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General rule of thumb for enhancing melee attacks is start with an Accuracy or two. (Two if low level, only one is needed for high level). Gradually change to one Accuracy, then start putting Damage enhancers in. When you get to three Damage enhancers, if further enhancement is needed, start putting in Recharge Reducers or Endurance Reducers, depending on what is needed.

And only Jab takes Disorient enhancers. The other SS powers don't. (Although one does take Hold enhancers).

Edit: Also, don't let the answers to your question in the other thread discourage you from using IO's. Set IO's can be very expensive, but Common IO's - while much more expensive than SO's - are usually easily affordable even if all you do is sell your dropped recipes and salvage at Vendors.

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Also, if you ask nicely, others will gladly post detailed build guides for you, but here is some general advice:

Resist Phys Damage is good to get early, but Resist Energies and Resist Elements are OK to put off until your 40's. Get Resist Energies first, then, if you have room in your build, get Resist Elements.

Plan your build so that you get Invincible at Level 18. As soon as possible, six slot it with:
3 Defense Enhancers and 3 Tohit Enhancers
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3 Defense Enhancers, 2 Tohit Enhancers and 1 Endurance Reduction Enhancer.

Plan your build so that you get Stamina at Level 20. Three slot it with Recharge Reduction Enhancers.

Get Knockout Blow at level 22. Six slot it with 1 Accuracy Enhancer, 3 Damage Enhancers, 1 Recharge Reduction Enhancer and 1 Endurance Reduction Enhancer.

Get Hasten at level 24. Three slot it with Recharge Reduction Enhancers.

Get Rage at level 28. Six slot it with 3 Recharge Reduction Enhancers and 3 Tohit Enhancers.

Get Foot Stomp at level 38. Six slot it with 1 Accuracy Enhancer, 3 Damage Enhancers, 1 Recharge Reduction Enhancer and 1 Endurance Reduction Enhancer.

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Cool, added the Hamidon channel, but the Badges channel was full to capacity lol. I'll just have wait and see what happens. Thanks for the help guys! I don't usually take part in these things, despite being around so long, heh.

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Usually, when something is posted in Infinity Badges, they immediately repost in in Infinity Hamidon. And vice versa. Especially something big like a Ship Raid. Usually.

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What does "You have traded Nothing, for 1,000,000,000 influence." mean?

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You're right, closing and reopening the brower *does* work! Thanks so much to whoever figured this out, it's been seriously annoying me for several weeks now.

Though I still don't understand why MS doesn't give you an option to tell it to just stop doing that!

EDIT: What I think is really funny is that since I put the CoH forum on my trusted sites list, when I try to go to "My Home" I get a message that asks:

"The current web page is trying to open a site in your trusted sites list. Do you want to allow it?"

I feel like emailing MS a definition of the word "trusted" every time I get that stupid message.

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It's not a bug, it's a feature

No, seriously; the point of "https" is to put some security into an insecure network. Those pop-ups are supposed to pop-up when using "https".

My question is "what is causing the change from 'http' to 'https' when clicking on 'My Home'?"

My guess is that it's the website that is doing it, not IE. (This issue began a few months back, and my browser hasn't changed since then.)

Now, I'm not a network security expert, but I think that the reason this is happening is because the "My Home" section of the site is intended to be more secure than the rest of the site because that is where you can change your password, read your email, etc.

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I got IE8, thanks for the info.

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To you, maybe not.

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I meant that adding the s to http didn't have an affect on the issue.
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Actually, what zloth said was remove the "s" from "https" and use "http" instead.

But like you said, you're already using "http" (as am I), so that isn't the issue.




EDIT: Well, this is very interesting. Looks like zloth did know what he was talking about.

For some reason or another, when you click on "My Home", the browser adds the "s" to "http" and that seems to be causing the problem. Once this happens, just go back to your browser window and remove the "s" from "https" and everything should return to normal.

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See if this works for you:

DON'T click on "My Home" until after you're done reading the forums. I only get the security pop-ups after clicking on My Home (to read pm's, etc). I never get them before clicking on My Home.

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Also I keep hearing people leveling really fast in AE. I guess you have to group because I didnt see a big difference. Except the one where there were groups of 50 mobs at a time in small rooms.

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There are two reasons that you will level faster in AE compared to PVE:

1) People develop Arcs that have a particular type of critter that their toon works very efficiently against: frex: load the mission with critters that do mostly Smashing/Lethal damage and then run the mish multiple times with a toon who has the Invuln powerset (highly resistant to Smash/Lethal damage). Do this over and over again and watch the expeez roll in.

2) No travel time. Talk to contact, turn around and enter MA, then run mish. Talk to contact again, turn around and enter MA, run mish. Lather, rinse, repeat as needed. Very little travel time means much higher expeez per hour.

So, once you find an arc that your toon can do well in, and you run it over and over again, your expeez is high. Now, personally, I can't stand running the same arc over and over again. I'd pull my hair out. I also don't really like the "non-immersive" nature of AE: I don't really feel like my toon is really making a difference in the grand scheme of things by running "simulations" all the time. I run them every now and then, but pretty much only Dev Choice or one's with lots of stars.

Got it. Thanks A_A!

If anyone is hanging around in Infinity with a character who isn't currently in an SG (or is willing to make up an alt temporarily), could you help me add an alt to my SG?

1) I invite you with my main and promote you to just below SG Superleader.

2) I log my main off and log on with my alt.

3) You invite my alt and promote to just below SG Superleader.

4) You also promote three of my other alts in the SG to just below Superleader.

5) I log back on with my main and kick you out (or you quit, either way) and I give you 50,000 inf for your time.


Sounds good? PM meh!

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Related question...

I'm starting out building my base for my single-player SG. I open up the edit base window. My base plan needs to have the entrance in the middle of the plot, but when I try to "Move Room", nothing happens. It doesn't seem to let me relocate that room (which has nothing but the teleporter in it).

Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

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Do you have other rooms in your base? If so, is there anything on the walls that is preventing the creation of a doorway?

Every room MUST be connected to another room. In order for a room to connect to another, a doorway must be created (this creation is done automatically when you are moving the room). In order for a doorway to be created, the wall must not have anything on it.

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Come on! Give up the MArc number already!

Cuz i Prefer MArc content!

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I'd say you forgot the neuter part, but a catguy hasn't been seen in decades. Which begs the questions: How do the things keep reproducing?

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The one catguy that you haven't seen really gets around.

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Seems like Council Hoverbots are doing this as well.

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I hate you, I was just about to use that avatar.

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Try this one instead. It's an image of a plane breaking the sound barrier that's just as good as the one he's using.

Anyone else have the following problem?

Whenever I enter a mish, my toggles drop. (Inv/SS tank.) Not just my primary toggles, but also Pool toggles, such as Fly, Sprint and Assault.

I'm doing Flashback mishes, so maybe that's the problem? (I was doing Flashback mishes last night - ie, pre-I15 - and didn't notice a problem.)

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You got a lot of good ones in there, but that's GREAT!

I've got:

Hell-Lion, a Claws/Regen in a lion-themed costume (thinking about re-rolling him as a Claws/Fire )

Jennifer Ranger, a MA/SR whose bio reads "I'm NOT a super-spy, I just play one on TV." (which makes sense if you rearrange the letters in her last name....)

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Who the he'll is this Philotic Knight guy anyway. Never seen him around here before......

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He's the guy that's always posting incredibly long winded posts. This post was actually shockingly short by his standards.


Also, I could say the same about you. Never seen a single post by you before

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* Laments the fact that "snarky" still doesn't work very well on teh Intarwebs....

Of course, I know who PK/Teh Gangsta/PostKount...etc is. I was just making a point that after using the name Philotic Knight for so long on so many different servers, then killing the Philotic Knight in an MA arc, then changing his forum name several times over the last few months (even having contest for forumgoers to select the new name and avatar), He is right back to using the old name.....for now.

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What the hell? I missed that much by just not reading the boards for a couple months? His avatar did seem a bit funny now that you mention it... :-/

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Which brings up another question (just so I don't step on my dangly bits any more today...only 45 more minutes left)...

Are you the same as all the other Kitsune's on the Board?

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Who the he'll is this Philotic Knight guy anyway. Never seen him around here before......

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He's the guy that's always posting incredibly long winded posts. This post was actually shockingly short by his standards.


Also, I could say the same about you. Never seen a single post by you before

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* Laments the fact that "snarky" still doesn't work very well on teh Intarwebs....

Of course, I know who PK/Teh Gangsta/PostKount...etc is. I was just making a point that after using the name Philotic Knight for so long on so many different servers, then killing the Philotic Knight in an MA arc, then changing his forum name several times over the last few months (even having contest for forumgoers to select the new name and avatar), He is right back to using the old name.....for now.

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Who the he'll is this Philotic Knight guy anyway. Never seen him around here before......

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What's the question?

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The question was clearly who will be the first numskull to ask what's the question

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Glad you took the flame bait. Please continue.

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It was quite delicious with some tabasco.

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Ooh, ooh, didja use Green Tabasco ? It's really good. Try it on cold pizza!

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Though I do like to point out a small, interesting detail. Judging by that wallpaper picture, Lord Recluse is either A.) left-handed, or B.) a left-handed shooter.

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Well, that means so is everyone else, since the pistol on the Official belt is on the left, too.

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I've always heard that if you're a righty, it's quicker to draw from a holster on your left (assuming the butt of the firearm is pointing forward, hard to tell in that peekchur).

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Thx everyone, worked great.

Is there an easy way of moving the Entrance Room's location?

Currently, I've got an 8x8 plot and my Entrance Room is on the edge, but I'd like to put it in the middle.

I'm gonna have to completely dismantle my base down to the Entrance Room, aren't I?

I have a room set aside as a SG meeting room (has a SG meeting table in the middle) and I would like to place monitors on the wall around the room.

What I would love to get would be identical, non-functional, decorative-only versions of the teleport beacons, cuz these show a scene from their respective zone, so it would be like "So that's what's happening in Talos, Skyway seems quiet, hmmm, looks like a little trouble in Steel. To the Teleporters!" Plus the beacons are easy to hang on the wall, but the LCD monitors that are decorative items can only be placed on a desk or table etc.

Any suggestions? Am I stuck with using LCD monitors and trying to stack them?

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I supposedly have a frag grenade somewhere on my person, but I'll be damned if I can find it.

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Since everyone else has answered the question, I can now interject with...

Isn't that your frag grenade there in your pocket?

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Nope, he just really likes your avatar.....