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  1. Psychic Guardian
    Welcome back! Yup, it's always fun helping people who've been gone, this was my first MMO, and had it not been for my SG leader who taught me what an MMO was about I probably wouldn't have kept the sub. Just this morning I spent probably 2 hours talking with someone who left around i6 about all the changes after the team collapsed and we had nowhere to be; enhancements, enhancement set bonuses, procs, epic powersets, the works lol, it was fun .
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    Bacon Waffles!!!

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    *goes to find familymember about the possibility of having a waffleiron somewhere and those ingredients*. Of course I have the bacon, everyone should always have bacon stocked
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    Happy Birthday Vix !
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    10k

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    Grats Kinrad! So what level does that make your Super Speed self now ?
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    I noticed that too. I also found it kinda funny the GR Alpha and Omega are available on that slot, and possible the TechBooster combat auras, I dont remember now.
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    Something about Sharkhead makes it #1 or 2 for least stable zone. This happens occasionally on every server; Sharkhead starts mapserving everyone. I think it seems to happen like clockwork on the highest load servers when they are near the cap, but it does happen on all servers and is quite annoying lol.
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    If turning them off was a "flip of the switch" type thing to have them ready for a new purpose, maybe if that has been indefinitely been moved to the backburner they could turn them back on with their old purpose?
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    Lmao. First rule of (closed) beta testing is you aren't allowed to tell anyone you were invited
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    What month did it start for you Cy? It's been doing the Exit Lockup for me since at least summer, every. single. time. I close the game.

    I wish we could get a dev to comment on this, since it's now happening to at least a dozen board-goers, so probably 50-100 players who don't come and post about it and the forum guys are still stumped.

    I'm on XP with an ATI card too btw, but the standard XP Blue theme.
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    I almost went with poison but I didn't because of it's "Natural" origin style animations on just about all of it's powers, and I personally enjoy buffing pet secondaries over debuff. I actually started drawing up the demons/poison mid's build before deciding I wanted Thermal.

    And btw my Demons/Thermal is 16 now and has been absolutely awesome . It also motivated me to add some binds to my gamepad for teammate/pet targeting and buffing which I should've done long ago haha.
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    Well you can start with this, it sounds like you left around Issue6 (19 is on that page but not released yet). You also left shortly after City of Villains released, and the 2 are now merged and you don't have to buy both separately to make a villain. AND as of this summer you can take your hero or villain "Rogue" to the other side if you are interested in that and purchase the only purchasable expansion since you left.

    Hm, they also added (in a nutshell):
    "Time Travel"-you can use a system to lower your level and do the storyarcs of almost any contacts you outleveled

    An Ancient Roman Zone Cimerora

    I'm not sure...wings might not have been out when you joined

    POWER CUSTOMIZATION-you can now redo the coloring of the majority of the game's powers to be whatever colors you want

    Mission Architect-you can create your own missions/storyarcs and publish them to the server for the whole community to play

    Dayjobs-Where you logout each character now "matters"(if you are interested), depending on where the character logs out it earns credit towards a dayjob badge, which will have some type of perk, usually a cool power relevant to the location


    I'm sure I missed a ton of content, but these are the most memorable/easiest to find skimming the link I posted for me at least.
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    I 19

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    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    I predict that the day they do the server maintenance to add I19 to the game, there will be impatient children posting rants about it taking too long in Player Questions.
    This. I have been coming to this forum every tuesday waiting for all the server whining the day of i19s launch .

    My guesses based off the closed-beta start were 11/16 or 11/23, but yeah I guess the date near thanksgiving is out. The 9th would be nice .

    Me and a couple friends also figured the Rikti event starting this week was just a distraction to get everyone's mind off i19(Possibly the best issue evarr) for awhile, guess it didn't work haha .
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    Wow, I went and looked them up on the wiki, not only do they function as aura's, but they aren't 20' radius, but 40(!)

    http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Edict_..._Defense_Bonus

    http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Sovere...sistance_Bonus
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kiwi View Post
    The aura's are uniques and also recharge intesive sets, meaning they cannot go into your regular pets (Though there is a +Def and +Resist "Proc" in pet damage sets but they only affect the pet they are slotted into)
    oh, yeah I have the 2 procs set in 2 demon powers, should I put both the aura ones in hell on earth then?
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    cool, so I'll add the slots for steadfast's then . So with those aura's if I were to have 3 accross different powers every pet in range of me would have all 3? That's awesome . I'll look at my slotting and see if I can get the recharge where I like it and pull hasten for Thaw.
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    He has all the Demon primaries, is only missing Thaw from the secondary, then fly, hasten, assault, and 3 ancil's and is out of powers. I was thinking Assault was the biggest contender to drop for the mezprot, but does 11%dmgbuff to 6pets+myself+a team for mezprotection sound worth it? I can't tell, i'm only lv6 with this toon who's plan I'm working on so I don't know how the damage is going to get with the demons if I leave out assault. With hell on earth and the 2 debuffs having 2-5min recharges each I thought Hasten would have to be a staple, but then again i'm not to great a buildplanner.

    Oh and I read the paragonwiki on Procs and it didn't help me much....would steadfast protection's procs in the 2 ally shield clickpowers be auto or on a 2min timer for the time I hit the power on someone? I put a BotZ in Fly but thought steadfast might work better.

    And any ideas on the Hell On Earth proc question? I've asked a couple people in-game and nobody has an idea on how that works.
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    yup I kept all the whips, but as the build stands now Thaw isn't in the build which I know needs to change. I can't even get rid of the Ancil powers, just flip them around, because the RotP power I took it for requires 2 before it. I did take Assault, but I think part of the reason I haven't enjoyed MMs is the damage is low pre-50slotting and they die before they clear the aggro, then I promptly die after them. So I thought that was a good powerchoice and didn't wanna remove it .
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    yup, those sounds....eww. But I finally rolled one and it isn't too bad so far. All MM petsets generally look the same throughout the tiers, what were you expecting(Mercs in black suits, thugs in standard attire, zombies as...zombies)??

    As far as varying damage you should read the info; Fire, Ice, Toxic, and slow-based cold. And mine hasn't gotten the 2nd tier pets yet, but it looks like stone-armor (so possibly melee) too. I was very impressed when I started reading the Demon's info.
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    Nice, glad to see my new Demons/Thermal was a good choice .

    I was making it's build up in Mids last night though and was confused about the procs being put into Hell on Earth though. IIRC the procs only effect the pets that the power they are slotted into summons. But Hell on Earth is a targeted pet buff with "living hellfire" spawning(and it looks like de-spawning) on timers, so what would procs put into it affect (living hellfires, targeted pet, or both)?

    Is there any power in a Demons/Thermal/Fire that should be left out (besides what will most likely be brought up; Power of the Phoenix and Rise of the Phoenix, they are the essence of the toon's concept)?

    Edit: btw Energy the first line of your sig is so epicly accurate i'm still LMAO here after reading it
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    So the right-click works as intended sometimes with the mouse or never? If never I'd make sure rbutton was bound correctly. Also, does it happen to be a Logitech mouse? I just got a new Logitech Performance MX the end of september and the middlebutton doesn't "grab" the cam very well, while holding the button down it stops the camera control occassionally, not a CoH problem, just the mouse. So if you have a logitech that could be it. I mapped an extra button on my mouse as middleclick for CoH to solve the problem.
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    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MadCity View Post
    Same here ...Hardly ever ends without Task Manager "End Task". Been talking to Tech support about my issues with this, Costume lock-ups and player character "info" lock-ups. Really making CoX frustrating right now.
    I just read your response to the other thread Mad (but responding to this part of the problem so thought i'd post it here), it has been happening since GR hit for me too, I wonder what they broke haha.

    I still haven't tried using those tools to post my PC data, but with everyone who's responded here having issues I don't think it'd do much good unless at least 2 of us posted them to compare. But as I've said around my posts (for when you do see hijackthis/whatever), my drivers are ancient, but the only newer ones were 3rd party and just messed with the PC, they didn't fix anything so I rolled back.

    (I don't fully understand how drivers for a gfx card can change either, the way I've understood it, a driver gives a cpu instructions on what your new device you plugged in is for so it knows what to do with it. Why do GFX cards constantly need new ones for the same card? And btw I'm on windows XP not up to date with the service packs, I think that might've been why I couldn't use the official new drivers idr. But when I got this laptop in '05 a week after I got all my stuff loaded onto it automatic updates ran and corrupted my OS installing the stupid servicepack and I had to re-install it and start over, so I turned off automatic updates and all the alarms that it is turned off and have no intentions of doing that ever again lol.)
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    Mine does this too and this forum told me it was the card's problem with coh and to update drivers (mine are from like '07 lol).

    Unfortunately for me I have some strange GFX Card and the only drivers available were some 3rd party thing, I installed them and saw no change in coh, but the computer was being annoying from it, so I rolled back.
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    >.> Did this stem from me challenging you last week when I caught you on like 4? lmao. I have a computer setup i'm planning on (hopefully) getting, it's pretty insane for $1500, and the CoH tech board guys held my hand designing it the whole way so it's not gonna be crap lol .

    It has 2 460s, a quadcore black(they said it's faster than all the hexcore options in my configurator) and an SSD(no monitor though). If anybody wants to see it/the rest of the specs I'll post the active link.

    BBT catching your 1girl armies running around is awesome lol, seeing your whole cluster of self-teammates zoom by is almost as exciting as hearing a dev is gonna be signing in on their "work" name on our server .

    PS: the rainbow bonfire is aweeeesommmeeee O.O
    and LOL at the badgetitles haha
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    I don't have any Razer products myself, but I've heard about it's special mousetray feature with CoH. From what you've said, I would try deleting the mousetray(if possible) and having your Archery powers in tray 1 for the keyboard, and "customizing" the 1-0 buttons of the Razer to be the corresponding key but with alt in front for the TA powers in the 2nd tray.

    BTW nice powersets, mine is lv46 . When I respec I'm moving him from Leviathan Mastery Shark Skin&Hibernate to Power Mastery with Power Build Up (which ALSO boosts your TA secondary effects), Temp Invulnerability, Force of Nature and possibly Total Focus for a melee power.
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    It sounds like the OP completely missed "Ultra Mode". It added several graphics improvements, yes they can be "turned off", but implementing them raised the bar of requirements even when they are turned off. Unfortunately it was not done in an afternoon on a whim and they can just add a button to give us the old system back, it was so major it was given it's own issue for release and from the sounds of it things were changed, and there's no going back.

    Btw guys I know exactly what you mean by the "gaming" gimmick, I looked at some just to compare my custom design to pre-builts earlier today.... I remember all the data from the graphicscard hierarchy chart that was given to me here, 9/10 of them would struggle to play coh on recommended, let alone turn on UM. A few were even integrated intel chips Lol.

    I clicked this thread thinking it was a suggestion for a profiles feature in the graphics tab, I've seen that requested before in the suggestions forum, and I read an interview from a panel this year and i'm 90% sure it was brought up and the interviewer in the room commented in his article "a dev took out their PDA and made a note".