Meet and Greet

I must confess I had more fun at the M&G than I had anticipated. This is probably in part due to the wonderful company I kept in the amazing, gorgeous, lovely, insane Chica Vaga!

We got there around 6:30pm and the registration line was out the door. Fortunately, the bar was close and adult beverages made our wait less taxing. We got to meet Lighthouse and ExLibris at this time. The following is a photo of them that someone on the boards took since mine did not turn out. (ExLibris and LH in the middle)

The night mainly consisted of mingling with fellow players, an "autograph" event with the developers, a preview of the new City Vault (searchable online database of players' information such as costume, slotting, powers, bio) and new costume sets. They also had a Q&A and a big raffle. Chica and I did not win anything, but they had gift bags for everyone so we were happy not to stumble back to the hotel room empty handed.
Myself and Manticore

Ghost Falcon finally moves from his spot in PI

Az puckers up with Sexy Jay

Az gets cozy with Positron

I think GW is gonna kill Chica in the next STF

Back Alley Brawler and Castle
We also went to the after-party for a bit with some of the devs and a ton of the players. I mostly talked about the state of PvP with people and drank Ex's Jagermeister. All in all, it was fun to meet up with people I'd known from in-game and on the boards, especially some of the Triumph Crew. They applauded very loudly when I mentioned I was from Triumph when I asked my question over the microphone of Positron. It was a riot. Fun times. Thanks so much to Chica for coming out and making it awesome!

Raiders Riotous Reunion Ruined...

...Really

From left: Mars Bringer of War, Scourge of the Isles, Brick Fist, Teknofreak, Death-Master

Last weekend we had an impromptu Air Pirate Strike Force, and as always, it is a lot of fun. Starting one is always interesting when you have people from outside the VG and then the fun just keeps coming. Unique map instances (well for villains anyways), a cool AV, and easy mishes. Looking to run it with my wife's new villain, Planty Girl, on Dec 9 say 3:00 EST/12:00 PST, unless anyone else needs a better time.

Get Well Soon Garl

Poor Garl went under the knife due to appendicitus! He got so excited about issue 11 that it burst!

Get well soon sweetie!
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Faathim TF this Sunday at 12:30pm pacific. Raid on Sat., Dec. 8th @4pm. Start recruiting!

Issue 11 Hits Wednesday

Yep, you heard me! Roll your Dual Blades or Willpower scrappers/tanks and get 'em in the SG! For more info on the announcement, click here!

I know most of you were awesome enough to come work the Haunted House, but if you missed it, I posted a pictorial of it here.

I think we will be getting rid of the MUNST room. While many people drop off their SOs, according to the log, no one is taking any. So either tell me not to delete it, or help me empty out the bins by selling off the enhancements in them so I can delete the storage items.

DB News

Ebon and I would like to do Faathim the Kind TF on 12/2 at 12:30 pm pacific/3:30pm eastern. If we kill the AV at the end 2 more times in SG mode, we will earn the Rikti Plasma Cannon for the base!

Base Raid with our villain friends! December 8th at 4:00pm pacific/7pm eastern!

Prestige bonus! We will be padding the SG roster to get as big a bonus as we can get. If you have any unused slots, generate a hero and get 'em in the SG. You can delete them later! Or if you are really motivated, get yourself a temp account by using the "Refer-a-Friend" feature! This account will be active for only 10 days and you will have to use an email that is not the one on your main account.

Happy Holidays from the Kanooshs

We took this picture in a very bad part of town. There were a lot of politicians nearby (turkey theme). Have a Happy Thanksgiving and hope you all have a great, safe weekend!

Metoid (Keith), Makin' Debt (Deb), Dark Calling (Krista), Baba Kanoosh, (Mike)

Happy Birthday Chaud

She doesn't love us anymore so probably won't see this, but I thought I'd wish Chaud Woman a very happy birthday!

Saturday is the final day for villains in the Haunted House so if you can manage to come work it with me at 5:45 pm pacific, it'd be greatly appreciated.

Next raid! Villains again! Saturday, December 8th at 4pm. How's that sound?

Haunted House Final Days

Well all, we will need some volunteers to staff the Haunted House on test for tonight and for next Saturday! Only villains can staff the Haunted House, but if you have a hero you want to use, bring them tonight and try to make your way out alive! The Haunted House is a ton of fun no matter which side you are on!

Incidently, we are still trying to gain the SuperGroup badge for the third tier generator! It is 750 PvP kills in SG mode so get into the zones and kill some people. We might set up a farm for this in Warburg if you all want, where we can stand around and kill each other for credit! If we have 2 teams of 8, for team wipe, that's 64 credits (one credit for everyone on the team). We can bring a tray full of awakes to make the process go quicker. Just a thought....

Anyone have anything they want to do? MS raid? TF?

Presents for Everyone!

Dec 10th Prestige Gift Awarded

Issue 11 is nearly upon us. As many of you know, the roster for SGs will be bumped up to 150 people. On December 10th, for every member in your SG you will be awarded 20k prestige. With 150 people, that amounts to 3 million prestige!

Suffice it to say with the cost of a fusion generator looming near at 7.5 million, that would come in mighty handy. Clever people have started a network for base padding. People from the community on other servers will drop toons into your SG while you drop yours in there. So I can drop 12 toons on pinnacle for someone and they will return the favor. After the prestige gift, all these toons can be kicked and we will be wealthy! So if you have slots left on Triumph and want to drop them into the SG please do so. I will also be getting a temporary trial account to further pad. Should you choose to help out this way, make sure all the toons have similar names (EG: Azrhiaz1, Azrhiaz2, Azrhiaz3) so we know who to kick after. :)

Touchdown! Fumble!

Great raid to everyone! We had 11 show up to kick some villain bootie and kick it we did!

It might have been me, but they really stepped up their game this time around and while they didn't function well as a raid team, they certainly made their prescense felt in the base! We did a pretty sound job of defending so kudos to all.

Round 2 led us into the Bandit's Brigade base and we quickly dispatched their generator. However, most of us, including myself, forgot to keep components to make pylons stocked on their person so we ran out. What a tragedy! /em kick self. The day could have been ours had we just planned ahead. But we were golden anyway and I'm proud of everyone who participated.

A few of us might want to build our toons a bit more specifically for raids, and Metoid might want to just delete his blaster and roll another scrapper maybe. LOL We also need some emps, I suspect, since we didn't have any. And a rad to debuff those dominators would have been nice. :)

They suggested Saturday, December 1st for the next round. How's that sound? And if it works for you, what time?

This Weekend

Charron snooping around the ROA base
looking at the Book of Rularuu (debt protection status)

Well first and foremost, BASE RAID! Against our villain friends! Sunday at 2:30pm pacific/5:30pm eastern.

Saturday, if there's a bunch of us on in the early afternoon, let's head to the RWZ for a Mothership Raid!

Sunday Night, there'll be some "Kickball" in the arena around 6pm pacific. Just a way of picking teams essentially. Incidently, if you are looking to up your skills, the PvPEC has created a PvP League on Test. It will run for 6 weeks in January and is geared towards all skill levels. More information here!

Congrats to Powersurge' and Silicdan for reaching 50!

Independence and the end of the Reserve

NCSoft acquires full COH rights from Cryptic

NCsoft® Corp, the world’s leading developer and publisher of online computer games, today announced the formation of a new development studio in Mountain View, California. The announcement comes as the company begins a renewed push to further develop the City of Heroes® property, which is now 100 percent owned by NCsoft. Previous to today, ownership of the intellectual property was split between NCsoft and Cryptic Studios, the original developer of the project.

This means lots of good stuff for us players and a team that is devoted exclusively to us. Statesman (Jack Emmerit) will no longer be part of that team. I'm hoping they kill his character off! :)

With the advent of issue 11 and the supergroup settings going up to 150 members, I feel it is no longer useful to have the Debt Brigade Reserve, unless it's for absent players to park their toons. Since we will be getting a 20k prestige bonus for every member shortly after 11 hits, it will pay for us to have all our alts in the main SG. This does not mean you can let them languish however, so please keep them logged in at least once every 30 days. Colder, Garl, this means you!

What are we doing this weekend? A Mothership Raid perhaps?

Base Raid!! Sun. November 11 @2:30pm Pacific

You heard me! Polish up the armor and assemble! It's villain beat-down time once again! Max team size is 16, so get there early!

I'm also working on getting a raid going with our old pals, Riders of Apocalypse!

Bat'Drool pwnzd again

Wanted to thank everyone for the great showing we had for Death Brigade (Villain version of Debt Brigade for those new folks) at the Tarikoss Strike Force. A Hero and an AV, man what more could a kid ask for? What a great SF. It was fairly easy going until the dreaded CoT map, but we managed to coordinate and overcome the issues. Smooth sailing into the final mish, where we squeezed Infernal for a few Behemoth spawns while badge slumming. Note in the picture above, Scourge of the Isles (aka Metoid) pays the price for excessive emote slapping of a Hero. Spellfrost (aka Marsara), then proceeds to protest the Hero's actions. Great fun and the East Coasters even stayed awake through the whole event. I will be posting an invite for the next SF which involves lots of Skyraiders, four unique maps not seen anywhere else in either CoH or CoV, and the peskiest AV I have seen yet. Until then, play in SG mode Villains!

From left to right Spellfrost (aka Marsara), Demon Vine (aka Ebon Mauler), Azrharn (aka Azrhiaz), Solidfade (aka Colder), Mars Bringer of War (aka Baba Kanoosh), Scourge of the Isles (aka Metoid), and Mackie Messser (aka Lady Dark Star)
Death Brigade still accepting recruits! Sign up today at the nearest Rogue Isles location nearest you!

Help a Villain out

OK folks we have a lot of scheduling to do! Az wants to knock out a Manticore TF and I would love to join in on that if it isnt too late, let me know if that is still available. Also I spoke with Colder earlier and we would like to line up the first SF on CoV side, lvl 15-20 for xp (min is lvl 15). It is very fun, heck most SFs are, and it can be done in about 2-3 hours. If you do the log trick it goes even quicker. Let me know what time is good for you all. Weekends are best for me but a late nighter on Friday isn't out of hand at all. Colder I don't want to do this unless you can make it so let me know bud.

Happy Birthday Megeara!

Happy birthday to our favorite missing ice/mace tank! Come back soon!

Love is in the Air...and so was the Stench of Death

Well I cannot say enough about how well the Haunted House event on Test is going. Halloween may be ok with temp costumes on live servers but the real fun was had tonight on Test. Az and Co. did a phenomenal job designing a HUGE VG base as a dark spooky maze. The heroes hitting it definitely were at a loss finding their way around. A few toons made it through the maze with great time and fairly unscathed. Then it turned into a typical base raid after folks made their way around...the fight was on. Az, as a guide on her toon Dunizel, even found herself victimized by the loathesome villains of the Isles. A rough crowd, but then again, the heroes had some very solid PvP toons. Typical base raid until...


...A certain AV I am known to have a toon-crush on showed up and decided to sprinkle CoT throughout the base...


...If that wasn't enough, the heroes came around the corner to discover another obstacle in their path...

...Yes kids GW spawned ol dirty drawers himself, Jack of Irons. During the raid the heroes had to deal with him as well and after the raid the villains got to take turns smacking him around. Note how brave I appear on film.


In the end GW handed out some spiffy titles for all the participants and everyone was rather pleased with the fun had throughout the event. If you haven't had a chance to go through it, I highly recommend you give it a shot tomorrow if you can. And pass on to our leader, Az, how awesome she did putting the event on.

PS. Az as promised from the raid...

Level 4 Fights and Stuff

This Saturday at 4pm pacific on the Infinity server, I will be hosting some level 4 PvP fights. We will be having a free-for-all and then also a Gang War (dress up like your favorite faction (eg: Carnies, Skulls, Trolls, Knives, etc) and win the neighborhood). Level 4 fights are great for leveling the playing field and evening out skill differences! I'll be on Azrionous of the Banished Pantheon! Prizes will go to the top 3 in kill counts in the Free for All. You could win a statue of Statesman or Lord Recluse, a timecard, or a CoX t-shirt! See this thread for more information and sign up!

Don't forget this is the final weekend of the Haunted House and I know some of you are helping "haunt" it with me. Please be on test at 5:45 pm pacific on the day you are helping.

I'll be planning a Mothership Raid soon, as well as a Manticore TF.

Chica and I will be attending the CoH gathering in San Jose, CA on Nov 30th if any SGers would like to come out and party DB style!

New Hair

New Hair!

At long last! I still would prefer some longer styles, but I guess I'll keep my mouth shut and be happy Jay made some new do's.

Red Eyed Demon Army

Since our last raid against the Dire Disciples of Chaos, I began talking to my villain super-group and have arranged possible raids in the future. Akhenaten is their leader and I will begin talking with him more to see if I can't arrange some possible dates, etc...

As of right now they are ranked 87th overall but they have never participated in a raid yet, only PvP in places like Warburg and Bloody Bay. Akhenatnen has told me that he would like them to just raid us first (before we start raiding them) so that they can get the feel of it, and so that they get some time to build up their base's defenses. Their base is all show right now and no actual guns to back it up.

So expect the Red Eyed Demon Army to challenge us to a raid sometime in the future.

(FYI, if and when they start the raids I will most likely be playing Spellfrost on the villain-side.)

I'm gonna hit you with my . . .

Hold on, let me decide first which I want to use.

A pictorial list of the new custom weapons in issue 11

DB FTW!

Well in a stunning and graceful way, DB stomps Dire Disciples of Chaos by destroying their lair and taking them down in our own house. DB reigned victorious by winning their attacking raid by destroying the generator and then laying pylons down in the vulnerable DDOC base! With Amazingman, Mercy Mercy and Ebon Mauler taking the brunt of the attack, we were able to sweep in and do a bit of cleaning by mopping the floor with the villains. Great job to all!


Round 2 found them invading our base. Tanks gathered in the generator room and the rest of us fanned out and did the dance of face-smashing against our foe. They were able to get a few pylons down and take out the green infirmary, but with 2 in the hizzy, that's just fine! DDOC did a great job and went from a measly 5 to a clan of 12 and were able to do very well against 13 heroes. What a gathering! I was so proud of the SG in coming together and kicking ass! Thanks to: Garl Darklord, Ebon Mauler, Deep, Violet, Amazingman (Earl), Sarah Queen (shatter-storm), Dr. Bowen (what a trooper!), Akima Shinjo (divine), Copykat (Di), Ulti-Chica and Lil Minx! Also thanks to Metoid and to Silicdan for volunteering when we could take no more players. Next raid we are planning for the same time on November 4th. Be there!

Halloween Fight Fest

The PvPEC is proud to announce Halloween Fight Fest!

Due to Test being down, the Haunted House will be by invite only. If you have NOT been invited to i11 Testing and would like to tour the HH, please sign up here to win a chance at gaining access to the Test server!

If you are already on test and can help work the Haunted House, please let me know. We have adjusted our showtimes to the weekends (Oct 20, 21, 27, 28) at 6pm pacific. I would really, really appreciate any help you can give me!

Triumph Events:
The Terrible Two Battle Royale (lvl 38-40)
4pm pacific on October 21st.
One villain, one hero teamed together against as many other duos as we can find.

Debt Brigade Raid with Bandit's Brigade
Sunday, Oct. 14th at 2pm pacific

RSVPs: Ebon, Garl, Azrhiaz, Colder, Baba, Makin' Debt

Monsters, Ghouls, Fiends needed....

The PvPEC will be hosting a Haunted House on Test as part of our Halloween Event. You can come see this 55 million prestige behemoth base (made by yours truly) by signing up to work it! That's right! You need a job? We got one for you! We need villains of at least lvl 32 and up to staff the Haunted House and the signup thread is here! It promises to be a fun time! Scare or kill the Haunted House guests! woo hoo!

October 14th Base Raid with Bandit's Brigade. How does 2pm Pacific sound? That's *kinda in the middle?

I am going to do a Croatoa ghost farm on Monday night at 6pm pacific for anyone who needs this badge (you need it for Geas of the Kind Ones accolade).

TF this weekend anyone?

I have Monday off so I can stay up late two nights in a row! WOOT! Well if I drink a lot of caffeine. Anyone up for a TF? I would like to get my lvl 29 tank up a few notches for the base raid. He is close to lvl 30, gonna top him off to 30, so anything in the lvl 30 range would be good, (Katie Hannon, Manticore, or a respec Trial). Looks like anytime this weekend is good except early today (Saturday). Sound off Heroes!

Time Travel!

Positron on Issue 11

Base Raid Butt Kicking Time

Vazkor and the Torment Monument on Infinity
I talked to linksys from Bandit's Brigade and we are going to set up another base raid for Sunday, the 14th. My question to you is: what time would work for you? We will be scheduling it between 1pm thru 5pm, so gimme some time in that frame that works for you. I personally would like to do it at 5, but am flexible! There is also a hero group hitting us up who wants to taste the wrath of the hall of death, so bring it on! :) They want to do it on February the 21st.

Welcome back Karrnage! I see Ngine has snuck back in too! Yay for family reunions!

There will be a Mixed 2v2 tournament Sunday if anyone would like to enter it. One villain and one hero against the same. Prize is 2 million inf, I believe. Hit me up for more details if you are interested.

Issue 11: A Stitch in Time

So who's excited?

It all seems pretty cool. Hopefully the power customization will extend to more powers in the future. In the meantime, my Cryo gun APP will at least look half decent :)

Redoing Story Arcs and badge mishes is what I've been dreaming of. Hopefully I can finally snag those missing accolades and powers (Crey Pistol for the thematic win!!!)

Task Force: Force Stone Victorious!

Thanks again Tatankasa for the hand!

Thats right folks. The TF commander accolade is mine! I am sooo ready for some base raids :)

Sister Psyche Congratz!

Another TF done at lightspeed! DB grinders on this one included Mercy Mercy and Tatankasa

Kudos Guys

Think im gonna try runnin Citadel tonight at 8 pst. Levels 25-30+

Task Force Weekend

Hi all

I will be hopefully running 2 TF's this weekend, Citadel and Sister Psyche. These are required TF's for the TF Commander accolade ( +5% Health).Start times are Sat and Sun 1-1:30pm and 8-8:30pm pst. Let me know which TF you would like to do and what time and I'll try to get everyone together. Sis Psych is 20-25 and Citadel is 25-31.

Big time thx to Az for helpin me out with Posi TF and honorable mention to Shatter Storm and Infernal-Fires who tried to go the distance on a weeknight.

Thanks Guys

Triumph stomps Hami

I wasn't able to be there the whole time due to a tournament on Justice that I had to run, but I snuck in to second to last mito spawn. Led by Radiabatz, Triumph has finally beaten Hami. Global Heroics, Fusion Force, and the Wild Cards set this up so there was a big showing by them and lots of other friendly faces were there in the goo. Congrats to Triumph.

Incidently, who took all the EoE inspirations out of the base? I can only assume someone sold them for a pretty penny at WW cause there was no DBers with me last night. :(

Great fun on the Numina TF with Ebon! Today is the mothership raid led by moi. After which, Shatter-Storm has offered up the spelunker badge mission to anyone who needs it.

Numina Success

Great turn out for the TF!

Special thx to Charron (aka Azrhiaz), Divine Angel, Rubyfire, and Tommi Gunn (aka Garl Darklord).

Numina TF

Hi All

I would like to run numina tf this weekend some time if anyone is interested. I will be on Sept 22 between 1:00-1:30 pst to get it together. If it doesn't happen then I'll be on that night around 8:00 pst to try again.

If anyone else is running a TF, look me up. My global is @Black Praetor and I'm online usually at the above times on both Sat. and Sun.

May the Debt NOT be with you :)

Mothership Raid - Sunday 11am

Hey all! I am going to try to organize a raid on the Rikti mothership this Sunday morning 11am pacific/2pm Eastern, so if you need some merits, come join us!

6pm pacific there will be Sunday Night Smackdown. This week it will be in Bloody Bay so get yer butt in there and help us earn the fusion generator!

Ebon was talking about doing some TFs in the future so let me hear which ones you'd be interested in doing!

Im Alive!

Hey everyone! How have you all been? Ive had lots of stuff going on lately sorry I haven't been around to post or even get on CoH. I should be returning soon HOPEFULLY! Been busy with a move and working and raising the two kiddies. There's only so much a Superhero can do by himself! I miss you guys and hope to see you soon :)

Splatfest Extraordinaire!

Wow! I'd forgotten how much fun base raids were!! I had an absolutle blast and I would like to give a very formal salute to Deep, Zero C and Minx for kicking some serious villain bootie! And thanks to Ebon for showing up, albeit too late to join. :(

We defended first and being our numbers were low, Bandit's Brigade loaned us an ice/emp troller. Things went pretty much by the numbers and we had a good time smooshing them. We only went 30 minutes since I figured we'd only have an hour or so and BB deserved a chance at smooshing us back.

So then we attacked their base. Rough start but we spawned right near the generator. We managed to remove some base defenses and Minx snuck in and hid behind the generator while the remainder of us died to keep her cover a secret! Usually using Azrhiaz in an attack, I am glad to have brought Lumeir. Nothing is quite as delightful as the ol' sand trap and a snowstorm maneuver! The AOE queen was quite the annoyance I'll wager! ha ha! You can't jump up here now, Sucker!

Deep pops elude and tears off into the heart of their base with 4 villains chasing him back and forth. Zero C is beating on the dominators for TKing her and Minx and I are busy with the generator! We go for more distractions and lay down 3 pylons! The generator BLOWS! They are running like mice before the cats! MEOW! But darn it! only 3 minutes left (we opted to do the entire hour). If we'd had Baba's pylon-laying finesse and a few more bodies, we coulda taken that base and spray painted DB all over the walls. :) SO CLOSE!

And no one DC'ed! What a great day! I had SO much fun and am so proud of the team! You 3 did an AMAZING job! Especially with the odds stacked against us, and all those MM pets!

BB would like to get raids going on a regular thing, so stay tuned for the next epic battle! :shakes the can of red paint:

Oh and if you are jonesing for some PvP, Sunday Night Smackdown is tomorrow night at 6pm Pacific. There will be a 5 Fall Last Man Standing event featured, but it's just casual night otherwise. We are 2/3rd of the way to the Fusion Generator so keep killing those baddies! (750 PvP kills nets us the badge)

Marvel? DC? Pfft

A Day in the Life of a Rock Statue

Over on the Justice server, they are having The Amazing Race event that will be for characters level 1-4. Prizes seem pretty decent. Anyone want to do this avec moi? I'm thinking a bubbler might just do the trick! :)

Post report

Hello all, Baba checking in briefly in between mounds of boxes and packing paper. Move is going as well as moves go. We were in a state of panic...we live in the boonies ... like dial-up connection boonies ... like not even newer dial-up boonies. Almost ordered satellite internet but then did some homework and found out it is very bad for online gaming (latency issues). But it turns out our house sits on the edge of Verizon broadband connection, so with an antenna boost, I can pay a small ransom fee to play online again. We should be up and running in about a week or so, might try and take a break from unpacking this weekend if we can. Hope all are well.

Love
The Kanooshes :-)

PS Tech and Chaud are coming back? Man I need to dust off my one liners for the reunion!

Grats to Polar Gale and Lost Senpai

Please congratulate Lost Senpai on his reaching a million prestige! Way to go! According to a friend, DB rests around 25th in the Triumph rankings! Nice job to all!

Also a hearty grats go to Ebon Mauler on his attaining a new 50: ice/storm troller, Polar Gale! Woo hoo!

Grats to Deep and Granny!

A big congratulations goes out to Deep on his winning ticket in the Lottery with Alpha Radiation. He also cleaned up and took first place in the Treasure Hunt sponsored by the Paragon Regulators. Granny VXN tied for 2nd with 3 others with 6 statues and Deep Fryd had 7. If anyone needs a loan, hit him up! :grin: He won 10 million, an HO, and some wings! Lucky duck! The Treasure Hunt had you looking for "statues" all over Paragon with very vague clues to where they were! Was rather infuriating LOL!

Obsidius and the statues
Don't forget the raid on Saturday! I hope we get about 8 people! So far I have interest from Deep, Chaud, Chica, Colder, myself, so we need a few more!

Sunday Night Smackdown was a lot of fun last night and there was a great turnout! Was fun caging Cap and blowing Chili Penguin dead with a well-timed inferno!

Mothership Raid

At 3pm pacific/6pm eastern, there will be a big mothership raid going on as part of Rush Weekend(look for Emerald Fusion's post). I think Catwhoorg is running it, but I will be there doing my best to earn some merits, so look for me! It's bound to go on for a while so come and kick some Rikti butt.

Reminder: Tomorrow (Sunday the 9th) is the official kickoff to Sunday Night Smackdown which is casual PvP event that will be held weekly at 6pm pacific. So if you are bored with the XP grind, come on down and do a bit o' PvP!

Happy Labor Day!

I hope everyone has a great holiday! Glad to hear Tech got his computer fixed cause we've missed the Chauds immensely! :)

Chica is running Citadel tomorrow at noon pacific.

The Bandit's Brigade (remember them?) asked if we'd like to raid with them. He suggested teams of 8 and I figured we'd be able to pull that together at least. Tenative date is September 15th, Saturday, around 5pm pacific. Please RSVP in the comments and let me know if you are up to it.

Sunny Delight and I are starting a Sunday Night Smackdown which will be a "Come show up and PvP" type of gathering in Pocket D. No time or level requirements at all. It will start on Sunday, September 9th at 6pm pacific/9pm eastern. Our theme will be 2v2s so maybe Melqar and Zandryne can go kick some butt? :) This will be a weekly event so if you can't make this Sunday, maybe the following?



Best wishes to the Kanooshes on their move! Please welcome back Divine Angel to the fold. She was one of our founding members after all!

New Powersets for i11

A quote from Positron IIRC:

"Dual Blades was the winner of the "offensive powerset" poll. Psionic Weaponry was second, and Street Fighting was a distant third (but strangely had huge forum support in the discussions).

The winner of the "defensive powerset" poll was... Shields. And we did try to implement this for Issue 11. The only problem was to make Dual Blades as cool as possible, that left us without the time to get Shields done in time for the release. Shields is the single most complicated powerset we will ever do. The amount of animations it involves is staggering. But we DO KNOW you want it. It is on the list of things to get into the game!

Willpower was second place, and a lot simpler animation-wise. Castle had some really cool ideas for it, so it got the greenlight. (Third place was Growth, another troublesome-in-the-engine powerset).

So there you have it. I expanded upon the troubles of Shields a little at PAX, so those of you who caught me there got the full story on that, and probably shared it elsewhere in the forums that I haven't read yet."

Also other DB news, Colder and I have decided to lower our prestige requirements for storage access to 100k. We also may be acquiring a new coalition group in our old buddies, Riders of Apocalypse. More details as this comes in.

In September on Friday the 7th, there will be a SG fair in Galaxy City near the main hall there. We could use some new members so if you'd like to come out for this event, pull on the ol' SG threads and come mix with me. :) The whole weekend will be Rush weekend with lots of activities. Look for the thread in Triumph forum.

Chica wants to run Citadel TF on Monday at noon I believe. Deep also mentioned doing Positron. Have a happy Labor Day weekend all!

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers...

Well Shakespeare may have had a bad lawyer day when he went down that road, and I feel his pain. I was trying to organize a charity event in game for some organizations that support wounded troops coming home. To sum up my efforts I will post my email to Ex Libris, who was helping me in this effort:

Subject: Re: Charity Event for Troops

Well Ex I finally got answers from both charities. They do not wish to have their organizations name, links, or calls for support posted on the game as they feel they would be endorsing this company or its products. In the end it is all typical excuses from lawyers to run away out of fear of potential legal issues. So, my effort to help raise funds for their worthy cause will be a no go. If I wanted to organize an event, say such as a walk-a-thon or a charity run where people pay to participate and the money then goes to them then that is ok. However, if I go online using NCSoft's game to do so (ask for support), well now we have the lawyers involved, or at least on their end. Oh well, this world bothers me to no end at times. Politicians and Lawyers will run us into the ground. Oh well, I tried. Thank you for giving me direction in the effort.

Baba


So as far as I am concerned, this countries common sense meter is pegged out on "DUH." What can you do. Well see you at the polls in November until then, I need to move my family up so I will be on and off for the next week or two.

Insider Information

Well as some of you know, I am a dog trainer in the law enforcement world. Having some inside info on the real Michal Vick confession, I felt compelled to share it with you all. Keep it on the DL, I don't want to lose my sources yo.

Good Cop Bad Dog

MUNST

There is a new room in the base! If you go into the generator room, you will find a purple room with 5 enhancement tables. These bins are free for alls, meaning if you find something in there you like, you are free to take it. So if you have any SOs you are willing to donate, stick them in there. M=Magic, U=Mutant, N=Natural, S=Science, T=Tech. Please sort them by origin. If you have IOs you wish to donate, put them wherever. The enhancement bin in the original workshop (where the salvage racks and IO table are) is still PRIVATE. If your name is not on it, do NOT take it. Do we want to reconsider lowering our prestige levels for storage access. Please comment and let's talk about it.

Wandering Sword, katana/regen was Triumph's Tog Dog
The PvPEC Top Dog duel was quite a bit of fun. Azrharn who is normally quite the lord of the ring in duels got beaten. Won one, but 2 defeats. At least they were by 2 of the winners of the tournament. Sunny did a great job running it.

Today, I will be hosting a free-for-all tourney in Pocket D. There will be 3 divisions of a Super 32, 30 minute timed.

Lightweight Division (lvl 22-26): 5pm SHARP
Middleweight Division (lvl 32-37) 5:45 SHARP
Cruiserweight Division (lvl 38-40) 6:30 SHARP
It is recommended you show up early to reserve your spot. This event will be limited to 32 participants per division. No teaming allowed. This will be a pointed event for a top server prize. Incidently, there will be a Super Heavyweight Division FFA (lvl 47-50) on the TEST server on Sunday, 8/26th @ 6:30pm PT/9:30pm ET.

Congrats to our very own DeepCut who kicked butt in the FFA

This made me laugh

Clever costumes

Come get your Accolade!

Az and I plan on getting the new Watchman/Watchwoman Accolade badge (temporary psi resist) on some of our toons now that the invasions are back on a part time basis.

Anyone who wants to get in on the bomb-disarming, xenophobia fun can find us anxiously awaiting invastion warnings on Saturday, August 18th at 11am pacific.

Return of the Rikti and PvPEC REVOLUTION

Ixnay on the PvPEC base raid-ay. The format Darque came up with is too involved and would require a month's worth of committment.

Anyhoo, here is a schedule of all REVOLUTION events. At least visit the page and tell me how wonderful it looks. I will be running the Free-For-All on Triumph. That might be kind of fun!
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By popular demand, the Rikti Invasion will return for limited engagements across Paragon City and the Rogue Isles through September! If you didn’t accumulate your badges from the event, this will be your chance to get in on the action!

The below schedule are dates in which a 24 hour Rikti Invasion will take place. You can plan on the event starting at approximately 10 AM Central (11 AM Eastern) on each day and then turning off at approximately the same time the following day. For example, at apx. 10 AM Central on Tuesday, August 14th, we will start the invasion event. It will run for 24 hours and then turn off at apx. 10 AM Central on Wednesday, August 15th.

Tuesday, August 14th
Saturday, August 18th
Thursday, August 23rd
Sunday, August 26th
Friday, August 31st
Sunday, September 2nd
Wednesday, September 12th
Saturday, September 15th
Monday, September 17th
Saturday, September 22nd

Happy Saturday!

A few things:

1) Katie Hannon TF tomorrow at 11am PST/2pm EST - full version

2) The PvPEC is going to have a base raid event on test. This would give us a chance to have all our coalies come with us to have a bit of fun in a raid. You can bring any toon you like (doesn't have to be in DB)! Let me know if you are interested! Not sure on the details but you'll get them when they are available.

3) Enhancement storage: did we want a room where we can have free-for-all enhancement drops? That way if you are looking for something or some fool is crazy enoough to work on their portable worktable accolade, they can drop stuff in there for the lowbies? I can make a seperate room for it. These will accessible only to captains and up. Thoughts?

Thinking of expanding?

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Gravity Storm!

Hey gang!

I'm thinking of making a Grav/Storm Controller for Vi's SG Big Cheese. I was just wondering if anyone had any tips or info to share on the set.

I know Baba has Gravity and Az has an Earth/Storm. Does anyone have any wisdom to pass along? What powers are staples? Which ones should I avoid?

TPvPL

If you are interested in getting your PvP on, they are forming a Triumph PvP League that will run for about 8 weeks with matches being on Friday or Saturday. This will be run at 47-50. I will be joining with Dunizel or RnR so if you'd like to take a break from the Rikti grind, this might be fun. Will certainly be educational, that's for sure!

The sign up thread is here

Incidently, there will be a Siren's Call zone event tomorrow night at 7pm hosted by Sunny Delight.

Does anyone want to run a TF on Sunday? Charron needs her witch hat so maybe Katie Hannon?

Repelling the Invaders!

Per COH announcement: The Invasion will be ending Tuesday 8.7.07 as a daily event. It can still be triggered in a single, random zone through player actions, however. In addition, we are planning on bringing the full-scale Invasion event back on random days throughout August and September, and possibly beyond.

I have quite a few toons I'd like to get the psionic resist accolade on. If you are in the same boat, post in the comments and we can get ourselves a little Rikti butt-kicking event going, DB style!

Riders of Apocalypse

Well, RoA has asked if we'd be willing to do a raid with them. Considering I can't get so much as a single volunteer to stand around Warburg for 10 minutes as stalker bait, I'm assuming we won't be able to field much of a team. I never see anyone on that much anymore really, so the thought of organizing this kinda makes me cringe. If you feel otherwise, please let me know.

Stalker Event - HELP

I still need a few more bodies to help with the Stalker Event this Saturday at noon pacific. I'd love to have some of you along. It'll be held in Warburg so anyone over level 30 would be fine. Please RSVP.

Pwetty pwease? :D

Charity Event Committee starts here

I am going to try to get a Player Event going with some focus towards the Charities that help the troops that come home with serious injuries. I can hold an event and spam info about the stuff, but I would like to find some way to make this a fund raiser too. Any ideas or thoughts would be appreciated. At the moment, I am mulling a Pocket D event on Test Server, with a Costume Contest and a PvP event, with some prizes from the Wound Warrior Project. BUT at the moment I am funding the shin dig, so, since the Secret Service hasn't paid me yet...that idea is on hold. I am going to send some ideas to Ex Libras who wanted to help out and join. Also gonna contact w00tradio to see if they can get on board.

Any and all ideas welcome.

Happy Birthday Deep and Tzadkayle!

We have two birthday boys! Deep's is today, and Tzadi's is tomorrow! Where's the party?

Just a reminder, LGTF is today. The stalker event will be held on Sat, Aug. 4th at noon pacific. So if you have a lamb for the slaughter, sign 'em up!

And while I doubt any of us are thrilled with the pictures, most of you know that Deep, Chica and I got together when she visitied southern Cali.
Pic 1
Pic 2

Lady Grey Task Force

It's Issue 10 and we at last have a new task force! This one is no where near as challenging as the STF but with new maps and a special ending, it's a fun romp through the Rikti War Zone.

It is level 45+ and you can bring hero or villain. Stock up on breaks because you won't be able to leave the zone without breaking the team! It will be held on Saturday, July 28th at noon pacific/3pm eastern.

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I will be testing a new PvPEC event that is stalker specific. While I know most of us don't have a stalker high enough (lvl 30), I need some volunteers to be bounties/prey. THe date has not been set, but will be shortly. No PvP experience required but must be of level 30 or higher.

A brief moment for real life...

Not to be a downer, but got news two more of my former USAF members in my last unit got hit with an IED recently, one of them will be lucky to keep his arm. If you have some spare cash, here are some good fund raisers to support guys and gals like him that come home chewed up from humanities ugliness. All politics aside, these people mostly are serving to earn cash, a living, and serve our country and allies. Hard to swallow watching TV with all the back and forth with politicians etc, but having stood by their side, it is true. I am not posting to sway anyones feelings, just looking out for the poor kid who came home facing a new life with a broken body. Check out these sites if you are interested in helping, if not, no problem.

Intrepid Center

Wounded Warrior

Hire a Hero

Support our Troops

The Rikti Have Arrived

New zone, new maps, new missions, new taskfoce and more! Come enjoy the lag of the new Rikti War Zone!

Unsure what the zone holds? Check out this video narrated by Positron (who really needs to work on this voice-over skills. :)

Let's get a TF going this weekend

Anyone need a certain TF going? I have been busy as snot with my new job and had little time to play. PvP has been hard, I took my old comp with me and have had some lag issues in a few of the zones, so not sure if I can dust off 'Roo for the event. But I am game for a group TF if anyone wants to.

Time off...

Sadly I must inform everyone that due to the fact I am a broke college student I must take a leave of absence from CoH for a bit. Ill try to come back by the end of the month. I shall miss you all until then :(

RESISTANCE starts tonight

Hope to see some of you around on test this weekend! Check this link for the event schedule.

Vacation

I'm sorry I haven't been on lately. I am on vacation in California right now and I will probably be back sometime in August. Hope everything is going good with The Debt Brigade.

Server Transfer FTW

Server Transfer Announcment

Well NOW they say something! Right after I deleted Zorayas! :( Woo hoo, now Deep won't be able to bug me about getting a second account! I hope the implement the server-less system they mentioned. It would be GREAT to be able to access any toon I wanted to play with any friend, any where. Yay

Happy Birthday Garl

Happy Belated Birthday Garl!

Now log in your DB toons or move them to the reserve! :)

And the winners are...

Monique' and I were the winners of the Novice Deadly Duo Tournament last night :) We had to face Az in the first round and I felt terrible with each slice that hit her, sorry Az you know I love you. Each round got progressively harder as you would think. The third round was pretty tough,I dont remember the power sets, but it was against a Tanker and a Blaster/Corruptor I believe. I got my ass handed to me by that damn Tanker so much I thought for sure that we'd lose the round...luckily for me while I was distracting the Tank by dying repeatedly, Mo was going after the Blaster/Corr and kicking her ass, now thats what I call teamwork. The 4th round wasnt too tough but Mo got all the kills that round. If my focus power was a split second faster I would've gotten the last kill :P But I just wanted to let the rest of you know Mo and I did the SG proud last night :)

RESISTANCE

The PvP102 class is this Friday the 13th at 5pm PST/8pm EST. I will be sneaking in there a bit late and can hopefully stay for a few rounds of the tournament if someone wants to team with me!

I am also running the Gladiator Tourney on Test, and the Justice and Triumph Super Mixed Pentad Preliminaries. And of course, I will also be at the Warburg Brawl. So come on out and keep me company!

You are all too quiet!

I miss the days that I could log in and have a lot of fun comments/posts to read! Now it's just poor me, posting all the time! :sad face:

First of all, you all need to read the City Scoop. It's the best issue yet and you can find out why here!

Secondly, the PvPEC is ramping up for its next big event: RESISTANCE! For this coming weekend we have 2 events.

July 13th @ 5pm PST PvP 102 class.
This class is geared towards novice/intermediate players and will focus on:

* Buffing on the move
* Avoiding stalkers
* Kiting
* Why FoTMs are FoTMs
* Arena toons, zone toons, dueling toons
- Builds
- Team based strategies
- Format for official PvPEC Events in RESISTANCE

After the class, there will be a practice tourney run so that the students can practice what they learned in a duo type format.

Friday, July 14th Super Mixed Pentad at Super Heavyweight Class (47-50)
A Super Mixed Pentad is a team with 5 different ATs, and a combination of heroes and villains (with at least 2 of each). This event will be run at SHW class and I will be your friendly official. This event will stand as a qualifier so if your team wins, please be prepared to go to Test the following weekend and represent our server in the Finals (same day and time)! Only Tier One inspirations are allowed.

More importanly: the prizes!! On Triumph, you will get long-term yellow titles (for first and second place). I'm not sure exactly how long, but it won't be just a week this time. If you win on Test, well let's just say there's a great prize that they won't allow me to indulge yet.

Currently, Paragon Elite (Sunny Delight's SG) is putting together a team. Who else will step in the ring?

What: Super Mixed Pentad
Where: Pocket D Monkey Bar Arena
When: Saturday, July 14th
Time: 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern

Please RSVP your team here with name and AT of the players. Any questions, please feel free to post them! If you don't have a team and wish to join one, post your AT/name/global and we'll try to get you matched up with some other people.

Invasion

The wise and learned Azrhiaz predicts Invasion will hit the week of the 8th! God damn, I hate Rikti. :holds heads in preparation: You all better stock some breaks in the base! :-)

Congrats to Colder on running Zorayas out of town! He cleaned her clock at 10-0!

There will be a Warburg Brawl this Thursday (tomorrow) at 6 pm Pacific for those who like to dabble a bit in PvP. The next big event for the PvPEC should be announced soon and I'm happy to report there will be an event geared towards novices!

Happy Fourth of July, Brigade! Be safe and have fun!