Kitsune Knight

NCSoft does read these forums (the community reps), but, their job has nothing to do with solving billing issues, and this sub-forum isn't intended for asking them questions. The best they could do is tell you to contact NCSoft's support.

Also, definitely remove the account name! You definitely shouldn't post that to these public boards as it only puts the account at risk of being hacked.

It's only a 'teleport' because of game engine limitation (powers can't move you, except by repelling you or knocking you back from the caster).

It's no different than Shield Charge... according to the game engine, you're teleporting to the target... and then summoning a pet. RP-wise, you charge into the group, smashing them with your shield.

If you get the +accuracy "temp" power from DFB, you tend to hit fairly well from 1-22 (the point it expires... unless it takes you 168+ hours of play time to get to 22). It's not 95% cap (once Beginners Luck goes away), but, if being just shy of that bothers you, TOs/DOs will get you the last time bit no problem.

Yes.


It does 2/3rds the damage of Shield Charge, with a 33% longer recharge (120 seconds), and knockdown.

It's fairly good for a pool attack. For a character with little AoE damage (or would just like more), it's definitely very nice, but not amazing.

Good to hear... that means, one day far in the future, I can just randomly swap all my characters around all in one go, just to mess with everyone

Do this. It's most likely a driver issue, though (which we'll likely be able to identify from the report), I'd guess old drivers for a crappy Intel IGP (I remember someone with old, crappy Intel drivers running into this same issue a year+ ago).


Also, since no one said it, there is supposed to be a visual representation, and by 'visual representation' I mean actually seeing your character.

You could pick a combo that you think sounds interesting (or a few), then ask for feedback here how it'd do. Really, though, leveling in the low levels is pretty easy.

Really the only way you'd have any issue in the low levels is if you tried to solo with a build entirely devoted to ally-support powers, and neglected any attacks/self buffs/enemy debuffs/controls... which is fairly hard to do (you'd have to invest heavily in crappy pool powers, and even that would only get you so far before you were forced to take decent stuff).

Nope. Heroes have a version, and Villains have a version as well.


It seems to me that the Devs need to do something about Praetoria, it was fairly active at the launch of GR, but, Praetorians can only team with other Praetorians that are <20 (or people that travel to Praetoria). Heroes and Villains both have far better teaming opportunities, with a full 1-50 on their side worth of teaming opportunities in practice. It'd be a shame for all that content and such to go to waste.

Except the Epic ATs. Khelds must start in Paragon (no tutorial), and SoA must start in the Rogue Isles (also no tutorial).


If you've got a character that's stuck, but you like it, you could always go to the tailor, save the costume + powerset customizations, then reroll. You'll lose whatever badges have been accumulated, but you'll be able to level much faster, so no real progress will have been lost.

Everyone can access First Ward zone, that's nothing special He also can't team with anyone doing the contacts.

He should have Praetoria, Alignment System, and a variety of other things, but not First Ward.

From in-game, you would type: /maxinactivefps 1


If you want it to permanently lower the FPS whenever CoH is in the background, you would need to go into the settings of the NC Launcher and add the additional parameter -maxinactivefps 1 to it (in addition to enabling the option to allow multiple copies of the game to be able to run multiple copies of the game).

The processor and RAM are fine, although I think your video card might be on the sluggish end for it. I'd suggest just trying it and seeing if you get acceptable performance. If it lags/stutters, just lower stuff.

Has that door existed on prior maps with that same CoT entrance room? It seems that, after hitting the front door, you should have been given a way-point to that door... as it'd either be completely obvious, or completely obscure. I ended up running all the way back to the end room and exploring, then checking out the lava room (since there's usually a portal there as well). Time ran out for me, but I didn't die

Those are nothing special. They won't help you in detecting where your hot-spots will exist, because you won't know what usage patterns there will be (you'd need an amazing understanding of not only your server, but the client, and the user to predict that with any amount of accuracy). Even in Beta, people don't play the game the same way they do on Live (again, look at my Boresight example- even if it was just a virtual item, it illustrates well enough that results from test and results from live can be totally different), so any data gathered will be presenting a false (that doesn't mean useless) picture.

Those sorts of software are really better for regression testing than finding new and unusual issues... but, if you've limited resources, they can cause you to waste money on 'problems' that wouldn't have been a problem in practice anyways. It's almost more of an art than a science, at this point.

2004? What magical new ways to prepare for load are you talking about that are that new, that everyone hasn't been using for a long time? Stress testing is fine and dandy, but stress testing only really works the best if you know very accurately how the servers will be hit. Every time things get changed, that usage model will change, and predicting how it will change is extremely hard (I'm always reminded of when the Invention system was first added... on Test, 'Boresight' was what everyone thought was going to be a very hot item... on live? people were deleting them).

ParagonWiki is always your friend (note: WIKIA IS THE DEBIL! Seriously, their copy of PWiki is old, unmaintained, and has a history of trying to push malware).


Elec/Inv should be fairly survivable. Elec/Willpower would probably be a close alternative in the survivability department (I'm assuming you won't be investing heavily in IOs, but mostly SOs/generics).

As for max damage? Elec/SD is very good for damage (+Damage from Against All Odds, plus the Lightning Rod clone in Shield Charge), and the survivability should still be fairly decent (and very good if using set IOs).