macskull

I think you are confused, Badlactor. These are the CoX forums, not the CO forums.

Aside from listing the four purples that dropped over the weekend, I did nothing. Got an SS/Shield from 37 to 50, a Fire/EM from 1 to 31, and some extra levels on assorted lowbies, but I had little desire to even log in most of the weekend, let alone work the market.

Rei hit the nail on the head in regards to powersets. Elec/WP/Mako is FotM right now due to having Hibernate and Spirit Shark which hits like a truck. Many of the more experienced Stalkers are sticking with Soul Mastery though - while it's got less ranged damage output, Shadow Meld in combination with Phase means you're much safer out of hide, defensively. As a PvP Stalker your main contribution will be to AS a mezzed or KB'd target and then get back into hide as quickly as possible - you're the weakest of any melee AT defensively and if you try to scrap it out with a harder target, you will die.

Definitely is. I've been running CoX on Win7x64 since it went to RTM in August, and I'm pretty sure I tooled around with it when it went into public beta much earlier than that.

Put me down with I Liek Turtles, 50 Earth/Nrg Dom. Tried to get this done once a few weeks ago and the leader went AFK as we exited the second-to-last mission...

Ice Control is one of the better Dom primaries.

Hm, when's that come out again?

Looks like it might be 5 Oblits (including the proc) and a Gladiator's Strike proc, or vice versa - two smashing procs, at any rate.

Yeah, recharge slows wreck Therms pretty badly (and Benumb is just mean).

Why is this thread still here?

I'm bad, I haven't touched the market all weekend except to craft and list items I've been getting as drops (4 purples so far, nothing else of note).

I'd go with a Tanker, Brute, or Scrapper if you're just starting PvP, because more HP and some defenses leave you a bit of wiggle room to figure out what's going on.

He's not really. People don't get into PvP for a variety of reasons, and I'm betting very few of those people decide not to PvP because they are told "PvP in this game is bad." More likely than not people don't get into PvP because they ask "how will my flying RPing AR/Ice do in PvP?" and they'll be told (honestly, I might add) "it will suck." Now, most people aren't capable of comprehending that PvP is, and has always been, different than PvE, and your PvE builds just won't work well. I13 was supposed to fix imbalances between powersets, but in reality it only made less builds viable. Other potential reasons people don't get into PvP could be time needed to get good (aka the "I don't want to have to put effort into getting better" syndrome) or misconceptions about the PvP game and its players (such as the "you need IOs to PvP" or "all PvPers are trash-talking 12-year-old gankers" myths).

When people are trying to get into PvP, I'll offer to be helpful and tool around with their builds, maybe even help them in the arena or zone. I've always done that and most of the good PvPers I know have done the same (though some higher-end PvPers don't necessarily like sharing their builds, which is fine). It's not the PvPers' fault that a new player decides not to get into PvP - it's the fault of the new player who refuses to learn from his mistakes instead of just whining about what he perceives to be imbalances, and it's the fault of the developers for making a half-***** PvP system that's completely different from PvE with no in-game documentation on the changes.

I've had this sort of situation happen to me on a few occasions. Friend of mine had a small solo SG on Justice and wanted my help inviting her alts (she had only one account) so she invited and promoted one of my lowbies. I promptly forgot about that lowbie, but after noticing she'd pretty much disappeared without a trace a few months later, I logged back in and discovered I was super-leader. Since she'd been offline for about two months, I took the liberty of redesigning the base and inviting my own characters into it as well as a friend here and there. The old leader's logged on once since then (I left her two main characters in the group) but I didn't know until after the fact. It's now been about six months since she logged on and I'm not expecting her back, even for the weekend.

I was a member of a small VG on Virtue as well on a few of my characters, and stopped playing on that server when I13 hit (I'd rolled characters there to run Cap SFs with a group from the market forums, but merits killed that) only to come back as the leader a few months later. I made a few minor changes to the base and went about my way, came back even later, and wasn't the leader anymore. Ended up leaving that VG a few weeks back when someone I know left the game and gave me his VG.

I did mine a little bit differently when I moved to a new machine (well, technically same machine but a wipe and clean install of a new version of Windows). Copied the entire CoH directory to my second internal hard drive, exported the CoH folder in the registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Cryptic/Coh) to a .reg file, and copied that as well. When I got my new clean Windows install up and running, I copied the CoH install folder back to the same location as it was on the old machine (in my case, C:/Program Files/City of Heroes) and re-imported the registry values.

Sounds complicated, but really isn't, and saved me a decent amount of time patching and verifying. Of course, it might not be the best way to go about doing it, but it's another possible method.

Put it in Enforcers as well - it won't stack from you and your pets but there'll be more opportunities for it to proc. Stick an Explosive Strike damage proc into the Bruiser, since almost all his attacks do KB/KD of some sort.

Yeah, I did find it awful convenient that MA missions weren't giving double XP due to a "bug" when they worked just fine last time. On the plus side, I've been farming Council and Nemesis like mad this weekend and I've been doing my part to inject purples into the economy.