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I agree. I e-mailed a 100 mil to someone who said they were new to the game and dead broke the other night. dropping a few mil every couple days on myself to not break concept is pretty much a no brainer. And the money is a pay it forward. Before I learned how to earn (thanks to the good people on the board patiently walking me through it) I could not afford crap. I told people how I was struggling and making cash with my strange tactics and a few (more than 2!) threw buckets of Inf my way.

This is a very well thought out critique of Redside. While Redside arguably has some of the best storylines in the game, it is a specific type of storylines that it falls into. I have said before to do Kalinda and Burke's stories if you plan to run Redside. This is because they lay everything out so perfectly. If you like that, dig in, there are months of the same set up for you. This is not a perfect explanation of what they tell you, but it is not wrong either. Kalinda: Work for Arachnos. We reward loyalty. There is no other game in town. Watch your back. Burke: Screw Arachnos. Work for them, but steal from them. Oh, and some of them are honorable. But get your cookies and keep your distance. If you have a different character concept than will fit easily into running missions for the semi-organized evil organization Arachnos, whether being a loyalists or a traitorous selfish rebel, then the Redside storylines (mostly) will not work for you. There are some exceptions. A few of the contacts Redside offer storylines that explore meta concepts for CoH/Cov, but even these will almost always flirt with villain politics. For me this has always worked out. Somehow I just naturally click with the selfish backstabbing greedy pretend to work for you while looking for the angles world of Redside storylines. (looks at sentence, sighs) But seriously, I enjoy running those same arcs endlessly. Itching to run a complete all Redside contacts completionist toon again. Had one up to low 30s and just 50'd them. Was a Tank, horrid choice for kill alls. Doing Brute probably, or maybe I will go nuts and try a Dom...no....that would be....hmmmmm But yes, I do enjoy the petty villainy of CoV Redside. You might enjoy Goldside. So much more political and cerebral. I personally hate the missions for pure politics sake. Give me a Bank Robbery anyday. I sort of enjoy the difficulty of Goldside, but it is a messed up place over there. Even the street cleaning robots are politics junkies.

Now this is an actual discussion. Thank you. It has made me realize I do not care if they make 1 more power pool available or all of them. Really a P2W option for fly that works on magic characters would have my propeller beanie spinning like mad lol.

buildwise and inf speaking jetpack is a steal...but I run a lot of undead and wizards who are using a jetpack? can we get a wing option or a mystic fly aura or anything non tech in p2w?

I posted here after starting the topic in discussion. I was informed there was a discussion going in here now i went back and read through. My opinion my point if view is that this is not so much a discussion. It doesnt really fit into an argument. Nor is it just snarky comments. It just seems everyone is unhappy with the opinions of everyone else and are expressing that. Peace out

Great minds think alike. Or the moon is full. Whatever the reason i just started a similar thread in general discussion i make A LOT of brutes. Many. More than a few. Soooo. Fighting is a must. 3 left. Manuevers 99% time, so Leadership is a must. 2 left. Combat Jumping 99% time, so Leaping. 1 left. Modern builders wont even consider a build that doesnt have Hasten unless you are playing ?/willpower. ? Being some mystical set that derives no value from recharge. So. Super Speed. Sigh. Another build with Perma Temp Jet Pack. which reminds me i need to do an alt with the Perma Temp Jet Pack as part of their origin. Should make an interesting writeup But what (if it does not grind the game code into splinters) is the harm of more power pools. Wasn't Diversification what the Devs wanted at one point. Go wide not deep? in the modern game with i/o builds giving more than what the entire fighting pool manuevers and combat jumping give with a side of stealth and incarnate powers slathering on powah i cannot see a logical justification for saying more power pools are a game changer. Other than “ well this is how we always done it” so please look at this Thank you

I tend to like the wild west of “discussion”. So much more fun

You have no isea how many times i get to the end of a build I bave soent hours in research and construction and tweaking. It is pretty much done i have maybe a pick left over that could go for a travel power. (I really like fly). But... i have taken jumping for combat jump, fighting, leadership, and hasten. Well. There is another toon destined for a perma temp jetpack. Sigh i do not know if the coding is easy or impossible to add an extra power pool. it absolutely cannot be game altering to add a power pool in todays environment. A little more flexibility or proliferation into different support powersets cannot be important compared to i/o incarnate and various permatemp powers. so please. If possible. Think about doing this

I cannot actually tell if this is a warmup for an april fools joke or something cool or something outside my interest Go. Hunt. Kill Skulz

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I just get this image of Mr Garrison sitting in front of a computer trying to interact with the Southpark kids. Saying excuse me, stepping away to slam a shot of vodka, then stepping back in front of the computer.

Just got that in my email. So we should have another superhero mmorpg any year now

I just made a cool villain. Then immediately went to Pocket D and slammed him Vigilante so I could actually run 4 DFBs. While in Atlas Park level 1 I got onto a crazy farm train (still on it, level 37 and going) So where do I want the guy to be at 35?-50? I WANT him to be a villain. Lets look at the Alignment powers for a Brute. ….Villain Alignment power is near useless with a 50 Brute. You will peg Fury in seconds of enemy contact. Confuse? Rogue power, good for solo story quest. Hero power....nice. grrr. Vigilante power is cool. So the best power for a Brute is the hero power. Sad. Lets talk about content. Okay, so we need Blueside access unless LGTF, ITF, and Incarnate TF are all you plan to do. (and that is tempting) I take a deep breath and think about the characters backstory and look. I am leaning toward Villain with him. Its going to be a lot of Inf in the build but points for style are more important than an alignment power or missing Blueside TFs. If I had not gotten onto this crazy farm I would have left him Blue to do the TFs to level. Now I don't need to. So this will be a pure Villain, as written an hour or two ago in character gen. But I already have a Vigilante on the server with a similar build just different power sets. this was an experiment that I got lucky with. Most alts don't get lucky, they struggle with running Blueside off concept and start to irritate and are then abandoned.

it would be loud in certain zones. also if you are on a squishy in a zone that is tough for your character your ears are one of your best assets. that crackle telling you a clockwork has fixated on you is really important. Having some random NPC mention you beat down Bob the Council chief not so much.

I recently switched servers and forced myself not to get a personal base. so i did some research on the server i went to. This involved a quick trip to the server message board. Rather than start a new thread topic i browsed recent threads asking about SGs. I quickly found a posted response about a long time running active SG and coalition i created my character on the new server and posted a few tells every hour until i got a response. I think i only posted a few. It was not frustrating so it must have been quick. I have almost no patience the next part did require a few actions but the SG was very good about working with me. I joined their discord. I played actively with the SG for over a week. I joined their in game chat channels. They are a good crew so this was all easy. Although i am still lost on Discord. They have more forum headers than these message boards then they invited me to the SG. I missed the first invite because it was through Discord. But i was in game a lot and playing with the crew on teams formed on SG channels and someone threw me an invite i still havent been in the base. I use the quick transport bases that have become popular. The SG dedicated channel is just a third chat channel for organizing TFs and content. But my efforts payed off by getting me connected with a laid back knowledgeable and active group of geeks. Goal achieved i do wish we could have more than one SG per toon. I have wanted this for a long time going back to live. It makes great sense from a storage perspective and from a comic book perspective as well. How many major characters were in multiple super groups multiple comic titles? Seriously. Like almost all

there is one part I can think of that is something like that. it is the tech knight belt, w/ option. coloring the inside of it is a pain. you have to color the entire character or it wont change appearance

It is the gross base unenhanced power value on the left. The number on the right is the adjusted value from the enhancers in that power. I do not believe this includes global enhancements from enhancement set bonuses or temporary buffs from team powers. It will include buffs from things like alpha incarnate slot since those go directly onto enhancer bonuses. As stated above the number May not be completely accurate.

At low levels titan weapons dark amor and to a lesser extent invulnerability struggle with endurance issues. Kin is great fir them or the other buffer that gives endurance. really most brutes achilles heal is their end bar. That is why they loathe super stunners malta sappers and carnies

Everlasting is a very good and vibrant server. Truly uber super geeks over there. It is also a role playing server. You can run in teams over there, but they only truly warm up when you have an outfit, a backstory, and spend some time chatting, in character, as that is more the focus than experience grinding. They grind, oh yes, they are excellent TF runners, some of the finest PUG teams, but they shine at RP. That's the whole deal over there. Excelsior is a bit busier, a bit more wild west, and maybe slightly less organized. Smart peeps, but by the very nature not as focused on others gaming experience. To give an example. There is a starter trial. Death From Below. Sewer madness, usually run a few times to powerlevel a new toon. There is a badge in it, that takes a little coordination to get. Nearly every Everlasting PUG team I run on gets that badge 95% time, whether anyone even mentions they need it. On Excelsior? Heh. It....can happen? People seem a little happily shocked when they get it. (and I set it up 90% time to just fall in their lap....still you have to be disciplined to get it) So, yeah. Everlasting is excellent playerbase, very active. But more focused on the character experience than the grinding experience. Wherever you pick I know every server is filled with the best gamers of any MMORPG in the world. Homecoming is really just that for a lot of us. So enjoy, don't be afraid to ask questions,. We can help level, help you earn billions, help you understand and build very powerful characters. And we have cookies.

I have a few main archetypes. Strongman, Undead, Robot. Sometimes a weird mix. Oh, and brain in a jar, always wrapped up in both robot parts and usually death energy. My current 'main' is a Dark Dark Brute, "minor death" or "reaper" who hung up his sickle and struck out on his own. He currently resides mostly in Ouroboros. Although he has yet to join and do the story arc. He is truly an outsider. I have no doubt he will join, he is a badger, but it will be once he understands a bit more about the con job the Menders are running. Until then, he watches. Also a good place to join groups getting more incarnate power.

a lot (not all, but a lot) of story content story arc, and game exploration...is solo. At least that is what I have seen. PUGs do not have much patience for 99% of story arcs. I have a decent amount of time in grinding missions and arcs from contacts. Solo. It is my belief this is pretty common. The exception would be a group who do arcs together. I have not gotten into a group like that. I think it would be bad as F to start at level 1 and story arc with the same team all the way to 50. Not every arc, but maybe a planned tour for the team through content to Incarnate stuff. I do not think most groups who do arcs do it that way, but being a complete obsessive that's what I look at as the ultimate.

I would use magic origin. It was with Dark Magic that the Hamidon created itself. I would go Bio Armor I would use all of the asymmetrical parts and probably Search for odd looking textures and addons to make the costume as inhuman as possible. I would use the elongated alien skull and search for poeces that fit on that without clipping that fit the rest of the costume pulling the head back into the design i would go tank or brute. Hami is tough. I would probably go dark melee for 3 reasons. 1) hami is tough and this set makes any melee tougher. 2) hami was created with dark magic. 3) i really enjoy Dark melee and have it on a few of my incarnated 50s

There are always exceptions. On my Dark Dark Brute i run 12 toggles. And super high recharge is part if the focus of the build. Because it brings up the PBAoEs in Dark melee that replenish health and end and come up so often they are a miny AoE attack chain in themselves especially with Judgement layered in top on e in a while

I really like this clarification. Not being Snarky. Well. I mean. I am Snarky. But. Okay i been watching too much SNL anyways the logic is perfect. Not being perma is not a huge deal. The only time you need a solid perma is for Perma-Domination. My main is a super high recharge Brute. Hasten has a very small downtime. It is not a deal killer. I waste more time combining inspirations and lining up where i want all my next attacks to group for max carnage.

the cheesiest and smallest pet peeve. yet still a real immersion breaker. Standing in a low level zone map like AP. 8ft tall Tank, Armored, level 50. HEAVY. little old lady walks into you and pushes you into a fountain.....