GavinRuneblade

Each one you add increases the bonus by 5%. Now, let's say you have an IO that gives 20% damage. If you boost it once it will not give 25%, it will give (5% of 20 = 1) 21%. You can boost an IO up to 5 times so you could eventually get the 20% up to 25% by using all 5 possible.

the trick is you have to remember ED (Enhancement Diversification), which means that at about 90% total bonus, the amount that each new IO gives is drastically reduced. Mako, for example, gives over 90% damage with all 6 pieces. So if you boost all of them, a huge percentage of that boost is wasted by ED. On the other hand it doesn't give nearly as much accuracy or recharge, so carefully boosting those pieces will workout much better. If you need those.

Another way it helps is by letting you slot fewer IOs into a power. If you needed 5 slots before, you might be able to use 4 slots with boosts and have the same bonus applied to the power at the end. That gives you 1 more slot somewhere else.

I hope I'm not being too confusing. And if I'm wrong, lucking someone will be along to correct me and set you right. =)

Get him the card, and bring him to First Ward to hunt the Seed of Hamidon. Run him through the Signature Story Arc, and if he has a level 50 character from before, the Underground Trial.

If that doesn't give him the visuals and play experience he's looking for, then CoX isn't the game for him. If he has fun, then he'll stick around.

It kicked in a few issues ago for quite a lot of people. I believe (but haven't the searchfu to confirm) one issue after they migrated the accounts from europe and added all the _NA and so on to people.

Should be easy to track down in the technical support forum since there were so many threads about it. But as I said, no searchfu here. =)

Hammio's screwing with the dev's plans since day 1. Heh. Warshades are now slotting dual nucleus and dual recharge common IOs into eclipse because it gives ED-capped resist with just two slots because of this exploit.

Put achilees heel into the soldiers and a damage proc into the commando. World of difference right there. three soldiers each independently have a chance for the -20% res to go off (doesn't stack but makes it pretty reliable at least) and if you use the right damage proc it's lightly resisted. Means all your boys are doing more damage and several of the commando's AoEs will have a significant kick to them.

Low level bosses are best for low damage no AoE characters. A boss is worth about 10 minions worth of exp and a level 1 boss has about 5 minions worth of HP. So the breakpoint is 6 minions. If you can kill 6 minions as fast or faster than 1 boss then fight the minions.

In my experience level 1 boss maps work for low level defenders, corrupters, controllers and tanks. All others should focus on AoE. As postagulous said, same old same old without the rez.

Well, for many free and premium players it will be the only option.

Important thing to note is that there is no random roll, but you can set the level of the recipe.

Can you pass them between characters on the same account? Meaning, are they account bound or character bound?

Not 100% sure, but I think that Def All but Psionics &DDR works whether or not you have +hp. Hard to believe the T9 is worthless when those still work.

Inferior to scrapper, tank and brute versions, sure. But impotent? seems more than a bit exaggerated.

Plus, lots of people skip crashing tier 9s altogether. If that's the only place EA gets hit by the HP cap, I'm not at all buying the claim that it gets hit more.

Ah, got it. thanks for the clarification.

They have the exact same attacks in the exact same order. Only difference is Kat is faster and BS is more damage per hit. But the Devs didn't balance spike vs sustained evenly so over time Kat deals more damage. That, and I think someone worked out that it only takes 26% bonus damage for Kat to deal the same damage per hit as BS (slight variations per attack.

But both have the one wide cone, one narrow cone and one circle pbaoe. One +def power, one knockup, and the two initial single target attacks.

On the soulbound proc, it goes off more often on the tier 1 because it checks / attack. But it potentially does more damage in the tier 3. I had it in my commando for mercs becuase of his AoE, and the Assault bot for bots for the same reason. But plan to put it in my tier-1 demons because the prince doesn't do nearly as much AoE so I *think* the tier-1s will get more use out of it.

Would love to know some real numbers though.

This is all solid advice, and I second it. =)

I was thinking of domination. It adds a version of the original power when it is active, but with a different magnitude and duration.

This is a very different application (targetted on self rather than enemy, and reactive rather than baked into the power/attack), but similar concept.

Edit: I in no way shape or form pretend to think this would be an easy application. Just that something vaguely similar does seem to exist.

Well, some of CoH's best new content is mid level. The Admiral Sutter task force, for instance, is extremely fun. The revamp to the hollows made it one of my favorite zones.

And I'm one of the nutters who plays in Praetoria for fun and was sad to see the nerfs to many enemy groups in there with i21.

Still if he is cool playing mid-level content with his favorite characters, there's hope for him and CoH to become permanently attached. If he thinks the constantly increasing level cap is valuable, ask him how he feels about the time he spent on the last expansion, or playing that content today and getting a reward for it that is vendor trash. In City, his favorite content will always provide a reward he can use. And his favorite stuff will never become obsolete.

The only bits that have fallen away are the titan-os that are from back when the level cap was 40. All the rest will always be there. And with three builds for each character, he will need a #$%^&-load of play time to run out of rewards to work for (PvP build, level 50 build, exemplar build, or team vs solo builds etc many options).

Does he really think it's worth it? I was in WoW when the Outlands launched and people were seriously pissed off that greens made their tier-3 raid gear obsolete. And that's gotten worse with each release since. Now if he feels that spending 300+ hours grinding reputation to get the frost saber mount was time well spent now that he can buy and use a flying mount, good for him. But most people feel that making everything obsolete every few months is really annoying. Here, we really do get to make our characters much more powerful. But we also have the choice to call a character "done" and just goof around. And the beautiful thing is, that "done" character won't fall behind. I team with people on all SOs and they do just fine.

Pretty much. There are organized PvP groups, but that's about the only way to experience it. And PvP uses completely different mechanics from PvE. Powers do different damage, defense and resists are different. If you get healed you become resistant to future heals for a period of time. There's movement speed caps based on attacks, etc. It's totally different. I like CoH PvP even though I totally suck at it. But there's really not much of it. Personally, I had the most fun the two Arena matches I had, the zones aren't so cool in my experience.

CoH would so benefit from turning Recluse's Victory into a PvP minigame.

Have him play a new character in praetoria.

Show him a group taking down the Hamidon GM in First Ward.

And show him a video of the incarnate underground trial. Dear God. I don't know what they pay David Nakayama and the graphics team, but for that work, they deserve a raise. The old Eden Trial was also very pretty.

And the new signature story arc for villians has spectacular custom zones.

Like you say, they don't go back and redo old costumes and rarely old zones (hello new Atlas and Mercy). But the new stuff is wonderful.

Start answering all the questions with references to Aardvarks. People will stop asking.

How do I get to the hollows? First you get the summon Aardvark temp power by defeating hellions. Then you follow the Aardvark until it leads you to the red dot in the west side of the zone. Wait for the Aardvark to desummon and then click on the police officer's feet and you'll be in the hollow's.

Only us wackjobs will ask more questions just to see how you answer.

But not everything is clear. Like I bought the wedding pack. Can I mistakenly buy the emotes or auras again since those are slightly differently packaged? Is the origins costume "pack" the same as the origins booster?

I certainly don't trust enough to test this.

I believe that if I try to buy the first salvage slot increase twice I'll get an error. Or beam rifle twice.

But I really don't know if I believe that the store knows I already own things that were sold in a different format than the store sells them.

In a dadaist sense. where the question is the one raised in you not in the post itself.

Or maybe I'm giving the OP too much credit.

Naaaah, that's unpossible.