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Toy Collector is in. Someone chimed on chat they got it.

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Griefing aside...

Does anyone else wish they could bring back the 2005 Christmas event as a side to our current one?

Y'know, the ones with the helicopter mission to the opposite faction's base to steal/retrieve presents...

Both are fun!

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The mission served its purpose as exposition as to why there are all these jingle jets around, but as far as the mission mechanics go, it was a fluff mission easily stealthed. Any excitement in it was for heroes who've never encountered Arachnos foes before.

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After rescuing baby new year i picked Renewal of Light and didn't get anything I tried it again with the same result.

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As players are talking about in this thread if you obtained those powers last year, you can get the powers again through the candy canes. I'm still trying to get clarity on that issue, as that functionality was not laid out in the design documents for this year's event.

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And yet, it was reported working that way on the Test forum.

From this post in the official feedback thread you started...

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Also, if you do Father Time's mission you get to choose one of these from a drop down menu:<ul type="square">[*]Fur-Lined Gloves costume item and Crystalized badge[*]Winter Boots costume item and Frosty badge[*]Renewal of Light temp power and Miraculous Badge[*]Golden Rings temp power and Joyful badge[/list]
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I did the FT mission and picked the Renewal of Light Power. Didn't get it.

Already had the badge .. I think ... anyway, seems to work like the V-Day stuff. If you got the stuff, last year, can't get it this year.

Ran out of time to see if you could the stuff again with the Candy Canes.

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Yes, you can buy em again with Candy Canes.

When I did the FT mission, I chose the Golden Rings hold power and got nothing (NOTHING I TELL YA!). I'm presuming it's because I already had the corresponding Joyful badge. So, I went out and ran around opening presents until I got 20 candy canes and presto! I bought the Golden Rings power from the Elven Crypt Keeper.

So... unless they change the FT reward, there is no reason for any of my toons to do it... they all have the badges. It's candy huntin season.

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Did they try to fix it so you can get the Temp Powers again from Father Time's mission and it didn't get fixed, or did you miss the feedback that it wasn't working the way your design documents laid out? Cause I also sent in a bug report that I didn't get Father Time's temp powers again.

Winter Event 2007 at ParagonWiki

Also note: While leaving behind Snow Creatures at where a Present spawns is a bit anti-social, remember that last year (and this year) there was a change: If a new Present spawns with an old spawn of Snow Creatures, then the Snow Creatures will automatically despawn when you approach the present.

This way, there aren't any Snow Creatures 'camping' Present.


Also note: Playing at peak times is rough for Present collection. If you can play very late at night, early in the morning, or during school hours; then you'll have a much easier time of Present and Candy Cane collection.


Also note: If there's currently too much competition for the Presents -- a newly and quickly made disposable toon logging on directly into Atlas, Galaxy, or Mercy can immediately gift another toon with the Holiday Cheer present. Then that slot can be deleted and remade for another gift... So, grab a friend or second account and make the gifts that keep giving.

Someday, Jerkhackingese will supplant Klingonese.

Just post the new guide in the Guide to Guide threads. When the top level posts get updated, the switch will be made.

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This new, fixed version is not suppressing *all* FX, just *most* of them. Inspiration and Leadership gfx are still seen as was a self buff from the PB set. Also, things you would expect not to be suppressed are, e.g., wings; or the Nemesis Staff being invisible, but not the energy beam it shoots.

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Thanks to a recent patch, temporary items like the Nemesis Staff and the Blackwand and costume items such as wings do now continue to display even when other GFX are suppressed. Thanks, Devs!

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Is this Vince D'Amelio?

Vince is a CoH Cryptic Developer. I didn't know he came over to NCSoft (or is he attending as a fan of the game who happens to be Cryptic employee?).

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Yes, it is.

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Vince is an NCsoft employee, he dwells among the others in the programming temple of DOOOOOOM!

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Vince is way nice! He was fun to chat with!

From what I hear, [u]all plus one[u] of the Co* Cryptic crew came over.

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Fixt!

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Zomg! The entire dev team was there and no one got a complete list of names with pics!! (At least, of those that would give permission.) Bah! None of you deserved to be there!!

&lt;pouts looking at an incomplete dev tracker spreadsheet&gt;


(BTW, before anyone asks, I'm pretty sure the 'plus one' is Hero 2, Hero 1's newborn son.)

Is this Vince D'Amelio?

Vince is a CoH Cryptic Developer. I didn't know he came over to NCSoft (or is he attending as a fan of the game who happens to be Cryptic employee?).

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Does using TweakCoH violate the EULA in any way?

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No. The Devs are fully aware of TweakCoH's existence. It has been advertised on the forums many, many times. TweakCoH gives players access to the settings of the game in Windows' registry, which are the same settings you can set in the game. TweakCoH also places files into a user's section of the CoH directory which 'overlay' the in-game files, just like the 3rd party maps do. Neither of these functions change the actual coding of the game or allow your characters to outperform other characters (i.e., cheat). With file overlays, you can see different fonts, hear different sounds, or use a marked-up map; but to all the other players, you will look and play the same as you always have been in-game.

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Have run "rumblings of the past" where you rescue Fusionette...I puporsefully got her killed first mish so i could stealth it, which in turn made me fail. I still got the badges. (incl 30 min one, gold medalist)

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You can also stealth it by stealthing it and then going back and rescuing Fusionette as the last thing you do.

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Very nice guide. However, you forgot to mention the letter in the last mission of Rise of the Council, In the last room. I'll tell exactly where it is if anyone wants, but I'd rather leave it more vague.

This means there are 4 letters total. But where, then, is the letter in the *Hero* Trading Places?

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There are five letters total since there's one in Tesseract's SF and Twilight's Son's TF (heroes and villains can only do one or the other, so, a character can only collect four).

And there are six letters if you count that the Milos' hero letter is different from the villain's letter. But still, one character can only see four.

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However, we need your help. For all of Ouroboros’ resources and my own unparalleled intellect, we are not prepared to weather the coming storm.

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You know, this Silos really has a thing about the weather, doesn't he?

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Must be a Sturm Kontroller.

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IS this the same Joe that worked on all the Diablo quests? hat would be awsome, I still love Diablo. I demand resumes and references! lol

Seems to be the same spelling.
http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/dos...ta/370600.html

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Pretty sure it's the same Joe.

We gots ourselves a Blizzard guy in our midst!

A Talsorian X!

X = Anything you can possibly Talsorialize (i.e., have a glowy 'energy' body), which is a staple of the comic genre, whether it's a magical bow or hi-tech swordl.

So, Talsorian axes, a Talsorian bow, a Talsorian mace, etc....

Sam Mowry: Entry in IMDB.

Constellation, aka Brian Gilmore, stayed on with Cryptic.

Hero 1, aka Joe Morrissey, is the new Story Bible guy. So, if he's dropping hints, he knows what he's talking about, or he knows he's purposely misdirecting.

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The person in charge of COH's lore is Hero One, and speaking of shy... I'm still trying to get this guy to take a step out and introduce himself.

If you have been following the story arcs for Ouroboros this is our guy, his name is Joe Morrissey, and speaking of creative efforts, this guy is expecting his first arrival, un-known gender at this time sometime this week.

We'll get him to pop on the boards and say hello soon.

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Hey, Joe, boy or girl?

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Good guide. Hopefully it'll help lessen confusion over what is and isn't a "free respec."

Might want to add the villain patron arc respec under "earned respecs," though.

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Already there in the text, but I'll add it to the bullet point.

RESPECS

Short for respecification*, a respec allows a player to chose new powers and enhancement slotting for their characters. However, please note that you can not change Archetype, Powersets, or Origin. If you're a Science Dark Melee Regen Scrapper, you'll always be a Science Dark Melee Regen Scrapper.

It's important to know that there are basically two types of respecs:

1. Earned respecs; and,
2. Free respecs (freespecs)

And there are what I would call two types of pseudo-respecs:

1. Forced respecs (Soldiers of Arachnos only); and,
2. Second Builds
   

Earned Respecs

Earned Respecs come from three sources:

1. Successfully complete a Respec Trial (the Terra Volta Trial for heroes, or the Thorn Tree Trial for villains) or the first Patron Arc for villains;
2. Veteran Rewards; and,
3. Purchased with Real Money

Earned Respecs are 'stackable' in that you can collect any number of them and keep them in reserve until you want to use one. A character that has done all three respec trials and has the four veteran respecs (9, 21, 33, 45, and 69 months) will have 7 earned respecs. A villain may have an extra earned respec after completing their Patron Arc.

In order to claim a Veteran Reward respec, you'll need to open up the badge window and click the drop down menu and chose 'Veteran Badges' to show the Veteran Badges. Scroll down to the 9, 21, 33, or 45 month badge and click the claim respec button.

Earned Respecs are used by going to a contact. For heroes, they see Jack Wolfe in Galaxy City; for villains, they see Arbiter Lupin in Nerva Archipelago or Arbiter Sawyer in Port Oakes. Clicking on either puts one into respec mode.

If you want to purchase an Earned Respec, log into your server and chose your character for whom you want to buy a Respec (but don't enter the game). Click on the "Enter Store" button and follow the directions to buy a respec. They cost $10 each.


Free Respecs

Free respecs, often called 'freespecs,' come from three sources:

1. They are given to players by the Developers as celebratory gifts (e.g., to celebrate a game anniversary) or as corrective gifts because game mechanics have changed and players might need to respecify their characters to adjust to the changes;
2. Starting in Issue 11, inventing them from Respec Recipes; and,
3. Starting in the Winter Event of 2009, inventing them from a Recipe from the Candy Keeper paid for with 500 Candy Canes and 250,000 inf. Thus, they can only be purchased during the Winter Event.

Freespecs are not stackable. If you have a freespec and a new one is granted by the Devs, you'll still have only one. If you have a freespec and try to create another one from a Respec Recipe, you'll find that you can't. This is to prevent you from 'burning' a Respec Recipe needlessly. If you don't have a freespec and then use the Respec Recipe, then you will now have one freespec.

You can store the Respec Recipes (the regular ones, not the Winter Event ones) though -- as many as your personal recipe inventory and the storage slots in your Consignment Market interface** will hold (don't forget your 'alts' can hold recipes for you, too). Respec Recipes can be traded, gifted, and bought and sold at the Consignment Market. So, if you don't get a Respec Recipe as a 'loot' drop, then you can possibly buy one at the Market.

Respec Recipes are rare Pool A (defeat foes) drops.*** If you have one, you can go to any invention crafting table (found in universities, in the RWZ base, or bought for super group bases, or unlocked as a summonable power through Market badges) and invent a freespec from it.

To use a freespec, simply type the command /respec in the chat window and it will put you into respec mode. Or, you can go to a respec contact.

If you got to respec contact and you have a free respec and one or more earned one, the contact will use your free respec first.



Forced Respec

When a Soldier of Arachnos (the Villain Epic Archetypes of Soldier or Widow) levels up at a trainer, they are forced to respec at level 24. This is so they can chose which 'branch' of their Archetype to follow. Keep this in mind since you probably wouldn't want to respec at level 22 when a free, albeit forced, respec is coming at level 24.



Second Build

This isn't a respec at all, but it almost functions like one. Each player character has a Second Build that they can switch to. The first time you do so, you get to 'level up' that second build choosing your powers and slotting from scratch. If you don't have a respec available and haven't touched your second build yet, this is a way to sort of respec your character.

Note that you can then respec the second build, too, as well as the first. Each respec of each build 'burns' a respec. To respec both builds, you need two respecs (free or earned).



How Many Respecs Do I Have?

When your character logs on, you may see in the System chat window, "You have X unclaimed respecs available," if you have one or more unused respecs. This number includes freespecs and earned respecs. It does not include Respec Recipes and the Veteran Respec awards that haven't been claimed by clicking the respec button in the badge window. If you want to know if this number includes a freespec, simply issue the command /respec, and if you enter respec mode, then you have a freespec (you can back out of respec mode and not lose your freespec).

There is no limit to the amount of times you can respec. A Soldier of Arachnos could use up 8 earned respecs, their forced respec, five freespecs granted over the course of several years and then go on to buy 10 respec recipes with infamy at the Market and 10 purchasable recipes with real money and thus have respecked 34 times!


Known Issue

There is a bug in the text of the Vet Reward Earned Respecs. When you 'cash one in' by clicking on the claim button under the badge window, you will be told you can use that respec by typing '/respec.' If you've read the above carefully, you'll know why that's a bug: The command '/respec' is used to use free respecs, not earned ones. If you type /respec after claiming a Vet Reward Respec you'll either be using up your free respec, or, if you don't have a free respec, then nothing will happen.

To use the Vet Reward Earned Respec, you'll need to see the contacts Wolfe or Lupin (see above), and *not* by typing '/respec'.





*Regardless of what Positron says, 'respec' is short for 'respecification' and not 'respecialization.' And the rule for adding a k before suffixes that begin with a vowel for words that end in a hard 'c' apply: respecking, respecked (and never 'respect'), just like picnicking and picnicked.

**Items placed in the storage slots of the Consignment Market will be lost on characters whose master NCSoft account is inactive for more than 60 days... be careful. (Note it used to be that 60 days of character inactivity caused you to lose your inventory, but that has changed to 60 days of your account lapsing).

***Best way to farm for Pool A recipes? Large number of minions that con blue (-1 level) or green (-2) to you. (Greys do not drop recipes. Ever.) So, take an AoE specialist and Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.

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The link of the original post that should lead to the guides on enhancements loops back to the original post. The only way to get to the post on enhancements is to go to the next section and scroll up to the previous post in this thread. This could be a problem for people.

I hope that's the right place to post this.

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It is. In fact I gave Ex updates earlier this week that will fix all that and bring it all up to date. I'm sure she's swamped and will get to it within the next few days.

Well, if you want the accolade powers at a low level so that they'd be available when you malefactor, then this is very helpful.

Also, you can't Flashback unlockable contacts unless you unlock them. So, it helps to know what's needed along the way.

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Debt wipe means a few things -

A. It probably will delay some people from getting the debt badge.

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By at least 5 minutes.

Gah, it takes soooo loooonnnnnggg to hit the debt cap. I can't conceive how I can die 5 times quickly in a row.

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For nearly $10 (including shipping) one can get a CoV or a CoH game with one month free. Is 240,000 prestige (12 slots) worth $10 to you?

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Where did you see this offer? I have been looking for it but unable to find it.

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amazon

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Hmm... for $10.19 you can get a BOOK about the game, but to get a new/unopened copy of the game, you've got to slap down $29.99 ($17.99 for villains only).

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You're missing the used and new links where you can find other vendors unloading new CoH and CoV stock for $4-$7. With shipping, it's about $10 a box. I wouldn't buy used codes, they're technically not transferrable and the old owners can call customer service and say you stole the code.

I missed this guide when posted. Was looking for something like this. With Eldandil's hero version, we got a complete set.

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Where did you see this offer? I have been looking for it but unable to find it.

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Well They're rapidly running out of time if they wish to release I11 in Fall of 07 instead of Winter.

So is it Fall or Winter for Issue 11?

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Winter begins Dec 21. It's all Fall up until then.