Snarky

i truly suck at macros and keybinds beyond the most basic. so i abandoned loc aoe powersets for instance i never figured how to use the target locator for specific mobs. but i spent years in game and know their patterns and spawning areas. i don't know why i do things the way i do.

+it is the day you take a frozen turkey, and a tubular deep fat fryer, combining them to create a makeshift pyrotechnic device. then you see if you have food for friends or a need to call the fire brigade and let people work on badges.

I think I will not be the last vote for finishing out the Incarnate system plan. The promise of MOAH POWAH was right there lol. Sideways to the Incarnate system I would love if there was a way at End Game to earn a few extra enhancer slots (even one or two) after a LOT of work. Accolade style, but way harder. Similarly adding a Travel power set at 50-incarnate on top of existing, or more specific extra travel powers in a set you already have 1-2 powers in. These are my big wishes for extreme late game madness

lol...it never ends

i run Dark Armor with all toggles constant, including stealth and fear. but i run it with dark melee. i throw high recharge on the build. its just beautiful to grind into mobs with

i would throw a theft of essence proc in dark regen. you got to be hurting for endurance. that will solve any problems there, or at least make it better

After a LOT of playing and designing and learning I think I have found "the one" I will always love new alts, new powersets, and the old SS/Inv Brute. But for me "the one" is a Dark/Dark Brute named Snarky. Basically a ghost/spectre who can stealth or kill entire rooms as he pleases. Very simple costume of none, tights colored black, with the simple ghost head, colored black. (I love costume design, but this is how Snarky looks. Just a dark ball of ghost wandering the City) This is a very powerful build I enjoy soloing on. I have a Dark/Dark Brute at 50 all tricked out with tons vet levels. I re-rolled a new Dark/Dark Brute in October and am somewhat steadily completeing all Redside contacts (now at level 24) I look forward (December-January?) to 50-ing and Incarnating this toon as my main. I love that City of Heroes lets you design from costume/powers/archetype/morality who your character is. I am trying to write about thios character. But I work, workout, videogame, and...yeah. 13 rough pages so far lol. But in City of Heroes I can run "the one" that I write about. (Rogue btw) See you in the City! (if you are on Excelsior)

if you are just traveling generally the flight temp from p2w for 5k per half hour is very doable. not stylish, not uber, just a commuter jet pack for the working farmer

alter ego EAT.... One toon, two completely different characters in it. (badges, Inf, etc shared) Maybe keyed to Alignment? Hero/Vig One AT powersets Vill/Rogue a second. The dichotomy of a Super caused by split dimensions pulled apart / smushed together. Would need complete separate builds enhancers (and levelling!?!) for each side the character progresses through

Goldside never got fully developed. unless you wrap a Gold Epic into finishing as a Mender or in the Ouro storylines somehow it is kind of a dead end. IMO. ....I do like the OURO, alt earth, time/corp timecop thing though

I have incarnated both Dark/Invul and Dark Dark. They are both insanely powerful. They are completely different playstyles. Dark/Invul (particularly when built for high recharge) is a monster tank-Brute. The synergy of Dark-Invul cannot be overstated. They were made for each other. The combat heal and End recovery tools of Dark spackle over the clunkiness of Invul and it does not get any smoother. It Brutes well despite the lack of significant AoE due to the 30 sec buff being up a lot. The thing hits like a truck. Dark/Dark does more damage easily due to the damage aura. It does not Tank well at all. Oh, it is freaking durable as it gets when built well, but it only agroes stuff in melee range. No one else can see it. You bounce from place to place like Jason from Friday 13th. Show up kill disappear. The Dark/Dark does not build for tankiness at all...just recharge. and thereby gets as tanky as dark armor will ever get. The thing farms, any map, and does well. cannot hold agro beyond what is in direct melee with it. kills anything that gets near it, fast, These are both very expensive builds. I have them both set up on Excelsior. They are the only two I don't regularly scavenge for parts. That and a SS/Invul build Hyperstrike designed. (he could prob tweak these and get a little more performance...) I have had so many great days running these three Brutes I always want them available. Good luck in your Dark fate.... http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1461&c=669&a=1338&f=HEX&dc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http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1558&c=712&a=1424&f=HEX&dc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

THank you Hyperstrike! You are my hero builder lol. You and the guy back from live (can't remember handle) who showed what a high recharge DM/Invul Brute could do. Good times. I am having problems opening the build both from copy paste and link. It loads 99% but says the last attack power is placed illeghally and leaves lvl 49 power blank....?

I am playing around with an origin story and the closest I can come in CoX to the character is Inv/EM Tank. I have been toying with the idea for a while but just solidified my decision. I will start with one of Hyperstrikes templates for INV and try to throw something together, I usually build Brutes, and am....well, decent. Not great lol. My question (finally!) is about how to build towards Tankyness more than anything else. What tips and tricks can you offer up to guide me towards this? Again, I am a moderately proficient builder but usually build damage oriented Brutes. So, what breakpoints beyond softcap should I look at? Also, what is the incarnate softcap again lol? Thanks for any tips.

Worked like a charm. Well, it's me so I worried it like a puppy with a sock. What I discovered. /sg_passcode <password> The <password> is not really a password as much as a label If you put in the command a second time with a different label you will get a new system message. /sg_passcode Label1. system responds Your supergroup base access passcode is now LABEL1-12345 hmmm. I didnt want Label1. /sg_passcode Label2 system responds Your supergroup base pasecode is now LABEL2-12345 The 12345 is locked but the label is changeable, and outputs a new system message. - handy if you did not write it down.

Hyperstrikes advice is diamond studded Platinum. I have run his builds as my main and use his templates for my creations. Having said that... SPEND More! lol. Budget implies a shortness of Infamy. And there really is no such thing. Run a character through TF and grab a few hundred merits. Turn those into Enhancement Converters. Craft level 30 recipes bought from AH. Convert those to really GOOD enhancers with converters. Sell. TONS of cash. There are guides, but that is the short version. Have fun.

How do you set an SG base passcode. I have asked this numerous times in game and the results have never helped me. I have an SG. It does not have a code Where do I go or how do i set up the 4 digit passcode for the base? Thanks in advance.

Not having a magic flight temp power from P2W How many wizards, zombies and ghosts do i have at low level using a raptor pack? jeez

I generally really like the CoH community. Really. I am not easy to get along with. I mostly do okay here. I was pestered for a few weeks about a year ago by some mad person and switched servers due to it. They REALLY did not like me. I quit playing CoH after April due to the my not liking the extreme moderation of the chat boards. Like, micromanaging where posts go to the point of banning you for not posting where they want you to. I still find that....just really odd. But i cannot find a game out there that compares with the versatility and options of clunky old CoH. And, again, I tend to have a real good run in most teams/leagues. I am still Snarky in General chat. If you cannot enjoy sarcasm. I am ....not sorry. If you cant drive 5 mph over the speed limit stay out of the fast lane.

I ran an Ele / Ele Scrapper on live for a couple months. It had all my best enhancers (I could only kit out 2- 2 1/2 at a time) and he rocked. I never love location targeting though, and I gravitate to Brutes....so...he went away One of the things I liked about the TP attack was that I could just TP right to where I was. Made that part easy anyways

Call them whatever you want. I hate those guys. So much.

Here is the Dark/Dark Brute I was running at the beginning of the year. Parked now, but not shattered, still ready to pull out of the garage and GO! the thing that strikes me about playing him is the difference between other Brute play and Dark Dark. I run all toggles, all the time. This has the effect of making me basically invisible to mobs just out of melee range. (Cloak of Darkness) But then, once I wander over to them I catch a ton of agro (Death Shroud) But then I start slappiong them with AoEs. Dark at high recharge pretty much has an AoE chain, only improved by Shadow Maul's new arc. Too much agro and not enough Defense? Wait, theres more! Cloak of Fear and Oppressive Gloom step in to debuff, disorient, and generally make the crowd around me manageable. And keep in mind with the high recharge build Dark Regeneration is on a hair trigger. http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1558&c=712&a=1424&f=HEX&dc=78DA6594DF4F926114C79F175E22100404057FA518824092546BFD7615DA2A6D6E6E6D5D34F7964FCA22642FB8E56517DD97D5DCCADFD56DFF54375DA456D6AA95D1F1395F81ED65BACFF37CCFF9BEE73CE77D60FC71CEF3E1DA9361A1355D2D18E5F2D41573BE229DB78CCABC6914047D5C9345C37CF868CEAC3869D7A6E253E3B220652647015E4658CEC907B25846E0B249A6C0F5E2AC3465B19239587826E6E60A99316994F2C519AFDA8CE667662BB473ABDD6449CA69DF41D6B434CBB3F952FB48297F3F335294E6CCC2D4B851AE4873817B8D505783F4FF591C7CAA0E11B70991D5852D010E30F52498621E4A335FEFDB34E5D5C577BB10098AFD601EFE09FE62BA4FD895E7CDBE853D0ECDA32BCDED657A9A411FB3D90F06985BE4B2A357FB19EEA1E52C33740E3CCF6CBB005E642E93CB81BA0EF41A41AF11F4DA815E3BC294D8AD8B6884B9432E27BCCE753E47D706B8C93CF2167C07BE67AEECDF05CCC885BABDA8DB8BBABDA81BFDCD9E36BA324DECD19A5A35A5456F72CC46312FC784F7299F6D95763E6153357C7F6CAAE7A37FC13DF01FE7C6AACCAF941D502FAFAA07E089C11387278EDCB8E0DA6B941DC41C82E82BE107773927B1CDCCEE09F58C6C886768A7BE5BD96B6FC51C929843127348620E3AE58671FE30EAA450E71BA9EDDCB7A37D99EF456A055C651E5B03D7C10D661F3DB793EF8FD699164A1B040314EB46CD6ED48C8598BBA4F6E0DEF53CE3670D3E071799C75F802FC157CC0D72F5E17DF59D2690EC0A08D10FAD7F8967EC216D00DAC0259ED926EDD27C5691469F6ECACB202FB342DEA02ED6693784730D7DE47797FDC4ECD26BDF6FFAA38F485994218B92B528272DCA298B32AAD77E0FAA6396E8848E20299A525CFEDAF7B9BAE5AEFD2E20BA53576C5A946F95FF36BF11FF0D4DDD946D8BEB4B5DD134CCB6659179CFADBA51F5EE36AC271AD646C37A3848369C2716AAAF971AF43BE1FAFA3FCB660CBD

I am running a solo all Redside project and have rounded the corner from 10-14 to 15-19. woot. Maybe i am just getting lucky but I seem to b getting s lot good recipe drops, like 10 so far. Am I just really getting RNG love, did they increase the drop rate, or have I judt forgotten how often this stuff drops? (been gone a few months, international spy biz and all)

I avoid all the gimmicky sets. Combos, Momentum, etc. I did run a Kin Melee I liked, more for concept than anything. It became practically a ranged melee toon. short to medium range, but still. I tried war mace for a while. Then I noticed the animation was just the one arm moving up and down like a Christmas nutcracker soldier (which gives an idea for a holiday toon....) Which...leaves me with truly slim pickings for my beloved Brute Army. I am gobsmacked at the news they are doing ANYTHING for Energy Melee. Just an honest medium of the road fix, all I ask. i have run it as is out of lack of options, but at deep game it gives up AoE and power for....nothing, because it was gutted in an overenthusiastic nerf

Adding some arc to Dark Melee Shadow Maul has been a true blessing. I run DM a lot. I was decent at landing that narrow cone, but now I hardly do more than sidestep and get the position I want.

Here is my Dark/Dark. It is a damned BEAST in combat. I have it set up and running just like this, I am currently starting a second one as a badger. Will do the exact same build. (This one is soloing all Redside stories as I level) There is not a lot of room on a Dark/Dark for ANY Travel powers. This is less Travel than I give to any of my Brutes (I mostly run Brutes) since the days of no inherent fitness. I only post to show the struggle you will find trying to remove cornerstones of a good combat build to get the concept you are going for, Good Luck. http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/download.php?uc=1558&c=712&a=1424&f=HEX&dc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