The Grim Heaper

Also, the GVE Jump Pack is a toggle that runs out after a set duration.


Person34, I understand your desire for a more eloquent way to end the effects of the tier 9 (the hold portion of Power Surge never seems enough to compensate for the whole "oh god, I'm dead" thing), but it's probably not going to happen...

I think, however, that he may be on the EU servers
If so, no idea off hand which of the 4 servers to recommend to him, although I'm vaguely aware that the two English servers are more populated than the other two.

To the OP; scroll down to the servers board, and and look in any of the sub boards labeled with an "(eu)" (Note; only if you are on the European servers, I'm assuming here. If not on the EU servers, any of the other severs will do.) And ask around about global channels and active super groups. Those are the two methods that yield the best results in finding teams for just about anything.

Also, just a note; if you're going to start a VEAT, I highly recommend sticking with it until lvl 24 (I think) where you get a respec and choose a path (bane/crab, widow/fortuna). This is where they really start getting fun.

Only 8? why not 10?
*cough* sorry, I know it's probably a typo, but I couldn't resist.

That's sig worthy is what that is.

Is/was it stuck on "sound.pigg" There's a running theory that the updater does not exactly report downloading/processing speeds in real time, but rather by taking the sum of the file sizes completed in the last unit of time (don't know what it is).

Normally this method would work reasonably well. Downloaded 60Mb worth of files in the last 5 minutes? well that right there is 200Kb/s. But when you reach the huge files like some of the *.pigg ones, that method hits the floor. 5 minutes pass, and no completed filed to report on. Reported transfer rate takes a dive, and since the time remaining is based off of transfer rate against total bytes remaining...

If you can, just leave it running over night, should finish everything by the time you wake up.

I'd probably slot 1 in brawl on every character. The other 4 would be used to alleviate some pre-SO/IO problems on newer characters, being slotted over as necessary.

I seem to recall reading that they work like IOs... They are slottable from the early levels, providing DO values. A kind of a boost for newer characters. But while lvl21+ can slot them and benefit from the (small) enhancement value; the proc stops working after lvl 20.

I could be completely wrong here, though.

EDIT: Beaten to the punch; with detailed quotes, no less. :/

Yeah; like how I always run across steel canyon (mostly out of habit) to change a costume on a new character, when I could just head straight to the Vanguard DPO in Atlas.

well, you got 6, 7 and 8 correct. 9 would be IX.

VX, is... not proper at all. As near as I can determine, it would be like saying "ten, less 5", which is, well, 5.

More information than you probably want to know; but it includes helpful (but a bit complicated) rules, and a nice chart.

And now you know. And knowing is half the battle. The other half? 25% red lasers, 25% blue lasers

I---'m having flashbacks to that horrible horrible movie trailer with the swarms of "angels" and the pregnant lady with the last hope for humanity in her belly...

Curse you for bringing up that thought... *sigh* back to the old brainbleach treatment.

While it is possible, there's no real point. Deleting it only really replaces your post with "this user has deleted the post" or somesuch. Leaving the rest of the thread (including any quoted text from your deleted post) intact.

Best probable way to deal with it is to post or edit in something along the lines of "mea culpa; figured out the pebkac problem" (yes, yes, redundant redundancy), and PM your friendly neighborhood mod(08?) with a polite request to lock your thread.

Although if you really are having trouble with some powersets/archtypes; might not be a bad idea to follow up on some of the above advice and give us some specifics to better allow us to render assistance.

I think the thing about the self buff is, that the vales it gives aren't that spectacular (the 30% recharge reduction is nice tho)... And I completely understand why. That said; the defence bonus it randomly gives is great if you just need that little extra push to the defence cap.

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I think someone missed a meeting or two and just went with it.

Q1; There's no real auto-tracking (camera wise) targets, if that's what you're asking*. Mousewheel controls camera zoom, and middle mouse button ("button3"?) will allow you to swing the camera around to your side/front (zooming all the way in recenters it). right mouse button will swing the camera and turn your character.

*Although, when you attack something, your character turns towards it, and the camera maintains it's orientation to the character, turning too. If you don't like this camera movement, you can hold down right mouse button to keep the camera where it is, your character will turn while attacking, and then return to face away from the camera once the animation finishes.

Q2; Generally, for North American servers, Freedom and Virtue are the most populated two. Virtue, however, is where most of the roleplayers flock to (not a good or a bad thing, except in Pocket D sometimes, but it may influence your decision). If you're on the European servers... Union? I don't know. One of the two English servers is the most populated one, I believe. But I'd wait for one of the European players to correct me, if this applies to you at all.

Other tips? uh... Depending on your gaming history, forget all you know about the holy trinity (Tank, DPS, Healer). It doesn't really apply here. Our archtypes blur the lines too much for it to be of use. And Buffs are generally far more effective than heals. It's not that heals aren't useful, just that preemptive buffing is better than playing health bar whack-a-mole. Also, the death penalty is trivial; after lvl 10, faceplanting gives debt, which halves your XP income until the debt is payed off (the cap for debt is lower than it used to be, and there's more ways to reduce it and pay it off than ever before).

Only other thing, have fun, try a little of everything, and take it easy. There is no need to rush to 50. Where other games* put most of their content on the end of the leveling grind, ours is relatively evenly spaced amongst all levels. Higher level characters can go back and play anything they missed along the way, too, if creating many alternate characters doesn't appeal to you.


Hope I've helped you out, good luck in your adventures.