Hyperstrike

Wow. Way to false-choice it.

There's a few more options. Like they COULD let critical bugs go until the next maintenance window. But people would then gripe about letting critical bugs go unpatched for more than a day.

Some of them are issues that DIRECTLY affect gameplay (like Praetorian free-to-players running into the old level cap.

Bugs like these are not something you can plan every eventuality for. You can make general plans. And they HAVE. When these show-stoppers come up, they patch IMMEDIATELY.

I'd rather that then find out that I have to wait another week for a maintenance window because of a horrific bug revealed 10 minutes after the close of the last maintenance window.

It comes down to this.

Some people think ANY downtime for maintenance is unacceptable.
Some people think the amount of downtime for maintenance CURRENTLY is unacceptable.
Some people think that the amount of downtime for maintenance currently is irritating but if it patches bugs, c'est la vie.
And some freaks beg for more downtime so they can de-graft themselves from their chairs for a few seconds.

It's possible there are issues on the account server and you're showing up as premium right now due to lousy communications.

{12 Stepper} Hi The_Major!


Good advice for the most part. However, in the recent past, with AMD cards, some issues were found in later driver revs. The only advice for that was to roll back to an earlier driver rev.

Honestly, I recommend letting the game handle it. This way I don't have to futz with the driver settings AND the game settings. What can I say, I'm lazy.

Actually, in this game, I'd say:

1. Set the resolution to what you want it to be.
2. Bounce to one of the graphically heavy zones so you can pull a worst-case scenario.
3. Depending on card
   1. With a low or midrange card, set it to recommended and watch your framerate. Tweak stuff up from there if you want it prettier. Tweak it down if your framerate is horrible.
   2. With a high-end gamer-oriented card, set it to Ultra mode then customize it from there. Both Je Saist and myself have graphics guides available to help you make a decision as to what to turn on and off.

I'm actually new to that app. Good find!

There are also tweaks that can be made to shut down background services as well.

Depends on the card really. If you have bought a high-end gaming card you're better off jumping off the deep end and swimming back to settings that are more in tune with your system.

A(MD)MEN! You may want to consider merging this with #1 and fleshing out the description a bit more.

This could be combined with 5.

You may want to explain that they need to shut down, pop the side off the machine and gently blow it out with compressed air from a can. Also let them know that they don't want to be using the compressed air to spin the fans. They run the risk of damaging the bearings and snapping the blades.

[quote[10. Defrag hard drive ....twice in a row, use a defrag program other than the windows, I use auslogics, its free and pretty darn good, when the servers are down I run Ultimate Defrag 3 (its not free).[/quote]Depends on if you're using platter-based drives or Solid State disks. On an SSD, defragging gains you nothing.

Betting you were having file fragmentation issues. Or needed to run a repair check. On systems that aren't running SSDs (like my laptop), I use PerfectDisk and file-defrag the piggs directory in CoH. This cuts down on the amount of disk thrashing the game does looking for file parts.

Glad you appreciated it!

No this was with Incarnate abilities.
Basically I spawned my Lore pets and beat on him until they disappeared.
Then I beat on him to keep him at about the same health and he climbed back up a little before I could spawn my Lore pets again. Once the pets were up, I whittled him all the way down.

If you don't have any major End issues or accuracy issues, I'd say go with Spiritual. Being able to attack more often would up your damage over time.

You may want to look at what you're getting in secondary and tertiary boosts from more advanced Alphas. Those could be the deal-makers. Like Spiritual adds Healing, +ToHit, Disorient, Slow, and Jump as additional effects at higher levels.

Don't just look at the Destiny slot for personal choices. Look at how they'd affect the team. For the first two trials (BAF/LAM) the additional defense of Barrier helps. For the Keyes trial, Rebirth is almost mandatory unless you like running from the hospital. And yes, Clarion is great on the UG trial. As for Ageless. We'll see how that one pans on a couple trials down the road.

If you're tanking and simply want to add damage potential, look at Cimerorans or Warworks (stay away from the choices sporting Battle Orb). They're the two highest DPS pet sets out there. Outside of that, I dunno. A lot of it is just choice.

Hyperstrike is currently running:

Pyronic Judgement
Reactive Interface
Barrier Destiny (With a lower-level Rebirth and/or Clarion that I can swap in.)
Warworks Lore

Uhm. Because it's the TEST server? It's not meant to be a normally playable standard server.

Fix'd to a much more suitable phrase.

Because you're going to be seeing a lot of AoE from L54 Rikti Magi down in the bowl as well. That's going to splash right through your non-afterburner defense levels.

Endurance will be a bit of an issue, but that's why I'm leaning towards the Cardiac alpha slot. Of course, I am open to and want suggestions.

Actually the second build should be a FF/Fire of similar design to the FF/Archery.

Edit: Crap. Not sure why it didn't export the FF/Fire rebuild properly. Will fix that.

Were I to build an FF/Fire, I'd probably go with something more like this:

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.951
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Click this DataLink to open the build!

Bubbleshot: Level 50 Magic Defender
Primary Power Set: Force Field
Secondary Power Set: Archery
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Teleportation
Ancillary Pool: Electricity Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Personal Force Field

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (3) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (3) Kismet - Accuracy +6%: Level 30

Level 1: Snap Shot

• (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
• (5) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (5) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (7) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (7) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (9) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50

Level 2: Aimed Shot

• (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
• (9) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (11) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (11) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (13) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (13) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50

Level 4: Fistful of Arrows

• (A) Detonation - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
• (15) Detonation - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (15) Detonation - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (17) Detonation - Damage/Range: Level 50
• (17) Detonation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (19) Detonation - Damage/Endurance/Range: Level 50

Level 6: Deflection Shield

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (19) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (21) Karma - Knockback Protection: Level 30

Level 8: Insulation Shield

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (21) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (23) Karma - Knockback Protection: Level 30

Level 10: Blazing Arrow

• (A) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
• (23) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (25) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (25) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (27) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (27) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50

Level 12: Dispersion Bubble

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance: Level 50
• (29) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50
• (29) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance: Level 50
• (31) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge: Level 50

Level 14: Boxing

• (A) Disorient Duration IO: Level 50

Level 16: Aim

• (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff: Level 50
• (31) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge: Level 50
• (31) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance: Level 50
• (33) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance: Level 50

Level 18: Repulsion Field

• (A) Force Feedback - Damage/Knockback: Level 50
• (33) Force Feedback - Accuracy/Knockback: Level 50
• (33) Force Feedback - Recharge/Knockback: Level 50
• (34) Force Feedback - Recharge/Endurance: Level 50
• (34) Force Feedback - Damage/Endurance/Knockback: Level 50
• (34) Force Feedback - Chance for +Recharge: Level 50

Level 20: Explosive Arrow

• (A) Detonation - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
• (36) Detonation - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (36) Detonation - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (36) Detonation - Damage/Range: Level 50
• (37) Detonation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (37) Detonation - Damage/Endurance/Range: Level 50

Level 22: Tough

• (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%: Level 30

Level 24: Weave

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (37) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (39) Defense Buff IO: Level 50

Level 26: Repulsion Bomb

• (A) Detonation - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
• (39) Detonation - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (39) Detonation - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (40) Detonation - Damage/Range: Level 50
• (40) Detonation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (40) Detonation - Damage/Endurance/Range: Level 50

Level 28: Maneuvers

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (42) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (42) Defense Buff IO: Level 50

Level 30: Hover

• (A) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (42) Defense Buff IO: Level 50
• (43) Defense Buff IO: Level 50

Level 32: Force Bubble

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50
• (43) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50

Level 35: Fly

• (A) Flight Speed IO: Level 50

Level 38: Rain of Arrows

• (A) Detonation - Accuracy/Damage: Level 50
• (43) Detonation - Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (45) Detonation - Damage/Recharge: Level 50
• (45) Detonation - Damage/Range: Level 50
• (45) Detonation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 50
• (46) Detonation - Damage/Endurance/Range: Level 50

Level 41: Thunder Strike

• (A) Eradication - Damage: Level 30
• (46) Eradication - Damage/Recharge: Level 30
• (46) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge: Level 30
• (48) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge: Level 30

Level 44: Charged Armor

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50

Level 47: Power Sink

• (A) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50
• (48) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50

Level 49: Recall Friend

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50

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Level 1: Brawl

• (A) Damage Increase IO: Level 50

Level 1: Sprint

• (A) Run Speed IO: Level 50

Level 2: Rest

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50

Level 1: Vigilance
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift

• (A) Flight Speed IO: Level 50

Level 2: Hurdle

• (A) Empty

Level 2: Health

• (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery: Level 50
• (48) Healing IO: Level 50
• (50) Healing IO: Level 50

Level 2: Stamina

• (A) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50
• (50) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50
• (50) Endurance Modification IO: Level 50

Whaddya mean they won't sell you one?

You're saying the four vendors showing new copies of the collector's edition for $95 are out of stock?

Yet how many stories (especially early-level ones) are simply clicked through?

Outside of someone's (wasted) time writing dialog, what's the functional difference between an arc with a story nobody actually reads, and an arc with no story?

Also, exactly how non-shallow is "Hunt 10 Skulls"?

I find the attempt to narrow what constitutes "content" somewhat self-serving in this context. Not saying you're doing it in a dishonest fashion (you're not). Just that you're on the slippery slope here.

Like demon farms. Like BM farms. Like running high-but-"normal"-reward arcs with hyper-efficient teams.

I'll say this as often as it needs saying. If the devs didn't expect the people, who were already min-maxing builds and running numbers on most-profitable "native" arcs for any given task, to look for rewards optimization in AE, they were blind, crazy and/or stupid (well, I'll revise that to naive, but it essentially works out to the same thing). If they had no warning during initial creation of the system, they should have gotten a warning light when people asked for ways to create "custom" enemies. They essentially gave min-maxers the keys to Dad's McLaren F1.

I'm sure the above statement about the devs is going to hurt SOMEONE'S feelings. But I think that the devs, if they're brutally honest with themselves, would agree with at least the basic sentiment informing my statement.

Farming isn't a frowned upon activity.

Farming EXPLOITS is a frowned upon activity.

Good call Healix!

Now it's just under half a meg. Which is still kinda large-ish.

When you say you checked, are you checking things that are linked to the board PRE-DATING the new limits? Or are you checking images you're trying to add to the board and it's taking things beyond the limits?

Stuff that's already in the system may be "grandfathered" in without the use of addons. Simply because it ALREADY passed a previous check and the board likely doesn't check again.