Fleeting Whisper

Regarding the "Special Links" (if you're using Firefox)

I'm pretty sure that's not intended. Did you try to /petition a GM about it?

I think Kinetics would probably be pretty hard for a death = delete character. It's only available on squishy ATs, and mostly requires you to be in melee. The heal is small compensation.

For anyone considering death = delete and doesn't want a super hard core challenge, Mind/FF controller is extremely safe

You can't get a macro to fire off two click powers, even with multiple clicks, and you can't get a macro to cycle through pets or teammates, except with /targetcustomnext... and that only works if they're on your screen.

I have two beefs with the new forums, one of which I know it shared by at least some others:
1) You must click a small linked image to get to the newest unread post in a thread
2) The "Forum Tools" popup menu (required to mark a forum as read) is painfully slow to animate

So, I have created a Greasemonkey script to alleviate my issues.

If you've already got Greasemonkey installed (requires restarting Firefox), you can get the script from here:
CoH Forum Mod
(Just click the "Install" link, and the Greasemonkey install dialog will open for you)

What the script does:
- The "Forum Tools" button is removed. It gets replaced by a "Mark Forum Read" link.*
- The "Mark Forum Read" link will mark all posts in the forum as read, and move you to the parent forum.**
- Any thread links which follow a new post arrow, which shares the post ID with the new post arrow, will have its link modified to go to the new post. Threads without new posts will remain unchanged (thread link takes you to the first post in the thread)
- The forum skin remains unmodified

I've tested this with both Hero and Villain skin. The only problem I can foresee occurring would be caused by catastrophic errors in the forum layout, which is far beyond my control.

Here's an example: The thread title with new posts in it is being hovered over with my mouse, and the url at the bottom will take me to the new post:


Note that the script will only be active while you're viewing a forum on these boards. It will also work on the search page, as well as on subscribed threads in your user CP.


* Yes, this does remove a handful of things you can do in a forum, like subscribe/unsubscribe to the whole forum. But I don't think there's anything in the popup that is both used frequently and not found elsewhere. For the things used infrequently (eg, subscribe to forum), you can temporarily disable the script. For things found elsewhere (eg, New Post), you can access them elsewhere anyway.
** This behavior is slightly different from the Mark Forum Read option in the Forum Tools popup, in that the Forum Tools version keeps you in the same forum. However, this is apparently accomplished with a redirect in the PHP code, which I cannot prevent. Besides, if you're marking the forum read, you're probably not going to be reading more threads there.

Chat bubble colors are broken (except the color you can set in the options window)

Right, pet recharge already can't be buffed (SB), meaning Kinetics MMs just get a heal (Dark already has an identical heal, and Transfusion would probably have a nerfed radius like Twilight Grasp. In fact, with Fluffy, Dark has the heal twice), damage capped pets, and if you like, pets which will run all over the entire map without any possibility of control from you (have you ever seen a Ninja with SB?)

And even with damage cap, the only real problems would be Arsonist and Assault Bot.

Aside from the glaringly obvious problems with abuse this suggestion has, there's the issue that ambushes in this game are dumb, and most people outside missions are either standing in AE/WW/BM (where there's an insta-kill field), or moving too fast for the NPCs to follow. In the former case, the suggestion is free badges, especially for people running AE missions all the time. In the latter case, other people have to deal with your assassination ambushes.

It's also monstrously unfair to Mastermids, who need henchmen in order to have their full combat ability, and those henchmen don't zone with you.

I'm just saying there are more effective things to spend inf on than travel HOs for Hover

Now people will want a hero skin version. You've dug your own grave, Zombie

Greasemonkey is your only option, I think.

Yes, rep is apparently anonymous in both directions.

While it might seem thematic for the set, there isn't any other MM primary whose utility power is unrelated to the henchmen.
Necromancy: Works on defeated henchmen
Mercenaries: Buffs a henchman
Robotics: Heals a henchman
Ninjas: Lets the henchmen crit
Thugs: Summons more henchmen

Why do you need a link to a secure version of the home page? It still doesn't give you a secure login to the forums, and you get a secure link in the NCSoft store no matter what.