Radubadu

First my history with CoX, I started playing a long time ago quit after a month and came back four months ago and can't stop playing. Unfortunately the supergroup a friend of mine got me into when I started the first time has become inactive (he doesn't even play anymore really).

I've checked out a couple SGs in game with different toons and have simply found them not for me for various reasons. Ultimately I'd like to find a SG that's active, is RP friendly but not required (I don't do it but I enjoy watching others who do) and doesn't have any strict rules or meetings. I understand rules and meetings to a point but some SG leaders act as if it should be as important as my job. "Mandatory meeting at such and such time"... this is a game, there should be nothing mandatory about it.

I usually form my own teams for this very reason but oddly as soon as I finished the team I was on last night I received a message asking if I wanted to join another. I was going to go to bed but I thought I'd take advantage of not being the leader for once lol.

Had a team last night that reminded me of this thread. I was running on my tank on the most god awful arachnos mission ever. I was running +2 which is usually not a problem but last night I died on my tank more times than in his previous 32 lvls. We actually got to a point where there were so many baddies in one room that we had to have our blasters sniping to avoid another wipe, oddly it was fun.

Anyway, glad things are looking better Hube, as far as starting your own team, this is what I usually end up doing and while it can be tedious it gives you the opportunity to set any kind of "rules" that you want and as the tank most will usually listen. You'll still have an overzealous blaster or scrapper run up and get killed from time to time (admittedly I've been guilty of this on my blaster) but usually they're very accepting that it was their own aggression that got them killed, and I have yet to have one blame me for not holding aggro or a controller/defender for not healing.

Also, while I do appreciate your preference to tactics... the next time you feel like "steamrolling" try an 8 man team of 2 tanks 4 blasters and 2 defenders/trollers. While there's no perfect team for anything IMO, this make up kills things so fast I almost felt like a spectator as the tank. Having also run the same make up with my blaster... well... I like inferno... a LOT.

Thanks Miladys! I didn't know about the TDs lack of functionality while mezzed.

This is my first /dev blaster so I'm sure I'll find out all kinds of stuff I didn't know before lol.

Hube your biggest disadvantage (not your fault) is that you're playing a tank which can make the run and gun approach even more frustrating if that's not what you're into. Just keep one thing in mind it's probably more organized than you realize... just a much faster pace. I say that because I was thinking the same thing just the other day playing my tank, "this should be more organized, if that scrapper dies as he continues to charge in it's not my fault" etc. however...

I was playing my tank on an 8 person team and I was the only tank. It looked like utter chaos... then I realized looking up at my buffs specifically Rise to the Challenge that all or at least most of the mobs are on me... the rest are held or on the brink of death. Had I not been there, the over zealous scrapper would be dead as would a couple others I'm sure as I usually keep my difficulty at at least +2 for teams. On the other hand if the controllers hadn't been doing their controlly stuff I'd probably have died or someone would have.

Remember difficulty can be cranked if necessary the problem is that you're playing a game that a lot of people are already comfortable with so, knowing their role they charge in and do it and all is well. This kinda reiterates Seldom's point.

I would also say even if RPing isn't your thing you may want to consider Virtue for your server if you're not already on it... given that it's the unofficial RPing server you're more likely to find people that are ok with tactics as opposed to "I WANNA LVL NAOH!"

If you want to run with someone who appreciates a tanks desire to be the first one in look me up lol my global is @radubadu and I'm on most evenings on Virtue

sweet thanks!

ok... while I appreciate the effort of your post I'm at work... and after reading it my brain is officially ready to shut down lol

So basically, I will want to slot targetting drone for +to hit and still have one +acc in everything else?

I'm sure this has been asked before but I couldn't find a thread on it.

If you slot a cone ability (i.e. fire breath) with a range increase enhancement does it increase the width of the cone or just the length?

So I made a rad/dev blaster last night and just screwing around in the tutorial with him I think I'll really enjoy it but I have a question about /dev. Does targetting drone make enough of a difference to make slotting for accuracy somewhat obsolete? or does it at least give you a little more freedom when slotting your primary if your torn between accuracy and damage or recharge reduction?

Sounds like you got your issue resolved but I wanted to chime in that if you look to buy a new laptop almost any that you would buy now would run CoH some will look/run better than others but it will run. It runs on mine that I paid $350 new for two years ago and the first pc I installed it on is now 9 years old and while I don't use it now... it runs it fine.

However, if you're picky about having graphics cranked I'd go ahead and get a nice gaming laptop if budget isn't an issue.

I do wish that there were vehicles but as someone pointed out it would basically be for RPing. While I'm not heavily into RPing I have a hard time justifying how may "natural" WP/SS tanker can jump hundreds of yards or free fall from a building taking almost no damage.

I've probably seen more threads pointing out "we don't know" than people asking questions... yet they still ask them. Correct me if I'm wrong but the only thing that is certain is that we will be able to switch sides but the particulars of doing so are very much unknown.

Thanks Sarrate, I'm hoping to hit 27 tonight so I know where my slots are going. The lack of AoE is another reason I was considering hand clap I guess just to have for the rare situations that it would come in handy until I get foot stomp.

I'll also have to try running ahead too... I know the group I was in last night could not have handled that... I was a sliver away from dying too many times to leave the group behind and charge into a pack by myself that's for sure lol.

I agree that he should stop listening... but at the same time there is still nothing wrong with suggesting he try a different server.

But you inadvertantly bring up another interesting point... if he's the only one reporting such issues, maybe it's not the people he's playing with...

Thanks for the input! I may try Hand Clap just because while situational it seems like it could come in handy (and I have to imagine it's fun to use). I'll def see about a recharge reduction in taunt too.