Nothing new there. Guess the odds finally caught up with me.
Just needed to vent a bit. People who don’t know anything about teamwork shouldn’t be forming teams. The second one must have been a teenager, judging from the use of “excreeeam” or some such in place of “extreme”. That was the worst! I was playing my dark empath (Night’s Ward); first the group gets too split up then after regrouping they aggro too many trolls. When your only healer says “Run!”, you need to turn around and haul ass!
The first one was okay save for the scrapper who sent the invite. It was his mission and wanted to do everything himself even though we had a perfectly capable tank. Might as well solo if you’re going to do that.
Scrapper probably just wanted a harder mission. I’ve done that a few times, but only with SG mates. Grab 2-3 teammates, enter mission, disband. In the late 20s/early 30s, scrappers have an “I win” button, so it’s not too dangerous.
Oh, and that kid with the second team? He kept wanting to do all the pulls with is fire rain - until I pointed out that all he was doing was getting himself killed. I had resurrected him three times at that point.
Now that the global chat is here and my Pinnacle friends can find me anywhere, I’m thinking of making a character on Virtue.
I’ve already played just about every kind of character I wanted to try, though I haven’t got them all, you know, into the 30s and 40s. What I’d like to try now is to start up characters in some kind of inter-working group, five or so players coordinating their archetypes to work extremely well together.
Anybody out on Virtue have any slots left to start someone new? Anybody not on Virtue want to throw in with me?
And lastly, just for the sake of discussion, what would be a fun group of five to get together, designed to operate smoothly as a team?
I figured it’d go like this:
Bla: Ice/Ice
Con: Earth/Empathy
Def: FF/Psychic
Scr: Dark Melee/Invul
Tan: Fire/Axe
This team would have plenty of power to hold and lock down bad guys. It’d have every damage type except toxic. The defender and controller can protect each other pretty darn well. The Force Fields fill in the defensive holes of the Fire tank and the Regen scrapper. The only disadvantage I can see is that the team only gets one sniper, and it’s the defender.
If you wanted a chaotic set where every foe was getting knocked down and all around, it’d probably look like:
Bla: Energy/Ice
Con: Illusion/Storm
Def: FF/Energy
Scr: Martial Arts/Regen
Tan: Ice/Axe
Dunno how well that would work. It seems light on healing.
Anyway, I’m just tossing stuff out. I’m not sure what I want to make on Virtue yet, but I’m sort of kicking the idea around.
Pleonast – yes, I’m on the Global Chat as Nordic, usually in the CECIL channel. But you can talk to me regardless of channel, right? I’m still not clear on how that whole thing works…
D_Odds, I already have all of your alts in my Friends list, so I’ll check in with you whenever I see you. I’ll add everyone else’s characters too.
Lute Skywatcher, was that you I talked to the other day in the Hollows?
Maus, what time are you planning on doing your mission tonight?
D_Odds, we’d love to set up a playdate with you and the Ms_Odds.
Maus, Eliza can be around, but I have class until 8 something central and I know you pack it in early. Give me or Brainac4 a yell if you need help (@Dangerosa).
What level is ME–can VV help? I have Increase Density which I believe protects against all mez powers except Sleep.
Working through the Striga missions with Kit, I didn’t realize Vampyrs had mez capability until I teamed with some others and saw them get mezzed. It’s funny how different powersets can change your perception of the game. It really is a different game for different archetypes/powersets.
Nordic, if you add someone to your Global Friends list, you can see them and send tells no matter what alt they are on. That save you space on your regular Friends list.
I’ve always thought it would be fun to start fresh with a character and develop it in cooperation with someone else. I’ve been giving my brother the hard sell on this game so we could do that, but so far he doesn’t seem interested.
As it happens, I have an Ice/Ice Blaster named Coldzone and a FF/Psychic Defender called Brainpower, both in Virtue and both very low-level (5 and 3 respectively, I believe).
I also have a Dark Melee/Invul Tanker called The Black Bronco in another server, but don’t recall which offhand. He’s also very low, like level 3.
There’s no reason I couldn’t create a totally new character in any given server.
Time constraints and committing to regular get-togethers might be a tad problematic, though. I’m being pretty loyal to Jingo Belle at the moment, so I’d be loath to take too much time away from her.
I’m hoping to get on no later than 8 EST (Depends on how quickly Fang gets to sleep.) No marathon sessions fo me tonight. Fang and I dorve Mrs. Magill to the airport at 4 this morning.
ME’s now 31. Bring VV along. Mmmm… swift Kinetics goodness.
Ain’t that the truth. Try switching between a Tank and a Blaster. Now, there’s two totally different play styles.
I play Diablo II with four different types of Barbarian and one each of the others, keeping them all at about the same level. Don’t think I’ll try that with CoH. I’ll probably stick to GreenMonster and Night’s Ward and play the others on occasion.
I’ve already deleted two characters (Ivory Knight and Z-3PO) because wasn’t really into them. Z-3PO (Electricity Defender - war cry “Protocol this!”) was more of a silly distraction. Night’s Ward was IK’s replacement; Z-3PO was deleted to make room for someone to partner with my SO’s first character but it seems I was right about her computer being not quite up to spec.
My main Thermocline is a Fire/Ice blaster, level 41. Dangerosa got tired of hearing me whine about dying all the time, so she created Eliza Bennett, an Empathy/Energy defender, to follow Thermo around and keep him alive. Eliza just made 37.
Dangerosa created Ms. Eyre, a Katana/Invulnerability scrapper to play when she wants to solo, who matches up pretty well with my solo-capable defender, Super-Collider (Rad/Rad). Ms. E is 32 (I think) and SC is 31.
Our latest set is her Fire/Devices blaster Dangerosa and my Fire/Rad controller Doctor Infernal. They’re about to hit 14 and get travel powers.
Playing pairs is fun. You get to count on someone else supplying something so you don’t have to do it. In the latest pair, Doc has almost no damage capability (I picked up Flurry so that I can do some damage, because my alternative was to Brawl things to death), because Dangerosa is a blaster and can supply more than enough damage for the pair.
I have two level 30+ characters also, so I’m not asking for regular get-togethers. With global chat, if I log into Pinnacle and see you happen to be on Virtue, we could always get together spontaneously if there’s nothing else on.
I have one real-life friend playing this game but I work days and he works graveyards so we don’t exactly get to play the coordination game.
Well, I do have characters in every server, most of them low-level. I mentioned the possibility of making a new one in case you had a specific AT in mind for a specific server. I’m in global chat as Nordic, so if you see me feel free to holler and if I’m not in the middle of something I could possibly switch.