They're Back!

The Rikti have focused another effort on invading our world! Intelligence reports their efforts will be exhausted by October 2nd. So if you are looking for the accolade or the badges, get out there Soldier!

Well my Freakshow recruitment poster did not win, I'm sorry to say. This was it below:


The level 4 Fights on Protector were well attended but it was the most challenging tournament I have ever run due to the limited attention span and the pouty people who left mid tournament cause they were losing. I doubt I will make a tournament geared towards PvErs ever again! Heather is hosting Friday Night Fights still so show up for a bit of PvP. Lots of people with non-FOTM toons and skills there, so don't feel like you have to be an expert. She normally starts around 5pm pacific.

Hazbyn needs Synapse and Citadel still. Anyone up for it? Maybe tonight around 8pm pacific?

Hold Your Horses!

Well, I know you were all looking forward to the new issue 13. Positron recently announced a sweeping change to the schedule, most importantly, delaying the Mission Architect until early 2009. Players clamored for customized characters and the dev team decided to hold off on the Architect until this feature could be included.

However, he also mentioned some new additions to 13:

Issue 13: Power and Responsibility will contain the bulk of features announced previously, including:

• Shield and Pain Domination powersets
• Merit Reward system
• Day Jobs (that include a suite of new costume pieces)
• Additional Cimerora and Midnight Squad mission arcs

In addition, there are some other new exciting features to reveal that will be included in Issue 13: Power and Responsibility. These include:

• Leveling Pact
• Multi-Builds (woo hoo! But you better start saving up since you'll have to enhance both)
• PvE & PvP Powers rebalancing
• Villain Patron Power Respec
• Supergroup Base Repricing

For the complete announcement, go here!

There is also an interview with Positron over this announcement which goes into a little more detail here!

Reminders!

Stabuli Katan battles the mighty Scirocco!
The "Get Your Freak On!" Level 4 Fights by the PvPEC is happening THIS Saturday at 4pm pacific! It's over on the Protector server so be sure to get your toon built and ready! You'll win a special code that'll allow you to dress up any of your toons as a Freakshow tank!

Also this Saturday is the 200 mill 2v2 on Triumph. One villain, one hero (one must be ranged, one must be melee), this tourney starts at 7pm pacific! Tonight is the cutoff for sign-ups however, so get your team entered!

The Wailer Lord against the small but powerful, Furiya
There is an interview with Positron at IGN.com if you are interested. And if you haven't heard yet, there is a new add-on pack "Cyborg" for all you robot fans available now in the COH store!

DAMN YOU COX CABLE!

Why can't you gimme a single, stable connection!?!

Sorry about the vanishing act last night Baba. I think I may have to stay out of longer things until they quit messing around with storm clean up.

:(

Doc T

DB FTW

Well, I entered the w00t contest. Can you pick out which artwork is mine?

Ebon and I are signed up for the 200 million inf tourney. I sense a buttload of death coming Azrharn's way. Too bad I can't get Furiya to 50. Or can I?!? Heather is hosting Fight Nights every Saturday so if you wanna get some practice in, it's a newb friendly place to get your smackdown on!

What characters have you been working on? We've become a bit quiet lately and I'm not liking it! :) Hazbyn is at 47 now, and so is Britney Blades.

Any TFs we want to do? Maybe we can do Faathim for those who have not done it? We also need to do a LRSF with our new villain 50s!

Cold/Ice PVP build. HELP!

In looking at this guy on mid's I have joined the hair club for men as I have pulled all mine out. There just seems to be too many powers I want (probably the way it goes for anyone). I have posted this question on the boards and have gotten some feed back but would like some confirmation.

One of the suggestions is to take CJ, SJ, and Acro. To take this I would have to get rid of the leadership pool. How sad. Other pools are concealment, fitness, and super speed topped off with the epic, power build up.

As far as prim/sec goes all cold dom powers are good enough to keep giving me a balance of buff/debuff. The question is secondary powers. Freeze ray seems like such an obvious choice but I am having trouble fitting it in. What I have in it right now is ice bolt, ice blast, and bitter ice blast. I suppose I could get rid of Ice blast.

Any how all suggestions are welcome :)

Repel Ball! Sunday 9/14 6pm pac

Heather and I are scheduling a repel ball match for our SGs this Sunday! What is repel ball, you ask? It's set up in base raid fashion. Everyone rolls a level 2 kinetic defender with the repel power. A MM zones in and drops a low level pet on passive. The two teams try to repel the pet into their goals.



So who's up for it? This will be on the Test Server in a PvPEC base that has the court.

Caption Contest!

Get cracking!

Meg

Freaky Fun Times

Hopkins, the AV from Manticore
Why ya'll have been a bit quiet lately! Gimme something to read at work, darn you! :)

Anyway, so what is happening in the COH universe that might appeal to you? There are a lot of Freak VIP contests going on. The PvPEC is doing a Level 4 Fight Night on Protector and handing out a few as prizes. It'll take you all of 10 minutes to roll a level 4 something so try to come out! It's easy-going PvP where you don't have to worry about build or skill, just get your kill-steal on! I'll be there on Honeymoon (a fire/fire blaster)! Oh and even if you could give a flip about an ingame Freakshow costume, please know one of these codes just sold for $300 on Ebay, so it might be worth your while!

If the Protector server offends you, Otelo (a Triumph PvPEC rep) is hosting a 2v2 tournament with a 200 million inf prize! It should be a challenge because the teams must be one hero and one villain and there needs to be a melee on the team. I don't think I have anything at 50 that's melee. :(

Lastly, w00t studios is giving away some VIP codes for creative screenshot/artwork submissions. Find out the details here!

Oh and if you saw one and didn't know where it came from, the jetpack below is the one from the Game Cards that are available at Target and Best Buy. It's an actual subscription, not a time card though. I heard it might be available as an add-on, but haven't seen anything at official store.