Roderick

I don't have access to Mids' right now, so I'm not going to tear apart that build right now, but I can make a few suggestions.

1- Slot Endurance Reduction! MisterD is right, you can't get away without them. Dark Consumption just doesn't come back fast enough to be your sloe source of End management.

2- Frankenslot! High end builds are expensive, but you can get very similar results by mixing and matching set IOs (commonly referred to as "Frankenslotting"). For example, replace all the Defense SOs in your toggles with Def/End IOs (remember that you can only use one of each in each power, so you'd need a Red Fortune: Def/End, a Gift of the Ancients: Def/End and a Karma: Def/End, for example, not three Red Fortune: Def/End in a single power. Stay away from Luck of the Gambler for now, it's really expensive).

3- Drop the To Hit Debuff from your attacks, and replace with an End Reduction. The ToHit Debuff doesn't really need slotting, especially since most of your attacks are single target, so you're debuffing the guy who's about to die, but not the ones that are staying alive to punch you. It just doesn't benefit you that much.

4- From level 30 up, Common IOs are better than SOs. Whenever your salvage is full, go to a University and click on a crafting table. In the bottom corner of the window that pops up, there's a filter. Set it to hide recipes missing ingredients. Craft as many Level 50 common IOs as you can with the salvage you've got, and replace your SOs with the equivalent IOs. Because they've got higher values, you can safely drop the second Accuracy you've got in most of your powers and add more recharge or end reduction, as you see fit.

5- Go do some missions in AE until you've got a big pile of tickets. Roll Bronze level 10-15 until you get a Steadfast Protection Resist/Defense (Unique). Craft that and put it in Tough.

When I get home, I'll see what I can slap together for a basic IO build. Do you have a budget? I'll assume that you don't want the 10+ billion Inf build that I'm currently working towards, but if you've got some savings to work with, I can suggest some better sets as well.

The post I remember was made when we only had BAF and Lambda. Apparently, there were two or three reward tables, and the better the league did, the better the table that was used. But you are correct, individual performance doesn't matter, except to push the league to higher levels; as I said, everyone on the league rolls on the same table (though their individual results vary, of course).

If I right-click the speaker icon in my System Tray and choose "Open Volume Mixer", I get a master volume control, and a separate one for each program I have running. When you checked your volume settings, did you make sure that the volume isn't really low for CoH, but normal for everything else?

As an aside, because of the underline on links, I totally misread the topic title. Had the problem been what I read, I don't think anyone here could help you...

Defense, obviously. Get yourself to the softcap first.

If you're planning on doing a lot of incarnate content, get yourself to the Incarnate Softcap next.

Get Soul Mastery for your Epic. If you're a Hero, take Body Mastery for the Endurance help, then get your *** over to redside, suck up to Ghost Widow for her powers, then head back to blueside. Pick up the +End Accolades and a few +End and +Recovery set bonuses to make sure you've got enough endurance. If you can't make it work, get Dark Consumption back into your build, because dropping it is the olny way you can explain running out of endurance.

Next step depends on your playstyle. Are you a damage dealer or a tank? If you plan on doing both, pick the one that's more important to you.

If you plan on dealing damage, pick up Gloom and Dark Obliteration from Soul Mastery. Gloom is an incredible ST attack, and Dark Obliteration helps with your anemic AoE abilities. They also give two additional places for purple sets.
Next, get your recharge as high as possible. You want enough to make Soul Drain permanent. It's tough, but possible. Since you have more Defense Powers than you know what to do with, you can easily fit five LotG +rech. Put purples in one of your punches, Soul Drain, Gloom and Dark Obliteration. Find somewhere else for another purple set; I use the Stun purple in Boxing, but the immob in Midnight Grasp is another option (albeit a bad one). Get as many +5% recharge bonuses as you can. Pick up Hasten.
At this point, you should have at least 177.5% global recharge(37.5% LotG + 50% purples + 20% Quickness + 70% Hasten). Most of your powers will come back as fast as you can click them, so put together any insane attack chain you want. Remember to start every spawn with Soul Drain to keep your damage bonus as high as possible.

If you're planning to tank, you need to deal with the fact that pretty much anything that gets through your defense will do full damage, or pretty close. Brutes have an automatic advantage over scrappers because they have more HP, which means they regen more HP/sec and lose a smaller percentage of their max HP when they take the same damage. So boost your HP even more. Start with the +HP accolades for a +20% boost. Then add +HP and +regen set bonuses where you can find them.
Get Tough and slot it well, but don't bother chasing +Resist set bonuses; most of them suck. I wouldn't bother getting the +3% resist PVP IO, but if you have the money and really want to get it, go for it.
Get Gloom and Darkest Night from Soul Mastery. Dark Obliteration is handy, but not mandatory for tanking builds. Darkest Night reduces the damage enemies deal, so it's effectively extra resistance (unless the enemies resist the debuff). It also applies the same taunt as all your punches do, but on a continuous basis, to the target and everything around it, kind of like an extra taunt aura.
Consider frankenslotting Siphon Life to get extra healing out of it. DO NOT ignore its damage though - it's one of your best attacks. If you don't need the heal often, just slot it like a normal attack.

Once you've maxed out your offensive or defensive capabilities, follow as much of the advice from the other section as you can. Fortunately, there's some overlap. For example, Luck of the Gambler boosts HP and recharge, as does Crushing Impact.

Regardless of which build you use, skip Elude. You're softcapped, so you don't need the +Def, you've got Dark Consumption, so you don't need the +Recovery, and nobody needs the crash at the end. If you want a godmode, pick up Demonic/Eye of the Magus. The typed defense won't stack with your positional defense, but you'll still benefit from the +Resist, and there's no crash. In the rare case where you'd need it before it recharged, you'd probably still be waiting for Elude to recharge anyways. And it IS affected by global recharge, so with the uber recharge build mentioned above, it's back every 9 minutes.

What's happening is that the system is pulling up the wrong enemy group.

Certain enemy groups exist in both CoH and CoV, but have different spawns - redside Circle of Thorns get Hordelings, Hellfrosts and Succubi, red Tsoo get Blue Ink Men, and so on. Blueside Carnies don't exist below level 40; on the redside they go down to level 30. On an all-hero team, the system loads blueside Carnies, and if the team is lower than 40, screw you, you get level 40 Carnies.

I don't know why Posi said "we'll post a workaround later" instead of posting it now - we've known how to fix it for years.

Just like heroes farming Hordelings from Terrigol's mission before side-switching, the trick is to force the system to spawn the redside version of the group: Have a villain enter the mission first, and the redside group will be the one that spawns. Red Carnies are 30-50, so the level will be based on your group size and difficulty setting.

I've only been hit by that bug once, and I personally had to back all the way out to the login screen, and reenter my username and password to get my stuff back.

If you purchase something from the in-game store (especially Paragon Points), sometimes you won't receive it until you log out to refresh the database connection as well.

The first rule of troubleshooting computer problems is and always has been: If at first you don't succeed, turn it off and back on, and try again.

Well, it wasn't exactly an "extra zero"...

That's what I said, Agge. I was talking about the anecdote that I quoted, not the one in the OP.