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Mister_Rik · October 31, 2011, 4:27pm

Double post

Bosstone · October 31, 2011, 5:55pm

One of the first things I set up on each new character is the Combat Attributes Monitor. It’s a small window that will show you various statistics about yourself, I think up to 10, that you can choose yourself.

You can access the window by going to Powers and clicking on Combat Attributes. Right-clicking on a particular data point will give you the option to Monitor it, which will generate the Monitor window which you can move around the UI.

By default, I use:

Regeneration Rate
Recovery Rate
Endurance Consumption
Damage Bonus
Last Hit Chance
One or two appropriate Damage Resistance or Defense values (if I have a defensive powerset)
Experience to Next Level
Experience Debt
Influence/Infamy/Information

Any other info you might find useful can be put there as well.

I bring this up both because it’s highly useful, and because having that Last Hit Chance is very helpful. If you think you’re having difficulty hitting, you can start watching that number and see just what kind of chance you had. If you’re missing and it’s reading 90-95%, then you’re just victim to RNG. If it’s reading 44-50% or something, then you can start looking at why it’s so low.

Even then, that will only give you brief, passing glances per attack. If you really want to judge your overall performance, you’ll need to use either HeroStats or a combat log parser.

Balance · October 31, 2011, 7:28pm

The Halloween event runs through November 2, so we should be back to a regular day/night cycle by Thursday.

Mister_Rik · October 31, 2011, 10:18pm

Well darn it, the VidiotMap download is an .exe file, and I play on a Mac.

Skywatcher · November 1, 2011, 12:05am

Mister_Rik · November 1, 2011, 3:02am

Um, whoa! I guess I should have mentioned that I’d already found those on that site. But thanks for taking the time

Brainiac4 · November 1, 2011, 3:52am

Looks like you can also get the Map Pack effect on OS X by manually uploading the map files, which sounds annoying but worthwhile - the Map Pack is very handy.

Mister_Rik · November 1, 2011, 4:36pm

BTW, I just wanted to mention that I am really enjoying this game a lot, and having great fun. Rereading some of my posts here, I realize I may sound like I’m not enjoying myself. What happens is that, by the time I post my question/complaint here, I’ve already tried for quite some time to figure something out for myself, and have become frustrated by my lack of success. I usually feel like I’m missing some obvious thing. So I post my question, and my tendency toward excessive exposition* can end up making my question look more like a rant, and I apologize for that and thank you all for your patience.

I’m completely terrible at live, in-person conversation, and have ended up with some awkward situations where, in an effort to keep a conversation moving without long pauses while I compose my replies, I say the first thing that pops into my head and what comes out sounds completely different from what I meant. So I love written communication because it lets me take the time to carefully phrase everything in the hope that my meaning will be crystal clear and leave no room for misinterpretation. The downside of this, of course, is that I can end up going on and on and on until it sounds like I’m ranting…

Mister_Rik · November 1, 2011, 4:45pm

I got some satisfaction yesterday when I was on this character doing a Tip mission that had me going up against the Circle of Thorns. The mission instance was full of those “Thorn Caster Fire” mobs, who appear to have the same primary power set (Fire Blast) as my character. And I got to watch as they successfully hit me with everything … except Flares, which kept missing me

Mister_Rik · November 16, 2011, 4:58am

Dang, did I kill the thread?

I got my first Praetorian Resistance character (my Claws/Invulnerability character) to level 20; she done blowed up the Enriche pumping station real good and then made her escape to Paragon. Glad to be there, too, since she was dirt poor from having to spend so much Inf on enhancements, what with Praetoria’s lack of AE (my Primal Earth characters just hit AE for tickets when they need to upgrade their enhancements, letting them save their Inf for other things).

Quimby · November 16, 2011, 5:46pm

Nah these long standing threads ebb and flow as new things come up to talk about. Everyone is just playing Skyrim

Bosstone · November 16, 2011, 6:24pm

I find it kind of funny that the thread ebbed during one of the weirdest buggy patches I can remember. (Yes, I know, I could have posted too.)

The UI got reset every time folks logged in. Minor issue, as if you’d saved your window position you could just type /wdwload and everything would be back to normal, but still annoying as heck.
Folks with ATI graphics cards got locked out of the game due to the game claiming they had outdated drivers.
Carnival of Shadows bosses would sometimes be replaced with an Elite Boss version of Vanessa DeVore.
And most entertainingly, Supergroup base defenses would attack players in their own bases.

The players raised such a racket that Paragon pushed through a new patch yesterday which fixed the first three (and quite a few people are happy the fourth is still going on, funnily enough).

In other news, I’m loving both my Crab Spider, who’s well along the Incarnate path now and is rocking a Crabstermind build, and my Bots/Traps Mastermind, who’s still only level 34 and in SOs but has already begun soloing +2/x8 spawns. I used to be a big fan of the melee characters for their ability to be self-sufficient, but the Crab and MM are scarily effective characters that not only bring ridiculous damage but also buff the team and make everyone else that much more awesome. There is little more satisfying in the game than walking into a room stuffed full of enemies and turning it into blazing chaos with your own personal minions running around causing havoc.

Der_Trihs · November 16, 2011, 8:42pm

Did you know that you can mail things like inf and enhancements to yourself? Just use your global name with a @ in front of it; any of your characters can claim the mail. Very useful for funding poor characters from richer ones.

Cause and effect, in my case. I haven’t played the game since the bugged patch came out; I’ve been playing Skyrim. Which is exactly the opposite of what was intended I’m sure; I agree with the theory that the bugged patch was pushed live because some marketing type insisted that it be released NOW! to counter Skyrim being released.

Mister_Rik · November 16, 2011, 10:09pm

Oddly, this didn’t affect me, perhaps because of the emulation (the “Mac client” is apparently the Windows client running under some Mac version of Wine, which was originally written for Linux to emulate Windows… or so I’ve read on the CoH Mac forum).

So that’s how you do it! I tried mailing some Inf from one character to another and it told me I could only send mail with attachments to global names, which I mistakenly interpreted as meaning I could only send the stuff to somebody else. Does this work across servers? Because this particular character is my highest-level character on that particular server (Liberty; my two characters that are higher are both on Justice).

Der_Trihs · November 16, 2011, 10:58pm

It works across servers fine, and across heroes/villains/Praetorians too. The only exceptions being the Beta & Test servers, you can’t send to or from there.

Bosstone · November 16, 2011, 11:05pm

Yeah, if something’s global (like global names or global channels), it will automatically work across all servers. Really handy for global channels, since if you and your buddies share a channel and normally hang out on one server, you can go to another and still talk. The chat system in City is easily the best I’ve ever seen in an MMO, and I feel its lack whenever I try a new game.

Mister_Rik · November 23, 2011, 9:52pm

I was having the most annoying problem yesterday while doing Kings Row radio missions on a couple of my low-level blasters: Vahzilok Cadavers. I’ve fought plenty of Vahzilok on other characters, including other blasters, with little trouble. But yesterday while fighting them at level 9, it was the same thing over and over: I’d be at full health (~225 hp), the Cadaver would run up, puke on me, I’d take 37 points of damage, and then keel over dead 2 seconds later. My level 9 Assault Rifle/Devices character died to the exact same Cadaver in exactly the same way three times, and I finally gave up and just auto-completed the mission. Her next radio mission was against Arachnos, who she mowed down with no trouble. I had the same basic problem on another level 9 blaster earlier in the day. I don’t know if it’s a bug, or if those Cadavers got inadvertently buffed in the last patch, or what. I just know this wasn’t happening on previous characters.

Another issue that may or may not be a bug: My main villain has the Dark Armor power set, and one of her toggle powers is Death Shroud. It keeps turning itself off for some reason I can’t discern. There’s nothing in its description to indicate a limited duration, and it’s not shutting off because I’ve run out of Endurance - I usually also have Dark Embrace and Murky Cloud active at the same time, and they’re not shutting off. Just Death Shroud. Do some enemy mobs have the ability to selectively shut my powers off or something?

Speaking of Dark Armor, is there a graphics setting that will allow me to “tone down” aura effects? When this character has those three toggles active, the smoky cloud around her is so thick that I can barely see her. So when I play her I go into the graphics settings and Enable the “Suppress FX when close” setting, which completely hides these effects. The downside of this is that with that setting enabled, if she uses Cloak of Darkness to stealth herself, she vanishes completely —even I can’t see her, which means I just don’t use that power. I suspect my only option for “toning down” the effects is to visit Facemakers and experiment with the color palette to customize the power effects to something less obtrusive. I had to do that with another character’s “Fiery Aura”, because with the default colors it was so intense that it completely obscured the character when active.

Also, I wish I had known there were quests to unlock capes and auras before I spent points in the store for them. Are there any other costume-slot-unlocking quests I should know about so that I can save my points if I haven’t spent them to unlock things already?

Anybody else not receive their 400 points or reward token for November? My bill date was the 14th and I’ve received neither this month. Apparently neither have a lot of other people.

Quest That Made Me LOL of the Day (which y’all have probably seen already): A radio mission to rescue a videogame developer who was kidnaped by Arachnos, with the police speculating that it’s because Arachnos didn’t like they way the game portrayed them. When I finally found the guy I was supposed to rescue, I found the Arachnos guys complaining at him about how “They nerfed my class!” and “The last bugfix closed my favorite exploit!”

Since I’ve been playing CoH so much, I’ve had to laugh at myself several times for silly mistakes when switching back to WoW:

• Left-clicking on things instead of right-clicking

• “Why the !@#$ can’t I jump over this 3-foot-high obstacle?!” (Made me realize this is a serious WTF thing in WoW: My paladin has a Strength score of nearly 6000, and can’t jump 3 feet in the air?)

• Took my night elf hunter to Sethekk Halls to kill the boss in there for the holiday achievement, and stood there in front of the instance portal clicking on it and wondering why nothing was happening :smack:

Der_Trihs · November 23, 2011, 11:11pm

Do you have Dark Armor’s Mez protection Obsidian Shield yet? Or are you fighting Tsoo, who have been known to stun even Tanks with stacked stuns? Getting mezzed shuts off offensive toggles like Death Shroud.

Cloak of Darkness at least has a setting in the Costume Power Customization screen that leaves you visible while using it.

Ha; I spent the points to buy those unlocks because I was so tired of doing those same missions on every single character, plus it’s nice to have those options open at level 1.

Jophiel · November 23, 2011, 11:16pm

The benefit of the cape/aura unlocks from the store is that they are account wide and good from level one. The mission arcs can’t be done until level 20 and 30 respectively and need to be done for each character which gets old in a hurry. So take some solace.

Mister_Rik · November 24, 2011, 12:10am

That must be it. As a level 24 villain she hasn’t seen much in the way of Tsoo yet, but there have probably been some mezzers amongst the other mobs she’s fought. She has Obsidian Shield, but I’ve been leaving that off except when I know I’m going to be facing a lot of psionic types. The first three toggles already suck enough Endurance as it is, so I try to turn off the ones I don’t absolutely need.

Cool, that’s good to know

Ah, okay, so doing the quests isn’t an account-wide unlock. So I can be happy, then

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