Prof_Radburn
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Quote:Also the IO.s do not need replacing every 5 levels unless you want to they will work all the way to 50Originally Posted by Mashuguna
I just hit 22 and I can access lv 25 IOs and SOs. What makes the most sense? Buy SOs from the store or WW for now, then look at IOs at level 35? Not sure what the best bang for my buck is (not a billionaire
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Quote:Agree 100% somewhere along the way it needs to be explained to new players how to get contacts,apart from other plays answering cry's for help although I do find myself doing more of that than I used toOriginally Posted by Smiling_Joe
The only problem I can see with the DFB is that new players - in less time than it takes to learn what their powers do - outlevel every contact from Atlas Park to Steel Canyon, and are given almost no guidance from the game about what to do next or where to go. They are missing out on vast swaths of early level content and many of them keep running dfb's because they have no idea what else to do.
Eventually, boredom sets in and you'll see them street sweeping the mid-level zones because they don't know how to get a contact.
Contacts that call you upon training up only partially help this, it seems.
But garbage? Heh. That's funny stuff.
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Quote:The only reason for me to run a DFB with a 50 is to get the badges nothing more nothing lessOriginally Posted by damienray
I just can't figure out why some 50s are still running it. They did not believe me when I pointed out that 50 is as high as you go with regular content. <shrug>.
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not sure anything can hold the escapees I have tried with different controllers with no luck so move on to secondaries and do the best I can
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Why are you leaving you do not say
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I have had this also,I can mapserver but my wife who,s computer is right beside mine using the same router will have no problem,I have no idea what causes it so just get on with the game when it come,s back
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Quote:So if I was to say slot level 30,s then boost them to +5 I could exemplar down to 27 but keep all bonuses am I reading that right?Originally Posted by Roderick
I'm not sure I'd mix and match the levels. That would make your set bonuses rather difficult to predict which you'd keep when exemplaring.
Personally, I always slot Level 25s. I rarely exemplar low enough to lose those bonuses, and I'm still getting roughly the equivalent of SOs for enhancement values.
My goal is to keep all my set bonuses as close to all the time as possible. I only use a mix of levels when the set I'm using doesn't provide enough enhancement. For example, four Kinetic Combats has some incredible set bonuses, but the enhancement values aren't great, especially at level 25. I'll slot a couple level 50 triples or quads (usually Crushing Impact or Mako's Bite) to improve the slotting. For these latter ones, I don't care about the set bonuses at all.
Other people slot in the 30-35 range. This gives them noticeably better than SO enhancements, and they still rarely lose set bonuses. Note that somewhere in this range, boosting an enhancement to +5 makes it equivalent to a level 50 enhancement. Boosting an enhancement doesn't change its level, so it will still count as its base level with regards to set bonuses and exemplaring.
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Ok as I thought it is a bit complicated seems its best to slot a mixture of lvls ,that way I will always have something there that is working.Thank you for your replies I understand it a little better now
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Now I,m the first to admit I,m a bit of a dummy as to how things work in this game .
My question is if I have a level 50 character and slot everything at level 50,what happens to the enhancements if I say exemplar down to say level 25.
Do the enhancements work at level 25 strength or do the just stop working altogether,will apologize for the nooby question but I have wondered about this for a while now.Will say thanks for any enlightenment on this
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Oh dear another one wants to rush about just take things at a nice steady pace,ok do the DFB to get over the lvl 22 hump for SO,s if you a free player but then play the arc,s jump on the Tf,s or run them yourself you will get there fast enough.I have 1 alt that took less than 100 hours play to go o to 50 which for me was fast.
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Quote:I can understand where you are coming from,you say its not just the CoH game you have this problem with ,do you do anything else on the computer or is it all game orientated if it is just take the computer down and get someone else not in the family to look after it for you.No computer no temptation and make sure you get your brother to lock his behind a password.Not the best solution but the only one I can think of at this time .CoH will not lock your account so your choices are very limited.When you feel you can control your game play a bit better you can then restart to play.Originally Posted by TClauss
What I am asking is not that technical, or hard a task to achieve. I myself have accurately removed data from a database. If they can't do it accurately, then they should not be in the business they are in.
The account(s) are mine, not theirs. If I so wish to have them removed. Then THEY should do so. period.
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Not such an obvious name for a water based toon Drought cause I like to be different
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Quote:I don,t know about low numbers but i generally take them down with 3 shots then tidal is ready for the rest of the mobOriginally Posted by ChrisMoses
Had a much slower day yesterday... Just soloed a couple of tips.
Now I see where people are saying Water Blast isn't that great for single-target damage. The disappointment certainly cut my night short by a bit.
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Never been able to snag one of these so no longer bother
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Quote:As a Freedom player you can still play 1 to 50 on all normal content,you just cannot have access to VIP content so that should give you plenty of entertainment.Originally Posted by TwilightPhoenix
@Toast: Apologies, I missed that bit when the rest of your post kept saying stuff like "you wouldn't have a welcome experience" and "you are getting an experience many of us paid years for". That sort of made it come across as the post was targeting me specifically in a rather aggressive manner and made the (not you specifically) disclaimer in the middle of it easy to miss.
Anyway, mind, while there are those who may have spent "thousands" on the game, what they've spent in the past is their business and really has no bearing on the current state of affairs other than the free perks should they unsubscribe. I mean honestly, I find that mindset extremely aggravating because reality doesn't work that way the majority of the time. Say if you've been a long time shopper at a store who required membership to shop there and they suddenly allowed everyone to shop there one day, they're not going to give you a gold-plated shopping cart to use. You're going to get the same one as the new customers. Now you might get treated a bit better by the cashiers as they recognize you, but that'd be about it.
But yeah, however much anyone has spent on CoX before it went free to play is seriously irrelevant. If anything, it can easily be argued you got the massive perks of having 6+ years of exclusive access, possibly including stuff such as events that may never be repeated (like the Rularuu invasion) and able to provide feedback to help shape the direction of the game before Freedom launched. Free players don't have that and never will. And it's really besides the point regardless.
Let me ask you, as a (I assume) long time subscriber, how does being a bit more inviting to Premium players, former subscribers who may or may not have invested just as much or more time and money into the game as you have, harm you in any way shape or form? How much would it ruin your experience if they were offered a short, say five day, one-time VIP trial for free? Or if the characters they made were as usuable as always but had to obtain the necessary unlocks for any other characters of theirs to use those systems (say, can edit any MA arcs they had published while subbed but cannot publish new ones or republish it if they take it down)? I'm not saying "Hey, they should have MA access period!" or "Hey, everyone should have the VIP experience for free!" but rather dangle some incentives to make premium players stick around and want to either spend money in the store or resub. It frustrates people such as myself who've made multiple attempts to come back far less and it could generate more profit for the company. Like I said upthread, free samples can generate a heck of a lot of sales.
Also mind, money is only part of the issue . I'm also looking at time investment and opportunity cost, among other things. Will City of Heroes Freedom provide an acceptable amount of entertainment for the amount of time required to play it and for the cost of the other stuff I could be doing instead? In the past, this was true. Is it true now? I don't know, the sour experience I've had every time I've logged since Freedom launched has me rather unsure, but I've liked the game enough in the past I'm willing to try to get past that and see. But I don't want to spend any amount of money until I'm sure I'm making a sound investment. That might sound silly, but I'm tight with my wallet and I refuse to spend cash to try something without proper research. You may or may not be totally fine tossing $15 or $5 just to check something out to see if you like it or not. Me, not so much, especially with how much a game that transitions to a whole new payment model can change. I can tell CoX is quite a bit different since I last seriously played it and I need to know if I like the difference, but to do that I have to get over the demotivational issues (and, more importantly, the performance issues, if my Windows client ends up hating me too, I'm giving up regardless).
@Arcannavile: I'd pay for the same, similar enough, or better experience that I had from before. Vague, I know. If it helps, I do have things on my in-game store wishlist, I just forget what.
@Tenzhi and Biowraith: Understand when I originally made the topic, the issue of IOs and other such was particularly jabbing at me since I wasn't logged in long enough to really re-experience my performance issues (and was too annoyed at the other stuff) and didn't get to experience those in their full glory until I logged back in later to go try to do a Mayhem mission. IOs are an important point, sure, but one that can be overcame if enough other factors work out. It's also worth noting that I'm kind of annoyed at several people making posts as if I'm just saying "GIMMIE" and am also annoyed at myself for making this topic to begin with.
Edit: And the stupid NCLauncher seems to be ignoring that I installed all the assets from the disc and just needs to patch everything. I hate that stupid thing, but that's another, unrelated issue. At least it's not trying to force me to use PMB. -
Quote:Yep eyesight not what it used to be I stand correctedOriginally Posted by Texas Justice
Guess you missed it.
Easy to miss, it was a rather long post.
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I have mine on a continuous payment monthly can you not set something up like that with a 6 month payment plan.
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Well I have just read thru this and not once have I seen anyone point out that the game is still * according to the Devs* based around the SO enhancements,all the other stuff is just cream.Yes I know the IO,s make us stronger but this is why we can change the lvl of difficulty at which we fight.You can still play the game with just an SO build.Go back to Issue 6 which is when I started playing we had none of this great stuff then but everyone wanted it,now we have it and people want it without paying why should you get what I have when I pay my sub each month and others want it for nothing.Either sub up or adapt you game play to suit your freedom status.
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Quote:I would have to disagree with you there,as we all know blasters do have a low survival threshold but one of the fun things about them is learning how to take out the mobs without aggro to many.Also what is wrong with debt badgesOriginally Posted by Shubbie
Some people arent going to like this but Im going to lay it straight out.
Reroll now.
Blasters are probelmatic, they look great till about 30 then you start collecting debt badges, quickly.
You start spending all your time stunned if solo and in teams you look at corruptors and think.... huh they are doing my damage and they buff too.
Blasters are a AT for the very experienced with Billions of influence to fix the problems.
Try a corruptor or a dominator instead. and as to that point I have a lvl 50 blaster that only has the first 2 which I do not think is that bad.If the OP wants to try blasters why try and discourage them.I do know a lot of player do not like them as they face plant a lot if the aggro piles up which is why I tend to take a melee power to go with the range ,I like energy normally for this but do try other things when the mood takes me.Ok thats enough from me
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Quote:Yes the game has changed so much since I started playing in 2006,best advice has already been given but you will find a lot of helpful people here.You will find the forums have change a bit as well there seems to be a forum for every type of power set,so may be a good idea to read up on them as well.with fly I generally have 2 slots for hover 1 I normally slot the hover with a knock back protection.Welcome back to the game have fun.Originally Posted by Emjack
HI, i found this build that im going to give it a shot, i been out of game since 2004 and i only understand what i remember since back in 2004, here is the guide i found , let me know if i need to correct anything, i got this build from
Olepi's Ice.ice Blaster Guide (
1 2 )
Archetype: Blaster
Primary Powers - Ranged : Ice Blast
Secondary Powers - Support : Ice Manipulation
01 : Chilblain acc(01)
01 : Ice Blast acc(01) dam(3) dam(3) dam(5) dam(7) dam(9)
02 : Ice Bolt acc(02) dam(5) dam(7) dam(13) dam(15) dam(17)
04 : Frost Breath acc(04) dam(40) dam(40) dam(40) dam(43) dam(45)
06 : Aim recred(06) recred(25) recred(31)
08 : Hasten recred(08) recred(9) recred(11) recred(13) recred(15) recred(17)
10 : Freeze Ray acc(10) hlddur(11) hlddur(33) acc(34) recred(39) hlddur(39)
12 : Hurdle jmp(12)
14 : Super Speed endred(14)
16 : Build Up recred(16) recred(27) recred(31)
18 : Bitter Ice Blast acc(18) dam(19) dam(19) dam(21) dam(21) dam(23)
20 : Health hel(20)
22 : Stamina endrec(22) endrec(23) endrec(25) endrec(27) endrec(29) endrec(31)
24 : Stealth endred(24) defbuf(46) defbuf(46) defbuf(50)
26 : Ice Storm slw(26) slw(34) slw(34)
28 : Bitter Freeze Ray acc(28) hlddur(29) hlddur(33) recred(33) acc(37) hlddur(39)
30 : Ice Patch endred(30)
32 : Shiver acc(32)
35 : Blizzard dam(35) dam(36) dam(36) dam(36) dam(37) dam(37)
38 : Grant Invisibility endred(38)
41 : Body Armor damres(41) damres(42) damres(42) damres(42) damres(43) damres(43)
44 : Cryo Freeze Ray acc(44) acc(45) hlddur(45) hlddur(46)
47 : LRM Missile acc(47) dam(48) dam(48) dam(48) dam(50) dam(50)
49 : Ice Sword acc(49)
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01 : Brawl Empty(01)
01 : Sprint jmp(01)
02 : Rest hel(02)
NOW i do not understand Enhancement Diversification yet, been doing some reading and still cannot comprehend what it all means, im disable so somethings i just cant understand
so for the build above ill be slotting if i remember what i need from the enhancement stores where i buy im quesing are called origins or so's till lvl 50 then try to figure out this Enhancement Diversification stuff,
Anthing wrong with this build above im going to try, i will be replacing hurdle and super jump to hover and fly?? Not sure how much sloting i need to do for fly and hover
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Quote:What a pickle if I was in that position I would have to buy some points and get both,if not do the coin toss.Good luck with your choice but Water Blast looks like it will be funOriginally Posted by RoboTank
Awesome! But at the same time, dang! : I was saving my stipend of points for Beam Rifle. I've a couple of concept toons for both power sets.
Dang, decisions, decisions...
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Think you might find they used half coconuts for the bra as pineapple would be a bit messy all that juice *slurp*
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Well I am most certainly not rich,I have been off work sick for the past 10 months my income is about $410 a month I pay my sub but spend nothing else on the game but still enjoy myself and do not feel like a second class player.Why you think you have to be rich to play unless of course you want to buy every little thing they put on the market.I feel that your post verges on a rage quit post.Learn to adapt to the circumstances and carry on :>)
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Its a shame to see a long time player leave the game,but you go with many happy memories of people you have met and befriended,also you have come thru a bad patch in your life and are now moving on to better things.Good luck with your new venture but don,t forget to pop onto the forums now and then to say hi ,all the best for the future
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Just to fix the tp at the end of the heist mission its in patch notes now