Snarky

I was fortunate with the star yesterday as well. Formed two Drowning in Blood. (Only one person stayed). These rounded out the four buffs I needed on my c r a w l i n g through the game toon. I may even need to go back and redo the first one i got with a random pug a couple weeks ago. But it went very smooth

They are making Serious changes to Elec Blast in the stuff that is coming out…..very soon. If you want to give that beautiful combo a second go this would be the time.

I have a Storm Water Blast Defender i cannot even bring myself to run. The knockback…… it….its alive!!!

but (for tanks and brutes) Resist is capped at 90%. So we would have 90% max resist to the debuff. Which would start to chip away, unless over cap... In the hard mode Aeon no insp are allowed. So that means using Rune of Protection or Unstoppable to shore up flagging resists (Invul has meh Energy resists....) Trying to strategize before heading into the meat grinder....

I understand in the new Strike Force on Beta (especially in the hard mode) that the mobs are using -res to pretty much strip armor from everyone. Can someone smart go over what happens to 90% resist when hit with -res? Is there resistance to the debuff? Does eating Oranges (or hitting Rune of Protection, or Unstoppable) help? thanks.

I may be in pain but I keep grinding lol. I am working on a solo EVERY contact (red/blue/gold....stopping exp, side switching etc) and gaming in nearly every event Cosmic Council runs. That part is not painful. Why I do the huge projects? self loathing? sigh, we vampires hate ourselves. I also PUG some when I want a giant monster, zone event, or posi 1, synapse etc. and PUGs are still kit or miss. and when they miss? daaaaaaaaaaaaaam

I have an insatiable desire to game. If not soloing a project I am teaming like crazy. Volume of PUGs = more opportunities to find the crazy times. My threshold for what i consider stupid is also not spectacularly high. Particular is +1 (or +4???) Posi or Synapse. And that happens. Which I find....moronic, stupid, and unfortunate. The fact that the next issue will reward us for running these at + makes them less stupid (if you got the chops to run it....) and will lead to more dumb teams who cannot handle it trying to get the rewards. In my opinion. So....more stupid PUGs. sigh. thankfully I have the Cosmic Council.

I am always looking for another excuse to throw Unstoppable back on my Invul. Hyperstrike has great wisdom when he says it is completely unncessary in the current game. Sigh. But the game changed and the dog is chasing the ball again! In the relentless version of Dr Aeon I am (guessing?) I can use an old tactic to get through my Unstoppable crash. (High Recharge Dark Melee/Invul Brute....Crash, use PBAoE End recovery power, Dull Pain, Siphon Life Siphon Life Siphon Life) The question becomes is it worth it? Are they cutting through resistance so much that everything added from Unstoppable just melts and you are left with a crash? Instead of a popsickle....just the stick and a wet hand.

Noooooooo Shadow Maul is great damage and with the relatively recent changes to area (easier to hit multiple opponents) it would be crazy to drop. In my opinion. (No, its F-ing crazy)

For me it is congealed blood. Very sticky once it dries. I should not eat over the keyboard.

Cosmic Council has players around the world. Literally. Who lament our US centric hours. Granted it is not busy at really odd hours with maybe one or two kicking around. Of course, once you start gaming regularly you might find partners for weird hour activities.

I can relate to this. I am, in my shriveled heart, a grumpy old vampire. I know that the world is filled with despair. That even the undead are merely putting off the inevitable one night at a time. Yet I do what I can tonight. What I can find enjoyment in, tonight. Where I can feel what it might be like to be alive…if just for tonight.

I was regularly ranting about various PUG ugly times I had for about a year. Favorite topics included people starting Posi 1/2 and Synapse at +4, leaders assuming I could read minds, and people going to the steps of City Hall immediately in the Posi 1 end mission. Among others. Special mention to folks who kicked me because of various reasons, usually for playing a Brute. Like a Brute. About a half a year ago I joined an SG. It had Discord, which I knew very little about. and was unsure of. My, how the SG has changed my gaming experience. I have played CoH as much as I can back on live and since I found it again. (maybe half a year after HC came online) That part has not changed. My team experience has gotten way better. Our SG does a weekly Master Magisterium run, along with 2-4 other Master Incarnate Trials. It has 1-2 events every day/night (mostly night weekdays) that offer a varied traipse through CoH content. On Discord I have SG mates from around the world, exposing me to cultures, accents, and wild conversations that are absolutely delightful. The SG I found is Cosmic Council on Excelsior. With a regular crew in Trials and Discord of 50+ with a roster of about a thousand. Of the 50+ who are regulars I see 20+ forming up for every Incarnate Trial run, 10-16 on every weekday event. (different peeps of the 50+, but you get the idea) Having this regular crew to run content with has allowed me to branch out my playstyle. Instead of always being on a Brute for when the PUG gets ugly i have branched out into Blasting! I even have a Controller in the mid 30s! (Blasting instead of Bruting was a change almost necessitated by weekly Really hard way Magisterium badge runs....unmitigatable damage patches are F-ing Brutal) I still enjoy my Brutes, and am soloing all content in the game on one. Looking forward to running the new Aeon Trial on Live with these guys. (we have run it on Beta. I have only done easy mode. These folks have done the hardest mode there and a few have soloed it) As the Devs have made changes to the rewards so that my complaints about not getting extra rewards for Synapse at +4 will be null I shudder to think of PUG life. I was on a DiB on a PUG this weekend that was a mini nightmare. We completed it, with badges, but I was pulling Incarnate Team inspirations from my email to help prop up the team lol. Thankfully I have found a calm place away from that mad playstyle. Yes to greater rewards for greater challenges! Thank you Devs. Yes to running hard content that requires teamwork! PUGs.... well. Let's just say YES to the decision to join a good SG. Thanks Cosmic Council!

HC Teams work is incredibly wonderful. While not cranking out content at the rate of a full time paid Dev team I cannot say enough about how incredible the QUALITY of what they do is. The content they add is so wonderful, well thought out, and beautifully executed. Their game balance decisions are remarkably sensible. whoever they are....these masked supers deserve all of our gratitude.

If you are talking about your "real world" emails I am not sure what your comp setting are. I can assure you there is nothing this 17 year old game has done has modified your computer. If you are talking about in game emails I got nothing. I use mine in the basic setup everyday as a warehouse, kept busy. But I have never altered a singlre setting on it. Other than try to make the screens larger, to limited success.

I only started doing them a couple months ago on a few badgers. Sometimes (50% ish) I am solo. other times it is a madhouse. When it is busy I get a team 85% time. But some folks have msgs off, or are maybe kids, or w/e and do not team. (or they have me on ignore lol) I did get the badge on this toon. I have only chased it 4-5 times in my entire CoH career, all recently. Been hanging with badgers. it is a sick obsession.

So at level 19 I can access the Ouro portal for Flashback.... But I cannot run Pilgrim's arc until 25? If so I am in "proper" situation. Just very confused. I do not Ouro much (until recently)

My theme tends to be one compound name. I like Snarkbait. I made Snarknado after twodays listening to Shark memes in General. A Storm Summoning Water Blast Defender. I havent levelled them. I cannot bring myself to inflict that on a PUG team.... My SG has sadly declined the opportunity to embrace the madness.

lol I am on Excelsior. And although I was a half year late to HC I was lucky enough to get Snarky (my global on live) as my Global and snagged the toon name on all but one server. I have a kitted out duplicate 50 Dark/Dark Blaster with a 1000 or so badges on Everlasting should I ever need to bop in there for a run with peeps holding the name Snarky. On Excelsior I do run a lot of Snarkey, Snarkbot, Snarkbringer, etc....

Been to a few of these today. need 11 more F-ing fires out. Place is swarmed today. Luckily I made it onto a couple teams. Teams who believe the event is about putting out the fire. And they do so. In about 4 minutes flat. GRRRRRRR I mean, great job heroes. Schmucks.

3 things 1) necropost. interesting. so points! researcg chops 2) Champions sucks 3) i do not need to see 1000 Snarky clones everytime I log in. Yeah, I know you guys want to. Did I mention Champions sucks?

and yet I can use the Ouro pillar to do missions at level 19 as if I had ran the entire arc...

It is an odd one. I went to open Ouro.... and the guy said I already did it. I am 99.99% sure I did not.

yes, i immediately alted to a level 50 and checked that it was doable. still flummoxed by the development. These completionist runs are pissy.

This helps soothe my fears about the Isolator badge. It does nothing to answer how this happens. I would bet 50.00 I have never played the Ouro Arc on the character. F-ing weird. Also another great place to hunt Shivans. Which is another thing I was looking forward to in the Ouro initiation. clearing the city hall is a neat chunk of Man in Black, or at least progress...