rsclark

2600 mode would have been great - a big green box would work better for explaining why I couldn't stand close enough to Ghost Widow to hit her.

Graphically it wasn't bad, but I wonder if a better card would have upped my attack speed to two per minute.

Vengeance. Thank you both - I was missing that little piece of information. Shows how much I pay attention to logs.

Kinda tough not killing those lts when I'm shield charging in, though.

I normally just play and don't pay attention to my combat log, but I was having to rest after some fights that looked like they should be easy. After looking at the log, I realized I really don't get the system - maybe this is normal, but it made no sense to me.

SD scrapper running CJ and weave. Fighting some Rikti and nemesis, and the lieutenant rifle guys seem to be destroying me, but I figure they are just accurate.

Then I kill everything in a group except a Headman Infantry and a Warhulk both bosses at -1 level to me. And I get the following 2 lines that make no sense-

Headman Infantry MISSES! Rikti Rifle power had a 10.00% chance to hit, but rolled a 99.33.
Headman Infantry HITS you! Rikti Rifle power had a 89.31% chance to hit and rolled a 48.82.

How does the chance to hit jump by 80% between 2 consecutive hits with none of my powers dropping and no debuffs on?

Does the Rikti rifle debuff def by 40% (through my grant cover) or is there something else mechanically going on that I don't get?

Back with the old difficulty system, I could set it on the highest level and pad up to 5 people with no danger of dying to anything less than a Hero/AV. Between the silly defense and the knockback, it is a danger free set.

But there are no real damage boosters in either set, so killing is slow for anything except big groups of minions (all the bots get decent area attacks). But you can pick a fight with a room full of anything you want and then go get a sandwich while your bots do everything - most of the time they don't even need your single target buffs, just dispersion and leadership is all you're good for.

ok, I'm not looking for an uber-IO build or anything, just some basic info on how a couple of powers work before I respec my 38 FM/SD.

I was trying to do a fire sword and shield build with all sword attacks, and as few non-sword punches as i could manage. I ended up taking cremate to have enough powers to keep attacking, but I'm thinking about switching it out for incinerate.

Looking in Mids, Incinerate has a longer recharge and slightly less damage which is probably more than made up for by it being all fire and not a fire/smashing combo, for slightly less end. On average, it looks like less total damage. Am I missing something? Is there something about the use or animation of the power that makes it more desirable and a higher tier (I'm going on test later, but limited testing doesn't tell as much as playing with the power extensively.)

I also too fire breath, but I've been fairly disappointed in my ability to reliably hit enough people to make it worthwhile. If I was opening with it, it would be fine, but I open with SD and breathe fire mainly ends up being a high end single target attack that occasionally hits an extra enemy or 2.

So, how is using Kick from the Fighting pool as an actual slotted attack? It looks like it would be well superior to Fire breath as a single target, but again, there's always the hidden aspects you don't notice, and I never see anyone playing with it slotted out. I figures it might be worth a shot since I was going to end up taking it for tough/weave anyway.

Lastly, for someone who will never have rows of 6 slotted purples, is SD + CJ + tough/weave + maneuvers overkill for defense/resist?

For me it does allow re-installation, so it might be something different. Any files I delete are downloaded and restored, but the game just won't start because it keeps looping. If I then cancel out and force the game to start without patching it plays fine.

I just can't patch and play with one click. Not a major hassle, but worrisome since I don't know why it's happening.

I'm getting the exact same behavior on an XP machine running a non-test version of the game. Ran cohupdater from the install dir and from desktop.

The progress is showing as 3.6M/0B, so it can't even read how big the exe is supposed to be. Deleted it and it rebuilt the checksum, but then does the same thing.