gameboy1234

Here's one bug I noticed on live. I'm mentioning it here in case someone else notices it or wants to comment.

I changed my VEAT's Arachnos costume on live. This worked fine. However when I pressed "Next" to go to the powers screen, there were no powers or any GUI at all. I tried unchecking the "Hide Powers" button but it won't accept the click. (I did see very briefly the GUI for powers start to appear when I clicked, but the powers selection buttons would always disappear right away and the "Hide Powers" button remained checked.)

Bug or WAI? It's not like VEATs can customize their powers anyway, but I thought the lack of any GUI at all was odd.

Here's one bug I noticed on live. I'm mentioning it here in case someone else notices it or wants to comment.

Operative Luong in Sharkhead had not text when I tried to talk to him. I haven't noticed him before and he's not in ParagonWiki so I assume he's new. He should at least have a "Go away" message.

He's located by the trainer in Shark, between the two ramps on the south east side of the Arachnos structure there.

Is this on the "test server" or on the "beta server"?

If I have the latest Beta on my hard drive, can I do the reverse of setting up a Beta install: copy all files over from /CohBeta to /CityOfHeroes, remove the checksum file, and get a faster "download" install time?

Anything I should be careful of destroying when I do this?

Yeah that was awesome. Beginner's best idea ever.


In case Mids screen shots aren't enough, I stripped out my Accuracy enhancements on the Beta server and took a screen shot.

Me fighting an even con minion. Knockout blow has a 1.20 accuracy bonus. 1.20 x 75% = 90%. And that's what you see in the combat window and on the Combat Attributes monitor. Note that my base chance to hit is listed here as "To-Hit Bonus," and is 75%. I'm not running Invincible or Rage.




Bad dog! No biscuit!

For a "first primary" I would suggest a (mostly) ranged set.

Robots, Thugs, Mercenaries would all be excellent and would work fine with /Dark.

For Thugs, you get the Bruiser later at 26. Plenty of time to get used to pet controls before then. You'll have the arsonist to practice on for 8 levels.

Yeah, same deal. I often cancel my subscription just so I can manually renew. I realize that the whole point may be to get me to leave the auto-renewal on but that feels kinda cheesy.

Some clarification could be made here.

Bots/FF was also my first 50 and I still love and play it. It's great on any kind of task force -- you bring great buffs and good damage to a team. Plus the bots work as a kind of aggro spill magnet. Any extra aggro floating around they tend to pick up, which helps keep squishies safe.

With Incarnates, I believe I'll be able to get an entire team past the softcap. That's a huge boost to any team. I doesn't make pretty numbers like other sets do but the effects are very noticeable.

In general, Masterminds go through a funk from around level 18 to level 26. The pets aren't too powerful, you don't have your last pet buf, and until the top tier pet at 26 things can be a little lack luster.

The solution is to team so you can get through those levels quickly.

Other stuff: Dark is awesome, you'll pretty much want to take all your secondary powers. In your primary you might want to consider taking one or two attacks. This can help with damage before you get all 6 pets.

Inherent Stamina is coming up. Get ready to respec to take advantage of it. With a secondary like /Dark you want all the extra powers you can get.

That's about all I can think of. Ask if you have any questions.

To have fun I definitely think you should team up. Get to know some folks, even if casually, and look at interacting with others. Try Freedom or Virtue -- those servers are heavily populated and you'll have the best chance of teaming and leveling up. Don't forget that you can team with anyone. You will automatically be promoted to the leaders level, less one. If you team with a level 50, you'll be level 49.

Check out Praetoria (gotta buy the expansion). The missions are much more interesting for soloists. And since it's new there's a lot more other folks also leveling up their characters.

Also try interacting on the forums some more. Especially your server forum. You can meet folks who play on your server, find out what the popular things to do are, and get yourself invited to those events that you're interested in.

I don't have any specific cure for "it's boring." Different strokes for different folks. But the whole point of any MMO game is to team up, so try that and see if it makes a difference for you.

Personally, I didn't care for either /Poison or /Trick Arrow. Poison was way too much single target, Trick Arrow was way too slow to start.

Bots/FF is an awesome combo, starting right around level 12. However, if you don't like bubbles, that's cool.

I personally would try /Pain, /Traps, /Thermal or /Storm. I have a low level Thugs/Traps and he's awesome. If it weren't for VEATS, I'd be playing him. I also have a low level Demon/Storm that coming along nicely and a Necro/Thermal (with the color on Thermal turned all darky) which also seems nice. For /Pain I have a Dark/Pain Corruptor and I can tell you from teaming that Pain Bringer on a MM pet is insane.

All up to you, but I'd go Thugs/Traps and see how that works for ya.