Psychic Guardian

Now that the stealth panther is finally live I want to make a beast mastery character, for now I'm thinking most likely the MM being an animal him/herself. With that concept(or even if I change that part) I'm trying to decide between the secondaries with minimal effects to pair with it.

I'm thinking either Time, Sonic, or maybe Force Field...or Pain.

I like FF, but even "invisible" bubbles are visible, and i'm thinking it'd look weird on an animal sculpt. Sonic really seems to work, but i'm not familiar with the Beast set and if it would compliment it well. I've played time and like it, and could make a concept out of it easily, but again, would it go with Beast. Pain I haven't looked at the graphics of in a long time, and I've never played before. I'd like to get around to trying the powerset, that's the only reason I tossed it in as a consideration.(I also have no familiarity with the Pain powers to make a decent build out of by myself slotting wise lol)

Any input?

Yes, the "+" key does work for boosting IOs. Unfortunately the Titan Devs haven't gotten around to making it display once set(unless you roll your mouse over that specific IO and check). When I put boosts in a build plan I put the toonname and boost info in a notepad file so I don't forget what if anything was boosted lol.

*sigh*. More Nerfs . PPMs are cool now honestly because min/maxers can max them. With the cap being lowered to 90%, rech being raised(likely a tiny bit), and ppm's being raised across the board to be on-par with the old procs this seems like a royal waste of time. People like the PPM because they are better, gimping them and spending tons of time replacing all the old system with the same level of meh the old system had already is just...meh. lol. If PPM is being nerfed to be equal to the other I see no need for change. All this says to me is the market ones people paid for because they were better are being ruined.

It's nice to have 1 or 2 things in the game that are above-par, that you can enjoy using. An example of the last cool thing to come out and be ruined later were SSAs .

Thermal Shield/Plasma Shield from Thermal Radiation are buffs you could have been hit with. Ember Shield comes from an Ember Demon from the Demon Summoning MM Powerset, and is basically a Thermal Shield cast by a pet. Only the one from the pet can be cast on yourself though, the thermals are ally-only. Your other option for being wrapped in fire would have to be a melee toon, using Fiery Aura.

Hoping at least one of those links is useful lol.

Does anyone know the name of the ambient sound the Dark Servant makes while it's around you? I searched the list for servant and didn't find it, I guess it may be a recycled sound I might want to keep, but just thought I'd ask .

So to clarify for you; to get access to your old VIP account you need it's Game Password. It's likely different from your Account Password. Since you know your NCSoft masteraccount login information login to the website, click on the accountname of your VIP Account, then click Change Password. You can simply make a new one without knowing the old one(since you have already shown you know the billing password, which trumps the game one).

THEN you can open CoH, and use your AccountName and new password and you should be able to login.

So if the game password is the only issue with getting into your VIP account you should be able to solve it without even needing to contact support!

I haven't gotten the driver crash once since suspending my custom login screen . My friend has also not had the game stop responding when he attempted to zone once since suspending his.

If anyone using a custom login screen has frequent crashes I have to suggest you change the folder you have named GUI to "_GUI", this will cause the game to ignore it and everything in it, temporarily(if you want) removing your custom login screen. Play for like 30mins and see if it fixes your issue.

Edit: WOOT, 1,500th Post!

Yes. the barking of the Umbra is bark1-7 in Zombie's list. (The howl the Beast uses when it attacks are also the generic doghowl1&2). And I checked, it does seem to use all 7 barks lol. That stupidly annoying woofwoofwoofwoofwoof woof it does all in rapid succession before it goes silent for a few secs is some combo of the 1->2->3->4->5->6->7. I silenced them one by one, and realized you can actually pick and choose a handful to silence and leave 1 or 2 of them and it'll be much less annoying without being totally mute.

Thanks Zombie . Do you know if the umbra beast of Dark uses the dog ones? I only found 2 umbra powers in my list I got earlier in the thread(which is missing Beast, I'd love if someone puts up the updated master). I'm trying to get rid of his incessant idle barking and the howl that seems like it might come from his immob attack.

Edit: hm. I'm not sure if I wanna silence it yet, but how about the name of the scream when the Shades die? None of the sounds grouped near them on my list seem like they'd be it.

I haven't tried the DiB trial yet, and I know i21 introduced "new shivans", so I'm wondering if the shivans of DiB count towards Man In Black? I LOVE that badge for titles, but it's such a pain to find them outside of bloodybay to get it. I'm guessing DiB is a huge shivanfarm-esque map the way the badges talk about them fighting each other in it?

Is the tooltip visible from the email window? I'm more concerned about it there than the market. Hm, I bet all the 20% chance for dmg ones use the same ppm, There's gotta be some forum/wiki guy who'll figure out the pattern and make a list lol .

I have used the XP Boosters on live and they also were 1hr(I think that's the correct duration.). There are a slew of new XP Boosters on the beta market; XP Boost of 1.5 or 2x(instead of the 1.25 on live), and each XP amount has a handful of different durations available(from 1-8hrs I think), whoever wrote the text for the confirmation window may have confused the "old" XP Boosters with data from the new ones coming if it said 2hours.

Woot awesome thread .

I have a ton of fun with my Plant/Thorn Dominator. I just made him this month, and he's already level 46. That's a personal record for progression for me, he's just that fun to play. He almost hit 50 before getting the Patroller badge lol.

As far as stressful activities he doesn't buff himself/allies, or have toggle debuffs, or heals. You kinda have to use Seeds of Confusion to enter the mob, but after that you can buttonmash and win. All the thorn powers in the set do good Def Debuff(with the primary Plant stuff doing hold/immob. I rarely use the aoe longrech hold, but it's a nice failsafe.), and I know you're a midsplanner, so throw in those Achilles, and it's just a fun ride.

umm.....what AT did you plan on trying to use a powerset with more than 5 pets on if it wasn't mastermind??

Not sure if it'll help you with bugsmashing the Res issue but Defensive Sweep's attributes in Mid's Info panel says "Res: -20% (Self)" lol.