Meet Annzebub

This post was actually half written in my drafts folder. 

Annzebub: Demon/Thermal Radiation MM

If you can't already tell, she's the ying to Annzilla's yang. I don't think I have much of a backstory for the gal, much like Annzilla. It's more so that she just looks neat and fits a theme. 

I actually don't have any other information on her other than the above. I don't think I played her past level 30 actually. From what I recall, she was really mostly a solo toon and barely teamed at all.. or duo'ed with friends or family. It seems like I was about to show off her intended build in this post, but that screenshot was not downloaded. In the last few weeks, I was able to find some old Mid's files and Annzebub was not among them. Oh well. 

If I were to roll her again, I think I will shy away from the Thermal set. TR is too much H3aL0rz for me. 

I would rather provide the primary support in any other way than healing. There are all sorts of buffs, debuffs, and damage mitigation in the City. Why the heck would I limit myself to mostly just healing? Honestly, if I really wanted to play a healer, I'd start playing WoW or whatever other MMOs that requires the holy trinity (tank + heal + dps = boring!). 

I would rather go for something like Dark Miasma for Annzebub. That still fits thematically and seem way more fun. 

See her CIT profile for the lolz.

Super Duper Old Builds

As you know, I am looking up old screenshots and such. And I found these goofy things.

This was how one used to show off their builds. I don't quite remember when Mid's Hero Builder started, but I feel like they only came to the public's radar when IO's became a reality when you actually need to use tools to manage the increased complexity of the game.

Based on the image properties data, these images were created in 2006. Lol, good times.

Disco Fever Queen (8/20/06)

Ms Ann (5/15/06)

Sixty (6/28/06)

Theophelia (5/15/06)

Thermonuclea (8/20/06)

Zetsumei (8/20/06)

Annx (8/20/06)

The Stars of Virtue SG

After taking an extended break from COH (around 2009-10ish?), I came back to Virtue and looked for a new SG. I joined the "Stars of Virtue" for a period of time. Ultimately, they were too small, too new, and did not have the membership or activity to sustain the SG. Here's a picture for the memories.

I'm sure I wasn't much help, as I believe I was transitioning to a new job at the time and could not dedicate much time to the group.

About Supergroups/Guilds

I've learned from experience in CoH and in other games that it helps if you join the same group as someone you know IRL, particularly the group is already established. When you join the group, there's a vetting process, for both sides. Just because a group is large and well known, doesn't mean that it would be a good fit for you as a person and a player. It's sort of like looking for a new job in that respect.

A funny example would be that time I joined an "all girl" group. I thought it would be cool to get to know other girl-gamers like myself, but did not realize that the whole "all girl" thing only applied to one's character. Lots of pink and chat had so much "hugs" and "teehees" and /giggle and stereotypical things that goddamn tweens would do. They also didn't have a vent server. And ultimately, I found out that it was mostly a bunch of dudes with female characters with the breast slider on max, RPing as what they think women would be like. Yeesh.

My perfect group would be an active and friendly smallish-medium group that is established, but growing and are open to new members. The size is dependent on the actual activity of the group. It could be small but very active, or medium and mostly active. Teams and events getting filled up with group members is what makes or breaks a guild, I think. And like I mentioned, it helps if you were introduced to the group through an existing member that you know personally. But as long as they are open to new folks and want to help them, then why the heck not?

Some History on my Fan-Made Trading Cards

Back when I was playing, one of the things that kept me going was making trading cards for my characters. I got to play around with Photoshop and get to continue the fun outside of the game by creating a little something for myself. 

I am going through all my archives of content and found the ones that started it all. The trading cards for the Legends of Victory.. a SG that consisted of me and my two younger brothers. Ha!

View the deck here. I'll post up some others as soon as I find them and organize them.

Major Nostalgia

It started when I received an email from Brinkster about how they will be discontinuing their free hosting service and provided instructions on how to save the data. I had forgotten that I even had an account there.

I fired up the old site.. and low and behold, it was an old CoH site with instructions on how to use GuildPortal that I had made for my SG at the time. There was also my little RPish site, the one that served as the fake storefront for my "Comic Shop." I do have a few dummy domains lying about, and will have to see about uploading all the content there.. or somewhere reliable for fun and prosperity. You can imagine who wary I am of having another entity to save these things for me.

After all that, I became curious about CoH. Obviously, I knew that the game had closed its doors and that several projects were in the works to be a successor of sorts.

So I checked with old reliable, the Titan Network... and found this bit of news... And the Mask Comes Off and the companion post New Efforts!

Dang. That is great news.

Yeah, yeah, it's not like it's definitely going to happen, but this is the first real glimmer of hope.

Honestly, I think if the most recent effort doesn't work out, I also feel like it another group will try. It will get to the point where NCshit will have to give in eventually, even if it's ten years out. I think the CoH community is that persistent. What we ultimately get again might not be the original, but it will be something.

So with that little glimmer of hope, I started looking at this website, my old builds, screenshots... and everything. And damn, the memories came back in full force.

I really, really, really hope that the latest efforts will work. If it does, I will be back. I'll re-roll most all of my toons (probably not Ms Ann.. because well, BA is fine, but I need more damage =X).

In the meantime, please indulge me a little as I go through my nostalgia. I will be posting things soon. I figure why not? This is a great place to keep everything. Since Google owns Blogspot, hopefully, the likelihood of it shutting down isn't too great. I just want a place to hold my memories.