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This is the way I understand it after reading the ED rules:

The base recharge on Practiced Brawler is 3min 20sec. That is 200 seconds.

Each SO enhancement gives a 35% bonus to recharge. Since 2 = 70% this
may be effected by ED, the formula from the wiki is

70 + (0.9 × (E - 70)) , plugging in my 70% here means there is no penalty: 70+(0.9x(70-70)) = 70+(0.9x(0)) = 70+(0) = 70

I also have quickness. Quickness is supposed to provide a 20% reduction in recharge speed. This gives me a total of 90% reduction. The way I calculate it this means that this power should only take 20 seconds to recharge and yet it is at almost 2 minutes.

Even if you applied the 20% for quickness after the effect of the enhancements the recharge would be 48 seconds and not 1min 57 seconds.

Just caught that part. I forgot all about the new issue, I'll have to check and see if any new maps have arrived.

Exactly, I have a story that I would love to create that would be much better with before and after maps. Still plan to do it but I've gotten hung up on other things, not to mention playing enough in AE to unlock all the unlockable content and then clicking through every map and going back and forth between the different sets. I stopped just short of doing a screen capture of every layout so that I could print them for comparison.

In the end I'll probably do the same and settle for "close enough", but it won't be as fun for me to create that way.

I have now read through most of what I could find on this board and I've had no luck with making any changes.

I'm really looking for a generous person willing to walk me through how to get this problem resolved, even if it's not a complete solution and makes CoX once again playable. I'm not looking for perfect, but even with the CoX set to minimum the jerking is bad enough to give me a headache.

I'm willing to provide whatever information I can.

I believe that this particular mission also has Merits awarded for successful completion, which could be another reason that it cannot be dropped??

Anyway, the point is, that there are missions that are not task forces or trials that give rewards and that require a min size team to complete. To make things fair I think there should also be missions that require a solo effort to receive the completion awards. For that matter, I wouldn't mind seeing a few Task Forces and Trials that required a solo effort, just for a change of pace.

I know I'm probably in the minority and that's fine. But I like to do both solo and teams and really wouldn't mind if there are different rewards/badges/whatever for each. It might provide a little more variety.

But that's just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions

And I'm quiet glad to hear this. I find the simultaneous glowie click missions to be the most annoying.... "Crap, we have 10 minutes left to complete this mission and have 8 heroes click 8 different glowies all at the same time, but Bill just got face planted and we're all out of Rez's. There's no way he can make it back from the Hosp and through that hoard of trolls in time. This one's a bust boys and girls."

Actually, I tried that, this particular mission would not let me drop. When I talked to the contact I got "You better hurry up that building is going to go up in flames". No choice to drop it. In this particular case, the ONLY way to complete the mission successfully is to actually complete it with a 3 member team.

This was the reason for my comment. There are missions that require a minimum number of people to complete successfully that are NOT Task forces or Trials. Either these types of missions should be completely removed from standard contacts or missions that require a maximum number of heroes should be added to standard contacts.

And I'm completely in agreement with this. Personally I want to get badges for actually doing something and to be completely honest, if I can't earn a badge for something specific then I can't earn the badge, and if I really want it then I'll work harder to get it and it will mean more, if not to others then to me anyway.

Thank you for this information. I did not know that this was the term and I will use it in my pre-invite communication.


I didn't think of it that way, but I will be more careful in the future. In all likelihood I doubt this character will accept many team invites in the future. Maybe put a big sign over her head that says, "Not a Team Player"

Hopefully no one here has taken offense to anything I've said in any of my posts. I'm just trying to learn and understand, not to irritate people.

Actually, neither. She was not being a jerk, she was doing what she was there to do. There was never an instance when she did not cooperate. No one in the group seemed to wonder where she was and I didn't feel in necessary to tell them what she was doing, because that is not part of who she is.

If someone had asked, "Hey, where's so and so" I would have likely said something, and I would have likely returned to the main group or waited or even continued depending on what the leader wanted me to do. On the other hand, she still would not have given her life to save someone or even stuck her neck out. That simply isn't who she is. (If, I had to do something to get along that was not "In Character" to complete the mission I would not have been rude about it. I simply would have added a note to the player "Expects Villains to play nice" and then would simply not play with them again with this particular character)

She didn't say "Hey guys, while you stay here and get your heads bashed in, I'm going to run off and do my nails or something." She simply did her job as she saw it.

Each of my characters have their own personalities, for good or for bad, and they live with their choices. Some work and play well with others and some don't. No two are the same, that would just be boring. I am not my characters and my characters are not me.

And even afterward I was polite and I even apologized to those that it upset (not that this stopped their ranting). While it may be important for me to realize that there are a lot of people that are not RPers, it is equally important for them to realize that there are.

I guess this last thing is the reason that I've posted this. I simply found it upsetting that some could not seem to get past it and move on. Add a note on me that says (This person is an A'hole, don't invite her again).

Exactly, I'm not saying this character is a great "Teammate". In fact, she is not a team player, she was there for a particular purpose. I have other characters that are team players and even a few that would give up their lives to save someone else (admittedly, these are all heroes). To be honest, if you want to one star me and not play with any of my characters, that's you're loss, not mine. I don't think I'm interested in playing with anyone that would condemn all my characters for the way one acts. But please just do it instead of sending me rude tells that will simply get you ignored by me and then you still don't need to worry about playing with me again.

And again, I will say that the leader did not have any problem with what I did.

Sorry, I didn't say I didn't take time to read the clues, in fact there were no clues that I remember. And yes, I still like to take time to read everything. I won't pass up that information. But, clearing the map and rushing through things are not the same to me. Rushing head long from mob to mob without assessing the situation is what I believe I was complaining about. As I've said, each character is different. Some insist on "arresting all the crooks" Some have a particular dislike to a certain group and will stop everything to chase one down.

I believe that you are referring to the thread I started about "Teams & Tactics". To me this is no different. The tactics of this character are to get to the objective. I believe that my complaint had to do with not looking at things from a tactical viewpoint. With this stalker I can do that, and without all the time spent bashing things, when bashing things is not really part of the plot.

Yes, I cold have done this with a different character that is more of a team player and I will keep this in mind for the future. It's not that I don't want to get along with the other players. If I didn't want that I wouldn't be here. And, like I've said, I did communicate to the person that invited me (which is something I've learned to do more of since the tread that was mentioned above). Perhaps if this person had given it more thought as well they would not have sent the invite when I told them what type of character she was.

Actually, the "Earn XP" on this particular character is turned off. But I understand the perspective and I'm not familiar enough with the way the game works to know how this effects the XP of other players in the team. If there was a setting for "Give my XP to the team" I would turn that on when I turn off XP. In fact, my XP is almost always off when I'm with a team, especially for missions that are out of the normal flow, like events, to prevent leveling out of whatever contact I'm currently doing.

The problem was that the mission was over before this became apparent. When the "Mission Complete" message was shown and some were upset that they had not gotten to the end yet.

Funny though how they didn't notice the villain that they needed to complete the mission, wasn't among them until the very end.

And again, it was not the leader that was upset. That person and I talked afterword and they completely understood. It seems that person was there for the same reason I was.

I guess that's where I made my mistake. I was under the impression that it had something to do with RPing.

I should also add that, when I got the tell asking if I was interested I did tell the person that "I will stay in character" or something to that effect, and I got a "kk" followed by the invite. I should also note that it was not the leader, the one that sent me the invite, that got bent out of shape.

Took quickness as soon as it became available.

When you say, "it should become perma", You're talk about CTRL clicking the icon for Practiced Brawler so that it fires off every time it is ready? If not, can you please explain?

This may be what it says, but with Lift, that isn't what I'm seeing. Most of the damage from lift appears to happen when the target smashes back into the ground. If the target is held, there may be a bonus from the initial lift, but since they do not actually get lifted they never smash back into the ground and most of the potential damage is not applied. I'm just watching their XP bar when I do different things.
I was under the impression that you can only queue one thing at a time.
Can you queue up more if each is on a different target. And you queue the same attack on two different targets? If not then I'm not sure I understand this. I'm in the habit of always queuing my next attack as soon as the last one I queued goes off. (Although sometimes I queue before I switch targets when my clicking finger gets ahead of my tabbing finger )

Is that in the Super Speed pool? Haven't given that much thought, I have thought about taking some of the teleport powers, so that means I'd be juggling trying to take things from at least 3 pools.... I've seen the comment that says I can have up to 4 pools.... does that include ancillary? I was also thinking about a couple of the powers from fitness so that is 4 pools to juggle (super speed, flight, teleport and fitness :S)

@Local Man
I may end up trying the Grav/Storm or the Illusion/Rad combos. To be honest, I'm just trying new things to see what I like. Like I said, I'm new here. I'd really like to try as many different things as I can and I have planned to give your guides a serious read through.