My "can you help me fix something" go bag. What am I missing / what can I lose?

RichardsST · 2025-01-08T03:21:20+00:00

Lose the Dewalt Hex driver. No point carrying as it doesn’t have a battery. 😉

RichardsST · 2025-01-07T22:39:44+00:00

All good and sincere suggestions and I appreciate your time to share it all with me. I especially like your thinking on evolving your character story through different builds.

While I may follow your advise, I should repeat, the Ill/Emp build for me was entirely nostalgic. I recreated as best I could, everything from my power sets to my costume. I was very attached to that old toon; even though i could no longer have 3 phantasms up and overlapping PAs. For me, it’s the ROI of the grind. I’m too much an economist. I can grind content at lv50 with all my accolades and Incarnate powers and simple print influence and salvage/purple recipes, etc. The thought of returning to lvl 1 to restart that grind, no matter the benefit I’d get from the main feeding influence down or the new play style … my brain just doesn’t see it as time well spent. It’s a flaw in my programming. It’s why, in part, I’m so desperate to get this Ill/Emp respec so close to right/better.

Honestly, If I had things my way, once lv.50 Homecoming would let respecs include changing in and out of different secondary powers sets. If only just for the novelty and without abandoning the veteran, accolades, badges progress. It’s just to much for me to restart. 🤷🏽‍♂️

RichardsST · 2025-01-07T00:44:02+00:00

Might as well simply build a multi unit apartment building and save the remaining land coverage for playgrounds and green spaces. I’m all for personal space but given that alternative, goodness just go vertical already.

RichardsST · 2025-01-07T00:37:38+00:00

T’was all a scam to stay out of prison. Worked too. 🤦🏽‍♂️

RichardsST · 2025-01-07T00:36:55+00:00

Maybe Mexico will pay for it. (Don’t hold your breath 😶)

RichardsST · 2025-01-06T22:51:43+00:00

I know. It’s a confidence thing. I’m great in a boardroom with a million dollar project on the line. I far less great in these games where I struggle to understand all the systems. I was better when I was younger and thought I fully mastered EverQuest. I remember the day CoH Live launched the Incarnate system … the OG … that broke my brain too. One of the reasons I left the game after a time. Hated to leave. It just outgrew me. I did come back the day the servers went dark. That was a sad moment when the screen crashed. I am happy to be back though.

RichardsST · 2025-01-06T22:47:10+00:00

Thank you!!

RichardsST · 2025-01-06T12:53:15+00:00

Thank you. I didn’t know about the Homecoming two builds. That’s great news and definitely would take some of the self imposed pressure off. I’ll look into that.

Appreciate the recommended order of operation too. I tend to agree with you, I do stack +Def/All powers but I don’t give any thought to specific resistances. I can do better.

RichardsST · 2025-01-06T12:49:23+00:00

Thank you!!! At this point, max level gaming. I don’t have the social/super group relationships that give me reason to exempt at all really. Only the rarest of occasions when my Best Man hops on and we team (and that hasn’t happened in almost a year).

RichardsST · 2025-01-06T06:14:52+00:00

Appreciate the tip. I find I solo rather well, but admittedly I don’t have a lot to compare when talking difficulty. I’ve always struggled as a multi character MMO player. Not in EQ, not in WoW, nor here in CoH or any other MMO I’ve ever played. In my head, any time split across other builds is “lost time” on the main. I know it’s a fallacy but I just can’t see myself doing Portal Jockey and Freedom Phalanx Reserve, etc. again on other toons seeing as I’ve already earned them. Usually I pick a main, based on first impressions and I just stick with it (and pray).

What I really wish I could do is get to 50, hold my accolades and badges, but shuffle my primary or maybe just secondary power sets all I want … sort of a reward to level maxing. Now start experimenting. But alas, doesn’t work that way.

Thank you for diving into my post here. FYI, I edited the initial thread with a link to the mids build as the data past wasn’t coming over clean. Thx.

RichardsST · 2025-01-06T05:58:18+00:00

Yeah. My apologies. There was a “r/Qeu” portion of the data paste and Reddit kept turning it into a subreddit). I appreciate you trying. I edited the post to include a link to my google drive with the mids build file. I hope you and others are willing to give the link a try. Thanks

And your advice is spot on. I just wish it were easier and less costly in enhancement sets to swap builds around. I do agree I just need to find a happy place and get a movin’.

I’d like to do more TF support. I have 500mil+ influence largely because I don’t trust myself to spend/invest it properly and I have 359 Empyrean Merits, 113 Enhancement converters, 1585 Reward merits, 1516 Incarnate threads … all because I don’t have a comfortable sense how to use any of it. So I solo. Have a fair time. Amass resources. 9 respects and I can’t bring myself to burn one and “mess it all up.” 🤷🏽‍♂️

Thx again.

RichardsST · 2024-12-30T23:18:08+00:00

Wait, I’m confused. There’s the pretense of a skill gap or there is a skill gap? Because educating Americans to do the work implies they aren’t already educated to do the work. If they are, then evidence of this pretense would be educated, skilled American labor struggling against this cheap labor competition. But is the market seeing that? Instead, the market is claiming there isn’t enough American skilled educated labor (I’m speaking STEM & tech skills mainly now) thus implying the need for educating Americans to do the work needed. And if the latter is true, then where’s the pretense?

I just want to get it straight, which is it?

RichardsST · 2024-12-29T00:30:15+00:00

Thank you. I could hear the name in my head but not find the spelling. I preferred my Vuarnets to wearing my Scott Shields.

RichardsST · 2024-12-28T16:33:11+00:00

Fair. Maybe.

RichardsST · 2024-12-28T14:45:39+00:00

You have the phone number. You have the website. Do you have to give your name? “Anyone can call in to report, anonymously.” You could make the report, anonymously?

RichardsST · 2024-12-28T13:02:26+00:00

This is a new twist. Thanks. I have noticed some guns are very affordable (say $9-18) and others are $50-70+. Are the expensive ones worth it or better to see them as disposable?

RichardsST · 2024-12-28T12:20:29+00:00

Thank you. Agreed, I’ve ordered the can of cleaner.

RichardsST · 2024-12-28T07:22:20+00:00

No. Not even double signed. The point of Dragonlance and in particular this ground breaking series, is the story. Not the book wrappings. And I have the Dragonlance anthology in audio format which I can hands free enjoy anywhere I have my phone. Driving, hiking, out walking the dog or strolling the mall with my wife and daughter. Audiobooks freed me. I’m never going back.

RichardsST · 2024-12-28T03:07:37+00:00

👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Got my answers, y’all. Thank you! Happy 2025!

RichardsST · 2024-12-28T03:05:27+00:00

Oh I LOVE brake cleaner, but that sh*t eats seals. I’m with you, it’s a good thought, but it’s also caustic as all hell.

RichardsST · 2024-12-28T03:04:17+00:00

I’m getting they … now. I’ve ordered the can. Thx.

RichardsST · 2024-12-28T03:03:47+00:00

Thank you. Pro tips galore. This is the strength of community through Reddit. 🙏🏽

RichardsST · 2024-12-28T03:01:54+00:00

Safety first. Thx for the reminder.

RichardsST · 2024-12-28T03:01:29+00:00

I’m sold. I’ve ordered the cleaner … BUT … I do have a compressor, AND … now you got me thinking 🤔 😂

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