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If anyone has a similiar problem, allow city of heroes through your window firewall. I had allowed it through for years and somehow my allowed programs got reset. Still odd that it was letting me connect for 5minutes, and I had to reboot my whole computer after getting forcefully disconnected. But allowing the .exe through the firewall seems to have solved my problem.

Hi everyone, I have been having a strange problem the past few months, and wonder if anyone might have some advice. Basically, when I log into CoH and enter the game, after a short while my internet connection gets cut off for everything. When I go back to windows, it has disconnected from the Wifi, and if I try to reconnect it always says "cannot connect to this network." So my whole internet gets cut off until I reboot the computer which fixes it. As long as I don't log into CoH I never have this problem, and sometimes I can play CoH for hours with no disconnect. But at other random times I disconnect within 5 minutes of entering the game, and have to reboot my whole computer to restore the internet connection. A very unusual problem no doubt. I wonder if any of you tech-savvy folks have ever experienced anything like this, and perhaps have a solution? Thanks

I had a RP idea for this very combo. Mind sharing your build? Thanks

In case anyone hates the wom-wom loop of Disruption Arrow as much as I do, I found the offending file: SOUND\OGG\WEAPONS\SONICARROW_LOOP

Im going to play a dark/storm. Would enjoy seeing your build.

I have a nice theme for a Dark/Storm Controller, so if you come up with a good proccy build I would be most interested. Seems like something that would be very slot starved!

Running one of these for i27. Does anyone have an updated build? I probably want to take all the arrow powers, have perma phantom armhy and dont need a travel power. I have no idea how to slot the new trick arrow.

I would really like "special" enemies randomly appearing to shake things up. I noticed I am always excited when a Kheldian is on the team because quantums might show up and shake things up, makeing it more fun. Maybe make the chance of these enemies appearing be tied to how easy a faction is. For example, high chance appearing with Council and low chance with Malta. I think this solution is easy to add and makes the game more interesting. Too much council steamrolling goes on and it trains people to miss a lot of the other interesting content out there. Maybe also increase story arc rewards to encourage players to run them over radios.

Hey guys, thanks this was perfectly helpful. Carnifax showing the range of what I might do, and Darkir giving me a strong top tier build. One more question, is there any meleer that might use tentacles effectively? ie tanker, stalker, scrapper brute?

Hey guys, Old player coming back. The tenebrous tentacles animation and sound effects was always a favourite and I wanted to try a character who uses that ability a lot and effectively. Since I have not played for years and know nothing of class/power changes, I wonder if an expert might suggest some Tentacle power builds? Can be any archetype, patron pools, late bloomer, expensive with procs etc. Just wondered what some of the most powerful Tentacle builds might be in the current meta? Good support build is fine too. Thanks and looking forward to playing again. Edit: whoops, meant to put this in general. Maybe a mod can move it for me.

The new Dom Earth Assault "Power up" ability is buffing damage, but does not seem to be buffing other powers. For example, it is supposed to buff defense and healing, but it is neither working on Patron Link Minds defense buff nor Unleash Potential defense or regen buffs. I can confirm the old Power Boost used to work on Link Minds. Thanks for repair!

Your zipping around with siphon speed, why worry about the cones? Fearsome stare, zip in in fulcrum shift, Hod, zip out shadowy binds. Stay there and spam. Kinetics is a spammy set so moving around fast is part of the fun. Sounds great to me. Fearsome stare (dont damage proc it, only one or two anyhow) and FS have nice synergy, and both it and shadowy binds have HUGE cones. Dont need to aim carefully with them. Personally I like sets that do range and melee, lets you see the whole battlefield, and with Kinetics you will always be doing it at superspeed. Even if hovering. And dark not only has control, but big tohit debuffing which will help with Kins lack of defense. Its really a great pairing. If you want even more craziness, run repel with kbtokdown IO and keep everything near you flopping too, but probably overkill. But it fun when an ambush happens and quick "bowling ball" flops them long enough to throw a big aoe fear and get things under control again. Hmmm, now I want to make a dark/kin!

Sure, any location power can be cast on target, me, or location. I summon pets this way and they appear with one click next to me: /bind Numpad1 powexec_location me Gremlins When I press 1 on the numberpad it summons the pet right next to me. No need to target.

Thanks for taking the time Frosticus. Such an interesting build and its interesting to see how Nerve Alpha can be used. One question, wouldn't it be quite important to add Soulbound chance for build up in haunts? Usually it adds quite a bit of damage to multiple pets. Also, wouldnt contagious confusion be good in possess or is it not really helpful single target? I might mix a few things up otherwise and may fiddle trying intuition or even spiritual alphas. Like you say, its not very good at exemplaring! Depends on incarnates and very important things come late. But a great and creative build over all. Amazing all the interesting things that can be done in this game. Cheers!

Great build Auroxis. How do you think this compares DPS wise to your Melee Crabbermind build from the Crabbermind thread?

More great info and builds. Thanks so much for all this research you are doing Sir Myshkin. Really making me want to do a Plant controller right now, but I'll probably go Dark/Poison since I already have a Plant dominator I like. Creepers is just one of the best powers and the game and its goodness keeps on giving!

Awesome thanks. Really appreciate all this work you are doing testing out proc performance. Lets some underperformers like Poison get more play time up with the strong sets.

Do you mind sharing your build Frosticus? I'm finding all the proc stuff too daunting to know how to slot. It looks like you are going Dark/Poison/Earth which is what I was thinking. And I want to skip spring attack too since my main is a shield stalker and worn out on that power. And fissure+FF proc is too good to pass up in a build otherwise having no knockback. The other possiblity which looked intruiging is Fire for a fireball, consume +low defense Rise of the phoenix build. Too many invulnerable characters running around and phoenix can make dying fun. Since dog adds good ST damage and a bit of distraction, what power are you skipping it for? Thanks

Thanks, that is what I expected. I was just wondering since the pulsing AOE holds are a bit better than the normal ones, but the recharge makes all the aoe holds a turn off. Kudos for a great idea Coyote! Thematically I like both of these sets but I could never think of a combo I wanted. Think I'll give it a try. Maybe not the most powerful, but looks fun.

How is shadowfield in this build? Does it proc well or skippable?

Wonderful analysis in all these threads Hjarki. Since I have a 50 ice/shield stalker I might chime in here. Shield Charge does not critical, but it also does not immediately break hide, so its actually very nice to tp into a group with shield charge doing good damage with knockup and immediatlely follow with frozen aura or ball lightning, both which have typical aoe 50% crit rate. Never thought of using cross punch in a rotation to make zapp more consistent. Might see if I can fit that in, though I generally find because of assassins mark Im in build up most of the time so Zapp is instant. For fighting AV with shield, I usually bring along a pack of minions to keep my damage boosted, but yes sometimes that is not possible making bio probably stronger overall. But shield charge, ball lightning, frozen stomp is a very fun 123 combo.

And having read this great thread, what do you guys think are other good options for a procolicious Plant contoller secondary besides Dark or Poison?

How are you guys watching the video? Im getting a message it was removed from youtube.