JJames

I believe there are cabals that were started by CoH players. However, I am unsure of the names. If you look the Cabal forums, there are plenty of cabals that are advertising recruitment for new players. http://forums.thesecretworld.com/forumdisplay.php?f=17

As far as the enemies, you will see cultists, scorpions, werewolves, vampires, wendigos, spectres, wraiths, mutated bugs, golems, and others that I can't remember their names. (If you look at your chronicle and view the monster kills per race, it gives you a list of the enemies in the game.)

My husband and I are in the same cabal (just recently joined). I do have to say that it is nice to play with such a helpful and fun group of people.

I'm glad that it seems like it will make an improvement for you.

I've left mine turned down. I still get a drop in frame rates on occasion (mostly in London), but it is infrequent and usually the worst right after a patch. So I can live with that.

If you would like to post your player name, there are plenty of people in this thread that can take a look at your chronicle and see if there is anything standing out with your spec, gear, or point allocation that may be causing you survivability issues.


A couple of small tips that helped me tremendously when I first started:

1) Get Lick Your Wounds (in Fists) as soon as possible for one of your passive skills. Immortal Spirit (in Blades) is also beneficial. Just make sure to keep yourself as your defensive target when fighting monsters so that the heals are applied to you.

2) Make sure to put some points into your talismans as well as your main and secondary weapon skills. This will allow you to equip better gear.

3) Make sure your gear (if you're dps) has at least one tanking piece (for the hp), attack gear, and one or two healing pieces (for self heals).

4) Make use of the AH/Marketplace. At lower levels, you can get gear for dirt cheap most of the time.

5) Make sure to use your active dodge ability (it will get rid of a lot of unnecessary damage intake).


Not sure if you are aware of this website or not, http://wordpress.tswguides.com/ , but it gives some really solid survival builds for lower levels. Just keep in mind that you don't have to follow them exactly, you can change skills out to meet your needs.

Let me put it this way ... And please keep in mind (as I said earlier), I did not/have not seen the OPs post ... I have noticed that the mods will close a thread if it is not asking for help but is instead trolling in nature. I have never seen them shut down a thread if someone is truly asking for help or for ways that they can improve upon their gaming experience.

There is no need for the endless "This game sucks! I quit!" posts in the forums, they don't help anyone. Think about it, if they allowed every one of those original threads, we would be overrun with them from every "child" who loves the game until they die, are killed during pvp, or any other possibly minuscule thing happened that they didn't like. However, they do allow posts that truly critique points of the game and reasons for leaving. I have read plenty of them and they are allowed to remain open until people start trolling, flaming, or going completely off-topic.

I don't know the OP, never played with him in-game, nor read his post on the TSW forums. I was just speculating as to reasons for a mod interaction and suggesting that it may have been the way in which he posted his frustration.

If you look in the forums under Cabal and the separate dimensions, they have cabal listings for new and old players. I have talked to several of the cabal reps and they have all been willing to take on and help new players. I have seen some cabals advertising in general chat for recruitment that aren't listed anywhere in the forums (or not that I've seen anyways). So, it may be helpful to throw out in OOC and general that you are looking for a cabal that accepts new players.

http://forums.thesecretworld.com/forumdisplay.php?f=17

I do have one question. If teaming is so important to you and you felt it was extremely lacking during your trial period, then why did you sub to the game? **Not trying to be a smart***, honestly just curious.**

You think it's stupid. Others don't. Meh, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Have you tried changing to DX9 TerraDraconis? Also, turning vegetation and shadow levels down? I had to do all of that and I now have very minimal issues (except really low fps in London). Even turning those settings down, the game is still beautiful.

Thanks for the link.

I have not read this, but it sounds like it could be amusing.

Where can I find it? Got a link maybe? .... Pleeeaaaassseee :P

And, clearly, you've missed the point of my post. I was trying to point out a possible reason for mod intervention on the forums (because I usually only see threads closed if they are trolling in nature).

However, I was making a suggestion as to how to get people to help/advise the player on possible problems that could be causing him/her to have such difficulty and/or to find people that would be willing to help. I don't see how me giving examples of how to actually get help is steamrolling a generic answer. If that is what you got from it, then so be it.

As a side note, I haven't had any issues finding a team in game whether it be for missions or dungeons. It may take a few minutes, but I do get one when I need it. It pays to subscribe to the CoH-Refugees and OOC channels. Also, you can go to Agartha to ask. I have ran across many end-game players that are willing to help out a lowbie.

Also, if you choose to leave a game because someone says "panties in a wad," then good luck to you. My finished post was actually much nicer and clean-cut that it originally was. I didn't see a post filled with "***" to be very helpful.

I didn't see the post, so I can't specifically point out what may have caused a mod to close it. However, those "I keep dying. This game sucks! No one will help me! I'm going to play a different game because this game sucks!" is generally posted by trolls.

Now, as I said, I haven't seen the original post, so I can't begin to speculate as to why there would have been a mod intervention. I am guessing though that if you had posted something along the lines of "I am having issues finding groups and I keep dying solo. Could someone please take a look at my spec (and link your spec) to tell me what I might be able to change/improve upon?" OR "I usually play during x time frame, is there someone who would like to team with me to give me some pointers or would just like to group up in general?"

I see the above posts all the time and for the most part the general population is willing to help without being ******* (although there will be some of them out there too). But, if you jump in with you panties in a wad, nobody is going to be willing to honestly help you.

It is indeed on sale now.

You may have to go back to the driver or 2 before the latest one. I know a couple of weeks ago, they were telling everyone to update to the current but it was causing crashes. People were reverting back to some previous drivers and it fixed the constant crashing for a lot of people (myself included).

I don't have a Scripts folder as yours shows. My folders stop at screenshots.

However if I go into Data > prog, there is a "script" folder there. Is that the same thing?

Exactly!!!! Same here with our WoW guild.

Sounds good.

lmfao! Well hello anti-christ, nice to meet you .

And, yeah, I've searched through many of the existing guild charters and there is always that "nicey, nice" clause in there.

I know in the SGs/guilds we've had, everyone joked around about any and every topic you could think of and nobody took offense because nothing was truly meant to hurt anyone. Plus, it doesn't help that I have a bit of a "potty mouth"...it gets really hard to try to hide that at times so being in those "nicey nice" groups makes it more like a job than a pleasure.


I know there was one for Templars and it's somewhere in the Newcomers Forums under CoH Refugees thread. Not sure of any others though.


You can add us if you'd like. We play sometimes during the day (when our toddler is napping) and evenings/nights.

Pyppie and Varrak

There are separate controls for music, combat sounds, dialogue, etc. It's in the menu under settings.

It's usually the first thing I have to adjust when starting a new game because mine and my husband's computer are in the same room too.

Why?!?!

My hubby and I started our own cabal because we don't necessarily fit into the "be nice, don't say anything abrasive, or curse, etc." that seems to be in the rules of every cabal I've looked at. While we aren't malicious, we are definitely not "politically correct". We find humor in everything including ourselves, pretty much nothing is off limits as long as it's not meant to hurt anyone intentionally.

So....I say be yourself. Those who like you will like you for who you are and those who don't can go **** themselves.

Anyways, we're Varrak and Pyppie on Daemon if you want to add us to your friends list so you can "let your hair down" so to speak (We can still team up cross-dimension if you're on Arcadia).

From what I've seen, the faction-less cabals are actually bigger gaming groups that span across many different games (for example, TSW, WoW, GW2, EVE, ...). Some, but not all, have cabals for each faction or no real cabal in-game, but do have a group chat channel. For the ones that don't have any cabals in game, they tend to do their planning, signing up, etc on a group website.