TheUnnamedOne

The Patron Pool respec is NOT a freespec. You have to talk to a Respec NPC to use it. These kind of respecs can stack. If you do all three Respec Trials, the Patron Pool, and claim two Veteran Respecs, you'll have six of them available to your character all at one time.

There's a listing of how many respecs your character has available when you login. This counter includes regular respecs and freespecs in one number.

Technically speaking, there is a single flag on every character for PVP, even Praetorians. You are either a Hero or a Villain. You can see your character's "Side" by using the $Side chat variable.

/l I am $name, I fight for the $side team in PVP

There's yellow salvage that I see these days that is often and repeatedly around the 500K-1M price as well as white salvage often in the 50K-200K range. You're missing out on a lot of opportunities just vendoring all your white and yellow salvage.

Granted, there is white and yellow salvage that NEVER sells for much but some of it is quite valuable, even the stuff in the more plentiful level 41+ range.

These days COH is a complicated place to grow up for a new player. Back in the day, it was a simple progression from Training to Dual Origin to Single Origin Enhancements all the way to level 50. Now you have to decide what to do all through your character's career.

For the most part, I ignore Training Enhancements except for Accuracy until I'm up to Duals. Once there, I just put in whatever DO is good for the power until level 22. For the low level salvage, I'll usually just auction it off at the market since you often get a nice payday from some impatient high level badger looking to get their crafting badges.

At level 22, I generally start slotting generic level 25 crafted IO Enhancements. Level 25 IOs are almost as good as SOs and they never expire. I end up leaving these slotted all the way to level 50 simply for the convenience of never having to upgrade them. The only drawback to level 25 IOs is the scarcity of salvage to craft them. There is one good solution for this though. Go play a few player-created story arcs in Mission Architect.

In misisons played in the AE buildings, you don't get normal rewards, you randomly get AE Tickets. Lots of them sometimes. You can buy every single type of salvage at the AE building with Tickets. You can purchase the exact type of the yellow (uncommon) and orange (rare) varieties with 80 and 540 tickets respectively. For the white salvage, it's a bit different. You can buy a random white salvage for only 8 tickets. Luckily, it's not totally random. The random rolls are split into Arcane and Tech types, and in those types they're also split up by level range; low, middle and high each of which gives one out of six random white salvage for only 8 tickets. Even if you don't get the one you want, ALL of the recipes of the same level use the same 12 (6 Arcane and 6 Tech) salvage for that level range so if you're crafting a lot, you'll likely need the extras for another recipe anyway.

With this in mind, you have two options, buy the IO recipes outright or buy them at auction. I generally buy them directly from the crafting tables since most of the recipes in the market of the low and mid level are usually snapped up by people working on their crafting badges which uses up a lot of the recipes that get to the market. This increases the overall cost of them but since you're only doing level 25s, it's not really that much total.

Once you get fully slotted, you're all set and never have to mess with them for a long time except for new slots that you gain through leveling. Then just put in a new IO at the highest level you can, or you can keep them at level 25 or 30 to save on costs. Once you get to level 47, it gets worse.

This is where Mids comes in really handy again. At 47, you can slot those level 50 IO Sets that you'll likely never change out again as long as you get the sets you want. This is when you might start having to play the market a bit in order to get the exact sets that you want and the expensive rare salvage that you'll need to make the good sets.

You can only have one "Freespec" available on any character. That's why the Devs handed out multiple Freespecs during that period: so players could freespec out of Fitness on their first build, then the second was given so players could freespec out of Fitness on their second build. I think the third freespec was so that the few players that already got their third (Incarnate) build could freespec that as well.

This was actually just an AI pathing bug that was first found in Beta testing.

The "Sewer Entrance" door in Kings Row just west of the Train Station happened to be in the middle of the automatic pathing route that NPCs would follow. The problem was that they'd try to walk the path but since they would climb over the entrance door, the way the AI pathing worked is they would be "off-path" because they were ABOVE the path and they'd climb down and try to resume their path which took them right back to climbing on top of the entrance door again taking them off-path. Doing that would get them stuck in a loop where they'd be climbing and jumping up and down all over the entrance door until the server got reset.

It was so funny to see that it was a popular thing to do for flying blasters to "rescue" a few NPCs in Kings Row and then fly over top of that particular door and have the NPCs follow them to get them stuck jumping up and down all over that one spot.

One time a few other people and I spent about a half hour to see how many we could get there. We estimated that we got around 75-100 NPCs stuck on that one small spot. I think one of the problems was that if the NPCs didn't despawn after being rescued, their spawnpoint wouldn't be "finished" and wouldn't let a new spawn group take its place.

It was such a common thing to see NPCs freaking out there for such a long time that when the Devs finally fixed the pathing, they commemorated the issue with a new history plaque.

It's still kind of slow kitting out even a single character with five LOTG Recharge IOs. It's a bare minimum of 40 hours just to get one of them (if the player is converting old Merits to Alignment Merits as well as the 1 merit from doing two days worth of Tips) and the best you can do is to get 5 of them in about 6 days at the cost of 10 Alignment Merits, 350 regular merits and 140 million Inf. That's if your doing your Tips and trading Merits as close as possible to every 20 hours.

Since it's hardly likely that people would be able/willing to do that and the fact that some people who have been farming/marketing for a LONG time simply have bucketloads of spare INF that spending 200 Million on a rare recipe, or even 1 Billion on five of them is nothing to them.

All you really need to do here to get rid of the warnings is to grant the security rights needed to make changes to your User account.

Right-Click the folder that COH resides in and select Properties. Click the "Security" tab and Add your user account name to the list and tick the "Full Control" "Allow" box in the bottom window.

Either that or you can even modify the shortcut in Windows XP to allow the NCSoft Launcher (and anything it launches) to be run as an Administrator user. Right-click the shortcut to the launcher and select Properties. On the "Shortcut" tab is an "Advanced" button that has an option to enable "Run with different credentials" that you can then specify what user credentials are used to launch NCSoft Launcher (and the programs it launches).

They have already or will be removing some (all?) of the -PROJECT switches you used to be able to use to directly launch CityOfHeroes.exe instead of using COHUpdater.exe. I'll have to check it out and see if they still work.

I'm fairly sure this is an NCSoft-mandated change specifically to force everyone to use the launcher.

Even if they do remove the -PROJECT switches, the NCSoftUpdater program HAS to call CityOfHeroes.exe somehow and tell it that it how to load. Odds are they will just change the switches and someone good with a process monitor or decompiler would be able to fairly easily figure out the new switches.

So when you upgrade your power drill with new drill bits do you then try to take out screws with your hammer?

Worst. Security Questions. Evar!

These answers (as well as birthdays, anniversaries, Father's middle name, etc.) can usually be easily found on a quick trip to Facebook and Ancestors.com. If you don't want your friends (or enemies) who know you play COH to be able to socially engineer their way into your account, do NOT use this kind of easily searchable personal information for security questions.

Yeah, and the snarky suppositions of an internet blog reporter is always accurate.

I'd bet if the guy spent all the time/money to make his apartment into some kind of Ultimate Sports Den including part that looked like a football (American or otherwise) locker room, no one would comment negatively at all.

Sports geek = Cool and socially acceptable. Sci Fi geek = Sad nerd and social pariah.

Society sucks.

Most of my characters that "need" the badges or emotes have them already but it was usually a 50% chance that there'd be someone else there waiting to do them or just finishing one.

I think your perception of no one doing them "Ever" is more a factor of the much lower population even in Praetoria at all than anything else.

That's the content I wish the Devs would expand. I LOVE roaming around traveling through Praetorian simply for the beauty of the city. I HATE that there's such a limited supply of things to do there.