Mistagoat's road to 100

[mistagoat]

Salutations Champions! I kinda like this game and I just finished up my 99th toon last night and I'll be starting #100 tonight and figured I'd post to mark the occasion.

 

I started playing back on live, probably around issue 6 or 7 and played til sunset so I missed the days of the Regen gods and herding full maps into a dumpster but CoH quickly solidified itself as my favorite game of all time! When CoH shutdown I probably had 10-12 50s and countless more in the 30s. My first 50 was a Fire/Fire Tank named Atomic Fireball and he dinged 50 in the Hollows doing a Frostfire mission on Freedom server!

 

When I first found Homecoming (early 2021), my first thought was "can I get my old toons back?" Obviously the answer was "No" but I could recreate them! Luckily I had this picture of most of my 50s from live, some are missing, Atomic isn't there, but these were many of my favorites. 

 

So I set out to rebuild the team! I made a farmer and set off to powerlevel my old toons back into existence. Of course, the "farmer" I made was a fire/kin troller because they were the farm kings back in the day but I quickly learned that Brutes were the way to go in this new world so I pivoted. 

Most of the team was just powerleveled the whole way because I just wanted my old toons back and I wanted to play high level stuff and incarnate stuff and really had little interest in playing low level stuff at the time. I probably did 12-14 toons this way.

 

Once I had most of my old team back, I mainly just played them for quite a while but eventually the itch for new toons took hold. I didn't want to fully powerlevel combos that I hadn't played before but I still wasn't interested in playing low level stuff so I would powerlevel new toons to 32 because at 32 there are no enhancements that aren't able to be slotted except for purples.  I did about 10 toons this way.

 

It didn't take long before that got old because it would only take 3-4 days to hit 50 and keeping up with the merit and inf costs of setting out a new toon every few days became prohibitive very fast. During this time I also came to really enjoy leveling up and progressing my new toons naturally instead of powerleveling. So ever since then, all my toons are played up naturally from 1 to 50.

 

Back on live, trollers were my favorite AT by a large margin, these days I still love a troller but my tastes are far more diverse. I have a ton of tanks these days and blasters are rapidly ascending the list. I couldn't get a handle on blasters back in the day and only had 1 make it to 50 (Arrow/TA). I'm up to 12 now and number 100 will also be a Blaster.

 

Rad armor Tanks have become my biggest obsession! I love Rad armor so much that I intend to pair it with every secondary, I only have 6 pairings left! I think my favorites so far have been Super Strength, Battle Axe and Fire Melee.

 

My old love, Controllers, also have some absurdly awesome pairings, Fire/Dark is probably my favorite. It's a really fun tank mage that has taken on mobs that would have decimated a well build scrapper! Just remember to keep some break frees in your tray 🙂 Ice/Rad is also an underrated combo, sure you can't kill arrest anything but nothing can move/hit/attack you and that can be lots of fun!

 

I don't have that many Stalkers but that's another AT that I didn't really mess with back on live but have found to be pretty awesome in my time here on HC. Energy Melee on Stalkers is godly! Stalkers are probably my favorite AT to join a PUG TF with because I'm sturdy as hell and for the most part my only real responsibility is to dish out massive damage to the hardest targets. It's crazy fun without all that pesky thinking getting in the way 😄.

 

To be honest I'm not sure what the purpose of this post is but starting #100 feels like a milestone of some sort. So anyway, here is my list. (toons don't make my list until they hit 50, have a proper build and have unlocked incarnates) 

 

 

#100 will be a Rambo style AR/TA Blaster.

 

If there is any interest I can post all 100 builds in a new thread but they are a real hodgepodge, some are leveling builds, some are fully purpled out and some come from a time long past when I avoided super expensive IOs because I didn't have the resources to support that kind of build. Regardless, they may be useful to some folks.

 

Sorry Khelds, I'll get to you in the next 100 🙂

Hope you enjoy your own road to 100 and beyond!

 

 

Edited February 5 by mistagoat

[Mopery]

100 toons but a Kheldian ain't one.

[Techwright]

On 2/5/2025 at 11:04 AM, mistagoat said:

 

 

How was this composite achieved?  I've a few "sets" in my characters to which I'd like to give a group shot.

[mistagoat]

10 hours ago, Techwright said:

 

How was this composite achieved?  I've a few "sets" in my characters to which I'd like to give a group shot.

I got screenshots of all the toons in the pose I wanted and clipped them out of the backgrounds in Photoshop and then just arranged them all against a cool background I found.

 

There must be easier ways to do this today because I spent many hours with the pen tool to clip everyone out of their original screenshots.