Silas

Someone leaving their computer on to farm for IOs which are otherwise realistically unobtainable is worse than botting and sweatshops to sell ingame items for real world currency...how?

Well, for which primary would benefit most from permaHasten levels of recharge, I dunno.

Probably Dark Melee, for max (if not perma? dunno how much you need for perma SD) uptime on Soul Drain.

As for max recharge /regen survivability...well, I would think worse than a softcapped Scrapper. While it is great to have perma Dull Pain and Recon/IH/MoG recharging fast, you know what they say. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

To that end, if you're shelling out for permahasten levels of recharge, you'd be better off getting some defense (melee would be best). For your heals to keep you on your feet, you've got to be on the ball about using them. Time spend patching up your hp bar = time not spent smashing dudes.

I've been having this problem myself since i17. Same deal, Radeon 5850, 750w power supply. My system is more than capable of running the game.

I've not updated my drivers recently (since I got the card mid-March), I'll try that when I get home. What version should I be using?

Edit: and I'll run CoH Helper too, since this happens rliably at least once every few hours.

Edit v2: and I'd really, really rather not have to reformat my system to fix this >.>

Decent guide, few things worth noting though:

Invincibility doesn't debuff enemy tohit, RttC does. Invinc also grants + def and +tohit for each foe. You've not mentioned the -damage in AAO and Chilling Embrace. Nothing overwhelming but does work as functional resistance.

You might also want to add sections for each Primary for what kind of IO bonuses to go for. For example, positional defenses/recharge/recovery for FA and DA, typed defense for Invulns and Ice, +hp and typed defense for WP, positional defenses and recharge for Elec and SD and rerolling for Stone Armor (ohhhhhh snap).

There's not very much information on Gauntlet, which is a key factor in tanking imo. Might want to add something about attacking with AoEs to aggro the whole spawn and punching the boss to ensure you get their aggro, using Taunt/APP ranged/ranged AoEs to grab stuff out of melee range.

Another thing about attacking (especially with AoEs) is that minions die quickly, so killing minions fast means you're more likely to have the aggro of the lts and bosses. Punch boss, smash minions with AoEs, profit.

Another thing to note is that Taunt has -range, so even if something is aggroed on you already but pewpewing from range, you can hit it with Taunt to coax them into melee.

Lastly, I'd include some information about the esoteric protections/resists available in each set. While it's nothing major, it is important to know which sets have debuff resistance, which have end drain protection, which have fear/confuse/etc protection.

Edit: oh and the aggro cap. While you're not gonna get anywhere counting heads in a spawn, it's very worthwhile to get a rough sense of how many dudes you have aggroed on you. That way you know whether or not you can aggro/herd additional stuff.

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CMA, you're spot on about the Tanker aura stuff, CI is much better than Dark or Fire. One thing I'd note though, if it doesn't matter how Veng'd up Nemesis get, Blazing Aura and Death Shroud will still hit normally. Nemesis Veng doesn't grant AoE defense.

Sunstormer, Are you really advocating using Burn to keep aggro? Unless by keep aggro you mean scatter to the four winds and suddenly find the Blaster who just lobbed a Fireball much more interesting.

Edit: Burn is also not autohit. It's got good accuracy but drop it next to something way above your level, you'll see far fewer ticks.

Granite is technically toughest but has awful drawbacks.

I'd go SS/WP if that's what you want. With IOs you can softcap your smashing/lethal defense (probably e/n too, check Call Me Awesomes guide, almost all of it is applicable to WP too), cap your hp and you'll be plenty tough.

I like it, looks really solid

...scoundrel.

Unicyle Peon, the devs have already said the Incarnate levels will be an alternate progression deal, it's not a pseudo-levelcap raise. Horizontal character development, not vertical.

Well this thread went down the toilet in a hurry.

Cyber_naut: As fond as I am of frothing hyperbole, if Shield Charge used the correct values it would still blow Whirling Hands out of the water.

Castle: Looking forward to the FA changes. I am curious though, do you have a rough idea whether you'd be buffing its offensive or defensive capabilities? I know the changes earlier in the thread were mostly about Burn, (removing fear, making it a DoT rather than a placed patch, etc), but given what you said about SD softcapping not being an issue because it'll be needed, I would think FA could use a defensive buff too.

Hey, welcome to the game and the Champion server.

Lower population servers often look a lot emptier than they are because of how heavily-instanced CoH is.

People used to do a lot of street hunting but there were a number of changes made to make missions more appealing, so now almost everyone does missions instead.

I'd recommend either forming up your own teams using the teammate search feature ingame or using one of the global channels.

I see stuff forming up all the time in BMT of Champion or Champions United. Joining one (or both) of these is a great way to get a lot of teaming action.

You can either send an offline tell to one of the mods of the channel you want to join and they can send you an invite, or post your global here and I'm sure one of them will read it and shoot you an invite.

Mods on a lot for BMT are: @Myrmydon, @Cobalt Azurean, @Miz Nibbles, @Force, @Starfire. There's a few more but I forget (sorry guys ) I dunno who the mods are for Champions United, but like BMT there are a fair few.

If you've got any questions about the game or whatever, feel free to shoot me a tell at @Silas and I'll help you if I know how :P

Hope that helps