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Back in the day my main was a SS/Elec Brute. He was insanely durable. I had a very solid end game build for him, with capped S/L defense and perma-hasten. I'm pretty sure I skipped the tier 9 power in favor of more attacks from Fire Mastery. Ended up having some decent AoE with those 3 sets. I'll post the build when I get home if you like. As for /Rad, I'm only just now playing around with it so I can't tell you which would be better.

I've been waiting to see if Arcanaville would pop back up. Also somewhat scared/entertained by the idea that Durakken could return. There's others who's names elude me but I remember their avatars. Someone with an aardvark standing on its hind legs.

Heh, figured out the command this morning during some pre-work play. But thank you none the less. Also, interesting stuff with that "+" command stuff. Gonna have to use it.

Balance issues, more than likely. But back in the day, some people wanted it so that you could pick across powersets within the Archetype primary/secondary. For example, if you were a tanker, you could pick your tier 1 power from Stone Armor, and then pick your tier 2 power from Ice Armor, etc. And interesting idea, but probably just as problematic.

I'm working on a fun way of creating that illusion. I'll post pics if I figure something out.

If only had I acknowledged that and clarified this was down the road wishful thinking. Oh wait... Lighten up, entertain fun ideas. It's not the worst thing to be doing on the forums.

I can understand for you it's frustrating. Having a whole server that has no 2xXP doesn't sound like the answer for your problem though. Which server from the limited selection we have? What about the people that already have toons they'd like to get 2xXP for that are on that server? Why withhold 2xXP for 25% of the toons out there when those who would prefer not to have it would most likely be a much smaller population? While it might be a minor annoyance for you to turn off XP gain here and there so you don't out-level content, it would seem more burdensome to force the other route for so many others.

Uhh... what's the "intended rate"? As far as I can remember, it was nearly impossible not to out-level content and contacts even at regular XP. I think it's only possible to stay within that range (especially at low levels) is by turning of XP (before you out level content) until your done with that content.

I wondered if tons of AE maps with all their ridiculous spawn numbers would be an issue for the servers. I figured that's why the XP nerf came through. Makes a lot of sense. As for transfers. Would you be willing to consider a temporary period for doing them. Say, give people a few days or a week to ask for one, and then you do the manual transfers as you can. With the new servers, I can see how helpful it would be to move over for more consistent server stability. But some of us won't get to play as much while 2.5xXP is available so might not be enticed enough to make a move. Just food for thought. Thanks for all the hard work you guys!

I wonder if Bases is a big enough topic to eventually need its own subforum. Or at least a stickied thread. I spent a good many hours... er, days... building and rebuilding SG bases. For those of us who just love the creative possibilities it provides, there's plenty of tip, tricks and photos that are going to be coming.

Hmm. I may have to see about making a build change to one of my favorites now. That could be really useful crowd control.

It would be great if they could let others host and network with them. Not sure how viable that would be as far as keeping expected standards the same. That stuff is way out of my league, but I would think there could be security concerns, but what do I know. As for reviving old data from the NCSoft accounts, I'm pretty sure that's a huge legal no-no that would upset a lot of parties. NCSoft. People who don't want their data out there. That info probably needs to stay lost.

Nah, you've lost it once and lived, a second time won't be as bad. At least right now you're appreciating it more than you did before (I assume). Given that independent servers will rise up should these servers be taken down at least softens the blow. With any luck, someone will make a way to export what characters we've worked on so we can take them to independent servers. Then we won't have to worry about it.

I wouldn't bother following the build you posted. As mentioned, that's a late game build and won't be as fun to play while you're leveling. Not only are IO sets something you won't bother with until later, but you'll be hard pressed to even find all the sets in that build anytime too soon, since the supply side of the market is going to be scarce with the servers being so fresh. I would recommend not picking up Hasten until after you pick up Consume. Hasten has an endurance crash when it expires and in the early levels, Endurance management is a rougher. I would consider at least one more attack power by in the first 10 levels. Since you're this new to the game, I'd recommend picking up all primary and secondary powers you can (grab a travel power from the P2W vendor in Atlas, then pick up one from the Pool Power options in your teens) and get a good feel for them. There's way too much to learn in this game to try and have a "perfect build" right out the gate. My first time through I made a character I knew nothing about, learned how the powers worked in play, and after seeing how they played out started to learn all the mechanics around them. Learning about resistance/defense caps and bonuses and all of that will be overwhelming. Better to go in with no expectations and think your powerful, and then keep getting more powerful as you learn.

Can't help you on that front, but you might have better look asking about that here. :)

I look at it this way: I expected after I24 Beta was out, that there would be an I24. I expected the game would be there for me to play for some time to come. It wasn't, and one of my most favorite games was gone and that left me sad and a bit pissy. I never had any expectations of playing CoH again, and now my happiness level is through the roof since Homecoming's launch. So I'm going to keep NOT expecting anything, and just be damn grateful for however long this is possible. There's no guarantees, and we'll all be better off accepting that and still enjoying what we have.

There's a new "i25" Knockback set that has a Knockback-to-Knockdown enhancement in it, though! I saw it at the Merit Vendor. Guys, I'm in a fragile place right now. This rollercoaster has put me through the loops. Is there truly a KB2KD enhancement out there? I don't think I can have my feelings played with again.

Yes they are, I've got a few of them already. I have pretty much forgotten how to use them, though.... I can second this. I had 4 drops over the past 2-3 days.

Thanks! I'll add that to my list of sources. After looking through it, I'm not seeing the set up I'm trying to make. I'm trying to make it so that the first key command lets me type in the name I want to target, and the second key command does the targeting. Here's an example of what I've tried, but I've gotten arg errors that I can't figure out: /bind shift+l "start_chat /bind shift+t "target_custom So I would hit shift+l, type in the target name and hit enter, and then use shift+t to target that name I typed in.

I'm running a Rad/Bio brute, and would definitely agree on /Bio. I enjoyed it during i24 Beta, and was bummed when the shut down the game before it could go live. My Psi questions have actually been for my Rad/Psi Tank. I'll be keeping all of this input in mind for him once I level him up more. Thanks!

Heroes being criminals. Maybe I need to start making them Vigilantes.

I've looked through all the bind guides I know of, but haven't been able to find one I'm looking to do. I know it's possible because I used it before, but have long forgotten the commands. I need to set up a two part bind for targeting specific enemies. The bind would set up the second. For example, if I was in a mission with Sky Raiders in it, and I wanted to single out Engineers, the first bind would start up the chat that sets up the second bind where I just type in the target name and hit enter. Can anyone layout the bind command for my inept brain?

Thanks for that! Those are gonna be super helpful. Does anyone know if an easy method to move an object horizontally after you've place it? For example, I have an object I've raised above the floor, but need to move it sideways without lowering or raising its height, but that's way easier said than done.

Aren't Controllers now a control primary without any other offensive capability? I would agree this kind of approach would probably be more viable. Defense/Control-Melee. Maybe Tank Multipliers with Scrapper caps on defensive, and Defender damage multipliers and controller level mez. Limited range powers to keep them very much "in the thick of it".

Darn. I was hoping it would improve as the I leveled up. Might have to replace it.