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That's still the method to do it. You just launch cityofheroes.exe directly with the -demoplay switch just like you always used to. I just used it the other day.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Demo_R...ng_Back_A_Demo

PVP sounds like so much fun these days...

One caveat to this is that the 120 second globals will still stack for 120 seconds every time you zone if it's in a toggle. Not sure if all of the stacked buffs will drop if you untoggle, but I doubt it.

While this is good advice, it's not necessary to create a new channel if they fill up. From what I understand, a quick petition to the GMs from the channel owner can get the channel limit raised fairly quickly.

If you made a Stalker, you could do this Villain-side and have 150' Stealth and easier access to buy a JetPack in Grandville along with a really easy way to get there with the Helicopter in Mercy Island. I count 8 regular zones and one hazard zone for a total of 45 Merits. That means it would work as long as you had the 60 Month "City Traveler" Veteran reward that grants 5 Merits.

Also, what is a "Wing Recipe"??

You could get another account and do it all yourself. Your High-level farmer could spend his/her Tickets on Rare Salvage that you need for high level IOs and let the lowbie get the level 10 stuff with his/her tickets.

Are there really any Gold-List recipes that are that useful at level 10 for this to be worthwhile or is it just a concept test to see how best to do it?

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For a Level 10 AE Farming Character (using Fire-based enemies), you could try an Electrical Melee/Fiery Aura Brute. By level 10 you could get a single-target attack (that has a chance to restore a small amount of End), a cone attack, a PBAOE attack and Build Up along with one Resist Shield, a Heal and Temperature Protection Resists. With level 10 IOs you'd end up with about 25% S/L Resist, 49% Fire Resist, 4 slotted Single Target and Cone attacks (Rech, End, 2x Dam?) with 3 slotted PBAOE attack (End, 2x Dam?) and a 25% Heal every 40 seconds.

If you make sure you play the right origin (Mutant or Natural I think) you could use the special Level 10 Single-Origin Damage enhancements from Mr. Yin's Market in Faultline if you have another character who can purchase them for your lowbie. These things REALLY make it easy for a low-level character since everything you fight at level 10 is created around expecting you to have only a couple lowly Training Enhancements.

Is there really that much need for Travel Powers though? I haven't tried it yet but I haven't seen the need for Temp Travel Powers on "Master Of" Task Force runs besides it being slightly annoying getting from place to place.

Most likely it's a case of the Category the Costume Change power fits into.

Costume Code Powers likely fit into the same category as other Temp Powers that change your character's object model. Things like the Freakshow Disguise temp power, Arachnos Disguise temp power, Midnight Visage temp power and Halloween Costumes. Not sure exactly which ones work and which don't. These powers likely have an exclusion effect for other powers such as Granite and the entire "Costume Change" category powers and the "Self-Stealth" category of powers as well.

Some of these Costume Change powers have a Stealth Effect boost. All of the earliest Costume Change powers had a self-Stealth effect so likely the whole category of these powers are mutually exclusive with anything else in the same category or other powers that have an exclusion for this entire "Costume Power" category, like self-Stealth powers.

The thing the Devs would have to do to fix all this would be to make a couple new power categories like "Costume Change Powers" and "Stealth Costume Powers" and then re-categorize EVERY current "Costume Change" power and EVERY Self-Stealth power to exclude the proper sets of other power categories and then test all the changes and combinations.

That in itself doesn't seem like a huge amount of work, but it is fairly significant and with any radical power changes like these, they'd have to weigh the Risk vs. Rewards in the decision to do this. The Risk is that they could easily bork up a large number of critical powers (people that choose self-Stealth powers tend to really RELY on those self-Stealth powers and an entire AT is based around them) and also possibly open up a fair amount of Stealth-related exploits if they messed up when they made the changes. The Reward is that a few people could use their Costume Change powers with Self-Stealth effects. I'm guessing that outside of Halloween Trick or Treating, that would be a TINY amount of players in relation to the amount of people that might get broken or take advantage of any Stealth exploits that may result from this.

Not an official or very palatable answer from your part, but I can understand their reluctance to make the changes needed to fix this.

That's a good plan because VEATs only have access to the PPPs.

The way that Sniper Powers work in the game is that they do their "To Hit" check at the end of the Interrupt Time NOT when the power fires. No matter what else happens in the game after the interrupt countdown timer reaches "0", whether you get knocked down, held, feared, confused, stunned, the enemy goes out of range or you even lose Line of Sight, the Sniper Power WILL go off.

There's some really interesting things that can be done with pulling using Snipe, Hide and the Interrupt reduction and Range increase you get with a Snipe IO Set. The Hide part may be situational though as I haven't used this with my DM/Nin Stalker yet.

With a set of 5 Sting of the Manticore Moonbeam get a Cast time of 7.33, an Interrupt Time of just under 4 seconds, and a range of almost 170. You can start Moonbeam, wait 4 seconds and then MOVE for 3.33 seconds until the power Fires. When you can be almost 200 feet from your enemy and also he can't even see you, when that Moonbeam finally hits, odds are good that your targeted enemy is the only one that notices you, even if he is in a group.

I've done some incredible pulls with this method even being able to pluck AVs out of their surrounding group. It makes single-pulling on the STF a breeze and single-pulling on the LRSF somewhat reliable without any other mitigation.

Of course, this isn't quite so useful on a solo Stalker so you may or may not need to be able to do those kind of things. Being able to pull an EB out from his group with a nice large hit and still being able to hide in order to kick off an AS by the time he does get to you while still having Placate ready sounds like a very useful tool for even a solo Stalker though.

I'm eager to see how I can work this on a Stalker and how it compares to my Energy/Devices Blaster who is an absolute master at pulling.

Boy, I'm just making mistakes left and right here... I thought I was replying to the OP who was talking about Chilling Embrace, the Ice Tanker aura. I didn't realize we tangented.

Everyone point and laugh at TUO, He's wrong again!

You won't have any of those files or folders unless you have manually created them or installed some kind of player-made customization program to City of Heroes that creates them.

They're not part of a regular installation and everything in this post is completely unsupported by NCSoft/Paragon Studios.

That's not right. Impeded Swiftness (level 10-30 Slow Set) has a Smashing Damage Proc in the set.
My bad, I didn't realize Chilling Embrace was not a Damage Aura which do take the Procs I was talking about and you can get 5 of them (4 Dam, 1 -Res) in them if you're so inclined. 6 if you're using Mud Pots (5 Dam, 1 -Res).

I agree though, they should allow Taunt sets in those powers again if they haven't already done so. Mids doesn't show them as available but I'd be surprised if they managed to sneak that by everyone that uses Mids and the Mids developers. They're pretty quick to update Mids with changes to powers.

Ah, yeah, that makes sense. It's probably a side effect of them fixing pseudo-pets to inherit buffs (especially Acc and Dam) of the owner. My Devices Blaster's Gun Drone inherits any Inspiration or click-buff powers that he has running when casting the drone and it used to also have the Hasten glow but I think it doesn't get that anymore.

Make friends with someone who can PowerLevel you in AE. You could make a new Technology DP Blaster and be level 27 in an hour or two and never leave Atlas Park.

Odds are the exact text is still buried somewhere in the game's client-side files. They almost never take anything OUT of them, they just add new stuff and don't ever reference the older stuff anymore.

What's so special about having that particular proc in your aura? Because it's really cheap and it's Psi damage?

There's three other normal (20% chance for 72 damage) procs in the PBAOE sets (Eradication, Scirocco's Dervish, Obliteration) as well as the Purple (33% chance for 107 damage) proc (Armageddon) and then you also have the PVP Resist (20% chance for -20% resist) one (Fury of the Gladiator) as well.

You need an aura power 6-slotted with only Procs in it?