Chad Gulzow-Man

A couple suggestions for working on a level-up build (one that you'll respec out of later) or a secondary build meant for teaming rather than soloing:

There are some Power Pool powers that can be a huge help to teaming, such as the Leadership pool's Maneuvers (+Team Defense), Assault (+Team Damage) and Tactics (+Team ToHit), and the Invisibility pool's Grant Invisibility. Grant Invis + Speed Boost will make you VERY popular on teams that want to speed-stealth through missions and long TFs.

Nobody will every argue with you spamming Siphon Power, which buffs the damage of everyone standing near you by 20% for 30 seconds. Cast that sucker like crazy when on a team!

Powers like Hot Feet are nice, but as you mentioned, they'll get you killed a lot while you're a lowbie. It's arguably better to pick it up later in your build, once you've got enough power to keep foes locked down for a good amount of time and you can burninate them without fear of retaliation.

Smoke is next to useless unless you're on a team that is obsessed with speed-stealthing missions. There are a couple procs you can put in it that can make it worthwhile, but then the power causes foes to aggro on you, so again, it's probably not something you'll be interested in during the lower levels.

Powers that you absolutely want are Flashfire (AoE Stun available at level 12, slotted primarily for recharge until you get to higher levels) and Fire Cages (AoE Immobilize available at level 2), and you want to cast them in that order at the start of a fight. Stun + Immob = Hold.

Siphon Speed is another power you'll almost certainly want to grab as soon as possible, as it helps to bring your powers up a lot more quickly.

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My thoughts on Energy Melee are that it is awesome and it should be proliferated to Scrappers as soon as possible. <3

While it is relatively unpopular these days, it has been my favorite melee set since I first started playing with it on a Brute when CoV launched.

Wednesday the 28th is a good secondary bet, given that April 28th is the actual 6th anniversary of the game. (I'm with you guys for the 27th being the more popular choice, though.)

I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE a character that was Energy Assault/Willpower. That's pretty much what build my main Hero would have were it available at the start of the game.

In order to balance the AT myself, I'd do the following:

Primary: Assault Powers -- ranged damage on par with Corruptors (sans Scourge), melee damage on par with Scrappers (sans critical hits); Scrapper-level damage cap. Ranged powers have lower than normal accuracy (base 65% instead of 75%).

Secondary: Defense -- 60% as effective as Tanker defenses (Scrappers, Brutes and Stalkers are already at 75% of Tanker effectiveness).

HP: Stalker-level base HP, with similar HP cap.

Possible Inherent choices:
Point Blank: When in melee range, you get a bonus to accuracy (bringing base accuracy up to 75%) and damage (+10ish%) for all ranged attacks.

Blind Rage: As your hitpoints decrease, your melee damage increases (max +20ish%) while your ranged damage decreases (max -20ish%).

All-Out: You build a bar as you use your melee attacks, which enables a click power when filled (similar to Domination). The power, called "Go All-Out" enables a 30-second "super mode," increasing your damage and To-Hit (on par with Aim), your defense and resistance (+10% global Def, +20% global Resist), your recharge and even lowers endurance costs. However, after the power crashes, your endurance is dropped to zero (specifically to detoggle you), but you are able to immediately begin recovering endurance (unlike T9s such as Elude), perhaps even with a brief 5 second period of +25% end recovery as you catch your breath. You can not build your "All-Out" meter while in super mode, so you can not attempt to stack the power as you could with Domination. The bar does not decrease during periods of inactivity, but does specifically reset when you zone.

Many gratz, Abraxxus!

Or try listening to the radio. It's kind of hard to have one song stuck in your head while you're listening to another.

If you don't have radio handy (or even if you do), you can always try www.pandora.com.

Actually, this thread made me go check my Vet Rewards status on my accounts. Now they're both almost completely correct (my main account is off by one day, but I'm not gonna complain too much about that)!

Now I'm looking forward to getting City Traveller on my second account on June 11, 2011.

I have a mission where the devil challenges you to a fight (for no good reason) and has a contract that claims your soul if you don't show up. I started out with only one type of enemy, a little red devil (appropriately named "Lil' Devil"), and then began to add others to make the mission harder and create some diversity. These included a blue devil named (surprise!) "Blue Devil," a green devil that used Spines called the "Spikey Devil," an orange one called the "Jersey Devil," a pink one with a surgical mask named "Paging Dr. Devil," and so on until I had I think 12 or 13 of the little guys ganging up on you. This was also in the days when missions didn't require minions, lieutenants and bosses for full exp, so I admit I made them all lieuts for the rewards... but the mission was NOT easy and farmers pretty much hated it.

Anyway, one of them was a devil in a reverse-colored costume that I called the "Nega Devil."

The mission ran for a few weeks with no real comments other than the standard "This is fun," "That was crazy," and "That was too hard you suck lolol" comments that most missions receive, and then one day some dude started leaving me a bunch of negative comments. The reason?

"Nega is racesist." (Yes, he actually said "racesist.")

He eventually got a bunch of his friends to complain as well and left inappropriate content flags on the arc, so I contacted support to let them know I was changing the "racesist" name and just renamed the critter as the "Reverse Devil." It kind of blew my mind though--go do a Google search for "nega," and all you'll come up with is acronyms and people's last names, with not a single use of it as any sort of ethnic slur that would normally be spelled with an i and two g's...

I told a bunch of my friends about the situation, and so every once in a while when chat has died down, someone will say, "Hey Chad? ... You're racesist."

I think I saw that someone else was having this issue within the last couple weeks. If I'm not mistaken, he did a Windows system restore and went back to before he started having these issues.

Other generic things to try would be to verify your files on the CoH loader, defrag and error check your hard drive(s), clean out your temporary directory (open your run prompt and type "%temp%" then delete everything it will let you clean out from there) in case something is goofing with your system from there...

Y'know Gray, he might not be leaving for good. He might just not want to be automatically billed every month because his finances are tight at the moment or he might want to use time cards instead. Or, he might be taking a break, or he might be a member of the military who is about to be deployed overseas. There are any number of reasons why he might not want to be billed for next month with the intent to come back at a later date.

Unless he says something like, "Screw this noise this game sucks i quitz!!11" then you're not allowed to ask "4 hiz stuffz."

Well, I don't know that there's anything another player can help you with if there's something wrong with your account. You need to contact NCSoft's tech support.

http://us.ncsoft.com/en/support/

(Please note that these forums are for players helping other players, and are not an official tech support channel supported by the game developers.)

Hrm... in that case, next time you load into the game, I'd hit the "Verify All Files" button to make sure there's nothing wrong with your installation that's keeping those options unavailable for your login.

Neither you nor your friend have added or replaced anything in the Piggs directory, have you?

Are you by any chance cycling through the face shape options, rather than the face detail options? (Try going one option down.)