Max Geiger

I have similar problems running a Lambda. When I'm on a /shield toon, and I try to use shield charge on groups near the containtment chambers, sometimes all I get is a red circle. I move and move and eventually have to use other powers because the damned thing won't cycle active. Sometimes it happens every time I try to use it, others its just occasionally, but it's bloody frustrating when you want to knock over everything in sight and you don't even move, and it's wasting build up. ¬_¬

Right!
I five slotted doctored wounds, removed all the slots from weave and dual slotted LOTG. The fifth LOTG +rech is in overload. Fiddled with Eviscerate but couldn't make up enough neg def to make it worthwhile, so I left the oblits in there.

As for getting expensive, I've got the most of geddon and heca's built up in storage, so not really much of an issue there. 5 slotted slash with the heca's and the achilles heal.

I do get the packs, and will use the boosters on the hasten +rech's, as well as the /rech's on energize for the boost that'll give.

Revised edition number 3!

Thanks Moonlighter, at least I know that at 50 I shouldn't have problems! For now (he's only 35 at the minute) it's a bit of a slog having to forsake def insps for end insps, but as long as I take it slow and steady its generally not too brutal unless im facing arachnos, or carnies.

I've been playing around in MIDS to get a decent build for a new brute I'm working on, trying to get the best figures possible. I've made about a dozen varied builds, but this one seems to be the best I've made so far in terms of defence.
I've not included any of the accolades or incarnate powers as yet, as I want to see how it will fare at 50 without any of that stuff, at least to start.
Generally enjoying the character, only downside is that end drain tends to cripple me more than most of my toons, as it's already a fairly end-heavy combination.
Anyways. Enough rambling! If you could pick through and have a look and let me know what you think, I'd greatly appreciate it
Ta!
TessL'Coil

This.

So I've built myself a fairly competent little ice/fire dom. But I don't know whether the Ice patron is best (currently included in build) as it has the frozen armor and hoarfrost, or whether to swap it out for the extra damage the fire patrons offers.
Included is the current build.

Apologies, but bump for something more recent! I'm rebuilding my DM/SD brute, and im looking for someone who is using something other than a legacy fitness build

Anyone got links to DM/SD for a brute? Struggling to make heads or tails of it in mids, so some guidelines would be useful!

Hi!
Thanks for the feedback, just to clarify, this toon has legacy fitness in the build, as that was when it was made. I just never got around to improving the build, as I couldn't work out what to do with it. Hence posting it here! I'll give those power suggestions a look-see, see if I can work them into my build, but anyone who can actually suggest a build, or throw some code my way, i'd appreciate their help too!

EDIT: I've attached a new build with some improvements. A strange thing to note. The legacy build im currently running, some of the numbers seem to be wildly inaccurate, or im just massively missing something? For example. The legacy build is showing my damage bonus as +275.5%. my recharge is showing (with hasten) at 221.25%.
I've gone over everything, and I cannot for the life of me work out where the hell MIDS is pulling those numbers from!
Anyways. Here is my most recent attempt to create something useful out of this strange combination (Please note - only softcapped defence with the assistance of the Nerve Alpha slot turned on - wanted to save space for other things to go into the build)
Sorry for the length of this!

Hello!
My main brute has a fitness legacy build, so im struggling to rebuild him into something worthwhile.
A friend suggested throwing vengeance from leadership in there, but i don't like having to constantly guzzle purples or rely on a dead teammate to get the defence I need.
I'll attempt to post the coding in here, any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
edit: I don't really use OWTS either. I hate the crash.

I know that this downtime is to solve problems, but after thursday I'm probably not going to be on for the better part of 2-4 weeks. So this head start thing was going to be a lot of fun before I have to go away. Now, I can't even access the game to play it properly!

With companies like my phone company, if the service is unavailable to play for X days, they give you a refund worth X days or time in lieu. I'm assuming the same isn't done here?

Been DBservered for what, 15 minutes now? sad face.

I agree wholeheartedly with the OP and 99% of the posters here. GM's are supposed to be a threat, an immediate and incredibly dangerous to the local populous threat. And it just isnt there.
Yesterday, I arranged a team to take down Deathsurge, (just missed scrappy) and then Caleb. And whilst Caleb is easy to spawn, the guy is just a pain in the backside to find! And if you haven't got someone on the team with a -fly toggle, there's every possibility that he will fly away and you wont be able to catch him again. If you assume that a team of 8 (with mixed levels and mixed AT's) takes between 4 and say 15 minutes (depending on how low those levels actually are) to take down something like Caleb, 2 merits and a badge aren't exactly worth it. Some of the shorter ouro mishes take 25 minutes and fork out 8+ merits? It's hardly fair that you can solo those if you've got an awesome build, whereas a team of 8 who are doing what theyre meant to by teaming get shafted over on merits, infamy, and rewards.

Please note that I'm only using redside GM's as an example because I don't play blue, it goes against my moral code lol.

A definite hike in reward is needed, whether it be more merits, a hell of a lot more infamy, a badge after a series of defeats which then leads to an accolade, or even as someone suggested, a chance of a decent recipe rather than just some junky thing that sells for nothing and is rarely used, would be a pleasant change.

The arachnos flier in GV has got to be joint tied with Caleb for levels of irritation though. Unless you're in zone at the time it spawns, with a full team of 8 with access to flight powers, there's relatively little chance you're going to kill it with a pick-up-group. It needs attention at some point I think. The wiki page suggests that it spawns every 2-8 hours, and at dusk, but I think i've only ever seen it in channel announcements four or five times in a year. and I play pretty much every day for several hours at a time, which is more than enough days in GV!

Of course with GR and i18 coming out, and hopefully i19 shortly after, all the devs are going to be super busy. It'd just be nice to know that there is a reason for hunting GM's rather than you're bored and there happen to be a lot of people on newish toons.

TL;DR
More rewards, more GMs redside, and more motivation for getting them beaten down please devs!

Fairly new to the forums, and I've just been browsing around, and one thing I'm noticing is that people love to complain. A lot. And that's natural for people to want to do.
I personally have only been here a year or so. I'm still getting the hang of sorting out builds for toons, and I'm still getting the hang of actually PLAYING toons.
My first brute is DM/Shield. And I absolutely LOVE shield charge. It's disgustingly powerful, means I can do a fair amount of damage to most things in most mobs, and that's what I like. I've had a rough day, I want to come online, and I want to beat the living tar out of those pixels! But I also understand why the devs might wish to rebalance something like that. It really does do a helluva lot of damage when you're all buffed up with gods know what.
As much as rebalancing might suck, I think the devs have the right idea. I know we're the ones that play the game, but think about it. It's THEIR game. They made it, they tweak it, they pour their working lives into this game, all in the interest of a) making money (who wouldnt want to make money by attracting more subscribers or keeping the ones they have) and b) making it a fun and interesting gaming experience for us all.
Sure, I'd love shield charge to stay the way it is. I LOVE slamming into a group of critters and watching their health bars drop away. But at the end of the day, I understand that these changes need to be made to justify the way powersets work out.

What it all boils down to, for me, is that not everyone here is a powergamer out to squeeze every last percentage out of the game.
Some of us are just here to have fun, and kill things, and have a chuckle at the bodies flying left and right. That's me. I just want to have fun. If everything gets tweaked so its less damaging, less effective, and harder to play, then all the hours people pour into their toons means more reworks for even MORE money (come on, respec recipes are like diamonds in real life. ridiculously expensive and rare as hell!) and ultimately, less enjoyment for the casual "I just want to hurt things" gamer. I honestly dont have the time, effort, and inclination to pour that much time into planning a character, when all i want to do is relax and not worry about where I'm going to get 1.2 billion infamy from to get my character the way i want him. And believe me, I do worry about it.

It's hard enough getting most toons to the point where theyre even half effective unless you slot powers JUST right. There's very little in the way of leeway between "get smooshed" and "smooshing everything," you know? The difference of one slot in a power with a set of enhancements in it can make a hell of a lot of difference to whether you die, or survive. I hate the fact that I have to spend hours in something like MIDS hero planner trying to get that ever distant soft cap, and then things like blessing of the zephyr get nerfed (which i wasnt even aware of until it happened) and bam. my soft cap disappears. only just, but there it is. I know people said it was coming for a long time, but I spent a lot of time and effort on my build, and now that's gone, I've had to rework the entire thing and that took even longer! (sorry, mini rant there)

Having said all that: Please, don't nerf it too much. I dont want to have to rebuild a toon that I've spent an awful lot of hours and infamy on! If you must take a swing with that lovely nerf bat... swing gently?
Just my two cents, for what its worth.

still, was good fun. It was also nice to see so many people in Cap at once all banding together... that horde towards midnighters club was a bit brutal, and contending with deathsurge as well, but fun nonetheless

Hi everyone,
Ive just upgraded overnight to windows 7, after my previous harddrive managed to scramble itself beyond repair. it's a brand new harddrive in there, so theres virtually nothing installed except the windows stuff and CoH/V.
When I start up the game, the gamma on the splash seems to be far too bright, and changing the monitor brightness down to 0 didnt affect it. I tried altering the gamma in-game, however that just made everything else really dark. even the icons and my characters faces are washed out and almost glowing white. Also, the text in game seems fuzzy and washed slightly, whereas before everything was crisp. I've gone through the text tuning process on here since i tried playing the game, and it hasnt improved it at all. Finally, when I tried to change the graphics from recommended to high (just to see it lookin pretty) and it crashed out.
All my drivers are up to date, and the game worked fine on winxp for 3+ months, with the same drivers. I've checked using HMonitor, and im not overheating excessively. it's not the coolest rig in the world, but it works lol.
I'm posting a copy of the CoH Helper file, and also hijack this, in the hope that someone can tell me whats going on.
---System information gathered by CoH Helper version 0.1.1.8---

DxDiag gathered at December 25, 2009 19:46 (+00:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_rtm.090713-1255)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Central Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+ (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 2048MB
.Net Memory Report: 1277MB out of 2046MB available
Page File: 3018MB (1074MB currently in use)
C Drive: (SAMSUNG HD502IJ SCSI Disk Device) 431667MB out of 476929MB (90%) free
D Drive: (SAMSUNG HD161HJ SCSI Disk Device) 23182MB out of 42617MB (54%) free
E Drive: (SAMSUNG HD161HJ SCSI Disk Device) 15507MB out of 39997MB (38%) free
F Drive: (SAMSUNG HD161HJ SCSI Disk Device) 15886MB out of 40005MB (39%) free
G Drive: (SAMSUNG HD161HJ SCSI Disk Device) 29905MB out of 29996MB (99%) free
H Drive: (TSSTcorp CD/DVDW SH-S182D ATA Device) zero-size drive
I Drive: (IRYT KTEV0X278 SCSI CdRom Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7600.16385 (64-bit version)

Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.

No problems found.

No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.

Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM v1.1)
Manufacturer / Chip: NVIDIA / GeForce 8500 GT
Video Memory: 1269 MB
Driver Version: 8.15.11.8593
Driver Date: 01/01/0001 00:00:00
Driver Language: English

Sound Device Description: Speakers (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 01/01/0001 00:00:00

Sound Device Description: Digital Audio (S/PDIF) (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 01/01/0001 00:00:00

Sound Device Description: Headphones (High Definition Audio Device)
Driver File: HdAudio.sys
Driver Version: 6.01.7600.16385
Driver Date: 01/01/0001 00:00:00


WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: M2N-SLI DELUXE
Motherboard Version: 1.XX
BIOS Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS Name: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
BIOS Version: HPQOEM - 42302e31
BIOS Release: 20080331000000.000000+000

Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1280x1024
3D Resolution: 1280x1024 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: No

Physics Quality: None
Maximum Particles: 100
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No

Anti-aliasing: None
Anisotropic Filtering: None
Texture LOD Bias: Crisp
Water Effects: None
Bloom: 1.000 (turned off)
Depth of Field Enabled: No
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: No
Shader Detail: Lowest

World Texture Level: Low
Character Texture Level: Medium
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 0.500
Entity Detail Level: 0.500
Shadows Enabled: No
Gamma Correction: 0.952
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: No
Suppression of Extra Player FX Enabled: No
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: Yes
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes

Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600

Show Advanced Graphics Options: No
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.000
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: 1600.20091102.9T4
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes

Mod files in the Data directory
No modifications found




Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2
Scan saved at 19:46:54, on 25/12/2009
Platform: Unknown Windows (WinNT 6.01.3504)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.7600.16385)
Boot mode: Normal

Running processes:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\GoogleToolbarNo tifier.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp\winampa.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Contacts\wlcomm.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Hmonitor\hmonitor.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Users\Mike\Downloads\HijackThis.exe

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R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,SearchAssistant =
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search,CustomizeSearch =
R0 - HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Local Page = C:\Windows\SysWOW64\blank.htm
R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar,LinksFolderName =
F2 - REG:system.ini: UserInit=userinit.exe
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {5C255C8A-E604-49b4-9D64-90988571CECB} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Windows Live Sign-in Helper - {9030D464-4C02-4ABF-8ECC-5164760863C6} - C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live\WindowsLiveLogin.dll
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Helper - {AA58ED58-01DD-4d91-8333-CF10577473F7} - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google Toolbar\GoogleToolbar_32.dll
O2 - BHO: Google Toolbar Notifier BHO - {AF69DE43-7D58-4638-B6FA-CE66B5AD205D} - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\5.4.4525.1752\s wg.dll
O3 - Toolbar: Google Toolbar - {2318C2B1-4965-11d4-9B18-009027A5CD4F} - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google Toolbar\GoogleToolbar_32.dll
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O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [msnmsgr] "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe" /background
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Sony Ericsson PC Suite] "C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony Ericsson\Sony Ericsson PC Suite\SEPCSuite.exe" /systray /nologon
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\Run: [Sidebar] %ProgramFiles%\Windows Sidebar\Sidebar.exe /autoRun (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-19\..\RunOnce: [mctadmin] C:\Windows\System32\mctadmin.exe (User 'LOCAL SERVICE')
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O4 - HKUS\S-1-5-20\..\RunOnce: [mctadmin] C:\Windows\System32\mctadmin.exe (User 'NETWORK SERVICE')
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O9 - Extra button: Blog This - {219C3416-8CB2-491a-A3C7-D9FCDDC9D600} - C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Writer\WriterBrowserExtension.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: &Blog This in Windows Live Writer - {219C3416-8CB2-491a-A3C7-D9FCDDC9D600} - C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Writer\WriterBrowserExtension.dll
O13 - Gopher Prefix:
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O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\Alg.exe,-112 (ALG) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\System32\alg.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\efssvc.dll,-100 (EFS) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\System32\lsass.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\fxsresm.dll,-118 (Fax) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\fxssvc.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: Google Software Updater (gusvc) - Google - C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe
O23 - Service: @keyiso.dll,-100 (KeyIso) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @comres.dll,-2797 (MSDTC) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\System32\msdtc.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\System32\netlogon.dll,-102 (Netlogon) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: Sony Ericsson OMSI download service (OMSI download service) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony Ericsson\Sony Ericsson PC Suite\SupServ.exe
O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\psbase.dll,-300 (ProtectedStorage) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\Locator.exe,-2 (RpcLocator) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\locator.exe (file missing)
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O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\spoolsv.exe,-1 (Spooler) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\System32\spoolsv.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\sppsvc.exe,-101 (sppsvc) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\sppsvc.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\ui0detect.exe,-101 (UI0Detect) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\UI0Detect.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\vaultsvc.dll,-1003 (VaultSvc) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\lsass.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%SystemRoot%\system32\vds.exe,-100 (vds) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\System32\vds.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\vssvc.exe,-102 (VSS) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\vssvc.exe (file missing)
O23 - Service: @%systemroot%\system32\wbengine.exe,-104 (wbengine) - Unknown owner - C:\Windows\system32\wbengine.exe (file missing)
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End of file - 6818 bytes

My apologies for the length of this, I know a lot of people are having similar problems with windows 7, however every persons rig is unique, so... i thought the info might help.

If theres one this sunday, I might be able to make it along. A few people from Inherent Chaos have expressed an interest, is it still on?