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I, too, love to enforce censorship upon things that hurt nobody yet I personally dislike. Remember, that one individual's perception that there is no harm, is not reality. I appreciate you see things a certain way, I hope you can accept others don't see things how you do. There are plenty of examples of how such spam warps perception of the game and disenfranchised new players. A society is a collective group that share values, behaviors ideas and agree upon good and bad. We all must be considerate of others, and not assumptive. Assuming something doesn't harm others and then doing that activity is counter to courtesy. We could assume dropping trash on the road is unharmful and do it, and require that proof be given to stop us. Those that do not believe in climate change use this argument, that pollution can't be causing change. If you assume dfb spam does no harm, you may be failing to consider that it does, just based on your belief. Courtesy and conscientious attitudes dictate that we think about the negative reprocussions of our behavior BEFORE we act, and do our best to avoid harming others, even if we don't have proof it would, or believe it won't. So, we all play together. No one cares about pl'ing or farming, or how fast people level. It is evident that spamming chat DOES cause harm, and people DON'T like it. The harm that it does to the long term viability of the game is evident. We don't ask that you have our opinion, just that you respect it, much as we respect your desire to run dfb. Everyone who resorts to "they just want to control me, kill my fun, make me play their way," etc, is missing the real point: how you play is not the issue, it is how chat spam and how powerleveling overwhelming all modes of play, and the negative effect it has on NEW players that is the issue. I firmly believe we should keep all these forms of play AND prevent the negative reprocussions of them. Please refrain from sarcastic snarky comments such as the censorship comment. It's really not helpful or kind. Once we have an official definition from the devs/admins, (or whatever group/entity is in charge), then and only then can we make an objective statement about what does or does not constitute "harm". That being said, it is also important to recognize the circumstances surrounding an interaction, as that will modify the threshold for what is or should constitute harmful actions. For instance, if the devs determine that advertising for powerleveling teams is a valid use of chat, it may still fall under the purview of "harm" if someone were to follow you around, stand in your way, and ask to be PL'd or the like, in local or via tells...

So after finding CoH:H and reigniting my love of the game, I've been on a character-creating spree. One minor nuisance, however, is that if you apply the 2 colors across your entire costume, then deselect that option and start editing another piece, you may have to bounce between previous categories in order to see which specific row & column of a color you used. What if there were 5 or so little squares at the top that reflected the last few colors you actually applied to a costume part, (with an option to lock a particular color so it won't be cleared/replaced). Your thoughts?

I ended up rolling an elec/sd stalker, but I may also roll a dm/sd scrapper. Now my only issue is finding enough time to play them all...

Wouldn't something like a team recall, except for enemies, be more practical? Maybe require you to have defeated at least 75% of the enemies the old fashioned way first, just to cut down on exploiting this ability...

The chat has been very friendly from what I've experienced, but you may still want to shut it off and perhaps create a custom window just for NPC chat, XP, and powers info, just to be safe...

Try: /bind lshift+lbutton "powexecname translocation" Cheers!

OK, so I went with something like this: /bind numpad8 "inspexec_pet_target insight" It allows me to target a pet or click their health bar from the pet menu, then click8 on the numpad to instantly give them a respite (small green) inspiration. After doing some testing, though, the range where this will work is pretty short - you need to be like within 20' of a pet to give it an inspiration. I wonder if this is similar top giving them to another player...

I appreciate the feedback! As I started writing, I was leaning more toward an energy shield of variable size and number, so you could make 2, shrink it down, and use them to punch enemies, or combine them, grow it much larger, and hide behind it before retaliating...

Basically my idea is this: You throw a generic "disc", (it could be solid, energy, or a little of both). Now, in my head I could see the animations/attacks fitting in to both a ranged only and a ranged/melee hybrid set, (basically you'd hold the disc like a shield and do various shield bash attacks). The catch is that it'd need some sort of gimmick. One thought that occurred to me was knockdowns, but I was thinking that if we said the disc had razor sharp edges, it could cause bleeds/DoTs or it could be an energy disc like Tron. Perhaps the disc could return after being thrown, thus having a chance to hit for a 2nd time, or it could ricochet off of random objects to hit multiple targets. Your thoughts? 1. Disc toss - basic attack with a chance to hit twice and/or knock down the target. 1a. Disc bash - You attach your disc to your forearm and slam it against your target. Chance of knockback. 2. Disc throw - A stronger throw of your disc, which does more damage and has a greater chance to knock down your target and hit them on the return trip. 2a. Edge strike - With your disc on your forearm, you catch your target with the edge, doing more damage with a small chance to stun them. 3. Low throw - You throw your disc toward your target's feet/ankles, doing moderate damage and slowing them, with a small chance to outright immobilize them. 3a. Low strike - With your shield held in 1 hand, you make a wide swing toward all enemies in an arc in front of you, knocking them down and dealing light damage. 4. Disc shove - You brace yourself behind your disc for a moment then spring forward, repelling all targets in front of you, dealing minor damage, and applying a minor tohit debuff as they are caught off-guard. 5. Charged disc throw - You channel energy into your and hurl it with all your strength, dealing heavy damage to all targets in a line/row. This attack has a high chance to hit any targets in that row a 2nd time when the disc returns. 6. Aim 7. Disc flurry - You conjure or otherwise pull out several discs and hurl them toward all enemies in front of you. Each disc has a small chance to knock down the enemy and/or hit them a 2nd time. 7a. Disc barrage - Placing a smaller disc on each fist, you unleash a torrent of punches that deal moderate damage with a chance to stun any enemies hit in a narrow cone. 8. Dual discs - You hurl a disc out from each hand, in a wide circular pattern. Enemies hit by these discs supper a minor resistance debuff, in addition to possible getting knocked down. 9. Decapitating disc - You hurl a devastating disc at roughly neck level of your foes. Enemies take significant damage, have a high liklihood of getting knocked down, and enemies of boss level or lower that are below 15% health are defeated outright.

That's very odd. I've noticed when trying to drag inspirations to pets that sometimes they vanish rom the tray, but then the game seems to register that the pet was a little too far away from me, so said insp got placed back into the tray. In doing some digging, I found the below command, which may be good to simply target a pet then give them a respite or something: /inspexec_pet_target petname

IIRC, one of the back options is a hockey/sports equipment bag with all sorts of sporting equipment sticking out of it a la Kasey Jones...

LOL! Thanks!

Understood & TYVM! :-)

I saw the option to change my costume at the trainer. Is in in there somewhere?

Hey gang! So I'm considering creating a shield user, and was looking for some input regarding what attack set to take with it, and whether I should go scrapper, tanker, or brute, (do stalkers get shields)? I was considering elec for the double tp/rush abilities, but some of the other melee sets look enticing, too. What are your thoughts? Thanks!

So I didn't realize until I was creating my 2nd character that you can customize the appearance & color of your powers. My only issue is that I can't seem to find how to do so *after* the character has been created. If a way to do this does exist, can someone please enlighten me. Thank you kindly!

Now, I'm not going to pretend to be as wise or experienced as some of the fine folks on these forums, but having just come back to CoX after nearly 10 years, here are a few tips I have for new or returning players: When you're selecting a particular power, see if there's a button or box that says something like "show more info" or something to that effect. It's usually in the column to the left or right of where you're making the selection, and it'll show you the recharge time, accuracy, damage, and other vital statistics for your potential power pick, (and other powers in the set, depending upon which screen you're looking at). You don't need to be fully versed in all the stats, but if you don't like a lot of down-time early on, then maybe a set with shorter recharge times will be more to your liking. Generally speaking, there's an opportunity cost with regard to range and damage - if you're primarily playing a ranged attacker, then be aware of the tools available to you, to keep enemies at bay - immobilizes, holds, or even just taking hover from the flight power pool, can make a lot of difference. Similarly, not every power set or archetype can heal themselves, and even though you can eventually take "aid self" from the medicine power pool, it has some draw backs that makes it less than ideal in an emergency situation. Green inspirations are great, but you may not always have some on hand. Certain powers, like a placate or teleport, may be able to save your life as well. At some point before CoX originally shut down, the fitness power pool was made inherent. What this means is that somewhere around level 2-4, you get swift, hurdle, health, and stamina for free. Now, while these 4 powers aren't amazingly powerful on their own, what they do is make you heal, run/fly & recover endurance a little faster. If you throw a couple slots into stamina in particular and slot in some end recovery enhancements, it'll provide a better stream of "fuel" for your powers. hurdle is also very useful for those opting to take superspeed, since you can clear obstacles a bit more easily. I wouldn't bother devoting slots to the other powers, unless you really have ones to spare, (maybe looking to take advantage of an iO set bonus or such). My experience with powersets may not be too applicable to the game in its current form, since I left the game before players could cross over from hero to villain or visa-versa, but here are my thoughts: I leveled a stone armor tanker to 50, as well as a kinetics defender, and both are (or at least, were), really great on teams. It's a little slow going solo in either case, but still fun. I had a dark/regen scrapper who was quite powerful and very self sufficient. I also enjoyed playing my mercs/traps mastermind, (though the soldiers do mostly lethal damage, which gets highly resisted in the later levels). Traps had some great debuffs that made up for it, though. I also had a shield/super strength tanker, who was a beast, and could really bowl through group after group of enemies. I had a radiation/radiation defender who was quite powerful solo and on teams, but took some time to build them up, and I recall there being a lot of toggles and short-range powers to manage/position yourself for. I also vaguely recall playing a claws/ninjitsu stalker, who I enjoyed playing because you got 1-2 mid-range attacks. I think I've rambled on for long enough, but I just want to leave off by saying that if you don't fall in love with a particular power set with the first 10 levels or so, then you may be better off rerolling from scratch, instead of continuing to punish yourself. Cheers!

Hrm, I could replace it with something else then. In any case: Here's Toxic Melee. Design Intent: Toxic Melee's big thing is damage over time and debilitating the enemy's damage output (whereas my planned corrosive sets are more about gutting the enemy's protective capabilities and my planned bio sets are about rampantly spreading AoE and self heals), it is nasty and hard to resist and will typically leave enemies struggling to fight back as their damage is weakened and their max HP drops. It has a healthy mix of AoE and ST damage as well as some controls. Fluff: You have the gift of a poisonous touch that very few living things can bear to stand up to. You don't hit the hardest up front, but you don't need to as almost nothing walks away from even the smallest touch of yours without lasting damage; while your foes will grow weaker and weaker as your poison courses through them. You are a versatile melee combatant who is capable against any number of foes, but the inorganic or similarly poisonous foes who can resist your toxic touch will give you no end of trouble. (This is the brute tree) T1: Poisonous Touch (Melee, Single target, Fast Animation, Minor Toxic damage, minor Toxic DoT; inflicts "poisoned" proc that reduces enemy damage and reduces max HP.) T2: Toxic Lash (Melee, cone. Fast animation, minor toxic damage, minor Toxic DoT. inflicts "poisoned" proc.) T3: Venemous Injection (Melee, Single Target, Medium Animation. Moderate Lethal/Toxic Damage. Moderate Toxic DoT. If an enemy has the poisoned proc already on them, Venemous Injection inflicts a brief hold as they have to go through the vomiting animation.) T4: Venom Dosage (Self, Toggle, Moderate +Damage, Moderate +Recharge, Minor +To Hit) T5: Venemous Bite (Single Target, High Toxic/Lethal/Smash damage, Superior Toxic over time, inflicts the poisoned proc and has a chance to induce Nausea and disorientation) T6: Taunt T7: Chem-Spray (Short range cone, Moderate Toxic Damage, High Toxic DoT. Has a chance to disorient.) T8: Neurotoxic Syringe (Single target, superior toxic/lethal damage, extreme Toxic DoT, induces nausea and poisoned proc.) T9: Ypres Offensive/Vomit Comet (TPBAoE, creates a lingering patch of superior toxic damage with a lingering toxic DoT and poisoned proc that also induces nausea.) What would be interesting with toxic melee is if you could build up toxin levels in your target to eventually hold/immobilize them. I was kind of thinking, (since you were careful to differentiate it from corrosives), that this set would be more about neurotoxins - so shutting down a target's ability to move or react. Perhaps it could work like "X number of poison counters triggers a slow, Y triggers a slow + -recharge, all the way to a full-on hold". It would make this a great set for more prolonged fights...

What do Corruptors offer that Defenders don't? Those aren't the sole criteria upon which a proposal should stand or fall. Anyway, this AT would be able to contribute tanking and damage to any team they are on, plus with more targets brought to bear, they could further act as a buffer for their human teammates.

I had a suggestion for a Melee-ish Pet AT called the Duo. My thought was that reducing the pets to a single pet would help alleviate both the risk of an OP AT as well as making it easier to manage, and modifies defensive toggles to double as support auras. Your proposal is definitely intriguing, but it seems more like , well, just a duo of you and 1 powerful pet. Mine is more of a single-player team, only with you on the front line instead of directing things form the back. Still, very cool idea!

Well, in my original proposal, your secondary consists of your pets and your defenses, so you're sacrificing a good deal of survivability in order to have those pets, and they only really add to your damage. The current MM is more of a "lead from the back" implementation, where you send your pets in to do the dirty work and support/command them from the rear. Sure, certain builds can run in with bodyguard on then blast/attack personally, but it's not the same as what I'm talking about...

Ok, that's a good analogy to base the discussion around. I still think it might be better to have the defensive powers in the primary but maybe you want to hybridize it with something else? If the defense is in the same set as the pets I feel that limits build flexibility since all 9 powers would be must-haves. Well, I can see your point regarding the secondary power set, but I don't think putting the defenses in the primary would work out better. What would you put in the secondaries, then? Other support powers, perhaps? What if each summoned pet contributed to your defense in a more active way - like for each T1 pet, you get a bonus to s/l res, the T2's give energy/neg energy, toxic, fire, cold res, and the T3 gives some status protection? Thus you're incentivized to keep your pets alive, and could theoretically do without one or more of the defensive toggles, as long as you keep your pets alive? Feels too much like the bodyguard mechanic, IMO. *shrugs*

I remember in Guild Wars 1 that each team member could cast a "vote" to skip a cutscene, (I forget if you needed everyone to agree, or just a majority, however). Perhaps it would be up to the team leader, or they could just set an option right at the onset? Heck, they could probably just speed up the actions, (since I think the game engine actually plays out a script with the NPCs/characters involved)...

Well, think of it sort of like the tanker<->scrapper or defender<->corrupter dynamic - whereas a regular MM is damage & support focused, this AT would be centered around tanking/crowd control and damage. I fully acknowledge that such a class would need a lot of tweaking, but I feel there is a niche to be filled for players who want pets, but also want to be in the thick of things, trading blows with the enemy up-close...

This AT would NOT have bodyguard mode, (instead would be the mechanic where your pets share in a portion of any healing you receive and they're damage gets buffed by them not having enemy aggro or just a damage buff based upon how many enemies have aggro on YOU). Your point about few MMs taking their personal attacks is noted, but by adding in the defensive toggles in their place, it'd make passing over any such powers a tough decision to make, (as it should be, IMO).