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Thanks Elegost, for putting all of those builds into one place. I've been comparing them to my current build (well, not quite current, I'm still gathering up hero merits for the PvP IO's). The main differences I see between those three and mine are in resistance. I skipped resilience and didn't slot tough. I guess I could drop flashing steel or superspeed to get resilience, and put the flashing steel slots into tough.

I'm not sure it's worth it, though. This character is all about speed. I like having the extra attack to help me fight when I'm slowed, and superspeed is still a lot faster than ninja run. Does the extra resistance make a big difference in practice?

One odd thing I noticed. On my build, if I toggle off Divine Avalanche in mids, my defense numbers go down exactly 20%. In 2/3 of the builds in Elegost's post (a couple of pages back) toggling off DA drops defense by around 20-25%, depending I think on the slotting of DA. But when I toggle off DA in the final Werner BBQ build, defense for lethal and melee drops by 40 points. And I don't see anything in his slotting of DA to explain that. What am I missing?

Oh, and here's my build, if anyone wants to critique it or offer other suggestions:

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.952
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Click this DataLink to open the build!

Joey Katana (5): Level 50 Mutation Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Katana
Secondary Power Set: Regeneration

I checked caps lock , and it wasn't the num pad. So I did the next logical thing: I turned my computer off and back on again. Now it works just fine! Ah, technology. Can't live with it, can't afford to smash it with a hammer and replace it every time it annoys me.

/shrug. Guess all is well now. Thanks.

EDIT: Now it's working again. Like magic! Yay.

I was playing CoH yesterday and everything was fine, except for my monitor. It has been falling apart for weeks now, and this morning it was clearly on its last legs. So I ran out and bought a new monitor. It's widescreen (which isn't a perfect fit for my desk, but apparently that's all you can easily buy these days). I plug in the new monitor, fire it up, and everything is fine. I launch CoH to make sure it looks good... and I can't log in.

The Launcher seems to work, I get to the login screen. My username is already there, as usual. I put in the password, and I get an odd error message: "You must fill out the account and password fields to log in to your account." I tried a few more times, with no change. I put in the wrong password on purpose, and it gave me a different, more reasonable error: "The account name or password that you have entered is incorrect."

I tried messing around a little. As long as the first character I type is the first character in my password, then I get that first error message no matter what else I type after that. If the first character is not correct, then I get the second error message.

Under no circumstances can I log in.

Any ideas? I can't imagine a new monitor could cause something like this, but nothing else has changed on my end.

Personally I don't care if some incarnate powers are locked behind emp merits. That seems pretty reasonable, really. You need incarnate rewards to get incarnate powers. It's a lot more reasonable than having silly little emotes/costume change emotes/costume bits locked that way. We'll still be able to unlock the slots and put something good in them without needing 15 emp merits.

I mean, personally, I'll never unlock them. I don't earn emp merits quickly enough. I don't think I'll live long enough to have 15 to spare.

It's the idea of losing the emp merit reward on some of the trials that bothers me. Those trials haven't gotten any faster or easier lately. Why take away the reward?

(It's a rhetorical question. I'm pretty sure the answer is because we run them too quickly and too easily, so people are earning emp merits faster than the devs intended. Solution: cut the rate of earning. Also, add something to spend them on, like unlockable incarnate powers. I don't think we'll persuade the devs not to make these changes unless we provide other means of solving the problem.)

Thank you everyone. I thought there might be a glowie somewhere, so I went and checked everywhere but I guess I missed it. Thanks!

Don't read if you don't want to see spoilers...





A few missions in, I was told to go look around in a store without drawing suspicion. So I nosed around near an interesting hallway, but the guards told me I couldn't enter. So I didn't. Then I went up stairs, and some other guards allowed me to go talk to their boss. I had a choice of asking him nicely or getting forceful. Not wanting to arouse suspicion, I asked nicely. I got no answers. So I went back downstairs, turned on my stealth powers, and tried to sneak past the guards. They spotted me, and they all pulled out their guns. I dashed past and explored a bit, but didn't find anything. So I wiped the floor with the guards, but that didn't accomplish anything. And now I'm stuck. The mission hasn't failed, but it doesn't look like it's possible to succeed now either. I can't think of another time in this game when I've had a mission get stuck like this that wasn't a bug.

So is this a bug? Or am I missing a glowie? Or am I screwed?

I think the way it works for character unlocks is that you get a bunch of unlock tokens and you have to go through and click on every character and unlock them. Pretty silly, but I believe that is the case.

Piranha don't have eyestalks. Would be nice if those were moved off to some head detail section or something. But otherwise it all looks cool, and the brain in a jar is pretty amazing. Just knowing that we can have a see-through space where our head is supposed to be gives me hope of having a real skeleton set some day, where you can see right through the ribs.

But doggone it I just got my monthly stipend and I was hoping to save it up for the next powerset! But how can I not buy a brain in a jar? I have never in my life turned down the opportunity to buy a brain in a jar and I'm not going start now!

Yeah, I just double checked. Bid has been there since March, at the latest. Still out.

EDIT: both bids, actually: one on the recipe, one on the enhancement. Level 50, because they're more common.

The video interview GG mentioned is specifically about the story arc. Maybe that is what you had in mind? It was mentioned in this post:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...31#post3929131

And the actual video is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYnhk...=youtu.be&hd=1

That's not the story arc, but it is about the story arc. They don't reveal anything though.

Tried it last night but failed. We were steamrolling everything until the Avatar. I was confused almost permanently, and overall we just weren't doing enough damage or living long enough. Sometimes it felt like half the league was running back from the hospital at any given moment.

I know we didn't use pets because we were afraid they would hit us. Anyone with clarion was using it, I think. Maybe we were too spread out for it to be very effective. I was trying to pay attention to those huge messages on the screen, but I think the devs have a wider monitor than I do. I don't think the first and last words were even on my screen, and the second and next-to-last words were covered by the chat box and the map. All I could see were things like "seeds! Back a" and then I'd start running, just in case.

For me the worst part of the whole trial was when I disconnected about 2/3 of the way through and I could not for the life of me find a way back to the team. They were in the middle of what sounded like a very exciting fight, so no one could spare a moment to TP me for what felt like a very long time. (Note: I'm not complaining about them, they were a great bunch. I just hated being sidelined during a fight like that.)

It never crossed my mind to complain about the doors. It's a delay of, what, ten seconds? The first time I even noticed it was during a recent underground, when I was very grateful that I had other players to follow back into the action. I know there's a teleporter right there, but I still got lost sometimes, and I wasn't the only one.

I keep meaning to post here, just to give my two cents. First, I think this is a fantastically detailed and well-written guide. I've always been impressed by the quality of information that TopDoc shares with us, but this really blew me away. So simple, but so thorough, even I could follow it! I've never done any farming before, I mean not for more than a couple of missions in a row followed by a year long break from farming. It bores me to tears. This was actually fun.

Second, I just wanted to let you know that I did indeed make a cat girl. Cheercat, over on the German server. A science student who decided to inject herself with DNA from her school mascot, a panther. I figured since I would only be playing solo, I might as well play on a foreign server where I had plenty of character slots. Somehow it didn't sink in that everything would be all foreign and stuff. Actually, once I thought about it, I was surprised by how much of the text was still in English. It must be tough to play if you don't speak any English at all.

Let me see, I started a few weeks before the last 2xp weekend. I've gotten to level 40 or so. That may sound slow to you, but it's lightning fast to me. It usually takes me about a year of steady play to reach level 50. I normally only play for a few hours a week. The CEBR thing was so quick and easy and fun, I could jump in and run one mission in just a few minutes, and then log out again. That made it easy to play more than I normally do and level faster.

I should probably apologize for the dev's nerf. It's all my fault. Every time I try to jump on some kind of gravy train, they always hit the brakes. I started playing a regen when they were gods. As I leveled up, the dev's nerfed each power just before I could get it. Seems to happen to me every time. That what comes from being so casual I guess. I hear about some new trick with IO's or the AE or whatever, and it's gone in the next patch. So sorry about that guys, for bringing my bad luck into your lovely leveling frenzy.

By the way, I've made about 400 million inf so far. I sold a lot of salvage at first. More recipes lately, especially gold ones so I don't have to do as much crafting. Bronze rolls are so cheap there's a lot of clutter.