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I admit that this suggestion is somewhat out in left field, but: on my ASUS laptop, the trackpad interferes with the keyboard driver. The behavior is not as extreme as what you've described (and for me, it's in multiple applications, not just CoH) but since you said it was an ASUS: What happens if you turn off the built-in pointing-device in the bios? (assuming that's an option on yours; it's an option on mine).

Alternately, on my previous laptop which didn't have an actual num-pad, there was a key combo on the keyboard where I could force/fake a numpad instead of letter keys on part of the keyboard. I wouldn't expect that to be the case here (or the 'w' would come out '8', not '1') but in case that's what's happening, see if you have some option to tun that off -- some laptops do that sort of thing if you hold down the Fn key & hit num-lock or ScrLk. (why this would have toggled during a system upgrade, I dunno.)

I just rolled a Electrical Blast/Thermal Radiation corruptor and I'm examining my options.

My Electric Control dominator was a fine sapper for soloing at level 15; my blaster with Electricity Manipulation still doesn't do useful amounts of end drain on minions at 30. Awhile back I teamed with a kin/elec defender whose debuffing & endurance drain were so effective she made most of her teammates extraneous by level 20. I haven't played Electrical Blast myself -- how soon can I start looking to slot End Mod in my elec/therm corruptor?

I'm duoing with a brand-new player who's just rolled a brute so while we're relying on my damage-dealing abilities at the moment, the brute will start coming into her own soon. I was planning on slotting for damage early on and swapping out for end mod around 20, but I was wondering, what would it take to do it earlier?

I have been loving my DP/MM blaster. I've found him more versatile than my fire blaster and he does more damage than my ice blaster.

I mostly solo. Even so, I default to incendiary ammo until I'm facing something that's really giving me trouble. On my runs back from the hospital I ruminate on what would help me with whatever just got me.

Regarding EBs, I soloed all the praetoria EBs in one or the other of the Resistance storylines. It was not trivial, but it wasn't terrible, either. And I'm *not* one of those players that made a habit of soloing EBs on anything other than my tanker.

DP makes my other blasters feel a little like one-trick-ponies. They're fun to ride and really good at what they do, but when I come up against something that's especially hard for them, I'm stuck. When I'm playing my DP blaster I just need to strategize differently and I seem to be able to (eventually) make my way through anything.

I'm in a similar boat. I'm leaning toward adding accuracy and defense to my fire/EM tanker, but I waffle. A lot.

It doesn't help that I've got an adjusted plan of what IOs I want and haven't bought or slotted all of them yet -- I suspect once that happens I'll have a whole new landscape of strengths and weaknesses to look at. Maybe I'll take Cardiac, and then respec out of the Energy Mastery APP...but I'm really starting to love Laser Beam Eyes.

See what I mean about the waffling?

...and why'd they have to turn on travel power suppression all over the zone? I mean, really -- do you know how hard it is to navigate this city without Super Jump? There are more hills here than in San Francisco!

Put me squarely in the "no weather" camp. I play video games all winter to try to distract me from my outdoors full of grey skies and rain.

I want a "100 Snipers" badge.

Thanks for the thoughtful replies, folks. Clearly I need to go give my Stone/Fire tanker some love.

I admit that I miss the Mud Pots sound effects.

I'm back in the game after a four-year absence and my Fire/EM tanker (originally rolled around I3) has been rocketing through her forties, and will hit 50 in not-too-long. I've got serious alt-itis but I've rolled very few tankers other than my main one. I'm ready to have a less-squishy experience for my next tanker.

I'm looking for ideas on how I can my make new-tank experience as different as possible from the one I've been levelling. I've got a stone/fire tank languishing around level 15 that I can start paying more serious attention to, and I've been futzing with a possible Shield/BA in Mids. One of the compelling things about the stone/fire tank is that I'm likely not going to be in the Leaping & Fighting pools, further differentiating from my fire tank, who has both.

Any suggestions?

The longer it takes me to get a second costume slot, the more attached I am to the first costume. So my first two toons, slooooowly leveled back when I didn't know how to play the game *and* the leveling curve was harder, had costumes that ended up very firmly stuck in my head. Filling the subsequent costume slots was very difficult, because I couldn't imagine them ever looking any different.

Everybody else got tweaks, or wholesale makeovers. More often just tweaks; I spend a lot of time fiddling with the costume when I first make it.

One of the very first characters I made, way back even before CoV happened, whas a Firey Aura/Energy Melee tanker. Still love to play her, even after years and years. But do note that my EM experience is all tanker-based; when I rolled her villain counterpart I made him FM/EA instead, for variety's sake.

Whirling Hands is a PBAoE; I don't actually rely on it, but I figured I'd mention that the set does have one non-single-target attack. One of the things I really love about EM is Energy Transfer -- more than twice as much damage per endurance as any other power in the set, or in any other brute primary set (with the exception of Dark Melee's Dark Consumption, depending on how you do the math). The stun may take a little getting used to; while they're wandering around stunned, they're not hitting you and that's one less contribution to your fury (but you can still hit them...)

Barrage makes this soft little "uh-oh" chiming sound in the background, right before the buhbump-buhbump of the power hitting. Which always makes me giggle.

I bought the digital edition of the Complete Collection, even though I already owned CoH & CoV. The CC comes with a month of prepaid game time, which made up for the difference in price between the expansion-only and the collection. The collection also comes with what's in the "Complete Collection Item Pack", which would have cost yet more to purchase separately.

Theoretically if I'd been willing to wait I believe that the box edition of the Complete Collection might be available for a few dollars less at one or more of the larger online and/or brick-and-mortar retailers, but I didn't want to wait.

Much thanks for the prompt & detailed responses, folks. I have a glowie sound I can hear, now, and it makes me very happy!

For anyone else trying to turn up the volume in Audacity on the glowie sound downloaded from Paragon Wiki: You'll need to check the 'allow clipping' box on the Amplify transform, or it won't have much effect.

I've returned to CoH after a four-year hiatus. One thing I've noticed is that the humming sound that mission objectives make has gotten very, very quiet. Like, I have to turn up my volume so loud that footsteps sound like explosions, the mission-complete fanfare is ear-splitting, and forget about hearing it at all if anything else is going on in the mission anywhere.

This is making click-the-glowie missions unplayable for me. For multi-objective missions where the map doesn't show pointers until the very end, I've spent an hour wandering around a completely empty map with my volume turned all the way up, just to find the last two glowies. Wincing every time my character's feet hit the ground, because her footsteps are so very loud.

Is this something that changed while I was gone? Is there something I can do to make just that sound louder?