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Not necessarily. Not everyone understands how to punch-voke. Those type of players do need taunt if they are looking to assume the tank role. I'm perfectly capable of holding aggro on my brutes and keeping even the squishiest lowbies alive in incredibly chaotic environments. However, this is where player skill and an understanding of game mechanics kicks in.

While I probably won't kick a player for not taking taunt, I would kick a player if their playstyle is clearly interfering with the survivability of the team. As for looking at powers, I rarely click player info. If I do, it means you've done to get noticed and I'm curious as to the depths of your stupidity.

While I agree with you in principle, Ironblade, I have seen far too many players that would benefit from taunt because they have not grasped the concept of punch-voke.

I thought there were safeguards against doing these kinds of things.

Namely, I could [QUOTE]do something like this[/QUTE] and forget a letter and it would ignore it because I didn't close off the tag.

YES! Where is my Drunk Walk power, BaBs?

IIRC that issue is not with all AT's that have SD, though I modify mids so often that I forget which is fixed in published versions and by myself. The easy way to test it is just turn off phalanx and see if all 3 go down.

Your range def on that build is 42.4%.

I'm not fond of siphon's slotting here. I prefer seeing more recharge, but it does depend on the desired attack chain.

I also think that for soft-capping, GSFC is going to be much more desirable for the build. You do lose the 5% recharge bonus, but you gain more flexibility with slots as now dark consumption doesn't need to be 6 slotted.

Shh, I like this forum as it is.

So we might as well remove any challenge left then?

It takes me about ten, because not only do I have to reslot everything, I have to redo my power trays. On some characters, that means deleting a LOT of temp powers.

I have a decent stockpile of inf (I'm in the ebil club), and I wouldn't waste 180 mil on a respec recipe. I'm guessing most players that have that kind of inf wouldn't either.

I can pull about 500 mil/week farming easy. I just don't want/need to. I've pulled 400 mil in a single day before.

How about you show me a fallacy first before I believe a word you say? Insulting an entire group of players is poor form.

I'd head to the tech forums when you have time. Crashing when SB is applied is not a common problem. I know at least some nVidia drivers have had issues with the game, and somehow when I installed Aion, CoH turned into a black screen. An update from the 1.8 to 1.9 series or something like that solved my issue.

I stopped keeping up with technology 5 years ago, but I'd take a look at the drivers for that video card. I think your crashing problem is fixable without having to buy anything new.

Salvage prices HAVE changed in the past two years that I've been playing the game. Are we playing different games?

During the AE craze, uncommon salvage spiked drastically due to shortages. While patient bidding would get you it for less than the typical 100k, you would need to buy above the flippers, which generally were around 21k or so, due to competition. Higher-demand uncommons were sustained at around 300k, like Unquenchable Flames for months. Those flipped around 66k. Prior to the AE craze, all of these salvage were readily available and would never approach 100k.

Alchemical Silver saw a radical rise and decline over the past two years. It quickly became the most expensive common salvage with prices averaging around 60k. A concerted effort by some players was able to crash the price for a good amount of time. Currently, Alchemical Silver goes for around 30k

Rare salvage during the AE craze crashed. Platinum, which regularly went for 3mil+ was now selling for 1mil, due to market saturation. Continual use of AE has somewhat stabilized the rare salvage market.

On top of that, we're seeing an influx of recipes that previously were more difficult to obtain. For example, much of the touch of death set has crashed, due to AE ticket roles. It's a great time to buy. Then you have the bronze 15-19 roll set that has supplied the market with a lot of in-demand recipes, from Imperviums to Steadfast 3%'s. The price has dropped somewhat, and is more susceptible to crashing due to a players learning about what used to be a nice niche of mine.

So, I really don't know where you're finding your information, but from my experience you are way off.

I doubt I will ever see a 30 million Apocalypse ever again. Oh, I misread this. I can agree to this.

Try an ITF where someone doesn't want SB'd in the caves. Then try to keep SB on everyone else while they run around like chickens with their heads cut off. My point was that when playing Kins, it is very easy to mistakenly distribute SB to those that don't want it, especially during more intense moments.

In any case, those that don't ask for SB don't bother me. Those that scream for SB while I'm focusing on keeping the team from wiping with my minimal tools for mitigation upset me. I left an ITF over that during Rommie's fight.

My experience playing a buff-oriented character appears to be completely different than yours.

It's nice that your focus is fun in a video game. I like speed runs from time to time for the challenge as well as I sometimes have time constraints that mean I don't have two hours to do something. Anyway, I enjoy efficiency, so I'm beginning to get the picture. We have very, very different views on a video game.

I've teamed with plenty where this is not the case.

Which is why a good kin won't SB you mid-run.

I'm going to assume you play a lot of blueside. I play redside and superspeed works great at getting around in an arguably more difficult navigational setting. It took a while to get used to it, and on some characters, the runspeed is actually capped. I love speeding to the next mob (I'm a brute, so fury is always on my mind). Hover is the devil, with it disabling Lightning Rod on my brute. Meh.

When I read that quote in context, it sounds like that player is suggesting they abandon the build program and actually focus on what the powers do in game. I may have misread it.

In any case, it would be a nicer game if both sides would give the other slack. Maybe that buff on you mid-team was an accident during a very intense moment, or maybe they don't like SB because it kills their FPS. I do try to oblige requests, but circumstances often dictate principle.

I'm also wondering just how old your computer is. I sometimes play CoH on my 5-year old laptop, with 1 gig ram, 1.3 gig processor, and onboard intel vid card. It loads things a bit slow and I run graphics at a minimum, but I don't take a huge FPS hit. If you're running something even slower than that - wow.

Have you ever tried to keep a team speedboosted on a kin thru an entire TF? Assuming one cast per 2 seconds, it takes 14 seconds to apply the buffs that in 90 seconds will expire. On top of that, you'll also be worrying about transfusion to keep players alive, keeping increase density on the squishes for mez protection, attacking to deal damage, and running in and using fulcrum whenever it's available. I'm watching the health bars of players, verifying that the target I'm targeting through them is in range of transfusion/transference when needed, watching my defenses to make sure I'm not facing cascade failure, and checking the team to see if I should wait 3 seconds for them to gather for fulc or just fire it. WHEW.

In other words, when I play a buff-oriented char, I'm usually preoccupied dealing with the entire team, and my focus on a single player doesn't work. On top of that, I use keybinds for teamselect. A simple D/C and suddenly you're one of the numbers I usually would buff.

So, I find the easiest, most efficient thing to do is offer it up to the team to decide whether to buff or not. Chances are, if the rest of the team wants SB and you don't, you probably don't want to play with them because you'll always have to catch up to them.

I used to try to oblige those that didn't want buffs. Now, it's all or none, because I will make a mistake sometime in the course of a TF, and you will get buffed, and probably will yell at me.

In other words, not buffing a player isn't always as trivial as you would think it is.

Wonderful. We all hate crashes.

I think it's a great idea. Keep asking for it.

I have found that playing characters with superspeed completely eliminates any issue of navigation you will encounter having speed boost. While you may still not like the power, taking steps to reduce the annoyance factor for you will only enhance the enjoyment you will get out of this game.

While I'm not the person you addressed this to, feel free to add a note to my global as well. It's the same as it is on the forums. As you may not play on Infinity server, you may not know how service oriented the Taxibots are, and how they do try to avoid hostilities. As Wendy is a Taxi, she has to abide by their rules, which includes treating other players with respect. Somehow, I doubt you'll need to add a playernote.