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  1. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aurora_Girl View Post
    Fixed everything else (just picked up the Winter's Gift SlowRes last night on the cheap, go level 11!), but this isn't making sense to me. Where are you getting these slots from?
    You had Brawl 4-slotted.

    1: Can't move this (Default Slot)
    2: Use this in one of your resists for the Gladiator's Armor TP/Def unique (Hence my price comparison).

    Leaving you with 2 slots of which I recommend:

    3: Combat Jumping (LOTG Def/End)
    4: Hasten: Another Recharge IO or go with a Membrane Exposure HO.
  2. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aurora_Girl View Post
    So...I think I came up with an even better one, one where I don't even need the Brute ATO set!

    Also, the 5 slots in Hurl are for the Overwhelming Force set: same DEF bonus as Thunderstrike, with one less slot!
    Incorrect.

    5-slotted OF gives you the same def bonus as 3-slotted Thunderstrike (2.5%).

    At 6 slots, you get an additional 1.25% E/N.

    • Punch and Haymaker, even with doubled Rage, are going to miss significantly more often.
    • KOB is going to have a similar problem, just less-so.
    • The psi proc in Zinger turns Taunt into a sometimes-weapon, but you're already over on your S/L, and Mocking Beratement provides a better recharge bonus and some F/C defense.
    • Rage is ENTIRELY dependent on non-perma Hasten. This will lead to gaps in both damage and defense (remember having Rage goes down whacks your defenses too if you're not doubled).
    • The fly IO in Fly is a waste. You're already capped by default.
    • The extra 4% recovery from Gift of the Ancients isn't really helping you much. Whacking that takes you down exactly .07 End/Sec. Three-slotting LOTG bumps your regen, then bumps your HP (which gets more out of your regen then).
    • Superior Conditioning: Why not just go for a Perf Shifter End Mod? It'll give you a 5% movement bonus.
    • Stamina: Same. You'll get a bigger HP boost out of three-slotting Perf Shifter than you would out of the 2 slotted Efficacy Adaptor.
    • Current price of 4-slotted Kinetic Combat. 220-250 million inf. Current price of PVP defense Unique: 300 million inf. Translation: Save yourself two slots. Stick one in CJ and toss a Def/End in there. Throw the other in Rage. This way it's perma even with Hasten down. You could even do something cool, like tossing Membrane Exposures in there and still be perma-Rage AND boost your ToHit by about 36%.
  3. Hyperstrike
    Question. You haven't slotted any of the new Universal Damage IOs in all of these builds have you?
  4. Hyperstrike

    Periodic crashing

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by mereman View Post
    Same problem as Cat here but I have also got into the habit of restarting CoH every 2 TFs.

    I'm running XP with 4 gbs memory. Normally the crash report shows lack of memory.

    In regular Windows XP, processes are limited to 2GB apiece.
    HOWEVER, in many cases, the app (and the OS) start getting squirrelly above 1.5 or so.
  5. Hyperstrike

    Why We Build

    POST-ACTION

    So, if we're poets, my spare bases must be the equivalent of the "Man from Nantucket" limericks right?

  6. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tenzhi View Post
    Nothing seemed to penetrate her...
  7. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BlueBattler View Post
    I liked it. I give it a strong B+.

    The quips from Spidey is what sold me on the actor. Toby just wasn't able to pull that off.
    This. Tobey was just too mush-mouthed and slow with his delivery.

    I'm not expecting John Moschitta here but GOD!
  8. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Emjack View Post
    Hi All, I have been out of the game since 2004 i do not rember how to make any builds or slotting them BUT im very confused on few thngs, il post a build i saw and then ask my question.

    OK we se here Level 1 Fire Shield -- ResDam-I(A) what does the I means before the (A) and then what does A mean inside the (A) ????

    AND we se Level 12 Combat Jumping-- Krma-ResKB(A) what does this Krma-ResKB means???

    I been trying to find builds from the old days that made making a character build so simple t understand and how to slot them but im seeing alot of builds that s final builds with the top best IOs slotting which i dont understand, i need t see more builds lvl 1-50 with normal enhancements and changing out the slots or stronger upgraded enhancements, so hard to figure out how to play being gne since 2004 lol i wish the old guides and player builds was still around , it wold give me soo much more help t me understanding this game again

    Level 1: Fire Shield -- ResDam-I(A), ResDam-I(11), ResDam-I(13)
    Level 2: Spine Burst -- Dmg-I(A), Dmg-I(3), Dmg-I(5), Acc-I(7), EndRdx-I(15), RechRdx-I(39)
    Level 4: Healing Flames -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(13), Heal-I(15), RechRdx-I(37), Heal-I(37), Heal-I(42)
    Level 6: Build Up -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(19), RechRdx-I(43)
    Level 8: Impale -- Dmg-I(A), Dmg-I(9), Dmg-I(9), Acc-I(11), EndRdx-I(25), RechRdx-I(39)
    Level 10: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
    Level 12: Combat Jumping -- Krma-ResKB(A)
    Level 14: Super Jump -- Jump-I(A), EndRdx-I(46)
    Level 16: Plasma Shield -- ResDam-I(A), ResDam-I(17), ResDam-I(17)
    Level 18: Health -- Heal-I(A)
    Level 20: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), EndMod-I(21), EndMod-I(21)
    Level 22: Consume -- Acc-I(A), RechRdx-I(23), RechRdx-I(23), RechRdx-I(36), EndMod-I(36), EndMod-I(40)
    Level 24: Quills -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(25), EndRdx-I(34), Dmg-I(40), Dmg-I(43), Dmg-I(46)

    Okay, you're trying to actually read the builds put out there.
    Warning, they're preformated by a build planner program. They're marginally readable, But the best way to delve into the build is to get yourself a copy of the build planner itself.

    Mids' Hero Designer

    This way you can import the build wholesale and get a nice graphical representation of the build.

    Also, if you want a tool to copy your LIVE build from the game into Mids', you'll want Titan Sentinel.

    A decent tutorial on how to use Mids' (and a video tutorial by yours truly) can be found here.
  9. Hyperstrike

    Periodic crashing

    POST-ACTION

    Hmm. Wondering if the 301 drivers are bugged...
    Or a buggy reaction between 301 and something new in the game...
    That kinda seems to be the unifying variable in all of this.
  10. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by monkeyslap View Post
    Happened again. I went to respec another character and I click the 'Yes' button on the warning to do a final conformation and finish the respec and it crashed AGAIN.

    At this point I highly doubt it is my graphics card. And I don't think it's the drivers because I installed the latest version June 11, and I didn't start having problems until the most recent game patch on June 29.
    Stupid question. Are you respec'ing while needing to level up?
  11. Hyperstrike


    Hats are hair man!
  12. Hyperstrike
    Those helmets are there to protect those big chunks of bone you're using for a head grunt! Granted, that much solid bone should be pretty damage resistant but still! Arachnos wants to make sure that soldiers avoid doing "Headless Horseman" imitations whenever possible.

    NOW SHUT UP AND SOLDIER!

  13. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by monkeyslap View Post
    Are you crazy?
    Why ask questions to which you already know the answers?

    Quote:
    Note: info you requested will be in next post. The forums keep giving me an error about "too many characters, try removing some or shortening your post".
    Yeah, the forums have a character limit for posts. It prevents someone from posting the text to War and Peace into a post several dozen times and flooding the server.
  14. Hyperstrike
    Agreed.



    - Hyperstrike
  15. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by monkeyslap View Post
    As per Hyperstrike's suggestions, I turned off ambient occlusion, FSAA and Anisotropic Filtering down to 2x. Then I defragged my hard drive and ran disk cleanup.

    The stupid game just crashed on me AGAIN. This is the 5th time since the June 29 patch.
    Note. Five random crashes in a 9 day period, while annoying as hell is NOT excessive.
    If you were crashing *every* time you booted up, or regularly when you did specific things (like the mapserv in the Tyrant personal mission).

    There could be a stray memory leak being caused by some screwy conjuction of issues between your hardware, the game, and the OS. Reinstalling, likely, wouldn't fix this.

    It COULD be a driver timeout. But the latest version of the nVidia driver actually notifies you of this and takes you to the MS KB article on the issue.

    And please don't forget you're running Windows here. While it's MUCH better than it used to be, please understand that "Windows" and "stability" or "uptime" aren't generally related concepts.

    I have random crashing in the game from time to time. You're never going to fix it 100%. Ever.
  16. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aurora_Girl View Post
    As for me, though...I just can't see using this build without Taunt, and slotting Brawl over Boxing just seems silly to me, though I might be wrong; the 4-slotted brawl still does less damage than unslotted Boxing...is it worth it that Brawl is free (endurance-wise)?
    But brawl is faster. Meaning you can use it as a Fury-builder.
  17. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by SinisterDirge View Post
    What is worse than not having illusion?

    Cancer.

    Depends.

    There's "This little spot is cancerous, let's cut if off, give you a little chemo and you're good."

    Then there's "It's pretty much metastasized throughout your whole body. It's in your bones, it's in your muscles, it's in all your organs, and even your brain. Get your **** in order."

    That's actually a fairly LARGE range of suckitude.
  18. Hyperstrike
    Note: You WILL notice that the game tends to get choppier right after big patches. Some of this is possibly due to how clients and the servers cache game assets.

    That and file fragmentation may have something to do with it as well.

    If you're running on a system with a hard drive and 3rd party defrag software, you can:

    • Patch.
    • Start the game up.
    • Do the file checks.
    • Log into the game.
    • Sign off.
    • Defrag the PIGG directory and any fragmented files in the CoH root directory.


    My main machine is on an SSD RAID. So I don't need to defrag.
    My laptop, I usually have it defrag right after an update with the method described above.
  19. Hyperstrike
    And every time someone gripes or whines about it, it gets pushed back a year for every previous ask, demand, whine or gripe.

    One for you.
    One for me.
    Two for you.
    One, two for me!
    Three for you.
    One, two, three for me!
    Four for you.
    One, two, three, four for me!
  20. Hyperstrike
    Oy! Twist my arm whydontcha?

    Okay. Replaced SJ with Flight. Replaced Spring Attack with Hurl (for two decent Ranged attacks).


    Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.957
    http://www.cohplanner.com/

    Click this DataLink to open the build!

    Level 50 Magic Brute
    Primary Power Set: Super Strength
    Secondary Power Set: Invulnerability
    Power Pool: Fighting
    Power Pool: Leaping
    Power Pool: Flight
    Power Pool: Speed
    Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery

    Villain Profile:
    Level 1: Punch -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg:35(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx:35(3), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg:35(3), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:35(5), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(5)
    Level 1: Resist Physical Damage -- Aegis-ResDam:50(A), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx:50(7), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg:50(7), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+:30(9)
    Level 2: Haymaker -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg:35(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx:35(9), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg:35(11), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:35(11), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(13)
    Level 4: Dull Pain -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(13), RechRdx-I:50(15)
    Level 6: Boxing -- Acc-I:50(A)
    Level 8: Knockout Blow -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg:35(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx:35(15), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg:35(17), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:35(17), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:35(19)
    Level 10: Temp Invulnerability -- RctvArm-ResDam:40(A), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx:40(19), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg:40(21), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg:40(21), GA-3defTpProc:50(33)
    Level 12: Taunt -- Mocking-Taunt:50(A), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg:50(23), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg/Rng:50(23), Mocking-Acc/Rchg:50(25), Mocking-Taunt/Rng:50(25), Mocking-Rchg:50(27)
    Level 14: Tough -- RctvArm-ResDam:40(A), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx:40(27), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg:40(29), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg:40(29)
    Level 16: Unyielding -- RctvArm-ResDam:40(A), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx:40(31), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg:40(31), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg:40(31)
    Level 18: Rage -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(33), RechRdx-I:50(33)
    Level 20: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx:50(A), LkGmblr-Def:50(34), LkGmblr-Rchg+:50(46)
    Level 22: Weave -- LkGmblr-Def:50(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+:50(34)
    Level 24: Fly -- Winter-ResSlow:50(A)
    Level 26: Hurl -- Thundr-Acc/Dmg:50(A), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx:50(34), Thundr-Dmg/Rchg:50(36), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(36), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:50(36), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(37)
    Level 28: Invincibility -- LkGmblr-Def:50(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+:50(37)
    Level 30: Resist Energies -- Aegis-ResDam:50(A), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx:50(37), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg:50(39)
    Level 32: Foot Stomp -- Erad-%Dam:30(A), Erad-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:30(39), Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:30(39), M'Strk-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:50(40), M'Strk-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(40), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(40)
    Level 35: Tough Hide -- LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx:50(A), LkGmblr-Def:50(42), LkGmblr-Rchg+:50(42)
    Level 38: Resist Elements -- Aegis-ResDam:50(A), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx:50(42), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg:50(43)
    Level 41: Hasten -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(43), RechRdx-I:50(43)
    Level 44: Superior Conditioning -- P'Shift-EndMod:50(A), P'Shift-End%:50(45)
    Level 47: Laser Beam Eyes -- Thundr-Acc/Dmg:50(A), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx:50(48), Thundr-Dmg/Rchg:50(48), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(48), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:50(50), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(50)
    Level 49: Physical Perfection -- P'Shift-End%:50(A), RgnTis-Regen+:30(50)
    Level 2: Swift -- Run-I:50(A)
    Level 2: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+:50(A), Numna-Heal:50(45), Mrcl-Rcvry+:40(45)
    Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I:50(A)
    Level 2: Stamina -- P'Shift-EndMod:50(A), P'Shift-End%:50(46), EndMod-I:50(46)
    Level 1: Brawl -- Acc-I:50(A)
    Level 1: Prestige Power Dash -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Prestige Power Slide -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Prestige Power Quick -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Prestige Power Rush -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Prestige Power Surge -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Fury
    Level 1: Sprint -- Run-I:50(A)
    Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I:50(A)
    Level 4: Ninja Run
    ------------



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  21. Hyperstrike
    Right now, the TF should be "fixable" with the game's ambush code.

    Instead of triggering at time based intervals, they can set the trigger for when the last dead enemy of the previous group "evaporates".

    That's usually something like 30-60 seconds after you kill them. And they're not so strong that a single last enemy couldn't be cycled between players for slow killing to allow teammates to "huff and puff" and get their green and blue bars back in preparation.
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  23. Hyperstrike
    Inv/SS is always a blast. Built right in the endgame, they're some of the toughest tanks extant and can spend vast tracts of time nearly capping their own damage output.
  24. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aurora_Girl View Post
    Issues with this build:

    (Purely thematic, mind you)

    I *need* Flight. I can live without Spring Attack. I don't need Hasten, I don't think, because that's 2 powers I'd like to have on auto, and I don't know that I could keep up with clicking one or the other.
    So, you're a Mac.
    Me? I'm a PC. I prefer function over form. If that means I'm hitting Rage once a minute, so be it. I like ungodly damage output and not having to wait for attacks to make an attack chain and the fact that I spend long tracts of time in double-rage.

    If you're hot for a flight power, build a jetpack or go with one of the market flight options. Or, if you don't mind spending a bit, try to go for the Void Skiff in Super Booster 2:

  25. Hyperstrike
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by LSK View Post
    Here is my build I use for my stone/stone tank

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    You probably already know, but you can marginally improve your recovery by moving that PerfShifter: EndMod to Stamina from PP.

    The set bonus remains the same.

    Decent recharge (especially if you can get that proc to go off often).
    And NICE endurance consumption profile on top of that.

    Great! Now I need to level up a Stone/Stone'er.