SinisterDirge

Originally Posted by Morganite

I don't claim to be a master build maker, which is why I asked. Lots of times people go for different things in their builds than I do.

I have a Bots/Storm, and it's still pretty low level, but I've played it enough to have some ideas on the /Storm part.

At low levels, Gale is a pretty nice mitigation power. Anything you knock down isn't attacking you or your pets. O2 Boost is a bit weak out of the box, so preventing attacks is a lot better. At higher levels, a knockback cone can still be a nice tool if things are getting too heavy, as long as you're careful about where you knock the mobs off to.

Snow Storm is also helpful at keeping the mobs doing anything but attacking you, but it's expensive. It's also noticeably below the slow movement cap, so enhancing slow will help. I kind of like a little recharge in toggle debuffs, so I can get them back up faster if my anchor dies/I get mezzed, but YMMV. (As well as how much global recharge you shell out for.)

Beyond that, I can't claim much direct experience. But based on the powers, I think /Storm would work better as a 'Controllermind' approach. Debuff and otherwise mess with the mobs, but try to let your pets take the hits, because they're a lot easier to heal. With a knockback cone, a knockdown patch, def buffs for your pets, and tohit debuffs for anything that gets too close, you've got a lot of tools to help keep those hits to a minimum.

Of course, I might be a bit biased. I'm enjoying knocking things down again and again so much that I intend to build around doing it as much as possible.

-Morgan.

Originally Posted by Its_Me_Matt

If you do AE for tickets, best to do 10-14bronze(heroes), 45-50 silver(villians) for quick money.

Originally Posted by Duncan_Frost

Toxic is also the least resisted of all damage types, but there aren't any powersets based solely around it. Spines has a toxic AoE on most of its attacks and DP can use chemical ammo, but that's pretty much it.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

Nitpick: We've had off market trading going on for 6 years. Thats how we did trades before we had the Consignment House.

Originally Posted by BurningChick

On the other hand, Quebec has some of the best consumer protection laws on the continent -- I'm not sure that watering down those protections would be worthwhile just so that some people could have a (small) chance at winning some (small) prizes run by companies outside of Canada.

Originally Posted by Ozmosis

This pretty much sums up my problems with every contest CoH as ever had... Alot of people from Quebec have been gripping/moaning, both on the forums and the CoH Facebook page, about not being elligible, nor being able to participate in anyway, to contests or other similar events...

I've played this game for years, I would love... nay, JUMP on the occasion to leave a permanent mark/imprint on it. So far the closest I've come was reporting an exploit that got removed during the i9 Open Beta.

Originally Posted by Madam_Enigma

I've tried it in other games, and it rarely works very well. Even when it is sort of effective, you'd be better to just find an actual team mate. And yes, I've seen waaaay too many 'auto follow with healing aura on auto' dual boxers. In fact, for a few years it was viewed as required for 'good' teams to have someone do that. Such teams were usually train wrecks, and a defender played by a single person would probably have prevented the train wreck. Or at least lessened the casualties.

Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic

The Cap is there for a reason.

I'm against any cap increase.
If you are too lazy to figure a way around it, then there is no reason to increase it.
All an influence cap increase would do would be to allow inflation on high price items. There is no reason for it other than sheer greed.

If you are that greedy, find away around it.

The rest of us are fine. 90% of the players will probably never hit the 2 bil cap on a character.

Originally Posted by Pyber

For most things at least. I noticed quite a few with blank histories this afternoon, at least redside (haven't been on blueside yet today). They're still far outweighed by the items that still do have bid histories though, so all in all, no biggie.

Originally Posted by mpcollins

The GR website makes mention of two new powersets other than Dual Pistol and Demon Summoning. Any idea when Electric Control and Kinetic Melee will be released? (Hopefully with I-17).

If not with the expansion, then can we have some more info on the various abilities of each powerset?

Originally Posted by TopDoc

But there's no point to having massive amount of liquid cash just sitting around doing nothing.

Any of you big boys out there care to give your opinion of Filthy versus Obscenely rich? Smurphy? Bronx still around? And what about PvP Farmers. Anyone who got into purples early is probably rolling in it now. Mac?

Originally Posted by Diggis

Is that possible? Last I heard there was a limit of 100,000 so that max available as emails was 2bill. Bit this may have changed.

Originally Posted by Frosticus

Not directed at me, but I'm in a similar position to the person this was asked to. I run at +2/x8 for most content on my bots/storm. It is very rare that I'll lose more than one pet at a time, but invariably one will wander out of my buffs range while I'm jumping around hurricaning everything and it will splat. Not every fight mind you, but a few times a mission

As a storm spamming efences+nado+LS all the time my endurance bar can't handle rebuffing that pet. Granted I'm usually running ninja run for the fast movement w/ hurricane which doesn't help, but it is faster than cj+hurdle and only the best will do. The only time I'll make the effort to rebuff is if it was Crushinator that drops (assault bot). Unless I have some blues drop which admittedly insps rain down on that setting, but I combine them all into reds to feed Crushinator so it can kill entire spawns in seconds...

Basically, life is tough on this toon that is easily solo'ing AV's, cakewalked the +4 RWZ challenge and solo's missions on +2/8 with little personal risk and I want it to be a little bit easier when I lose a pet...

All kidding aside, the suggestion of a variable cost aoe buff made earlier would be ideal for all MM's in all scenarios across all levels and would really put the finishing touches on the AT.

Originally Posted by GangstaBlade

Oh? there was an event? that must of had been why yesterday's anzac day rp was a little laggy. And if you are that person who was prtesting in the middle of it, I hate you! pay respec to the 8 000 that died!

Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA

Are you running Vista or Windows 7? If so try using the "Run as Administrator" option for installing it (right-click on the icon and pick Run as Administrator from the list).


*Edit: Damn. Beaten. You win this round SinisterDirge but the battle isn't over!

Originally Posted by MrVacant

Enhancement lists are irrelevant since they're used for a completely different purpose.

Think about it, how incredibly annoying would it be to scroll through the list if every main zone popped up? And how often would someone accidentally click on the wrong zone in haste while on a TF or whatnot (even though that still happens even with the current set-up)?

I'm not saying that the PTA system is perfect, because it's fairly clumsy as it is, but it could be a lot worse. I tend to think it was designed to limit congestion and in that respect, it's doing a pretty good job.

Originally Posted by Robert_B

I have a hard time accepting this at all, CoX is not the first MMO by far and all other games have experienced this after being online for a period of time, and of course there is a segment of every games population that has no clue about the games lore and just levels.

Originally Posted by Sailboat

I have the impression that the segregation of the green and yellow lines was partly intended to tend to segregate lower-level players from the higher-level zones. You could still get to the higher-level zones, sure, but generally it was more trouble, and it was unlikely to happen by accident.

Steel, the mid-level zone, was where they met (no green line in Skyway yet).