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They need to reduce the party limits to something like 4 now for most of the TFs. Its much harder to find lower level TF teams than it used to be.

I'm going to go out on a limb and mention something less conventional.
two fire/kin controllers and one electric/kin controller.

it's going to be a little rough until all three of you have Speed Boost and once you have pets you will be totally awesome.

the electric controller has one of the best confuse in the game and a very powerful higher level stun.

The fire/kins have great DPS.
Speed boost is an AOE now and so is increase density so 3x SP and 3x ID should keep things rocking!

everyone should use the earth epic and get rock armor and the fissure. start any attack with the electric/kin "synaptic overload" and fire/kin's "smoke" and then run in and have everyone do a "fissure" and then a nice "fulcrum shift".

11.3 solved all of my problems the game no longer locks up. thanks for the suggestion.

We had a group running Hero Tip missions and someone new joined our team. The newbie already had 10 hero points and wanted to run his morality mission so that he could be earning new points with us.

We did his morality mission and to my horror everyone on the team got charged a fame point. which meant I couldn't finish my 10th mission for the day and do my own morality mission.

Since you can do a morality mission with a full set of five fame points it seems silly that if you have less than 5 fame points you would get charged a fame point for helping someone else do their morality mission.

Morality missions should not cost you a fame point whenever they are done, since you get nothing for them if you don't have 10. You are just being anti-team by having it this way. Why join a team that isn't in the exact same place in the fame points.

I've posted this before and I guess I need to again.

LAMDA is pointless to do if you're a squishy, in particular one which has just got to 50. I just died about 20+ times, if I survive not being one shot then I can burn all of my inspirations only to be chased down an slaughtered.

There is no skill in being one shot, there is no fun in spending 90% of the time in the hospital. I die casting once, I die not even casting, I die running, I die standing and fighting. There is no safe place to get like in a pack of other players since the AoE on them kills me.

And don't bother telling me it will get easier once I've level shifted because I doubt I will EVER play it once I have the absolute minimum from there.

You need to give the players some type of tools to figure out what's wrong with the character, like some way to know I need more X defense or more Y resistance and how to obtain such. Just letting them die like tissue paper .... well it just makes me want to close my account and find a game that some kind of skill is still involved.

Still leaking... still locking up

I have the same problem with my HD6970, it most commonly happens to me on leaving a mission but once in a while it happens in a mission.

I'll try changing the settings like the last suggestion.

the latest NCSoft loader locks up and has to be killed in the task manager.
it uses 100% of one CPU.

it does this about every 1-2 days, I have it running on more than one PC and it's done it on all of them.

I had the same problem and pretty much decided they didn't want my money.

Why the heck would they want to make it hard for you to buy something?
you should only need minimal security to SELL STUFF!

All of the items you can choose describe what they do except for Lore.
It has absolutely the lamest descriptions of what's going on, a technically correct answer but absolutely worthless to help you choose.

What does an IDF Ally do? you can't find out from the description given by Lore. The description by lore is you get an IDF Ally... big huge help.... same description for seers... you get a Seers Ally.

What does seers do, what do they all do?

so far my IDF ally just stands there and looks pretty.

I just got a new fire/rad controller to 50. I puts some IO sets on him. I didn't put any purples or anything like that but I may need a few more sets to fill him out nicely.

I tried lambda and this is pretty much my experience.

first group POOF, I'm dead. I don't even see what hit me, probably just LAG. I think I only got one cast off. There were one or two more POOFs before going inside, I can't even get close to anything for my choking cloud to even try to hold anything. for the most part none of my Mez works on anything worth using mez on. I can't see any indication my char or flash fire do anything but put aggro on me. I end up lagging behind everyone to hope someone else might take aggro first.

Once in the warehouse the first group goes ok with the same wait technique but by the second or third container the tank is at his aggro limit. I'm one shot and POOF I'm dead. self rez using phoenix and die before my body leaves the ground.

I want to know what the developers were thinking when the made this instance. Tanks apparently don't need healers since the healers would just die for the same reason I died. LAMDA can be fun with the right character but it's HORRIBLE on others. I seem to like it the most on my illusion controllers followed by my tanks. I seem to HATE it on almost everything else. Other than hiding in the hospital until this part is over I find it pointless to try and help. It was the worst on my ice/kin controller since slow doesn't seem to scale down like other powers. ( one ice cast and I'm dead ). The whole one shot thing means no healer could save me if they wanted to.

I'm really hating LAMDA and wish I could get my XP doing regular TFs and what not.

AHHHHH

What's the difference between a Tech beacon and an Arcane Beacon....

other than one works and the other doesn't?

We have the TV SG badge

I have tried to move a beacon from a neighboring telepad and the other beacon auto-attached to this telepad and worked fine.

The TV Beacon will not attach to the current telepad or the one I moved a beacon away from. It's like a worthless beacon.

could we have some kind of SG overall beacon limit or what?

I have never done the editing of the SG base before but we have a telepad with only one item on it ( pocket-d ) and I wanted to attach the (Tera Volta) beacon to it.

I went to edit base, found the Tera Volta beacon and placed it next to the telepad but it says that the beacon is un-attached and that I have to attach it to use it and it doesn't say how to attach it.

how do you attach a beacon to the telepad?

I already HATE BAF & LAMB.
I hate the BAF cut scene at the beginning.
I hate spending 30min to get a team for either.
I hate that as a controller being killed because a tank can't have more that 15-17 agro limit, just try to follow a tank around LAM warehouse and watch everything attack you instead of the tank, I get one shot vaporised and the tank doesn't even get looked at.

It's my theory that nobody is using the LFG system as designed. I think the devs wanted us to just randomly jump into the queue and it would put us in a team once enough were there instead of forming a team fist and joining that way. In any case, the way BAF and LAM groups are formed takes way too long. It can be longer than forming most TFs.

I have Nvidia 280 & 285 cards on my machines and a laptop.

lately when I logon to the game I start via the NCSoft loader and the loader is in front of the game. When I click on the game to bring it to the front , the game says loading or displays the logon screen I get a completely black blank screen for 5-10 seconds and then it comes back.

I've tried this on several machine including a laptop and it does it on all.

It didn't used to to this, anyone else notice this?

I had $$ signs in my eyes thinking I would get 50 "hero reward merits"


Thanks for the quick reply.

One of my hero characters has the "call of justice" power.
You're supposed to get that after having done 10 missions + morality mission.

I've looked in my salvage but I don't seen any "hero reward merits". I never knew about those kinds of merits before so I'm sure I've never spent them .

How could I have "call of justice" and no matching hero reward merits?

You call them Hero merits... when I look in my salvage and it says "Reward Merit" is that my hero merits that I need to spend?

I'm sure they developers thought they were being perfectly clear but I'm at a loss. If I go Vigilante I apparently loose all of my SG status without being kicked out.

Can I use my SG porter?
Can I use my SG storage racks?
Can I use my SG to make IOs like the university?
Will my reputation with the SG ( having made over 1M SG rep ) be gone?
I'm not but if I were the leader of the SG would I be demoted?

They talk about loosing merits... Which merits are these? Are they the reward merits I get from running a TF? if I become Vigilante will I not be able to gain reward merits from both side TFs?

I finally found some tip mission on one of my alternates. The particular one I wanted to work on had never run a regular mission over 20. all AE/TF/BAF/LAM.

as for the wiki, i was probably using the bad one. It gave technically correct answers without helping me. Kind of reminds me of the MS joke where a helicopter pilot gets lost in a fog and ends up near a Microsoft Building and shouts to an employee there "where am I?" and the employee yells back "you're in a helicopter".

it depends. I find ITF and LGTF drop the most for me. ITF being better than LGTF. I find some characters have got 6-8 with others have got zero which may be why I play them more.

BAF and LAMB are AWFUL PLACES for drops. I did just get one tonight but considering the amount of time spent it wasn't worth it. I found Apex and Mage awful places for drops as well.

do a kill all ITF shard run is your best bet. Pity nobody is running them unless it's the weekly.

My temp powers are now flaky. Ninja Run stops working when I enter a BAF/LAMB then for at least 60 seconds or so... then they work for 60 seconds or so and then they don't work again.

I've tried and I can't figure any of this out. The wiki is woefully an awful source of information about how it's done. I see more people that have gone hero than villain, maybe because I only play on the hero side.

I have a hero and want to be able to do some villain missions, like the weekly.

My hero is level 50+3 and I can't see ANY so call tips or missions available, so where do these so call tips drop. Don't say off any level 20+ because I couldn't have got to 50 without killing something over 20. Per say I got to 50 doing AE farms and most of the TFs, I've done the ITF & LGTF 100s of times. I I've done more BAF/LAMB that I can stand.

1. where is the best place to get a tip to drop?
2. why don't the tips drop in all of these places I've already been?