Carnifax

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I would like to see more people take the medicine pool and share the load, after all isnt that what its there for?

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I've never found there's any real need for people to take Aid Other... most teams I've been on, there are usually a couple of Corruptors with a heal, and then often an MM with a heal, and that's enough to cover everyone.

Anyone taking the medicine pool and trying to use Aid Other is going to be slowing themselves down and not doing their real job, since it's not exactly the fastest thing to use with that interrupt on it. If a Brute stops to try and heal someone, they're letting their Fury drop, and I'd much rather see them taking out the threats anyway, for example.

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I've taken Aid Other on my Kinetics Defender as a backup heal for melee shy toons. They get upset if you just let em die because they won't get into Transference range.

Dominators & FF / TA Masterminds can certainly benefit from it too. But I agree with the point that for most meleers its not that useful a power in the middle of combat. Its good for adding extra options to some support & ranged characters though.

Only the Vengence power in Leadership doesn't stack, Assult, Tactics and d'other one do.

As for what to get at 30 & 35 I'm debating this one too. I've already taken Assult since I'd nothing else I wanted from the main sets and I reckon I'll get Tactics at 30.

I seem to remember a figure of about 15% for other Fear effects like Spectral Terror

That could be a random Carni-fact plucked from the ether though.

I don't have Stamina on my Necro/Dark, currently level 25 and quite happy. I only took one attack and rarely use it at all.

Shadow Fall is a great power. Howling Twilight is too. I'd skip one of your blasts for it if you aren't going to be using them much anyway.

Dark pit is rubbish.

I've a Dark/Kinetics corrupter and I got Dark Pit to give him some AOE control. I ignored the crys of "Its useless, don't bother" as they came from D3s who had much stronger control powers available to them, figuring for me it'd be useful.

Not at all. It's a very, very short duration, even slotted up fully.

And I'm someone who loves control powers. But its just too weak.

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Just out of interest wondered what is happening with 3vP? No round 5 details have appeared...

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Just about to ask the same thing.

I know our Round 4 Match hasn't been played either yet. No idea what the story is now.

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One question, Any of you know if EM Pulse activates contaiment?

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Anything which holds, disorientates or immobilizes will set up Containment.

In fact Containment is actually a propery of your attacks, not your mezzes. That means that even a Dark Defenders Tentacles or a Blasters Ring of Fire will set it up for you.

Fear effects don't set up Containment and Illusion is probably the weakest set if you're a Containment junkie, its not really worth worrying too much about setting it up. The Pets damage makes up for this though and you do decent single target containment damage with Spectral Wounds.

I find Spectral Terror an irreplacable power, more useful than Flash since its always up and its "Fire and Forget". I think you can TP it around too if you're so inclined.

Cool. I'll be on later, probably starting on the heroic side with my Fire/Rad controller but happy to switch over. Once the Global Chat names are set up it should be easy enough to schedule something anyway.

Wilfreds comment on sending a Broadcast about it is a good one though, just saying something like "Hey guys, is this as boring for you as us? How about you disperse and we use the entire zone and get a proper rumble on."

But have your flameproof vest on.

But the third time Rad tried an assult on them, they were able to iniate an assult and attack back it just didn't get them anywhere other than back to hospital

I agree wholeheartedly with it that it ruins the PvP experience and the PvP mechanics are just wonky, but I don't see this as griefing, just horribly unbalanced.

I don't think you can petition people for ambushing you in a PvP zone can you? Thats all it looks like they were doing here. It mightn't be very sporting or enjoyable but its not griefing.

CoH wasn't built for PvP, it doesn't fit well. Thats all there really is to it.

Hmmmm. A thought has just occured to me. Maybe the PvP zones should have dedicated "referee" GMs who can do something about things like this which are more against the spirit of the law rather than the letter.

Don't leave Spectral Terror until Level 49. Get it at 26. Its a superb power in PvE, it really is.

I found it very useful in my 3vP matches too.

I certainly wouldn't bother with Recall Friend & Mutate over AM & RI. They are the two strongest powers in Rad and add loads of survivability.

I never bother with any Res power other than Howling Twilight though, I consider it a waste. Control and debuff are the ways I like to play controllers, not a secondary heal-bot.

Hey guys.

Graphics Card is up and running (and lurvely too boot) now so if you're around give me a shout.

_Laser I saw your global tell but I was fiddling with the graphics options, reset CoH to make them stick and then forgot your Global Chat name, idiot that I am.

I've just recently switched to Deceive with the respec and its great altogether, a wonderful opening move. Follow up with Phants and the various Rad debuffs and watch and laugh from afar as mayhem breaks loose.

I'd get AM & RI ASAP, before level 10. Generally to make it all fit with any toon I go for Stamina at 22 rather than 20. You'll have AM anyway to bolster Endurance recovery.

I'd always try to get Hasten in the 20s at the latest with Illusion to make sure the PA is charged as much as possible. In fact generally I'd slot PA with 3 damage & 3 recharge or 1 acc, 2 damage & 3 recharge. The RI should strip mobs defense enough for you to get away with that.

With my Fire/Rad RI was the early lynchpin of the build when I was street hunting in the Hazard Zones. I had 4 Accuracy debuffs DOs in it at level 12/13. Without it I wouldn't have survived the "run in and stand there laughing" bits of my masterplan.

Saying "It's no use until you get SOs" isn't true if you just specialise until 22, concentrating on one aspect of the power. This applies for a lot of powers and its probably the only way to get any meaningful use from TOs at the start of the game.

That said I was using it in a specific way for a specific build. Your Mileage May Vary as they say

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ah it didnt, hidden H, sparrow spawnus were there, but we didnt get a sub for either team, nor could i stay connected form more than 5 minutes at a time as our adsl melted (and continued to do so all weekened grr).

after about 20 minutes sparrows connection looked to drop also so we abandonded the match.

theres been no mumblings of a rematch yet.

Myself and Psygon are not available for this thursday nor the following one (yey holiday!)

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Oh, that sucks. Got my card today, its sitting beside me in work. I'm happy to sit this one out anyway since I wasn't around Thurs, or try to get it rematched in a couple of weeks. There hasn't been much comments from the organisers this week so I'm not sure what our options are here.

I never played Mind but any builds I've dreamt up on a planner I usually only take one of Mesmerize / Levitate. Don't think you need both of them so maybe theres a space there.

Personally I'd delay the Stamina Run by one level and take RI at level 8. Means you get Stamina at 22 instead of 20 but I do that with all my toons anyway. Not missing out on a power like RI for 14 levels just to get stamina slightly early.

7 Max Thunder/Spawnus/Discharge vs 3 Spines Sparrow/Carnifax/Hidden Healer
I managed to log on for 30 seconds before the GFX card died again, so soz Spines & Hidden. How did it go anyway?

To be honest I opened the machine, removed the card and then got stuck

Couldn't get the fan off, removed the little slidey things with a pliers and just couldn't get it off. And you know the fear of forcing something. It'll go "snap" and it'll be oh noes time.

Really I've decided to take advantage of the oppertunity to buy myself a nice shiney new card though

Nope, no joy really. Its still overheating. Going to bring a useless card home from work today to double-check but I reckon its just the ATIs time to die.

So I've decided "sod that, I'm buying a new one" . Gonna go get myself a 6800GS of some description over the weekend instead. I could do with an upgrade anyway, its been 2 and a half years.

On the SG thing, I have two Villain alts who are SGless anyway, a level 14 Fire/Thorns Dominator (bleargh) and a 26 Necro/Dark MM.

I don't play them much at the mo, they were my first two villains and then I went on a huge Hero Alt spree but if you have the room they could join too and I'll pop on as them whenever I can drag myself away from playing Controllers on the side of virtue.

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might be a good idea when everyone arrives and is ready, do a full system reboot and then start the match, clean out the cobwebs as it were.

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Well I'm going to open the old girl up and see if I can't spot something wrong in there. Overheating is our best guess now.

So either I'll be there all happy and ready to go or I'll be sobbing in my bedroom amidst the wreckage of my PCs components shouting "Why lord, why?"

Cool, ta very much. I'll run off at lunch and get some.

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Lo mate,

How old is the card? big problem that happens with GFX cards is the thermal compound becomes hardened and ineffective so the chip overheats. As you are taking the pc apart already to clean, I would advise you to replace the thermal compound. As your card takes 5 mins to crash I would suggest its overheating. This happened to me with my 9800 pro.

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Yep, after seeing Halflife die yesterday I came to the overheating conclusion too.

Exactly the same model actually, 9800 pro, about 2 and a half years old and well used.

So where do I get Thermal Compound? I'm in Dublin city centre anyway so I can nip out at lunch. I'm in IT so I know my way around the innards too but I've never done this (or even heard of Thermal Compound) before.

Good luck with the exams Laser_

Sorry guys, my graphics card seems to be melting or undergoing fusion or something. 5 minutes into playing little glitches appear onscreen before it goes "Poof" and explodes & hangs. Seems to be a card issue too, not a game one (Halflife 2 did the same thing yesterday).

So I can't say when I'll be on properly again. Going to do the techie thing to the machine later, open it up & clean, remove and reinsert the card and reinstall drivers but I don't know whats actually wrong with it so I dunno if I'll be on later.

Hopefully I will. I reckon the card is overheating and the airflow in the case is being blocked / interrupted.