Kitsune Knight

City of Data agrees with you (and so do I ).

Extra tip: You don't need notepad open, just ctrl+a, ctrl+c (cmd+a, cmd+c on a mac, IIRC)... ctrl+a selects the full contents of the text edit, ctrl+c copies! You can pull off this super sekret ninja technique in a billionth of a second, due to the close proximity of the a and c keys!

It's in your system tray? That means it's already running! Check using alt tab/minimizing all windows individually to make sure it's not actually open in the background. If you've installed the beta client, it'll first pop up a dialog (that doesn't make a task bar entry!) telling you it's about to bring up the UAC prompt (assuming you don't manually run it as Administrator- but you shouldn't), and it'll generally pop that up behind everything else!

You should be able to just alt-tab to it. It's still annoying as hell, and just yet another reason that the NC Launcher is a horrible piece of crap (I've slowly grown to hate it).

Paragon... please tell NCSoft that their crappy launcher is pissing off your playerbase!

If there's an announce out there, there's a malware that does it. Remember to always keep your OS, browser, and plugins up to date

Those don't have the potential to drastically cut down the amount of time people invest in playing the game. Being able to basically buy your way to 50 on a new powerset, I'd hazard, would result in many people spending a lot less time playing (which will translate into less money for NCSoft). The question is, does the shortening of play time and the corresponding less of incoming from that exceed the income made from lessing the powerset/AT respec (I'd say probably).

They changed this quite a number of issues back. It was partly changed because +recharge would screw over some of the pets AIs!

You can use the Wisp aura at character creation. I've many <30 characters with it (including some <5s!)

Once the in-game story is back up we'll be able to tell definitively one way or the other!

According to the Announcements, this happened on the 4th, which is well before I made the last character with it... I thought it was only for people that hadn't unlocked it at all.

That seems like a definite possibility! It's showing as down for me also (well, it gives me the option to buy new slots, but not redeem the slot I still have to place!). Hopefully it'll be back once the store is up.

Sidenote: And PVP IOs.

There's still a number of good maps in PI for farming. Not as good, but quite good none the less (and, generally, much more forgiving of the build... ambush farms will be a pain with SOs!). BM is always a classic

How do you know that those sets are more fun? What if you changed to /DA or /SR and suddenly realized... hey now, this set is EVEN WORSE! Time to raise it to two switches? And then when the next one still sucks? Just three, right? You should be able to see where I'm going with this.

Also, what's stopping you from rerolling? You don't like MA/Regen? Just change it! Don't want to delete it? Make a new character! There are already ways you can deal with the problem. You could try arguing that those solutions aren't good enough, but right now you're not, you don't address them at all.

Because the powerset is considered a fundamental aspect of the character. Because the Devs don't like the idea of you having a 50 with zero experience with it. Because the Devs don't want you to start with a more early-blooming set, then respec into a late-blooming set (something they also try to address via balance). Because the Devs don't want a level 50 of a new powerset/AT 5 minutes after an issue goes live (though, you can do it in a day from PLing if you try hard enough...). Take your pick, or come up with many more!

The idea sort of leaves a bad taste in my mouth... what if Batman suddenly could shoot beams from his eyes and read peoples minds, but lost his martial arts/gadgets/everything that makes him batman (then again, I'm sure some crappy alternate universe one has done that... but I don't like comics anyways ). CoH has always encouraged alting, so the idea of just 'respecing' a character into a totally different build would sort of go against that... Freem accounts in Freedom will have less space to alt without paying anything, but VIPs will have even more space.

I'd only support the idea of respecing to different 'ATs' if it was more so like how VEATs work. Not that you're really changing your 'AT'/'powersets', but that you change to a different emphasis (like I believe the new Starwars MMO allows each 'class' to spec out in different ways... such as any to be a tank/healer/etc... although CoH is good at ignoring the whole holy trinity thing anyways).


I think alting is the solution to all of life's problems

He could have meant purposes that were intense!