Emberly

Can't speak for freedom but Virtue is well populated and I never have a problem forming teams for any content at all. If you come to Virtue PM me for a list of resources that will help you out!

edit: PK is right as usual but the OP asked for the most populated servers so it's sort of disingenuous to try to direct them to the lower population servers in an effort to make them higher population servers.

What powers require a hit roll to buff someone's to-hit?

edit Ah ha! Follow Up and Blinding Feint! Apparently my memory isn't great in the morning.

If there are powers other than those two, I can't think of them. However, for Accurate Healing there are lots, such as Siphon Life, Life Drain, Transfusion, Twilight Grasp, Dark Regeneration, et cetera. For accurate tohit debuffs, there are the entire dark melee and dark blast sets, among others. So, there's really a lot more possibilities for those IO sets.

Yeah I was looking at adding some defense but it seems like a hard road to go down to get decent numbers. I'm wondering if I should go for S/L defense via reactive armors and kinetic combats, stack tough and weave in there, see what else I can find? Positional defense doesn't look to be that easy to come by with these sets. Also Kinetic Combats are pricey, ugh.

The other option is to build for recharge bonuses but like Tweeks says claws doesn't need that much +rech to be awesome and I am wondering if it's really worth it to aim for recharge when only two powers are really gonna get mileage from it.

Are sapping builds decent even if your primary isn't electrical melee? Does Lightning Field take up the slack that Power Sink leaves?

What do I do with this set? I have never played a resistance set; I have always gone for defense. I checked the guides on the sticky but one is for i7 and doesn't address Energize, and the other one is some zany perma-Power Surge build. Do I try to build for recharge to leverage Energize and Power Sink (for sapping)? Do I try to eke out some meager defense? My primary is Claws so there's not a lot of mitigation there. Well, I could pick up Shockwave for some knockback. What's the consensus? I don't have a build designed at all, I am only in the mid twenties at the moment. Sure feels squishy. Does it improve? How do I make it better? I'm not willing to make some five billion inf build, but I am willing to spend a few hundred million and/or some merits on it. I really want to love this set.

Plant/storm has ruined me for any other controller powersets. It's just too good. I always have that one more trick up my sleeve to pull my butt out of the fire.

What if you could obtain a recipe and craft it at any level below the level of the recipe, within the recipe's range? Note: I haven't thought this through in the least, just what popped into my head reading the OP.

Hey and welcome! Just thought I would mention some of Virtue's wonderful channels dedicated to teaming, badging and taskforces (and one that is pretty much pure shenanigans most of the time).

Virtue LFG Alpha: This channel is your go-to, LFT or LFM channel. Advertise anything you want in here. Mission teams, task or strike forces, if it's teamed it's welcome here.

Virtue TFs: Surprisingly enough, a channel dedicated to task and strike forces

Virtuebadges09: If it awards a badge, this is the place. Mainly used for task/strike forces, but also general badging, with some chatter tossed in.

VU2010: Virtue Unlimited's latest incarnation. General tomfoolery, chitchat, and the odd heated argument, but good people all round. Also good for finding decent teammates.

Once again glad to have you here and I hope you enjoy your time!

Don't happen to have an ATI graphics card in there, either onboard (is there such a thing?) or as a second card? NVIDIA disables PhysX now if you have an ATI card in your system.

The solution is to put each channel in its own tab and then when Virtue TFs starts looking like VU2010, you click another tab. As long as the mods are OK with the level of chatter and conversation, that's pretty much the only solution.

As far as my opinion, the chatter never bothers me. Sometimes I groan at terrible jokes or frown when someone is especially stupid but that's about it. I honestly have not seen that much conversation in channels other than VU. Brief outbursts sure but it's not like the channel is constantly inundated with talk of how drunk @Whoever got last weekend.

I actually find it far more annoying when the channel is silent except for one putz who sends the same "looking for ITF/LGTF" message once a minute for ten minutes. Or the worst thing of all: "anything goin on?" Yes, doubtlessly numerous things are going on, but it's not likely that someone's MoLRSF was waiting on one last lazy sod to log in and ask after it.

Oh, that turned into a bit of a rant. Sorry OP. So yes, rough luck that the way the channels are used is a bother to you, but it's easy to fix by changing tabs. Monitoring the channel constantly isn't necessary. If you want to do something in the game, form the team and forge ahead! Much faster than waiting for someone to form up or asking for someone else to form it for you. Not that the OP has this issue, just a pet peeve of mine

So this is quite the thread and I am not a technical kind of dude. I too am interested in upgrading my video card. I am looking at a Radeon 5770, but a friend tells me that ATI has problems in CoX because of openGL or something. I don't know what any of that means, so I am just gonna ask: are the Radeon cards a safe bet for CoX? I assume they will be OK with GR too, if they are OK with the current game.

edit: ok so there is an antialiasing problem? If I don't use AA is everything cool?