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I've recently made some small additions to my Combat Teleport macros after some experimentation. Minor but they definitely help keep me orientated after the jump. The command /face forces you to face towards your target. This can be important if you're swiftly TAB targeting and select an NPC that's almost out of view. Without it, you might sometimes find your camera is at a completely different viewing angle after the TP and be disorienting. On the other hand, the command /playerturn forces your character to turn towards the middle of camera before doing the Combat teleport. Similar to the situation above, if the character wasn't facing center before doing the TP, the camera could be turned to a completely different direction then you expected it, briefly leaving me disoriented after. So, these commands at the end stop these edge cases I've found while using it.

I was one of those Windows 7 die-hards until about a year and half ago. Eventually newer video card drivers stopped supporting Windows 7 along with the newer versions of Python. So, was pretty much forced to drop in Windows 10 at that point. At least with 22H2, Windows 10 has just about all major bugs ironed out of it! 😆 So I know for sure that the 64-bit client can/was definitely running on Windows 7 64-bit. Certainly wouldn't be surprised if it needs a bunch of newer dependences installed on it though.

Nice! I had been thinking of doing something similar but I see you already did it! 😃 Some additions I might suggest: 1.) Vel's Folly also exists on both Excelsior and and Everlasting. That be nice to add so there's an option for a similar transit hub no matter what server they're on. Excelsior = VF-9122 Everlasting = VF-11508 2.) I'd suggest uploading these to the City Mod Installer, if you can. That way, people can just grab it from the mod site easily. https://mods.cityofheroes.dev/ 3.) The beta server sometimes gets wiped, but one of the working bases on it from AboveTheChemist is PPOC-5 (Which I tested just now). 4.) I might also suggest every base have a sub-menu which shows you the base-code. That way, people can easily see what the code is for getting into the base and share it with others. (This is what I did for my Everlasting Base Code/Hub pop-menu) I had made one for Everlasting's massive number of public base codes over the holiday week as well, in-case anyone is curious for an Everlasting specific pop-menu:

Hello Everlasting, For the heck of it, I decided to create a Pop-menu for most of the base-codes that can be found at these two below locations. So, credit to them for all the codes. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Everlasting_Base_List https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nw-npzUY2NGc6SFoHa1ByWw202gI8DlT0ZDTQwoR7YM/edit#gid=0 The lists for each server are talked about in this thread: I went through all the codes and didn't include the ones whose base code was no longer valid, so there are a few missing from the pop-menu that are currently included in the two above links. (If you look in the MNU file, those bases I've commented out.) I've sorted and ordered the list similar to the spreadsheet but not exactly 100%. I removed some base codes from the 'Transit Hub' category as I wanted to make sure that they were all generally close to 100% functional, within reason. Zone-8888 I put at the top since it's popular and has everything you could need in one simple room and everything else in that list is generally ordered by functionality and secondarily by looks. Any bases I removed from the Transit Hub category I moved elsewhere. All other categories are in alphabetical order and generally left as-is. Like any macro, it does the 'enterbasefrompasscode' for you when you're near a base portal, taking you to that base. So, less referring to the website and/or keeping separate macros for many of the common bases you might want to visit and hopefully more base visibility in general. How to install: Either get it through the City Mod Installer: https://mods.cityofheroes.dev/modView.php?id=195 Or, you can manually install it by copying the attached MNU file to this specific folder in your City of Heroes directory. Create the series of folders if you don't have them. \data\texts\English\menus For example: C:\Homecoming\data\texts\English\menus Usage: from chat: /popmenu ELBases as keybind: /bind "popmenu ELBases" as macro: /macro ELB popmenu ELBases You can use this macro below, if you wish: I.E. /macroimage "Temporary_BasePortal" "Everlasting Bases" popmenu ELBases ELBases.mnu

With the switch over to the new City Mod Installer: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/38272-city-mod-installer-released/ I decided to update my Pet Summons Pop-menu and actually make a thread for it so there's some pictures to go along with it. If you have the old version installed by the defunct CoH Modder, you'll want to remove it from the \data\texts\English\menus directory, first. It'll be named: PetSummons.mnu Then, install the current version from the City Mod Installer, linked above. It's in the Popmenu catagory. You can also manually install the newer version, if you wish, using the attachment on this post. The mnu file needs to be placed into your "<game directory> \data\texts\English\menus". If folders do not exist then you'll need to create them. What it does is simple; Creates a pop-menu for summoning temp pets that you tend to collect. This version even has a 1-button Incarnate Lore summon with a sub-menu for common commands for them. I've tested it on a number of characters with different Lores and it has been summoning them all. I also added the Portable Workbench too (Because why not?), towards the bottom. This menu takes advantage of the PowerReady flag to grey out powers you do not have or aren't recharged. (Not for the 1-button Lore.) Summons with the Ouroboros icon should be rechargeable by re-running the arc that gave the power. It also uses Powexeclocation to immediately summon the pets at your location, no needing to additionally place the pet. Note that some pets still require you to be on the ground to summon them, not flying. This pop-menu, along with the game's built-in Hologram Matrix Accolade/Pop-menu, should allow you to summon just about pet in the game, currently. Usage: from chat: /popmenu PetSummons as keybind: /bind "popmenu PetSummons" as macro: /macro popmenu PetSummons You can use this macro below, if you wish: I.E. /macro_image "Loyalty_SignatureSummon" "Pets" "popmenu PetSummons" PetSummons.mnu

...Not sure why you're being super nit-picky about my post, Wavicle. Perhaps you're not understanding the point I was focused on. My post was not about 'Blasters/Corruptors/Defenders are better because X and Y' blah blah blah. Merely that Sentinel Blast sets give up a lot, in comparison to them, when ported over to to Sents. They get lots of negatives tacked on, with no trade off in positives, within the blast sets themselves. I'm just comparing the blast sets here. Yes, of course they get armor, duh. But Corrs/Defenders get buff/debuff sets, and Blasters get Manipulation sets. But that's not what I'm comparing here. Just the blast sets. I'm actually okay with reduction of range on their attacks, I've mentioned this before. It makes sense. What I'm saying is that it be nice if there was some positive trade-off, within the blast sets themselves, to make them more interesting/different/more compelling to play, verse what you get otherwise. Right now, you have Tankers that get wider cones and larger AOE spheres on their attacks compared to most other melees. And Stalkers get AS as a signature move within their sets. So, I think there's some wiggle room to give Sents something a bit more within their primaries for better game-play that's better refined to them being mid-range fighters.

...That's really silly to say when they have the same blast sets as Blasters/Corruptors/Defender. But sure, I'll grant you they're definitely not close to Corruptors or a Defenders, fine. But it it certainly fair to compare them to Blasters, whom are pure DPS like Sentinels. They both do damage from range. One has sustains, melee attacks, and control. The other has armor as a secondary. So, they are most definitely counter-parts to Blasters. And yes, I'm very very well aware of them being balanced like 'Ranged Scrappers'. You should know that I know that. But seeing as that's been mentioned, I'll further state that, while many scrapper/melee sets have range powers in them, Sentinel Blast sets have no such parity of heavy damage melee powers. (Really doesn't have to be melee powers, per-say. Just that there's lots of duplication in Sentinel Blasts that could have been reduced with more customization to their sets.) Also: "Auto Hit debuff that ignores level differences (you didn't mention this, but it cannot be ignored as that is what makes Vuln good in the situations that call for it)." There was no point in me mentioning this, it's well known at this point. (Not like I'm going to mention every little detail in every post, shesh...) Either way, that doesn't change my experience or opinion that I still feel that in most situations; Vulnerability feels under-whelming.

While I've gotten more accustomed to using Vulnerability as a click power, I still find it underwhelming. It could certainly use something more to it. The times where you'd hope it be very useful, like mobs popping a T9, they still shrug it off. And, the times where mobs don't shrug it off, it's effects are generally meaningless as that mob was going to be defeated easily anyway. More -DEF would be nice, as would another -5% RES would be good too. Something that takes out of the territory of "Did that actually do something for me or not? I can't tell..." Otherwise, I'll echo what @XaoGarrent said in the first page of the thread. Sentinel Blast sets, being near clones of their Blaster/Corruptor/Defender counter-parts, just doesn't work well with them having Armor secondaries to leverage. Add to the fact that there is basically no positive traits to a Sentinel set verse the others. Negatives: 1.) Less range and area effect on powers 2.) Lower target caps. Positives: 1.) ..Faster recharging nuke? That does less damage and has lower radius... So, this is more of a trade-off then a positive. To make things more interesting and fair, they really should have something that's a positive in the conversion and sets them apart from their other ranged counter-parts. I'll echo what I've said before and that they should have wider cones which would make them better to play at the mid-range that they're designed for. And, if we could re-design from the ground up, I'd say, give them a signature multi-mode blast power that they got earlier. Something in the same vain as Assassin's strike and Snipe. I'd imagine it could've worked something like this: By default, it would operate as a long recharge single-target 'melee' range blast power. I'm thinking something like 15-20 foot range with a recharge of 25 to 35 seconds. It could also double as a control power. The gimmick of the power though, is that it would do AOE splash damage, like Thunderstrike, but only under the effects of Aim. Aim would only unlock the effect once per usage. So, given that recharge, you'd have the splash for maybe 1/3 of the times you used the attack. Something like would have helped to back-fill the difference between the AOE difference between them and their counter-parts while also helping them better in single-target while not being another mediocre 60 foot single-target power that some sets have 5 of.

This is pretty much what I've seen as well, there are more Sentinels around but not a massive number. The other thing I've noticed or, at least it appears to me, is that other Sentinels aren't really using Vulnerability very much at all, when I've teamed with them. But yeah, that play-style is pretty much what I do on my main. Either Combat Teleporting into a group first (Playing like a Stalker somewhat, to that alpha off on a boss); Fold Space and then nuke, or closely following the tank in (Or CT to them) and then Fold Spacing on top of them and nuke. No melee is going to out-damage you if you're defeating half the spawn as an alpha strike before them. Well, besides a well-played tele-nuking Elec/Shield, that is. And that is really the key difference between the comparisons between a Blaster and a Sentinel. A well-built Sentinel can just be alpha striking spawns as much as they wish. A Blaster not so much. No matter how well you build a Blaster, you're always going to want to have some melee (Or Sent) between you the the NPCs. Sentinels, on the other hand, can be just as aggressive as any Scrapper.

The -resistance is NOT unresistable though. It just isn't reduced by level difference scaling. That means it's always -15% instead of either getting worse against higher con or getting better verse lower con enemies. However, if an AV is resist capped, it still is 100% resisted. So, if they pop their T9-ish power and become capped, it does nothing. Those Cyclopes EB's that cap themselves with unstoppable? Basically shrug it off. So no, it's not suddenly going to make Sents AV killers. The -15% isn't really that much honestly. It's less then what you get out of the -resistance procs. However, I will admit that it's more controllable then the -res procs. One other thing I'll point out that I'm not sure if someone else mentioned in this thread but the old auto proc was main target only. It did not go off on all AOE targets, only just your main target. So, if you used a PBAOE, it did not apply to anything. If you used a TAOE, it would only apply to your main target. So that was effectively only single target. @agentx5 One of the issues with Sentinel's damage scalar is that there isn't really a lot of wiggle room to play with. Corrupters with Scourge are actually pretty close to Sentinel damage and have higher target caps to boot and team wide buffs/debuffs. So really the only sensible choice is to scale them upwards. At least now, in terms of single target damage, you can say they're fairly close to Blasters. Although, even with the buff, do you think that the standard Hammy crowd is going to jump ship and start saying 'Well, why begin a Blaster when you can bring a Sentinel?" No, of course not. So, I assume in the grand scheme of things, the general pop is going to feel that Sentinels are closer to Blasters in usefulness but will probably still rank Blasters higher. Do I agree with this? Not really, but that's just my opinion. I don't honestly believe that target caps actually make that big of a difference that most people make them out to be. Nor do I think the reduced range is that big of an issue either, but that's because my style of play leans more towards melee-ish range. So, to each their own.

I actually made a very similar pop menu a little while back which I had posted in the COH Modder. I sorted mine based upon the more common shared summons being in the root of the menu with all the others separated into another menu. I put Ouro icons for the ones I saw on the wiki that were rechargeable. PetSummons.mnu

I will mention that it was stated that the change effected less then 10% of the enemy NPC powers in the whole game. So, in a way, this more standardizes how powers are expected to go up against defense. And, to what I recall, the current system was put in well before things like IOs where even a thing. People had what defense they got through powers only. These days, it's a whole different ball-game with set bonuses and Incarnate powers.

My wish-list for inspirations would be to have more finer control of which inspirations we can reject and accept. Not that the options aren't already nice but, for example, I'd like to be able to reject most small inspirations.. but still take certain kinds. Like reds for my damage types and status protections for not armored characters. Also, to be able to combine super inspirations and team inspirations. With some of my characters that are fully kited out, and don't really need anything more, I'd loved to go for the super inspirations as a reward... but it sucks when you get ones you don't really need, yet can't combine them to stuff you'd like. Sure, I could just buy what I want from Luna or the AH, but still, it be nice to have the option.

While I don't necessarily agree with turning Confront into a gap-closer myself, I do agree that it is a bad power in general. Or, at least, one with few redeeming qualities, compared to other taunt powers out there. One of my characters is a War Mace/Shield scrapper. I've built her to be an off-tank. In many cases, this is all that's generally needed on teams these days. Jump in first, (Combat Teleport or Shield Charge, or just run in) Against all Odds to generally keep aggro and spread your attacks around a bit. Confront to keep the big-bad on you. It works fairly decently. My problem with it is this; Not only is Confront a single-target power.. but the taunt duration on the power is less then the duration on the brute/tank versions of Taunt that's an AOE. It is by far a much worse taunt power then the other two and gets nothing else for it. If you want an AOE version, then you have to get Provoke which has even less taunt duration then Confront and doesn't have the -75% range and you have to lose a power pool pick to get it. In my opinion, it should have the same duration/strength as the brute/tank version because, dang it, if I want to have a taunt-o-war with a brute/tank with an AV while spending one of my precious powers slots on taking Confront.. then I better be able to win that taunt-o-war! Dang-it! 😁 On the other hand, it be swell if it gave you some other benefit beyond what the brute/tanker version gives. Like, it be neat if it gave you (And only you) a higher critical chance against just that NPC/player you confronted.. while also giving that enemy a chance to do critical damage to you. So, while this could give you extra damage against them, it could also backfire and have the enemy do extra damage to you. More risk = more reward.

The most I'd imagine we'd get, in the foreseeable future, could be access to the various toggle-able costume models that you can pickup during the Halloween event. It's a pretty common request so I could see that happening eventually. I'd imagine they'd need to come up with some system for us to get them though. Maybe as random recipe drops or what-not? Unfortunately, those toggles are not customizable but it's a start. The problem with making anything Rikti related customizable is that they don't have any original development assets, just the stuff that's in the game archive. So, trying to make that stuff cusomizable is working backwards, in many cases. Beyond that, more of the random Rikti weapon models they have for things like AR and Beam rifle would be fantastic. The NPC models and the weapons could cover most of what is needed to make a player Rikti.

People already complain about the domination clickie and that's just one power. Imagine now having 3 of those sitting in your already packed Power Tray. No thank you. Also, from what I've seen, Dominators are also one of those ATs that people don't play as much as others. Recently, Sentinels appear to be at least as popular to play as Dominators, perhaps even slightly more. I'm sure the clunkiness of Domination does not help them. Moreover, most of the other ATs inherents function just by doing stuff they normally do. Brutes get rage from attacking, Scrappers and Stalkers get criticals just naturally and/or from hide. Corruptors are the same. So, to stay on the same footing as all those other ATs, whatever change they make to opportunity should just follow that pattern for ease of use.

...Huh, I was about to reply back that Mids clearly shows nearly all of them give 100 KB protection along with 10000% resistance.. but then I decided to check City of Data. Sure enough, you're right. https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=controller_control.ice_control.frostbite&at=controller The AOE immobilizes only give 10000% resistance, no KB mag protection. I wonder how long its been since they changed that.. 😲

I rather like the idea that Gravity's AOE immobilize would convert all knockbacks into knockdowns. After all, if you are using high GRAVITY to lock the mobs in-place, it should be easier for them to just fall down but not necessarily flyyyy back. As far as I know, it wouldn't need a special IO to do it, just have the power grant the mob high knockback resistance but no actual protection. High enough resistance could/should reduce the magnitude of any knocks they are hit with to be under mag 1 which would then knock them down, but not away.

There's something else that I've noticed about how the game handles various options; Some reset to defaults on new map load. This doesn't apply to options that you normally see in the options window. I'm talking about stuff that you can only set by slash commands. For example, /optionset buffsettings appears to be reset when you load into a new map. So, if you want to do the advanced options found here: They reset on new map load and you have to use a bind or macro to reload it. Also, I've recently discovered that you can manually edit the wdw.txt file. You can set the scaling on windows individually, as was mention above. This setting sticks. BUT, did you know that you can set your trays and windows to all be different colors if you want? To my disappointment though, the colors all go back to the default color upon new map load... 😒

What I'd like to see, is some system of weekly or daily story-arc focus. We already have the Who Will Die? and Pandora's Box as arcs loaded into the LFG window, right? If a bunch of the older arcs could be added into it and operate like taskforces, then a weekly or daily system could be setup around those for players to additionally choose from.

Honestly, I feel like the real issue here is that the rest of the game doesn't give more/better tangible benefits/rewards over just running AE stuff. And, as far as rewards should go; A mission is a mission is a mission. It shouldn't necessarily matter if it's an AE mission or a non-AE mission. The rewards should be similar, in that regard. However, for the curated content that's built into the game, there should be more tangible rewards. Badges are nice, yes, but badges, on their own, won't bring out many people. But things like Accolades with powers attached to them do. There's definitely LFG requests for things like Maria Jenkins arc. Why? Portal Jockey Accolade. People setting up farms for fake nems? Freedom Phalanx Reserve credit. Requests for Task Forces? Taskforce commander badge. There needs to be more of this stuff. Tangible minor benefits for running the game content. So far, I think the Dr. Aeon Strike Force is a good step towards that. The D-syncs are nice rewards for running the strike force and I'd imagine it's one of the more popular strike forces out there now. My next thought to get people to go out there and play the content is to give tangible rewards for some of the later 'Badges Earned Badges' Starting at either the 200 or the 500 badge. That way, it wouldn't matter what combination of badges you got to get them, but they'd all lead to the same reward.

Unlimited new slots? No, hard pass on that. Part of the fun with builds is that you're limited in what you can slot full verse not at all. It would lead to characters being more generic with less interesting trade-offs. On the other-hand, there's certainly been builds of mine that where I've gone, "Gee, I wish I had another one or two slots to play with.." So, if we could exist, it be nice if was some system to earn some limited number of new slots. My suggestion would be to attach them to the Achievement badges of 'Badges Earned Badges'. Starting from the 500 badge 'Seeker' with the requirement that you already have the 99 veteran level badge. With this, you could earn up to 5 additional slots, enough to 6-slot one additional power, if you wanted. I picked the 500 badge as the starting point as that's where I feel the starting line is between a badging verse a non-badging character is right now. You can generally get up to 300-400 badges without trying too hard. I think a system like this might be really great in steering people to play more of the game's regular content and team for it.

Having thought about it for a while and played my Sentinels quite a bit, I do agree that they are basically a 'ranged Scrapper', as has been pointed out. We also do have quite a few ranged buffing/debuffing/control ATs but, the only ranged DPS AT we have are Blasters. So, keeping them as mostly a DPS focused AT, as they currently are, I feel is the best. As it's been pointed out, they really can't leverage their armor secondary as much as the other armored ATs. So, I think a cool mechanic might be to give them a PBAOE inherent power that's always on. Give it about 15-20 feet radius? The only purpose of this power is to tag all enemies within range of the Sentinel with some kind of mode flag. If the Sentinel then hits them with a damage power, it does bonus damage. So, basically, you'd do extra damage to enemies within 20 feet of you. This follows the standard risk verse reward trade-off and would allow Sentinels to better leverage their armor to their advantage automatically. Dive into melee range to do more damage like a melee AT. Pull out of melee range and do less damage, basically what they do today. This could easily fall under being called 'opportunity' as it can just be RP as you, being much closer to the enemies, are able to more easily see their weaknesses and exploit them. There could even be multiple levels of this damage buff. For example: 0-10 feet: Lots of bonus damage 11-20 feet: Moderate bonus damage 21-30 feet: Minor bonus damage Another thought I had; Give them unique Aim powers that last 20 seconds. This would lean them more towards what Blasters have with both Aim and Build-up. It wouldn't be a huge damage buff but would make them particularly good at blasting through toHit debuffs and defense buffs. Sometimes that 10 second window isn't long enough and would be a great unique ability for them.

I know, right? Like, this makes me wonder how people believe that their melee toons do "far" more damage then a properly built and played Sentinel. Nukes can be a huge amount of your overall DPS/DPA. Moreover, the area effect on most melee AOEs is far smaller. On teams (Not so much solo play) my Mace/Shield scrapper will struggle much more to hit large number of NPCs unless they're some mob type that really likes to melee you. If they didn't have Shield Charge, the damage output, compared to one of my Sentinels, would be awful in most team settings. And only some combinations of melee toons have comparable nukes to Sentinels. And Sentinel's average AOEs also have much better area of affect. So, it's much easier to hit the target caps on Sentinel AOE powers verse any of the standard melee ones. Tankers are a bit of an exception here due to the various buffs they got recently. That's not to say that Sents couldn't use some tweaks, for sure. I certainly have my own opinions on how they should be buffed, much like anyone else here. But I feel a lot of issues people have with them is that they're playing them like armored Blasters, and not Scrappers with range. Those T9 nukes are not emergency buttons, or to be used 'once in a while'. They should be used as an alpha strike as much as humanly possible. If that means being in melee range to do it, then you should.

If you're talking about the Everlasting MSRs (Judging by your signature) that would be me. Jane Zim - Energy Blast/Energy Aura/Electricity Mastery - Mids Data Link Yeah, as it's been mentioned, Energy Aura is pretty good at making a Sentinel pretty durable against most content in the game. Being at or near the Def soft-cap is pretty great. Psi/Toxic damage is about the only weakness the set has and you can build/play around that fairly well without too much fuss. Between Fold Space, Lightning Field, Chain Fences, Nuke.. makes for a pretty good off-tank. I'm generally head-longing to groups to get the first strike when I'm teaming with little issue. And that's without even thinking about Destiny and Hybrid. Those are just icing on the cake really. Basically emergency buttons, depending on the situation. You can certainly toss in Provoke, if you wanted too.