ZekeStenzland

But does The New Snarky (tm) sparkle in the sunlight? Inquiring minds need to know whether we should be swooning in terror or delight!

As I understand it, the devs did a fix for regen to make it better. It’s called Will Power. You might find it more to your liking. Also, regen on sentinels is mechanically a bit different than on melees. You might find that works better for you if you’re okay with a ranged AT. Mild disagreement on skipping blaster melee powers until later. While range is a good defense, there will be times when range is not possible: most cave missions and many office and warehouse maps won’t easily permit it. Your melee attacks tend to be better than your ranged attacks, so having one good hard hitter when stuck in melee range is helpful. Also, don’t skimp on slotting your T1 and T2 attacks. While they’re not generally as good as your other attacks you can still use them just fine while held/stunned/asleep. It’s not unusual for me to finish a fight and still have to wait for a hold or sleep to wear off.

Clearly your finances live up to your forum handle 😛 I usually do 5 at a time. 50M I can probably raise in a week. Also, the ATOs are random. And you can change them to another random AT for 3 converters per try. But there are 15 ATs. If you’re looking for ATOs for 1 specific AT, don’t be surprised if you have to convert 10-40 times before you get the one you want. For this scenario, I recommend converting to one of the better selling ATO (like stalker or something), selling that on the AH, and using the proceeds to buy AT of your choice. You’ll save a ton of converters that way. The WinterO pool only has 6(?) in it, so you’re probably good just doing regular conversions to get the type you want. Im sure actual market folks will jump in here if I’m giving bad advice…

In the auction house under the special tab. You’re looking for hero and rogue packs for ATOs and winter packs for WinterOs.

In the auction house, under Special, they sell hero and rogue packs for 10Million each. They show up under your special salvage tab. You click on them to open them. They have 5 random “cards” in them. Each card is some kind of random reward — converters, merit rewards, ATOs, team inspirations, etc. The packs contain on average 1.2 ATOs each. There’s also winter packs for 25Million each. Similar thing as the hero and rogue packs, but instead of ATOs, they have the WinterOs. I consider these a cheaper way to go than spending 100merits each for an ATO or WinterO. YMMV.

While I accept that you did not have fun on your scrappers and blasters, the idea that they are “weak” does not match my experiences playing those archetypes. Unfortunately, you didn’t really give us much to go on for what the real issue is. What sets were you using? What level were you at? How were your powers slotted? Was there a specific mission and/or boss that gave you noticeable trouble? What strategies worked or didn’t work for the fights? Without this kind of information, it’s difficult to give advice that’s useful to you. So, in game, if you type /buildsave, it will save a text file of your character called build.txt. You could post that file here or in one of the AT-specific forums to get more relevant advice.

So, as I understand it, this typically happens because the devs have changed the underlying costume data in a way that wasn't backwards compatible -- like maybe renaming a costume texture, or changing a piece's type (like it was Boot >> Sneakers, now it's a type of Boot >> Flat >> Sneakers). It doesn't happen often, but it does happen rarely every once in a while. Possible Workaround #1 If you have an old version (ie, has invalid parts) of the costume file laying around, you could pick a costume slot, visit the tailor screen for it, and save the costume file back out under a new name. The costume files are just plain text. So you could open them both up in, say, Notepad and compare them. Things that didn't change are probably okay. Things that did change might give you a clue to what was wrong and how to fix it. Did the old file have "EarFemaleElf" and the new one have "EarFemaleDefault"? Then yeah, probably good enough to pick Elf ears again. Or figure out whether it's really Ears >> Elf >> Pointy or Ears >> Elf >> Super Pointy that you had. Possible Workaround #2 Take a screen shot of your character in the world with good lighting. Then bring up the costume screen. Swap back and forth between the 2 to figure out what the differences are. Possible Workaround #3 Log into CoH on main account and alt account simultaneouly. Recreate the character on an alt account. Stand the characters side by side. Make a change on the temp char. Log out of tailor and see how it compares to original. Rinse, repeat. That's really all the advice I can think of.

Made a L1 Soldier, boosted to L20 for testing out Striga at level. So, during character creation, and if you are L23 or less, you can choose the bane mace or crab arm animations for some attack powers. If you pick bane mace, it looks like you draw an invisible mace, and then the attack comes from the end of that invisible mace. If you pick crab arm, you kind of hunch over and the attack comes from somewhere in front of you -- probably where a crab arm might end, if you had one. Maybe don't allow people to pick the alternate animations until they've committed to either bane or crab, sometime on or after L24? Maybe just live with the fact the animations are totally goofy? Maybe allow people to select mace and guns in costume screen even at L1 just on the off chance they want the bane mace animations? No easy answers I'm guessing. Also haven't tested yet what happens if you're crab and pick bane mace animations, or are bane and pick crab animations. Note that choosing the bane path you may or may not have crab arms, based on whether any of your other builds are crabs.... The tinted power option seemed to work as expected.

Have finished Straxt and am halfway through Francois so far. Started as L20 Soldier (Villain). Minor grammar nit: In Buried Secrets Part 1 mission text, the tenses seem odd in the sentence starting "The uncouth Warriors...". "... have been digging..." sounds like they were digging in the past and continue to do so, but "... absconded..." sounds like they just absconded at some time in the past and are no longer absconding with anything. I dunno, I suck as an editor. Changed to Rogue, picked up the Ghost Hunter plaque in Talos. Changed back to Villain. Picked up all the other Ghost Hunter plaques in Striga and was properly awarded the Ghost Hunter history badge. Also, picked up all the exploration badges there and was properly awarded the Striga exploration accolade and merits. Nice mix of mission maps and villain groups so far. I especially liked that they weren't all "kill all" missions, and was able to stealth one or two.

A small thing that no one else here has mentioned…. Common Crafted IOs. A fair number of folks make the common crafted ios for the crafting badges. You wind up typically having to craft way more than you need, and put them up for sale on the auction house. And generally price them to sell just to recoup some of the crafting costs as opposed to making a profit. You can often get a great deal on them, sometimes cheaper than what the equivalent TO/DO/SOs sell for. And the beauty of crafted ios is… they never expire, so you can upgrade them whenever — if ever — you feel like it. As opposed to Right Now because they all went red on you.

Yeah, happening on my staff/ninja stalker as well. If you have the weapon drawn when you start the attack, it all works correctly. If you don’t, then after the wind up, you unhide and draw weapon, all the mobs agro and attack, then your damage lands. If it makes a difference, my costume does not sheath the staff.

At +0/x1, on blue/red side you’ll typically encounter about 3 points of mobs — 3 minions or 1 lieut and 1 minion. On gold side, you’ll typically encounter 4-5 points of mobs — 4-5 minions or 1 lieut and 2-3 minions. It makes a difference at the under 20 range.

IP meaning Intellectual Property in this case. The terms of service disallow you from making characters that are copies of copyrighted characters. Or near copies. It would suck big time if the game had to shut down because Marvel sued it out of existence for letting people make Wolverine clones.

Next to the blaster, outside the effect of any of the aoes. I assume this is some kind of pvp exercise where everyone is just competing to see how much they can screw over all the other people on the team. Too bad the caltrops weren’t tossed into the arctic air. The slow and fear (and damage) effects would all stack.

Watt?

Well, if you happen to pick HEAT as your AT, you aren’t given the option of doing the tutorial — you’re just dumped directly into Atlas Park in front of the PB or WS contact. I could see suggesting that ATs are marked with a Challenge Rating suggestion for beginners. Possibly even showing them for Power Sets as well. Not sure about the costume creator complaint. Yes it’s quirky. Without completely revamping it, I don’t see what can be done. I guess if a new player wants to make an awesome, unique costume in 30secs, it’s an issue. I don’t think it’s the end of the world that you might spend an hour just meandering through it the first time. As for Level 1s getting stuck in steel canyon hospital, I’m less sympathetic. Getting ganked by mobs now helps build valuable situational awareness for later. How to spot dangerous mobs. How to avoid dangerous mobs. How to outrun dangerous mobs. How to ask in /help for help getting out of Steel Canyon at level 1. Who knows, maybe at some point they’ll realize that the numbers after the zone names on the Train destination list are suggested level ranges?

Oh yeah, there are macros for effectively having hasten and domination both on auto. I haven’t used them, tbh. But I assume they work like the farming macros that both attack and convert all your inspirations to reds. YMMV.

Hard to figure out what the best would be for your needs. Is there maybe a character from another game that plays in a way you like? Anyway… If you’re having END issues, it’s usually a build problem. Most ATs and sets have their issues sorted by level 20 or so. You can probably get help on that in the builds forum or in discord. As for Mez protection, you only really need KB protection because KB is common from 1-50. Blessing of the Zephyr, Karma, and Steadfast Protection are cheap and do the job. For everything else, it’s just not as needed. If you’ve got controls or big damage you can typically neutralize any other threat before it controls you. On my guys without Mez protection, I’m generally much more concerned about -recharge, -recovery or -damResist than about holds and such. You can go permadom without hasten. It’s awesome, although is typically a more expensive build. Or just put dom on auto and just live with it not being up 100%. I’ve done permadom with and without hasten, and also non-perma dom. It all works. Inability to solo bosses again sounds like a build issue. Or an expectation issue. Hard to say. I can’t speak to boringness or lack of engagement.

I was thinking about this a little more and found this. If I like the bio/name/costume, then I’m more likely to shelve the character until I can find a better build, or delete and recreate as a different AT or power set. If I like the powers but not the RP aspects, I’m more likely to just delete the character.

Abandon during character creation? Hell yeah. Typical level range to abandon? Usually in the 8-30 range. But I’ve deleted 50s before. I’ll often just shelve them, in case I change my mind, find a better build, etc. But I have no problem stripping & deleting them. I do go back and revisit abandoned characters occasionally. Sometimes it’s even successful.

Another suggestion to make Posi1 just a tad less chaotic… Clear the area in front of the city hall doors before you rescue hero #4. The ambushes only trigger when you get close to the doors after you’ve rescued all the heroes.

Yule Log Out — Warm up in front of the cheery fire pit in the winter chalet, without pressing any keys or clicking the mouse for a few minutes to activate!

To be more specific, it [slow resistance] is a global and so works like a set bonus. It’s always in effect regardless of whether you’re using the power it’s slotted in — or even have the power available — as long as you don’t exemp more than 3 levels below the level of the enhancement. I just always have the wiki page open that tells what category the special enhancements are. So I know whether the enhancement needs to be attuned or not based on where I’m slotting it.

Although you were asking about passive procs in powers you got for free… It occurs to me that if you were a peacebringer or warshade, you get a bunch of travel powers, for free, that other ATs do not. I think they take the same sets as the normal flight, hover, teleport, etc. You could drop a Scaling Resistance or Global Recharge in the Hover power. Can’t think of anything else useful that would be relevant when you weren’t using the power. Of course, you’d have to be a Kheldian. And they are already notoriously strapped for enhancement slots if you plan on using more than one form.

I don’t think the tiki bartender does, but the bartenders in the monkey area in the blue half do.