Lute Skywatcher, may I ask why your defender had the best aggro control? The subtleties of the game elude me sometimes. Isn’t it desirable for the tanker to draw most or all of the aggro on himself so the rest of the team can pick off the foes unmolested? That’s the way I usually see it work.
That’s not the “control” I mean. 
Not for the initial pull, no, unless the foes are spread out. Normally, a blaster would do the pulling because they don’t have to rely on area effects. We didn’t have one though, just my empath who could also blast. Taunt has a widespread area of effect; it’s good for keeping aggro control but not so much for getting it initially. A bad taunt can easliy result in the team being overrun, which happened frequently on that mission. But, as I said, the team was good enough that such overruns didn’t matter.
At one point, the rest of the team was mopping up a group of Council so I didn’t have any healing to do. I went over to a trio of Council nearby who were just standing around and put some Tentacles on them. The tank said, “those weren’t aggroed.” :rolleyes:
Yeah, I find my defender (empath/radiation) quite good for pulling. Radiation seems to not generate high aggro, so we usually only end up with one or two mobs off my pulls, versus bundles of them from tanker taunt.
Oh, I love those dark defenders! My mate plays one and wow, they totally kick butt. Shame I’m fond of the empath or I’d recreate her - I don’t do random pickups, so I’ve got nothing to lose by dropping an empath.
But I do find her fun, so she stays.
The one I sometimes have trouble with is my mind control/empath controller. Those Tsoo are resistant bastages - well, the sorcerors and ancestor spirits are, anyway. The others are fine. Get a mission with bunches of sorcs and AS’s though, and it gets really troublesome.
Well it hasn’t been posted for a good while, and Max hasn’t come around to see this in a while he said, so I guess I have to post.
If you want to chat with other SDMBers in-game, global chat room “CECIL” is ours. (Shocking, I’m sure.)
If you want to be in our Virtue supergroup, or talk on our message board, http://sdmb.culex.us/ has links to our forum and picture gallery dealybob, and a semi outdated membership list. You’re free to chat on our board if you’re a Doper, even if you’re not a CECILian, I know some folk there don’t visit here, and vice versa.
I notice we keep getting a slow influx of random Dopers into our global chat room, and some of those join our SG – glad to see it happening, nice to have new victims around.
No, I certainly did mean ‘victims’, with the various TNers around. Everybody’s open season to pranks and joking year-round.
I considered starting a new thread, but since this seems to be an all-purpose CoH forum, we might as well keep it going.
I’m looking for people to play with and to possibly join my impending super group in Champion. My SO and I share a computer and CoH account. Recently, when he was visiting his parents in California, he loaded CoH onto their computer and established a separate account, and we each created brand new characters to play together in Champion. We also got a friend of ours in on it. Now that he’s home we can’t play at the same time any more, but I’d like to keep playing those characters. Of course I realize there’s nothing stopping me, and I intend to continue doing so. But I think it would be extra fun to have some semi-regular playmates that I sort of know. I realize not many of you have characters in Champion, so consider this an invitation to make some. Can’t have too many alts, right? 
The SG I belong to in Virtue, the Guardians of the Golden Age, requires a good costume and a correctly spelled and punctuated name for membership. Those criteria have proven to be extremely reliable indicators of a player’s maturity, intelligence, and demeanor. I swear some of those kids out there just hit the “Random” button when creating their costumes, and if the name they want is taken, they just insert incongruous apostrophes and numbers and what not rather than coming up with something creative. And if I see one more electrical blaster named “Lightening” something-or-other I’m going to hurt myself. So in the spirit of the GOTGA, I’m thinking of calling my SG the Fashion Police. (I’m not married to that name, so if anyone who wants to join me has another idea I’d be open to it). Of course, Dopers will automatically qualify for membership, even ones I’ve never actually played with, since I know the kind of folks you are.
My characters in Champion, all under level 10, are as follows:
Coldzone – ice/ice blaster
Shatterstrike – mace/invul tanker
Heliocentric – fire/fire blaster (recently won second place in a costume contest for one million influence )
Tigirl – claws/regen scrapper
Shock Tactic – elec/elec blaster
Geodynamic – earth/storm controller
Star Marshal – ff/energy defender
Dr. Optic – illusion/empathy controller (recently won first place in a costume contest for two million influence – go me!)
So if any of you play on Champion, or you decide to start doing so, look for me. Also, my Global name is @Nordic.
I wonder if anyone has some words of wisdom on how to play Geodynamic, 'cause I’m just having a heck of a time. My powers are Stone Prison, Stone Cages, Quicksand, Gale and O2 boost. I’ve got virtually no damage and no defense, and this is probably the squishiest character I’ve ever played. Soloing is pretty much out of the question. My main contribution to teams is to immobilize the bad guys in Stone Cages, but that makes them all shoot at me at once, so doing that is essentially committing suicide. Trapping them one by one in Stone Prisons is time-consuming and not very useful.
In a similar vein, I intend to start a Supergroup on some server other than Justice or Virtue, loosely based on the Legion of Super-Heroes.
I’m thinking maybe… Pinnacle?
I just might do that.
You’ll love this. I recently created an electric/electric blaster on Virtue. His name is Howie Sparks but he goes by “Phasenleitung”, which is approximately “live wire” in German; his story is that he was born on an Army base there.
Phase is one of three toons whose background has something to do with the Army. There’s also Major Russ Green, aka “Maj Green Beret”, formerly with Special Forces and currently a Reservist. The Major’s story is that he was one of several soldiers who were called in to help fend off the Rikti invasion and has since returned to help keep the peace. He’s a MA/SR Scrapper, BTW.
Along with Russ is his “little” brother Hugh, aka “GreenMonster”, whose huge proportions are due to a supersoldier project that worked a little too well.
Anyone else hear about the planned debt changes due in I5? Stateman says it will move debt up to 10 instead of 5 where it is now and it will be halved if in a door.
Does anyone have issues 1 - 8 of the CoH comic he or she would care to part with? I’d be happy to pay for them, as well as shipping.
Must… resist… urge… to… create… more… alts…
I think I may already have a character on Champion – **Dangerosa **and I have some characters on one other server that we let our son play (he’s 6, so needs supervision). If not, I can create one, and swap over if not in the middle of something on Virtue.
And **Gamera **is tempting me with an LSH analog. Bad Gamera!
Give me a holler on @Hertz or @Hertz2. I have a ton of characters on Pinnacle if you put in an appearance there.
Some pals and I are going to be taking on the TV Respec Trial tonight (the level 24-33 one), and would welcome some company. If anyone’s interested, has characters in the right level range on Virtue, and some free time starting at 9pm Central tonight (4/23), we’d love to have you. Give a shout in the #CECIL global chat channel, or send me a /tell – my global handle is @Brainiac4 (shocking, eh?).
We’ll have:
27 Mind/Emp controller
27 Inv/Axe tanker (with Taunt, yay)
25 Fire/Fire blaster
32 Rad/Rad defender (Exemplared to 27, most likely)
I used to play on Virtue when the game came out and CECIL started (Mother Marie) but got burnt out after a bit. Kind of back into the game and playing on Champion so I’ll have to look you up. So far I’ve just soloed a katana/SR scrapper to 13 (should be 14 next time I play) and am having a good time of it but I’ve avoided grouping so far because I hardly recall what to do most of the time or even grouping commands (just re-discovered the follow command last night when I soloed the Frostfire mission and had to chase bad guys over giant patches of ice).
Scrapper is named Override B-1 and is a knock-off of Oasis from the Sluggy Freelance online comic. Normally I’d cringe at making a knock-off but I actually made her as a “Let’s see how good I can do this” curiousity, turned out to enjoy playing and at lvl 3 someone gave me 100k influence to do a transfer for them. That kind of sold me on keeping her 
If nothing else, I haven’t gotten any hate tells like when I tried to make an original claw scrapper who was based off of being a werewolf and got immediately accused of making a Wolverine clone – disregarding the fact that the only simularity in costume, name, etc was that we both had claws. :rolleyes:
As a follow-up, I logged on just after posting the above and immediately received a tell saying: “Oasis!! I LOVE it!!”
So now I feel validated
I like making characters that are homages… or parodies.
My latest (with partial credit to Max Carnage) is J’onn-Boy, the Walton Manhunter. I’d been trying to figure out a character to go with Gamera’s Bug-a-Boo (a Blue Beetle homage) and D_Odds’ Blue Genesis (Booster Gold tribute).
Bwa ha ha!
Nordic: I’ve added a toon on Champion. He’s an Illusion/FF Controller called Capt. Phantasm.
I crashed before I heard you say this, but D Odds kindly filled me in.
Ouch. Just ouch.
Cool beans. I don’t think I’ll be playing tonight, but I’ll look for you tomorrow.
I have 1-4, or 1-5, that I was going to see if I could get any Influence for . Email is in my profile.