Schismatrix

Well, at 25 you unlock a second column of titles, so if you selected Ferocious from the second column without unchecking Ruthless in the first column you will be both ruthless and ferocious.

Indeed. Animated hair doesn't even appear on the DOOM meter AFAIK.

Now using a temporal flux exciter to call dibs even though i'm posting after you.

Incredibly unlikely that you will be able to use Nova without changing to the Nova model. Far more likely to get alternate colors. In terms of game lore the way a Kheldian gains access to the Nova's full powers is by duplicating the original creature's form. As creatures evolved to float in the atmosphere of a gas giant it seems a bit unlikely there were human-shaped Novas floating about.

While i've been tempted to try joining one of the Green Machine groups my general preference is for debuff-heavy sets. i like pissing off mobs as i cripple them. That and i don't have to take taunt to herd.

Another factor is that i already team with the Pingus. If no one's dying on a Pingu team you're not trying hard enough. A Pingu MoSTF run is likely to include running it on Invincible just to keep it interesting. (Of course there's also less dying on a MoSTF run.)

i thought that was like the carriage in The Phantom Tollbooth: it went without saying.

One way is to click "Thread Tools" at the upper right of the first post on the page you're viewing and select "Subscribe to Thread".

Tagged.

That's a good point. There is nothing inherently wrong with building a character who focuses on healing others, even if it may be less than optimal. There are MAN builds, toggle men and petless Masterminds fer cripe's sake. A healer is much easier to play than those in my opinion

That said, i would still advise against taking the medicine pool. The powers are all inferior versions of what an empath gets in their primary, and can be interrupted as well. Slot your primary powers well and take Hasten to boost recharge for when you need to do a lot of healing.

If you take, slot and use your non-green-number-generating buffs as well you can keep ahead of the healing even on tough missions. (Though you may not want to use the buffs too liberally as it may drastically reduce the amount of healing you get to do.)

For a healing-based character in the upper levels i'd also suggest avoiding teams with multiple support characters who aren't healing-centric as well. You might find yourself going most of an entire mission with little to do since no teammate will drop below 90% health more than once or twice the entire time. Sonic Resonance might be a good choice if the team insists on having a non-healer along. Teammates will still take damage, even though it will be greatly reduced, so your powers will have noticeable benefits aside from making a pretty glow.

Edit: Just to be clear, by "non-healer" i don't mean a support set that has no heals, but a support set player that focuses on buffs and/or debuffs instead of or in addition to healing. A Rad or Dark can also focus on being a healer, but will need to dip into the medicine pool to do so.

No idea. i remember using it a long time ago, but i wasn't playing Assault Rifle users for a while, so i have no idea when it was removed.

No no, assault rifle users had an alternate brawl animation that used smacking enemies with the butt of the rifle long before there were VEATs.

Wasn't there a thread on this general topic a little while before the European launch of CoH?

Mids' Hero & Villain Designer is an excellent application for designing builds.

You can find it here.

This. First thing i always do is right-click the bottom chat window and yank broadcast. Well, i used to do that, but now i just use the load chat settings button in options. Of course you need to first set up chat windows and channels the way you want them and click the save chat settings first, but ever since i did that loading chat options is the first thing i do.

Broadcast channel is nigh-worthless while in Atlas Park or Cap au Diable. Slightly useful elsewhere.

The problem is that UAC trains them to do that by being too sensitive and popping up redundant and irrelevant windows constantly. i was helping my boss set up a new system the other day, and for one application i was installing it spawned at least six UAC windows in a row when starting the setup for a single piece of software.

It's the equivalent of calling the police and screaming into the phone every time you any noise at all outside. After a while the police are going to start ignoring the calls.

Are you talking about Champion server specifically, or did you just post this in a randomly selected forum?

You do realize that down more often than not is at least 12 hours and 1 minute a day that the servers are down, right? i have not noticed the servers being down more than not and i play mostly on Champion. In fact i would say that the servers are up much more than they are down. (Generally 22-24 hours a day.)

The standard maintenance window when the servers might shut down temporarily is 8 AM to 10 AM Eastern time. For the last several years they've usually only used it on Mondays and Fridays. It used to be almost every day.

There have been several unscheduled or very short notice emergency maintenance shutdown and restarts due to recent issues with a build, but otherwise the downtimes have generally been within the times set aside for server maintenance.

XP, inf, prestige and inspiration drops. Nothing huge.

Luggage rack? In which language?

U'*** Gr'ai

Edit: Okay, in which European language is k-o-n an obscenity and/or insult? Looks like the forum merge has made the Americans (and game itself) into inadvertent potty-mouths.

i was hoping the fixed patch would get pushed to live even with 16 on test.
Thank you, Devs.

Iggy Pop has used that word in a title.
If i say more i (apparently) would be using feeeelthy language.
(Also, try posting the name of the Rikti GM here. )