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You can't learn anything from ambushes that home in, follow you, and ignore stealth. Except maybe how true 'The Computer is a Cheating Gobshite' is.

This.
I found it useful last night, I admit, because the mutha-******' RNG refused to give me the 6 shards I needed. Everyone else was getting bloody Purples and shards in double figures, whereas I ONLY scraped 5 becuase we went back and killed the map of the last mission once it was already over! I then broke down the Hero 1 DNA for the last shard.

50% I can live with. 75% is just farcical.

Thats also a horrible example. The Hollows mobs in the Gulch were invariably purple and heavily Boss laden. If nothing else, they taught you how the hell to stay away out of aggro range.

This is getting spanked about by +0/x1 mobs in a basic instance. There is a whole world of difference there.

And this is where Villains win. We get to not only beat up Recluse's lackeys, Recluse himself, but we also get to kick the everloving crap out of all the big name Heroes too!
Triumph; it tastes of win

Alright, I'll explain further.

This is basically giving those with a bigger wallet a not slight advantage over those who don't have it. Sure, it puts them on a level palying field with those who do have it....Players who have rewards for in-game activities that other players could just as equally go and get if they got off their (in-game) backsides and went and put the effort in.

Not everyone has the Accolades anyway. It just seems like a really daft thing to give for a monitary value. Theres no precedent for it.
And you pretty much cannot get to a decent PvP point without playing the PvE game. So...saying you only want to PvP would only hold water if there was an option for an insta-50 PvP Only Character. Which I also don't see happening anyime soon.

And yes, I do PvP, albeit in slightly closed circles in Union.

Hell no. Just...no. Sorry.

However;


Yes, yes, and yes. Please.

Given the recent Rp Gladiators event on Union, I've taken a bit of a reknewed interest in PvP, and well, y'know...it's stil broke.

*Mumbles "Arcanaville, Arcanaville, Arcanaville..."*

You've not heard his others before, then? Blunt is all you get from Zero Punct I love it

Given that the rest of the game is balanced around SOs, I would be VERY adverse to seeing that take a hold. Because if it effects everything, that will simply make the low levels of defence sets an utter, utter hell.

STAY! MEANS! STAY!

Ye gods, Stay is the most broken command ever! I was trying to use it on the ITF last night to make sure my pets would stay the hell out of melee.
Stay and set to aggressive, right? That'll make them do that!
No...no it won't. They fire one shot then blimble off into melee range again.

Ok, Stay and Defensive, right? That'll-

.....

I hope you mean res, or I'm going to have to come over there, kill you and take your secrets for the glory of SCIENCE!

Yes, yes this is true...
Whats the whole thing with Behemoth overlords suddenly being wussy little Lieutenants? I liked them when they were Boss con!

And Nightwidows! Christ alive, leave them as Boss con! Having Smoke Grenade spammed at you ever other spawn is beyond a joke. It's another, very nigh auto-hit 'Haha you lose' power that seriously annoys me.

I still don't understand why there is City of Heroes CoT and City of Villains CoT. Why not merge the two? Add Hellfrosts and Succubi to higher levels, Hordelings and all that....add more variety!

Oh god, CoT ghosts and Ruin mages. I utterly despise the 12-24 ish range on CoT, simply because, for what you are using at the time, they have so much cheatyHax to throw about that it's unreal.

I guess it would require new art asssets, yeah. However, given the recent trend for what seems like combining existing parts with other NPC parts (Look at Leonard the contact redside. He has Dr Aeon's gloves, an Arachnos shoulder chest plate and other, non-unique parts made into one mesh.) I wouldn't have thought it would require that much effort....I may well be wrong, though. Otherwise we'd have seen mobs get a much needed graphical update by now...right?
/tangent

My problem with Nems is...I'm a Bots MM. I literally get no choice except AoE falvoured death. And I like to fight on x8 because, well...I have the build, I have the Alpha slot, it's really the only thing thats above a boardwalk for me on Alpha now.

I don't honestly mind Nems and such so much, other than the fact I find them mind-numbingly dull from a design perspective. As someone who takes a great interest in that side of game-making an design as a whole, I honestly do think I could do a better job of it, too

If they weren't scaling up well I can see why...but why not replace them with Armoured Science Units, Rapid Response Guard forces and Elite Cyborg Agents that are pretty much like Arnie-eque Terminators wearing fake skin? Add some variety to the mobs at least, not make them bland and as boring as all hell...

I can very easily believe that to be true.

Haaaaaaattttteeeeee!!!

Nemesis I cannot stand. Not only do they kick out an insane ammount of AoE (Flamethrower and Full Auto? On Minions? Really?), have some of the most evil snipers in the game and only two bosses that are also high up in the league of evil, but they seem to spam LTs, all of which are just as bad for turning mobs into unkillable armies.

I appreciate Nems are end-game mobs. That said, they start off at least being a bit more balanced. They have AoE units, ST units, surgeon units, and Jaegers all thrown into the mix.
By the end? Dragoons with heavy gatling-flamers, LTs by the metric crapton, and Fake Nems. Because they really needed more stacked defences.


The thing that bugs me about end-game mobs is the lack of creativity. Crey mid levels; suited agents, riot guards, power armour, heavy power armour and Protectors. High levels? Power armour. And Protectors. And thats IT. Its boring, dull and leaves no room for anything tactical. Nems are the same, only they actually trade out variety for a massive 'I Win' Button.