SerialBeggar

Another thing you can do is: if you know what you are going to want for your build, put in bids early. Recipes are usually cheaper, of course. If you have the luxury of time, you won't be pressured into bidding at "buy it nao!" prices. It'd be convenient if you have a personal SG with Base to safely store your purchases until the right time to use them. You can also store rare Salvage drops that you might need later.

Thanks Tony.

Now that it's back, I invite you all to send me some post-Valentines day friend requests.
http://faces.cohtitan.com/profile/SerialBeggar

Looks good.

Now animate it.

Can you include a brief outline of where to go for each phase?

I'm being logged out even before the login successful screen finishes refreshing. Sometimes even through consecutive logins. Unfortunately, I can't even blame the recent Forum maintenance because this started happening the day before it.


It's happening at both my home and work computers, both on Chrome.

Have you tried contacting NCSoft Support?
https://support.cityofheroes.com/app/chat/chat_launch

I can't even get the geyser at the bottom of the Ski Chalet to fling me back up to the top of the ski slope with any reliability. Unless I tilt my view a certain way, I'm always slamming my face into the rocks.

I was always under the impression that the cone affect caps were:

- 3 to 5 for melee cones
- regular AOE cap of 16 for ranged (primarily) damage cones
- 10 for ranged damage+control cones

Of course, I can't rationalize Fearsome Stare's 16, but I never really thought about it.

Necro-thread arise!

After paying more attention over the last few months, aznlj2001 is correct. There is really is something about the Grandville map that the STF and the hero morality mission uses that causes my sound loop. Every time I am on it, regardless of which character I am using, I get massive sound looping. Now it only occurs during intense battles when everyone is spamming their powers (for the STF, during the fights with the Patron AVs and occasionally while taking down the buffing towers; for the hero morality mission, during the ambushes), so I can't tell which sound effect is the culprit. I am not experiencing any sound looping anywhere else in the game.

Didn't /vault come with the Freedom release? I recall reading about it at that time. I thought or, at least, I had gotten the impression that it was the latest and last reward of the old vet reward system.

He said she was using a Free account, so no Controllers.

Personally, I would suggest that as a new player, she should go with a Blaster. You really can't go with a more simple role than a Blaster. Just hang back from the mess and shoot. Run if you need to. Other Archetypes have more responsibilities like aggro management or buffing and debuffing which may be too much to think about for the uninitiated.

Blasting is also easier for those with poor targeting skills. Because they're further back from the battle, they have a better view of the scene along with more time to pick and choose their targets. Still, remember that Ctrl-Tab is the default for target nearest enemy. It's very helpful if she needs a reference point for retargeting when Tabbing.

The Athlon 64 3200+ is a single core processor, right? I had a night-to-day performance difference when I upgraded to a multi-core processor several years ago. Note: you may need to buy a new motherboard to go with your new multi-core CPU. Which in turn may also lead you to consider replacing your RAM for the new motherboard. At some point, you may have to consider whether it'll be cheaper and less aggravating to just buy a whole new system.

I have bought several systems from Cyberpower PCs over the past decade and a half.

$2600 might have been a good price 8 years ago, but nowadays you should be able to get pretty decent performance with something in the $1000-1500 range unless you have additional reasons for needing a high end system. Plus a cheaper system now will mean that it'll be easier to consider ditching it for a new one when the time comes.

I guess it's apathy for me too. I have less than a dozen characters who have even a few individual Purple IOs slotted. Really, I'm only just coming around to seeing some use for the Hami-Os I've got stored (mainly the Def/End and Res/End ones). My builds are composed of just regular IO sets, nothing special or really optimized. So my C-ranked Inf bank roll is already more than I need.

If you plan to do something "special", always take a purple Insp and a breakfree first. Nothing spoils the big moment of you jumping into a massive crowd only to fall asleep. And then being chopped up soon after.

This sounds like a low level mission so his trays shouldn't be filled up. However, since the OP sounds like a newbie, perhaps he still only has powers tray #1 opened and it is filled with assorted powers.

FrogDave, have you expanded your powers trays to show tray #2 and #3? If not, on your powers tray's header bar, on the far right, there's a little up arrow. See example (note: mine is a down arrow because I've already expanded to 3 trays). Click it twice to expand your trays. Three trays might look like overkill right now as a lowbie, but you'll be filling them out later especially if you have permanent "temp" powers you like to use.

Note: if you find that your trays are getting cluttered with power buttons that you never use, you can right-click them to remove from your tray. Don't worry if you're not sure if you may want it later. All your powers, including temporary ones, are listed in your Powers window (click the "Powers" link on your powers header bar to open it). You can drag and drop powers from Powers window back to your Trays anytime you want.

Note: if and when you find that 3 trays aren't enough for you, you can click that little plus sign (+) next to the arrow to open additional free floating single bar trays. You can right-click on these floating trays to make them into rectangle shapes or you can shove it against the left or right side of your screen and they'll deform into L-shapes. Of course, you can right-click them to remove the tray if you don't need them anymore.

I remembered it like Stabby said. In fact, I was in COV Beta when they made the change to the Newspaper missions because people were out leveling the low level zones before they could get to the Mayhem mission. I haven't participated in a Beta since, so I don't know if the reasoning changed when they set up Radio missions.