Nostromo21

I'm loving SI on my Ill/Dark troller, for general exploration & flying solo to mission ends. I switch to Shadow Fall in combat for my PAs + I have 1 Stealth IO in Fly anyway (which I always use with Hover - mad manueverability/speed! :). Now, I'd be curious - can you have 2 Stealth IOs slotted in 2 different toggle powers (such as Hover + Fly), and if so, do you then get 60 combined radius stealth, as that makes you invisible to most normal content/mobs in the game...?

Not to seem ungrateful or lazy, but I'd love an auto-fly script (with stealth on) in each zone to collect all the exp badges once I go into each one first time. 😁 (yes I know this is most likely against the Homecoming terms...I'm not really that lazy! 😉

Bingo! I have only these files in that folder: map_city_01_01.texture map_city_01_02.texture map_city_01_05.texture map_city_02_04.texture map_city_02_05.texture map_city_03_01.texture map_city_03_02.texture map_city_03_04.texture map_city_04_02.texture map_city_05_03.texture map_hazard_01_01.texture map_hazard_02_01.texture map_hazard_03_01.texture map_hazard_04_01.texture map_IOM_FB_Outbreak.texture map_trial_01_01.texture map_trial_02_01.texture map_trial_05_01.texture map_War_05_01.texture So yeah, I'm missing some. How, only the Gods of Atlantis know! Thanks heaps mate, off to download & install CoH Modder tool I go! 🙂

Thanks mate. I've re-downloaded the latest zip file & unzipped all of the contents into my game install folder under: D:\Games\Homecoming\data\texture_library\... Restarted game, still no icons/mob ranges/etc in Steel Canyon, which has always been a problem for me. So I zone to Atlas - no probs, all there! Same with Talos, Perez, IP, all fine. But Skyway also has no overlay. Weird. 😕

Sorry if this has been flogged to death guys, but can someone please post the link to the latest May files...? My overlay suddenly stopped showing anything recently, I assume it was because of a patch & my Vidiotmaps being from last year I think. It was always flakey & didn't show icons or a legend on some maps randomly, from session to session, but now it's all disappeared completely. 😞

Ok thanks mate, I think I understand #1 & will keep that in mind when I start to buy full sets at level 50. So I don't think I made a mistake buying all IO 25s at lvl 22, as their bonus will stay the same (even it if doesn't scale) to 50 (I might refresh them at 35-40 possibly); and, most importantly, I could easily afford these at 50-70K a pop at 22, whereas I've got no chance to afford any of the sets IOs in the builds I've seen, at any level right now! They al start at 2mill & just go up from there, YIKES! 😉 Although I see some attuned set IOs like Blood Mandate are available from 25-50 & scale all the way, so would be worth buying at 22, IF I had the influence from another main, which I don't unfortunately, due to my chronic alt-o-holism ;). ---- I have managed to complete a couple of the cheap-arse sets now, as per your recommendations Carnifax - Malaise on Deceive (yeah, great skill - why did I ever skip it? :-/); Expedient Reinforcement on PA. Just those 2 make a huge diff to overall power and recharge times. Working on amassing my auctioneer fortune now so I can afford Decimation and Dark Watcher's Despair, as well as another set of Exp Reinf for Phantasm at 32. The build is almost silly safe, with all sorts of debuff & control options - I don't even need to rely on my PAs if I have my ST out, as I can lockdown up to 6-8 mobs & just knock them off 1 by 1! The only issues I'm having is Stamina, Stamina, Stamina! Oh and some sort of AOE would have been nice, but I think I'll need to wait for my Epic pool at 41 to get one of those possibly...? Thanks again!

Thanks again guys. Just a couple final points: 1. how do check if an IO is 'attuned'? I thought they all were by defaiult. I just bought a full set of 25s at lvl 22 & they seem to be keeping their bonuses at each level up. 2. If I have 3 Recharge Reduction IOs already in PA, can I add a Level 25 Acc/Recharge Call To Arms IO say & will I get the full +20% Recharge Reduction, or does that also hit the law of diminishing returns with 3 basic IOs already in there, so that the 4th is severely scaled down?

Thanks guys. I guess I'm still a newb with things like IO sets & all of the endgame. I imagine that even trying to slot the couple of sets you mention above would be challening in the 20s, or even 30s, given the limited total number of slots availble. Btw, do all the set IOs have to be slotted into the same power to get the set bonuses, or anywhere across all powers...? Just looking at the costs on AH - even 25s for LotG are 5-6mill+ - I assume you mean that I take just the 1 IO with reduced global recharge 7.5% & stick that in another power? Same with FF with the 1 IO that only has a twice/min chance to increase recharge rate. What about 4 slotting Call to Arms and Expedient Reinforcement (at 30), with 6.25% global each...? All of these are in the millions, which I could scrape together by doing the Merits -> Enhance Conv -> melee Enhancement convert until I get an enhancement worth 2-3million. I'd have to do that multiple times on a number of chars to afford even a couple of the single IOs you suggested above, eh. Thankfully LotG and FF actually look cheaper at 50 (or no more expensive). Weird economy heh.

Just wanted to clarify the confuse thing - do you mean Deceive? I've acutally skipped that so far, as it seems counter-productive at these lower levels (no XP for mobs killing their mates). I prob should have taken it before I got PA, as the limited direct dmg skills did make it a bit of a slog to 18 (all the debuffs and defense made it safe & easy though :). The new super-duper fly+hover+afterburner is an absolute joy I must say! Changes the gameplay with little down/travel time between missions & really opens up the game - great change Homecoming!

Hoping for some quick general advice with this guys, as I just finally hit 22 (shlomo!). Is it worth getting some Recharge reduction sets before 50? I can get all generic IOs, but I think I will struggle with the pets (PA have about 30secs downtime, even while triple slotted + 3 Recahrge SOs in Hasten). Is it worth/possible even trying to get perma-hasten/pets before level 50? Also, do set enhancements keep their bonus all the way to 50 like IOs? Are they in fact a type of IO...? Much thanks in advance! 🙂

Wow. And I was just looking for a thread on 'best/easiest/fastest fun solo build for leveling'. Boy did the search engine take a wrong turn! 🤪

Cheers guys, yeah, having a lot of fun with this Ill/Dark Controller. Can't wait to get my first pets at 18th! 🙂 ---- So I got the 3 stooges (after a couple altstractions!) & boy oh boy does it change everything! From relying on crappy basic direct dmg skills (plus the couple staff freebies which weren't too bad & I never would have been able to get to 18 without!), to having amazing pet burst damage! The 3 recharge SOs in Hasten help, but I imagine a top priority now is to get to 22 & slot 3 recharge IOs each in both Hasten AND Phantom Army ASAP...? Eventually I'll get all the other pets, and I imagine Soul Mastery is the best Epic to go with the theme? Thanks all!

Hi guys, returning CoX junkie here back from beta days. Never got a toon to 50 due to chronic alt-o-holism & that damn costume editor lol! Anyway, I now have a half dozen toons with 3 in their 20s. I love pet classes so rolled an Illusion/Dark controlfreak this week. I mostly solo (I know, I know), so I had to try Superior Invisibility. Not sure why no one here takes it, being the best stealth power in the game bar none. Am I the only silly solo shlep who loves this power? I mean, I can get in orange bosses' faces without them having a clue & race to mission ends if I want! 🙂 I guess I can see how it would be a bit less useful in groups, but surely you all solo some of the time...? Anyway, was hoping for some advice on levelling to 50 (just dinged 10). I'll throw a full bag of 25 IOs at all the powers at 22, but any/all suggestions on dos/donts up to then & beyond to max level much appreciated.

Hi guys, sorry if this has been covered already in one of these 14 pages (or another thread). I've installed VMaps exactly as per instructions. Most Paragon City hero areas show all the icons fine. Mercy/Villains & Rogue Isles simply do not show most/all icons, be it exploration badges or other overlays. Any ideas or suggestions on how to get it to work pretty please...? Yes, I've reinstalled & re-copied both sets of files, no cigar.

No. The code & the runtimes + DB components were copied, not stolen, and are simply being re-used, IMO under virtually fair use. The publisher did nothing with the IP (and that's the biggest oxymoron of the last century!) for *seven* years. Given most data retention doesn't survive more than 7 years, I reckon it's fair game. All works of this kind once they effectively become abandonware, as CoH clearly has, should be forced to be released into the public domain, game over. I even strongly believe all closed mmos should be offered up to private hosting and to the fans & customers who funded the ongoing running of the game & lined the pockets of devs/pubs. Hell they could even ask for a small royalty! Too many great creative gaming works are being lost to greed and nonsensical civil (NOT criminal) laws.

Spiderman is hardly the only hero to travel by such a method, nor does Marvel (which grants Disney) have sole copyright to such a technique. If so, Champions Online would never have made it this long. Cheers, didn't play much of CO (only as a froob), so I guess it's a possibility...? Don't kill the dream mate! ;)

Ahhh and there you have it in the 1st 2 posts boyz n girlz: left vs right, order vs chaos, yin vs yang! :) I'm a veteran (of sorts) and never played Kheldians & really had no trouble with either once I got to level 6 & their Nova forms - complete steamroll :). If anything, the recent Warshade I created had an ambush mission in KR where about 5 or 6 yellows Skulls I think it was clumped at the entrance & I was getting 1-2-3-shotted instantly - had to fly back from the hospital half way across the zone about 6 or 7 times before I'd whittled them down & completed the mission. I count that as a valuable learning experience ;-p.

As an original beta player I can honestly say I have never attempted to min/max a single hero I've ever created. And i have 10 already here on Excelsior, none over level 20 yet lol, all about theme, internal self-roleplay and fun, fun, FUN! Alt-o-holism I think it's called :). And I mostly solo, yet to team up once in the past couple weeks, but I'll get there...Most other mmos I have definitely tried min/maxing at some point, looking for cookie-cutter builds to make life easier or feel stronger, more 'heroic', etc. Having said all that, there certainly is a way to 'soft-min/max' in CoX and that is basically which class you pick for the task at hand. If you mainly solo like myself, I would recommend a Minion Master as an easier starter, newb-friendly archetype, if a little more fiddly with pet management. Given Kheldians & Arachnos are unlocked from level 1 on these servers, those are also quite powerful at low levels. I particularly like my Peacebringer, who has more bang for buck than a blaster, a bit more survivability and with innate flying from level 1 is super-quick to get around. The Arachnos Widow 'Flygirl' I started as a Villain is also great, the theme I made was for fastest flier ASAP. You could also consider a Stalker (just started a rad/rad one myself, a lot of fun even if I usually don't like melee classes), as you can skip most of the mobs in instances & run super-quick to the bosses/mission objectives, possibly leveling quicker as a result in most missions, YMMV. If you intent to mostly group, you can't go wrong with a Tanker or Defender, possibly the new Sentinel class I would suggest.But I am by no means a CoX guru, really more of a long-time casual player. I don't think I ever even got my main ice blaster to 50 back in day, again, too much alt-o-holism + I stopped around Issue 14 & only came back briefly around I21 when it went F2P, but just couldn't stuck to it as I think I had RL commitments and other games distracted me, more's the pity. Even though a lot of the game is dated & clunky by today's mmo standards, there is just something magical with the whole roleplay (again self/internal), cosplay, escapism, feeling super-heroic in the game. Thanks to the SCORE/Homecoming crew we can all relive that magic now, along with thousands of other new players :).

Given Spidey is my all time favourite superhero, I would love to see a web-based powerset, along with swinging for travel. Not sure if the engine could do it as it stands however. Plus I know it could bring down the wrath of Di$ney, ahem. But I miss this mechanic hugely from Marvel Heroes RIP...sigh

Quality artwork mate! ;)

One of my old favourites from early days: Kelvin Ator (ice blaster) A more recent fave - Carriona, MM Necro: And one of the worst I've ever seen I just had to take a screenshot of :)

I started an Ice/Ice one (Kelvin Zero) and the name was a bit of a self-full-fulling prophecy lol! A bit of a lackluster blaster, not much of anything else, but he looks really cool! :) Went back to my MMs & Kheldians eventually. Even had more fun with a staff/ninjitsu scrapper (MonkeyKing :) for a while & I don't like melee heroes at all, eh.

He, he, my knees and back are 100% thanks, even after 30 years of skiing on them! :) I may be on in an hour or so, but I have to warn you, I don't do Amish or Justice, only Tech and Revenge! ;)

Hey guys, I'm a GOB casual gamer (actually a time-limited power-gamer :), and was wondering if there are any GMT+10 SGs out there (mainly English speaking ideally)? I mostly play on weekday evenings after 7pm & randomly on weekends, being a busy married professional. Also being an original CoH beta player, I'm now in my 50s and would prefer not to have to deal with any kiddies who are most likely more mature than myself - it's not good for my self-esteem apparently :). In-game handle @Nostromo - please feel free to PM me on Excelsior. Cheers!

Why not just go totally freeform, throw ALL of the powersets into one giant pool and let us pick any primary + any secondary...? <EG>