Golden_Ace

You haven't lived until you try soloing a "blue" Paragon Protector with an Nrg/Nrg Blaster.
Sorry did i say lived?
Hasten, Aim, Buildup, Snipe, Power Blast, run
Paragon Protector follows after
Power Blast, Power Burst
Start taking damage...
Eat a couple of greens (out now)
Aim, Buildup, Snipe, Power Blast, Power Burst.
Take more damage & Die.

Now if it were green or gray I’m pretty sure I could have taken it.

This was the defining moment for me. Level 39 Blaster loosing to a level 36 boss. Solo, I was not taking on a group.

This is when I stopped playing Blasters and Started playing Tanks. Don’t get me wrong I loved playing Blaster’s, but will not anymore until the damage cap is raised significantly.

Oh and they were all slotted for 1 Acc and 5 Damage. (except for the Power Burst 1 Acc 1 Range 4 Damage).

LOL!! I've Delt with that help desk and "Alex" before!!

Great Job Curveball!!

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Blasters are very good at soloing up until the 30’s then IMHO they become ineffective

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Yes and a blasters ability to generate aggro and debt are also unmatched. Blasters must be extra careful prior to any shot being fired or they faceplant. A boss that pings blue should be no threat to a blaster in the later game but they are. (Paragon Protectors)

In reality blasters get 1/2 the xp of other AT’s throughout much of their career.
"Raise of hands"
How many blasters carry more than one awaken, and why do you think they do that? Or how many have reached the debt cap, or came darn close? I’ve played all the AT’s to some extent and blasters faceplant more often than any of the others that’s what’s wrong.

Blasters are very good at soloing up until the 30’s then IMHO they become ineffective. In the late game blasters are ineffective. The final power in the blasters primary power set Thunderous Blast / Nova / Inferno / etc… Fully Slotted Should be able to destroy all orange minions within range and severely damage Lieutenants and Bosses with out draining all my end. If my entire end is going to be drained it should kill the Lieutenants and Bosses too. More damage for blasters in late game is a must. Take the cap away.

IMO Every AT should be able to solo at least at the heroic setting.

Did not mean to start another thread on this. Just found this one Guide to Jargon & Abbreviations


It's been around much longer.

Forgot a few
<ul type="square"> Bridge – Request to join a team with a high level mission usually +4 to +8 to you and Sidekick a much lower level player so that he gets Uber XP and levels faster. Of course you get the Uber XP also. Bridge requests are usually for level’s 42-46.

Dreck – name of a mission (usually given to level 50's) but is used as a bridge request.

Farm – Start a mission, almost complete it and leave, then restart the mission. Repeat. (Usually saved for missions with lots of XP).[/list]

Well spoken. Stars to you.

May your non-Geekyness rub off on the rest of us.

The following is a list of some of the more common In-Game &amp; Chat Abbreviations that are being used. I found some on the Internet and some are CoH specific.

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2 – To
4 – For
5th – 5th Column
AFAIK – As far as I know
AFK – Away from keyboard
Aggro – aggression / aggravation
Alt – Alternate character
AO – Anarchy Online, a MMORPG
AoE – Area of Effect
AP – Atlas Park
Aqua – Awaken inspirations
Assist – To attack the target of a specific teammate.
AoE - Area of Effect (Effects an area, not a single target)
AV – ArchVillian
AV – Avatar – Graphical Representation (A Picture) Often Used In Chat Rooms
Awaken(s) – Awaken inspirations
BBL – Be back later
BF – Boyfriend
Bio / Bio Break – Bathroom break
Blinkies – Item that needs to be clicked in a mission
Blue(s) – Catch a Breath inspirations
Boom – Boomtown
BRB – Be right back
Brick – Brickstown
BRT – Be right there
BTW – By the way
Buff – a power, inspiration, or enhancement that increases abilities.
Cab – Catch a Breath inspiration
CF – Crey's Folly
Character – Player character
Clock – Clockwork
CoH – City of Heroes
Con / cons – To consider
CoT – Circle of Thorns
CoV – City of Villains
Creys/Folly – Crey’s Folly
DA – Dark Astoria
Debuff – A power, inspiration, or enhancement that decreases the abilities.
Dev/DE – Devouring Earth
Ding – Indicates that a character has leveled
Disc / Discoed – disconnected
DO – Dual origin enhancement
Door – Mission or waypoint
DoT – Damage over time
DPS – Damage per second
End – Endurance
End Break / End Rest / End – request to rest and regain endurance
EQ – EverQuest, a MMORPG
Exp – Experience
Fault – Faultline
FF – Founder’s Fall
Flame – To insult someone in a harsh manner
Freak(s) – Freakshow
FYI – for your information
G2G – Good to go
Gather – teammate will be giving a buff so gather near (healing, accuracy, defense, etc.)
GC – Galaxy City
GF – Girlfriend
Glowies – Item that needs to be clicked in a mission
GM – Game Master
Grapes = Purple con mobs
Grats – Congratulations (usually on leveling)
Gratz – Congratulations (usually on leveling)
Green(s) – Respite inspiration
Griefer – A player who gets enjoyment from trying to kill other players.
GTG – Good to go
Hold aggro – Keeping the focus of an opponent on yourself and away from your teammates
HUD – Heads up display
IDK – I Don’t Know
IIRC – If I recall correctly
Illinois Nazis – 5th Column
IMHO – In my humble opinion
IMO – In my opinion
Inc! – Incoming monsters
Insp – Inspiration
INV – Invite
IP – Independence Port
IYKWIM – If you know what I mean
IYKWIMAITYD – If you know what I mean, and I think you do
KS – Kill Steal – To defeat an enemy that was being defeated by another player, without first getting their permission.
KK / K = OK
KR – King’s Row
LFT – Looking for team
LOL – Laughing out loud
LoS – Line of Sight
Lt – Lieutenant
LVL – Level
Main – A player's primary character; that is, the character the player plays most of the time. Almost always the highest level character on an account.
Mezzers – Something that kills squishies quickly
Mish – Mission
MMORPG – Massively Multiplayer Online Role – Playing Game)
Mob – An NPC, short for “mobile object”
MT = mistell
N00B – Someone who is annoying, stupid, or refuses to learn
Nerf / Nerfed – to lessen in usefulness or power
Newb – Same as n00b
Newbie – Someone new to the game
NFI – No f**king idea
NP – No problem
NPC – Nonplayer character
Nuke – Damage ability
OMG – Oh my god
OMW – On my way
OOE – Out of Endurance
OOR – Out of Range
OTW – On the way
Own / Owned – To lay waste to an enemy or having your butt kicked.
PBAoE – Point blank area of effect
PC – Player character
PITA – pain in the a$$
PK – Player killer
PL – Power Level. To level as quickly as possible, with outside assistance.
Plz – Please
PP – Perez Park; also, Power Pool
PPL – People
Pull – To hit a specific opponent, in order to begin combat with either just it, or it and a group of opponents near it.
Purps / Purples – Luck inspirations
PvE – Player versus environment (NPC)
PvP – Player versus player
Pwn – To own strongly (see own)
Raiders – skyraiders
RAWR – Look at me/us kick a$$
RBTL Read Between The Lines
Red(s) – enrage inspiration.
Resp – Respite inspiration
Rez – To resurrect or revive a player
RL – Real life, as in, the life you live in the real world.
ROFL – Rolling on the floor laughing
ROTF – Rolling On The Floor (Laughing Is Implied)
ROTFLMAO / ROFLMAO – Rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off
ROTFLMFAO / ROFLMFAO = Rolling On The Floor Laughing F(***Ing) My A$$ Off
Root – To immobilize an opponent
RSN – Real Soon Now
RTFM – Read the Freakin manual
RTM – Read the manual
Runner – An NPC that (for whatever reason) bolts from the group; runners tend to fetch help.
SC – Steel Canyon
SK – Sidekick
Sky – skyraiders
Sky – Skyway City
S&amp;D / SnD – Seek &amp; destroy; for those missions where the PC must find and defeat x of a specific type of NPC.
SO – Single origin enhancement
SOL – Sh*t out of luck
Talos – Talos Island
Tank – To engage in hand – to – hand combat in a manner designed to keep the attention of the enemies on yourself, rather than on weaker teammates. / A way of life
Taxi – A request, meaning “I need a teleport to your location”
THX – Thanks
TI – Talos Island
Toon – Player character
TP – Teleport
Train / Tram – The tram/railway/line station
TV – Terra Volta
TXS – Thanks
TY – Thank you
Vahz – Vahzilok
[censored] – What the f**k?
WTG – Way to go!
XP – Experience
Yellow(s) – Insight inspirations
YW – You're welcome
Zone – A specific area within the game
Zone line – Area where you exit the current part of town to enter another
Zoning – The process of moving from one zone to another[/list]

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Darn 21/21 on them (can't claim to be a non geek on this one)

Geek powers activate

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11/21

WHO WERE THEY???
Guess that puts me in the non-geek column for getting the lowest reported score so far....

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You are a god of the non-geeks

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15/21

so I'm not a geek?

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14

Sorry non geek cut off is 14.

Sorry MrEMan,

Tried everything I could think of with both autoreply and reply. Looks like I got the same results you did.

Good luck.

You might be SOL on this. I've seen this requested since july of last year. To date no one seems to have figured it out. I've read over the posted failures and nothing seems to work. I will try a few ideas if I get anything to work I will post it for you.

What i showed is bound to numlock yes. You can put a /bind in front of what you see and it will bind it to numlock, or if you saved your binds into a different file then just copy what you see in the "n" area.

as to a direct answer to your post no.

however this is close

Turning On or Off Multiple Toggle Powers

numlock "+ $$powexectoggleon Temp Invulnerability$$powexectoggleon Invincibility$$powexectoggleon Assault$$powexectoggleon Tactics$$powexectoggleon Maneuvers$$powexectoggleon Weave$$powexectoggleon Unyielding"

shift+numlock "powexectoggleoff Temp Invulnerability$$powexectoggleoff Invincibility$$powexectoggleoff Assault$$powexectoggleoff Tactics$$powexectoggleoff Maneuvers$$powexectoggleoff Weave$$powexectoggleon Sprint$$powexectoggleoff Unyielding$$powexectoggleoff Tough"

Pressing and releasing numlock will turn on the listed powers from right to left. The first press and release will turn on Unyielding and queue Weave. As Weave is finished activating, another press and release will activate Manuevers and queue Tactics. Repeat until all toggles are on. This is useful just in case some, but not all, of a character's toggles are shut off. Keep pressing numlock and the game will skip powers that are already on, and queue or turn on powers that are off.

Using powexectoggleoff will allow you to turn off any number of powers, up to the maximum character length of a command line, with only one keypress.

Thanks storyteller

If you wish to have symbols in your speach bubbles though you need to save it under Encoding UTF-8. ANSI will not allow symbols.

Here is one I used for a while until I respected out of Tp

/bind F5 "team $target I’m opening a Wormhole to bring you to me! Please keep your hands and feet inside the wormhole at all times!! (I'd hate to have a missing body parts incident again). $$powexec_name recall friend"

I Could not agree more. My first was a Blaster did fine up until level 30 then kept dieing. At level 38 Bosses that were blue would kill me if i did not keep shooting and running. Even then would take masive amounts of damage. Thats when I noticed that Tanks were taking on large groups of enemies several orders higher than their level, and winning without a problem. That’s when I started my tank. My Tank is now level 40. I have always had my missions set at invincible (my blaster would never dream of setting his missions that high). Lately have been inviting lower levels to my team w/o SK so they get great XP and I have bigger and higher groups to play with.

Blaster = If it’s blue (and a boss) it can kill me.
Invulnerable Tank = Blue?? Why bother.

My Tank has taken on multiple bosses 5 levels higher and won. Sure it takes a while but it is possible I shudder to think of my blaster even trying anything that was purple. My blaster Maxed out on debt more times than I care to count. Finally ended up deleting him, and starting over with devices. Oh and I never went melee the word squishy comes to mind.

Also my blaster died many times per level, as for my tank my record is going 7 levels without debt. Oh and on a side note if a tank does not have Taunt dont team with him. He / She cannot protect you.

OH hey here's an Idea. Since blasters accumulate debt 10 times faster than others why not make blaster debt 1/10th of what everyone else gets. LOL