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Quote:If I am looking for a 1 slot wonder, I am looking for powers to stuff LotG in. Placate doesn't take any IO sets.Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
ah, but hit a nuke with a blaster and then placate and you might find it useful
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Quote:I'm all for changing powers that suck. Starting with D-shift and blackhole.Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Just drop it. The change for the better and it's not our game to edit. Do you really want to keep Challenge?
The new power isn't much of an improvement since I skip placate on my stalkers. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
But it's not a cottage rule violation.
Last time I checked Challenge takes Taunt IOs and Sets -
I agree that Challenge is Garbage.
So was repulse before it it was changed to disrupt. However, its still a violation of the cottage rule.
(example) It would be like removing KB from Energy Blast and no longer allowing increase KB IOs and KB sets from being slotted into Energy blast. (/example)
Hey, I've always been an advocate of blowing up the cottage rule so we can rid ourselves of intangable powers such as Blackhole and Dimension Shift. Also, riding ourselves of PBAoE KB powers that do no damage (thus OF inelegiable) such as Hand Clap.
So what if someone had a stone tank who had taunt, provoke and challenge? -
Quote:Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim
Challenge: Removed, turned into Pacify, self-placate. No hide no crit, pure self aggro dump. "Oh Sh*t Button" (Zwill: Maybe Scrappers will want. *SNERK*)
*Tosses flag in air*
Cottage rule violation!! -
Blasters and ambush farms died awhile ago. Wait for bio armor brutes.
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*gasp*
So is blaster blizzard going to be the same as defender blizzard? -
Quote:Agree with this, follow hyperstikes guide. http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=231628Originally Posted by WanderingAries
Until you follow this, then we won't know if it's from browser ram hogging or something as simple as corrupted graphics drivers.
I have CoH running on 5 different PCs + 1 laptop with very different hardware and different drivers and they all run stable. So before jumping up and down blaming the CoH program, please follow hyperstrike's guide. -
Runs just fine with my 6870
This is my machine running 12.1
DxDiag gathered at July 11, 2012 12:26 (-07:00)
Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120503-2030)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: BIOS Date: 02/05/10 19:13:52 Ver: 08.00.10
Central Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500K CPU @ 3.30GHz (4 CPUs), ~3.3GHz
Memory: 8192MB
.Net Memory Report: 6418MB out of 8168MB available
Page File: 14271MB (2063MB currently in use)
C Drive: (WDC WD15 02FAEX-007BA0 SCSI Disk Device) 421014MB out of 510898MB (82%) free
D Drive: (WDC WD15 02FAEX-007BA0 SCSI Disk Device) 453801MB out of 510999MB (88%) free
E Drive: (WDC WD15 02FAEX-007BA0 SCSI Disk Device) 397967MB out of 408797MB (97%) free
X Drive: (TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-S223L ATA Device) zero-size drive
Windows directory location: C:\Windows
DirectX: DirectX 11
DirectX Diag version: 6.01.7601.17514 (64-bit version)
Display Notes: No problems found.
Sound Notes: No problems found.
No problems found.
No problems found.
Input Notes: No problems found.
Monitor:
Monitor's Max Resolution: (blank)
Video Device Name: AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series
Manufacturer / Chip: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. / ATI display adapter (0x6738)
Video Memory: 740 MB
Driver Version: 8.930.0.0
Driver Date: 12/5/2011 8:16:00 PM
Driver Language: English
Sound Device Description: Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6235
Driver Date: 11/2/2010 4:33:10 AM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output(Optical) (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6235
Driver Date: 11/2/2010 4:33:10 AM
Sound Device Description: Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio)
Driver File: RTKVHD64.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.6235
Driver Date: 11/2/2010 4:33:10 AM
WMI Information
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard Model: (empty)
Motherboard Product: P8P67 PRO
Motherboard Version: Rev 1.xx
BIOS Manufacturer: American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Name: BIOS Date: 02/05/10 19:13:52 Ver: 08.00.10
BIOS Version: ALASKA - 1072009
BIOS Release: 20110608000000.000000+000
Registry Information for Current User
Resolution: 1920x1200
3D Resolution: 1920x1200 (Not using renderscale)
Full Screen: Yes
Maximized: No
Screen Position: 0, 0
Refresh Rate: 60Hz
Vertical Sync Enabled: Yes
Physics Quality: High
Maximum Particles: 50000
Max Particle Fill? 10.000
Physics Card Enabled: No
Anti-aliasing: Off
Anisotropic Filtering: 4x
Texture LOD Bias: Smooth
Water Effects: Ultra quality
Bloom: 1.000 (turned on)
Depth of Field Enabled: Yes
Desaturation Effects (Sepia) Enabled: Yes
Shader Detail: High
World Texture Level: High
Character Texture Level: High
World Detail Level (Vis_Scale): 1.000
Entity Detail Level: 1.000
Shadows Enabled: No
Shadow Mode: Unknown (3)
Shadow Map Shader: High quality
Environmental Reflections: Ultra quality
Advanced Occlusion Settings: No
Ambient Occlusion: Balanced
Occlusion Strength: Medium
Blur: Bilateral
Ambient Resolution: Performance
Gamma Correction: 1.000
Geometry Buffers (VBOs) Enabled: Yes
Suppression of FX When Camera Close Enabled: No
Close Suppression Range: 3.000
Show Advertisements: Yes
Audio Mode: Performance
3D Audio: No
FX Sound Volume: 1.000
Music Sound Volume: 0.600
Show Advanced Graphics Options: Yes
Overall Graphics Quality: 0.500
Reverse Mouse Buttons: No
Save Login Username: Yes
Transfer Rate: Unknown bytes/second
Current Game Version: 2010.201104142136.1
Installation Directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\City of Heroes
Mod files in the Data directory
.\texture_library\FX\FullscreenFX has 6 files
.\texture_library\GUI\CREATION\CharacterSelect has 15 files
.\texture_library\GUI\CREATION\common\Backgrounds has 6 files
.\texture_library\GUI\CREATION\common\checkbar has 4 files
.\texture_library\GUI\CREATION\common\checkbox has 2 files
.\texture_library\GUI\CREATION\common\frame\frame_ blue_4px has 4 files
.\texture_library\GUI\CREATION\common\nextbuttons has 8 files
.\texture_library\GUI\HUD\Align_Status has 6 files
.\texture_library\GUI\HUD\Powers_Customization\CCN AV\Praetorian has 12 files
.\texture_library\GUI\HUD\Teamup has 1 file
.\texture_library\GUI\HUD\Tips has 18 files
.\texture_library\GUI\Icons\Archetype has 19 files
.\texture_library\GUI\Icons\Enhancements has 38 files
.\texture_library\GUI\Icons\Inspirations has 51 files
.\texture_library\GUI\Icons\Origin has 5 files
.\texture_library\GUI\Icons\Pet_Command has 12 files
.\texture_library\GUI\Icons\Pet_Command\ALTERNATE-1 has 6 files
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.\texture_library\MAPS\city has 2 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\Midnight_Squad has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\NewPlayerTutorial has 1 file
.\texture_library\MAPS\Safeguard has 9 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\sewers has 44 files
.\texture_library\MAPS\static has 40 files
.\texture_library\P_MAPS has 2 files
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I just made one yesterday.
I'm too busy blasting, however envenom and weaken work just fine. I'll probably respec out of neurotoxic breath though. The set is weak for self defense like trick arrow.
If I didn't already have a time/ice defender I probably would have gone water/time. Ah well, I can always scrap and re-roll. -
Its really when the secondaries of the corruptor start factoring in.
Some will eat up animation time others such as Disruption Field don't. Of course DF requires an Ally.
If we are talking about just blasts, then sure blasters will have higher dps.
When you add in secondaries blaster/corruptor, then it gets muddy. -
So after all of these crash posts, you haven't even tried reverting back to older drivers yet?
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Quote:Well, this will answer that question. It answers the question that the GT 240 card is flaky or not.Originally Posted by monkeyslap
Actually it's ATI integrated graphics. At this time I'm not convinced it's the graphics card and I have very limited space to work with in order to unplug everything from my comp to do that.
You don't have enough room to unscrew out a GT240 card and stuff it into an anti static bag?
Given that thousands of people are playing the game with no issues (me included) probably eliminates the CoH program.
Well video card swap test is really your next step. Its free, it only costs you time and its fairly easy. -
Force Bolt as mentioned a few posts ago is one of the few good KB powers when used correctly.
I do have a character who has both FB and Power Push.
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Hang on. If you have integrated video on the machine, just try running the game off that. Remove the GT 240 and try the game on the AMD IGP.
Yeah, its going to be slow and primative, but if it doesn't crash, it answers an important question.
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Start with what Father Xmas said, Update windows XP to SP3
*Egads, another GT 240 and crashing post* Hey guys, is there a common factor here? -
Quote:Its important to give us as much info as possible so we don't have to ask twenty questions.Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven
OK, since it seems like CoH's periodic crashing on my system is not a common thing for most players, I figured I should try and get some help in maybe resolving the issue!
The game will run fine for a while, but usually within about two or so iTrials (like say, a BAF and then a TPN), the game will crash. The system doesn't hang or anything, just the game itself. I usually get either a Cryptic crash detection window or a Microsoft crash detection window. Sometimes I get the game's "out of memory" error. More rarely, it's a CTD (or rather the window just disappears since I play this game in windowed mode with the window maxed out).
CoH Helper and Hijack This logs to follow. Any insight into what I might be able to do would be helpful! Though I should note that I plan on upgrading the video card in a bit over a month, as well as upgrade the OS to Win7.
First silly question, you have NCsoft Launcher to close when the game starts right?
How old is that GT440 and which brand is it? (EVGA, XFX, MSI which?) -
This is one of those 10GB of RAM HP machines. I've seen a few posts about them having issues.
If you want to try and narrow it down monkeyslap, you *may* have to resort to more drastic measures to fix this.
We are going to need more info, so its time for twenty questions...
I would start with cheap and easy first.
How hot is your machine getting? HWmonitor or core temp might give us some answers to this.
I checked on the HP website, you added in the GT240 card, who made the card? The card is often made with cheap parts in order to be profitable but knowing who made it and exactly which card can be helpful. How old is it? It would not be too surprising that the video card is failing.
Do you have a friend who can loan/help/assist with a spare graphics card?
Lets start with easy stuff first, reformatting hard drives is the nuclear option when everything else doesn't yield any answers. -
Quote:You were refering to another post, but that post didn't have any CoH helper. Therefore, who knows what the issue was.Originally Posted by monkeyslap
I DID post the CoH Helper info as per Hyperstrike's suggestion.
Edit: You do have a valid point. But I wasn't posting how much vram my graphics card has to say it's the best or more than good enough to run the game on high settings. I posted it in case it was relevant and to get advice on what settings I could turn down in the game for better performance, in case there was someone more technically knowledgeable and knows about these kinds of things.
I'm kinda a dunce when it comes to these sort of things.
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What hyperstrike is saying is, lower these settings.
It doesn't matter how much memory is on the GT240 some evil marketing people have them stick 2Gbs of RAM on them, its still going to be a slow card.
Edit: Until a person posts CoH helper, I don't really pay much attention to the post. -
O_T: As been said, people's opinions differ.
If Gravity was not given its improvements, then it would be the clear "winner" of the worst control set. Since it was buffed up it closer to par with ice control.
If you are wondering, its very close between Gravity, Ice and Mind for worst (at least for me) but the fact there is some debate about it suggests the low end is "balanced". -
I have both since I have /fire farmers on different servers.
I prefer the DM over FM because its better against single targets and the -to hit is quite handy. -
Highest combined total I got was 137. 58 Ninjas + 79 Monkeys
So on Ninjas 58, 55 and 54 are my best 3
Monkeys 79, 74 and 71 are my best 3
Maybe its not strange that the combined totals were 58+79, 55+74 and 54+71.
The only tips I have is have all 4 players huddle next to 1 spawn point, don't use pets, and on the monkey fight, be aware that monkeys have +KB so Footstomp and other KD powers do KB.
Oh yeah, fire brutes and blaster/corruptors with rain powers are helpful. -
Quote:All you need is the proc.Originally Posted by Pauper
I'd consider putting the proc in Bonfire, but there's no way I can scrape up enough enhancement slots on my Fire/Energy/Fire blaster to six-slot Bonfire for the full enhancement set.
Subtle disadvantages like this make me think the devs are way ahead of us all.
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You can add damage/recharge frankenslots if you like -
Quote:Yep all us old timers remember Smoke Grenade. The old Pre-ED days when you just had to slot 6 damage and use targeting drone. Just be glad Jack is gone and when the new i24 blaster changes happen it will be city of /dev for blasters. It still isn't the worst powerset considering how many blasters avoid melee range.Originally Posted by Tyger42
No, the problem is that Devices is a tattered remnant of what it used to be. And, no, it doesn't play like other Blaster secondaries. Trip Mines are far less useful than they once were, even. Trip mines are also unreliable. They don't trigger way too often, even when a mob walks right over the top of them. It absolutely does not perform up to snuff with other secondaries. Targeting Drone was supposed to be its concession to losing Aim, and it did that job well up until ED. Now it's not worth losing the damage buff portion of Aim. Smoke Grenade? Went from being brokenly powerful due to a bug to absolute rubbish. Cloaking device? With the defense and stealth suppressions, it's pretty "meh" now. Gun Drone is more trouble than it's worth to even bother summoning it. Admittedly, though, it's more useful than its previous stationary version was. Time Bomb? Meh. Can't really drop it in a fight ( Interruptable and seems to draw aggro laying it down ), stealth suppressions make dropping it in a pack before a fight all but impossible, and trying to pull a pack of mobs across it right when it blows is way too finicky to work.
Caltrops is really the set's only saving grace, and that's not worth the rest of the garbage.
Mind Control is certainly a great solo controller set from 1-17. At 18 when Illusion gets PA well...that's when all of the other sets fall behind until 32.
However, its not the worst control set, Ice and gravity have more issues.