Jay Peace

I'd drop the ToE triple (not a real change to any of the numbers without it)
in favor of the chance for end proc. That will give you:

Acc 56.55% enhancement, 117.4% chance to hit (not counting other Acc bonuses)
End 81.25% enhancement, 18.6 cost
Rech 65.10% enhancement, 18.2s recharge
Heal 60.35%% enhancement, 49.6% heal per target
20% chance for 10% end return per target

Not bad at all. 3s longer recharge, 1 more end per use (which is itself mitigated by the longer recharge) and similar accuracy values (without the acc bonuses. With them, it'll go up towards the above 168% value.) The heal is less, but that only matters against a single target. Any more than one mob hit and you'll pretty much be full up no matter what your heal enhancement is, lol. Having a good chance to get end back (statistically, a full man spawn will likely get you at least 10 end back, often more like 20, and with luck, 30 or more, nearly or completely negating the cost of using it). You'll also get 5% heal as a set bonus, which does count for DR. Without that bonus and this slotting, you'll only be getting 49.1% heal per target. Not major, but every little bit helps, right?

IIRC, it's because enhancing a power enhances all relative aspects of that power that are flagged as enhanceable. (What a word twist, lol)

By putting Numi/RT regen bonuses into Health, you essentially add their effects to the power itself. When the power is enhanced, all aspects are enhanced, including the regen bonuses. In Physical Perfection, you can enhance both the recovery and regen aspects, so Miracle and the recovery part of Numina will be enhanced, too.

I find that Numina: regen/recov, Numina: Heal, Miracle: Recov, Perf Shifter: Chance for end, Perf Shifter: End Mod, and either a basic lvl 50 End Mod IO or another Perf Shifter will give incredibly good Recov and Regen bonuses. With that kind of setup, you could in theory skip fitness altogether on that toon, as long as you don't plan on ever exemping below PPs level >.< It's more of a respec build option, good for people who like to take their scrappers to the next level and open up pools for set mules or whatever. 3 extra powers and an extra pool can make a bid difference, especially for some tighter builds.

Where's the proof of "dwindling numbers of players" and "lack of teams"? Just because you say it's that way, doesn't mean it *is* that way. Join an active SG. You can usually find the most active ones listed on the boards for each server (towards the bottom of the page). Be willing to change servers. Virtue and Freedom are pretty busy, I almost never have trouble finding teams. Heck, more often than not I'm just on for a couple mins to check sales, so I'm actually turning *down* teams.

And if you really think that just because you aren't seeing broadcast spam for teams LFM, there aren't any teams out there, you're sadly mistaken. Use your search comment and LFT flags to let people who are filling out their teams know what you are looking for. Or (heaven forbid!) form your own team. See a couple people out their broadcasting LFT, send em a tell saying what you are doing or would like to do, and see if they want to join you. Chances are, they will.

Use the search window to find people who are teamed in your level range and send someone a tell asking if there is any room for your AT/Level and powersets, if you want to be that specific. Sometimes a particular team may be looking for exactly what you are offering (especially buffs/debuffs) but not knowing you have those sets, they don't invite you. You could be the one person that turns slow going into steam rolling and not even know it. And if they don't know it because you don't advertise it, why would they invite you?

Yes, teams are out there. Any server, just about any time, day or nite. Chances are that if you are on and looking for a team, someone else will be too. Find em, invite em, have fun!

Oh, and merging servers is about more than just losing character names. You have to consider SG names, SG rankings (What happens to a top 10 sg on Justice that hasn't had to compete with the top 10 of Freedom when the servers merge? The Justice SG is no longer top 10, so people may begin to wander, hurting their position even more.) Hey, what happens to character slots? I have virtue and freedom just about full, and a few other servers are semi full. If any one or two of those servers merge with virtue or freedom, I won't have enough character slots... What happens then? Do I lose those characters? Or are the servers themselves changed to allow more characters? Speaking of, doing that means more drain on the servers themselves. They'll have to be upgraded, and certain troublesome areas like Cap or Talos market areas will be much worse. Plus, putting more players on one server means more chances of that server being blacked out, especially during events. What happens when a server crashes? With 11 US servers, if one or two go down, we still have 9-10 more to go around while they fix the problems. If we cut that down to say 4 or 5 servers and 1 or 2 go down, then we only have 3 or 4 to choose from.

Yeah, server merges? Nope, not gonna happen. If the game were failing, we wouldn't be getting new rednames. The dev team is growing, not shrinking. Paragon Studios and NCSoft are pumping money into this game, and it's paying off. Heck, IIRC, we're more stable now in subscribers than we have been for a long time. As old timers leave for whatever reason, we have a steady influx of new players coming aboard. Going Rogue is going to increase that number even more, hopefully permanently.

TLR version: Nope, not gonna happen.

Again, thanks for all the input folks!

How about: 3 Gig Processor, 1 gig RAM, Vid card with 256 onboard memory, and all graphics running at minimum settings via TweakCoH. And yet I still have to wait ages for the market to load initially, and after that, and/or 1-2 hours of play, I run the risk of long zoning loads and crashing/mapserving. Yeah, either the "minimum" specs need to be increased to take into account the actual current demands, or these features need to be looked at to be compatible with the published minimum specs.

That's pretty much what I'm going to do. Bind the exec to the key itself, the small combine to shift+key, medium to ctrl+key, and large to alt+key. I've already taken out the escape and awaken variants, just a matter of going into the file and adding the new binds in. Shouldn't be too difficult. I'll let y'all know how it goes. Again, thanks for all the input!

Nope, I've double and triple checked it. All the quotes are in the proper places. However, as I said before, I swapped out the quoted recipe names for the version with underscores. Assuming the bind system counts spaces as characters, this cuts down the number of spaces needed to do the commands. However, it still isn't working quite like it should be. I think it's randomly cutting bits and pieces out of the binds to fit within the limit. Unfortunately, without some sort of extra bind loading from separate files, I don't see this happening with just shift plus the numpad key. So my next question: Can Ctrl and Alt be used in combination with the numpad keys to create a bind? Could I do this?

That's just an example... don't want to type out the full bind again, lol. But would that work? And could I place "alt" with "ctrl"?

If this is so, then why does
work properly? If what you are saying is correct, it would only read "beginchat /send " and while that is a valid bind command (essentially what enter does. it's sort of redundant though, because beginchat puts the cursor in the chat box and that automatically sends to the current channel), when I use the "I" key in game, it starts the chat with "/send "repeat offenders" [$name, $level]: ".

Unless for some reason the inspcombine aspect doesn't read the quotes correctly, the way I have it should work fine... However, I have since gone in and changed the binds, dropping the changes for mezz and rez insps (if they drop too frequently, I can just change em via the right click menu) and changing all the quoted, multiword insp names into the underscored format, IE "catch a breath" became catch_a_breath. If it was a matter of bind sizes, this should do the trick. Currently can't get into the game yet, but will update whether or not the changes work later on. Till then, thanks for the help, folks!

The idea with these is that by pressing 1 on the numpad, I'll pop a blue, from smallest to largest, and when holding shift and numpad 1, I'll turn any 3 insps I have into the corresponding blue, so that I can then press 1 again and use it. I have similar binds set up on the numpad for 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, for green, yellow, red, purple, orange, and break frees, respectively. However, it actually doesn't work, that way, unfortunately. I keep getting one of two error messages when hitting the "combine" bind:

or

I initially used Microcosm's binds to create this, where the inspirations were named "catch_a_breath" for example, but found just using the replace command to turn them into "catch a breath" with quotes around each instance to be more effective. So why am I getting these messages? What did I do wrong? Am I hitting some sort of cap for the bind length? If so, how would I go about tweaking it so that it works? I *could* shorten it by dropping the rez and BF from the combination bind, if that would do the trick...

Any and all advice is much appreciated!

~JP

*THIS* is why I <3 /SR!

Then how are players getting PvP drops from a 41 when they are 50? Or is this +/-3 rule for the Arena only, and not zones?

My bad, meant Nov '08. And I never got around to registering for the forums with this account till last August. Those who know what I've been through lately, know just why I wasn't able to register.

Really? That's too bad you long time vets don't get yet another highly powerful power just because you got in early... I heard about this game before beta, but I didn't have the opportunity to start playing till a few years ago, and then had my account stolen from me, so I had to start all over. The servers will probably cease to exist before I finally get up to 72 months. Hell, I've had this account since Nov 09 and I just got my 9 month badge... Yeah, I wouldn't complain too much about your fortune, some of us just aren't that lucky...