More Anniversary Stuff

[Lorash]

Some more stuff hot from the CoH boards:

By CuppaJo:
City of Heroes is a year old! And what a year it has been. You’ve battled countless villains, made wonderful friends, and earned the undying respect of a whole city. We want to thank you for being a part of the CoH family. None of this would be possible without you!

We also want to give a very big thank you to everyone who participated in our First Anniversary Heroes Choice Awards and Contests. The results are in and we’re ready to announce our picks and yours. Click below for the big announcements!

Heroes Choice Awards (http://www.coh.com/choice_awards_winners.html) Winners
First Anniversary Contests (http://www.coh.com/anniversary_winners.html)
Anniversary Badge and Respec (http://www.coh.com/anniversary_badge.html)
Statesman's Anniversary Address (http://www.coh.com/statesman_address.html)

[inkblaster]

Awesome, I'm glad Paragon Taxi Service won for Virtue, truly awesomeness.

[Kinetix]

The 1st place postcard was very nice.

[Jade_Dragon]

I like the shortstories, and the postcards are pretty good, too. I especially like Numina in the first one.

[Remianen]

Statesman's address was very good. Had an FDR/JFK/Ronald Reagan kinda feel to it with a very even tempo.

[Clone Man]

I think Rumble Bee's postcard was robbed:
postcard (http://www.myimgs.com/data/wizofodd80/finalpost.jpg)
Maybe he screwed up the rules or something.

[coldcut]

Second place postcard is somebody from these boards. I remember them posting it. BVS maybe?

edit: Never mind, they just look real similar.

[Moon Jump]

Congrats to the Pargon Taxi Company! After making my first new character that HAD to go into The Hollows they deserve the award. Hopefully I'll get my Taxibot in there group very soon. (Look for Taxibot Usagi)

[Yin]

The first postcard is now my wallpaper. That is just awesome. I love it.

[Randomus]

"I assure you, my good man, Nemesis is most definitely 'down with the street.' Word up, my homie, as it were."

When I saw this line in a mission one day, it made my damn month.

[Kinetix]

Man Clone, that card is NICE! He was jacked.

[Lorash]

5th Column: Favourite Villain Group.

Council: PWNED!1!!11

[WingedAvenger]

Love the winning postcard. It's beautiful.

Love the fact that 5th Column won Favorite Villain Group. :cool:

Scratching my head at Tanker - Invulnerability winning best Primary Powerset.

PS: Where can I find the "Screaming SWAT Officer"?

EDIT: I just noticed something that probably should be better highlighted, since they treat it as a footnote:
** If you still have your free Holiday respec, the free Anniversary respec WILL replace it. So use your holiday respec before April 29th if you don't want it replaced! If you have respecs banked from running Task Forces or Trials, they will not be affected.

[Vendel]

AH the Screaming Swat officer. When I saw that for the first time I nearly craped my pants from laughing so hard. You see a swat guy in full getup running around waiving his arms. Which is funny enough but you got close to him and your first reaction is "Did he just scream like a girl"? and yes, yes he did.


:chuckle:

[Sable Phoenix]

First place postcard? What did I miss?

[Digital]

I think Rumble Bee's postcard was robbed:
postcard (http://www.myimgs.com/data/wizofodd80/finalpost.jpg)
Maybe he screwed up the rules or something.

I think the rules said you had to mention the Anniversary in some way. Maybe thats why?

[suburbanhell]

Free Respec? SWEET! Do I have to do the Free Respec Today, or can I hold onto it like you can with the normal ones? Cos I won't have time to do it with all 8 of my alts, though I would have time to log on to get them all real quick...

[Astartus]

Free Respec? SWEET! Do I have to do the Free Respec Today, or can I hold onto it like you can with the normal ones? Cos I won't have time to do it with all 8 of my alts, though I would have time to log on to get them all real quick...

If your chars have the christmas holiday free respec you would have to log on with them and use this one and get the anniversary free respec somewhat later today.

If you don't want to log on with all of your chars or if they don't need a respec you can sit back, but the anniversary respec will overwrite the holiday respec.

[suburbanhell]

Yeah I missed the Xmas one so I want to get them for all my toons, Major 0bvious probably being the only one who doesn't need one but I'll probably get one for him too just to hold onto it incase something changes far down the road.

[Amoeba Man]

The NPC quote was great

“I assure you, my good man, Nemesis is most definitely 'down with the street.' Word up, my homie, as it were.”

Also, gratz to the Paragon Taxi Service. And seeing the 5th Column win favorite villain group makes me kind of sad. I miss beating on those nazi bastages. :(

[suburbanhell]

I imagine the 5th won because they are no more. I miss them horribly, doing Bastion's TF last night....it just wasn't the same...

[Tsarmina]

:singdance Sweet! That free respec is going to come in handy for many chars once I4 is released and the powersets have been changed.

Oh, and I hope Valcarde sees this. I remember helping him in his quest to complete the respec mission so he could un-gimp his char.

Favorite Server
Virtue
HA!

[suburbanhell]

So I did up my free Respec for Brimstonia this weekend, taking out SuperSpeed for Flight (my first flyer, ever), and I have to say, Flight, while fun, not so fun when you run out of endurance because you decided to go afk to get yourself a drink and find your flyer on the ground with -351 hit points from the fall, luckily she didn't land in a spawning ground... So...how many endrdx do I have to slot flight with to keep this from happening? *grumble*

[Tarberetta]

I used my respec to un-gimp Tarby Phoenix. I have a fun tank now!

[suburbanhell]

I think I'm holding onto all my others unless I have done something horribly wrong with them, all my alts are currently 14-17, so the 24 respec isn't *too* far away...I just figured with Brimstonia being an angel that flight would be a better fit for a travel power.

[Frost Sampson]

Burb, I've got one endredux in my flight with Frost, once you get stamina that should be more than enough.

[suburbanhell]

Excellent, think she's at 17 right now so health and stamina are due up.

[Esbat]

Respecced Dog Fight out of Kick and into Boxing... did some power shifting and dropped Punch in favor of Taunt... also moved powers/slots around to six slot Stamina which helped just enough for me to never stop plowing through solo missions at Rugged/Unyielding settings.

I figure I'll respec Luna Hawk into a travel power and start playing her more... respec Ecto Phantom to maximize his Debuffing and healing skillz... and respec Esbat just for kicks.

Oh and I respecced Hurricane Moth into 6 slotted hover... man i thought it'd rock until I remembered you need to SLOT hover with flight enhancers for it to work right... O_o

[Jade_Dragon]

I'm actually going to try to HOLD ON to my respec's, believe it or not. :D I already used up the holiday one, and when I was planning to hold onto it. It just seemed to disappear...

[Thermyte]

I think Rumble Bee's postcard was robbed:

True DAT!
GAWD! I love that card. It is done SO well. The Tram adds a good touch. Definately robbed, lets boycott....