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Yes. The Balance. It is real. Too much of a good thing is pretty much always bad.

Well, you don't need to pay that much for a video card in order to play CoH.

Then, I would suggest that you post about that in suggestion form. I would ask for the thread to be moved, but starts with a question rather than suggestion.

I told you that I was basing what I said upon forum threads that posted players UIs. Why don't you do pool to see the number of players that would what you want?

Well, I'm not the one complaining about the NPC chat, but I already do remove NPC chat from the cat tab chat that I mainly use - which is the help chat tab. it is good to be able to flip over to the Main chat tab to see what they are saying, but I'm more interested in monitoring the /help, /team, /local, /lfg, and the event channel(s) than keeping up with all the NPC chatter. But you don't seem to understand where I'm coming from in regard to the Arachnos, mission contacts, and other in mission chatter on the villain side versus the street NPC chatter that Rudra was complaining about. Arachnos, mission contacts, and other in mission chatter tend to be talking down to you and treating you like a tool or a pawn that doesn't know what is "really" going on. A villain (but maybe VETAs - I don't play those) is never going to be able to call for the assistance of Arachnos or minor villains that they defeated along the way. If anything, you are bowing down and committing subservience to whichever Patron your character picks to get access to their related patron power pool (of course, a villain doesn't have to pick a patron, but you don't get anything for doing that other than not committing to subservience to a Patron.)

Are you talking about picking power sets to fit the character conception or picking individual powers to fit the character conception? I'm talking about not only picking primary and secondary power sets that match the character conception but also the power picks including START, power pools, and epics. Do you run the leveling content or PL/doorsit to 50? 😕 ... but ... oh, never mind.... 👍 mini-maxing is min-maxing. Using a cookie-cutter is limiting how far you take character conception. I agree that you should play the game the way that you enjoy playing it. Obviously, by hardly ever /respec-ing a good number of my characters are what others would say were suboptimal. Even from my own perspective, some of them have some slotting issues that gimp them a bit, but, to me, that just makes it challenge to play them when I, hopefully, get around to paying them again. [I really enjoy crafting characters.] It sounds like you have found your happiness in it. Have fun. Hopefully, we are all here to have fun. I know I am. I love this game.

The PC "villains" are a joke to Arachnos.

I would just use /follow. Sure, you can't k... knock them unconscious, but you can follow them around in a threatening manner. Do I think that they should run away screaming like in DCUO? Sure. But I guess the NPCs are so confident that Lord Recluse is in control that they aren't scared of any violence on the streets.

I don't know. I didn't get involved with the Set Market or sets in general back then, but I was turning (mostly by crafting on live) level 45 and 50 recharge reduction IOs almost as fast as I could switch between my 100+ characters back then. Before Day Jobs, if I didn't have set place for character to park for RP reasons, they would park at the wentworths in Steel, log in and check what was sold, grab more supplies, jump down, cross the street, run over over to the university, craft, make my way back to the Wentworths, post what I had crafted, and then game for a bit or switch up to some more marketing. With only 10 marketing slots per character, you could only do so much.

I can tell by your avatar 😉 ... not that I have issues with devil girls ... some of them are just mischievous ...

I'm not one to try using battlecry at all, but does it do the same thing when you try to use it in /help or /lfg? **** We interrupt this post for a Public Service announcement. **** Politeness remember! If you are creating macros, never use "say". "say" makes the macro send the text to whatever you have selected. Please use "local" or - better yet - "team" when you want to put a text message in a marco. This stops you from accidentally spamming your macro message in channels that you don't intend to send the message. "Have a taste of my mystic blade, Gravedigger Chopper!" "Have a taste of my mystic blade, Gravedigger Chopper!" "Have a taste of my mystic blade, Gravedigger Slammer!" "Have a taste of my mystic blade, Death Doll!" ... can get old even on /team pretty quickly. On /local it is only annoying to those local to your character. Anywhere else? People will be sending you /tells or just putting you on ignore before too long.

I'm sure there is, but I don't use guides https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/44-guides/ Procs aren't going to affect accuracy. I believe that there is/are + to hit one(s). There are definitely "chane for" build-up ones. I think Luck of the Gambler is the only global recharge proc. Are we still just talking about procs or set bonuses? Power don't proc. Procs either have a chance to go off when a power is used or they have a global effect when slotted. I proc a I go. I don't level characters past 49 any more. Generally: I'm getting the (Unique)* Prestige Enhancements [https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Going_Rogue_Pre-Order#Pre-Order_Enhancements] for free from the START vendor. [I throw the one that does smashing damage in the last slot of tray 7 because I get this glitch sometimes on some characters where they will get locked to only have on tray of enhances and putting an enhancement in the last slot of tray 7 stops his from happening.] [The one for lethal damage I use a placeholder to distinguish between enhances that I'm holding to slot s able and ones that drop or otherwise I plan to sell on the market.] First one I slot is the one that procs psionic damage and has recharge. Then, in another power, I'll slot the one the procs energy damage and has recharge Then, if I have an AOE power that I plan on using before level 20 (they stop working at level 20), then I'll slot the one that does knockdown in that power. You can only slot 1 Unique of that specific kind per character. I'm slotting a https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Panacea:_Chance_for_%2BHit_Points/Endurance at level 10. I'm slotting a https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Performance_Shifter:_Chance_for_%2BEndurance as soon as I feel I can after 17 I'm slotting a https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Power_Transfer:_Chance_to_Heal_Self as soon as I feel that i can (I think this one starts at 18, but I can't remember) If have electrical powers, I might slot another one of the last two in one of my powers that takes end mods and I'll be using at least 3 or 4 times per minute. I usually end up slotting a (Unique) https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Reactive_Defenses:_Scaling_Damage_Resistance I'll work in ATO procs and sets as able. This next group is pretty much archetype dependent. Next big level for procs for me is level 27 when I start trying to work in: Ranged attack - https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Devastation:_Chance_for_Hold - I usually try to slot another one of this set to get the set bonus for 2 - Two enhancements improves your Regeneration by 12%. Healing (Unique) - https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Numina's_Convalescence:_Regeneration/Recovery - I usually try to slot another one of this set to get the set bonus for 2 - Two enhancements improves your Regeneration by 12%. Hold powers - https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Lockdown:_Chance_for_%2B2_Mag_Hold - I usually try to slot 3 of these in a hold power - Two enhancements improves the Damage of all your powers by 3%. Three enhancements improves the duration of your Hold effects by 2.5%. I use other procs, but I try to stay within character conception. If don't really think that the visual effects of a power fit the character conception then I won't use them. If I think the visual effect fits a character, I might use it even if it doesn't seem to me to be he best choice to use. One I find really fun to use on an Ice theme character with a melee attack especially if it already has knockdown/knockback built in is https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Blistering_Cold:_Recharge/Chance_for_Hold Nothing like knocking an enemy away and forming a block of ice around them! And, if a tank, I'm pretty much always going to put https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Perfect_Zinger:_Chance_for_Psionic_Damage in taunt. Taunt cost no end to use and is auto hits on PvE targets, so this give it a chance to cause damage whenever the proc goes off ... and psionic AOE damage at that! I sometimes slot the two others in the set that have increased range so my tanks can taunt targets further away. Two enhancements increases Toxic and Psionic Resistance by 2.25%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Immobilize effects on you by 3.75%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Hold effects on you by 3.75%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Stun effects on you by 3.75%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Sleep effects on you by 3.75%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Fear effects on you by 3.75%. Two enhancements reduces the duration of Confuse effects on you by 3.75%. Three enhancements improves your Regeneration by 10%. [yeah sure, if you are a tank, you really don't need the "reduces the duration" because you should have a power that makes you immune, but "improves your Regeneration by 10%" isn't bad.]

I don't think that there would be enough players that would want to stack all their trays like that to make it worth the DEVs time. There are several threads about how people set up their UI, and I don't remember seeing much or really any of this going on. I try to set up my trays so that they don't block what I consider to be the main viewing area and your stacking of trays all on one side seems to block too much useful viewing area.

Make them run and then chase them around!

Not me. I rarely use hasten or luck of the gambler. I have never used Mids. I don't use other people's builds. I'm a character conception player. My builds happen organically through leveling while trying to be true to the character conception. I rarely /respec (I think I have /respec under 5 times since Homecoming. I can't immediately remember doing it more than twice since being on Homecoming servers.