Psychic Guardian

I've had this character awhile, and decided recently to get a build ready to respec into since she still has Pool Fitness in her live build. Right now she's lv22, and my favorite of my scrappers......but I only know what good def/res numbers look like, basing a characters survival off of the Regen rate is something I don't know what I'm doing with. I looked through a few threads here before this post and it looks like I had the right guidelines; high recharge, high "heal".

I really like the extra tactics the DB set has with it's combo's, so unless I really have too I'd like to keep all the DB attacks.

I originally had her setup for Body Mastery with Focused Acc, Eye Beam, and Energy Torrent, but I saw a post about Shadow Meld and found a way to get Dark into my concept (but Ancil customization to turn it pink would still be great). Energy Torrent was the main concept power of the Body idea, but that is replaced with Soul Storm and I think I'll like it better.

I usually only slot the confuse/sleep/stun/ranged ST purples, but purples are a great source of recharge, so I'll figure out how to get the damage ones if I play her to 50(too. many. alts )

http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/downl...79FE01A4ACDDA3

Did I do anything horribly wrong with this? I realized when the build was mostly done that although the power info panel shows hardly any change in Regen% slotting heals into Integration/Instant Healing, when I opened the totals window I saw that I was missing a major opportunity for 20-30% extra regen so I fixed that.

btw this is what I call in my planning process the "first draft", the chosen powers and # of slots/IOs and sets are all what I will be using live, but the powers aren't sorted into what order they'll be taken or when slots will be given yet.

You guys were right, that build was horrible lol . I re-worked it into this one and respec'd him and he's much better now. He's got his tier3 Musculature Alpha and is incredible . He's no where near fully slotted with the IO sets, but he's great already with IOs dropping in over the current lv50+ SOs.

(Changes I made if you can't see the build;

• Removed the fighting pool
• Changed Leviathan Mastery to Power Mastery; Conserve Power, Power Build Up, Temp Invulnerability, and Total Focus
• Re-Added Flash Arrow
• Took Poison Gas Arrow(First time using it))

• I don't play buff/Debuff toons much other than this one, I wasn't expecting much from the -dmg of PGA, but it really makes a noticeable difference in the damage you take when you use that.
• Power Build Up is great for all the debuffs too, especially acid and OSA.
• I was using Leviathan before for hibernate after I ran out of end/crashed from EMP, but Conserve Power replaces that purpose well.
• Total Focus is great being 100% ranged damage, I like having at least 1 power that targets a different positional defense than all the rest. It being extreme damage for anything that lives through my arrows to get into melee is nice too

http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/downl...B1DB7F4328EBF0

Weird, this happened to me the other day, I think it was an LRSF(yup, I remember). I died at the AV fight and hit hosp, when I zoned into the hospital on the pad it was as if the pad had no base, without moving I promptly fell through the map and got stuck in that "fallllllllllllllllllllll, reset up high, falllllllllll" loop. I tried /stuck, /unloadgfx, /sync and nothing worked. Someone even exited the map and TPd me to the mission door, but my screen still showed me in the grandville hospital constantly falling. I finally turned on my Raptor Pack and hit the BM transporter, I clicked Cap I think, but I was so frustrated with the game I had wandered to the internet with the BM activation going and coming back to CoH overloaded my RAM on the pc and crashed after hitting Cap Au Diable. When I finally reloaded I was standing at the mission door in Grandville.

It was also my weirdest glitch experience...and quite annoying, because between the good 5mins I spent trying to get sync'd, and then the crash which caused me to deal with the loading time bug, I missed the entire AV fight of the last mission of the SF.

Edit: And are you guys talking about zoning from PI to Talos off the edge of the map like in Praetoria? I never knew that was possible in PI/Talos.

The weekly's incarnate content seem kinda buggy (in a good way for us ). Last week on an STF Ice Mistral dropped an Ancient Nictus Fragment for me....not an Incarnate Shard(even though that's what chat and the pop-up said)....an actual Ancient Nictus Fragment component .

I'm sure of what I was carrying too, because I had just upgraded to my tier2 on that character and it left my incarnate tab empty, I got 1 shard after, then we killed Ice Mistral, and I had 1 shard and the Nictus component, I was happy lol.

Well I'm pretty sure our super-confident OP still believes dismiss and /releasepets are the same, but I've often wondered why sometimes when I did something to make pets leave they did the flashy "go away animation" and sometimes they died. Now I know, all my MMs have a releasepets macro, but sometimes if it's a specific pet I want gone I click dismiss.

So at least someone learned something here

yeah, but he was new to the game...and the Praetorian tutorial doesn't even have a clear completion(whereas blue/redside its marked as ended when you teleport to the starting zone). I couldn't remember what the last objective was to tell him. I actually had to tell him he was done when he was level 2 and already digging around with Failed Experiments in an underground map for a resistance contact lol.

I finally got someone I know to try CoH(after 3 years of me playing lol).....Trying to explain how to setup his first MMO trial with the differentiating from NCSoft accounts to CoH game account to why he needs both was a challenge. I finally get him in, he gets his first character designed on my server, and confirms with me via IM the link to confirm the character registration; "Enter Praetoria"?

OMG lol

I had him save his costume and powers and go back to create it over thinking he was in such a rush he missed the Hero/Praetorian/Villain choice somehow....nope. He gets an error "you must first create a praetorian and complete the tutorial before making a hero/villain". WTF??

Most new players seem to have not a clue what Statesman, Lord Recluse, Emperor Cole, or Praetoria are, they want to play a superhero game. Why on Earth start them in Praetoria as a Praetorian, in neither City of Heroes or City of Villains, but City of Grey?? *and shiny. City of shiny Grey

Aside from them starting a....character in this alternate universe where they dont get to pick a side and see either of the main alignment zones (I planned on TPing my friend around to some of the nicest zones in coh to see) they also cant leave Praetoria(unless studio 55 changed this) until level 20. Trials can only level to 14...so they never see the "real game" before subscribing.

Praetoria is cool, but for existing players who have a basic knowledge of the lore and know what it is, throwing new people there by force with no information at all as to why they "cant be a hero or villain" is just dumb in my opinion.

And I get that the purpose is to make them play the tutorial, but why not any of the 3 tutorials? I made a praetorian and did the tutorial, and I remember the blueside being the most informative of all 3.


So I had my friend create his character with a name he didn't want to keep(which also screwed up his globalhandle), so he could finish the tutorial and logout and (hopefully, we haven't tried yet) re-roll it as a hero like we intended in the first place.

Thanks . I looked around for Vista Error posts and compatible cursors info and never saw that fix listed, and it's the one that worked (he left -compatiblecursors 1 in his target too). Next time he launches I'll have him try removing that flag and see if he can use the game cursor too

Anyone have a reply for this? I just tried getting a friend to join CoH, he's not the best with tech, but together we got his NCSoft master account setup, a CoH game account with the free 7day trial setup, game downloaded & patched (I think), but he gets to login, and server selection and has no cursor.

He's running Windows Vista, I forgot to ask if he knew which type of graphics card he has. But I went to paragonwiki and got the compatiblecursors tag to put in his target(and triple checked he put it after the quote with a space so it functioned) and he ran as administrator(required for DBconnection on vista too it seemed), and he still had no cursor.

Happening for me too on my laptop with ATI card (only PC to test). I'm glad it wasn't just a handful but many players, hopefully it will be fixed asap. And yes it started on launchday for the i19 strikepack for me too.

Wow that's cool, I've flown up that tower dozens of times and never realized that

Merits I think right? I heard someone say no to salvage droprates, how about recipes (guessing a no)? And hmm, this is the first doublexp since GR right? How about A-Merits?

I get way more lag at the market trying to search with autocomplete guessing what I want to say as I type each letter than Ive ever had from power/pet spam in 3 years of playing on a mediumload server.

I have never heard if that's just some issue with my PC or if it's everyone.

I bet the answer to this is as simple as "what character set does CoH use for in-game chat" I just don't know it myself. (Like ASCII vs. whatever, idk.)

Yeah I was hoping for the "fast track" too :P . Especially after Honoree 3shotted one of my best 50s .

"Sure, give me the complete Incarnate system right now, or at least unlock the alphaslot, you can force this toon off the server and lock me from using it for a little while while it runs around as an npc doing evil things in the name of the Well, I'm fine with that. I have alts "

LOL

Sorry, I had hit the button to stop bold/underlining the rest of the text from the hyperlink and it killed them all lol,

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