Hyperstrike

Okay there's two things that make IOs slightly better than HOs in some cases.

HOs have better raw aspect improvement than dual-aspect IOs (say an Acc/Dam HO vs a L50 Acc/Dam IO, the HO wins in terms of better stat boosting).

However, there are a couple other things.

Read up on IOs.

Then read up on Set Bonuses.

Also, you'll see this term now and again too, Frankenslotting.


Here's a few helpful links to get you started on "everything".

Paragonwiki: Basically if you want to know about something in CoH, it's on Paragonwiki. Don't dink around with the old Wikia site. It's throwing malware infested ads.

Mid's Hero Designer: This program allows you to play around with various builds and loadouts on a toon without having to spend any inf in-game to look at how it performs. If you're serious about getting the most out of your build for your inf, GET THIS PROGRAM. NO ARGUMENTS!

There's also Sucker Punch's online build planner there as well, but it's a little out of date.

Titan Sentinel: A program that ties into the Titan network's City Info Terminal project (so you can see your stats outside of the game on their CIT site). That in and of itself is cool, but the MUST HAVE feature is the ability to have it dump the live build of your character in-game and give you the ability to import it into Mid's.

This lets you see what you've got, the real numbers for it, and let's you progress from there.

I'd to have the ability to cut off Lord Recluse's head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into his lifeless eyes and wave like this.



Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Ms. Bianco?

While I'm not a Pinnacle regular, welcome back to The City.

Now step up. There's bad guys wanting for a butt-thumping.

Also you can speed up the process considerably by killing the launcher once the initial install portion is over and it's begun downloading.

Kill the launcher and the download.
Copy the contents of your main CoH folder into the newly created test folder.
Delete any .checksum files.
Restart the the launcher for Test. Allow it to patch what's there.


This way you wind up with a patch that takes minutes instead of an install that takes hours.

CoH Helper and HijackThis logs pls.

There's also the possibility that your connection has gone bad for some reason or there's a bug in chat following maintenance.

Also, try verifying your files. Just in case one is corrupted.

Sorry but I'm in the "Just don't do it" camp.

Unless you've restricted said F2P accounts in exactly the same way you have Trial accounts, you open the door to griefers and goldspammers.

The thought of that is enough to make me want to drive down to the NCSoft hosting facility and reenact the Blues Brothers mall chase through their server farm area.