Curveball

You know, I avoided taking Blazing Blast in my initial build because I thought the knockback would be annoying... and maybe it still will be in groups, but solo that power is GLORIOUS.

I can see the advantages of more burnination, but I do like the idea of having a few extra layers of protection on hand for the inevitable times I screw up in ridiculous fashion... which is, sadly, a thing I do. 😄 Sort of side/tangential question, do you find psi/ is a problem in high level content? I remember a fair bit of discussion about psionic attacks that run along the lines of "the problem with psionic attacks is that at high levels everyone you fight has resistance to psionic attacks." I assume it's not as bad as the critics make it out to be?

I did respec last night and chose the powers in the recommended order because I was specifically curious about Oroborous missions. It made my not-really-obsessive-compulsive-disorder itch taking all those powers out of order 😄 but I have to admit it was nice having all those attacks on hand on a run where I was at 15th level, and there were enough defenses to keep me alive. It'll be a while before I can buy the expensive sets but what I have on hand is good enough to help me get there. Thank you for your suggestions! There are things in there that I really hadn't considered that I can see the benefit of now, in hindsight...

Oof, giving up Hover and Fly is a tough ask. Why do you recommend it? Thank you for the recommendations. I can't afford to implement them at this point 🙂 and I've already chosen a few different incarnates but I can see a path from where I am to where that build is.

Geez, it's right there. I'd been looking at it the whole time and it just wasn't registering... 😄

If I remember correctly there was a change in one of the last updates that allowed a combo to occur even if one of the chained attacks missed - that would imply that the combo triggers after all three attacks complete, rather than being partially applied by each.

How long do combos last after you trigger them? This thread got me interested in the set again and I've been trying it out - the first combo you can get while leveling is weaken but there's no information on how long that debuff lasts once you apply it. I figure it can't be too long because Tankers aren't Defenders, but it has to last at least as long as one attack otherwise why would you debuff a target's to hit?

I can't find any posts specifically stating this, I just keep running into references about it... only the things those posts refer to seem to be the same things everyone already knew about the set back when it was considered "good" - namely, that Sappers will screw you and that you don't have any instant massive heals to mitigate alpha strikes, so if damage overcomes your regen even for a moment you need to make sure you have a tray of greens on hand. Is there something new? My google fu isn't working like it should. I've been playing around with /regen, and it's fun enough, but I do get tired of being terrorized by Circle ghosts and the like. Every powerset has something...

First time doing this! Eli Hex (Fire/SR Sentinel) is currently at lvl 46 and I'd love to get some advice on anything I might want to do, optimization wise. The build below is almost where he is now - the only change I made is that I upgraded his sentinel set to Superior since that's a relatively straightforward process and relatively achievable. To my untrained eye it seems like this build is in pretty decent shape, though it overperforms on Melee defense and falls short of the incarnate defense cap for Range and AoE. Also, I'm not sure I really need hasten. Dropping Inferno recharge from 32s to 25s is useful and it looks cool in-game but I don't know if it's game-changing. Maybe something from the Leadership pool would be a better pick. Eli Hex - Sentinel (Fire Blast - Super Reflexes).mbd

That's a cool trick, but while I hate outleveling Praetoria I also hate not getting XP for doing missions. It's a struggle, lol

I signed up for the beta when they first started talking about a superhero MMO because I'd never even conceived of such a thing, and had to see it for myself. Got into the third wave and was hooked. Superjump in its original form was an incredible feeling. I'm not sure I'm ready to say that the original Superjump was my favorite thing in CoH but I was pretty pissed when they changed it (because, apparently, too many people were taking it instead of flight, lol)

This actually requires two clicks, but I think this will work: /bind ctrl+lbutton "tell $target [whatever the message is]" Then it's a two-step process: 1. click on the name of the person on your team list you want to send the message to, selecting them. 2. ctrl+left click to send the message. I have ctrl bound to one of the thumb buttons on my mouse so for me that would go pretty fast, but even via keyboard ctrl is pretty easy to get to. The disadvantage is you can't use ctrl+left click for anything else, like teleport.

I don't care if people think it's wrong or not, leveling to 50 in Praetoria sounds awesome. 😄 Well now I need to make another character and level normally so I can go through those AE missions! I confess I don't pay enough attention to AE content. Edited to add I knew about getting to First Ward via the Imperial tunnels, I have another character who started First Ward by going that route. Wish I'd known about your AE arcs before I tried to get him from 20-25 through tunnel hunting!

So the second day into the double xp run, I had this idea. The Praetorian origin is my favorite start for a character because I really dig the Praetorian storylines. That said, anyone who's done them knows it can be a challenge to go through even one of the arcs without outleveling them. So I thought, why not lean into that? I managed to make my way through the Crusder's arc. The only mission I missed was Wardog's final with the neutron bomb in the sewers. By that point I was level 20. Then I registered a supergroup, created a very makeshift base and put a Pillar of Ice and Flame in it. Then I went to the START vendor in Nova Praetoria and got 8 hours of 100% xp buff and started doing flashback missions. Just the Praetorian ones. Responsibility, Power, skip Crusader because I already did it, then Warden. How far could I go? My hope was that I'd make it all the way through Neutropolis and have completed all four arcs before double xp ran out, but alas I was only able to complete the Responsibility in Neutropolis. So in summary: Nova Praetoria ----------------- Crusader - double xp only Responsibility - double xp, 100% buff Power - double xp, 100% buff Warden - double xp, 100% buff Imperial City -------------- Crusader - double xp only, except for Wardog's final mission which I did via flashback and had the 100% buff Responsibility - double xp, 100% buff Power - double xp, 100% buff Warden - double xp, 100% buff Neutropolis ------------- Crusader - double xp only Responsibility - double xp, 100% buff -- double xp ended -- The result is I was able to get to Level 34 doing only Praetorian storyline missions. I'm definitely going to finish out the Power and Warden storylines and see where I wind up just by earning regular xp. I haven't decided if I'm going to flashback First Ward and Night Ward at this point. Flashback missions are fun but it's weird leveling to 35 and being stuck at 9, 15, and 20 for most of it. Part of me wants to do the flashbacks before I leave Praetoria because once you do leave Praetoria all the Praetorians you meet in later missions treat you as if you'd always been a Primal Earther, and some of these slammers oughta know better.

That technical guide is amazing! Downloaded. Sad to hear the author has passed...

Shucks! Yes that was me, though I've forgotten so much about bind it might as well not have been me at this point. I wasn't the only person in beta who was documenting it though. The original file has an acknowledgments section that isn't on the wiki version - no reason it should be, it was very beta-specific: I was mostly interested in trying to figure out how to assign commands to my mouse. I didn't even know toggle binds were a thing until someone else figured it out.

Ahhh, I didn't know about the slash command list. Bookmarked now. Thank you! I'm proud of the guide, but it doesn't really cover trays 4-9. powexec_slot and powexec_altslot are as far as it went..

I don't have a lot to say about this lore-wise, but I do want to say that to me Rularuu looks like a piece of Jack Kirby art brought to "life" and I don't really consider that a bad thing.

OK, I found the answer! The proper format is: /bind [key combo] "powexec_tray [tray slot#] [tray#]" So for example, if I want to activate slot 1 on tray 9, it would be: /bind numpad1 "powexec_tray 1 9" groovy.

Hi all! My knowledge of /bind is a bit... um... dated. Waaaay back when I knew that if I wanted to bind a key to the first slot in tray one, I would use (for example) /bind numpad1 "powexec_slot 1" And if I wanted to bind a key to the first slot in tray two, it'd be /bind numpad1 "powexec_altslot 1" ... but that's largely irrelevant now since you can bind keys directly to the first three trays through the UI. That said: How would you bind a key to a slot in tray 9? Is it possible? altaltaltaltaltaltaltaltslot? 😄

So... one accuracy, two IOs at 50 (to get you to 84%) and then three procs?

I don't have a lot of experience with high-end characters because the majority of my life in game is getting a character to 22-25, getting bored with the concept, and making a new character. However I have a DP/SR Sentinel that I think I'm going to stick with for a while, so I've been looking at the best way to prep him for end game. I've seen a number of posts making passing references to DP "slotting for proc" but no posts specifically about what that means. My _assumption_ is that what you do is take all the proc pieces of various sets (chance for energy damage, chance for poison damage, chance for lethal damage, etc) and you slot them in a single attack, so when that attack goes off you get the potential for 3-5 damage types firing off every time you use that attack. And if you get your global recharge high enough and slot EVERY DP power with proc pieces you're basically rotating through an endless hail of randomized damage madness. Is that the gist of it?

Thanks everyone for the tips! I'm starting with wdwsavefile and I'm going to muck about with uiscale and look through the macro and bind wikis to see if I can finesse this properly. :-D

Once upon a time I was really good at this stuff, but it's been too long... Here's my situation: I play mainly on two computers. One is a desktop with an ultrawide monitor. The other is a 16" laptop with a laptop monitor. Obviously, the ratios and resolutions of both environments are very different. I primarily play on my desktop, but when I log in with my laptop I have to spend some time rearranging everything to get it to fit right, and then when I log back into my desktop I have... rearrange everything to get it to fit right. What I'd like to do is to get my desktop arranged just right and then run a command to the effect of "save every single UI element and font size on this screen and name that save desktopui" and then go over to my laptop and run a command to the effect of "save every single UI element and font size on this screen and name that save laptopui" and then whenever I log into either I can run something similar to "load desktopui" or "load laptopui" and -boom- the UI will shift and mold itself to the settings saved in each. Is it possible to do this? I've been trying to figure it out but I sort of fuzz over mentally when I'm playing around with the settings these days, so I figure I'd just take a shortcut and ask the people who probably actually know.

Thank you both! This was something I tried to simply ignore for as long a I could (because it's BRAWL for crying out loud) but the discrepancy kept gnawing at me until I couldn't take it any more. I wasn't even aware of City of Data - I have a new bookmark!