StrykerGaming

At this point, why bother? Those who championing the click power are tone deaf to changing it including a GM. As I stated in a reply earlier, I found out the information I was looking for and how I can fix this issue for me until I hit 50 with this toon. One thing for sure though, hell will freeze over before I offer another opinion or thoughts on something on these boards.

Do you understand what "context" means? If you truly do not, please refer to Websters to understand how and why it is important, especially in communicating. Your selective editing or quoting is a manipulation of what I stated, so for context of my statement, here it is in its entirety to refute your assertion that my statement was dismissive. "I read all the replies here. I know all the stories and information. It does not change the fact that this important defensive power has to manually activated either before or after you've been mezzed." Notice the difference? The subject of this statement is not in the first 2 sentences. It is in the last sentence that you selectively edited to fit your narrative. I've highlighted this for your viewing pleasure. Steampunkette, if I were to play the victim card, I can assure you that it would be a profanity laced diatribe on those posts. I have not and will not fall into that trap. Pointing out what is being said to me or something else is not "playing the victim card." Not even close. It does not even come close to the meaning of such an act. The fact that I or anyone else, who posted what I did original and made replies receives undue heat for it. I find it laughable that you and others are saying "I'm playing the victim" because I point out the veiled ugliness in some of the replies. That's truly astounding in my book. Give those a pass while hammering me for it. Nice. Hypocrisy much?

You might want to re-read from the beginning by starting here: Then you will see where it started with "troll." This is where Burnt Toast inferred I was trolling (I'm not sure..., same as saying, "This has to be a trolling post."). BTW, you might want to read exactly what my posts stated not what YOU WANT it to say. If I were being dismissive, I'd said something to the toon of "You're post has no specific merits and I'll just ignore it." That is a dismissive statement. You can try and twist my words into the narrative that you want, but it does not change the context of which I was speaking of. What YOU and everyone else have FAILED TO REALIZE is that I did not mention I deleted said toon with Shield Defense. I found out what I wanted to know and how to do it. As I stated in a previous post that this issue was during leveling NOT endgame. @GM SijinI made my thoughts known on what I felt about this as a click and not a toggle and believe it would better server as a toggle. The responses speak for themselves. Apparently, I'm too stupid, unskilled, do not care, a troll, lack the attention span, or need to learn to play for asking about this power and suggesting to make it a toggle. What's next? Being banned for questioning another power and sharing my thoughts on something I don't like?

Yes I am and will continue to do so. I have too much invested in this game for my channel. And until such time that I receive notice from Twitch to stop, I will continue. I'm not the only one doing so either. BTW, Twitch is supporting CoH now by bringing back one of the title images (albeit for City of Rogues) used with the title of the game. I made my thoughts known in that thread from the first day it was started. No one from HC has said otherwise to my pronouncement on continuing to stream this game.

Simple solution. Offer a 32-bit Tequila and a separate 64-bit Tequila launcher to download.

So, you justify the demeaning and belittling remarks because of "this statement?" So, that makes it okay? If you'd READ through and understood the context of which I was posting about, leveling not END game. It doesn't matter now anyway. I've found out what I wanted to know through all the hubris and noise. It is a sad testament that this community that was once nothing like you see in other communities back on line are exactly like them today. I'll make sure to warn people about interacting on the forums, on my stream, if this is how things will continue.

This very much. Maybe they can add a choice in the settings (like they have for closing Tequila window after launch) where we can choose this as an option.

You're correct. That is the point of my post. However, somehow I'm being called a troll, or lacking experience, or not caring. As DPS, my focus is on damage dealing. Having to worry about my defensive set to keep up is a distraction and it will cause some loss in DPS. I re-rolled my Dark Melee scrapper out of Super Reflexes into Will Power. I'm now free of having to keeping my eye on 'Practiced Brawler' and focused on doing what my main purpose is, DPS. Somehow, that is lost on those who say, "Its fine, leave it alone, L2P, crowd."

I agree, it's a tedious mechanic that requires us to do what you said. The fact I have to put it on automatic to fire off is going to be out of the question after I hit 50 and Incarnate. I put my Destiny on auto. I read all the replies here. I know all the stories and information. It does not change the fact that this important defensive power has to manually activated either before or after you've been mezzed. You can't do anything to truly lower that gawd awful 3:30 cooldown with any assurance of lowering it until you're level 50. Oh sure you can start at 25 using LOTG and the 7.5% Global Cooldown enhancement. However, that means investing in enhancement catalysts to make that entire set (4 of them) attuned, even if you only slot 3 per power. The most egregious part of 'Active Defense' you cannot slot any sets in it. So, you'll have to put at least 2 maybe 3 slots in it and load up nothing but Recharge enhancements. How does that impact your build for end-game? How does that calculate into what you want to do in min-maxing your abilities? I've already stated that I have to have acrobatics (3 powers from Jump) to have that and protect me (albeit minor knockback protection). That means I have to give up at least 2, may be 3 attack powers to use other abilities like Energy Mastery (Superior Conditioning & Physical Perfection), Fighting (Tough/Weave), Leadership (Maneuvers/Tactics). Not having this as a toggled power has major consequences in the build, especially at levels less than 50 on the work up to 50. I'm sorry, I don't buy the 'reasoning' behind the purpose of the power. It is an unnecessary activation power that causes more problems than its worth. I've shelved my dark melee/super reflexes toon because of Practiced Brawler is exactly the same. The latter I may end up deleting and remaking it using WP instead. I see two ways they can fix this if they don't make it a toggled power. Lower the cooldown by 30 seconds and give it the ability to slot a defense, resistance, or endurance modification set. (For both Shield Defense and Super Reflexes). However, I prefer it as a toggled power so I don't have to do some really weird crap that makes me choose dropping attack powers for something like Acrobatics just to have "some" knockback protection. Lastly, while you might be asking "why am I playing the Electric Melee/Shield Defense brute," if this is an issue. Because I want to see how both Lightning Rod and Shield Charge work with this. If Active Defense was a toggled power, I'd probably put 'Spring Attack' in for another charged attack; however, its not and I cannot.

Y'all, there's huge discrepancy or should I say...issue with Active Defense. It's not a toggled power, it is an activation power that has a base 3:30 cool down for resistance against Disorient, Hold, Immobilize, Sleep, Fear, Confuse, Repel, Knockback, Defense Debuff. Other comparable defensive powers with the same protection are toggled powers. This makes Shield Defense a less desirable defense to use. You literally have to take secondary powers that give you protection against knockback (Acrobatics). I won't use this defense with a tank. You're stuck in mez hell when this is on cool down. I'm currently using it with my melee brute w/electric melee. I'm questioning doing so now. Devs, y'all need to change this to a toggle power where its always on in-line with the other defensive powers. Why this is not one already was either full-hardly or a mistake or both. This really needs to be rectified. Otherwise, it Shield Defense will end up like Energy Melee...rarely used.

We already have the Vanguard and Freedom Corps' jet pack/rocket packs. Can y'all add the other jet pack/rocket packs to the options for back packs to use too? This would add to the immersion of a toon who can only "fly" with the assistance of a jet pack/rocket pack. On that note, the flames produced by the Freedom Corps jet pack does not color properly. If you have red and white or red it produces a green flames. Blue and white produces blue flames. Notably, the Vanguard w/ jet pack does not produce any flames whatsoever. Thanks!

Well, until I'm told by Twitch or receive a C & D from NCsoft (highly unlikely) to stop, I will continue to stream the game. It is one of my mainstay games for the channel.

MadCow99, from my own perspective and experience (20 plus years in retail/commercial markets, lending, sales, with an MBA in Operations Management, and an Associate Professor in Business), we share the same view. I'll take it a step further. NCsoft would not entertain these negotiations if they did not see something that they could either profit from or allow them to do something in the future with this game. The fact that they allow the HC/TG to "announce" what they are doing now with NCsoft lends credence to our mutual perspectives. Not discussing terms at this point before the final deal is signed and ink dry is SOP (standard operating procedure). I believe it comes down to NCsoft seeing this venture as a Win/Win. If not, they (NCsoft) would not spend the time nor the money (negotiations cost both) with HC/TG regarding CoH. I just wish many of those posting their opinions would take what HC/TG management have stated at their word, wait and see what comes out of this negotiated deal they are working on for all of us.

Yes please add all those requested and this costume too:

#me2!!!

It appears that Excelsior is having issues again. (DC from mapserver & DBserver).

NCsoft's decision to shutdown the game was one of many monumental mistakes they've made. The desire and love to play this game is ingrained in everyone that played this awesome game. For me, playing COH, is one that relieves all stress and allows me to forget the real world. No stress induced raids like you have in other games. This is about playing a game that allows you to enjoy any and everything about it. If we were allowed to donate I'd be at the head of the line or fighting for it. Thank you to those responsible for allowing us to play CoH/CoV again!

I echo the OP's statement. Thank you very much.

I'm having a similar problem. It started when I "lost connection to the map server" while in a mission instance. Every time I try logging into that toon (this after 2 hours) I get this message: If I try logging back in I then get the "You have been kicked" message. On top of that, I've been "disconnect" because of an error to DBserver. It would appear they need to restart the servers. I'm on Excelsior myself. I've logged into my other toons (2) to see if I could get into the one I'm having issues with. And still get that message above. So...any work around on this? Update: Now I cannot get into any of my toons nor make a new one either. The former says the same thing as the pic I showed. The latter "loses connection to DBserver." Guess I'll wait on the servers maintenance/restart. I've got all day though...playing from the Philippines. :D

Are the servers mirrored when it comes to our toons? Meaning that our toons are on all the servers or just the one we started on.