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Newspaper mish, Get the Loot, mish map entrance pop-up: 'If this goes to plan, it'll be easy money?' should be 'If this goes to plan, it'll be easy money.'

I love the writing in the new arcs, but I really hate the lack of balancing. The over-powered end bosses and obsession with ambushes (usually simultaneously) make them virtually un-soloable unless the character is a tricked out 50 exemping down. I think these would have been better suited to be TFs rather than supposed solo content. Also, it's not fun having so much dialogue occurring during the waves of ambushes, requiring a lot of scrolling back to see what was said after the fighting is all over.

I'm seeing a disturbing pattern where all the new story arcs from HC, while excellently written, seem inappropriately balanced for the stated level range. That makes me a bit worried about the future direction of the game.

Sgt Shorr contact intro pop-up: 'Sg.t Shorr is leading up a group called the Hammers of Justice, and is recruiting Rogues in the St. Marital area' should be 'Sgt. Shorr is leading a group called the Hammers of Justice and is recruiting Rogues in the St. Martial area' or maybe 'Sgt. Shorr is heading up a group called the Hammers of Justice and is recruiting Rogues in the St. Martial area'

Archmage Tarixus, Offer Soul of Akarist, debriefing: 'That Akarist is at tricky one ' should be 'That Akarist is a tricky one '

Diviner Maros, no more mishs: 'You'll have to decide whether to chose a part, or have one be chosen for you.' should be 'You'll have to decide whether to choose a part, or have one be chosen for you.'

Diviner Maros, Steal an artifact from cultists, mish debrief: 'I'll handle dropping clues to it's new location through other agents' should be 'I'll handle dropping clues to its new location through other agents'

Packets arriving out of order tends to happen a lot in the run-up to Xmas.

Huh. Maybe this is just an example of why eyewitness testimony is so unreliable.

More Diviner Maros, Defeat Circle in Cavern, debriefing: 'And it begins. For you, this may seem like a starting point, but there is so much that has gone on before. So much that has happened, that could have happened. It all narrows now, as it draws to it's point.' should be 'And it begins. For you, this may seem like a starting point, but there is so much that has gone on before. So much that has happened, that could have happened. It all narrows now, as it draws to its point.'

A twofer in Diviner Maros' introductory conversation: 'Past and future are to me a lattice-work of interconnected events, probabilities merging one to another, forming blossoms or realities where they connect. The talent is rare even among the Circle, and to use it with skill is rare still. For this reason I am allowed some autonomy to associate as I choose. I will chose you, now, and offer you riches in Oranbegan gold to play a part in what I have foreseen.' should be 'Past and future are to me a lattice-work of interconnected events, probabilities merging one to another, forming blossoms of realities where they connect. The talent is rare even among the Circle, and to use it with skill is rarer still. For this reason I am allowed some autonomy to associate as I choose. I will choose you, now, and offer you riches in Oranbegan gold to play a part in what I have foreseen.'

Not sure if anyone's still looking at this thread, but I want to speak again about the sudden difficulty of the final rogue mish. First time I did this content was via Ouro with an exemped 50, which was when I merely commented that a warning re the EB would be appropriate. With a natural 25 this final mish was extremely difficult, requiring that I perform as many gamey tricks as I could imagine. Plus a number of deaths. At least the hospital was nearby. An un-advance-warned-about EB immediately after a crowded roomful of a dozen or so mobs is really harsh for a level 25.

I have this problem as well. Works ok if you're interested only in the blueside zones, but if you're trying to move the mouse to red, gold, or shard, the blue submenu appears and covers up the other categories.

OK I wasn't gonna say anything cuz I thought I was just imagining things, but now that you mention it I have to agree. And I already had all my settings at max before the last patch. At first I thought it was just that all the base portals had been replaced with new, crisper objects, but then I noticed similar other small details. Hard pressed to say exactly what is different though. Maybe we just got cloned like Paul Rudd and everything seems fresh to our new eyes?

Technofreak plaque in SW Cap: 'NutriPaste has even earned it's place in the schools of the Isles' should be 'NutriPaste has even earned its place in the schools of the Isles'

Thank you, thank you! I have to say this is a surprising amount of extra work on top of such a major recent release. Santa's elves must be very busy at Homecoming Central!!!

If anyone is experiencing this again after downloading the new launcher, don't be like me and forget to add the new game folder to your A/V exception list!!

Brother Hammond's Arc, Description of Martin Henri: 'This man moves and talks differently than most of the Luddites' should be 'This man moves and talks differently from most of the Luddites' There are other problems with this sentence, but that's the easiest one to fix.

On top of the blinking, I've noticed since i27 that often when I enter a mish the icon for SJ is on, even though I turned off SJ already. So I have to toggle it on and off again to be sure it's not still on and draining my End.

Just to offer an alternative solution: I fixed this by turning off Automatic UI Scale in Options on the Windows tab.

In case this helps anyone, I had sound last night after downloading i27 and the new installer, but this morning suddenly there was no sound/music in the game at all. All settings in game and PC sound looked correct and hadn't been changed. Sound was working fine except for CoH. CoH was not appearing in the sound mixer, even after a restart. I have two playback devices listed: Speakers/Headphones and RealTek Digital. Switched from Speakers to Digital and then back again, and the sound returned!

Question: do low level mobs drop just any random type of DO? As my current char is magic origin, I chose a mish with CoT, but they dropped sci/tech, mut/sci, and mut/mag -- only the latter of which would I have expected from mages.

While I may have mixed feelings about some of these changes, I just want to say a huge THANK YOU to the HC devs for all their hard work. And for keeping this game alive and growing instead of just on life support.

Mu'Vorkan's Personal Story, Lord Recluse: 'Go on, Mu, but do not tempt my patience.' should be either 'Go on, Mu, but do not test my patience.' or maybe 'Go on, Mu, but do not tempt my wrath.' The writer seems to have conflated two sayings here.

Not grammar; just a suggestion... Mu'Vorkan's Personal Story, briefing: 'It wasn't fair that he, someone who had powerful Mu blood running through his veins, was cast to be another nameless face in an army.' But he's not nameless... His name is Mu'Vorkan. He is faceless, though, like most Mu. I think this should be: 'It wasn't fair that he, someone who had powerful Mu blood running through his veins, was cast to be another faceless name in an army.' Especially given that just a few lines later it says, 'If Scirocco was gone, perhaps he could become a new patron and earn the honor of showing his face.'