dudeman1298

Awesome, thanks for the answer!

Not really a question on how to get it, more about ways to get to the lower level stuff I missed.

So I pretty much missed out on the mayhem missions from level 10-34, and I hate to be that guy spamming everyone trying to find someone willing to get me a mayhem mission (and before you ask, I do have a few friends that can help me out with a few of them, but not all). I was wondering if it would be possible to get my own mayhem on an alt, invite some random person, set the mish, quit and then have them invite the toon I want the badge for? It would require no effort for the stranger and I get my badge! So does that work?

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From what I've heard, a lot of people skip shadow maul.

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Wha? Skip shadow maul? From experience that thing gives out awesome AOE damage despite it's long animation. Is it really not worth it?

I didn't find too much on DM/SD from a search and was wondering about power picks. I'm aiming to soft-cap (or very close to it) defense on a somewhat low budget, and I can get around 42-43% melee and ranged with weave, but I was wondering if going with Darkest Night instead of weave is feasible. But if I go with weave I'll have to go without either shadow maul or hasten, and that doesn't seem very good. :/ I have no idea how darkest night works, so any feedback would be great.

Edit: here are the powers I have planned now.

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.401
http://www.cohplanner.com/

[u]Click this DataLink to open the build![u]

Level 48 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Shield Defense
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Smite -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Deflection -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Shadow Maul -- Empty(A)
Level 4: True Grit -- Empty(A)
Level 6: Battle Agility -- Empty(A)
Level 8: Siphon Life -- Empty(A)
Level 10: Active Defense -- Empty(A)
Level 12: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 14: Health -- Empty(A)
Level 16: Against All Odds -- Empty(A)
Level 18: Dark Consumption -- Empty(A)
Level 20: Stamina -- Empty(A)
Level 22: Phalanx Fighting -- Empty(A)
Level 24: Boxing -- Empty(A)
Level 26: Soul Drain -- Empty(A)
Level 28: Grant Cover -- Empty(A)
Level 30: Tough -- Empty(A)
Level 32: Midnight Grasp -- Empty(A)
Level 35: Shield Charge -- Empty(A)
Level 38: Weave -- Empty(A)
Level 41: Gloom -- Empty(A)
Level 44: Dark Obliteration -- Empty(A)
Level 47: Combat Jumping -- Empty(A)
Level 49: Super Jump -- Empty(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Fury

I checked my router and firewall a thousand times before, everything is working as it should.

I just don't understand why updating CoH is the ONLY thing slow about my college's connection. The game itself runs just fine, and I download other things from here just as fast, if not faster than from home. Why doesn't it like the CoH updater?

I tried to get help from support, but they just gave what looks like a cut and paste response (everyone's trying to update at this time, please be patient and try later, blah blah blah). But isn't 233 BYTES per second a little bit on the slow side? I told them how it always goes this slow on my college's internet and whenever I take my computer home it updates just fine, but obviously they ignored that. Hoping someone here knows something, because waiting 44 hours to get an update is unacceptable.