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Not sure about the time frame between Praetoria and Primal Earth. What's clear is that the Primal Earth dealt with the Devouring Earth much more effectively, possibly because the Rikti were wrecking everything including the Devouring Earth. Praetoria had no Rikti invasion. If the Rikti, and later humans using technology learned from the Rikti, were able to face the DE without using nuclear weapons, that would explain why Primal Hamidon is so much less of a threat than Praetorian Hamidon. I still hold out hope for a "hard mode" Hamidon raid against Praetorian Hamidon. Holding hope, but not holding my breath.

1. Never encountered a purpose behind Wet. 2. I skipped Steam Spray. It's actually quite good, especially for a hover blaster, but the set has so much aoe that I could afford to drop something without meaningful sacrifice, and that was it. 3. I use Tidal Power for Water Jet if single target, and Geyser if AoE and it's up, otherwise Water Burst. My ST attack chain is Water Jet, Hydro Blast, Dehydrate, Water Jet.

The badmouthing of Sentinels seems to be almost exclusively an artifact of forums and General Chat. I have literally never had anybody say anything bad about my Sentinel when playing the AT. Nobody been like "Sorry, no room for you, we're looking for a real AT!" or anything like that when trying to join a team or league for anything. When actually playing, Masterminds seem to get more actual hate. But it's trendy in the forums and General Chat to trash the Sentinel AT as useless. Meanwhile, in actual play, people will take whomever shows up to most content, only starting to gatekeep when attempting real hard mode try-hard stuff like 4-Star TF's and the like. I do wish the first thing that showed up when somebody asked anything about Sentinels wasn't "Useless AT, just a weak Blaster with training wheels, don't even bother" from the usual suspects. In most aspects of CoH, the community has no tolerance for negativity, except toward Sentinels.

This is kind of a silly request, but a common joke in Mothership Raids is either telling newbies to lick the shield for a badge, or warning them not to lick it even though it is delicious. Bearing that in mind, why not have a Shield Licker badge?

It couldn't find wine-mono. Winetricks eventually did the job.

Wish I could get it to run under Wine. Like, at all. Luckily, with a little snooping and searching, and reference back to my actual Windows install of Homecoming where City Mod Installer works fine, it's not hard to figure out how to manually install the .pigg files and set up the HC launcher to load them. Still, I'm not going to give up on getting it to work in Wine on my system. I knew Linux was going to require stretching my brain from the start.

And because they'd just got done nerfing the batcrap out of all protection sets in I4, and AoE controls being available every single pull was even better protection than just having top notch resistance and defense and a bucketload of HP - especially since Scrappers and Tankers had just lost those things. They were big on the whole risk vs. reward paradigm back then, however flawed it has proven to be since.

Is this the place to report a costume glitch that only shows in the costume selection UI? When I put on the effected costumes, they look normal. In the selection screen, they look like I am RPing as Darth Maul.

If it were a long term thing, where your mark goes away when you die, I'd love to put a Mark in the Hive or the Abyss just so I could fast travel to those zones. They are not incarnate trial maps, so they should be available.

I play on Excelsior. For most GM's, if you fail, you just ask in LFG for more people to come help you. I've seen it happen quite often. Most commonly the Goliath War Walker, people try to defeat it without enough DPS and it just out-regens them, especially if/when it clips through terrain geometry. I've seen a team have major issues with Eochai because they just did not understand moving out of the Pumpkin Patch and pulling Eochai after them. Almost nothing in CoH has a meaningful timer, especially not when confronted by more than a full team. I mean, Adamastor has a 20 minute timer, and routinely gets dropped in less than 20 seconds. So if you fail, that's just a sign you need more folks. Have you tried monster hunting on Indomitable or some other lower population server? Any outdoor content is likely to be much easier when you can get 20+ people beating on an enemy designed for 8.

My big problem is that Mids power layout is not the same as the game's power layout in the respec screen. Mids shows powers in the order you take them, the game shows the powers with the primary on the left, secondary in the middle, and inherents and pool powers on the right, in the order they are listed in the sets/pools. It makes it far easier for me to make a mistake when looking from one to another, as I don't see the same patterns. Honestly, if I'd botched the respec 3 times on 3 different characters, or even with 3 different builds of the same character, I'd be less frustrated. And I'd probably have caught the problem on time if I had purchased all the enhancements I needed before even started, as you can't actually finish the respec and lock everything in until you finish slotting, and until then you can back out. It's just frustrating to have transcription errors on my part 3 times for the exact same build. Also, my PC is having a fit alt-tabbing repeatedly between CoH and Mids, which just makes me want to get things over with faster. Not sure what's going on, but knowing that the next time you alt-tab may be the time CoH crashes to desktop does discourage close attention to detail.

I don't think that there is any way to put a build in Mids directly into the game, but just in case I'm wrong, is there? And how? More likely to bear fruit, how do people handle taking a Mids build and implementing it on your character in game? I am extremely frustrated as I have now botched a respec three times, transposing a single slot to the wrong power in a way that significantly hinders my build goals. The display of powers in Mids is very different in layout from the display of powers during a respec, and I keep making mistakes as I'm allocating my slots. No matter how many times I check, I always miss that one misplaced slot. Do you have any mental tricks you use to keep track of what you're doing? I'm expecting lots of mockery and abuse, because people online are people online, but any actual helpful advice would be much appreciated.

You obviously have never experienced Mastermind pet AI. Trust me - they're all clowns already.

It is worth noting that you can, IIRC, use an Enhancement Booster on leveled sets to go past their official max level. Usually nobody does that except for stuff at level 50, but if you really want the set bonus from Kinetic Combat or Basilisk's Gaze, but desperately need more enhancement value, you can squeeze out a few extra points at the cost of a few Enhancement Boosters. It seems weird to me to spend 1 million Inf up to five times to boos an enhancement that only cost 2 million Inf to obtain, but... if that's what your min/maxing soul wants, it does get you a little extra power out of your sets without abandoning their highly desirable set bonuses.

I'm currently considering Voltaic Sentinel for one of them on my Electrical Blast Sentinel. The proc won't do anything, which is technically a downgrade from what it does in other powers, but only technically. You can't put any useful procs in Voltaic Sentinel anyway, so no loss there. I think this is pretty ideal for Electrical Blast, as long as you're willing to take and slot Voltaic Sentinel, which I know many people just skip. But I like it.

So this topic is long enough that I can't look through the whole thing for what I'm after, I'll just ask: How would a Shield/Mace Tanker differ from Invictan, the Shield/Axe Tanker listed at the start of the thread? I know there would be something, as I cannot imagine slotting Shatter as lightly as that build slots Axe Cyclone. Nor can I convince myself there are good options on where to strip slots from to add slots to Shatter, with the "best" option appearing to be Whirling Mace, the weakest of Mace's three AoE attacks, but the one that hits in all directions. So, what should I change beyond just going in and switching Secondary from Axe to Mace? Edit: never mind, as soon as I started looking from first to last instead of from last (for most recent builds) to first, I found it. Now I feel dumb. Oh well, such is life.

These changes appear to bring Crusher War Mace attacks into line with player War Mace attacks. I'm not super clear on how damage scales translate to in game numbers, but the animation times and arc change for Shatter are also present on my War Mace Scrapper. Even Clobber is probably intended - it used to be an stun which did almost no damage, and has become the most powerful single target attack War Mace gets. Shatter also hits very hard. The actual damage numbers might not match up, not too clear on how much damage a 2.92 damage scale attack compares to what I actually get and about to leave for work, so no time to check City of Data, but comparatively, yes, Clobber and Shatter should be hard hitting attacks if they're intended to mirror their player versions.

Long ago I made a SS/Invuln Brute, had some fun, but eventually decided I wasn't too fond of Rage, or rather, the Rage crash. So I shelved it. Recently I picked it up again and started doing late game/end game content, and learned to enjoy Rage. Plus, the feel of Super Strength attacks is just good for me. So I've been planning out a new build for a respec. I'm not super good with Mids, so before I commit to spending the Inf on a bunch of expensive stuff, please point out any glaring errors in my build. I don't expect it to be the best build ever, but I'm concerned about Endurance, which is a persistent problem with my current, improvised/leveling build. Thanks! |MBD;24283;1436;1916;BASE64;| |G9peERWUHgAtDnhzLuTE6GBQDfw7vY47HZWis/NV03dag5e2Xeqy17ERtPRsE9GRB4r| |y74tzKl+9nUAGmwzJmGOydPW1DgtIVzcYm5c0ju59Y43WfZaARgOY3TcvtbRJbdSoUH| |Kte2lKd4CHdrP0Zmj/E0vsCoBEYwchQ7XrkDv2f6ZwMAZFyHSUPsGxSP9QIb7tCXAcg| |NL6fL+OiaxH0PnTgPNud9l9AD+kGkBS/JmA90PH06E4Z3e312cYvJAypPfyDJC5y+Df| |cwVzFREiKZ0ApKoWwf9s9E4vgIthrznC8vdNgNnoXb1exRF5lHqKfaoNCXKLdhdrhd8| |4q9FScpCbo1aB/Kgm8jsAjDHyqPvGHCDLlqETbIixOWEFu50vqMe9cdcKJuSbNQdBDm| |tb7KY8icKU/5D45kOxo9G3HT7fVId4YhlPeU93kOxVJmXy1ixvV8zv8Z8S9KUV3KoUg| |ut1NBltZ1hsC+DuZiL3fdvHBO5XJr1+jajpaGaezurXSb+av3AwrDDWoMLnSWWeG0QB| |8y+mBU8YrQN8LhcLVC1nlx1Ngt83RVc+CAC89moAnoD9CB5Tx9dnAs8+2HkB5EZHcK0| |DNX7wBXTYcbCrM8nXGC8SEKrwIjbChQjVwoVxihQuglMewq1k9bC0iFxDYb5g6zhtlj| |jJ5klEPtsWm++h1HOxy+hVCa3Nb0fi0uxF5YFbaVERNso+r3xHX9R+1llSK1/9nOauj| |3uZOLSbVuQUyD2y/NBdP7aTPdArX6FYNwd4sVliHMgqygXx5KVjyC1YS5tOzRvG/T/R| |osM3KE6NsdlG+JyejotUlg3ilVWS7hylu13RU5gTk1qBlALNcgrMOTM2iv2kJZ36lhZ| |XfAfFo7tx3sfJ6yz/KyXqfhrM+uuIq3F06aBJSF/FX9bR2BrUGqmsYtduEpyZe7T/sU| |o6BqO8zPc48LMzjBw9Oei1CmL2Qfe4yWCDhO8RnuDCuCciu2CZ9v+7eY0hjZqbCxlD9| |hkCm3bRq60gLgGdNwdSvaVFpCXYMCEYhBVotnrMDxf3muksFm6MhWKVdfTfoNTUjSZZ| |3bUb5C4MsS4+A4wjouYqMFklx66KrKy1KFKpHDH6g3G4wGFhPMg6y6Csi6yL928P49g| |2nd/HgZx4z304oV7nifAMaWbqjbErELGCWd8Bvd5cAAdMpGU4y/VpOhKlmfCSF19wNl| |ReFGmO6W49XLajO0LE+8pDFkhYUjyL/Y0Fb/n2tAuWbSYM6C9bw9S7XW7ezE/pQCLeU| |9gUelFrIq3x3japbDZrRO2yNcpAwi091boDQe56Ye/hVxkcnNSVEaHl/aQ6WGVBGTkF| |y1wBakzFF8Sst58YH8IeUWvDIKtmkp2BgrD5KHPHrkGkGobYSHVIfcdK2TodZ16MjIW| |sQtZB4GGVXePNt6zQwC6bhcHvjMs+14gEP3iANUxmnhN4Xy5AAfxgFfFMZnxYt4In7S| |Ps24ocCqBf3GV2SYeB3py08F5yjCn7TMEhfnJlu1yUFkgHIr3lAIPi1UGXV95gHDzIH| |YetZDO/MN1ij7VQ2Sbm5fO2cmQIxsuGdYvxx710k6aglUt6KE5zeRF5CS6MEwXyCt7p| |xjdQYGRncWI3T8rmV2r8EfSICu4Ktv8YbzjTQKUcBmmt6j4cU++Gqlgv+uGa8OWwgZd| |Qbh/50Y7pXtnOBGGLn7IU1GOts/H5/jDnfGUswqq8BH+iz7dDf2fninNmdQ+slWfzPx| |m2sg/K7UoddQW3KX876tqo5pAUZl99aaltUNdQGcX7P6xau7lOofCbDk56q7auXOiWl| |GpnhzfLWvEimGXlSoc/TEcLuEIvr3LmcAxyZZ+fNjdoLYZ2zg0jXdwFtWoFdwyFENFe| |D4jAhGwYIcM1OcdNassk1Ljf2sDWVDsYhQRxKWk=|

Sentinel epics used to be a bit *TOO* epic. For a long time the running joke was that the highest damage Sentinel primary was Psi Mastery. I wouldn't mind seeing a bit more epicness in them now, but the real issue is that Sentinels have pretty much everything they really need in their power sets and normal pools.

Message received, I'll stay away.

Apparently reading comprehension may not be my strong suit.

The way nobody seems to be talking about, but is quite viable for some people, is to be rich and buy them off the AH. They're not seeded, so supply will be limited, and buying a bunch of them will run up the price and deplete the supply. But it's a way to get more Prismatic Aethers that is quick and easy if you have put in the effort and time to become rich.

The topic was not misleading. Topic: Don't Understand a Dominator. Contents: expression of opinions indicating a lack of understanding of a Dominator. 10/10, very clearly labeled, exactly as advertised.

Of all the AT's, Corruptors offer the best balance (for me) of team utility and satisfying damage. I have a Defender, and enjoy it, but definitely not for its damage potential. When I play my Defender, I'm almost entirely focused on my primary, and occasionally use my secondary when there's literally nothing else useful I can be doing. On my Blaster, I bring almost nothing useful to the team *EXCEPT* my damage. On my Corruptor, it's a much more dynamic decision of whether I should be buffing teammates, debuffing foes, or unaliving my enemies - and whichever I choose, I still feel like I'm doing the job usefully well.

My experience with the Hellion Arson event is that occurs approximately every 15 minutes until I actually feel like participating in it, then never.