Thursday Indigo x2

Okay, I've been saddled with not one but two missions to go take out Indigo. Anybody feel like taking out Paragon City's most reclusive contact? The one who hangs out way in the back of the only city zone to not have a tram and sends you on frequent delivery missions to PI and AP? Twice?

I'll probably be aiming to do these Thursday night around 8pm EDT (approx), as I have a rather large project to work on tomorrow. Find me if you're interested in helping out and (time permitting) teaming a bit afterwards. Expect to fight her as a level 46 EB or AV, depending on team size. The missions are from the mad scientist guy and the spider girl in case you want to double up on the Indigoness (the 45-50 contacts, not the 40-45 ones).

PS -- when you get temp powers from the 45-50 mad scientist guy, use them up each mission until he says that he's giving you the last one. They don't get refilled unless they're gone.

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Are you Stone Cold?

Because I'm not!
I managed to miss this badge on my new alt - if anyone happens to come across it (it's the " Deal with Niles Worthington mission" from Angelo Vendetti in PO, usually his first mission I think) on one of their newb alts, I'd really appreciate it if you would let me tag along.

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Venemous badge

It looks like that I'm on my last two story arcs for the 40-45 range, so I'm going to be trying to unlock the contact Number 204 later this week. He requires defeating 200 Toxic Tarantulas, of which there are plenty in Grandville (abit level 43-44 at the lowest, but they're mostly solo and occasionally duo). I'm going to aim for clearing out the rest of my badge (160 or so) on Wednesday night -- feel free to drop me a line if you want to join me for some or all of it.

Edit: Okay, let's say Wednesday at 9pm EDT. Feel free to join in late if you want.

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Infamy Budgetting

In case anybody is trying to figure out how much they'll need to buy their level 45 SOs, I just spend about 3.5 million on mine. This is upgrading almost every slot (some already had 45s in them), mostly with accs and dmgs. (Final count was 20 accs, 21 dmgs, and around 20ish misc stuff.)

Previous calculations put an upper bound of 4.3 million infamy on the level 45s (assuming you slotted everything with damage or heal at 54k a pop). So, that was approximately a 25% overestimate of the actual cost. The upper bound for level 50s is about 5.5 million. If we assume the same 25% overestimation, we find that a full set of level 50s should cost about 4.5 million.

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Skipping "Verifying files..."

You can start CoH/V directly (bypassing the updater) by creating a shortcut to the actual program file (CityOfHeroes.exe). Edit the shortcut, and add " -project coh" (no quotes) after everything else that's currently in the Target line. In particular, if the path in the target line is already in quotes, do not remove them; the " -project coh" should be added after the existing quotes.

You can do the same for the test server, except with " -project cohtest". If you miss a patch, the game will tell you and not let you log on. Just run the updater as usual and you'll be good to go.

On a side note, check out this thread if you're interested in using your gladiators for your badge title.

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Salvage

Going by what's currently in the base salvage storage, we currently need 3-4 more arcane essences and arcane glyphs in order to craft the 3rd empowerment station. In particular, if you happen to find any rings, please drop them off in the base.

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New Recruits

I just removed the people who were over 100 days inactive, openning up 14 more spots in the group.

For all the officers in the group, please remember to send a "farewell" email to anybody you kick telling them why they were removed (inactivity, usually) and giving them the officers' contact info (@Balshor, @Maverick X, @Lobster, @Trinity Blade, @Voltaic Shock) in case they want to rejoin (assuming inactivity kicking and not disciplinary kicking).

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Mage Hunter Badge Mission

I have recently acquired the "Defeat Selestar and guards" mission from Mage-Hunter Zuhkara. I'll be doing this sometime tonight, so drop me a line if you want in.

On a side note, Mav and I are planning to run a low level (as in from level 2) recruiting team Monday night, if anybody wants to join us.

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Recruiting

Well, this would seem to be the opportune time to try to find some new members. It seems that it might be more fruitful to recruit in the lower levels...I'll get a new alt started and see if I can find anybody interesting to team with this weekend. Anybody else have brand-newbies that would like to come?

If you have any other ideas for getting new members, feel free to speak up. I know Mav's been working on some of our higher level friends, but I'm going to make more of an effort to take some random people on teams and see if there are any worth recruiting.

On a side note, sorry about this evening...CoH hard-crashed on me while exitting the mission, and it's getting kind of late anyway.

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Sad face

Well, it's official. My laptop is dead. All this means is that WX and I wont be able to play at the same time again. Plus, my desktop is on it's last leg, and with the new I7 lag, there's no way it'll dual box. I just have to hope it'll hold out long enough for me to get a new one.

It's a sad, sad day. =[
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Best mission complete text 3V4H!

Mission Success: Achieved. Weapons: Perfect. Next step: Use of Weapons. Mwah: Hah: Hah!

-- Rikti Ambassador Kuhr'Rekt, upon completion of his first mission

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Lessons from I7

(1) My computer likes to crash at inopprotune moments, especially while SJing around Grandville and landing in the middle of a bunch of Bane Spiders.

(2) The second Scirroco arc ends on a really cool (so far) unique outdoor map. This map includes two Ice Mistrals to defeat.

(3) The new Arachnoid caves are visually very nice.

(4) There were waypoints to the hostages in a rescue-hostages-type mission. Unfortunately, the hostages weren't actually at those locations. Also unfortunately, they were tiny little spiderlings that were very difficult to spot. Additionally unfortunately, the map was an outdoor version of Grandville, complete with massive visual lag, three levels of platforms to explore, and tunnels running underneath the whole thing. None of the hostages were on the ground level.

(5) In an effort to up the annoying-ness of that contact, the following mission was a defeat-all-longbow. In an Arachnos base. Where every spawn but the last one was a pair of Spec-Ops. And where the boss was bugged so he "escaped" and you failed the mission as soon as you attacked him. (No, there were no knockback powers involved. I don't have any.)

(6) Sigh...

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Auto Assault/ buy or not to buy

Hey all, I want some feed back from all of you who have and play AA. what are the pros, cons, is it worth the buy or not. thanks

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Flies...

Hey, all -- I was hoping to get on for most of this evening, but our computer room seems to be infested with flies. So...bug bombs away, and I'll see you all either late tonight or tomorrow.

Good evildoing, all, and don't outlevel me too quickly. :)

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Thugs & blogger

Thugs/ is a ton of fun. And, for the time being, their tier 2 pet buffs of maneuvers/tactics/assault work on other thug pets at least, if not other pets in general. So now's a great time to roll up a thug/ mm! I think we've got 3 already - mine is thug/ta, Wave has a thug/dark, and False has a thug/something.

As you can tell I'm more excited by the new powersets than the 40+ content right now. The av/gm mega buff has really turned me off to all those AVs/ebs for the time being, as I would rather fight AVs (at the old level) in groups than EBs, and fighting AVs now is not very bright without the right team. Judging by the furor on the boards though, it will hopefully be undone (at least the huge hp regen rates) before too long. I'll probably be holding off until that point to do very much serious 40+ play.

Advice: IF you do plan to do the 40+ content, especially the patron arcs which have many AV/heros, turn your difficulty down to 3 or 4 if solo, or less if teamed. Pretty much the only way to beat av/hero/gms right now is with -regen. /dark has this in its heal, rad has it in LR. Bots has it to a limited degree in the assault bot blast, and cold has it in benumb - but neither of those is guaranteed perma, so be very careful!

Blogger has been very unresponsive lately, it looks like the whole database was down yesterday, hopefully they'll get it fixed before too long.

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Base Update

I've installed 1 inspiration storage, 1 enhancement storage, 3 salvage storage, and 1 arcane empowerment station into the base. Everything is along the north side of the base, starting just beyond the library and going back towards the basement. This is semi-temporary -- I'll do a more thorough revamp of the base when I have more time, probably this weekend.

Keep in mind that all storage is accessible to all full members (slacker and above). Also, there are likely still some bugs remaining in the system, so use at your own risk.

Edit: Added the Grandville beacon, too. It's attached to the teleporter next to the Nerva/StM one.

Edit 2: There are known issues with base storage. Specifically, "If a player is kicked out of his/her base when putting items in storage - the items may be lost. It is also possible that items may be lost from storage if a storage container is moved more than a few feet in the base editor." I again emphasize, use at your own risk.

Edit 3: I've added the 2nd tier arcane empowerment station. I don't quite have enough salvage to make the 3rd tier one. (Specifically, I'm short 3 Essences and 6 Glyphs.) Since OC is the salvage collector, I'm dumping the components I do have in the second arcane salvage bin in the basement so OC can craft one and put it in the base.

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I7...

...is live! My CoH is updating now -- looks like a 37.1MB patch in addition to the predownload.

So, are we going to rerun the badge contest?

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Atomic Frost in love?

Here is a picture of Atomic Frost making love to Fortunata!

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Wavelength X hits 40!

I just wanted to be the first to say Grats to my wife for being the newest lvl 40 in Team Evil! WOOT!

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The Best Kicked Ass Respec EVER!

On Sunday, Atomic Frost, Fallen Valkyrie, Trim and I (I think I'm missing someone) did the lvl 20-30 respec. It was a 3 Corruptor and 1 Master Mind team. we only died 3 three times but we kicked that trees ass so hard it aint comin back. so did it in about an hour +. pretty good!

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Weekend Events, brought to you by....Lobster!?!

In an odd and confusing (and somewhat frustrating) turn of events I'll be alone for the weekend. So we all know what that means - mad SF catch up for me!

My tentative plan is to hit Silver Mantis around 8pm pacific friday night, possibly a little earlier, depending on when folks get on.

Saturday mid-morning (11-noonish pacific start) I'd like to take a run at Operative Renault - this is the only one I haven't successfully completed CoV side (3 masterminds were not enough for that silly eye!).

Saturday afternoon/night up I'm for a respec or two on the 21-31 (or whatever the lower range is now) trial.

If I'm really bored I might even take a run at Bastion or Numina hero side on Sunday! That or an rsk'd Virgil Tarikoss SF so I can grab the badge for KV or BB, whoever needs it.

SO - who's available when and for what?

[EDIT:
We ran the Sharkhead last night and tore through it really well, around 3-3.5 hours I think. It seemed like most of the deaths were during the first kill task. Always amusing. And the Eye killed me in the first 10 seconds, so I was real useful there.

The badge failed to reward, but I petitioned & was notified by email this morning that the badge was awarded, and lo and behold it actually was. Fastest gm turnaround time I've ever seen. Capio also reports that he was awarded the badge this morning.

Tonight (Saturday 06/03) I will be running the first villain respec trial. I'm thinking after dinner, so maybe around 7 pm pacific? Depends on when folks get in - see you then!

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