Blackavaar

My suggestion for a Sith type character would be a Dual Blade/Electric Brute. Get him to 35 and start working on those merits to get the Talsorian blades and you'll have a nice looking lightsaber fighter kind of look.

If you want to simulate more of the Telekinetic or Mind Control powers, I'd go with either a Grav/Electric or Mind/Electric Dominator.

Nope. I've got 4 names and costumes saved already on Liberty, Justice and Champion.

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Is it me, or have the Power Icons for Rad infection and Enervating field mixed up? Rad does the -tohit and -defense but has a -dam icon on it, and EF does -dam and -damres and it has the -def/acc icon on it... its rather funny cuz I been playing this game since launch and I just now noticed... its probably been mentioned before I am sure.

Soo, any plans to fix that?

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Vanden's Icon pack fixes it:

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Radiation Emission/Radiation Infection and Radiation Emission/Enervating Field icons swapped (they erroneously described each other's effects rather than their own)
RadiationPoisoning_RadiationInfection.texture
RadiationPoisoning_EnervatingField.texture

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Yeah, Vanden's works.

I still wish the devs would take a hint from that pack and start fixing these things though really. Don't you?

Try a yearly subscription instead. I pay approximately 11 dollars a month.

This game is well worth the money and we don't want to start sending signals that we're on the decline. Quite the opposite in fact.

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Faultline is a brilliant zone (I'm doing the arcs for the first time at the moment and really enjoying them) but at the best of times I'd not imagine it was very appealing to a typical let's-chain-radios PUG - too hard to get around for one thing.

I kind of like it the way it is. It's easier to get caught up in the story if broadcast isn't full of AEF LFM

Buuuut... it is a nuisance to get to, with that long long run through Skyway every time I want to visit Wentworths, so a PTA link would be welcome for that if nothing else.

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Note: The tram on the South end of Skyway (right next to the Faultline entrance) also goes to Talos Island and there is a WW right behind the tram station there.

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Ambushes tend to 'break' the rules of stealth. The only way to avoid being 'seen' is have somebody else closer to their spawn point.

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This actually depends on how the ambush is set.

Some ambushes are set to go after you no matter where you move after the triggering. These ones will see through any amount of invisibility and no matter where or how far you run they will keep coming.

Others are just set to go to the location where you were when they were triggered. With these you can easily move out of range or get behind something and once they have arrived you can sneak up to or past them unnoticed.

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I have a little gray bald alien that for some reason is always given hair when I stop at the tailor. Setting him back to bald fixes the charge back to zero but it's a little bit annoying that it keeps "Rogaine-ing" me.

I blame today's youth oriented culture with their hairless male torsos and perfect teeth and hair.

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See my post above. If you want to keep the bald and not worry about that auto hair switch, use the Full Masks head.

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Just wish you could choose where you wanted to teleport directly, instead of zoning into Oro and then rezoning into the new location.

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That's what the Ferries and Trams are for. Seriously, the Ouroportal is not meant to be used as a zone to zone teleportation device. That is just a fringe benefit.

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well, we are already in a level pact. That and my girlfriend would always get mad when i played. I have 5 active toons also.

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Sounds like you need a new girlfriend...

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Game trumps relationship? I don't think so.

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You misunderstand.

Not game instead of girlfriend. Its more, game instead of THAT girlfriend. There are lots of women out there who are ok with thier guys spending a few nights a week playing mmos. Not to mention there are even some who play the mmos with thier guy. My wife for example, plays this game with me. She even got to 50 before I did.

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You're one of the lucky few. I don't seem to fall into that luck. Anyone I meet has extreme game aversion, like its some dirty thing to do on a computer. I don't get it.

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Yeah, but that doesn't stop them from texting all day long or logging onto their facebook or myspace page to cram in some more stuff other people created that they just happen to enjoy. Heheh!

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The fun one is if you log off near a manhole cover or snake hole, you pop out of the ground on log in.

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No, the really fun one is logging off near one of the rubble-covered doors in Mercy.

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There are a couple of doors in St. Martial (one is a warehouse on the NorthWest side of the island, the other is a sewer entrance near the Black Market) where the door is actually lower than the ground around it.

In these cases logging on near one of those can get you stuck partially in the ground. The /stuck command does not work in these cases, however jumping without trying to move forward or back corrects the problem.

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The cost will disappear once you manually set it back to what it was.

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This was not the case for me sometime back. The charges remained, and were indeed taken from my funds. I bugged it at the time, but never heard boo about it afterward. Has this been fixed? I've been reluctant to use the Tailor (one of my favorite features) because of this.

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With older characters that use outdated and renamed options (many of the Faces and Hair selections have been renamed as well as reordered) this problem will always pop up. This is why the devs have given us Free Tailor Sessions whenever they make these kind of changes. These kind of problems are what they are supposed to be used for. That way you don't get charged for correcting a costume change that they made. Since they give Free Tailor Sessions, naturally they are not going to respond to such a costume bug, because it is expected.

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My bald trench coat wearing stalker has this issue every time I use the tailor, as soon as the costume editing page apears, low and behold my head has the fury hair cut, and my v-cut/tattered trench coats tails are always just v-cut, I have to change them baxck every single time.

Quite frustrating, I feel yourt pain lol

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I used to have this problem with my namesake (see my avatar). I found that by switching to the Full Mask category and choosing None (or Neck Cover, which is what I use) for Masks the Bald look never gets messed up.

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I left out possibilities that may be more difficult to balance like Dark Miasma for Controllers, Kinetics and Radiation Emission for Masterminds, etc., but this is pretty much a complete list of possible proliferation candidates.

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Anyway,I agree that I'm not starving for power combos and I don't think anyone else is either.

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I want claws for Brutes. Which is not on the list so I guess it's a balance issue.

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Actually, no. I left that off mistakenly. I edited to add it to my list. I can't think of any really serious balance issues that would come up for a Brute with Claws. Of course the devs might be able to think of things I cannot.

As for Ice Melee for Brutes, Ice Armor and Invulnerability for Stalkers and Bladed Assault for Blasters, etc., I'm sure the devs could figure out a way to remove or alter powers that would be detrimental or overpowering to the ATs in question when it really comes down to it.

The door thing is just an easy animation to do and looks kool if someone else happens to be standing around in that area. Being near any door that opens upon login will trigger that animation.

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You want Shield Defense without a Shield for a concept?

So, why don't you take one of the other Defensive sets? Try Willpower. It has many of the same strong points as Shield Defense.

Or is this really just about wanting to do a Shield Charge without having to use a Shield?



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It's all of it. :P

I have a lvl 44 Shielder, I have multiple 50 WPs (and ones not 50).

It's really just about all around loving the set, but the shield not working with the concept.

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Like I said, for a non-shield concept choose a non-shield defensive set like Willpower or Super Reflexes.

Sorry, but making a Shield set without a Shield is just ridiculous.
How do you Deflect without a Shield?
How do you Phalanx Fight without a Shield?
How do you Shield Charge?
How do you become One with the Nothing?

Maybe you could suggest a similar set called "Bracers" with similar powers not related to using a Shield? Rethink the idea, because as it is it's just not going to fly.

Yes, especially Air Superiority.

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given that there are not very many powersets left to proliferate.

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What about Electric Melee and Electric Armor for Tanks? What about Archery and Trick Arrows for Corruptors? What about Illusion Control for Dominators? There's really a lot more to proliferate still.



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Fire Blast for Defenders...

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Complete List of Possibilities:

Tankers -
Primary: Electric Armor, Energy Aura, Super Reflexes
Secondary: Broadsword, Electric Melee, Spines

Brutes -
Primary: Broadsword, Claws, Ice Melee, Martial Arts, Spines
Secondary: Ice Armor, Regeneration

Scrappers -
Primary: Axe (smaller faster version of Battle Axe), Electric Melee, Energy Melee, Mace (smaller faster version of War Mace)
Secondary: Electric Armor, Energy Aura, Ice Armor

Stalkers -
Primary: Axe, Mace, Short Sword (smaller faster version of Broadsword)
Secondary: Ice Armor, Invulnerability, Shield Defense

Defender -
Primary: Thermal Radiation
Secondary: Assault Rifle, Fire Blast

Mastermind -
Primary: NA
Secondary: Cold Domination, Sonic Resonance, Thermal Radiation

Controller -
Primary: Electricity Control
Secondary: Cold Domination

Dominator -
Primary: Electricity Control, Illusion Control
Secondary: Bladed Assault (using attacks from Dual Blade and Broadsword), Martial Assault (using Martial Arts attacks)

Blaster -
Primary: Dark Blast, Radiation Blast
Secondary: Bladed Assault, Gravity Manipulation, Martial Assault, Stone Manipulation

I left out possibilities that may be more difficult to balance like Dark Miasma for Controllers, Kinetics and Radiation Emission for Masterminds, etc., but this is pretty much a complete list of possible proliferation candidates.

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given that there are not very many powersets left to proliferate.

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What about Electric Melee and Electric Armor for Tanks? What about Archery and Trick Arrows for Corruptors? What about Illusion Control for Dominators? There's really a lot more to proliferate still.

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I remember they promised us cookies with each issue...

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But you always remember the promise of cookies, even when cookies were never promised.

I believe I remember a comment being made that that was their goal, but I don't remember it being a promise.

Remember, i14 Architect was originally part of i13 before it was held back and made into it's own issue. I think you should give them a break and wait to see what happens in i15 and i16.

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Examples: One mission, taken from the troll (cant remember his name) has me going down into a cavern to take out some Igneous.

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Aha, there you go. You're in the Hollows. Hazard zones (like the Hollows) are designed to be played with teams. If you are soloing this is not where you want to be. My suggestion would be to drop Julius's mission and head to the regular zones. Check your original contact to see if they have an intro for you or if they already did introduce you to someone, go see your second contact (should be in Atlas, Kings Row or Galaxy) and see if they have an intro ready for you.

Short of this you can just go directly to Steel Canyon or Skyway City (take the L train or tram, marked by the T on your map in Atlas Park) and talk to a Detective (also marked on your map and in the Detective tab in your Contact window) to get a Police Radio. You can then do Radio missions until you are given a Safeguard mission (Stop a Bank Robbery).

After the Safeguard you will be given a new contact which will be at your current level. These missions will be much more solo friendly.

By level 11 you should be doing missions in either Steel Canyon or Skyway City. If the enemies in a mission are too difficult try lowering your difficulty by visiting a Hero Corps Field Analyst. Heroic is the lowest setting.

Note: There appears to be a bug currently that sometimes raises the difficulty level of the Heroic setting. If you are already set on Heroic, try changing your difficulty to the second setting and then changing back. This usually clears up that bug.

If the enemies are green, that just means you have outleveled the mission. Try finishing out that mission and returning to the contact to see if they can give you more missions. New missions taken at your current level should be up to par.

Remember, as a Blaster you have very little defense. If you find yourself in over your head, don't forget to use cover and run away if you get into the red. Though an enemy blast can go through objects if they fired before you moved, they cannot see through objects and they must see you to fire at you.

Also, teams are a good way to go during low levels with a Blaster. Having other characters like Tanks and Scrappers to take some of the heat off of you really helps for your survivability.

Good luck!

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The Magic Cape having access to the CoH CE and CoV CE Capes was not affected by that fix, Snow Globe. This isn't the getting two capes at once deal. This is just the fact that you choose any Cape design you have access to for the High Collar Mantle, just like you can choose them when you use the Asymmetrical Mantle or the Over the Shoulders Mantle.

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Thanks for the clarification, Black--I was worried!

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NPWSE

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1) ED today. I have looked at peoples builds and seen people using more than 3 of one type of enhancement (maybe it is something with IOs which I am not too familiar with their capabilities yet). Has something been changed with ED I should be aware of?

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Though ED has not changed, the usage of IO sets allows one to bypass it somewhat. See Inventions Laboratory or check your AT forum for more info on builds using these new enhancements.

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2) On the same note...perma-Hasten. I know ED "fixed" perma-Hasten, but I have seen people talking about being able to have it again (or at least within 2-3 seconds of having it). Is this possible again?

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Another product of Inventions, several IO sets and uniques give global recharge bonuses (such as LoTG 7.5%). With enough of these bonuses stacked up you can now achieve perma Haste once more.

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3) I always really liked the Ice Tanker. I heard with Issue 14 defense was nerfed in pvp. Did this kill Ice Tankers pvp viability?

4) I also like to theme characters. A Bots/FF MM just "fits" perfectly to me. I do like pvp viability though. Does FF do decent in pvp (let's assume I am dueling somebody)? I heard PFF was nerfed really bad which kind of worries me about the pvp capabilities of a Bots/FF MM.

5) What are the pvp effects of Taunt, Confuse, and Fear? I only seem to find the pve capabilities of them.

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I don't PvP anymore (I was just getting into it) since the nerf to Teleport (travel suppression on Teleport is total and suppression is triggered by any action as well as being struck by anything, including PvE enemies). I am unsure as to the PvP questions for this reason. I'm sure someone else will be able to answer you though.

Welcome back and good luck!

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Incidentally, you can get a High Collar version of the Arachnos Cape if you have both CoV special edition and the Magic Pack.

It's as awesome as it sounds.

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You shouldn't be able to do that since the Arpil 20th, 2009 patch. Additionally, you can't edit that costume without one or the other being stripped from your costume.

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The Magic Cape having access to the CoH CE and CoV CE Capes was not affected by that fix, Snow Globe. This isn't the getting two capes at once deal. This is just the fact that you choose any Cape design you have access to for the High Collar Mantle, just like you can choose them when you use the Asymmetrical Mantle or the Over the Shoulders Mantle.