gameboy1234

I run on a 3 or 4 year old laptop, on the 2nd lowest setting (Performance) and Praetoria was fine for me. It still looks nice and my frame rate is decent (20-25 fps). If you can run CoV acceptably now, you should be fine in Praetoria.


Yes, the missions are much nicer than either CoH/V. More like the Tip missions we get in CoH/V. Plus Dual Pistols, Demon Summoning, and of course the new Incarnate slots and missions ... I'd say GR a must-get if you plan to renew your subscription.

Yes, I know. The rest of it though is fine. Alpha slots boost damage, or accuracy, or endurance reduction, or hold times, etc. of all you pets simultaneously just fine, plus all of your other powers too.

The only folks having problems are Khelds and Doms. Masterminds are good.

99% sure this is incorrect. Pets of all types (mastermind and otherwise, including psudeo-pets like Rain of Fire) have been working just fine for a long time. Of course, MM pets still don't benefit from Recharge of any sort, but that's a different issue.

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Most MMs I expect would do well with Musculature, but I've been thinking about taking the Accuracy one, because it'll boost my /Force Fields. Plus the Accuracy will effectively free one slot on each of my pets, which will be worth something at least. I could slot a proc in there, or add a different Aura, or just move a slot elsewhere.


Speaking of slotting, if you're having trouble figuring out what IO Sets to take, look at +Recovery. I don't take Stamina on my /FF, so when I moved her over to the Beta server at the start of open beta, I got Stamina immediately and I was in heaven. Let me tell you, Stamina plus a bucket-load of +Recovery from IO sets is possibly the most wonderful thing you will ever experience. Run every toggle you can think of, use your powers liberally, yet still have lots of Endurance. It was truly one of the most fun things I've ever done.


Also, the Incarnate boost apparently works down to level 45 right now, due to the way Exemplaring works. This is not exactly WAI, but might not be changed either. Stay tuned.

This, 100%.

The second paragraph needs emphasizing. It's Defensive, not Defensive Follow, that gives Bodyguard. You can use Defensive Stay or Defensive Goto also. Plus, you can put your pets on Aggressive, let them fight, then use "/petcomall Defensive" in the middle of the fight and get full bodyguard immediately.(*) Your pets won't pause in attacking, they'll keep fighting, but you'll get the benefits of Bodyguard right away.


It's Follow that causes your pets to stop what they are doing and run towards you, for about 5-10 seconds. This can be really useful when you want Bodyguard but don't want your pets to respond to mobs. Spam "Def Fol" everyone 5 seconds or so, and you'll get 4x the hit points and have complete control of your pets too. (Well, complete control means they'll follow you and not respond. This works for pulling.)


(*) Assuming they are not sill executing an "Attack" command, and if they're all in Supremacy range. Pets need to have Supremacy (about 80ft range, plus line-of-sight), for that pet to contribute to Bodyguard mode.

Yeah, Nth'd. A scosh more communication would be helpful in general, although I think at this point everyone saw the delay coming. Still good to know officially and in advance of, say, Friday afternoon.

Quick! Someone call Statesman!

Sorry about that, fixed the link. Mouse hover over the icons on that page to see the details.

Same with Widows and Mask Presence: Smoke Grenade does not break their "hide", you can spam it all day long at a spawn.

And Fortunata's Confuse too does not break Mask Presence, nor their Aura of Confusion either.


What I wish I'd known: Power Boost (Ghost Widow's PPP) does not enhance the +Regen in Pain Bringer (Corruptor's Pain Domination). Man was I disappointed when I found that out.

Yes, it's called Longbow. No need to code up more, thanks.

Well, it is. This being the internet, people don't often capitalize words or use punctuation, but the word mob is a perfect valid construct. People should be saying MOB or mob., but they just don't because folks shorten a lot of their typing on the internet.



Deal with the fact that not every facet of the language is found in a standard dictionary. Read some of the replies above; you can see the term mob is used by a lot of folks to refer to a single creature. It does come from MUDs, and was used a lot by the EQ developers (arguably the first successful 3D MUD).

I also come from a technical background, and I'm used to invented or re-used terms to describe things that have no real name in the vernacular. (Input and output as verbs are the classic example.) Really, it just makes folks using the term look kinda silly. It's for your benefit, not mine, that I point out correct usage. Otherwise you look kinda rube-ish.

It's still incorrect to refer to a group of enemies as a mob. Call them spawns or groups please. And mob is an abbreviation, a perfectly normal English construct.

This. It does help. Sometimes MMs look like they are just sitting there but we're usually frantically buffing, healing, debuffing, commanding and generally trying to manage two teams (players + minions) at the same time.

Those lousy stinking yellow fairies! Those horrible atrocity-filled vermin! Those despicable animal warmongers! They've killed Fritz! Take that! Take this! Take that, you green slime! You black hearted, short, bow-legged...

No your friend did not make a good point. Of course everyone will three slot Stamina (and probably at least two slots in Health). Considering IO Sets and Uniques, four slotting each would not be considered excessive.

Then you just choose three powers THAT DON'T NEED TO BE SLOTTED. Recall Friend. Assault, Maneuvers, Tactics, Vengeance. Hover. Hasten. Stealth. Provoke. Boxing & Tough. Combat Jumping.

Come on, this is not hard.

I actually agree with comments saying it'll be difficult to use both freespecs in a timely manner for some players.

Suggestion: Issue one freespec and one regular respec. Those do stack, and folks who aren't currently subscribed will also be able to respec both of their builds.

1. Castle didn't post that. It was said at the Meet-and-Greet thing on the 6th. Technically, you said that but it was really unclear the way you wrote it.

2. The 16th is the EARLIEST we could see I19. If there's any hitches, it won't happen until after Thanksgiving.

Repair and Serum (the Mastermind versions.)

I personally must agree with this. This game needs new content bad. And not more whack-a-mole design like the original Positron TF. It needs more interesting, varied and thoughtful content.

I'll take power pool customization if it's offered but I'm not here on the forums clamoring for it. And I don't think there are "a lot" of folks asking for it either. Just some very vocal ones. The devs are right on track, imo. Big end game content is exactly what's needed right now.