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The area -tohit debuff from rad would have made all the difference in the world.

But if you want to try masterminds, I'd recommend thugs. The tier 2 pet (enforcers) have a leadership buff that only affects nearby thug henchmen. Meaning, you'll both have two enforcers and all of your pets will have four leadership buffs without counting any you two decide to take for yourselves.

Villain Epic ArcheType

Such as the Arachnos Widow or Arachnos Soldier, you need to get a villain to level 20 to make one and you can't do it in Praetoria.

I also have fond memories of completely destroying everything in an all-VEAT team when they were first released.

pretty sure you do have to convert all the way

It's just a default option that appears on NPCs, primarily used for talking to trainers or vendors or those guys walking on the street if for some reason you really wanted to right click--> left click instead of just hitting left click.

Been like that for as long as I can remember. I guess they did think it would be more useful at the time, dunno.

Dunno about illusion (its damage is okay, but I don't know if it's great) but fire/kinetics controller is one of the biggest damage dealers in the game and a pretty common set to see around, noticibly moreso around farmers.

But, it starts out as "mediocre" and takes a while to get to the point where you destroy everything in sight. I'd probably try something else first. I'm sure you could make it work though since you'll have your wife to back you up, but you'll both be getting your awesome powers really late.

If your wife is set on being a /stone brute, then you'll want to be a /kinetics corruptor or controller.

Stone has the greatest defenses, but it comes at the price of being incredibly slow. Kinetics has Speed Boost power that'll fix that right up.

The combo will be pretty strong defensively but not as strong as other combinations for a while. You'll need to use the heal pretty often for a bit and your heal can miss, but when she gets Granite Armor (the very last stone armor power, level 37 or 38, I forget which) you'll probably never need to heal her again for a while. You'll just need to keep Speed Boosting her because she'll move slow as hell otherwise.

Having a full time healer would really be holding one of you guys back. In this game, it's pretty easy to build up to the point where all incoming damage can be healed by a limited supply of green inspirations, your natural health regeneration, or just using a heal every now and then.

I'd say you should try out an earth/sonic controller, it'd synergize pretty well. Between the enemy controls and damage shields, you'll make her unstoppable. And with quicksand from earth/ and a few powers in /sonic, you'll make it easier for her attacks to connect and they'll do a lot more damage as well. Also as a brute she'll have a taunt aura eventually (and if that doesn't help enough, she could take a ranged AoE taunt power) to keep enemies focused on her since you can't most of the shields on yourself. It'll be a breeze.

If you find that you guys are having trouble staying alive still, you'll either need to watch your own aggro until she can taunt or if she's dying you can pick up Aid Other from the medicine power pool at level 6 or beyond.

Once you have the strongest enhancements, you'll probably find yourself using Aid Other a lot less but it's still not bad to have in reserve.

If you like what you see and decide to upgrade from a trial account I'd suggest getting the Going Rogue Complete Collection. It's the most recent version of City of Heroes and it'll unlock all the content.

I'm not entirely sure if it's just the expansion or the full game + expansion, but "complete collection" sounds like a complete collection.

I haven't bought Going Rogue yet, but the box is in the mail and slated to come next week. I've been filling up the tips meter for some of my villains to have them go rogue and it stops at 10/10, not giving me the next mission as expected.

If I also got the villain meter to 10/10, then did the villain morality mission first for the villain merit when I get GR, would it reset the rogue meter to 0/10?

EDIT: Just read a loading screen tip that said that as soon as you're not a villain or hero anymore, you lose all hero/villain merits so this question is pretty irrelevant now.

It might be from having occlusion and FSAA activated at the same time.

It really boils down to three things, barring obvious exceptions (teaming with kinetic teammates, having drain psyche or quick recovery, etc).

1) Do you want more powers? You don't take stamina, but you sacrifice slots on your powers for endurance reduction.
2) Do you want more slots? By sacrificing 3 power choices, you need significantly less endurance reductions. I'd still recommend putting one in your top two highest end costing attacks, though!
3) Do you want to not help your team? You could simply not fight at full capacity to 'manage endurance'! Those other guys contributing to the team faster and better with stamina are chumps, anyway!

You could also go to contacts between missions and stock up on blue inspirations. This is actually viable, though you have to go more out of your way on TFs and stuff. It's more high maintenance.

Or you could get like me and carry 20 reds all the time.

Dead teammate: "does anyone have a small red?"
Me: "Oh, you have no idea."

Blasters do damage. Melee attacks do a lot of damage.

If you're dying simply by getting into melee range or some reason it takes you a long time to get into melee range you either need to reevaluate your team's tank/controller or push the W key on your keyboard.

Sometimes there's enough AoEs being flung around that make it dangerous to be around the tank, but if you're buffed out the wazoo with force fields or fortitude then there's no excuse to not do more damage.

If you kill the final boss without getting the support AVs first he'll rez, just wanted to add that. Also what triggers the healing one's heal? Sometimes it spammed it over and over and other times it'd go for a long time without using it once.

Female bane/crab spider costumes look ridiculous.

:tree

I've had a bit of trouble with a certain bind I can't get to work but I'm unsure if it's even possible. Before I give up, I figure I may as well ask here first.

Is it possible to have a bind that switches to a certain power tray by number when the button is held down but reverts back when the button is lifted?

You've convinced me to make a fire/ice Corruptor. Don't ask how. It's a long and epic tale that involves many car chases and show tunes.

Anyhoo, Heat Loss:
Debuff:
-33% end, -0.1 end to players (Woopee!) 30% slow, -30% res, and -300% recharge (I think... o_O)
Buff:
+20 end and +50% recovery for 90 seconds.

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Perhaps it would behoove the video game retailers to have large posters by the check-out registers that explain the game rating system to uninformed parents; the ratings currently given to video games are fine, but some parents are irresponsible.


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There's already some places like that. The local Gamestop here has a huge poster at the window to the right of the door, it's impossible to miss it on your way in.

What people should do is camp out for a week or two (I don't mean actually camping out with a tent and stuff) and video tape/interview customers purchasing GTA4 when it's released. (I hear it's in the works). Record the employees asking for I.D. to purchase the game and explaining the quantity of violence involved in playing the game to parents purchasing the game for their minor.

When the week's over, surely some will have returned and ranted about how they sold the game to their children and didn't warn them. Put it all together into a counter-documentary with a vibrant "Told you so" and "learn2parenting" and then post it on the internets and celebrate by eating nothing but cheetos for dinner.

No one wants to touch cheesy fingers...

I was thinking of making an earth/sonic controller earlier today. Imagine my surprise when I came upon this awesome guide suited directly for that. :O

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/6021/yimmysy9.png

Boots --> Flat --> Bare --> Assassin

The bottom of the foot is supposed to be bare, but part of it is covered with the color of the "assassin" part. It's not connected to the rest of the texture or anything, I dont think it should be there at all.

Also, speed boost from Kinetics does and can also be slotted for endurance recovery.

The one you use on yourself, siphon speed, can not however.

Mayhem Missions are just bundles of fun with so much to do and not enough time to do it all. Here's a handy guide on how to self-elect yourself the king of mayhem missions on your selected server!

1a) Send out blind invites to everyone who appears on the /search list. The more invites you send out and the faster you send them the higher chance of filling your team out right away! Seriously though, blind invites aren't always a good thing. Make sure you send a tell to every corruptor and make sure they're a pure healer before you invite them. More heals is good heals!

1b) Don't invite Dominators, but do send them a tell saying how your AT and power set choice is better. Even if your power set choice isn't better, I'm sure you'll have no trouble making something up.

1c) Spam-invite anyone with a name in ALL CAPS, AlTeRnAtInG cApS, or that has "Dark" "Evil" "Shadow" "Kitten" "Thug" in it. Do not take no for an answer. You absolutely MUST have these players in your team.

2) Set the mission and hop inside immediately. No one likes a rusty team, so you should make them hop into action! Nothing makes you hop like a little bunny than seeing a little timer in your compass window!

3) There's only fifteen minutes to accomplish your goal! Run straight to the bank! But first wait for the team to assemble. Start with a fart joke. Then go to the bank.

4) Go for the cars, not the guys with the guns. They explode! Awesome! The cars, I mean. The silly men with the guns don't explode. Let your boring teammates take care of the guys with the boring guns.

5) Make sure you fly really high when going to the bank. The higher off the ground you are the safer you are! The skies are a friendly place filled with many colorful characters to meet and interact with! (Colorful meaning mostly red and white)

6a) Fight all ambushes in the lobby of the bank. You were there first! Arachnos has a strict no-cutsies policy. This is the most boring part of the mission so now take this chance to go on a potty break. You may also silently excuse yourself from the keyboard to get a really complicated beverage that takes a few measly minutes to make. If you come back and your team is still fighting the same group then they must be very bored. It's common courtsey to explain everything you did while you were AFK unannounced in excruciating detail before you help them with the fight. Especially if you went on a potty break.

6b) Bank lobbies are sexy. Hit on every female villain in your group.

7) If anyone dies, don't give them your only awaken. You might need it yourself in a few seconds. Use it immediately after your death instead of waiting for the group your team is currently fighting to be finished.

8) If you're a stalker make sure to run to the vault room and poke the vault with your katana. This somehow induces explosive effects within the vault and opens the way for more loot. Loot is good. I like loot. And you should too.

9) If you died and ran out of the police station don't go back to the bank. You've already died there once and you might die again. Instead you should go around trying to solo the side missions to help your group get more things done faster.

10) If you die again promptly blame the healer in the group (or any other support characters, maybe even blame a stalker or two) and leave in a huff.

11) /ignore everyone who was in the group. They're noobs. Don't play with noobs. You have loot. Because you're not a noob. Those noobs don't have loot. Because you took it. The loot that is, not the noobs. You don't take noobs. You take loot.

(Size 0.002 font small print)*You might actually have better luck doing the exact opposite of everything in this guide.