Clave Dark 5

Woo! I have stuff to look into now and some grasp on what I'm looking at. Thanks for the detailed replies everyone!

Well that thread was a bit dispiriting, I saw a lot of folks on what I gather were fairly new computers having all sorts of oddball problems. Like I should just blindfold myself and throw a dart and hope.

I had no idea there was such a thing, I'll go look for it.

My rig's getting old and the hard drive might be starting to fail, so I need a new computer. But I don't know enough to try and part one together like I did last time (which was only possible thanks to a coworker who's since moved on). I found the specs for the CoH ultramode listed on the wiki, and obviously most machines I buy now will handily meet those, but on the other hand, looking at them, I have no idea what the usual mix of letters and numbers really means for some things, such at the video card. Is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 graphics better or worse than a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti? Just how much, enough to matter, or not? Rather than get into those weeds, I was wondering if anyone could point me towards a decent pre-built tower that will take care of everything just fine. And yes I realize that can be a tall order! If it helps, CoH is the only gaming I do and also probably the only "intensive" computing as well; otherwise it's just streaming and maybe some light photoshopping.

Yet another Stupid Question That I Just Can't Seem To Find An Answer For time! How does one attune an IO?

By coincidence, my two fifties listed in my sig are respectively, a Rad Corr and and a Nature Mastermind. Although mowing down crowds of lowbies can be fun ("lookit all them pretty orange numbers streaming up like flames ha ha ha ha ha!!"), I kind of like concentrating on one tough target and seeing them fall at my feet, so sets like these two with some strong debuffs are ones I like playing. My current up-and-coming build is a Time Defender, too, so, well, more of the same.

Maybe you should be hanging out in the Market forums instead of just posting selfies!

I actually haven't checked this myself, but I've seen people say how most of the buildings really are just backdrops because of their scale, like this one's way too skinny on one side and has a footprint of only 120X20 yards, that sort of thing. When actually measured out, they really are pretty uselessly-sized structures, but as mere backdrops for us to zoom around, the scale is fine, if "unobtrusively wrong." Trying to punch stuff into them like windows you can see in and so on might make their wrongness not so unobtrusive.

Oh yeah, I'm fully aware of frankenslotting and proc-monstering, you bet! I haven't been hanging around these forums for nothing!

Whoa, I had no idea, that is pretty cool. Thanks for the answers.

Quick question that occurred to me: say I've chosen whatever Incarnate power for a character, got the first slot filled (or even further in) and then I decide I made a mistake and should have chosen another one. Can that be changed? How? I'm assuming I would just craft up the thing to slot for the tree I want now and slit it, which would override the original choice. Is that how it works? Also, I know this has been asked before, but if I respec, I don't have to re-slot all the Incarnate slots, right?

B-but... I like the sound of six Mercs' machine guns blazing away!

Other than the flat screens, I don't really think it needs much, things are fine as is. Maybe, as someone pointed out, a cellphone selfie emote for when you save that lady from getting her purse stolen, she can run up and say her "you're wonderful!" thing and then pose before leaving.

My troubles with the Incarnate and builds stuff isn't so much math but A) How there's zero explanation for what you're supposed to do with Incarnate stuff. I had one player quite kindly walk me through it for my first 50, but then time went by and I started to forget it... I've been over a couple of guides since then and think I've got enough of a handle on it again to set up King Pumpkin Spice now. B) Once I figure out a build for him that I like. I really should download Mids, ha ha. I know it's just a matter of tinkering and balancing, testing out an idea and seeing what you end up with. C) I haven't had to do homework in ages! "But this is fun!" Well, in some ways... 🙂 I didn't know King PS made it into the Comic Con Farm after I sent the file, neat!

Seems to me the distance problem is one of the big troubles here. Why not remove that? When you're on a team and click the power (it's a toggle right?) then boom, everyone on your team can fly. The end, period. Give them that pop-up fourth tray like Mystic Flight does so they can click the power themselves and choose when to use it. Hopefully the Group Fly person doesn't die when you're in the air though. 🙂

I'm with you, IOs are more or less a take-it-or-leave-it thing for me. Unless I've swiped a build from the forums (thanks you people who put in all that work!), in which case I'm still not fretting over them, really, am I? Right now my 50 MM King Pumpkin Spice is still sitting with my spur-of-the-moment slotting and power choices (barring a bit of forum inspired proc-monstering) and I haven't even started on his Incarnating because who the hell really understands that stuff?! Someday I'll get around to re-learning it and seeing what's what. In the meantime I can still play him just fine, and that's the main point to me.

I would suggest adding a smidge of time to them on top of that, but this is a great idea.

Indeed. I apologize for the comment and the snarky tone.

Seems to me if the latter iis a mistake that's popping up (which I believe I've seen as well), that the chances for the former being a real error as well just go up. 🙂

Nope, not that I've seen. The last banners fight I did was with an under-powered defender. I was at one banner with one other player, barely staving off the spawn there. Then some people in the quickly-growing league showed up and kept those at bay when the banners became vulnerable. We slowly worked down the banner I was at (during which time some people had taken down one of them before us), then we moved on to another banner, took it down and then the other had already been dropped too. So we managed to do it and then went and took down the GM too.

Solid point there, I'd forgotten that aspect of the old days.

I've played more than one, thanks. Again, "Mercs isn't perfect or super great, but it can be enjoyed nevertheless. There's little in this game I've found unplayable, but there are some things that shine brighter than others and Mercs is probably not one of them. "

I saw a Mercs/Nature synergy suggestion on the forums here and rolled one slightly out of nostalgia (had a Mercs/Traps back on Live) and this take looks about right. Nature means staking out a spot, "I rule here!" and healing the bejeesus out of anyone you like standing there - and it the team is steamrolling? Then you just set your Mercs for Follow Aggressive (or Follow Defensive if you're a yellow belly and worried about agro) and follow the team everywhere. Mercs isn't perfect or super great, but it can be enjoyed nevertheless. There's little in this game I've found unplayable, but there are some things that shine brighter than others and Mercs is probably not one of them. Now I just need t find a good build for my Mercs/Nature. I frankenslotted out the pets for the +defense +resists etc. I learned about from these boards, but I haven't undertaken the time to rebuild the character from the ground up to proc out the Nature powers yet. Heck, I haven't even started choosing Incarnate stuff yet!

Yeah, it's always struck as a bit silly that you can't see me, I'm standing right behind you, taking three full seconds to aim my weapon or fist at your back aaaaand.... wiff! But overall it probably is too much to ask. I mean, then Snipes shoudl auto-hit too if the target's not in combat - you know, like real life snipes do pretty much, you don't know you've been hit from nowhere until you're already dead.

I was asking for something much like this in the dev's thread about "what would you like to see from the game going forward?" Make changing your build as easy as changing your costume. Heck, even a "wait I messed up, let me undo my last leveling!" option would be great. It could be a great Inf sink for the game, and anything that hands out a real respec could be used like the "pay with free costume" option from that screen.