Adeon Hawkwood

Well it convinced me to roll a corruptor. I wanted a DP/Storm character and was debating between defender and corruptor. Access to VEATs at 20 was what tipped the scale (I want to try out a crab).

Duh, I completely and utterly forgot about end-mod. Yeah, slap a few in there and it should drain 100%.

When using set IOs there are two different types of slotting. The first is the traditional one where you put in several IOs from the same set in order to get set bonuses. The other is Frankenslotting where you put in IOs from different sets forgoing the set bonuses in order to get better stats.

The basic idea is that because of the way multi-aspect set IOs work doing so is better than both SOs and common IOs. For example, lets say you have a power that has two SOs in it, a Damage and a Recharge. The SOs will give you 33.3% enhancement to both damage and recharge. Now suppose you replace them with common IOs, the bonus increases to 42.4% to both damage and recharge. Now take a look at the various set IOs that boost damage and recharge (here's one). If you were to put two damage/recharge IOs (from different sets, obviously) into the power your enhancement values would be 53% which is quite a bit higher than even the 42.4% you'd get with common IOs. Triple and Quad set IOs are even more effective but because of the way that sets are designed it's rare to actually find them with the exact combination of stats you want.

The wiki has a useful table that shows the relative values of different enhancement types:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Enhanc...ncement_Values

Or just go ahead and add APPs for villains. So if you don't do the patron arc you get the APPs but if you do you get both APPs and PPPs. This also solves the issue of what happens to villain ATs that come up through Pretoria and never have the opportunity to do a patron arc.

If you use powexecname on a toggle that is on it is automatically toggled off.

My question is why do Defenders have to be balanced that way? Why does team power have to preclude solo power? I have no problem with the concept that team power precludes personal power but why does it have to preclude solo power? It is essentially forcing a style of play on people saying if you take this AT you will need to team to play it at full strength. Why does it have to be that way? I'm serious about this by the way, I really do not understand why people think that this is required.

Obviously to some extent we are stuck with the current system in CoH and I can live with that but that doesn't mean that there is no point in looking for ways to improve it. I think it should be possible to increase Defender's solo power without increasing their personal power on a team.

Well we know we're getting additional free character slots (it says so on the store page) what we don't know is whether it's slot tokens or an increase in the slot limit.

Well base raids are turned off at the moment and likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. However if and when the devs eventually restore them it would be nice if they included a PvE base raid capability so that those of us who don't PvP can try it.

I think (or hope?) that he was talking about imposing a price-cap by having vendors sell unlimited recipes at that cap. Unlike an actual price cap that would work although depending on the price point the actual usefulness is questionable.

I'll point out that Tanker's inherent doesn't do a whole lot solo either, you'll tends to get all of the aggro anyway. That being said I agree with the sentiment. I think Defenders need a new inherent that provides them with more damage while solo but drops off as they add teammates.

My suggestion would be a 28% damage buff when solo that decreases by 4% for every teammate. Why 28%? If you assume that the attacks are ED capped for damage (95%) this gives a solo defender approximately the same damage as a Corruptor neglecting the effects of Scourge (and, importantly, is evenly divisible by 7). Scourge means that Corruptors will still out damage Defenders solo (as it should be) but Defenders get a bit more damage to help them out.

To combat the feeling some people will get that they are being penalized for teaming I'd suggest a second buff that scales in the opposite direction (nothing solo, full power on a full team). In keeping with the spirit of the current Vigilance I'd suggest an endurance reduction. I'm not sure about values, having it be 4% per teammate would make sense from the point of view of symmetry but I'm not sure how well that would work in terms of balance.

The description could be something like:
A Defender knows of his responsibility to his companions and will reach deep within himself to find the power required to aid them at need. However, when his companions are absent or few in number he has more freedom to focus on offense and seek out his opponents weaknesses.

Well interestingly based on the page you linked (I've never heard of it before, very cool though) it is accessible in SOME parts of China. Specifically if you run the test selecting Hong Kong as the location it does work.

Ok, I just double checked and that link works even if you aren't logged into NCSoft. My guess would be that something on your connection is blocking it.

That's a fair point. I'd still rather have those slots elsewhere for the rest of the game though .

It doesn't really work that way. The animation includes everything about the power. They might be able to get some mileage out of reusing part of the Assault Rifle animations (specifically the hand motions) but the Archery animations all involve a physical arrow leaving the bow and moving across the screen. Theoretically I guess they might be able to cobble together an animation that used the hand motions from AR and everything else from Archery but I don't think ti would look very good.

No argument here. I fully acknowledge that I am a smug, know-it-all and a bit of a jerk. That being said I have a way I prefer to play and when forming teams I will prioritize selecting people who look like they will fit my style.