RunAwayJack

Yay, managed to get it working on Linux. Except that now I keep crashing. I'm standing inside Rikti War Zone between the two big robots guarding the entrance to Vanguard. Every time the guns above shoot wine crashes. :-(

I can't seem to get this working, but having another go. Misread at least one thing the first time around.

I thought it was either me moving City of Heroes do another drive (only 10 gig on the SSD c-drive!), or maybe it was the patch, but whatever the case moving things back to c: didn't help. Re-installing the bloody game to C: didn't help, now I'm trying to re-install to D:. I only seem to play on the weekends now, so it saddens me to think that I might have to abandon the game and get a life. O.O

Edit: For some reason my firewall started blocking my game. I changed NCSoftLauncher.exe to trusted as well as CohUpdater.exe and CityofHeroes.exe, just to be safe. Now I'm playing. Yay, take that life!

I'm surprised search only turned up one thread mentioning this show. Just watched the premier and loved it, though I'm still not sure what the son's power is.

Here's to hoping the rest of the season isn't downhill.

Oh the teases! I saw 4 and then 8 (or so) of the servers up, and got to the character screen. Then I went back a step to see if my regular server was back up and they were all grey! :-(

I confess, the servers being greyed out is my fault. I logged in/restarted 5 times, did a mish and saw a TF advertised, logged out and did it all again just to find that they started the TF without me.

So I tore down the servers. Take that, you TF-starting-without-me-people! ;-)

Dunno, but it happened to me and the slots came back in a day or so

Blah, no way to delete a thread? Finally finished the Sewer Trial, did the search I had no time for, and saw this was mentioned (a couple million times already). Thus, deleting the content.

Hello all,

I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out the effects of a Performance Shifter +Endurance proc in an elec attack. My search for it doesn't turn up recent attempts to slot it in attacks, and my personal experience with it shows that it gives enemies endurance.

Is the combat log wrong, or is it really giving them endurance instead of me? If so, that makes me wonder what'd happen if I slotted the heal and build up proc's!

I've been meaning to make one of those. I just wish they'd change the Gun Drone to a lower/non-existant interrupt.

Oh, I'm not suggesting a change to any existing powers or powersets. I'd just prefer future powersets do more than just give yet another Energy Drain or conserve Power, nice as those are.

Though I do think Electricity armour should get the same +health benefits as Energy Aura. The two sets have some of the same problems, but I suppose Elec at least covers Toxic and psi damage. Anyway, that's for a different thread, if any, for people to mock. :P

Think of it in terms of snipes and Nukes. They're all relatively the same. Certain trade-offs. Some do less damage because they're ranged, some (fire) have extra damage as their side effect, while others will drain endurance. Those powersets aren't equal to each other, yet powers that are of the same sort are pretty much balanced by certain rules, even if the powersets don't all seem terribly well balanced compared to each other

Not the same thing.

Cost of the click would be your hit points, not your endurance.

Think of how Oppressive Gloom charges you hit points instead of extra endurance to stun your enemies, or how Energy Transfer costs you hit points to do more damage. Or, Absorb Pain, I suppose.

This would be purely an Endurance for Health sort of thing. I've had occasions when I'd gladly make the trade.

You compare different sets and their strengths/weaknesses (all of which are irrelevant during the resurrection), and that's what each of these rezzes have, except for ONE. Regeneration, and by extension, the Peacebringer copycat.

I'm fine with variations to a power, but not when another powerset takes the identical power, with the identical cost, and then takes away the downsides, and adds bonuses to it. And by that, I'm referring to Willpower having no apparent Immobilization (a downside of Regen's revive), while having greater health and multiple beneficial side-effects.

In short, it has the exact same power as Regen, with no downsides, and plenty of extras. If it's going to have that, then there should be less heal to it, or a longer recharge. That, or regen's should be given something to make it comparable in power, but not in effect.

Would you object if it was an attack? Identical end cost and recharge, but one does 10% more damage, and has 3 hard-hitting beneficial side-effects, while the other one has none?

Okay, so there's Speedboost, that boosts recovery, and Accelerate Metabolism, that does that to a lesser degree as an aoe on a longer timer. But what I'm talking about is more like a Reconstruction (self-heal) with the heal being applied to endurance.

+End to self: +25 endurance, 10.4% health cost, 60 second recharge
+End to another: +25.8 endurance, 13% health cost, 4 second recharge
+End to all near: 13.2 endurance, 13% health cost, 8 second recharge

Numbers adapted from Reconstruction, Heal Other, and Healing Aura, respectively.

In all likelihood the recharge would be different on the grant-others power, and the amount would vary according to archetype for amount granted, but I still like the power idea.

Anyway, just a thought I had of a power that could be in some future powerset.

Be warned, this is more of a rant post, though it does have some (un)pretty numbers in it. I had a few frustrating experiences using Revive on my Peacebringer, and wanted to see how other powersets differed on this same power.

The powersets being compared are: Willpower, Regeneration, Fire Armour, Dark Armour and Warshade. Peacebringer's have the same rez as Regeneration.

Commonalities are a 300 second recharge, and debt protection for 90 seconds.

All powersets except Willpower have a 15 second immobilize placed on the character. Willpower may have this, but it isn't mentioned in either Mids or the game.

Fire, Dark, and Warshade do damage to enemies within 25 feet radius, and have 15-seconds of total invulnerability (untouchable status).

HP% End% Effects
Willpower 80 50 +200% Recovery, +21% ToHit, +28% Dmg, +100% Rech
Regeneration 75 50
Fire Armour 50 50 (25' radius): 14.9 sec Stun (4 mag), 333.7 Dmg, KB 8.31
Dark Armour 21.6 30 (25' radius): 11.9 sec Stun (30 mag), 62.6 Dmg
Warshade 27 30 (25' radius): 47.3 Dmg

Untouchable also means that you can not be healed by an outside source, but you also can't be hurt. Think intangible.

Willpower bonuses are for 90 seconds, followed by 45 seconds of: -21% ToHit, -28% Dmg

Dark Armour and Warshade require an enemy within their radius, or no resurrection occurs

Conclusions would be that Willpower is vastly superior to Regeneration. Not only do you get a bigger heal (compounded by their auto power adding 20% more hit points, it's actually 96% if you took High Pain Tolerance), but you get extra recovery, recharge, and a minor build up for 90 seconds. After that you enter semi-wimpitude, but the enemies are probably dead by then anyway.

Regen, on the other hand, is probably dead mid-animation, though Willpower could easily share that fate with a large enough spawn.

The other three could well be laughing for 15 seconds. Of course, Dark Armour's spent all that time just getting it's toggles all going again, but one shot from it's heal will have topped up it's hit points. Fire is probably already healed and roasting it's opponents. Warshades will only be at full health if they had 3 opponents, and hit on their heal attack (Essence Drain).

The only thing to really say, after all this, is:

NERF REGEN!

Er, sorry, I meant to say NERF REGEN!

Damn, I'd better leave it at that....

(or, y'know, give em the Willpower equivelant of that power....)

(ooh, or a 15-second spurt of instant-healing goodness)

As I died for the ten thousandth time (slight exaggeration) I thought to myself, "Great, back to Talos, Indy, or the base again, then a 5 million mile run (slight exaggeration) back to Striga. Why isn't there a hospital in this zone?"

Well, that's the question. Why isn't there at least a field camp, a la Hollows, in Striga? Better yet, why not have the character rez by stumbling out the door of a graveyard mausoleum (how the heck is that spelled?) as if they've just been force-fed a wakie. Stumbling and drunk and weak.

Heck, maybe that could lead to an interesting story arc: Investigating why the teleport beacons for defeated heroes are being re-routed. Who's messing with the system and why? And what repercussions does that have on the heroes? Are they being 'claimed' by some evil forces that puts its mark on them after each rez? If there were a story, maybe the villain at the end of it could confuse heroes to fight for them against their allies. Or simply confuse them so they can then beat them down. A confuse where you can't control your own character's actions would be wonder(fully frustrating?! )

Ahem, too many vampire books (and defeats) recently, perhaps...

I can't alt tab out of CoH either.

I did a fresh install of Vista. So fresh that I formatted even my backup disk by mistake! :-(

I'm playing on the same resolution/refresh as the desktop, in full-screen mode. I can get out of the game if I do this: Ctl+Alt+Del -> Task Manager, click 'Show Desktop' from quicklaunch.

Drivers and Updates are all up-to-date.

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The idea is to add a new one named Classic or Original. To get the keys back the way you are used to, all you would need to go to the Controls page of Options and select the profile you want from the pulldown on the right side. This is sticky for each hero. Although not optimal for you, perhaps, is it acceptable?

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Maybe this isn't a new idea, maybe it's already possible, as I'm no bind-guru, but I'd rather an import option. That is, when you want to modify an existing bind like these new proposals, you have a file containing only the new bindings.

/import_bindings 3rd-tray-binds.txt

This would take binds for ctl+# and add them to whichever bind file being used for the character, overwriting whatever they currently have in there for those keys.

This would make the change entirely optional, and more convenient for those with heavily modified bind files.

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I (and i may not be alone here) would *loooove* to see would be some kind of indicator next to teammate buff icons letting us know how long they have got to run. Maybe make the buff icons 'recede' (kind of like the reverse animation for how the icons 'recharge' in our trays), or have a timer line around the circumference of the icon, that runs out etc...

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And/or a timer that will pop up when you mouse over it, or at least when you right click it.

Heck, while we're changing things like that let me change my hp and end bars to numbers so I can see if that tank *really* knocked me down to 1 hit point before I escaped.

To go even further, let everything in the gui be changeable between graphical, text and both. This can help ease the transition between alts, or after those respecs which mess up my tray.

I'll have to try, when I get home, to make the tray smaller, if I can. I'd like to see if it'll make the icons smaller. If not, I'd like that option for us keyboard-users.

I'd like the icons to be able to go as small as those displayed towards the top where all buffs/debuffs/toggles/autos show.