Master-Blade

MB's "Underground STF" Team:
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1: Phanta-Rad : Ill/Rad Controller
2: Takeo : Cold/Ice Defender
3: Angeliscar : Archery/NRG Blaster
4: General Gintoki : WP/SS Tanker
5: fire con : Fire/Kin Controller
6: Madam Shadow : Dark/Dark Defender
7: Motorpsycho Nitemare : Psychic/Mental Blaster
8: CKSHIVER : Ice/NRG Blaster


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+ Diplomat Badge
+ Heatseeker Badge
+ Peerless Badge
+ Saved The World Badge
Finished in 1:59:04
20 deaths.

After the quick LGTF, a few of us decided to stick together and do an STF. We were recruiting a few off the other LG teams as well, so we did some PI missions while we waited. We then picked up the last member from a quick RF2009 advertisement.

Well I didn't know what to expect from this team, but we actually did quite well. It wasn't until the beginning of the 4th mission that we had our 1st death (Alt was AFK). We gave him the "I phail" award. lol

We got the key on the first Security Chief and flew through the AVs, and even Dr. Aeon went down like paper.

We then made our way to GW. I pulled, and things seemed fine, but GW finally broke through and held Gintoki.. and we had our second death. My Phantom Army kept her at bay while I rezzed him and we got back on track, taking her down, and then Scirocco (who also came with the first pull).

My next pull brought BS by himself.. took him down easy. Mako came over on his own and we managed to take him down without much trouble.

The flier had just respawned, so it was perfect timing to take it down and move on to LR. Red tower went down fine. Blue was almost down and inspirations ran thin, and we finally had our 3rd death, then 4th.. and epic-phail-age. lol. Luckly a few people held out and defeated the Blue tower as LR started running around picking us off, one-by-one.

We regrouped.. I assured Gintoki that he wouldn't have a problem tanking LR with those two towers down, and we continued. If I was paying attention to the clock, we would have taken the flier down again, but no sooner did we start on the Orange tower and it respawned again, taking down a few people.

Gintoki didn't have much trouble keeping LR at the doors and the rest of us held strong and came back from the hospital one by one again, ignoring the Flier and finished off the two remaining towers, and then LR... finishing with a total of 20 deaths.. nearly all of them from the LR encounter. lol

Gintoki... A WP tank without an Emp... did great as his first time tanking (only 2nd time ever running this TF)... and to think.. Tabby inspired him to make his tank.
I feel so proud of him. lol

Everybody did a great job! This was a ton of fun. I'm glad we decided to run it.. Replay is next Monday when we get 3 teams on LR! w00t!

MB's Lady Grey TF Team:
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1: Phanta-Rad : Ill/Rad Controller
2: Max Shields : Shield/SS Tanker
3: Hatake Kasumi : Arachnos Widow
4: fire con : Fire/Kin Controller
5: Positronic Nemesis : Robot/Dark MM
6: Volcanic Boulder : Stone/Fire Tanker (DC'd during 3rd mission)
7: Bloodfire : Rad/Rad Corruptor
8: Drummer Hoff : AR/Dev Blaster


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+ 39 Reward Merits
+ Apocalyptic Badge
Finished in 59:09
29 deaths.

*Contemplates running a secret mission with our spare time...

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If we dont plan on sleeping them then we need someone who really knows how to pull one at a time on the last mission. ive only seen one person successfully pull only 1 or 2 at a time and never been able to do it myself.

[/ QUOTE ] I've done this a couple times with E and he saw me pull them one at a time. Maybe it was luck, and I'm not promising anything.. but I'd like to try pulling first and using sleep as a backup for whoever comes with the target Hero.

The one time I saw somebody trying to sleep them all, they got killed pretty easily several times when the sleeps stared to wear off and the stacking "missed".

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I've got my Sleep Purpled Out and ready for duty. Just tell me where and when.

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A) the sequence in which the badges were added to the game, which doesn't make much sense

[/ QUOTE ] Actually, that would make sense if somebody collected near ALL the badges, and then took a break.. they'd be able to see what was new... it's like sorting the badges by their issue release.. which some people have actually done in the past.

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If we dont plan on sleeping them then we need someone who really knows how to pull one at a time on the last mission. ive only seen one person successfully pull only 1 or 2 at a time and never been able to do it myself.

[/ QUOTE ] I've done this a couple times with E and he saw me pull them one at a time. Maybe it was luck, and I'm not promising anything.. but I'd like to try pulling first and using sleep as a backup for whoever comes with the target Hero.

The one time I saw somebody trying to sleep them all, they got killed pretty easily several times when the sleeps stared to wear off and the stacking "missed".

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Yeah, I'm positive I was using my hold, I don't even have a mouse connected to my laptop, so it is impossible for me to accidentally move them.

I don't have a problem with the mez protection, it's just the ridiculous AMOUNT of it they seem to have.

Domination basically doubles control powers (it doesn't add anything to the magnitude, but rather applies a copy of the power simultaneously, with an increased duration) so I was stacking 18-24 magnitude total hold with Hasten running under Domination and it was still not affecting them. That is WAY more than a player character Fortunata can withstand before they are held.

That's why I was asking if they had a form of Defiance as well. They were not moving at all, but were still attacking as long as I remained in range.

Also, is my understanding of what Domination does with control powers, which is in parentheses above, correct?

[/ QUOTE ] Domination doubles the magnitude of the villain's own Disorient, Hold, Sleep, Immobilize, Fear, and Confuse effects for their normal durations, then keeps them going at normal magnitude for half that amount of time longer.

(50) Robin Rogue : Dark/Kin - Corruptor
(50) Master-Blades : DB/WP - Stalker
(43) Longbow Spy-duh : Widow

I have only run it a few times, and each time was with Robin, so I'll be bringing her this time.

I'd like to do it on the other two eventually, but Robin is more helpful, Spy has to lvl up, and I'm a bit rusty with MBs because she was my first Villain 50 and I haven't really used her much since. lol

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None yet, and likely to stay that way until probably right before Going Rogue's closed beta starts.

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No closed beta. They have already said that it was going to be open beta.

[/ QUOTE ] I thought that was only for i15: Anniversary.. which did indeed start with full open access.

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Seems a little foolish to puch a thread to 3 pages with posts that refuse to answer the OP's question.

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It's not even one page!

[/ QUOTE ] I guess that depends on your forum preferences. For me, your post and mine are both on page 2 with my preference set for 20 per page (twice the default). Somebody viewing with the default preferences would be at page 4 now.

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Auto: +Res( P20 ), +Def( M6.25 R6.25 ), +Prot( Ho 4.0 Im 4.0 St 4.0 Sl 4.0 ), +Res( Sl 50 ), +ToHit (5%)
Fortunata seers are resistant to Psionic Damage, as well as Sleep, Hold, Immobilization and Disorient effects.
They have improved Defense and Accuracy.

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Mateo, glad you were able to rephrase what Mandu's earlier post said in a way that I apparently wasn't able to convey by telling them to follow Mandu's instructions.

[/ QUOTE ] I admit I didn't read the whole thing and didn't realize that was already suggested. Glancing through, it looked like Mandu was just suggesting renaming the EXE, and you agreeing. I'm not sure why that would ever work anyway since the actual file contents would still be the same. You could rename it PleaseWorkNAO.exe and still come up with the same results. lol

Mandu reinforced that again after the OP got it fixed in "20 seconds".. when it was apparently the other alternate method they used. I see now that it must have been the alternate suggestion you were referring to when you said to follow Mandu's post. It seems the other person skipped over it just as I did. Oops!

Either way, the OP (and somebody else) got it fixed, so that's a win for everybody. lol

You can rotate your camera by holding your MiddleMouseButton (or PageUp) while dragging.

Edit: Sc00peD!

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thank you VERY MUCH. I did just that, and it completely did the trick.


Also, thank you everyone else for the lightning fast responses, i really do appreciate you all trying to help, and i do apologise for originally sounding irritated.

Certainly, it should be noted somewhere that you can do a folder swap (so long as you run the NA updater from your desktop, which you aquire by running the 10 mb NA client installer).

I'm off to play CoV, thanks again!

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That just gives me an error message.

[/ QUOTE ] That's what I was afraid of.. the actual function (if available) is probably named something else.
Well, it was worth a shot. lol


Are you familiar/comfortable with changing the registry manually?
If so, have you tried manually toggling that option before you start the client?

-OR- try putting the following into notepad and save it as cohphysx.reg
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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Cryptic\Coh]
"ageiaOn"="1"

[/ QUOTE ] Then execute the file right before you run CoX, or after the updater finishes but before you log in... whatever you find works (if anything).

(I take no responsibility for what you manually do to your registry. You are at your own risk. Don't attempt to do anything at all unless you are familiar with it, and/or know how to fix any errors you might create.)

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thanks, but you entirely didnt answer my question, or i didnt explain it correctly.


I cant use the small NA client because of download speed issues (honestly, would you wait for a 8-10 hour download and be cheerful about it?)

As far as the second point goes, no, not really.. so i guess im either just stuck waiting the 10 hours for the game download, or marking it down to yet more money wasted with ncsoft and learn a valuable lesson (i had a similar problem with dungeon runners, too).

Well, thanks anyway for your help. I appreciate the fast response.

[/ QUOTE ] You can also try copying your EU directory to another folder, then running the US Updater (which wont take long to download), and telling it to install in the new folder you made. That might also only require a quicker update of files, rather than a full download.

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Stripping a character's badges off when switching sides would defeat the purpose of the alternet names some of the badges have.

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For all we know, we might only be able to earn the badges for our own faction, but we'd have the alternate names once we switch sides.

It may be possible some badges will cross, but certainly not all of them. I'm sure many of them, especially accolades will still be restricted to the specific AT classes.

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The problem with this is, that if your corruptor sees the error of his ways, decides to repent, apologizes for his evil deeds, and starts the long and rocky road to redemption....(ie switches sides for roleplaying/in-character reasons other than min-max or meta-game reasons) you will never be able to earn some accolades. The requirements for some "corruptor" accolades are simply unavailable hero-side.

[/ QUOTE ] That's what you get for being a triator! lol j.k

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So is there no way to procure the NA client other than by going through ncsoft/cohupdater?

I ask because i have the same problem (downloaded the eu client) but have a recently upgraded US account, and i can only get about a maximum of around 20-40kb/s from the updater on a good day.. and let me tell you 2.7 gig @ 40kb/s is a LONG time.. not even worth it, if you ask me.

[/ QUOTE ] You could buy a retail BOXED version of the game. The CD/DVD included will install most of it for you and will cut down your download time significantly. It'll only have to download an update patch instead of the full client.

Maybe there aren't any VILLAIN groups that can help your BLASTER.. lol
If you need help with a Blaster, you should be looking for a Hero group.
If you are a Villain, then you're not using a Blaster.

In either case, it sounds like you are just asking for free levels with nothing in return. Not many people respond to that.

That, and you haven't told us anything about yourself other than you have a high MM and a new Blaster.

What time of day do you play?
What type of in-game activities do you enjoy?
What team-size do you prefer?
What skills do you bring to the table?
What can you do for the SG?
etc..

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If you were doing your own missions and following along by auto-completing them, you could have just talked to the latin student yourself when you signed back in.

You can also just have somebody invite you to their team before they talk to the latin student, so you can get your badge. Sometimes people broadcast when they are about to do it.

The game itself can certainly use upwards of a gig of memory and more. On highest graphics, mine even hits about 1.5g after a couple hours.

Minimum System Requirements usually means minimum preferences too... and even that only means the application should run stable, not that you'd have a great time with it.

Having Recommended System Specifications usually takes care of load times and overall performance.

To reach maxed settings and performance, you increase your hardware as needed.


Anyway, the game has been updated several times over the years, but the Requirements have not changed (on paper). The software itself does require more resources than it did at launch. I agree that the page should have been updated a long time ago to reflect today's software. Today, most people consider the specs listed as Recommended to be barely enough for a minimum requirement, and recommendations would include pretty much what houtex said...

...more memory is needed to cut down on those load times.

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Though I do like to point out a small, interesting detail. Judging by that wallpaper picture, Lord Recluse is either A.) left-handed, or B.) a left-handed shooter.

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Well being left-handed is traditionally associated with evil.

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I'm left handed IRL.

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So? That doesn't change history and the language. The Latin word for left is sinister. The French word is gauche. Left has had negative associations for a long, long time.

[/ QUOTE ] Left is also the opposite of being right... lol

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So what changed? my set up ran the game fine as of dec. '08. the only thing i did was upgrade my vid card. what canged game side from Dec. '08 to now?

[/ QUOTE ] Did you increase your graphics settings when you got the new card? Unfortunately, you might hav to lower them back down to get it to run reasonably.. which might have defeated the purpose of upgrading the card to begin with. Sorry.

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I've always noticed that Lord Recluse has a pistol on his belt. What's it for? Is it just a normal handgun or does he have something "special" to use it for?

You can see it here in this wallpaper: http://www.cityofheroes.com/images/w...a1600X1200.jpg

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[Lord Recluse.Channelgun]
Ranged, High Damage, Energy, Foe -Endurance, -Recovery

Maybe he uses it when his Crab backpack breaks down? rofl

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The "channelgun" is actually an attack from the spider arms. Each individual arm, on a Crab Spider Backpack, is referred to as a "channelgun".

[/ QUOTE ] No kidding.. that's why I said he uses it when the arms break down. While I realize LR doesn't actually have a crab backpack.. it was clearly a joke.

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I think the entire AE building should have power suppression... with all the griefers that just auto spam graphic powers to lag the building...

[/ QUOTE ] Better yet.. put the entrance to Studio B on the ground floor, so people wont have to go through the active area just to get to the non-active one.