Atomic_Toy_Guy

I ask this because I just tested mission completion XP at the following settings and all of them gave the same XP for completion.

6 Heroes x 0 No Bosses
1 Heroes x 4 No Bosses
8 Heroes x -1 No Bosses
1 Heroes x 0 No Bosses

Every mission completion gave a total of 7300 XP /w rested bonus at level 37.

So was this nerfed at some point?

Wow.. Yeah this was totally needed now, because you know sooooo many people are still using AE.. Pffft LOL. As far as I can tell an even smaller community of folk still care about AE then the community of PVPer's. Just another brilliant system developed for this game, that was slowly gotten nerfed into obsolescence.

Looking at doing a respec on my bots/traps and I am considering dropping trip mine. I feel like I rarely use it and when I do its not that effective as once a single mob charges up on me it pops and just kills the first bugger to reach me.

Looking for advice, am I using it wrong or is it just not worth having?

The amount of time you waste positioning your self to use knockback effectively really is a waste of DPS for a blast set. This is why I have avoided energy blast like the plague for years. I love the concept, but the amount of time you spend chasing to get the angle right is just too much.

I also can't stand having to have an awful vantage point staring straight into the ground on an indoor map just to get it to have a KD effect..

Here's a low level tip and one that carries for most of the game. Ignore anything that is shooting you from a distance, if they get close they are the most dangerous.

In the low level guys carrying small knives and pistols are usually not a threat (hellions, skulls, lost). If they are carrying a baseball bat or a sledge hammer these are usually two shot deaths for you.

Kiting (the act of running away and fighting is your best friend as a blaster. Master this and you will become more powerful then you could ever imagine. LOL

Pulling is also your friend, the idea here is to fire a shot from your max range, while at the same time running behind a corner/object to block line of sight. Use your lowest level single target ranged attack (aka Flares) for this. If you get good at this you will find that you can reliably pull any enemy out of a group you want to deal with first. Note if they can still see you when the attack lands odd are they will all come a runnin'. I usually accomplish this by running at a corner, jumping shortly before the corner while firing my attack in mid air. The jump will carry you around the corner while the attack is animating.

Am I crazy or does it seem like Kinetic Melee was almost perfectly made to become the next secondary for blasters.

Has a fix for this ever been found. I find it really annoying that I have to play in windowed mode!

I have done some searching on the forums and haven't really been able to find much information about the combination of DP/Rad. Although I am a fairly experienced player in this game I was hoping to find some build advice since Dual Pistols is new to me. Based on my examination of the powerset I figured the most flexible option would be Rad. So I am curious does any one have experience or advice that they would like to share about this combination?

OS: Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Video Card: NVidia 8800GT 191.07

I currently run two monitors a 24" and a 19".
I run COH on the 24" and extra Apps on the 19".
When I switch from the 24" to the 19" I get a black flash.
When I switch from the 19" back to the 24" I get a black flash again.

From what I can tell it is Windows turning Aero on when I switch to the 19" and off when I switch to the 24". I would prefer if I didn't have to turn off Aero to prevent this.

I have also followed the sticky guide for NVidia performance to a T!

Has any one else run into this problem and found a solution?

I spent about 30 minutes searching and reading the forum, but I must not be putting in the key words needed to find a solution.

Actually I would disagree with it having excellent AOE. I would say it has OK AOE. Only due to the recharge of Lightning Rod. Also Thunder Strike has a smaller than normal radius and its AOE damage is smaller than most. Jacobs ladder is ok but constantly lining up the narrow cone can get old after a while. I never took Chain Induction so maybe thats what my build was missing. But with the powers I did take I never felt it killed as fast as all the Foot Stomp spammers out there.

I can't seem to find the new versions of these on the new forums. I found what appears to be the old ones, but they haven't been updated since the forum conversion.

Thanks

OK is it me or is the Oni AI just totally borked. I watched him for a solid 5 minutes throw nothing but Fire Blast then watch on the next group for another solid 5 minutes throw nothing but ring of fire?

Has any one else noticed this behavior he has to have the worst use of an attack chain I have seen...

Yeah, that sounds cool. I just wasn't sure what was going on. I mean after all I don't pay for it so all I can do is appreciate the work. I am glad to hear that it is still in production in some form.

I kinda figured that Mids had moved on from his post on his forum about playing WoW.

Does any one know the status of the development of Mids' Hero/Villain Designer. It would appear the software hasn't been updated in about 6 months, and with the new Dominator changes it will be difficult to properly plan new builds. Not trying to judge the developer, I was just hoping to find out if it is still being developed.

Well if whirling hands is getting a buff to its radius, Ice Sword Circle should get the same treatment!!!

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Was "Patent Leather" always there?

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Yes.

Also, the chest pattern "Tanker" is now it's very own top layer.

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Excuse me if I am being dense, but what do you mean very own top layer. I am having trouble seeing any difference between how tanker is now, compared to before?

I don't see a vines mask option?
I also don't see the cape option either.

Ulterior pants only have one color. So no pattern is visible.

Go AR/Energy you'll be happier trust me. I have a 50 AR/Dev and it just sits. I only have a couple of the powers from the secondary because I find on teams they are useless. This includes all the powers that seem fun. Trip Mine, Time Bomb and Gun Drone are all excluded from my build because they slow me down or they slow down my team. So more or less its my rifle and targeting drone and thats about it. Go with energy, plenty of synergy with boost range and cone attacks. Plus you will get build up and a few super hard hitting melee attacks.

Its really amazing how relevant they want to remain as a game publisher. My belief is that they have a responsibility to support current standard operating systems if they want to maintain subscribers.

I might do that.. I was considering setting up a VPN to my home connection. But I figured if I could do it an easier way I would..

I would like to change the ports to navigate around a firewall that has ports open for WoW. For some reason my college allows people to play WoW but all other gaming port are open. So I thought if I could change the ports I could play.

I would like to change which ports the game uses. Is there a way to change them?