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My Inv/Axe tanker feels like a very very tough broadsword scrapper, from day 1 untill now i still like to play him alot. Even on farms he can do pretty good, due invincibility hitting softcap is very very easy and with nearly capped SL majority of mobs are hardly a problem.

Although i do like shield, it has (for me) 2 drawbacks, clickly mez and behind the defense is just avarage resistance. Anything that hits through it, can be pretty painfull (specialy on farms).

Willpower is a very enjoyable set, the tank version being slightly better on farms (SL based) due higher resist/defense, the tier9 with minor crash helps alot breaking through the harder parts of the game.

Melee, my current favorite is dark. It has a lovely heal (wich sync great with inv, shield and in case needed willpower), has very nice single target damage and decent AoE (though long recharge, the acc/dmg buff per mob is very nice to have). Ice comes roughly second, having less 'raw damage', it has the equal version of footstomp (dmg/recharge wise) and if you have a set with no DoT-aura, mobs stay mezzed for quite a bit (= survival).

My tanks that farm quite decent are WP/fire (you need extra defense though), Inv/Axe (pop a green once in a while) and stone/SS (huh? Yup, thats my afk farmer). Those 3 also do very very well in PvE tanking. Shield is my followup, having the aoe dmg buff (65% for tank) is very usefull, but with lesser resistance as backup, farming somethings can be annoying.

For brutes, those 3 can do pretty much do the same, both Inv and Shield can hit softcap (Inv nearly by his powers alone), WP and Stone have equal regen.

I would wait a bit, Issue 21 also brings new travelpool powers (fly get superfly, speed gets burnout - recharge all prim/sec powers, leaping gets a targeted aoe attack and teleport get a zone travelpower).

Fitness only free up 3 powers, but you still have to extra slot them.

Epic/patron also got a few new powers, mostly weakened copies of sortlike sets.
I'm not sure what they doing with the epic/patron pools (as hero unlock them free, while villain needs to unlock), maybe thats another worth waiting one.

My tank has a spec from i think 3 years ago, still is perfectly usable. I could respec into something more 'todayish', but it hardly has a impact on my current state.

I wonder who this person was, i believe Trials have a increased tohit of 64%, the softcap in that case would go up to 59%.

Unlikely (without party buffs) any AT could hit this by himself, without investing massively on IO's or maybe being a defense based set.

Its helpfull, offcourse, but no where near 'required'.

I rather have a melee that knows what he does (behind boss, move from BaB when he nukes etc), then someone who is softcapped and thinks he can fight everything alone.

Personaly the damage in Dark Consumption isnt really that usefull, the damage aint that high and putting in a 2nd endmod would give you a better gain even with few mobs. Same goes for Siphon life, this is your only heal power, going for 2acc/2heal/2recharge is imho better then slotting it with damage.

Even with softcap, hits that will bypass your defense can still hurt, with a 50ish% SL resist freakshow bosses can hit pretty hard, having a solid heal i would prefer over a bitty more damage.

I havent seen any weird framedrops apart from the huge weird lag on Freedom (not really rubberbanding but random dissapearing buffs, hanging clickies en recharging toggles).

Sadly indeed, it just keeps crashing. Initialy i thought it went very well, did a full 5 missions+allignment without problems, untill i ran into few peeps at the WW, moment i see em.. moment i crash. Rest of the night it was random crashes.

Your link not really working properly.

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...42BetaWin.aspx

Thats the correct link.

patchnote says:
City of Heroes: Resolves image corruption and random hangs found when playing City of Heroes

installing as we speak.

Oh serious the irony, was just wrapping up my last 2 tip missions, i got a popup.. for this feature you need Going Rogue.. bingo, the allignement mission to go the other side

Oh well, few days i can wait, hopefully back up soonish?

Soooo bug: ingame message is invalid now.

There was some wierd update last night, my 2nd computer having the same problem now. Wierd part that it gave a popup it needed a restart, but it never game back.

I fixed it on my main computer cheaply, reinstall of the launcher.

From what i remember of the patchnotes, only the controller version was changed, i never seen the blaster version being listed.

Mez durations however are still boosted, stun still should be boosted by Power boost.

Paragon wiki says:

On the bright side, they are working on it in Freedom.. not.

Beta still crashes just as often as the normal client. Serious dont wanna know how many badge-kills and merits i missed due this crap.

'modern'? Sorry, but i really cant link 'modern' to 'OpenGL'. Modern games go DirectX(3D), just a few sods out there who wants to stay cross-platform still running OpenGL. Then only Valve has a series of mac-OS only version of their games that run OpenGL, but their Windows part just runs Direct3D.

But psi damage as whole is a 'hole' in many tank sets, those are just things you have to rely on your team for it.

I think it would be something like:
1.Blasters, controllers, warshades, tanks, defenders, peacebringers, corrupters, Masterminds, Arachnos soldier, scrapper, brutes
2. stalkers, Dominators, widows.

My fun is not the AT, my fun is the set you can play. I love granite and WP tanks, i hate shield (clicky..) and dark (endurance...). I love necro and ninja, i hate demons (the sound..) and mercs (damage...), every AT has good and bad sets.

Exceptions are under 2, those are just not my type of play. From my 80 or so characters, i actualy only got 1 stalker (l16 elec/cantevenremember), 1 dominator (34 fire/thorn) and 1 widow (level 8).

My most created AT is tank and Mastermind, vary from level 6 to 5 tanks at 50.

I kinda lost my fun in blasters, my Ice/NRG (tripple hold with boost) and AR/Ice (look! burning ice!) are the most played ones, aside from a elec/elec, fire/ice, nrg/ice and Archery/Psy that i hardly play anymore.

I've joined quite a few trials that never made it to the end, specialy BAF (thats with the prisoners right?) goes often wrong at Nightstar/Siege fight, overwhelmed by the adds and too few levelshifted folks, either a massacre or a wrong kill (not with the 10sec).

LAM i ony seen once going wrong, but that was only because we couldnt get much of the temp powers. Since he jumps alot, you can buy time to assault him without many mobs, making it still quite doable. The mid-part of the 10 items.. can often be a freaking nightmare.

We even had 1 BAF with mostly tanks and brutes, Siege was a serious pushover, but the prisoners (with few control or ranged) were way too hard.

Last week did a few transfers, working like a charm. Today i want to copy another character, same routine, same stuff, suddenly i get the error:

excluding European Union.

Since when is Facebook region based and suddenly the 'big merge' remains a US/EU devided game? The new gamecases can Antec, US only, this goody and comic com.. US only. Irony kicks in already.

City of Heroes wasnt on Gamescom? Felt sad

At least be happy you got boxes, i cant even remember the last box i've actualy saw from CoH in stores here (i collect NCsoft's CE - thus only lacking CoH itself).

Soooooo any change for account-transfers (within same global game account) in the near future?

(and the past few pages are the exact reason why i never wanted a forum merge with US in the first place).