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Are they going to fix hybrid as a click to cast or a a true never ending toggle?

As it stands now, it's the most uneventful release in the game.

I clicked it twice due to lag and ... poof, it's not working and can't be restarted for 5 min or whatever the ungawdly timeout it has.

I can't possibly see why anyone would want to turn it off since it doesn't last forever. I guess they were hoping we would run out of endurance and be forced to recast.

so far I hate hybrid and want it fixed

on Freedom we meet in the Pocket-D. I'm not sure how many trials are going after midnight eastern ( 9pm west coast )

your best bet was if you been playing the game on two different PCs,you could just copy the files from the other PC. I play from two different PCs at times, I only update one of them and copy the files over when it's done. ( assuming I remember to do it or if it looks huge download ).

There is an NCSoft directory and a "City of Heroes" directory.

my guess is that you just need to let it download overnight.

The changes I would like to see....
1. the ability to level up inside of the base.
2. the ability to sell junk inside of the base.
3. the vault needs an overhaul.
3.1 it should work more like a regular storage rack.
3.2 it should have an account tab or a different vault where my characters from the same account can share a few items ( mats & recipes )
4. new D/A and Cim. portals

Does anyone know what setting affects the auto exit from an AE mission when the leader of the teams talks to the NPC to either finish the AE or get a new mission?

I was farming some tickets up the other day and I found that one of my characters no longer auto exits the AE mission when the leader talks to the NPC. this locked the leader from being able to get a new mission so he had to kick me. ( I know, I know, the obvious answer is don't be AFK! , but I had announced it )

so I tried it again and the same result ( I wasn't afk and did exit on my own but no auto exit )

I tried another character of mine on the same account and auto exit worked as usual.

for the life of me I can't see any difference in the settings.

I have had my credit card renewed so I have first hand knowledge.
1. all of your characters become locked, you have to unlock them using your "global unlocks" that any "free" or VIP player can use. you can unlock an existing character or create a new one.
2. IOs and ATOs or any crafted IO will no longer work for you as if your slot was empty.
3. you can't email, AH, AE or use your SG base. not sure if you can trade anything but I know that nothing you can't use can be traded/gifted with you.

when you do finally put a new credit card on, your characters still look locked but when you try to unlock them it doesn't ask you if you want to use one of your global unlocks anymore and then you can play them as usual.

last time I tried this TF a group of level 10s got together, all went well until the elite boss buzz (whatever) , everyone on the team had leveled to 13 or so by then but you are restricted to the level of the leader at the time the TF starts. so a bunch of level 10s watched in horror as the level 15 elite boss one shot us one at a time.... regroup and try it again to have 5 level 15s killing a group of 13s without much problem in the last mission. This TF is almost pointless to do if the leader isn't already 15+ at the start of the TF.

I had reached level 31 and noticed I had a few Tobias quests left and decided to finish them. the last quest being 27 so I bumped up the level to +4 so it wouldn't a total waste of time. Not sure of the quest but it had old school Banished in it. After finishing that quest I got a new one 'destroy the portal' or something like that which again had Banished but this time they were new school Banished.... AND LEVEL 40!!!!!

I mean really, where else in the game can you be pitted against a +9 while inside a regular mission? I couldn't understand why I was vaporized so quickly by them until a teammate pointed out their level.

The part of the game that annoys me the most is that all secondary effects get nerfed to one degree or another except pure damage. If you can't kill it then you would quit playing the game, so most items have very small temporary damage blocks ( no damage can be taken ) but for the most part pure DPS is not made irrelevant. Things can be resistant or complete immune to slow, stun, hold, sleep, confuse making having these powers almost worthless in some situations. Per say defense and resistance debuffs are always nice, like an army of fire/rad controllers can take on anything in the game.

that's why almost everyone will tell you to go with fire, in the long run it has the fewest nerfs to deal with.

be that as it may, Sonic has a resistance debuff that might have the smallest nerf to it's alternate affect.

on the blue side respec I can't heal the reactor core anymore.
it says I'm healing it but the health bar never moves upward.
but at the same time it seems to quit dropping after some 10-20% of health has dropped.

it's almost like it's displaying the lowest point reached in the health and it's easy for a team to waste a lot of the reactor coolant trying to heal it back up when it has in fact been healed.

The worst part of defense is defense failure.
If you are held/stunned/sleep or otherwise incapacitated your defense goes to ZERO, and let the damage begin.
Most tanks and scrappers have some type of protection against these while squishies usually don't.
Defense also has the so called soft cap where no matter how much defense you have they still have a chance to hit you. ( grrr )
I've played on teams with >=100% defense and they still take damage ( use >=3 bubble defense )
It seems to work much better with a mixture of defense and resistance, so a team of >=3 ice shields works best since you have both defense and resistance.

Thanks Codewalker, this was exactly what I needed. zero bubbles blocking my view. I've never complained about them before, but for some reason it was terrible. Maybe it was because we had more than one bubbler putting shields up at the time and the map happened to be fairly dark. I can use the macro whenever things get bad.

I know this sounds silly but all of the D/A maps are all too dark.

I've been playing a fire/bubble controller lately and all I can see is the sea foam greenish bubbles PERIOD! I'm constantly stuck up against a wall. I just did the Kadabra mission and could not for the life of me get down the tunnel with the stupid baffles everywhere. I was so frustrated I would have to say I hated the mission. I think I would have loved this mission with regular lighting, the mobs were wonderful if you could ever find them.

Can I somehow change the color of the bubbles to "invisible" by using a tailor? Maybe use an alternate costume sets while in D/A and switch back to normal for regular lighting?

I see they are in the Auction houses now.

1. are they just random drops?
2. are they constructed?

I've tried to google this and can't find anything on the subject.

I just wasted a huge amount of time on this REALLY STUPID mission.
Never has any mission asked you to exit the instance to get credit, or at least the exist they ask you to use is different that the entrance.

I just couldn't believe they wanted me to exit to get credit and like so many others I had to call a GM ( who was worthless ).

everything about this mission was a waste of time, from running through all the non-attack-able NPC to the worthless directions.

There are some days I wish I could shoot the developers. There should have been a door marker showing the objective after I had opened the files.

I'm obviously not the first person to get frustrated over this mission because the release notes talk about how they fixed it ... NOT.

I've always played heroes but I finally rolled villain spider.
I did the going rogue missions so I could go to either side.
I just got to 45 and decided to do the Dr. Khan with 4 other villains.
we all went to PI the hard way and did that mission there, but when it was finished we all figured we could Ouroboros out and use that way to get to the last mission.....

we all jumped into the Ouro at the same time and found ourselves out of a team. no more TF..

I don't get it.. was that REALLY the intention?
if it wasn't, then how can that bug still be there?
if I'm rogue, why can't I use the Ouro for both sides?

Just a side note:

today
I did 4 trials with my MM and got 4 commons.
I did 4 trials with my ice/kin controller and got 4 rares.

I still say it must be related to performance and the MM pets don't give me any credit or are dead and can't give me any credit.

Well, since my original post I've got two uncommon to dop.
I've had to convert 120 threads to get the other two uncommon I needed.
if I have to convert all threads to uncommon to eventually make a rare, I'll die of old age.

I have 10 characters decked out in T4, this is my only slacker. I pretty much HATE this character.

I was going to create a new character and was looking through the types and thought the steampunk looked cool so I just bought the steampunk bundle.

Now when I select "steampunk" I get something that doesn't even remotely look like a steampunk, it looks like a regular armored.

Any ideas what's up with that?

I'm sure this is asked before but...

I feel like the trial rewards are based off of how well you perform, either by Damage or by Heals.

I have more than one fire/kin controller and each one did really well, I had to downgrade a few VRs because I had too many. A fire/kin does great DPS and it also does great Heals, it's a win-win character for getting rewards. All other types of powers are worthless ( any kind of mez, slow, -hit, -regen , -recovery )

I'm now playing an bot/time MM and I can't get ANYTHING but commons to drop. I had originally used Vigor as my alpha slot thinking it would help my heals ( and it does ) but I have since moved over to Musculature and a T1 musculature gives be better rewards than a T3 vigor ( I have had at least one uncommon drop ).

The time manipulation other than a few heals is slow, -regen, -to hit which seem worthless in a BAF. several items are immune to slow and don't attack so -to hit is worthless. MM have few direct attacks other than the tissue paper pets, which all seem to vaporize. I really only have two good DPS attack, the Epic fire ball and the ION Judgement, both seem to get me killed.

I'm casting as fast as I can through all of my powers and all that drops is common. Compare that with my fire/kin that had to downgrade several VRs. I can't even make T3s on my MM because I don't have even have uncommon's to make T2s with or the rares to make T3s. The only T2s I have came from converting 60 threads over which I never have had to do on my blasters or fire/kin controllers.

I loved my MM while I was leveling but after a way too many trials I'm starting to hate him.

I'm talking about the power that leaves you drained of all endurance and no recovery for 10 seconds or some such nonsense. All toggles drop so if you had any defensive powers your now defenseless and more squishy than usual.

The recharge time is as long as any Judgement and it doesn't do nearly as much damage as a Judgement.

I find myself dropping these powers out of my build. Why expose myself when I can do a judgement for more damage and I can still fight on with all toggles up. I can't stand being out of endurance with all of my toggles dropped.

It just seems that blasters and defenders got the short end of the stick here. These powers need to be revisited and made so they don't drain you anymore.

the new NCSoft Launcher had a cool place to click on to see instant server status except that it lies.

from the launcher .... server status ... all servers are up and green
from the website ... server status ... all servers are down and red.

I can't log in so the website is currently correct.

It's not like the website is always right either, I have had the website say the servers are down and I can still login. The website says not to refresh the screen that it will do it automatically but it has been my experience that it doesn't update by itself.

For me the worst part is when they start an Mo and everyone quits when it fails instead of finishing it.

I was on a MoSTF and wanted the HO and couldn't care less about the badge only to have everyone just quit as soon as someone died.

I always feel like why did I waste my time joining THIS group?

This is a hero tip question.

We have a group that gets together to do hero tips missions and pretty consistently one of our group doesn't get credit for one of the 5 missions for the day. There is no apparent reason like a DC where he's out of the game.

everyone has 5 fame points and he's only got 4 fame points.

it's so consistent that we've just started doing 6 missions not matter what.

is there any game mechanic that can cause this < like someone sponging at the door because he's on the phone> as far as I know he's there for 90% of the fights but I kind of get into it and don't notice if he's there or not.

the don't seem to sell the packs anymore, I can't seem to figure out how to get some of the cool stuff they had in the packs.