SnakeRogers

I'm totally new and naive in the ways of doms myself. Most of my toons have been melee or long-range hover blasters. However, I've recently gotten a fire/fire dom up to lvl 32, and I can't say enough good things about her (name is Burnt Our Baby, and she's on Virtue redside). The new universal damage kb->kd proc is amazing in bonfire, even after the quite understandable nerfing. Imps are wonderful. Flashfire is huge fun.

As far as I can tell, being a fire/fire dom is all about creating a chaotic flaming pit of doom around your opponents where everyone is choking, fleeing, bouncing, burning, and falling over dead. There may be more elegant ways to operate, but I doubt that there are more entertaining ones. As soon as I can add an epic power pool, I'll be going fire/fire/fire.

I'm running redside so I can use Frenzy alignment power which refills the domination bar when used. Plus, I can't imagine how I could run a fire/fire dom in a nice, friendly, wholesome blueside manner. It would take all the fun out of it.

I got the following from CS stating it is not a bug.

[Removed] ~Mod13

He tried to "help" my stalker by aggroing all the bad guys on the map and bringing them directly to me. Stuck in the wall would have been better.

I'm not a big CoH numbers person, so I thought I'd ask here to make sure I totally understand the various chances of critical hits with MA attack. I've been thinking about this because of the new Scrapper critical hit bonus ATO.

Normal critical hit chances
5% vs. other players, minions, and underlings (7% with catalyzed ATO)
10% vs. all others (14% with catalyzed ATO)

Storm Kick critical hit chances
10% vs. other players, minions, and underlings (14% with catalyzed ATO)
15% vs. all others (21% with catalyzed ATO)

Eagle’s Claw
15% vs all (21% with catalyzed ATO)
and +33% vs all in attack during the next 2s (+46.2% with catalyzed ATO)

Are these the correct numbers?

And does EC’s bonus add to the base critical, say 15%+33% = 48%, or is a 33% greater chance of critical (similar to the ATO), for example 15% * 1.33 = 20%?

Thanks for your patience with my tiny math brain.

Two thoughts:

1) I actually like low-level toons. They're COX-lite. Often, I have no desire for a hyper-intense incarnate trial with auto-death lurking at every corner. Beating up Hellions in Perez Park can be very relaxing.

2) I may have rescued a dfb-baby earlier today. He was a lvl 24 brute that couldn't kill his own lt-strength double from the Keith Nance arc. I waltzed in with a lvl 19 scrapper (sk'd up to lvl 23) and killed the bad guy in a couple of seconds, while the brute waited outside the mission. Brute was amazed. He had all the fly travel powers and super speed, and not so much in his primary and secondary. I was amazed and came up with an excuse to run far, far away. Mind you, I did like the idea of a scrapper rescuing a brute.

I've seen no evidence that there is any difference between Primal and Praetorian-origin toons in FW. No one seems to know that my Praetorian-origin ex-Loyalist Responsibility character is from Praetoria. Katie Douglas doesn't even remember that I shopped her to Mother Mayhem.

Thanks for info. I know understand all this a little better and had a great run yesterday. It is a very cool trial.

I tried the LFG button. It said there was a 3 minute wait. After 10 minutes, I was still waiting. I remember that there were similar issues using the LFG button for the iTrials.

I guess my real question is, how do I start my own Death from Below trial? That way I don't have to depend on others, I can take some initiative and get one going myself.

OK, I freely admit at the start of this post that I can be dumber than a box of rocks. How and where does one start the Death from Below trial? Do I just stand in the middle of Atlas and beg for some kind team who understands the trial to include me?

I've also seen them a few times, but I can't remember exactly what was going on at the time. I'll keep track in the future.

I'm still having brutal lag problems with the warehouse room that (at least for me) glows very brightly. I know this has been a problem for sometime, and the possibility of a fix has mentioned several times. Is there any effort being made to fix this bug? If it won't or can't be fixed, can those warehouse rooms be removed from missions?

I also have this problem, though it's not consistent. Sometimes, the "+" button works, and other times it doesn't.

Still not fixed. I just had to leave a mission because it was unplayable. I hope the fix which is "on the way" gets here quickly.

I AM NOT ALONE! This had been driving me crazy ever since I first encountered the problem in the Tin Mage TF during the fight with Director 11. I'm basically unable to play the portion of the trial that goes after the pacification grenades.

So, I add my voice to the choir, please, please fix this.