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I would like an option where I can choose additional slots instead of a power choice after a certain level (say 35?).

So when I get to level 35/38/41/47/49 I can choose 3 more slots instead of a power. Sure this means I will be able to 6-slot more of my powers but I will also have less powers in total (less Travel Power/Leadership/Epic/TP/Medicine powers which will make different aspects of the game harder).

Or if thats too much let me only get 2 slots when I chose this option.

For those people asking about additional new animations regarding the "elemental" melee sets, Castle has asked what sets we want new animations for.

You can see the current suggestions here

Tonight we ran a level 50 PuG in the RWZ.
Most of the team ran toons under 50 and PINGS were going off left, right and center .

Some lucky person also got a Purple.

Thanks to all who joined the team.


Reminder: Next week is a Rikti Mothership RAID. While any level is acceptible 35+ is recommended.


(PS: Plantatia Pylon made another appearance at the end of the night on his way back to the Vanguard Base )

Wednesday we managed to get 2 full teams and absolutely DECIMATED the Rikti.
Team A got on average around 380-400 Vanguard Merits per member.
There were only a few deaths during the entire event (remember to yell out BOMB when planting one as they really do hurt lol).

Plantatia remebered AGAIN why he hates the Pylons (hahahaha).

From now on his nickname is "Plantatia Pylon" so remember to call him that in game when you see him.

Thanks to all who turned up for the event and sorry it took so long to form the 2 teams (around 30mins all up).

Morning Gulanzon,
not sure to be honest. Best plasce to ask is the Technical Issues & Bugs Forum.

If you are finding your updating speeds to be quite slow you can use an additional switch in your shortcut icon to tell it to use different ports.

Stop the updater and try the following:

1. Right-click your shortcut for City of Heroes/Villains.

2. Choose Properties.

3. In the Target field, add a space, a dash, the word "port", a space, and 13094.

Before:
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe"
After:
"C:\Program Files\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe" -port 13094

4. Click OK.

5. Start the game normally using the shortcut.

If that does not help, try following the same steps again, but instead of 13094 use 23094.

Cheers

Short question = long answer

CoX powers that use KB (Knockback) is considered by many to be "team-unfriendly" as those KB powers "push" the enemies around.
This affects melee toons as they then need to go chasing those enemies around the map in order to smack/slice/burn/etc them into submission (or death).

However IF the KB player can use the terrain and knockback the enemies into corners/walls/etc that the melee toons are nearby its not a big deal.

Alternatively if you can hover/fly and be above the enemy when you use your KB power you knock them back into the ground. However if you hit them from an angle then they may go bouncing across the map (ok slight over exaggeration but you get the point )

Note that some KB powers actually do KD/KU (KnockDown/KnockUp) but are still classified as KnockBack. They mean (as the names suggest) that your power knocks the enemies off their feet or up into the air. (Note-Note: enemies that have a weakness to KD/KU or are lower level than you may be KB even if its a KD/KU power).

KB can be VERY fun and in some situations save your life but "in general" KB is still frowned upon in teams as the player can cause headaches.

BUT (always a but) many teams dont care to the point of not inviting you based on your powers - as long as you dont continue to be the cause of team wipes by always knocking enemy A into a bunch of new enemies and causing them to attack and overwhelm the team

Welcome Gulanzon!!!
Justice is the place to be for all things awesome.

The majority of Aussie players are Villains but Heroes do exist (especially on Mondays).

See my earlier post (08-16-2010 08:22) which lists some of the regular events on Justice.
The Wednesday SINISTER event is now arranged by Plantatia and myself as Lili has left the game.

Look forward to seeing you ingame on your FREAKING HUGE DB Scrapper lol.

As for your question about playing a Bard-Type character the best I can probably advise on would be a Blaster (Hero), Corrupter (Villain) or Defender (Hero). Blast/Corr are ranged attackers but with either Buff or Debuff powers and Defenders are Buff/Debuffers with Ranged attacks.

Whats the difference?

Blast/Corr get their ranged attacks as their Primary Powers (gets them earlier and they ar emore powerful) and the Buff/Debuff are Secondary.
Defenders are Buff/Debuff Primary and Ranged Damage Secondary.

These allow you to do damage from afar along with either helping (buff) your allies (heal, increase defence or damage resistance, rez, etc) or hinder (debuff) your enemies (slow, decrease their to-hit/damage/defence/etc).

This is an overly simplistic view point and im sure others will also have more suggestions like maybe a MasterMind (Villain).

Or.... try them all and have fun

Thinking of bringing my 35/36 Defender (Dark/Dark) for the Vanguard Merits and XP .
If this proves too squishy ill swap to my 50 Brute or 50 Tank.

Last night we ran a level 2 respec and as always the final part was BOOOORING.....
The Dev's really need to look into changing that part of the respec.
We ran it at +2/x5 and still had time to get bored.

After that some of us joined the X8 and did a mish or 2.

Thanks to all who joined

Next week will be a lowbie (ish) toon run (say level 15) or level 35 PuG.

That last Malta mish took - man I dont even want to GUESS at the time to complete.
It was a lesson in death and not to get too used to the performance of your more powerful toons. My 24 scrapper died almost every mob (making a dent in the HP and Death badges).

Cant wait for more though as Critical Attacks wants to turn to the red side... (first stop GR).

Make sure its also for Android phones (50% of instore phones will be Android based by end of the year).
Also ~33% of new phone sales are Android vs ~26% iOS.

GO THE ANDROID ARMY

OK so here is the plan for tonight.
If we have the numbers a Level 2 Respec.
After that Ill run some level 50 Alignment Tip missions (Hero -> Hero) so no side-switching..

If not enough numbers for the respec then the Tip Missions may be followed by a level 35 PuG - see what everyone wants.

Im bringing my level 24 Scrapper (Claws/Inv) to the dark side.

His feral nature is too strong to resist for much longer.
His lips part revelaing long fangs when arrogant people are nearby.
His claws extend of their own violition and the urge to sink them into the persons fleshy tender spots too exquisit to ignore.

A dark chuckle escapes his lips when he thinks about the blood flowing down his claws dripping to the thirsty earth.

Pretty much all the above /signed.

Id really like to be able to wear my weapon(s) rather than pull them out of my...
Sure if I was a magic toon I could maybe summon/conjure my weapon but if im Natural or Mutant?

Talons instead of claws yes please

Also more armour options like Chainmail, chainmail coif, heavy tech armor (like Starcraft/Warhammer heavy).
Maybe even a chainsword option for Tech Melee types.

Also the option to Promote members who are offline.
I am in charge of a SG that has limited invite access so if im on a character that is rank 1 and a mate asks for an invite ive got to swap, invite, then swap back.
Obviously if im on a TF/SF then they have to wait.

Diggis when I respec I can already "swap" my IO's and resell the ones I dont slot (well up to 10 of them anyway ).
Im simply asking for a way to temporarily hold more than 10 Enhancements.

As to how this would work well im sure that are many options but need to find one that isnt unbalanced.
[spitballing]
Maybe something like when you respec you can hold more than 10 but you cant get any new ones or craft new ones until you have less than 10.

This allows you to retain more than 10 from your respec but not craft new ones or get new Enh until you do whatever you want to do with them (sell/email/trade/etc).

Last night we started with a level 22 PuG originally formed by Indice and Plantatia (cheers guys).

After that X8 formed a Synapse SF which took 2.5 hrs to complete. Unfortunately we failed to do it under the 2hr timer but it was still great fun .

Most people got a level or 2 out of it.

Next week ill look at running a level 35 PuG or maybe a Level 1 and 2 respec.

Do we know if the new inherent Fitness Pool will be slottable (like Brawl can be slotted)?
What will the values be (same or different)?

If they are slottable and the values the same then people will probably still slot them the way they do now meaning no "additional" slots.

Also the problem with upgrading your IO's.
If you slot IO's at say level 30 then reslot with better IO's at say level 50 (for arguments sake) then you have to do multiple respecs to swap out the older IO's.
A lot of time, money and effort goes into IOing a character and loosing all that is a real pain.
With SO's they are not that expensive but when a single IO recipe (im not talking about the uber IO's like Numina, Obliteration, Procs or Uniques etc) can cost 250,000 INF, then the salvage say another 150,000 INF and crafting cost (say 55,000 INF) thats 455,000 INF for a single Slot. Level 30 SO is what 35,000 ish.
Take Serendipity (level 30). Recently I looked at slotting my /SR Brute with them at level 30. I then plan on reslotting with LotG when I get to 40-45+.
For a set of 4 Serendipity the cost to buy crafted IO's was around 3.5 Mil Inf.
Recipes and Salvage was around 1.4 Mil Inf. This is taking an average of the cost for the last 5 sales (not the most accurate I know but dont have anything better to base it on).

Someway to unslot IO's and not waste them, but also not requiring 3-4 respecs would be great.

Thanks in advance

Last nights RWZ Mothership Raid didnt go ahead due to lack of numbers.
Instead Plant ran some of his level 50 RWZ missions.

Some of the team brought in lowbies and got some great xp.

We started at +1/x6 and ended up at +4/x6 and we were still steam-rolling with only an unfortunate death or two (not including the lowbies getting smacked by the Pylons between missions).

Next Wednesday Plant will be running a mid-high level 30's PuG (his toon will be level ~38).

Some good drops were received (Recipe and Salvage) and someone even got a Purple.

Thanks to all who turned up it was a very fun night

Or remove Origin specific Enhancements.

Is there a reason why there needs to be a Mutant Acc level 30 SO and a Natural Acc Level 30 SO and a .....?

I chose a Magic Origin toon, but the story arc im doing only drops Tech. So either i DONT chose that arc which I may like (story actually entices me), or I suffer with getting drops I cant use, sell them for 1/2 value and spend that cash plus another amount of the same value buying my Origin SO's.

Im not saying get rid of the Origins, just the different Enhancement Origins.

This means you can still go to the Vendor/QM/etc to buy the level 20/25/30/35/... enhancements you actually need or hope to get the level 26/27/28/etc drops that you need.

Feedback appreciated

Last nights RWZ PuG was great fun. Started with a full team that got cut down to 5 due to the X8 RP team.
This resulted in a tough mission that had a few deaths but in the end we prevailed.
We ran at +2/*5 still as we had some lower level team members.

We started and completed the Gaussian Arc including defeating the Hero in the final mish. Im also adding Vanguard Sorcerers to my hate list - for some reason they pwned my Tank which can survive Rikti/Warwolves/Malta solo at the same difficulty.

Next week... stay tuned

Good morning all,
tonight I will be running a level 50 RWZ PuG.

This will be organised from the new Antipodal Global channel as the Australia channel has been scuttled and appears to be going down.

Bring whatever toon you want for some teamage fun.

See you all there

Ill bring either my 50 Tank (SD/Axe) or 50 Brute (DM/SR) for an additional team if we have the numbers.

Dont forget to bring your Jet Packs if you cant Fly/Jump/TP

I brought my DOM (Earth/Mental) instead of my buffer and had a fun time .

This time Ill bring my Buffer as a different tactic.

Will work on getting him to level 12 by Friday.

Cheers Plant