[GM Mini Pet Recipe not dropping]

U'kon recipe just dropped in the instanced Rikti raid.

[If Pets are this bad, what is the point of Masterminds?]

On 5/26/2024 at 3:53 PM, Xandyr said:

 What he means is that what you summon, be it Necromancy, Bots,Mercs,Beasts,etc are your HENCHMEN.

 The team that you're on....THEY are your pets. 

 

No joke.  I play a healer once in a while, and I do view the other players as pets, not unlike as an MM.

[Fastest map clearer MM combo?]

Well, if you're gonna tackle +4+8, you're gonna need some toughness.  I never thought of myself as a high-DPS, but I only have 2 tricked out incarnates, one MM and one claws scrapper.  The MM can take out a pylon at a decent pace.  The scrapper cannot, even though I built, including incarnate, for damage.  Ironically she can tank 5 monsters on monster island in PI, even though not built for toughness.  I think there's an imbalance there somewhere.

 

P.S. I don't claim to have some well-designed DPS build, just that I took the DPS stuff in incarnate and most damages are in the 130% range.

[Combat attributes monitor window is messed up after items disappear]

So I logged on a character that hadn't been logged on in a long time.  I see some line items have disappeared from my combat attributes monitor window.  I don't know what they were.

 

However, I added one back (or maybe a new one since I did this last) for endurance consumption.  I "upped" it but it would not go up past the blank lines, which also could not be deleted as the menu did not appear when I right clicked on them.

 

I may try a workaround by cancelling the whole thing, but FYI there is an issue here when this happens.

 

ETA Stop displaying and recreating it does fix the problem.

[Auction house mishap]

Stupid reply, but someone with "Bunny" in their name probably has about 200 alts?  😄

[Heroes aren't showing up in MOST mayhem missions]

By "Hero", I'd prefer the AV-level, not some Elite Boss version, but that's a different beef.  A setting for always AV-level would be sweet.  Same for bank defends blueside.😍

[Using in game models of enemies, what do you think would translate to a cool new powerset for MM?]

Clockwork robots would be awesome!  And I don't mean the crash test dummies from Praetoria.

 

My first ever Lore pets were clockwork.  Imagine my disgust finding out I had wasted all that raw material for crash test dummies.

[Necro now holds crown for max pets out at once?]

MMs shouldn't be gimped if they don't take pew pews.  I always thought it novel to play as the support for your own little personal group.  They attack, you support them.

 

As I mentioned, if I wanted to attack myself, there's 18 other ATs, and 12,000 other games to do that in!

[Necro now holds crown for max pets out at once?]

Thugs is fine.  If they plan on forcing me to take primary attacks, screw it.  If I want to pew pew, I'll play every single other AT in this game, or every character in well over 12,000 other games out there!

 

Leave forced (by way of gimp if you don't) pew pew out of MM!

[Pet size slider option]

Mainly for demons, which I think are just too darned large.

 

I suppose many MMs will be running around with ants if it slides too small though.

[No recipes from merit reward pull]

7 minutes ago, Drewbeezy09 said:

Not sure, how can I check?

I believe it's under the P2W vendor, who lets you toggle them on or off.  Normally I turn off white and yellow, and only accept orange and purple.

 

It does seem cheesy to eat the merits without giving you the actual recipe.

[Options -> Keymapping -> Other group, "release" should be capitalized]

Options -> Keymapping -> Other group, "release" should be capitalized

[For what it's worth: better missions]

Lowbie missions in King's Row seem to be Generation 2 missions, there is a lot more than just steamroll the place!  Infiltrate, defeat some and the boss, everyone else flees, more cut scenes than usual, ravers, who then run away.

[For what it's worth: better missions]

1 hour ago, Rudra said:

Will you please go read the lore. The 5th Column came into existence in 1938. (Edit: Founded by Requiem, Arakhn, and someone else.) The Nictus have been on Earth since Cimerora. Likely even before then. The Council was a break off group from the 5th Column that usurped the 5th Column's place but did not eradicate them. The Council and the 5th Column are embroiled in a war of dominance against each other. The 5th Column has sleeper agents in the Council, because the Council includes a lot of former 5th Column troops in their numbers. The Council and the 5th Column have Nictus troops. The 5th Column is led by Reischmann. The Council is led by The Center. Neither the Reischmann or the Center are Nictus or Nictus-infused. Requiem and Arakhn are Nictus-infused, in different ways, and are trying to take over as leaders, but neither actually leads either faction. (Edit: Which is why you find Requiem in the process of taking the 5th Column from the Reischmann in that incarnate arc. He has finally grown powerful enough to defeat Reischmann and take back the 5th Column.)

The 5th Column was a little too close to Nazis, which is legally problematic in some countries where you want to do business.

[Suggested Feature: Events-in-progress on login]

So while playing you get notification of event starts and stops.  This is fine, but I find myself wanting to see if there's, say, a Rikti or Zombie invasion in progress when I log in.  So, when logging in, automatically provide event channel notices of things in progress.

 

Alternatively, or in addition, a slash command to retrieve events in progress.

 

TY for your consideration!

[Too Many Ambushes]

Just curious, how does it penalize Masterminds?  They have to buy stealth from a pool like most other classes.

 

We just had some wonderful ambushes yesterday in those curiously large and apparently useless tunnels connecting between underground trains, with endless streams of a dozen or more of those guys who throw a Pris(sy) fit when they die.  Great fun.

[Automatic teleportation, whether desired or not]

12 hours ago, twospirited said:

this'd warrant a ticket to GM's for player conduct i think. esp because it leaves you all but powerless to deal with the mob groups you're handling. otherwise it'll mean you going petless till the boss fights or where it's the tp's not needed

 

I disagree.  This was a speed run, and largely orients around stealth speedsters TPing everyone to the boss, kill, move on to next mission.  Sure, fix the issue with pets not obeying Null the Gull, but it is not an infraction.

 

I have auto TP on and, with my many MMs, have never had problems in such missions.  As MMs are "plow the road" types, I usually just pointlessly fight a path along with others awaiting TP.  Sometimes it's even needed as the advance TP guy bites off more than he can chew.

 

As for why have auto TP on, with all its exciting unexpectedness, well, as Bill Murry said in Ground Hog Day, "It's new.  Anything new is good." 🤩

[Scrapper Widow Blades weapon gives error when loading from costume save file.]

I stuck this in Help & Support before realizing it should go here better.  It's a minor issue but logging it.

 

 

[Finding mail?]

I keep a stored email to myself (@globalhandle) and "reply all" to it to send myself money.  Saves on typing in the address and the possibility of making mistakes.  Stuff shouldn't send to non-existent addresses, disappearing to the edge of the world where here there be dragons, but with deliberate misspellings of popular names, god only knows who got a mysterious present otherwise 🙂

[Keyboard is not responding in game.]

I've had a similar problem, but I traced it to the monitor and/or my legs being between the wireless keyboard and the little receiver dongle on the computer.  But that happens no matter what the program, not just CoH.  Still, I'd give that a whirl just to eliminate it.

[Targeting failure messages moved]

Disinterested programmer here, I ran some experiments with a min and max and mid height character.  With the short characters, as you mouse-wheel zoom in to follow your character more closely, that text box moves up towards the top of the screen, though I could never reproduce it all the way at the top.  However, for all characters it is completely gone on full or almost full zoom in.  That seems like a feature of extreme zoom in, though, as it disappears with 7 footers, too, even though it never moves up as you zoom in.

 

Maybe you are at the magic height and zoom in level to get that placement.  This isn't to say there doesn't need to be a few tweeks to that algorithm 🙂

[Scrapper Widow Blades weapon gives error when loading from costume save file.]

Failed to load.  Could not find a match for parts (13,Right Weapon) (25,Left Weapon) . Costume Creator may not have access to costume parts.

 

But you can choose them and it works that way.  You just cannot load them from a file that saves properly.

 

Body type:  Normal male

[Tell me about your "main"]

My main is a Thugs/Traps mastermind.  By main, this is what I consider the biggest gun of my nearly 100 alts, Tier 4 (only one other is T4, so it's just one of those two by this definition!)

 

The one who I'd pull out if there was a Big Event.

 

I often take the old girl out for spins, even though there's nothing I need, the last tiny tweak I made over a year ago.  I don't pretend to have the bestest build ever, but it suffices to solo just about anything at +4/+8, except for the end fight in (old) ITF, and Reichsmann, though I can fight him to a standstill indefinitely in the "run away, run away!" mission =D

 

I've since seen strategies for both, but just getting to those moments is a long haul.  Maybe someday.

[Things you enjoy that other people seem to not enjoy]

After noob levels, I stop renewing 2x xp.  I've railed up to 50 and am closing in on 100 alts (maybe just 1/5 make it to 40s, tbh) but I like the climb, actually adventuring.

 

I saw someone who announced on chat they were back for the first time since shutdown, and where the hell did the AE building go?  Where to go for AE?  Really?  No running around, just ding ding ding 50, then what?  Incarnate?  Probably not, but if so, then what?

 

I think there's a joke game called Progress Quest or something, where all adventuring and dinging and new powers are all automatic.  Maybe something like that is more your style, if it's about a ding junkie.

 

 

Of that large menagerie, only two are Tier 4 Incarnate, my MM, and a claws/regen scrapper built (I thought) for DPS and not survivability, who can't out-DPS one giant monster's heal rate, or even a pylon, but for some reason can tank 4 or 5 of them.

[Regenerative Tissue in Mud Bath]

Ok, the heal portion in Mud Bath is not like the recovery portion, which adds to recovery rate.  Rather it heals you over time in pulses, but only when you take damage.

 

So when taking damage, you get heal pulses from Mud Bath, and that activates the proc from Regenerative Tissue, as well as just the healing bonus.

 

So I will  move it into Health and put Preventative Medicine absorb proc into it, as that doesn't kick in until you start taking damage anyway.  Testing, it works.