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Quote:This is called "cross posting." It's not a good idea, since it's against the forum rules and all that noise.Originally Posted by Thaumator
Not sure if (or how many times) this has been addressed. I'll most likely post this in the technical bugs/issues forum, and maybe the costume suggestion forum as well.
This isn't a problem. The VEAT costumes were set up to work this way. When Dual Builds were introduced, they did promote that you could have different career paths in them, but there was no word that the rules for their costumes would change.Quote:Originally Posted by Thaumator;2469694
I decided to dual build my lvl 50 Crab. Secondary build is Bane.
Dual build at the trainer went fine. No problems. Then I went to the tailor...
The first costume slot is [BSTILL[/B] the only costume slot that allows SoA costume pieces.
With dual builds, I was really looking forward to costume slot 1 being Crab, and costume slot 2 being Bane (you know, to match my dual builds).
KHAAAAAAN !!!!!! -
I hope everyone has a "super" Christmas. Har, har, har.
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Quote:It's a shame there's not a certain SG leader around anymore, cause then Westley would have already gotten a private message about how you can't trust the forums and real players "see for themselves." Then, if convinced, Westley would have joined this certain SG and been scared away from Champion within a week or so because he's an experienced player being talked to like a 4 year old by some middle aged man with obvious control issues and innumerable other complexes.Originally Posted by Felecia_Divine
Hmmmmm Drama! Westley is in for a treat, send him to AOW
Our XXX division and a few minutes with Prixy, Pyreklism, Apochrypha, and i will cure him forever and send him screaming back to Triumph and Repeat Offenders.
Hey! I noticed that TrollFire Drama quote, i still prefer DRAMAFIRE
Or send him to PoN and have him locked in a room with ELFer for an hour, remember to bring him a drool glass
Now on to more important topics! Where is the Squirrel Pie?
(I am canadian, we eat those things ya know. It movez, killz it, and grillz it - Roadkill Cafe)
Name that SG!
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Quote:I'm assuming you mean in the proposed scenario... cause the only reason I ever take snipes on my blasters is to make a game of one shotting lts. Well, that's the fun reason. I guess the real reason is SoM, but you catch my drift.Originally Posted by Circuit_Boy
Unless you can one-shot a lieutenant or a boss (and no one can), you're going to take damage from him--AND from all his minion buddies. You can, however, one-shot a minion before he can fire back.
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I *loved* playing Ninja Blade / Energy Aura. It was the first villain I really got into and still the only one at 50.
I think it might be what you're looking for, honestly, because it had that assassin feel without becoming a hokey ninja. The primary lacks in utility that the secondary makes up for. It also has a few skippables if you have any ideas for branching into power pools.
Dual Blades, I think, will give you the same feeling Electric is, because the PBAoE is part of two important chains. Come to think of it, I'm not sure if that's the case for stalkers, but either way the chains will leave you thinking you're focusing on DBs and not assassinating!
EM might be fun.
On a side note, the powers you listed for Electric's good AT aren't anything special. Like, I believe you'd have that and MORE for ST in most other sets. Ninja Blade is almost all ST, so it's a good contrast. -
Quote:That's not the only reason it's not a factor. Redraw is accounted in activation times. Radial knockback on targeted AoEs and (old) exemplaring for more influence, and redraw and weapons are probably the three most common CoH myths.Originally Posted by Roofles
REDRAW IS NOT A FACTOR!111!!!!! I see this comment time and time again and it's generally from people that have not played the sets together. The bow is drawn at the start of the fight to debuff and the gun is usually brought out afterwards for damage. Occasionally you'll want to or need to switch during a fight but it's hardly the juggling act people make it out to be.
Read Luminara's guide on TA, it will probably answer every question you can imagine.Quote:Originally Posted by Luminara
[color=lightgreen][b][*]Redraw
Weapon redraw has, for years, been considered one of the ultimate banes of players. Entire guides, including my own previous TA guide, dedicated entire diatribes on the vileness of redraw and how critical or worthwhile it was to avoid it whenever possible. The truth was only revealed a short few months ago, though.
There is no redraw penalty.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=122243
I would echo /Ice or /Sonic, though most any combination would work well. -
Leveling up I'm partial to doing -1 level then ramping up the team size as I get more AoE, or whatever. Probably to x3 or x4, then leave it there for a while. I farm on my archery/energy blaster at +3/x8, but no bosses.
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Quote:I'm in the same boat as you Peterbilt. Our SG is only five strong, and only three of us play allll the time, but our base is filled out. I'd so coalition with you if you'd have us.Originally Posted by Peterbilt
welcome and enjoy your stay here. It is much friendlier here than most servers.
I've a tiny blue side SG that you are welcome to join. I don't recruit but have stumbled on a few very nice players. But I need to coalition with some other SG's.
*hint, hint*
Anyone want to coalition with me? I have all my own telepads so I don't need help there. Just looking for more people who play after 9 PST.
OP:
Champion isn't abnormal in that there's plenty of nice and nasty people. Other than Virtue, I've only dipped into other servers so take my observations with a grain of salt. Champion has a couple huge SGs, and a ton of little ones. Champion has the most Tankers built to scrank (or something 'sides tanking). Champion has a lot of server events and enough people hosting TFs from the boards that if you're willing to schedule some CoH time it will be a grand old time.
There used to be an awful, awful SG here on Champion that scared people away in droves. In my fantasy world, you were offended by one of its former members. If you're looking for a big friendly SG that doesn't just farm or PvP I would definitely echo the previous sentiments towards United Heroes Brigade or Hammers of Justice.
You're more than welcome to join us, but our SG isn't anything special. I am though. I'm humble, too. So if you're playing on Champion shoot me a tell @Gilia1. I only play blueside there, though. -
Quote:That isn't what Smiling Joe suggested, btw. It would have looked more like /bind z "+down$$powexec_name Black Dwarf Step$$powexec_name Shadow Step"Originally Posted by peterpeter
/bind lshift+down "powexec_name Black Dwarf Step$$powexec_name Shadow Step"
I believe you have some extra binds floating around that are causing this, because I was not able to recreate the effect of having reticles afterwards. In human form, clicking would fire off shadow step and unqueue black dwarf step, and in dwarf form *you never shift+click* so shadow step's reticle would never come up (if these were the only two binds in effect).Quote:Originally Posted by peterpeter
When I did the paired bindings:
/bind lshift+lbutton powexecname shadow step
/bind lshift powexecname black dwarf step
it was exactly the same, but reversed. If I had switched shadow step and black dwarf step, then it would be the same.
I suggest you do:
/bindsavefile C:\warshade.txt
Open up that file, and look for other binds you might have tried. This could include ones with "shift" instead of "lshift," "click" instead of "lbutton," etc etc.
Wherever you see them replace what you had bound with "" so it would look like:
SHIFT+CLICK ""
After all those have been replaced, save it and in the game:
/bindloadfile C:\warshade.txt
That should undo them.
You can get the same effect if you remember everything you've tried in the game, but unfortunately experimenting on binds has a tendency to leave you with these ghosts binds that ruin any possible solutions. -
I would recommend you get Mids so you can upload the data chunks or even link to your builds.
That said, I have a few comments about the power choices and orders.
Because you said this is a leveling build, certain powers can be pushed back (swift, hover, fly) . Depending on how things are going by the time you hit 30, I might say you should take something besides Kick/Tough/Weave, and save those for a post-respec sort of thing. With sets, and stacked with Temp Invulnerability, you will notice a lot of mitigation once it's added up. Tough/Weave alone have very low numbers for blasters though.
You skipped Electron Haze, which is the highest AoE DPS in your sets. Along with that, Boost Range would make it cover (by far) the most area. That's a combo you might hesitate to lose!
If you're going to take Hasten, I would recommend you push it up. Likewise, I would push Conserve Power back. If absolutely nothing else, I would switch those two in your build.
Bone Smasher and Total Focus are awesome ST attacks, and a lot of people will swear by them. However, I would be curious if by 38 you don't already have a full ST attack chain. If you do, I might be hesitant. I'm not a fan of TF just because of long animation time, and playing Energy/Energy against Rikti a lot meant I could get sworded down mid-strike very easily.
Lastly, slots, the powers that I said could be delayed could definitely have their slotting delayed. Fly and Hover can have their slots wait till your attacks are all solid. I would only start with 2 slots in Aim, Build Up, Conserve Power, and Power Boost. Possibly even Hasten, though that third slots pretty tempting.
Hope that helps. If you'd like examples of what I or any others would do for their builds feel free to ask. -
Quote:I don't think that will work.Originally Posted by peterpeter
Hmmm. Bummer. I wasn't planning to use binds for shifting forms. We have so many power trays now, I just keep one tray open for each form. It's been years since I messed around with loading bind files and I really don't miss it.
I seem to recall that the powexec name command doesn't need a full name. I wonder if "powexec_name step" would have any chance of working? I guess I can try it when I get home.
If you're seriously trying to avoid macros, switching trays, and loading bind files you could just do this:
/bind lshift+lbutton powexecname shadow step
/bind lshift powexecname black dwarf step
Then when you're in human form, you shift+click to teleport, and in dwarf you shift -> click to teleport. -
Quote:I probably wouldn't ask for /signing because that would make this a petition thread and just get it deleted. (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/annou...php?f=565&a=17)Originally Posted by Silverado
Any other /sign's on this? if the Scrapper community is vocal enough on this issue maybe the devs will take this suggestion seriously and we can be happy for the rest of our lives
Read a bit about taunt and threat (http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Taunt &http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Threat).
Damage contributes to threat, just like taunting. Scrappers' damage auras do something like 40% more than tankers', yet the tankers' AT modifier is only 33% higher. The taunt changes were implemented because scrappers with a taunt aura could hold aggro well enough that a tanker couldn't take it away. In the current setup, adding taunt to the damage auras would recreate that effect.
Plus, the taunt auras grant the scrapper something in return for keeping mobs near them. The damage auras help by killing things faster... but do scrappers need to kill things even faster? A change like this encroaches on the tanker and blasters' default roles on a team.
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Quote:The black costume aspect aside (which has already been explained) anime and anime-inspired movies/shows (e.g. Super Sentai) brought in this idea that martial artists do flips constantly and there's that goofy "whoosh!" sound every time they do.Originally Posted by LostHalo
Anime is hardly to blame for how ninja are portrayed, bad Kung Fu flicks are (and in the actual history, probably the ninja themselves).
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Quote:You can have [Prestige] Sprint on with Ninja Run, but you can't have Super Speed, Super Jump, or Combat Jumping on at the same time.Originally Posted by Player99
quick question here:
is ninja run an actual new travel power, or just a new sprint?
either way it looks cool as all hell
Interestingly enough, as far as I can tell, Ninja Run adds that same "control" that Super Jump does when you fly. You don't drift if you have Ninja Run and Fly on. -
Quote:Playing Ice/Thermal, some bolt brain asked me why I was even there on an ITF if I was only going to buff the people who took damage. Of course, he also threatened to kick a friend of mine for not playing the way he liked... even though he didn't have the star.Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
If I'm in combat on a buffer, the shields are dropping, melee's doing its thing and range/control isn't getting a lot of attention, I only worry about hitting melee with shields, and double checking on any mez protection buffs. Top them off later. Worry about "even" buffs when everyone has a chunk of downtime.
I'm curious since the OP mentioned Mastermind's way of equipping henchmen, why that wasn't suggested? I mean, it would fix the "gather for..." annoyance, it wouldn't affect the caster, and the costs / recharge could be some reasonable in between (like say the cost of hitting 3 or 4 allies).
I don't really care for either idea, but that sounds better than PBAoEs.
I'd really just rather see the duration on ST buffs increased. It might mean some counter measures, like more buffs only work on teammates than do now, and stopping door stacking. I would take such set backs to only have to buff at the beginning of a mission. -
Quote:You should play with cooler, more suave, and handsome stalkers like me. My thoughts on it, after the mid-twenties, was if there's no brute or mastermind on the team, I was the most suited to take the alpha. Even with masterminds, I still could be, cause you figure masterminds and corruptors are going to buff who ever runs in first, and dominators will mitigate the damage you take. So yeah, I turned off hide a fair amount as a stalker.Originally Posted by magikwand
..., and I haven't seen a stalker to run into a mob not hidden with arms blazing. ...
Course all that's moot, cause now with VEATs they'd probably be better for going in first.
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Original post? I'm curious why you don't try another blaster. Blasters are utterly delicious. AR/Dev is a thematic and rounded blaster, but it plays a fair bit differently than some others. Since you don't care for melee, I would just avoid /Electric and /Fire. Even /Energy (another common blapping set) has Boost Range and Power Boost to help your ranged attacks out.
So anyway, if you consider that, I recommend Fire/Ice, Archery/Energy, Ice/Mental. Those are fun fairly safe combinations, but there's certainly more (probably even better) ideas.
If you're thinking Defender anyway, Empathy is incredibly simple. Not the best, but I believe just about any person new to Defenders can use them well. If you're keen on ranged attacks and not so much buffs and heals I would definitely say Dark/Dark. You get tons of -tohit, so you're sparing your team that way, with Tar Patch you can do decent damage, and it's just so cute. A little bit of -tohit enhancing in Fearsome Gaze and you can take a whole mob down 22%. You might want to skip Torrent though, that knock back is annoying. -
Quote:Sooooo.... you're saying purples are a good idea cause then it won't take you 500 hours to get to 50? Forgive my ignorance if it is not such, but don't you have to wait till 50 to use/slot purples?Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I have to assume you don't enjoy soloing AVs. Or running solo at +4/x8 w/bosses.
I do. Using purple sets to punch up my recharge to increase my DPS while freeing up space for more mitigation allows me to do those things.
So.. worth it? Absolutely when you're doing the things that necessitate their use. Unnecessary? It's not necessary to play this game or drink coke. Yet people do out of enjoyment.
And other people are fine playing at the lowest diff and taking 500 hours to hit 50.
I would actually use this to argue against purples. You have a fully slotted character with rare sets, yet you'll drop a billion for 5% global recharge, 10% global accuracy, and 5% recovery? Number differences so low that you'll have to buy at least 5 sets to have a really noticeable difference in playstyle...Quote:Originally Posted by Nihilii
Have you ever slotted an IO set with a set recharge bonus, such as for example, Crushing Impact, Decimation, Positron's Blast ?
If the answer is "yes", then purples should be worth it for you, seeing as they give the same bonuses, only bigger.
Anyway, to summarize and echo a little bit, purple sets are fun if they suit what you want to do in the game. If they don't, they are unnecessary. In regards to the OP I would say the only strategy I would add to the list is Ouroboros (keeping bonuses when you exemplar) and Task Forces. For someone like me, who likes to hit 50, finish the current arc, and start a new toon, they are a ridiculous waste of money. I could slot out a character with decent sets for the cost of 2 purples.
All that said, I think some purples (like Coercive Persuasion) are cheap enough to put me on the fence. -
I'm very impressed. Can I ask what those red powers are in Voices' power tray? I don't recognize them at all!
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I am running an Crab and a Fort in almost parallel right now. I have not picked up the 33 month power on either of them. Since from what I understand, Natural origin villains get the damage bonus on both powers, SoAs need to decide based on the secondary effects.
I can't decide which ones I want. Here's my thoughts though!
The Blackwand's -tohit stacks nicely with either of their defenses. They will spend much of their career not softcapped, so any powers that get them closer to that effect are a good idea!
The Staff's knock back offers a different form of mitigation, entirely. One that has a much more visible and immediate effect, but has all its usual annoyances. Plus it has an increase in range.
Anyhow, I just can't decide for either of them.
So, could you share with me which you took on your VEATs, and possibly why?
A possible secondary consideration, if you have thought of it: whichever you took, would you still have if it didn't get the damage bonus? In other words, is knockback and range enough to sell the staff on its own, even if you were a magic origin? (I know that's not possible.) -
Quote:Originally Posted by Thirty_Seven
As a further devil's advocate... when you let your child play, does he/she click the [I Agree] button? Technically, your child is not allowed to do that because clicking that button is in essence agreeing to a contract, something persons under the age of 18 are not allowed to do.
So, while I can abide that there should not be swearing (as per the EULA), it should not be to accomodate someone, who as far as I know, shouldn't be playing this game in the first place when not totally supervised, including having dear old dad click the [I Accept] button.Aren't lawyers and judges who you're SUPPOSED to argue with? Haha!Quote:Originally Posted by Local_Man
The "Teen" rating is a guideline, not a law or even a rule -- I dare you to show me where in the EULA or any statute that says that a 12-year-old is not allowed to play CoH. Besides, my 17-year old also plays, and even though he "has heard it all," I don't particularly want him to see foul language, either. Besides, it is obvious by the use of the term, "Teen," that the publisher of this game intended some of the users to be minors.
Minors enter into contracts every day.
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(Don't argue the law with a lawyer!)
Local_Man is beyond right in this instance anyway. No only does the EULA address this circumstance explicitly (4.a), all non-essential contracts ("luxury") in the United States are made valid by parents' consent... no matter how old the child is. Age of Majority in the USA also varies by the circumstance in question. AFAIK there is no federal precedence on the matter, but there are states at least where a 13 year old can enter into a contract when it is dependent on a contract their guardian is in. This includes EULAs for software that their parents are paying for and ringtone "subscriptions" on their parents' cellphones.
No matter how you slice it, children can legitimately play the game in accord with the EULA.
People who swear in public channels can't.
In regards to the OP, just take a gander at all the "Generic" heroes. One of the best things about CoH is that there's a responsive and responsible support staff. If they swear, ask them not to. Perhaps remind them that it's a suspendable and bannable offense. I have been suspended for it, so I'm totally being a hypocrite right now. It was my own fault though, and it won't happen again! If they keep on swearing and being offensive, petition! Haha! -
Quote:Can't you just stack CM?Originally Posted by Ethric
The Defender Clear Mind gives a bit more mezprotect magnitude but that really doesn't matter because the mezzes rarely stack that high, and even if they do, not even Defender CM can save you at that point.
OP: The numbers are different, but they achieve the same ends. If you really want to know how the two ATs would compare with Empathy, you should say what secondary you're using as a defender and what primary you are considering for a controller. That could make a huge difference in how they compare. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Tired Angel
It all depends on how the toons uses the tools it has avaiable.What a good example of using the tools available!Quote:Originally Posted by Cyclone_Jack
They can help take down Bosses faster while their AoE brethren are smiting the Minions and then they can both work on moping up the Lieutenants. ST-focused Blasters are also very useful in AV battles as well.
I just wanted to also to point out that the sets that I would consider the most ST heavy for blasters (at least in the primary) are Ice/ and Psychic/. Ice/ has two holds, enough -speed and -recharge to floor any targets' attack rate, and a nuke (yes, it's AoE) that when used appropriately is jaw dropping. Psy has a sleep, disorient, knockback, knock up AoE, and all that aforementioned -recharge.
Yeah, ST Blasters shine more on small teams, but I'd go as far as to say the ST sets can be amazing on a smaller team. An Ice/Ice/Elec blaster that knows what it's doing can pin down two bosses at a time easily. They're like Controllers who gave up all the buffs and debuffs for Blizzard.
I would probably put Sonic in a ST category too, even though it was mentioned that it has the average number of AoEs. The problem with it is Shockwave's knockback is huge (see: arguments about Energy Blast for AoEs) and Siren's Song and Screech both do really low damage for the sake of Sleep/Disorient. So anyway, I would shove it into the first set and make it a trio with a lil asterisk. It has a significant debuff and some good mez for mitigation. (Howl, the one I didn't mention, is comprable to Frost Breath IIRC)
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Quote:Copy the original game to into the CoHTest folder over everything. Then it takes exactly as long as it does for a large update to get on there.Originally Posted by chatman
As I refuse to buy another computer for the sake of a game I will volunteer what time I can to testing in the training room. The tough part is getting enough time to do the mega download and install of a second copy. Somewhere around here on a sticky is the procedure so I'll have to look it up again.
Perhaps if more are able to do so we may yet stem the tide of another bug like our current "Curse of the Orange Hand."
In regards to the OP, I would bet the devs care, but not a lot. Like the other guy said, minority status and all that noise. -
Quote:I totally suggested that too! I'm glad you have it working.Originally Posted by kendo
YEAH !!! got it to work. and looking through the /bindsavefile did the trick.
somehow, no matter what I deleted or changed in the bind file, every time I logged in and flipped through the forms, it inserted this back into the bind file
SHIFT+LBUTTON "powexec_name shadow step"
I tried deleting it several times, tried /unbind, etc, then reloaded the binds file without that in there. and every time, it got inserted back in.
finally, I decided that if I couldn't beat it, I would try to force it to do my bidding :-) so the next time I saved the bind file and this was in there, I left the bind but changed it to
SHIFT+LBUTTON ""
and that seems to be working. whatever was inserting that bind every time apparently doesn't overwrite this. or maybe this overwrites whatever was inserting the shadow step bind in there.
either way, right now my warshade is much happier. thanks everyone for all your help. and pass along the idea of using /bindsavefile command to edit things.
I may know what that problem was, too. If you simply remove a bind from the file (I believe this is the same effect as /unbind), then load it again... it makes no difference. Any bind not listed in a file is not effected. So you literally have to replace a faulty bind with something like you listed (SHIFT+LBUTTON ""), then load it again.
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Quote:Pants haha :-P I suppose Winter Fire isn't that strange.Originally Posted by ketch
Ahaha, obviously I misread. Now that I've been pantsed in front of the other kids, I'd guess Winter Fire has been taken too. I just checked for the sake of being a twit. Taken on all servers... except Freedom. Go figure.
At any rate, I'll just chime in with StratoNexus and say control is control to most teams. Anyone looking for a ice controller would most likely confirm it before inviting him anyway.
I have a Katana/Energy Stalker named Roboninjitsu. Yeah, people assume I was /ninjitsu, but no one seemed upset when they found out I wasn't. I think Ice and Earth control would be the same way. You supply something similar anyway.