Sailboat

I noticed a statement about Inv that struck me as odd in the OP:

Just play. At 35, you'll get exp fast enough to push you right on up. Try joining the Weekly Task Force when it's in your level range, that's big exp.

/Sonic resistance debuffs & Freezing Rain
/Ice slows and rains with Storm's slows and rains
/Energy knockback with Storm chaos

Those are the ones that spring to my mind.

I hate to be the first person to have a problem with the amended plan. I like it, but it will pose one problem for a small number of us.

The Iron Eagles supergroup has a mammoth thread in Player Events. It probably shouldn't even be IN that forum in the first place, as it started out as sort of a SG recruitment thread, but it has long since morphed into an ongoing historical record filled with tales of adventure and our own peculiar kind of heartbreak.

I understand that almost everything else in the Player Events section is just publicity for events that occur at a fixed point in time, and as such, rapidly fades away in relevance, but I personally feel like the Iron Eagles thread is different. We play by our own voluntary "hardcore" rules, and delete our characters when they are defeated. Many have fallen, and the characters are now gone -- only the tales of their epic deeds remain, in that thread.

I hate to plead for special treatment, but would it be possible to move the entire (admittedly huge) thread somewhere? The SG is based on the Justice server, so perhaps the Justice Server forum would be the best home for it?

That kindness would make us very happy and still permit the planned consolidation of forums.

Thanks for reading,

Sailboat

PS: I will PM this post to Avatea. Fingers crossed!

Wow, thanks for the help, Avatea!!!

I certainly agree with the posters pointing out that the Defenders would have been much more effective had they played more aggressively and leveraged their debuffs. However, in the grand tradition of the forums, want to nitpick one tiny item in your post:

And by the way, don't feel any embarrassment over posting the question. LOTS of people have run across that and been confused. The last time somebody asked me about it, he was, in fact, looking at the Battle Axe set.

Ice's confuse doesn't use any animation time at all, and it's autohit.

Definitely draws aggro though.

A very rough rule of thumb I've used with Mid's foir endurance calculation is that having my end recovery at least 2 whole points per second above my end burn from toggles is a good place to be, assuming I have moderate end reduction slotting in my attack chain roughly one SO or more). It's not precise, because different powersets and playstyles will bur end at different rates. But it gives me a ballpark figure to determine how much more effort I need to put into endurance when looking at a build.

I'll be darned, clearing the cache worked.

Weird that I've been doing that for a long time, it used to work, it works now, but at some point it did NOT work and that's the page that got cached and stayed cached. Oh well. Thanks!

If he's wearing the Nemean Lion's skin, wouldn't that qualify as Invulnerable?

I guess it's true, "you can't go home again."

I am used to going directly to the forums when I come here (http://boards.cityofheroes.com/), and, when I want to read the main COH site (which used to be at http://www.cityofheroes.com/ -- almost always to look under /news/patch notes) I would just hit Statesman up at the top, or the "OFFICIAL SITE" tab at the top left. But now both of those take me to the Learn more about Freedom" splash page (http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/freedom.php). Before launch, that page used to have an "OFFICIAL SITE" tab which took me where I want to go, but that's gone now.

I can drill down through the Freedom splash page (curiously, "Home" does NOT get me to the home page, but "Community" does) and discover that what I think of as the "home page" is now http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/index.php.

Is there some way to get there in fewer clicks and less memorization of goofy things like "remember Community means Home?" I know I could set a bookmark, but I go there so seldom it seems like a waste of bookmark space. I can't recall seeing a site that made it so difficult to get to the "main" page. Why can't I go from these forums to http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/index.php with a single click again?

It's like they want to make sure that people who mostly read the forums know there's a game you can pay for. I think we know that already.

No vet rewards any more -- marriage has gone to a microtransaction model where you earn spousal reward points and redeem them to unlock specific rewards.

Have fun at Tier 9!

Is the sale on Beam Rifle over? That didn't last very long, especially considering how horrendously buggy the whole system has been.

I'm sorry, if you gave the REAL reason, I missed it.

Haven't had any problems with Justice or any other server; been playing Justice almost every night since I-21.

Mids for I-21 is out, you can now get the real thing.

One of the things that's a consequence of the game being so big is that there are LOTS of things to try. My advice is to try them.

Seriously, some people play one character on one server with one supergroup and only really learn that AT and powersets. You can do that if you want, but after 7 years I find I keep discovering new powers, powersets, missions, and other cool things I hadn't really tried before.

It's okay to concentrate on one character, but don't hesitate to try new things, you may be very pleasantly surprised.

Also, although this is common to many games, it bears repeating -- you may start out weak, but you will get stronger, so don't feel too frustrated if it's tough at first.

Lastly, there's a button above your power trays called "powers." If you expand that, there's a button above THAT called "Combat Attributes." Clicking that will let you look at a vast number of stats showing your defenses, percentages, speeds, etc. You can right-mouse on any stat and display it continuously on your playing area (up to a total of ten stats). This is very handy for a tracking a variety of things. One I always monitor is "Last hit chance" (found under "Base" stats). When the Last Hit bottoms out, it usually means some power has debuffed my to-hit, or that the enemy has activated a good defense power. Then I can take action to fix the problem.