Master-Blade

It's a small possibility that might have been somebody's ambush that spawned on top of him.

I've certainly seen that a lot, but still never close enough to be right on top of somebody.

While you are correct, I wasn't really wrong either.
The name of the dam in "Faultline" is Overbrook Dam.

I just found that a quicker and easier way to explain that specific name rather than the general reasons why places like Faultline, Boomtown, Crey's Folly, and Eden have alternate names.

I just edited the post. I don't know why I typed 215. lol

I meant 115, and my calculated numbers actually reflect the real value of 115, not 215...
Edit to change:
but as pointed out below, I skipped a step in my calculation which grossly overstated the effectiveness of the 14% enhancement. Sorry!

To add to this, the entrance is a Tunnel you simply walk/run/jump into.
The destination sign for this tunnel says Overbrook, which is the name of the Dam in Faultline.

Costume parts are "Added" any time you select a power that has a customizable weapon.

And no, you should not have been awarded the HeroTier1, because like you said, you used 1 trial respec already, so it goes right to Tier2, and then Tier3. Technically, you should not have even really earned those 2, except that's the way the mechanic is currently bugged to work.

Your "5th respec" was apparently one of the other respec types (not a trial respec), so you wouldn't have earned a badge for using it anyway. If you never used that trial respec long ago, you would have had 10 (instead of 9), and it still would have been the "6th respec" before you were finally awarded with the Tier1.

To re-explain how this bug works:
When you use a trial respec, your Accolade badge is actually removed, and then replaced with another one with different text. That part is intended, and as far as I remember, has always been the way it worked.
When a Hero earns 3 Respec Accolades and switches sides, it tries to remove the Villain version of the badge when they are used, not the Hero version, but it still adds the new Villain alternate text version.
This is not really intended behavior.

When you already used 1 Hero respec, your HeroTier1 badge was already replaced.
The next Trial respec you use will be Tier2.
On villainside, it gave you the updated VillainTier2, but your old HeroTier2 was never removed.
Then the same thing happens to Tier3.

Hopefully one day it will be "fixed" one way or the other.

Not necessarily.

In that power, the Proc has a 20% chance to restore 10 endurance every 10 seconds. So let's assume that you are lucky enough for it to actually hit 20% of the time. That would be 10 endurance every 50 seconds, or 0.200 end/sec average.

Now lets compare that to an enhancement of 14%. The base recovery rate is 1.67%, or 1.67 end/sec. 14% of that is 0.234 end/sec, which is slightly higher than the proc's average... and that's not even including any +end bonuses you might have that would bring that number up slightly as well. If you have 115 endurance, then the 1.67% base would be 1.92/s, and 14% of that would end up being 0.269/s.

Try logging into the game in "safe mode". That might allow you to close the contact window and then relog normally.

As for actually fixing the main issue, it seems a lot of the newer drivers are causing similar problems for people. ATI users seem to be able to roll back to version 10.9, but I am not sure about NVidia. I know that version 266.58 is out as of this morning though. It might help. It might not.

Why wouldn't you just use the EndMod in the set? That power doesn't benefit from the Rech and Acc. I guess with the other set you use, the overall difference might not be much, but it seems kinda silly to give yourself a lower value of EndMod on purpose.

Yeah, I would say if you are slotting just regular EndMod stuff, then don't go any higher than 3. I'm not sure if you saw my edit above, but I mentioned using two of the Performance Shifter IOs to get a set bonus and an extra proc, so that could give reason for a 4th slot (with 2 generic EndMod), but as I also mentioned.. it probably depends how desperate you are for those few extra points.

I've seen so many people try to max out their recovery to the point that you never even see it go down at all, and sometimes that's just not practical. We've got 100+ points of Endurance.. why not use it? If you can find a good medium where you still don't "bottom out", you'll have more slots to enhance your other powers in better ways, IMO.

Yes, we can trade with any player now, regardless of Alignment. Then again, I can't remember the last time I ever even used the trade window, so who knows. lol

I wasn't necessarily saying that your 8 year old would have to do that. If your idea was to make everybody go Heroside, you could spend some of your own time moving the items over to the hero base where they could access them anyway.

But here's another idea. Don't go all the way Hero, just go Rogue. That will give your characters access to Heroside for the teaming you want, and also keep access to your Villain base and items.

As far as I'm aware, NVidia's PhysX emulation is not supported by City of Heroes anyway. CoH requires the old AGEIA hardware which many people have reported gives little to no advantage these days anyway (with today's higher specification CPUs), or at least any small advantage it may give somebody is usually not worth spending the money to get one.

I am not sure this is related to your issue (I have not heard of that specific issue before), but there have been reports of issues with some of the newest drivers. Many people report that rolling back to Version 10.9 solved most of them.

Yes, but there seems to be a slight bug with the color saving that some people still complain about, and I've run into it a few times myself.

The workaround I use:
After making sure your tabs are exactly where you want them, select a tab that has no global channels in it. Edit it and remove any channel (like broadcast or system), then re-add it. Now do your /chatsave.

Apparently if a global channel was the last thing you changed, it might not save/load the colors correctly, so it's quite inconvenient (since that's what people are most likely to change). I've even had my colors change on a different toon when I relog after adding a new channel, so I always make sure to save a new copy each time I make a change.

I hope that helps.

It used to be 10, but I think it was recently increased to 20. I only have 11 or 12 right now, so I can only confirm that it's been increased, but not what the exact limit is now. I just did a quick browse of the patch notes and can't seem to find where it was announced.

That said, it seems the Wiki is due for an update on that number.

I think his point is that since it's an issue with a driver and the interface in general, he should have the issues on more than just a few select toons, but he doesn't.

My answer to that is:
Each toon's window content is unique, so the specific circumstances related to the glitch (that results in your driver being caught in an infinite loop) may not necessarily be met on every character you have. That's why some experience it and others don't, even when using the same computer.

Announced earlier today:
I wonder if the extended Winter Event and the Double XP weekend has anything to do with the other game that came out this week.

I was wondering too and asked above as well, but it seems nobody on the team tried it.

On a side note, I want to point out that besides being able to get to the mission, Heroes would gain no benefit to being able to zone into the Villain Ouro anyway. Even if they tried zoning to one of the Villain zones, it would boot them back to Atlas Park. Also, clicking on a "pillar of ice and flame"... there is no such thing as a "Hero pillar" or a "Villain pillar". It would bring up the mission listing of your own faction, regardless if you are clicking on it on Hero or Vilainside, or even in an SG base.