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Quote:Originally Posted by 3dent
Basically what I'm doing now, only with Borea's missions instead of radios. (Those +def sets have to be purchased with _something_, and Rikti drop Positronic Matrices and Rikti Alloys fairly reliably at these difficulties, not to mention more inf in general...) "Taunting then breaking LoS" method works, but as you have said, not every team likes this style of tanking, and not every map allows it. And everything else... Had it been a real team, half the aggro would be somewhere I don't want it, or so it seems to me.
That's one of the challenges of tanking. Keeping an eye on the aggro cap.
If you pull down 2 8-man mobs, yeah, someone's getting the "overflow".
Play conservatively at first. Then take a couple chances. Sooner or later you'll get a feel for just where your comfort zone is on enemies and how much is "too much".
One question, no condemnation. Did you PL this tank or did you run up the levels in a more controlled manner? Usually those who have a hard time with aggro controls are those who level very quickly. Picking up powers willy-nilly isn't conducive to learning how to use the power effectively when it's still relatively low powered. As such, with a full selection of powers, it can sometimes be very confusing to figure out what a good pattern of use is. In effect, too many choices. -
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1: What is your budget?
2: Are you comfortable building your own or looking for pre-built.- How much would you LIKE to keep it under?
- How much can you afford if a small bump in price made a major performance difference?
3: Any companies you'd prefer to do business with or prefer NOT to do business with?
4: Any hard and fast wants/needs? Stuff you just GOTTA have?
Answering these question should help provide a much better fit of computer for you than just "go buy a Dell" or "get these parts and you're good". -
Quote:I don't have a cat. And I'm not complaining.Originally Posted by 3dent
Well, everybody and their cat can complain how bad bad tankers are,
Tonto: What mean "we" paleface? The fact that I, at least, disagree, emphatically no less, with you is a sign that "we all" cannot.Quote:we all can emphatically agree that bad tankers are useless, but...
Learn to play a tank instead of treating it like a scrapper with extra hit points?Quote:Well, how to get better?
Yes. Yes it is.Quote:No, really, it isn't trolling
Sorry, you've made your mind up that it sucks. Nothing to see here. Move along. Go start a scrapper.Quote:it's a genuine question.
Then YOU have failed. Not the tanker class.Quote:I rolled my Shields/Elec with TFs in mind, but now all I do on him is farming Rikti in RWZ and declining team invites, especially if there's anything about "needing a tank".
LOL! Performance anxiety? Are you ****ing me?Quote:I don't want to be the worst player on the team...
Hit things. Take taunt. Use taunt. Survive.Quote:I seriously have no idea what exactly a tank is supposed to do to "hold aggro", or rather the thing I see others doing seems to me, well, patently impossible to do.
Yoda: Rocket science, this is not!
Learn? Seriously. The fact that you're complaining about it sounds like you have a case of scrapperlock. Zoom your POV out (you don't have to go max, but don't be first person or near zoomed). Watch the mobs. Any start getting away from you, select the straggler and taunt/attack them.Quote:How can anyone alternate between different targets WITH SUCH A SPEED?
As I said. Zoom out. If you can only see the guy in front of you, you're doing it wrong.Quote:and how do you see what's happening in all that lightshow anyway?
You suppose...right!Quote:Lrn2play, I suppose,
Why not? Tell your teammates, flat out, that you're still raw with tanking. They can then make allowances so they don't lean so heavily on you. I've taken a highly substandard tank against Lord Recluse on a Master run. With support I was able to hold my own for a while.Quote:but... I don't want to be a team-ruining guy while I do learn.
Since then, I've gotten better. My build has gotten better. And while I'm no massive engine of destruction, it's not what I'm there to do. I'm there shaking hands with the badguys faces. My TEAM is the one bringing the pain.
That's the best place to be! Nice tight community. They'll rib you about being a death magnet for a bit. And, as you get better, the comments stop.Quote:Especially on small EU servers where everyone knows everyone else.
It's okay, people are still going to take the mickey out of you, but hey. It's only words.Quote:Ok, sorry, just wanted to blow off steam...
Again, pull your camera POV back some. And try to concentrate on seeing how many badguys you can keep around you, rather than how fast you can fling out attacks. Note: Your build MIGHT need some work for this. But you're Shields. It shouldn't be too expensive.Quote:Having a tank seemed such a good idea, but it seems that the only way I can melee is scrapperlock, I need some distance between me and the baddies to have any sort of situational awareness...
This will take a bit of time. Let it. Not everyone "clicks" with every AT from the get-go.
I mean, look at me. I have a similar problem. My blaster builds are all blappers. Even my defender and controller builds are blapper-ish. I've tried playing Masterminds. Standing back and buff-botting my pets drives me bonkers. So I don't play Masterminds -
Quote:Same here.Originally Posted by Effy_On_Malibu
So yeah i decided to play the game as opposed to playing virtual ebay.
I didn't make a butt-ton. But I was leveling a bunch of lowbies. I did take my namesake for a single Nemesis farm (was at work and getting pestered periodically, so I needed something I could let just sit for a few minutes here and there). Took two friends who were idling so they could grab a couple easy levels and finished up in about an hour of play (closer to two due to interruptions). Heck there were a couple times where I walked away in the middle of combat without any problems.
I came out with about 11 million in inf and drops worth about 2x that.
One friend went in 27 and came out 29-1/2. The other went in 3 and came out 19-1/2. -
This video states my opinions on this quite well.
Start at about 3:24. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Vitality
I think CoH/V needs to quit coming out with more content after I17 and GR.
They need to make sure all the I17 and GR bugs are fixed.
Keep the CoH/V servers running...and keep collecting the monthly fees.
Focus all the manpower you can on CoH2.
Okay, let's look at Everquest for a second. It's been going 11+ years now. They just released an update back in December.
And this is ALONG SIDE of EQ2 whch is roughly the same age as CoH.
Sorry to disappoint you, but this game still has a lot of room to strech it's legs yet.
Doing it simply because a subjective "this other game I played looks better" has to be up there in the 99th percentile of idea dumbness. -
Here's what I've got so far.
Dreadful Gun Bunny: Kin/DP Corruptor
Aggressive Diplomacy: Rad/DP Defender
John Woo Hoo: DP/Elec Blaster
Storm Caliber: Storm/DP Corruptor
Manstopper: Emp/DP Defender
Agent Ebony: DP/Energy Blaster -
Quote:I could wear spandex. But the term "Spandex. Privilege, not a right." DEFINITELY applies here. I could see a rash of blindness happening if I did.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
I play because while I can wear spandex and run around punching people in RL, I still can't fly - yet.
I could run around punching people. However that opens me up to reprisals. Like an ***whupping of my own, getting shot, getting arrested, getting sued, etc.
And I can fly. Seriously! I can! I can always do it. Once. Just straight down...
Well, maybe twice. Does bouncing count? -
Quote:Niiice!Originally Posted by Swergen
Not sure if this has been done. But, when you need four arcane teleporters in a room and dont want the room to be dominated by the arcane teleporters.
http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/8...0308084556.jpg
It took soem finagling. But, all the eight destinations work. -
Okay, no purples
, but I spent most of my time playing lowbies 
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Two pistol defenders. One Rad/ one Emp/. The Rad is now at 20, and the emp is (without looking) 22-23.
Had an SOA that I created about this time last year, got him to level 8 and then left him. Lowbie SOA are painful sometimes... Anyhow, it's now sitting at L27 (snuck the last level onto them right as DXP ended) and the mid-level respec as a Bane. Head-squishing Mace-y goodness!
Got to play overnight while I was at work and farmed up a bit of Inf on Hyperstrike (and helped a couple friends add a few levels to their toons).
Then yesterday, took my FF/Arch defender to 50 while breaking a foot off in Rommy.
I even tagged another level onto my Ill/Cold Controller.
All in all, lots of fun to be had. Hope the people I helped level had fun. And I'd like to put out a big thanks to the people who let my lowbies tag along and contribute. -
Okay, have a couple of pistol 'fenders (Rad/DP, Emp/DP) up into their 20's from get-go.
Have a SoA that I created about a year ago, got up to 9, then left because it was actually painful to play in those lower levels. Was able to get him to his mid-level respec and went Bane. Became a completely different animal at that point and is now QUITE fun to play.
Stacked two more levels on my FF/Archery defender (now a level and a half from 50).
Then, to make a bit of coin, fished out a Nemesis Automaton mission on my main and ran it x8. Took several hours (playing at work and had to stop frequently (sometimes even in combat) to take care of stuff here at the office). Took a couple friends in to get them a few levels and some inf. They wanted to just bail when they got too sleepy. I told them it was OK and AFK farmed them. One friend got about 2.9 levels and the other went from 3 to someplace in the high teens.
Only one sour note out of all of it. Right before I went to do the Nemesis farm, I tried going back to one of my defenders. We lost a tank and picked up an overzealous scrapper who had no communications skills (basically not watching to see if the rest of us were ready and charging a bunch of +3 bosses). 6 Blasters, 1 scrapper, and 1 defender on the Argot'BurWot mission.
After nearly TPK'ing twice, and being unable to heal consistently due to getting the crap mezzed out of me and being killed the scrapper gets irate and:
DonkeyHeadCovering: Would it kill you to heal us?
Me: Well, considering I spent most of my time mezzed, it kinda...did.
He continued on in that vein, so I made my apologies to the team captain and took my leave.
ADDITION!
Got my bubbler to L50 whilst breaking a foot off in Romulus' nethers.
Tacked another level onto my Ill/Cold
And working towards L27 for my SOA. -
Quote:Think "Nictus swarms" or "Council snipers" or "DE Swarm swarms"Originally Posted by Finduilas
I've seen recharge suggested as a focus for a Dark tank before, and it's always confused me. The base recharge for Dark Regen is 30 seconds, how much more frequently will a fully-slotted out tank need to heal up to full?
Granted, these are corner-cases. Still, one should be mindful that there are a couple situations where -recharge can absolutely wreck you. Moreover, having it up again pretty much at will is never a Bad Thing<TM> -
Quote:Well. Altaholism does tend to cut into one's earnings a bit...Originally Posted by Drugfree Boy
Gratz!
A question - how many people in this forum consider 1 billion infamy very easy to make? Anyone?
Sure seems like a lot.
But, over the course of a week, I still pull in several hundred million. -
Quote:If you're running at high resolution with high quality settings, this isn't going to help you much. The card is being taxed by other things than just trying to kick out triple-digit framerates.Originally Posted by Miuramir
A short-term fix is to use the "/maxfps #"
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Apparently something in the 196.75 version of nVidia's drivers is causing temperature controls on nVidia cards to fail, exposing the cards to a danger of overheating.
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nVidia Forum Thread #1
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If you're running this revision of drivers, it's recommended that you uninstall and roll back to the previous version of the drivers. -
It's not 9AM Pacific time yet.
That's the stated beginning of the event. -
Quote:Actually it's worse than that. The effect is multiplicative.Originally Posted by Lord_Kalistoh
Yeah, until you end with a 1TB HDD and you think "WTF? Where are my missing 24 GB?!"
Its gonna be funnier when we reach PetaBytes; 24TB are a lot.
So by the time you hit petabytes, you're "losing" 11% to this rounding convention.Code:Base 10 / Binary KB 1000 / 0.9765625 MB 1000000 / 0.95367431640625 GB 1000000000 / 0.93132257461548 TB 1000000000000 / 0.90949470177293 PB 1000000000000000 / 0.88817841970013 EB 1000000000000000000 / 0.8673617379884
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Quote:Originally Posted by FourSpeed
So, I re-iterate: What is the basis for your comment?
Regards,
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Likely it's a nasty little four-letter word associated with the color green. -
Quote:Amortize it out over the last 5-6 years.Originally Posted by LegionAlpha
With all the new computer and expansion packs and everything else I am still not getting my money's worth because I play maybe 3 hours a week.
When GR comes out and Issue 17 maybe I will be playing more. -
Okay, first off, I'm not selling anything, endorsing anything, getting kickbacks from anything, or anything else. This is just me getting around a screwed up situation I had no part in making. If this helps someone, great. If not, well, I like to hear myself tal...err...type.
Background: Late last year, my landlord shot out a notice that they would be transitioning my building off Comcast as a cable provider to some place called Suite Solutions. Now my service with Comcast had been pretty fricking good. So I wasn't happy about this. I did some digging on the new provider and was...less than enthused about this change.
My landlord told me that the changeover was happening, no appeals. No changes. Nada. It was either switch over or be disconnected.
The problem was, they sorta failed to...welll...NOTIFY COMCAST.
Cue a 6 month reprieve while lawyers got richer.
Anyhoo, the other shoe dropped at the end of last month when the landlord apparently won in court. Comcast could still provide, but they'd have to put in their own parallel wiring system. As of March 1, I was disconnected and the local Comcast office couldn't provide me with a date for when/if wiring would be laid. The national support number was even worse. Totally and utterly clueless, though with as many markets as they occupy, I can't really blame some wage slave on the other end of the phone.
I'd tried AT&T in the past. I'll just say I was less than thrilled and leave it there. Ma Bell would NOT get another penny from me. And DSL from any other provider would be coming across lines leased from AT&T. And worse, they'd be lines AT&T wouldn't mind losing (aka bad/shoddy lines). I have relatives working in my area who deal with DSL provisioning. So I'm aware of the practices.
Satellite? Can't do it. I'm not allowed to mount an antenna on the building and don't have a balcony to simply place an antenna on.
Tether to my phone? No. I've tried such connections. They're better than dialup or IP over smoke signal. But for gaming? They can be hit-or-miss.
So my other option is one I'd kinda dismissed out of hand a while back. Clear (Clearwire). 4G WiMax (Cellular wireless, 4th Gen). $30/month for the 1MB service. $40/month for the 6GB service.
As my other options were somewhat...limited, I have opted to take a chance on the Clearwire connection.
Day 1:
A quick trip to my local Frys and I was set up with a modem and an account. $118 out the door (lease a modem, are you NUTS?)
Basically when you leave the store, you're already set to connect. No waiting on connection, you're good to hook up when you get home.
I went in and disconnected my now useless cablemodem and replaced it with the Clear modem (Got the 2nd Generation "G" series modem. Apparently the 1st Gen ones are a bit...directional, which can cause problems depending on where you're putting the device.)
I'm getting 2-3 lights (analogous to bars on a phone) most of the time. The manual recommends a minimum of 2 bars.
I rebooted my router and my workstation and boom. Up online.
I played last night with only one nasty random disconnect (wasn't doing anything, just standing in my base gabbing and mapserved). The rest of the time the connection was rock-solid. I even made it through a Rikti invasion on Freedom. Something my cable connection sometimes had a hard time doing.
Ran a couple speedtests. Between 2.5 and 3.5 Mbits down (depending on test server) and over .5 Mbits up on every server I tried. Ping times are in the 80-90ms range, which is just fine. The T1 I'm abusing right now is pulling 35-45ms for the same site at a slightly less-busy time of day.
About the only thing that threw me was one little piece of sub-optimal routing. I tried tracing back to CoH.com. My ISP's peering point is out on the West coast and hops around 8 times in that area before traveling all the way across the country to Maryland and then back to Arizona before disappearing into the Limelight (llnw) network. I don't often see these kinds of "out and back" traversals anymore. Maybe I'm just spoiled...
Worst I ever saw was a 35 hop run that crossed the country 15 times before hitting the other endpoint that was 3 miles from me.
Had one person horror-story me a bit about what might happen. But my first impression has, thus far, been excellent. They did admit that with Chicago being one of their latest rollouts, the amount of deal-breaker problems they encountered was far lower. It also probably helps that Chicago is relatively flat with a massive infrastructure already built up for this sort of thing.
One other nifty thing. If I travel to another location that has coverage, I should be able to take the modem (technically a gateway device) with me and have Internet. Unfortunately, the two cities I visit most frequenty don't have coverage yet, but I can hope!
Note: I didn't opt for the mobile broadband in addition to the home service. I don't travel enough to make
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Quote:Originally Posted by Xaphan
When I was in college, I decided I needed to form an addiction, so it was either this or drugs. I think I went with the more cost effective solution, here.
Not gonna add it all up, but I know it's a fairly high number (although I'd have to remember what I payed for and what I got for free)... but then divided over 5+ years, it's not really that bad.
As seen on a shirt.
"Anime: Drugs would be cheaper..." -
Good vs Evil Edition: $20
CoH Collector's Edition: $40
CoV Collector's Edition: $40
Wedding Pack: $10
Cyborg Pack: $10
Mac Edition: $20
Magic Pack: $10
Super Science Pack: $10
Martial Arts Pack: $10
Going Rogue (Just bought! YAY! LOL! My CAPTCHA was "TYVM"!): $30
Game Time (July 2008-Mar 2011): $350~ (Note: Game time from the various editions factored in as "free months" in this calculation.)
While I upgraded both my laptop and my workstation during this time, and CoH WAS an impetus, it wasn't the only one.
So the cost of the game alone is about $550 for me. That comes out to about $17/month. I spend more than this in fast food. My additional withholdings on income tax exceed this. This is the equivalent of 1-2 movies by me (depending on if I see it in IMAX or not). -
Quote:So something that's been going on for YEARS is why the market is messed up?Originally Posted by orangemonkey
This is the reason why the CoH market is messed up and oddly enough it's one of the reasons why the RL market is messed up. Should I be laughing or crying about this?
No. No, I don't think so.
The subject here is COMMON IOs.
I use this vendoring trick to "nest egg" lowbies. I use it as a "fire and forget", rather than an agressive manner (and I'd make more if I were). As such, most of my lowbies have between 20 and 50 million by the time they hit 20 or so.
At that point, I move on to more profitable niches.
And, in all the time I've been doing it, I have yet to drain the supply.
Were he talking set IOs, I'd be in agreement.
If your argument is "But I'd get it cheaper if you guys let that stuff build up and didn't do this". My reply is "well yeah, but this is not a store".
If you want cheap commons, plan ahead. Use the same strategies the vendor-runners do, bid low and wait. It's quite nearly zero effort. And if you bid stacks and only keep one? Well, the IO pretty much paid for itself at that point.