PaxArcana

.... for my MMs, Force Bolt does 1 damage. Occasionally, perhaps it does 2. That is, for all practical intents and purposes, so close to 0 as to be functionally indistinguishable. The wee little Origin-specific attack powers do tremendously more than ForceBolt - both per-attack, and measured as DPS.

Open your Powers tab, above the power tray. Right-click on the Autopower, and select DELETE. Hopefully that fixes things. :)

Yeah, um, my /FF Masterminds have never used Force Bolt for the damage. It's only about the knockback; it's a CONTROL, not an attack.

I, too, tend to solo. DFB is still a godsend, letting me spend an hour getting a character from level 1 up to the 12-16 range in very short order.

+100 INF.

A very small minority fraction of the playerbase enjoys PvP. The majority either doesn't care, or actively loathes it.

Get a +100% XP power. Run DFB (if below 15th level) or DiB (of above 15th level) for an hour. LOTS of levels. :)

I think by default it's set up so that: 1-0 is Tray 1 ALT+(1-0) is Tray 2 CTRL+(1-0) is Tray 3 ... and so on.

Yes, Empathy can solo. So can Kinetics. So can every Powerset. Just not as quickly or easily as all the other Powersets out there. My Robo/FF Mastermind says "yes, yes it bloody well is." Especially in the lower levels, when I didn't have enough pets to burn down a mob spawn very quickly; being able to keep one guy bouncing off a nearby wall, spending all his time standing up from the floor, while the robot(s) worked on the other two, was absolutely priceless.

+100 INF ...!!!

Aaaaaah, then you do know what I'm talking about. :)

Oh, you have no idea. What level are you at? 'cause if you've yet to experience ordering a full Alpha Strike from six Equipped and Upgraded robots ... BOY are you in for a treat! I laughed my head off the first time I did that ... :D

Another +1. The only character I have that bothers anymore, is my Robo/FF MM. Because /FF (also, the Protector Bot will bubble the buff-pet, too).

There is, Solarverse. It's not intuitive or easy to do, though. Certainly, it's not as visible as the XP Boost powers from the P2W vendor.

It does not Pax, it works the opposite. I know the positive XP boosts incur an equal penalty to INF rates. I just thought there were also REDUCED XP options for sale, that worked the other way around: less XP meant more INF. You'll see I highlighted that, in the quote above. :) If there isn't .... then I would suggest this would be a very good thing for the HC dev team to implement. (Maybe limit them to level 49-, since at 50 you go to pure INF anyway ...)

No worries. Just thought you might be new to the Archetype, and didn't know about NumPad MM bindings before. :)

Ah, I misread. Replace Protector with Battle and it should do what you're looking for. :) And, yes, you use the chat line to enter those. I believe it should be saved for that character, perpetually. ... There is another approach to what you're looking to do, which is to use the Number Pad, and a series of bind files. I use that method myself, for my two masterminds (eventually far more than two, I'm sure). Here, let me copy/paste some of my bind files, for my Robo/FF mastermind: Summon Mode SHIFT+LBUTTON "powexec_name Teleport" SHIFT+RBUTTON "petcom_all goto" ALT+Q "petcom_all attack$$petcom_all aggressive" SHIFT+Q "petcom_all follow$$petcom_all defensive" CTROL+Q "petcom_all dismiss" numpad1 "powexec_location forward:6 Battle Drones" numpad2 "powexec_location forward:8 Protector Bots" numpad3 "powexec_location forward:10 Assault Bot" numpad4 "target_custom_next mypet" numpad5 "powexec_name Equip Robot" numpad6 "powexec_name Upgrade Robot" numpad7 "powexec_name Deflection Shield" numpad8 "powexec_name Insulation Shield" divide "bindload_file D:\CoXbinds\MM_Justice_Command.txt" I use that for initial summoning and upgrade, and to set up some "default" command binds. As well as a bind for his travel power, Teleport. :) In order to get set up, I just dial 1, 2, 3, pause a beat, 4, 5, 6. 1: drops the Battle Drones 2: drops the Protector Bots 3: drops the Assault Bot 4: targets the nearest pet 5: Equip (which is now an area effect, woo!) 6: Upgrade (same) I could, being FF, add in both bubbles for 7 and 8 if I wanted, too. Command Mode: BASE SHIFT+LBUTTON "powexec_name Teleport" SHIFT+RBUTTON "petcom_all goto" ALT+Q "petcom_all attack$$petcom_all aggressive" SHIFT+Q "petcom_all follow$$petcom_all defensive" CTROL+Q "petcom_all dismiss" numpad0 bindloadfile "d:\CoXbinds\MM_Justice_All.txt" numpad1 bindloadfile "d:\CoXbinds\MM_Justice_Drones.txt" numpad2 bindloadfile "d:\CoXbinds\MM_Justice_Protectors.txt" numpad3 bindloadfile "d:\CoXbinds\MM_Justice_Assault.txt" divide bindloadfile "d:\CoXbinds\MM_Justice_Summon.txt" This is the basis of the Numpad command binds. See, it lets you "dial" commands, in a three-digit code, to one or all of your minions. Command mode: ALL numpad4 petcom_all aggressive numpad5 petcom_all defensive numpad6 petcom_all passive numpad7 petcom_all attack numpad8 petcom_all follow numpad9 petcom_all goto ctrl+q petcom_all dismiss Notice how this does not over-write 0, 1, 2, or 3? Or the Divide key ("/")? Those remain the same, anytime I am in "Command Mode". So, I can always change to commanding a different group of pets, at any tome. Command Mode: Battle Drones numpad4 petcom_pow battle aggressive numpad5 petcom_pow battle defensive numpad6 petcom_pow battle passive numpad7 petcom_pow battle attack numpad8 petcom_pow battle follow numpad9 petcom_pow battle goto ctrl+q petcom_pow battle drones dismiss The other two files, for the Protector Bots and the Assault Bot, are identical to this one, except "battle" is replaced with either "protector" or "assault", as appropriate. So, see, if have all my drones in "Follow/Passive", and want to shift everything to Defensive, then have the Assault and Battledrones attack my targetted enemy? I just key in 051737. They're already in follow; 0 selects all, 5 sets them to Defensive, 1 selects the Battle Drones, 7 says "shoot that guy", 3 selects the Assault Bot, and 7 again for "start shooting". It takes some getting used to - and I admit, I don't always use those binds (I'm lazy about it). But, when you've adjusted to it, and use it, it's an astonishingly elegant system. Not one I created, mind you. I cribbed it from .... gods, I don't know, someone on the official forums back in Issue 7, IIRC. Almost ten years ago. :)

Type each of the following three commands into your Chat interface. They should do it: /bind F1 "petcom_all defensive attack" /bind F2 "petcom_Pow Protector defensive attack$$petcom_pow Assault defensive attack" /bind F3 "petcom_all defensive follow"

Also, doesn't the P2W vendor offer negative XP boosts? -25%, -50%, -100% ...? If I'm remembering it right ... slap on a -25% XP, get some extra INF along the way, and no outlevelling content. :)

Clearly, Scrapyard is on strike ... :D

This. One of my characters is, conceptually, a little girl in a suit of power armor. (Her bio: "An eleven-year-old girl in power armor, out fighting badguys. What could possibly go wrong?" :D hehehe.) For a while I despaired of securing a good name, until I hit on the idea of "this is kind of an anime-ish concept, so, what about using Japanese?" And so, Sokohime was born. The name translates as "Armor(ed) Princess". :)

That's why I kept suggesting it back when: the animation parts were already done. ... Which means, it could be done now, just as "easily" (well, not that designing a new powerset is easy, but at least it doesn't require new animations and such ...)

Pirate Ghosts ... I remember suggesting/requesting that, all the way back in Issue 6 ...!! :)

Played right? All of them. Just, in different ways. :) You mean, able to buff allies? Mostly Defenders, though Controllers, Corruptors, and Masterminds all can do it too. They're identical. Both. Also, any archetype can be a Hero now, and any archetype can be a Villain. PvP has never been particularly popular in CoX. The devs accept donations periodically, to pay for the expense of running the servers. But otherwise, 100% free, through and through. Yes. The pickier you are about what you want to do, the less easy it is, of course. More importantly: you do not NEED a group in this game. Every archetype can solo most content, all the way to the level cap.

At least robots only clank when they're moving ...