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Oddly enough shut down and restart the computer fixed it for me, the updater then found (yet another) patch and applied it and let me find the servers at last.

A corruptor sounds like a good idea - buffs/debuffs and a reasonable damage level. I'd look at /thermal, /rad, /dark /kin as I'd second the notion that a fire/fire will need support - great fun, lovely damage, but not a lot of mitigation

As an Australian who plays on the US servers and who played quite happily from Europe while on holidays I can confirm that latency is not a real problem and varies more from day to day than continent to continent.

Would love a merged server list, ideally before I make the next trip to visit family in Europe

The usual distinction is that Thursday is the regular maintenance and Tuesday is the common day for patches. This week with the Halloween patch the two were reversed.

With I18 being a major upgrade there have been more patches than usual.

Like you - being in Australia makes it more intrusive on normal play times. By next month at least it will push back an hour when US comes off daylight saving - 11pm is better than 9pm if you live east coast

My 50 brute got the mission and had the same fail to get reward as has already been reported. My 50 widow has the tip. Both a new Praetorian (now level 4) and my level 21 demon MM who hasn't left Praetoria have failed to get the tip so far.

None of them have made any progress on costumes - the two 50s have not had their existing costume counts updated and the two Praetorians have no costume count. The monster counts are being updated.

The salvage drop seems to be higher than previous years (maybe just for testing?) but the critters are no easier.

And then you still can't find it - oh yes and yes

I just kept looking for incoming ambushes when the silly thing exploded, not realising that it was just despawning

1. female

2. I find melee damage characters come most naturally - brutes and scrappers, but play all ATs and am enjoying levelling a couple of corruptors at the moment. I find tanks the hardest to play, all that responsibility on a team and no ability to just smash things...

3. I like the missions arcs (and mayhems) Redside better than Blueside- but as I live in Australia so play at off times I play blueside just to find teams. Praetoria is fun too

4. I like the variety in the newer content

5 teaming, especially with friends, that it doesn't require the 'twitch' factor to be successful and how each differently each AT/powerset plays.

6. none really - spider solitaire and other time fillers

7. 4 yrs

8. about 50 that I play, 10 of them at 50 and the rest pretty evenly spread from 3 to 45.

9. As I really don't like playing the market game none of my chars can afford to be purpled out, but I do get sets on the ones I like playing. Difficulty depends on the char and how often I solo with them

Scarily enough it was through work. Got transferred to a new team and the guys there kept talking about this game they played. I hadn't played an MMO before. Though my kids played WoW and a couple of others, I'd never progressed beyond Lemmings. Eventually I got up the courage to buy CoH/V and with the amused assistance of my sons managed to work out the controls and find I quite enjoyed it. Teaming with the guys in the evenings and then discussing it over coffee breaks the next day was the most enjoyable team building exercise I've ever done

you've checked that your firewall isn't blocking it? that's always the bit I forget

'On the other hand, sometimes a blaster is unable to attack for fear of getting too much aggro. This lowers damage considerably.'

Bah humbug - the only reason a blaster isn't attacking is because they're dead. I will concede that that does lower damage considerably

Seeing the server status says it was last updated on 7th September, it's probably correct just a little dated

And remember this is a team game - and with buffers and debuffers a blaster can be a careless glorious killing machine (oops arresting force), you just have to be a bit more careful solo.

I'd second the dark/sonic, as long as you can cope with the sound effects - once you slot the heal for accuracy it's a pretty versatile and tough build

And the server status hasn't been updated for over a week, so the servers are just down for maint- which is taking longer than usual

and then it logged me out !

It took me three attempts to log in to the forums, once said welcome, but didn't actually log me in, once just sat and spun it's wheels and refused to load any page and finally then a successful log-in

The server status page hasn't been updated since the 7th September - so it's not telling us much about the current state of the servers!

It looks as if maintenance is taking longer than usual

Yes, I've had this problem with villains that skipped Kalinda's missions on the way up (there's only so many snakeholes you want to jump down). When you want to run the cape mission you have to finish off her arc (fortunately at your level) before she'll give it to you

Certainly when one of my vet awards didn't turn up Support were able to fix it and I've had no problems since

For not so new material the VEAT storylines could do with a total revamp - compared with the praetorian stories with nuanced morality these are looking very lacklustre.

Or the horror of watching the bassinette glow green at regular intervals and realising you'd spawned a h3al0r!

My widow was easy - she was conscripted into Arachnos as a small child when she showed signs of talent, so it's taken a long time for her to get to a place where she can start to see through the system and make her own moral choices.

You've reminded me of one thing I really would like to change - do you have to grunt when you jump? I don't like it in general, and like taunt the voice doesn't fit - some of my male characters are tenors, not basses

Dual pistols - less cartoony animations would be good - more like Thugs or Malta

And as so many have said - alternate animations for the aid other/ aid self for non-tech characters

The dodging and weaving of acrobatics annoys me - I'd prefer something that indicated gymnast, not street fighter for some of my characters

A non-pulsing blazing aura though as I play with suppressclosefx on it doesn't annoy me when it's my character, but then I get the same problem as Minotaur with my fire sword

check your options to make sure you haven't turned xp off