Does not include praetorian wards. Does include Blueside TFs and Badges. Rogue Tank Invul/Dark just complete 25-29 content 395 badges, 66 Souvenirs, 1077 reward merits. Saving those There is good content in the 25-29 range. Nothing super grindy or oddball. Like the newer contacts. They fit in well with the originals cranked exp on got 2x boost and found an AE farm. When i popped 34 i exited, tipped the farmer (nothing was requested up front, just being polite) and started Psimon Omega. i was looking forward to Midnight Grasp at 32. But thats because i ran Brutes for years. Ended up just throwing in maneuvers which is not even in my final build. Heavily I/Od already but i do tank on TFs and teams so being rock solid is important. Plus i just wander through a lot of missions ignoring all mobs and clicking glowies. No stealth required. 50 seems so close and yet so far. Got really distracted last couple weeks by alts. So many good options.

Oooh. Tai chi. Thanks for the heads up. Want to avoid that for the rest of my life. Can we get alternate animations that arent based in the worst martial art in history?

I do agree with this but only from a PR perspective. PLing at that cost is really free or below cost. But on Everlasting it is a real community vibe where cash is not king. RO costumes and teaming are king. New people will not understand the economy be able to afford it or realize how below cost it is. So in that manner it is a very bad thing. Even though in reality (at that cost) you are really making money paying for that and get a 59 to boot. But only if you already know the deal

I made the weirdest toon i could to make it so the stupidest animations fit if i could have my wish? Please please please import basic energy blast animations as an option. Just stand straight and project force with left arm out then right arm out then both arms out. Who the F came up with the windmill on the last melee power? Look with super strength you do a wind up and a punch with KO blow. With kinetic melee you gesticulate madly and then sort of motion in the direction you are attacking. Really? Seriously? Someone thought this was a good enough idea to pit all that effort into it? Or did they just import it from somewhere else and slap a done sticker on it? Either way no thanks simple direct forceful looking poses that show you are projecting energy like a hero or vilkain. Not a interpretive dancer on meth in the street directing traffic

Bwah hah hah. Evil laugh required first. It is a bargain price. Farmers will lose more than that hauling someones butt to 50 then they make with the payment. Then there is the matter of focus. That is a lot of runs in one sitting. Who takes industrial grade ritalin? second. Its up to all consenting parties third. I do not recommend it. But i like doing low level gaming. Some hate it my Preferred method (if it was perfect) would be 4 DFB for bonuses. One PI run (or farm run) to 20 or so. Both Posi 1and 2. One PI to 25. 4 DiB then Synapse. From then on basically leveling up to 5 above TF available and doing TFs for me this accomplishes a number of great purposes. 1) i am playing the alt that fascinated me enough to spend 30 min creating. 2) i am learning the power sets and possibly archetype i rolled. 3) i am earning Merits for funding alts this method is my own odd version. Everybody has a preference. Many times i will modify this to what is available. But that would be my mic drop perfect run to 50 i remember on Virtue i got a chat ban on my birthday for advertising asking for farming to 50. I was paying serious cash. But it offended enough people i got reported and chat banned. Made level 35 in a few hours back when that was hard. Never Played the toon again i was irritated lol let peeps do w/e. i did get kicked off a AE team a couple days ago. 1st kevel Dom. Was doorsitting. Got kicked for not helping. I was like... if you need the help of my toon may the AE lords bless you. You need all the help you can vet