Fixer

I've been having this problem for some time now. I seemed to resolve itself as of i21 (for which I was very happy), but after todays patch its back in force.

Whenever I try to switch zones, enter missions or log into a different character from the selection screen, I seem to have a 50/50 chance of the game just going to the loading screen and sitting there until to boots me back into the login.

When I'm kicked back to the login it will say "Mapserver not found" or something to that effect, and when I try log back in, it first tells me I'm logged in already and then I start from scratch.

Having no troubles with other internet related odds and ends, and it begins happening right after a patch.

Any ideas what it could be?

((I haven't done anything like this in forever. I hope this sounds right!))

Fogbank found himself hiding under a bus shelter and cursing as the meteors came down, as though the flimsy structure was somehow going to ward off the impending doom from above. Nothing about today had gone right. That crazy blonde who'd given him the job ("find the -me- thats not -me- but people think is -me-", she said) was going to get an earful when he saw her next.

He paused a moment, thinking. Maybe not. She was crazy, after all. You don't want to aggravate crazy.

He'd been in Galaxy for only a few hours, having taken a smugglers ferry to Paragon City just that morning. Given his job as a "post human freelance security contractor" (or hired supervillain mercenary, in the parlance of our times), he'd had found it necessary to make the journey to meet his prospective informant incognito. Last time he was in this town he'd had to cover a whole PPD precinct in heavy fog and hide under a SWAT van before he could sneak away. He was wearing his grey and blue body armor under a bulky jacket and pants, and sweating like a pig all the while. It had taken all his concentration to keep the ever present trails of cloud that normally wreathed him under wraps while he waited for the guy who claimed to be a Portal Corp science type at the pre-arranged spot.

And now there were meteors. Wonderful.

As one came down a little closer, just perhaps half a block away, he decided hanging around longer would be a bad idea even by his very high standards for such things. He was about to join the crowds of running, screaming people (his skills at both running AND screaming well honed by years of henchman work) when the crowd suddenly turned, shrinking away in horror from the shambling, mishappen rock beasts that had appeared with alarming suddeness from around a corner and begun a lurching charge towards the massed civilians.

Definately time to run. No one pays you to get stomped by rock monsters. And he was just about to, he really was, when the closest person to the beast stumbled and fell, a young woman who raised her hands above her head more from instinctive reaction then any real hope it would stop the meteoric fists from coming down. She screamed, but no one looked back in their mad panic.
The nearest star spawned monstrosity reared over her and then flew backwards, a cannon force blast of wind and water smashing it off of its feet and back into its brethren as Fogbank stepped over the fallen woman, jacket cast aside and hood and mask pulled hastily over his head.

"I hate everything forever," he grumbled as he listened to the sounds of her taking to her feet and shouting a grateful, sobbed thanks as she fled. Coils of mist spilling forth around him, wind and freezing water coalescing in the air around his fists, Fogbank strode reluctantly into the fray.

He sighed. No one would pay him for this, either.

I found myself thinking about the Faces of the City stories when I heard Galaxy was going bye bye. Glad to see more from it, even if it is sadness.

Guitar Rift, a demons/sonic MM who will spam the air guitar emote whenever not otherwise busy.

And Gearspin, a steampunker beam/traps corr.

Really wanted an ill/poison troller, but for the life of me couldn't find a name/costume/concept I liked.

I think I teamed with you on a Moonfire TF yesterday on my cold/son fender while, very, very sleepy. Hope you're finding Virtue to your liking.

How is /thermal for these purposes? I have a ninja/therm MM in the mid levels, and while the I suspect the ninjas will fold too easily for it to be excellent at GM hunting, I might give it a shot once some more levels come his way...

I actually have a son/rad corr at 46 or so, but I always get disheartned when I think how much better the rad/son defender seems. :/


Thanks for the ideas though, keep 'em comin'!

So I'm thinking of using i21 as a way to level up a brand new character that I'd normally struggle to solo with, springboarding off the abundant lowbie teams that always come with a new issue. The current plan is to have something that nothing else in my roster of characters can do, and one of those holes in my armory is something that can solo GMs.

What are some of the better GM hunting builds, and if you have a preference fun wise, what is it?

I know off the top of my head of

Ill/rad
Bots/Dark
Bots/Traps

What else? And whats the most enjoyable?

I'm having much the same problem, though the wait times are MUCH longer if I let it sit and boot me back to the login screen. Sometimes I'll be able to play hours without issues, sometimes it boots me again and again. Once I'm in a mission or zone its fine, but the loading screen has become a thing of dread for me.

I can confirm that pets are still afraid to enter the burning oil slick more often then not.

Thats what I thought. Thanks!

Quick question, if you apply a damage proc to a held/slept/whatever enemy does the double damage activate? I'm assuming not but figured I'd ask to be sure.

Hey all,


I've been meaning to make a debuff heavy defender since I got back into the game to help melt down AVs in trials, as well as for general content and all round good times. Both of these set ups sound pretty fun, traps/dark as a proc machine and all the good things traps does, and cold/son as a mighty -res caster.


Any particular pros and cons to either? It'd be nice to be able to solo or hunt GMs or other distractions like that as well with whichever one I build, it its not a necessary requirement.

You could even look at the purple Fortunata Hypnosis set for poison gas arrow. Its a much cheaper then the other purple sets. It'll still cost you a bit of inf, but should be reasonable.

For what its worth, I recently rolled up a ninja/therm for no real reason. He shredded through the first 20 levels very quickly, but I noticed him becoming much squishier as he moved into the mid 20s. Its decent enough fun though and once the jounin start laying into a boss their KD effects prove more useful on the defensive front then I thought. Gotta be on your toes though, cause when they go down they do it fast.

Theres worse builds for sure, but I think it would struggle at the higher end. If you're just going to 32 though, should be just fine.

Since coming back to the game I've dusted my old Stone/Inv off and have been running him through the incarnate stuff. He's about to get Interface, and I have no idea which way I should be leaning. Thoughts?

lol, I remember how very strongly you feel about dark armor. Duly noted. Endless recharge and endurance sound pretty sweet too, and I understand elec comes with a heal now.

As for maturation, so long as I can get it up to and through the 20s without getting bored and making another Mastermind, its good.

Server downtime makes me want to build alts. I want to do claws as I haven't done it before, and the same goes for the two secondaries above. Which AT and set combo is the better idea? I've been out of the game a long time, and the numbers dont mean much to me anymore when I look at them.

Early maturation is a big pro here, I don't have the patience to grind up to a good point these days.