Ironblade

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BLYKMYK View Post
    I assume most people try and get a Tier 4 alpha slot.
    I wouldn't think so. My main is all tier 4. A couple of other toons have SOME tier 4's. The rest (over 20 others) simply don't bother going past tier 3 in any slot. It's just not worth the time/salvage.

    On 'damage dealers', I'll slot Interface and Judgement as quickly as possible. On defenders, I'll often IGNORE those slots while I stockpile salvage so I can work on Lore and Destiny as soon as I unlock them. Overall, I think Destiny is the best. If I'm going to run iTrials that only provide one type of iXP, I'll focus on getting Destiny unlocked. The powers are great AND it provides a level shift.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    It wouldn't be so bad if the wiki was updated with story pages for content, with spoiler warning, and not just strategy.
    Feel free to do so. You're aware that ParagonWiki is entirely a volunteer, player-supported resource, right?
  3. Cool. There's also an iTrial summary page. I just updated that.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    A mysterious woman had just cast a magic spell on me to let me breathe in space so that I could team up with a 100 year old guy with spider legs grownig out of his back to take down a guy who'd stolen the powers of another 100 year old guy, left a fleet of battleships hanging in the air over the Pacific, and created his own island to float up into space where he was going to merge with a mad god from another dimension - I didn't really notice the lack of reduced gravity
    You know, if you want to make it to the big leagues as a hero, you need to pay more attention to stuff like that.


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mr. DJ View Post
    What are your graphics settings? the screen turns red when the beam hits you and you're not in the protective field.
    It does? I left the field early on just to see what it looked like and how much damage it did. I saw no graphic effect at all and I have Ultra Mode on. As for the damage... <shrug> 900 points every 30 seconds and my Reconstruction recharges in less than 25 seconds.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Organica View Post
    I made The Market channel bright green (the color of money!)
    Yeah, I did that too. When I was on a farming channel, I made it brown - the color of dirt.
    Offhand, I think I'm on 6 SG channels, 7 TF/teaming channels specific to my server, one cross-server help channel and The Market channel. hmm... If I'm remembering correctly, that means I'm full. We can only be on 15 channels.

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    and now I think I'll have to do that on all of my characters, or that will drive me crazy too.
    You can set up standard chat settings and load them from either the menu, a chat line command, or a bind. It saves what channels are displayed, which tab they display in, what color they are.... and maybe other stuff. Then you can easily load the settings to other characters.

    When I create a new character, I load my default bind file from the command line. That file has binds to load other stuff.
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Big_Daddy_Vio View Post
    Did this get fixed? I ran around perez with my 39 fire brute and nada.
    Not necessarily. If converters are using the same drop qualifications as tips, then you can't get either in Perez. Tips require the defeated enemy to be at least level 20. TwoHeadedBoy specifically said he was street sweeping for tips (and Sharkhead is a level 20-30 zone).
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Snow Globe View Post
    Yes, unless you somehow think the official patch notes are false:
    Seriously? I ask an honest question and cite the most well-known and easy-to-find source and you have to cop an attitude and get in my face? You could have conveyed exactly the same information without being a jerk by saying, "Yes, per the patch notes here:".
  8. Ironblade

    super insp

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    Originally Posted by Ironblade View Post
    Is it possible you went into a coalition base or that storage item is set wrong?
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    Originally Posted by Justaris View Post
    Ah, I found the problem, it was a permissions issue. Disregard.
    Pats self on back.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by firespray View Post
    Do you know whether it's possible to buy them without confirming?
    That, I don't know. I've never bought one.


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    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    I'm 99% sure that you can buy them from the vendor without confirming your alignment.
    I believe the reason for the necessity of confirmation for the morality mission reward was because of a bug with that mechanic. The vendor avoids that mechanic.
    Not a bug. It was entirely intentional, to stop an 'exploit' as detailed in the post prior to this one.


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    Originally Posted by Paladiamors View Post
    Now I have NEVER moved from being a hero on my hero characters. Not once. And yet I can't pick hero alignment merits all of a sudden, except on my characters that ran the morality missions. I am not sure when this changed, since I was running SSA's before I22 came out and picking hero merits just fine.
    Right. This is a change that came along well after the Signature arcs were introduced.
  10. Ironblade

    Oh, Hey There

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    Originally Posted by Stormbird View Post
    Seriously, shut up with this already. You're not amusing. With this or anything else.
    Wow, someone starts a light-hearted "I'm back" thread and you have to get all Mr. Cranky.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nethergoat View Post
    Hit level 4 & checked out Lady Liberty's dialogue box as suggested.
    HOLY WOW, tailor options? Hallelujah!
    No more taking your lowbie life in your hands doing the Steel Canyon Run to fix this or that detail that doesn't look quite right in game. Well played, Paragon Studios.
    You'd think that initially, but.... at the same time, they added an Icon location to Atlas Park anyway.
    Not to mention that there is a tailor in the Vanguard base in RWZ, which you can access at level 1 and enter from Atlas Park.
  12. hmm... I've taken both to level 50, but not on the same toon. I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't play well together unlike, for example, Street Justice. The -recharge from Granite would kill your ability to build your combo level. But martial arts should be fine.

    I think that doing the martial arts moves in granite armor would LOOK weird. I saw a guy in granite armor with dual blades and it was pretty funny.
  13. Ironblade

    super insp

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    Originally Posted by Justaris View Post
    Annoyingly, it seems they can't be stored in SG base inspiration storage. Either that or mine is buggy.
    Is it possible you went into a coalition base or that storage item is set wrong?
    I have some stored in my base.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Erhnam View Post
    First TPN run (each 20h) is a guaranteed R/VR? I thought that was only UG. Great to know
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    Originally Posted by Hopeling View Post
    No, TPN has an improved chance of R/VR, not guaranteed, exactly as Draeth said.
    Are we sure it even has an improved chance? ParagonWiki makes no mention of that, although it DOES say that for Keyes Island.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Aggelakis View Post
    With 8 hero merits in inventory, it sounds like the OP should certainly have access to the hero merit reward at the end of the arc.
    errr.. no. They might have earned them before this system was put into place. I have plenty of toons who got A-Merits from the signature arcs but are no longer eligible to earn them since they have never CONFIRMED their alignment. A lot of those are below level 20. Previously, you could start earning A-Merits from the arcs once you hit the minimum level for the first arc, which is level 10. But now, since you can't get a morality mission until level 20, you can't earn A-Merits from the signature arcs before level 20.


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    Originally Posted by firespray View Post
    But I can't earn them from the SSAs until I have confirmed my alignment by running another hero morality mission?
    Correct. You can't earn them from morality missions either at that point. Say you're a Rogue. You run a hero morality mission to change to hero. Then, you run ANOTHER - that earns you 50 REWARD merits as you confirm your alignment. THEN you can earn A-Merits either from morality missions or the signature arcs.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    This game is just "an implosion waiting to happen".
    So is the Sun.
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Professsionlol View Post
    I run a brand newish HP Pavilion g6 (admittedly, a little less fly than a g6) with nondedicated intel card (1024mb video mem) on Windows 7 64bit OS and i feel like it should be able to run a 7 year old game at a little better than at min settings at 1366 x 768 x_x
    Well, the simplest and most direct response is, "You're mistaken." Don't think of this as a 7 year old game. The graphics (which is where your problem lies) have been updated multiple times and, in comparison with some MMO's, this game is very graphically demanding.
  18. Ironblade

    CoH IMs?

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    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    I want a game to be a game and facilitate communication within the context of the game, not while I'm doing something else and would rather not "just have the game open to chat" let alone have an invasive always on messaging system.
    Fine, but you're envisioning what it could mutate into. That's not what the OP wanted, not what I want, probably not what any of the players want. I think the OP's idea is a good one.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kobolt_Thunder View Post
    Talk to Prometheus after completing the arc and choose:
    I have earned the right to know more about the Well.
    Actually, that part has been there for a while.
    I'm thinking that got put in at the same time as Minds of Mayhem, maybe.


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    Care to explain to me why you never told me I could ascend to become a "Well", Prometheus?
    Lots of new dialog about Ascension.
    And that's new. I'll have to check that out.
  20. Well, I have two complaints.

    1) The bit at the end with the information about "Where are they now?"
    I'm sorry, but when that bit started, I was seeing:
    Daniel Simpson Day - Whereabouts unknown.
    Senator and Mrs. John Blutarski - Living in Washington, DC.
    Greg Marmalard - etc......

    2) What? Vanguard has a rocket to send me into space?
    And.... COME ON! NOT EVEN A CUTSCENE? SHOW ME A LAUNCH, WILL YA????


    Aside from those nitpicks, I loved it.
  21. It's perfectly clear (once you understand it).

    In order to be eligible to earn Alignment Merits, you must be a hero (or villain) and have CONFIRMED your alignment. If you have always been a hero, then do 10 alignment missions and a hero morality mission, and you will be able to earn A-Merits. If you have changed your alignment, you need to get back to hero by tips and a hero morality mission, then do TEN MORE ALIGNMENT MISSIONS and ANOTHER HERO MORALITY MISSION.

    So you have to *BE* a hero *AND* then do a hero morality mission. (In all cases, you can substitute the word 'villain' for 'hero'.) Regarding the terminology in the reward pop-up, if you are a rogue and do a hero morality mission, that was CHANGING your alignment, not CONFIRMING it.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Creole Ned View Post
    Disagree.

    I find Twinshot's dialog intolerably twee (kiddo) and the tutorial-style missions are a waste of time for a veteran player.
    But it's new content and it's not horrible. It's worth running ONCE.


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    Dillo is *almost* worth it, though!
    hoorb?
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven View Post
    Or is that "ka-now"?
    hmm... what show was it that had a news reporter named Gary Gnu. He pronounced the G in gnu, so it was two syllables. As I recall, the news segment was called the No Gnus is Good Gnus Gnus Report. With every single G pronounced.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    City of Heroes runs worse than ever. (Anybody think that is untrue?)
    In my case, I haven't noticed any change. It consistently runs fine and has for years. I can dual box. I can do iTrials and mothership raids. And my internet sucks like a tornado. My connection is slow, unreliable and lightning in the area knocks it out completely.
  25. Ironblade

    CoH IMs?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by T_Immortalus View Post
    I do not want any social media integration in my games.
    Cool. Since that's not in any way what the OP was suggesting.


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    Originally Posted by Prof_Radburn View Post
    If I remember right if you and your friends have firefox it shows when your friends are playing
    I think you're imagining that. Some people use third party sites that dynamically generate images indicating whether the person is playing a particular game, then incorporate those images as their avatar or in a signature.