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All temp powers from recipes are disabled for use inside of the trials sio why do recipes for items you can't use there drop?

The one that gets me is that the resistance and defense bonuses sound so terribly small but in real game play they are HUGE.

get a new controller to 50 with zero IOs bonuses and everything in the game heads for you first. They pass up tanks to shoot you down.

a good example is me (fresh new 50) joining a SLAM and I land next to a group that's already engaged with a tank and so is the next group over. I got blown up by squishy seeking missiles from the far way group that I wasn't even in range to shot. I didn't even get to shot once and I was dead.

All of the mobs can one shot me and if I do get a cast off I usually have about 10 shooting at me at once.

I really hate playing my ALTS in a SLAM ( nobody does regular LAM anymore ).

Alpha slotting aside...
I believe there is a damage limit multiplier given to any particular power.
some powers have dual purpose like "fire cages" also immobilize the target.

So my question is this... as a kinetic with fulcrum shift is it better to slot the the fire cages is immobilize or as damage?

I guess a better question is ... Does slotted for immobilize and a rock solid fulcrum shift have the same dps as a slotted for damage and a rock solid fulcrum shift?

I could see that if I wasn't using fulcrum **** or rarely got solid shifts that it would be better to slot for DPS.

Destory the bomb triggers!

Maelstrom is 95% invisible even with your video card at ultra settings so there is a good chance of just walking past him.

Sometimes maelstrom is in the first group you find and it's not any different than any other mission, kill him and kill until you find the triggers ( perfect mission like it should be ALWAYS )

BUT! other times you can go into an empty room and nothing is there, then clear the rest of the whole map only to find the empty room is not empty anymore... maelstrom and mob are now there. then after you've killed maelstrom the bomb triggers are usually on the other side of the map where you just were 5 minutes ago. It's like a tripple fake out.

I hate the fact that he's invisible, I hate the fact that he doesn't spawn when the mission starts.

There are few I would prefer not to do but this one is on my banned list!

maybe it was the RP equivalent of a 90210 snub or an RP facebook ignore?

Have you ever tried to get to the "Speak to Karsis" quest in the hollows?
if you are over level 15 you can't get it without doing the Ouro missions.

It takes an epic amount of effort your part.
you pretty much have to invite someone who can inviso/stealth the Atta mish and do the kill-all with small teams.

I always thought the TF went to the maximum of the TF so if you were a 33 leader on at 30-35 TF you saw 35's. That's why everyone wants the leader to be any player >= limit. Second, if you are a leader you can easily set the difficulty higher but -1 probably doesn't work.

I have one machine with NVidia and another with ATI and both work fine except that I have to use an older driver for the ATI. I'm currently still using 11.3 because everything else causes the game to randomly GPF.

I'm using a relatively cheap GTX460 on the other machine, I get acceptable performance (although it's a 1680x1050 monitor ).

my only other suggestion is a raid-0 for your system disk but that's optional.

I've found the head of Lusca is too large to for my kinetic to heal anyone or to get endurance from. I've see the same problem with the new huge Robots like the guard in LAMDA. The LAMDA robot won't give you heals or endurance from particular angles because he's larger than the radius of the heals/endurance. They need to fix that because they are 85% of what any kinetic is.

It also seems funny that my fire/kin pets don't really want to attack Lusca's head, not like they attacked the legs. ( bunch of lazy good for nothing pets! )

I was on a team of 4 fire/kins and a fire/time. We were able to take down Lusca anyway thanks to the heals from the fire/time and some destiny heals and endurance.

I don't know about the kin/elec defender. I found that with my elec/kin controller that I could drain the endurance of a lot of stuff very quickly but with an elec/elec blaster the endurance drain was so minimal that it was not worth enhancing. I suggest enhancing the DPS of the electrical side instead of enhancing the secondary affects of endurance drain. As for the kinetic I think it's pretty straight forward, 6x slots transfusion, transference & fulcrum ****. if your a kinetic worth your salt you will be passing out SB & ID all the time ( speed boost & increase density ). but SB and ID probably only need 3x slots, SB=3x endurance modification, ID=3x damage resist. Hope that helps.

You didn't specify the card type in your initial note but if you have an ATI/AMD card, look for software release 11.3, it's the only stable release that works with CoX, all other versions cause random GPFs including 11.8.

I have to admit, two major down times a week is a lot to pay for.
Bliz .. er the other game... used to have rolling restarts and I hated those too but they were only for 15 minutes. CoH has 4+ hour down times even when there isn't a major release.

AE farms don't drop purples. Trials are a very poor place to get purples because the kill rate is so low. I like to do the hero tip missions or any level 49+ mission at +0/8. Purples have a drop rate of something on the order of 1/2500 or 1/3000 kills so just kill a lot. anything 49+ can drop them.

if you can get a team of at least 4 players and run hero tip mission at +0/8 and your team as a whole should see 1-3 purples a week... assuming you do 5 hero tips per night and try to kill everything you can. ITF and LGTF are nice for this too but again, try to kill all for the drops.

I beg to differ about defense in CoH. While leveling you don't as much defense as you do at the endgame.
I've complained several times about just getting to 50 and having no IO sets on my toons. It's almost like they mobs attack you first for having the least defense. I remember having mobs ignore the tanks because they have an aggro limit and go for me first. I love AoE and play mostly controllers because of it but it's an aggro magnet with any large mob. You will have to get some kind of defense or enjoy the hospital. Leveling is not the same as the end game in my opinion. do a couple of trials at 50+0 with no IO sets and you will see what I mean.

I trying to build a base ( go figure )
I made a basic telepad and go the message "You received Basic Telepad."

my question is where did it go? how do I place it in the room. I can't find it.

maybe the leader was in such awe over your UBER cool ice powers and the masterful way you played you character... it left him incapable of thinking clearly.


maybe

LOL, my computer has dual monitors setup even though I only had one monitor connected. I was scrolling onto the invisible monitor to the right!

it's very strange, it's like my mouse scrolls off the screen to the right and doesn't to the left. I noticed a "show desktop" item on the task bar in the lower right. I'll try to disable that.

if I move my mouse to the far right side of the screen and click CoH looses focus. it's as if I have clicked on the desktop.

it doesn't happen at the top, left or bottom of the screen... just the right hand side.

THIS IS SO ANNOYING, it's amazing how often I manage to click there.

This seems new, I don't remember this last week.

Oh, I was going to mention the leadership thing, It rings all the time like it's just been turned on but it's been on the whole time.

start looking for IOs.
There are several healing IOs that give regen + recovery and if they are placed in stamina they give this all the time. Many other IOs 2x bonuses are like 1%,1.5% & 2% recovery, depends on your powers. you want 3x end-mods in your endurance.

the team status seemed a little more stable in the past couple of weeks in that it usually displays when someone is in the same zone however I've had lots of problems today.

I was having issues with the trial rewards window wouldn't close, same problem on two different PCs. later in the night a friend came over and we played together and our window stats were not in sync. a fulcrum shift would show a large number of bars or icons on my screen and none on my friends screen. The next group it would be the other way around. My electric controller showed 34 of bars or icons for that electric power that gives you more when you are near more enemies type of thing, but all the time, it never dropped below 34 even when not near anything. I tried to ping stuff like google.com or CoH and I didn't see any timing issues.

Anyone else see these kinds of problem with the latest patch?

Healers hit hardest!

I guess they are never going to fix the old team status window. Whenever your team zones to a new location someone different has their status missing.

I mean really, the only thing anyone is doing these days are incarnate trails and the league status windows are working fine.

No need to make it a priority for those few people doing hero missions, weekly strike targets and the like. They shouldn't be playing the old content anyway. Lets face it, a healer that can't keep the team alive in old content just doing AoE heals should be kicked from the team anyway.

be that as it may... is anyone looking into the fact that the team status windows are not displaying player health and that as a healer it is really hard to play without knowing when someone is dead or in need of heals, etc?