RogueDemonhunter

Make sure your map is active. click "M" if it is not. Unlike a lotta other mmo's (who I wont name to avoid post deletion hehe) this game allows you 'waypoints' like a flight sim sending you to one objective after another. Click Preator Duncan on the map and create your own waypoint. go to her and level up before bothering to do White's mission.

Go to the vendor and buy only accuracy enhancemnts for now. Slot them in your powers. Click Enhancements (an option on the power trays... lower right) click to manage them. Put in accuaracy to your attacks.

Manuvering... Not sure what you mean by that... CoH is a lot more user friendly then most. If it's physical it may be that whatever game you were used to before made strafe left and right Q and E and turn left and right A and D which I got used to right away comming from FPS games anyway... as CoH uses the default choices from such first person shooter games. Other mmo's I noticed always made me growl and grumble and go into control options and switch them to FPS/CoH Q and E turn and A and D strafe mode. If you've come fresh from them to here your fingers may be doing the opposite of what this gme wants and using "almost every other mmo's unnatural choice of turn and strafe" commands. In that case either practice it to get used to it or hop into control options screen from the menu in your upper right window and change those controls to ones your more used to.

That first darn mission. I don't recal if that's the hostage release tne to the roof via the door marked with stairs and rescue the main named hostage or if it's the rescue cops from the sewers one. Both have trick and the office one is definitly easier.

I don't recal having to escort anyone in the office building one. They are or were mercifuly "Rescue and release" style hostages... that but If it's been changed that you are then functioning with "Non combative walk my dumb npc outta this mission or to an objective" mob AI. CoH escort mobs are generaly dumb. They need you to moove slow or you risk loosing them. Also they can't see you if your stealthed... at all. Now your on a Stalker running hide and my fav character runs Dark Miasma's area coverage stealth... Guess what we both have to do just to escort them? That's right. Yah gotta turn off the offending toggle stealth power. (something I wish the De'vs would adress since doing this hurts our defences vs any ambushes on the way... although I can see why a regular joe/jane couldn't see somebody super invisible. Catch 22 I guess.) If this is the mission with the office workers and one MORE hostage on the roof... I say MORe because he wont even spawn btw unless youve rescued all his fellows below. Then I'm pretty sure you just rescue him and wail on the named foe up there an you are done. They wall the place such that you can't even fall off the roof. So that's pretty safe. If your functionaly having trouble 'moving' it's likely key choices are not what your flying fingers are used to as mentioned above.

The sewer Escort though... That's gotta be the Keystone Cop rescue from the sewers. If I recal that mission the only cop that matters for getting him out alive is the Seargent dude. I don't even recal being given a special badge or making any extra herobucks saving all of them like I did on my Dark misamist. (yay AoE heal) Also these are what I call "Battle-escorts" which may or may not mind you keeping your stealth on. I think these didn't mind but I might be wrong. It's been a while since I did them on the Dual Pistols/Dark Miasma corruptor (which started Loyal then went resistance and then Hero when out of Preatoria... also a Originaly Villian AT like your Stalker) As for the mission... It's doable but they get caught on things. Particularly that long stairway with the rail. Grr.... That is in no way your fault. Everyone has trouble with those jokers on the stairs. If it's not the Sarge... just leave them behind. There's nothing you can do for them that doesn't involve PURE LUCK.... so unless you have the patience of a yoga master just leave em.

Most importantly I would say, don't do that misson alone. It's doable but fustrating. Ghouls are a pretty rough mob for those early levels... More terrifying then Vaz zombies if you start hero side.

Mainly make the controls what you feel will suit you via switching control options and religiously use the map and waypoint system. Don't forget to set your active mission just in case some other misson thinks it's the active one and you get to your planned door to get the message "Complete your active mission" first before doing this message. hehe

Good luck and also if your new, I'd offer this... Be sure your on one of the more active servers so you will at least be someone there to answer a quick call for help/advice in Broadcast channel. The command "/whoall" will show you who is in a zone and not in a hidden state. I'd suggest Freedom as the other big server is nice but has a lot of roleplayers and some of them strict in their roleplayin'. They might not answer unless you phase it like your character is asking the question.

Cheers!

Fire/Traps Cor (be sure to alternate colors for the blasts)

Fire/Rad Cor (alter all the colors you like from primary and secondary)

Fire/Storm Cor (again color as you like)

"something flashy"/Fire Dom

Fire/Mind Manip Blaster

Fire/Traps Blaster

There's a theme here somewhere... (grins)

Good luck.

I've wanted to at least be able to chuck recipes in there for ages.

Awesome! Made my afternoon. (giggles)

Edit: Oh my... I just noticed theyre clustered arround one of the actual bombs for your mission objectives. hehe
You have to go UNDER the desk to be safe! Noobs...

They need their mezzes to match. Stun and stun or Hold and hold. Not as it is now. This one change and I would play my PB again. Stopped at mid thrities for the last 4 years. Bloody late game bosses. ;p

Add in changing one of the two early (and unessisary) two weak **** human form blasts into a glowy PB version of Air Supperiority, or at level 3-4 popping this in as a slottable INHERENT for the so called masters of flight that they don't get to access the pool... Do this as well and I will call it fair square. Do this and match the PB mezzes with each other like their Dark bretheren get as mentioned above and you solve many problems.

I think thats it.... for me.

It is grating that 'Humans" trained by Arachnos get proper and true Mez protection while Heroic More then Human Khel's do not outside of a click for Pb and the dwarves?...
Yes. Yes, frankly it is. It's also somewhat insulting if your realy into PB's and Shades... Or at least it should be. Is it going to changed? Unlikely due to Dwarf form. Will the Dwarves be given proper attack chains to make the argument, "You get mez protection in Dwarf" actualy valid ... to me and others?... Unlikely. Can live with that though.

What I hate is ZERO recourse except damage to pesky bosses and no Air sup on the AT that's supposed to have inherent flight pool thus the no access to the actual pool one.

So fix what can be fixed please Dev's withought stepping on defenders of "Keep them unnaturaly subpar to what they could be." or the make them strong crowd. Nobody I can think of in either camp from what I've read over the years would complain about matched Mezzes amoungst the PB's two powers that actualy have a Control component and inherent slottable Air Sup.

Anyway... My two cents. Peace all.

Welcome back! Glad your feeling better.

Well this sounds cool. Clearly I fail the internets yet again though. I tried uploading some pics but failed miserably.

Oh well. Be fun to see what everyone else does. hehe

A hood! Since we have no 'robinhood' style hat... a hood always looks keen on an archer. It's classy.

Have fun!

DP/Dark likely go Spirit for +recharge all the rest fit decently too boot.

I love freespecs! Actualy prefer to be able to type in /respec wherever I am and just hop into that screen. I suppose those npcs in Galaxy and St. Martial would be pretty lonely if they stacked and the bought/crafted/vetspecs went to the same file... But I wouldn't mind at all.

As for stacking freespec's for this round.... How about one pops in as a regular Freespec and the other pops in as a click to reward yourself (ala vetspec) I-19 specific badge with something amusing to put under our character names related to fitness becoming inherent?

"It's about damn time"
"Free at last"
"Gift of the Gods"
"Wooo!Hooo!"
"Moar Power!"

I dunno... My two cents. It's well known I post little and when I do it's something silly.

All the above is good but... Making Knives of Artemis painfully tip-toe through their own damn cluster-duck (not a "duck") of caltrops. That's the glory of confuse I tell yeh.

What I call an "Offender" is a defender or corruptor that have the debuff/buff sets and some blast sets like sonic that buff themselves/or their ability to kill faster nearly as much or just as much as all their allies, and then they blast the snot outa stuff.

My first toon back in the old days (2004 ish) was not an offender though with bubbles and dark blast I thought he would be when I made him... Little did I realise just how team dependant a FF/Dark before epic pools even existed would be on teaming. It could not solo anything that could bust dispersion's sleep weakness. NOTHING.

As for offenders in general... back then a Fire/anything you want with an army of imps ( I mean an ARMY, they had no limit but their own recharge back then. Kinetics was insane. They probably made the very best of offenders. EVER. lol

Today... They still exist. I was working for Geas of the Kind ones on the DP/Dark I brought outa the Preatorian arc into Paragon. Jack had spawned and there were only two of use fighting him. Me and a Rad/sonic defender who didn't seem to think he'd even have much trouble solo but said "We'll be fine." when I asked "Waiting to invite more I assume?". He said with me along it'll shave a little time of the inevitable." He had leadership so Jack's fears did bugger all... We minus regen'd him to oblivion for health recovery and and simply whittled him to dead under 10 min and the only pet brought out was dark fluffy (probably unessisary)... No shivans or Backup radios... Nothin.

We also didn't die once. Not once. I do not know the specifics of his slotting but it was astounding to behold and be a part of. I have seen footage of a Rad/sonic with shivans defeating that DE GM that spawns in Creys folley. Probably not as much damage as say a blaster or a Sonic/Rad cor but the decent Safety plus pretty damn good damage over time of this build is likely vital to such feats.

My current toon is classified a "Corruptor" is an Offender.

His... SUPER Offender! And he was playing the "Defender".

Happy hunting all.

Perhaps he was called Preatorian? It's a Roman Political possition, just a bit more saberrattle-ish sounding then Statesman. It would kinda fit then that the people would name the world after Hamidon in honor of his old hero name.

I hope you do well with it. My final Dual Pistols toon wound up being DP/Dark. I found the safety/setup then blast to your hearts content with the odd heal was the only way my feeble skills could manage not dying during the animation times involved with DP. I do adore my Kin/Sonic defender though. Being able to sleep those foes before debuffin' em/buffin' self and friends is priceless.

Have fun!

Looks fun! Yes I agree with the in the "in one single episode they did what we NEVER saw from Heroes... but wanted."

Hellz bellz, one particular Episode of Dexter left me feeling "that" one time. ;p (and that's not even super hero themed)

I think there was even an episode of Gilligan's Island that pulled off super powers with more panache, credibility and continuity then Heroes.

I gave heroes 4 years... 4 damn years. lol

(shakes fist)

What I found most annoying about my peacebringer... which stopped leveling at mid 30's as the bosses were just getting way too hairy (hard) for me and my playstyle with em (which was working just fine prior to the level range in question)... blasty/slappy/shooty/dwarfing now and then is that the knockbacks are NOT 100% reliable with all the crud that resists it and unlike his dark cous (my warshade) hes got bugger all for controlling said bosses till he can make em dead as the the PB version of "the clap" is a STUN while their version of the big overhand smashy moove in this game it's rediculously a HOLD.

Do this one thing....

Make that Overhand smashy attack's mez to match the aoe minion mez. What keeps getting my PB dead are things like Carnie bosses and anything else that can do crazy ammounts of damage AND mez or have wierd one shot wonder massive DoT attacks...

So possibilities.

Option one:

The PB clap: Change from Stun to Hold. Or leave as a stun if option A and or C below are used... with option C being a matching mez. Easiest change least game breaking for PvP is to just make it a hold and be done with it. Anything that is protected from stuns is likely protected from holds anyway... So it's still a minions only and unsuspecting/ill-prepared player with a squshie toon falling prey to it anyway. And honestly who cares weather the minions are mezed with a stun or a hold anyway, provided their mezed. The power Keeps it's current animation just give the foes that eyes blinded effect like illusions big aoe hold does... only this version just does lesser beings being mag 2... but stacks to assist with the over hand smashy on a hard target with its mag 3... one could still miss... (just sayin' but it gives a chance.) Also stays well within the realm of what we'd expect light wielding force of doom to be able to pull off.

Option 2:

Changing the big Overhand smash.

A: Make it a stun with or without an targeted aoe effect by cloning elec melee/manipulation power-sets instead of Energy. Keep the "white light PB" effects though.

B: Keep it as is but change the AoE stun as mentioned above to a hold to match the dang thing.

C: Solve two PB issues with one stone.... and right years of neglect and injustice.. lol
Make it either a mag 3 stun or hold (whatever matches the "clappy" power).... and make it do everything AIR SUPERIORITY does. Reduce it to superior damage from "extreme" if you must but seriously with stone melee having it's massive bash and "hold" power the thing keeping awesome damage wouldn't be game breaking, it would still be on a longer recharge then air sup anyway.

Also the big guttbuster punch should be 100% knock-back chance... If I put that much time tellegraphing a punch it better knockback anything that "CAN" be knocked back. ... It's not just a PB thing, I frankly believe both Crane kick (MA) and Kick from fighting, simply by their animations alone warrant higher knockback % chances. That may just be me but they feel wrong when it doesn't happen.... and looks pretty lame when your trying to show off the game to friends... just sad.

Sorry for spelling errors (I'm in the wrong browser for a spellcheck).


That is all. Thanks for reading my two cents.