Global Chat Channels List

I am procrastinating from work right now and since I don't have access to COH due to my self enforced break,  I decided to procrastinate by doing something COH related instead! But this time, I want to be helpful by compiling a list of Global Channels.

But in case you don't know what a Global channel is, check out the official COH introduction on how to use it.

Champion

• "Champions United" - An open channel. Its more general chatter, with some advertising for TFs
• "PVP of Champion" - Champion's private PVP channel, @Acious Nihilist is a mod

Freedom
With Freedom being the most populous server, most of the channels are full or almost full, but spots can open up as members leave.

• "Freedom" (almost full)
• "Freedom Badge" (full)
• "Freedom Badges"
• "Freedom Elite"
• "Freedom Events" (almost full)
• "Freedom Monsters"
• "Freedom TF" (almost full) 
• "Freedom TFs" (Full)
• "FreedomTFs"
• "NeoRadio"
• "RadioFreedom" (almost full)
• "Radio Freedom" 
• "RF2009" (almost full) 

Guardian

• "Guardian"
• "Guardian TF"
• "Level 50"

Infinity

• "Inf Badge Seeker"
• "Infinity Badges"
• "Infinity PVP"
• "Infinity Hamidon"
• "Infinity TFs"
• "AE Anonymous" - AE teams

Justice

• "JFA2010" - originally "Justice for All" general chat/help, team ups, hami and mother ship scheduled raids. 
• "Justice-Badges" - All badges all the time, TF's, monster sightings etc 
• "Justice United" - originally "Chrome Support" All in one channel badges, events, scheduled raids, TF's teaming, general help etc. 
• "Justice PowerLevel" -  Power leveling with a fee
• "Justice Radio" - DJ's online playing music and events and general chat.

Liberty

• "LB" - public channel set to silence on join. Once a member you will need to be unsilenced. you can either wait for a channel operator to spot you or you can send a tell to: 
• @Biledriver 
• @Cap'n Punch
• @Cappy3
• @Leper Kahn
• @Light Bill
• @Pigtails
• @PW
• "Liberty's Channel" - private channel. To join contact:
• @American Valor
• @Steele Magnolia 
• @Permalaise
• "PvP of Liberty" -  is a public channel dedicated to Liberty server PvP

Pinnacle

• "PinnBadges" - most active channel
• "BaseBuildersInc" - base building and random chats
• "Hami Bound" - to organize Hammi Rais, but it may be inactive
• "TheMarket" -  auction house, recipe, trading

Protector

• "Jello Shooters" - basic chat channel
• "TF and Badge" - channel for TFs and teams
• "Protector Watch" - mainly used for rare spawning monsters, occasional task force, may be inactive
• "Villain Badges" - looking for badges or giant monsters on villains?
• "Badge Squad" - mainly Villain badges

Triumph

• "Triumph Watch 2.0" - open TF/Badge channel. Has to be on the subject. You start off silenced, but can contact mods to unsilence you
• "Triumph Watch 2.1" - TF/Badge channel. This is more free open on what you say. Thick skin is nice to have. You start off silenced, but can contact mods to unsilence you
• "Triumph LFT" - General PUG/LFT channel.
• "Triumph Raids" - Hami raids, mothership raid organization

Victory

• "Victory Badges" - badges and teaming, possibly full 
• "Victory Badges 2009" - a alternative to "Victory Badges" in case its full
• "Victory Forum" -  more badges and teaming chat, you will join silenced, but can ask a mod to unsilence you

Virtue

• "VirtueUnited" - Virtue's anything/everything raid, powers discussion, and social channel. You will start out silenced and can ask a mod to be unsilenied. originally "Virtue United" and "VU210"
• "Virtue TFs 2010" - task forces & strike forces
• "Virtue's LRSF" - Originally set up for Villian SF; Villain friendly for general teaming, raids, powers discussion, etc.
• "Virtue LFG Alpha" - 24 hour teams. Hero & Villain.
• "Virtue Badges" - Channel full. Spots available on occasion when a member leaves.
• "Vee Badgers" - an alternative badge channel in case Virtue Badges are full
• "RP Virtue" - OOC (Out of Character) meeting place for Roleplayers

Defiant (EU)

• "DefiantBadgers" - Ideal for those looking for help getting different badges or badge hunting teams.
• "Defiant Events" - Look out for regular task forces or just shout up if you are looking for players doing a specific mission or Task Force.
• "Defiant Auctions" - For Auctioning outside of the AH and making requests for Enhancements, Recipes and Salvage

Union (EU)

• "Mission Architect" - Channel for all MA related affairs. Promote your creations or ask questions here.
• "Mothership Raid Chat" -  Discussion and assistance for Mothership raids.
• "Union Auctioners" - Not used as much as I would have hoped but still is used on occasion, channel created to help out private selling of salvage, recipes etc. Contact : @Darkwave for invite 
• "Union Badgehunters" - Union's badge channel - Badges, events, advice. Contact @Darkwave for invite
• "Union Chat" - General chat channel for Union. Contact @Darkwave for invite
• "Union Experience" - Gather here to find mates for teaming and earning experience. Whether Hero, Villain or Coop everyone is welcome.
• "Union Hamidon Raids" - Discussion and communciation regarding Hamidon raids."Union Leaders" - Set up for leaders of super groups on Union. Main purpose is to provide help advice find raids and basicly any other service you might need to do with sg leadership operaters are @bru @max powerz and @von
• "Union Roleplayers" - Discussion and assistance with storytelling, gameplay and roleplay between the Union server roleplayers.
• "Union TaskForce" - Major channel for TFs, SFs and other related Events.

Cross Server Channels

• "TheMarket" - Auction house discussions
• "Titan Network" - For all the info/chat concerning the Titan Network or if you need help getting badges/pics verified on CIT or CoHFaces
• "Forumites" - Channel for general chit-chat etc. Open channel to join for all.
• "Forumites Late-Night" - Over 18s version of Forumites channel for more "adult" conversations.

I'm most active the Virtue server, so most of the other channels I listed here are pretty much hearsay from the forums and from friends, so please let me know if there are mistakes, edits, or additions I need to make to the list.

Another Self Enforced Break

My subscription expires... TODAY... and I won't be returning until at least Aug 4th, 2010, which is 2 weeks from today. That would give me enough time to start prepping for the Going Rogue launch on the 17th, so I will be back for sure.

I'm taking a break for the same reasons as last time, namely, I need to get some work done and gaming is a distraction.

Even though I'm taking a break from the game, I'm not going to take a break from this site. It will give me time to update the site a bit more (I have tons of screenshots that I've been meaning to post), but have been distracted by what else? Gaming of course.

So I'll see you all in 2 weeks.

City Comics: COH Fansite

I've been kicking around this idea for a while, to start my own web site with an actual domain. The site is based on my characters and the fictional comic store that my main hero, Ms Ann owns called City Comics. I can technically create another blogspot blog, but I prefer to be able to control how I design my blog as opposed to being limited to what blogspot has to offer. I want it to be on its own domain because it's more personalized that way, dontcha think?

I've actually created a City Comics website years ago, hosted on 50webs, but it has since lapse in any kind of activity or updates. I'll probably be moving most of the content over to whatever I decide to do.

I found it really fun then to do all sorts of creative stuff for my characters and that made it that much more fun and interesting to play. And as always, this is a great diversion to doing any actual work lol.

So what do you think?

Zetsumei's New Look

This is just something fun I wanted to post... the new look of my Villain main, Zetsumei, a Ninja/Poison Mastermind. I haven't posted much about her on this blog because she has reached level 50 a long time ago (within a month of COV going live), her build and my playstyle with her is just perfect in my eyes, and I do not play her as often as I would like, so it just never came up. Either way, I'm pretty darn proud of her and I rather enjoy playing Zetsumei when I do.

Background Story:
I never wrote an actual background story for her, but she does have one.

The synopsis is that her outward appearance is of a 20-something, beautiful, young, wealthy woman, who belongs to one of the most rich, powerful, and vicious yakuza family in Japan. This family also has noble bloodlines dating back from ancient Japan and is also known to have a long line of matriarchs known as Zetsumei, ruling the clan that possess ultimate knowledge in herbs and natural materials that is passed down with each generation. It is said that with this knowledge, the clan matriarch is able to bring back someone from recent death, cure cancers, or prolong life. However, such generosity is rare, as she is more likely to use her knowledge to bring about madness, blindness, fear, weakness, or simply death.

The current Zetsumei is the woman you see here and now. It is unclear as to why she's so damned evil and has such an interest in the Rogue Isles and making war with the heroes. It is believed to have something to do with a rare plant/some secret knowledge/money and power/all of the above that she is after (I haven't worked this out myself).

The truth is that this Zetsumei, is the original Zetsumei who is over a thousand years old, age unknown (I will have to do research to decide on this), have kept her youthful appearance and prolonged life with her knowledge in herbs and poisons. She used to be a nice girl who found something or another that taught her all about herbs and such (I need to figure this out too, though it probably has something to do with her Oni). She was eventually shunned and cast out by her family due to being accused of using dark magic and curses, which in truth was all that natural herbal goodness that she learned from somewhere. Even so, that event didn't turn her all evil like, but it was a start. Some other event, or series of events was what caused her spiral into evil (which of course I haven't worked out what or how yet).

She doesn't hold human beings in high regard, or any regard at all, viewing them as expendable toys. Heck, her ninja minions are her children's descendants and she's perfectly happy with them giving their lives for her. Even if she has the knowledge to resurrect them should they die, she doesn't think its worth the effort.

So there you have it, Zetsumei in a nutshell. She's my favorite character concept and costume. Feel free to check out her CIT profile here.

Its fun to see what she used to look like.. her original costume is seen above. (This was back in the day when I made "trading cards" for my character and my friends' characters)

And what she looks like now. With the "Ninja Run" stance, a slick hair style, and her new gear; she looks kick ass. I enjoy playing her even more now and am constantly in awe of how cool my character looks and I'm dead serious about this too! 

Yes, it does help that she is fully purpled IO'ed, she runs +4 missions easily and can solo certain Hero/AV class enemies. But still, I can't get over her new look. Its just awesome!

Also, I should post her build one day.

Combustidoll Reaches Level 50!

Combustidoll finally dings level 50.. wooohooooo!

Combustidoll, my flaming ball of terror.

Right at level 47, I had all of the IOs for her ready to slot and WOW, what a difference it made to her gameplay. She was fun before slotting her IOs, but after slotting, she was simply incredible. She was a monster and tore through mobs with ease. Feel free to check out Combustidoll's build. I will shelf her until she is needed... she is especially efficient in LGTFs during the mini Hammi raid, so I'll definitely pull her out of retirement then, or if there is a TF that needs massive amounts of damage.

You know, after slotting her IOs it became stupid easy to level her up, so I didn't get to savor her gameplay as much as I would have liked. Yes, I know nothing is forcing me not to play her, but I really want to get started on the next Tanker Project (level one of each tanker primary to 50), which will likely be my Fire/Fire Tanker, Tropica, who is currently at level 27 right now.

I am probably going to level up a Mastermind of some sort when I am in need of taking a break from tanking.

Anyways, as a final note, I leave you with another picture:

Combustidoll is definitely cooler than Sister Psyche.