Hyperstrike

Not what I was implying.

So, how's that leveling like madness going for ya?

Pop your CoH Helper and Hijack This reports up. Or if you'd dropped them on another thread, gimme a link.

Outside of random crashes, the only time I've seen CoH bomb out on a regular, dependable basis is due to running out of memory or becoming unstable after passing the 1.5GB threshold (32-bit apps have a maximum memory allocation per-process of 2GB, but many of the high-memory-usage 32-bit apps I've encountered start becoming flaky at or above 1.5).

That or driver issues.

Most heartily agreed with.

I'd say reroll. With a full team and bumped difficulty you'll be leveling so hard it wont' even be funny.

Wrong. The seller sets the price floor. The buyer sets the price. The real culprits of inflation are not the "greedy flippers". They're the doofuses with the BUYITNAO mentality.

Open mouth, insert foot. You're right.


I look at it this way. Immob one or many. I tend to pick quantity.

I tend to build with Hasten and three slot Recharges into it. However, due to diminishing returns on Recharge, the difference between 4 slotted with EndMod/Recharge IOs, or three-slotted Recharge is fairly negligible.

That and I run my Fire/Rad in groups of Fire/Rads. Recharge is seldom a problem.




Again, I tend to run in teams, so this isn't usually an issue. And you're right about it really needing a second EndRed solo.

Usually when I do solo, I don't usually need Flashfire up more often than it already is. Granted, I'm already running a high recharge build.



I tend to use it as my "aw crap" hold due to the recovery penalty.


Assault? Yeah, Maneuvers? Yeah, only on teams.

If you're going after AVs by yourself, yeah. I tend to be more leisurely solo. Stun them, hold them, run up and cook them.

This is where the stacked Maneuvers comes in handy.

I have found, while "tanking" for my Fire/Rad team that Flashfire always seems to draw aggro and an alpha strike before the stun set in. Sometimes survivable, sometimes not.


Agreed. However Enzymes are HELLA expensive nowadays and quite scarce.

Agreed.

Considering that I frankenslot my Fire/Rads most of the time anyhow (to bump recharge and max EndRed, I'm not giving up all that much.

YMMV.

Okay, there aren't a lot of specific builds, mostly because Fire/Rad is a fairly easy and open Primary/Secondary to build for.

1: Char > Ring of Fire: While Ring of Fire has superior damage, it's an immobilize. This means they can still shoot at you. Char is a hold. If they're held, it doesn't matter if it did less damage. YOU are taking less damage because they're not shooting at you.

2: Fire Cages > Ring of Fire: AoE Immobilize vs ST Immobilize. Need I say more?

4: Accelerate Metabolism: Take it, three-slot it for recharge ASAP. Later, maybe, four-slot it and frankenslot EndMod/Recharge and Acc/Endmod/Recharge from PerfShifter and EffAdaptor.

8: Hot Feet: Take it and throw as many slots as you can at it. This is a big portion of your damage output. Look to slot lots of multi-aspect IOs in there. Possible to get 96% acc, 99% damage and 80% EndRed.

10: Enervating Field: Chuck an EndRed at it and call it done. Boost your damage output.

12: Flashfire: Your big opener for control. Damage is meh, but the stun is VERY nice. Slot for Acc and Stun. If you have space, chuck a bit of Damage and EndRed at it.

20: Stamina: Very important because some of your toggles can run quite heavy. On Fire/Rad teams, it's less important since stacked AMs will take care of you quite nicely.

28: Choking Cloud: Your other big toggle. Slot it up for as much Hold and EndRed as you can get on it.

32: Fire/Imps: Another big, if somewhat uncontrollable source of damage.

38: EM Pulse: Slot it for As much Acc and Hold as you can get.


Nice things to have:

• Radiation Infection: Dropping your enemy's ToHit and their defense? SWEET. This power, when slotted properly can nearly floor defense on just about any enemy in the game. Even nicer, it's auto-hit.
• Maneuvers: More defense is never a bad thing. Especially when stacking on teams.
• Lingering Radiation: A form of soft control. Slows down the quantity of incoming attacks and enemy movement, keeping them in range of your AoEs long enough to let them do what they're supposed to.
• Mutation: For the occasional faceplant on your team.
• Smoke: Helps out quite a bit at lower levels when trying to prep a group for an alpha strike.
• Fallout: This combination mini-nuke/debuff is very nice if you have a friend develop a sudden, involuntary interest in the floor while surrounded by a large mob.
• Hasten: AM is already nice. Hasten just makes it better.
• Assault: More damage never hurt anyone...uh...wait!
• Vengeance: Your friend dies, you get stronger. Problems? Indeed, think about the trifecta of Vengeance, Fallout, and Mutation to get your buddy back up. Yeah, you know you have that evil grin on your face.
• Team Teleport: Nice for Fire/Rad teams. Pop in right on top of an enemy before they know what's happening. Much COUGH/CHOKE/BURNBURNBURN ensues. It's also nice for keeping teams on-point with an enemy as the feeling of godlike power that comes with a team of 8 Fire/Rads can spur some players into fits of kill-craziness where they'll run all over the place like a Brute whose Fury bar is not full.

And now, with side-switching you can throw in things like Scorpion Shield as well. 30% defense when stacked with Maneuvers?

Nice-to-have enhancements:

• Endoplasm Exposures: 33% Acc and 33% Mez? What's not to like?
• Peroxisome Exposures: 33% Damage and 33% Mez? Again, what is the downside?
• The Lockdown Proc. Additional mags to your mez are NEVER a Bad Thing<TM>.
• The Numina +Regen/+Recovery IO. On a build as End-heavy as this, more recovery hurts nobody.
• The Miracle +Recovery IO. Ditto.

Again, you're probably not seeing a lot of specific builds because the Fire/Rad build IS so malleable. Once you've got the basics down, you're set. And teams of these suckers get ridiculous REALLY fast.



Things I specifically recommend avoiding:

• Tactics: While +ToHit is always nice, the +Perception applies to your Imps as well. This can cause them to run off and aggro additional groups of enemies before you're fully ready for them.

Perhaps. But, since no attempt has been made to "repair" the situation (indeed, with the ability to bid on stacks of ANYTHING now, they've pretty much busted the market wide open for this behavior) the devs have let us know that this is WAI.

And, strangely enough, since i18 dropped, I've run several ITFs and Lag Hill is FAR less laggy than it used to be. I've had several instances now where we just fight straight up the hill.

Uhm. Kid? Which side?

Honestly, I don't know and don't give a damn either way.

On a group mapserv? Probably not. That's, likely either the server, the colo facility's network, or their immediate peering point.


Whole different ball of wax. If your queries take a minute or more, great, fine, wonderful, no big deal.

You can't do that in a game that requires synchronization between client and server.

Simply because your environment scales linearly doesn't mean the CoH server environment does.

As someone who basically eats and breathes network architecting and administration all day every day for a job, I'm sorry to inform you that you're wrong. And if you don't think the people taking care of the servers and doing development on the game WANT to solve these issues, you're nuts.

Also, what makes you think the CoH servers are running Unix?

No, that smacks of "a more complex situation than you seem able to comprehend".

Yeah.

Uh huh.

Yup.

Okay.

Uh huh.

Because it isn't as simple as throwing "more memory" or "more CPU cycles" at the problem. A "server" is not simply "a" box.

Second of all, people ******* for years about low pop on other servers, server merges, transfers, etc. So there have been several free transfer events. And guess what, a whole butt-ton of people moved off their hated "low pop" servers to Freedom.

What's more, the game is supporting more and more high-load systems on top of just basic game function (get mission, run around, beat crap up, get rewards).

And you ever think the problem might not be something they can simply (or easily or economically) throw equipment resources at?

Maybe they're maxing out high-speed multi-core processors right now.
Maybe they're maxing out bandwidth on the memory interface. If so, MORE memory helps nothing.
Maybe they're maxing out bandwidth to their mass storage devices.

How about this for a maybe. Maybe the lag has nothing to do with the server load status. Yes, it COULD be server load. But it could be your system, or your internet connection, or one of the various nodes between you and me.

I will put this about as politely as I possibly can.

YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

You're trying to lay blame for an event with multiple (sometimes cumulative) causes on a single cause.

Bravo.

Ever hear of Spud Webb? NBA Slam Dunk Contest champ? 5'7"

Muggsy Bogues? 5'3"

Because if I see /em vuvuzela, I'm SO gone!

It can be explained in the equivalent of a thousand words.

All IO recipes ARE available at multiple price points.

1: Reward Merits (pretty much everything save purples and PVP IOs).
2: Alignment Merits (pretty much everything).

As for SELLING them at a given price. This is why it's a MARKET, and not a STORE.

And your example about the +Def proc highlights the problems with price capping. People are selling these off the market for more than the 2 billion price cap. And the alignment merit price is essentially 1500 merits plus 600 million in inf.

At one time it was factored that each merit was, ostensibly worth about 250K. So you're talking 975 million for said IO, or taking a little over 2 months to rack them up running alignment missions.

Actually it was supposed to be BOTH.

Okay, we get it.

You're an ardent ATI fan with a real hate-on for nVidia.

We understand. Really, we do.

Now can we stop with the silly rhetoric in place of helpful advice or questions meant to clarify his financial situation?



To Quinch: Can you clarify what your budget looks like?

1. How much are you looking to spend on a vidcard?
2. What's your maximum budget limit? (Helpful to know, in case a small increase in spending will yield a nicer, higher performance card for you.)

Also, what are the specs on your computer currently?
Self-built or store-bought? We need to know in case there are PSU requirements that your machine might currently not support.

Are they "needed"? No. Of course not.

But NO AT is "needed" in this game. Any content that REQUIRES a certain AT (outside of the epic-specific mission arcs) is broken content.

HOWEVER, Emp and FF are VERY nice to have.

Went to a ship raid tonight and offered to swap off my heavy-duty stone tank to my bubbler. NOBODY said no to that. Most of the raid, for me, was spent bubbling like a mad-person. While we had a few people kissing deckplate, at no time did we splash the entire raid. A couple traps MM/Corrs provided me with a bit of extra defense with their FFGs so I didn't have to worry about floating up, being obvious, and going to town.

As a result, much Rikti *** was kicked.

When we run the STF on Thursdays, an Emp is ALWAYS welcome. Especially for MO runs.

Simply because they aren't "necessities", doesn't mean that the addition of such toons to a group don't carry some extravagantly nice luxuries with them.