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If you need more help on this I suggest posting in the Gameplay / Technical Issues & Bug section of the Boards. (Listed under "Development")

Technologically savvy players check that section for those needing help with computer issues, including things like running CoH on Linux.

It checks when the power is first triggered, and then rechecks once every 10 seconds for longer lasting powers. (Assuming that the effect that the proc is associated with is reapplied to the target.)

I just got the mission where you have to fight the Madame of Mystery in the Madelaine Casey arc.

What a PITA.

First, the map was causing unbelievable lag. This was one of the new warehouse maps, the one with the large room with shelves in the middle of the room. Whenever I faced the direction of that room my system would stutter. This was even when I was 500 yards away from that room with a large number of walls between me and that room. There is something about that room that is causing a problem with my computer.

Then there was the fight against the Madame of Mystery. I kept getting killed, and killed quickly. After a couple of deaths I decided to keep track of the combat rolls and things were definately weird.

I was fighting her with a Dark/Dark defender that has 30% ranged defense due to IO bonuses and defense powers. This is coupled with Dark's to hit debuffs. The Hit Rolls for the Madame of Mysteries were incredibly strange. At one point she would have an 8% chance to hit me (expected) then 10 seconds later with me running the same toggles, unmezzed, and my Dark Servent standing right next to her, she would suddenly have a 95% chance to hit.

Facing an Elite Boss with a 95% chance to hit you tends to make for short fights.


Then there was the behavior of the Psychic Cleaver that you are given to use against her.

I would activate it, and never saw any damage numbers appear. It was like she was completely ignoring the Cleaver. This certainly would explain why I was never able to budge her health during those few fights were I was able to last more than a few seconds. That and an attack power that normally does 60 points damage only doing 22. 60% damage resistance?

Then there was getting hit by Telekenetic Thrust and Will Domination. According to the listing on Paragon Wiki, she doesn't even have those powers.


An Elite Boss with a 95% chance to hit you, with high resistance to your attacks, on a map that turns play into a slideshow. Coupled with the EB being given more attacks.


The developers apparently decided to update this mission and have succeeded in screwing it up completely.

Personally, Psychic/Mental has been the only Blaster combination that I have been able to play beyond the mid-teens. My Blaster is currently mid-30's level wise so I can't comment on the last powers in the secondary from personal experience.

Given your description of your personal play preference, I'd say Psy/Mental would be a viable choice. "Blapper" would be the last word I would use to describe how the combination plays.

In the secondary, one melee attack (Mind Probe) is skippable and the other (Telekenetic Thrust) actually helps keep opponents at range. Subdual, an Immobilize, also helps keep opponents at range.

Psychic Scream is a cone attack with decent range and can be used while hovering over a spawn of opponents.

I personally found Drain Psyche to be skippable when soloing. It does have potential to offset the -recovery portion of the tier 9 primary attacks. (Dual Pistol tier-9 lacks the negative recovery). Slotted for endurance recovery, you need to hit eight or more opponents to offset the -recovery of a tier-9 attack. It can hit ten.

It also debuffs your opponent, which is nice in those EB/AV fights.


I haven't gotten to Psychic Shockwave, but it looks like fun especially if slotted for stun. With enough stun and recharge slotting, you could potentially keep all minions in a group stunned.


Looking at the powers in the other two primary sets mentioned, I'd say that Mental Manipulation would work just as well with any of the three mentioned. The main difference would be Dual Pistol's lack of a tier-9 with a negative recovery component. This would make Drain Psyche a little more skippable.

If you want to solo Lady Winter with a melee toon, you really need to pay attention to the mission dialogue.

You're told you can get help from the Tuatha. You can use them against her. Just lure her to the beach with the Tautha and trigger the patrols just before she gets there. They'll start fighting her if they run into her.

Makes it so much easier.

Had the same problem on a shared computer. (It was also an older computer runing XP, that may be the source of the problem).

Here's something else to try.

1) Copy your the cohupdater.exe and pigg folder and save in another folder
2) uninstall coh using the uninstall.exe.
3) copy the cohupdater.exe and pigg folder back into your city of heroes file
4) run cohupdater from inside the city of heroes file.

For some reason, you seem to need to install COH from inside the file on some XP systems.

Also, you might trying looking in the cohupdater.exe.exp.log file. (It's just a text file so you can open with notepad.) It should have an error message detailing what is causing the updater to crash.

I have gotten a few strange error messages while trying to access the Test Server.

The first was on the shared desktop computer. This one has had the same problem other players have encountered where the updater crashes when attempting to verify the image. I managed to get fix the problem in regards to the Live Servers by uninstalling COH, then putting the files I had backed-up back into the City of Heroes file and running the updater from that file.

I attempted to do the same with the test server and got the message "unble to open c:\program files\CohTest/cohupdater.exe."

I just tried logging into the test server with my laptop (Vista) and got "unable to open d:\programs\CohTest/tempfile".

Notice anything wrong with those messages?


Try the fact that they combine back-slashes with forward-slashes. One is used when denoting files in windows, the other is used in Unix/Linux. You can't combine the two and expect it to work.

My Guess (and this is only a guess) is that there will be versions of the four villain patrons in the new area. Villains that no longer have access to the four villain patrons will be able to get the patron pool missions from them instead. (They would be considered "hero" contacts).

Something was changed by the developers in a patch that occured after the story was published, and the change invalidated the story in some way.


For example, the author used a map that has since been pulled because it needs to be fixed.

Wait until the leader accepts the mission. Then hit the "Mission" tab in your navigation compass. Look for the "More" button in the window that pops up when you hit the "Mission" tab.

Clicking this button will enable you to read the contact dialogue.

I was fooling around a little tonight and encountered the same thing.

Map says it allows 32 bosses, ambushed patrols.


1 Boss with 31 patrols works. 1 Boss with no patrols and an ambush works.

1 Boss with 20 patrols and 1 ambush doesn't.


Something apparently has occured to make patrols and ambushes mutually exclusive.

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Two of my other friends tell me they have cancelled their accounts because of what statesman has done.


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Apparently your friends are suffering from post tramatic stress disorder.

Probably as soon as they fix the bug that got it pulled. Which was probably the bug that resulted in Collectible Mission Objectives sometimes floating in mid-air where they couldn't be reavhed by characters without hover/flight.

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The forest-on-fire map seems to have been removed. On the other hand, an outdoor Eden map was added, along with the Faultline Highrise map.

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Shoot.


But I think I know why, had a clickie spawn in mid air on that map. Couldn't click without hover/flight as any movement results in interruption.

There is a difference between an honest rating that differs from the majority opinion and griefing. Personally, I have 2-Starred a Dev's Chioce Mission.

The problem is in determining whether it's griefing or an honest vote. The only real way to determine if someone is deliberately griefing HOF missions is to check their voting history on those arcs, and there have been far too few HOF arcs at this point for any real pattern to develop.

Try This Forum

It has a great many ways to advertise your mission, including a thread where people agree to play each other's missions.

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For Cerulean_Shadow and others who feel similarly:

I'll point out that in the real world of writing, tons of excellent, serious fiction gets passed over in favor of erotica. Lots and lots of erotica. And supermarket romances.

Low-brow appeal to the masses will always get more attention.

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One problem with this analogy, the farming missions are designed to be played over and over again, non-stop. Sort of like a toddler watching Barney Videos.


I don't think it get any more "low-brow" than that.