chadius

Cauterizing Blaze is very strong. It's also an easy place to hold a healing proc. It works really well, it's just not obvious. Easiest way to test its effectiveness is to jump off a tall building with it on and watch your HP drop to 1 and then climb right back up.

I love my Psi/Fire, but I'm very casual about this build. There's no easy way to chain everything, but I'm usually in melee anyway to use Burn, Psychic Wail, Psi Shockwave or Mind Probe. - Will Domination takes too long and the projectile is slow. Skipped. - Psi Scream is a big cone, I took it over Psi Tornado (another slow moving projectile when I could jump into melee instead) - Scramble Thoughts -> Psi Strike -> TK Blast is a great "spike" combo to drop someone, or stun them while you hop in for melee. But you'll always have gaps in your attacks. - Fighting Carnies hurts. - It's fun laughing at Paragon Protectors who pop Unstoppable.

I rolled a Traps/Seismic this week. Still a lowbie, but I expect the knockdown to help stall for time so I can lay more Trap Mines. Also, after all these years I finally understand caltrops. Usually my blasters fry everything or I'm permaheld so I never bothered. I could have used it on my Illusion/Traps controller but I have so much control nothing bothers me anyway. But on this defender I get enough free time to blast more.

As the blaster who ate a lot of debt, it was fun figuring out how much my Rad/Dark could handle. Usually this involved jumping in, Soul Drain, Irradiate and praying enough missed me I could kill 'em in time. But I was aware I was gonna eat dirt, I'm a blaster. Thanks for preventing many team wipes!

I tried these powersets on Test last night and fell in love with this build. It reminded me of my Rad/Dark Corruptor back on live (seriously, try it if you haven't) but now with even MORE damage.

Elec gets 2 melee attacks early and is fun to solo with at low levels. AoEs arrive a little late though (28 and 35 is the PBAoE, bleh) but at least you can add 2 Force Feedback procs to help Domination come back sooner. Which is nice if you're crazy like me and trying to skip Hasten.

I still want to make a Family-like mafia don with Gravity Control and some kind of brawling/gun/SS assault. Oh well, at least ninja type Doms finally have an outlet.

The beta build is helping me out on Catalina. The normal launcher is failing to download the update.

And if you have an old installation of Wine, delete/uninstall that before continuing. Took me too long to realize my old install was screwing things up.

Okay. Long ago, I had installed wine and xquartz from source. I finally went through my harddrive and deleted all of those files. Now when I run the installer it shows an applescript asking if I want to install xquartz and wine via homebrew. On my older laptop, the installer installed wine and xquartz without my need to delete files. After installing, both machines asked me to install Mono. I clicked the Install button, waiting for Mono, and I was able to log in and play. In summary: An old manual install of wine screwed everything up. Thanks for letting me ramble all over this thread lol.

Something's going on with wine. Tried on a new login, got the "The Wine configuration is being updated" message and then the message stayed on for an hour. I'll try installing this on my older laptop and let it try to update overnight.

So I can rule out the launcher; City of Heroes actually tries to run. Unfortunately it then crashes after "Loading" sign but before it opens the window leading to the log in screen. - I deleted my game install, ran Island Rum and downloaded assets - Rebooted - I uninstalled wine (I had an old install lying around) - I tried on a different login (no "Loading" sign appeared, I never installed wine on there) - I tried uninstalling xquartz (I had an old install lying around) - I scanned again, no additional files were downloaded - I tried HC Beta and HC Staging 64 bit (same behavior) I'll try the Beta on my other login. If that doesn't work, I have an older mac laptop I don't mind wiping and installing from scratch.

Looks like the normal client has been updated and gives this error. Is there anyway I can get wine's logs? I can't play anymore on my mac.

So when I start the client, it gives this popup for a few minutes, and then crashes. I've submitted crash logs. Neither my Beta or Release CoH launcher will work until I restart the computer.

“Island Rum Beta” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. I tried running the Beta from the /Applications folder, but Apple's security is blocking me. I can get around this by opening System Preferences, going to Security & Privacy -> General and clicking "Open Anyway". Will test some more after my work shift is over.