Adeon Hawkwood
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275% total - 70% from hasten - 95% for three slotting recharge enhancements = 110% global
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Perma
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You can always find patch notes here:
http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/patch_notes/
There aren't any notes for today so it was presumably it was either a minor patch to fix some back end stuff or a pre-patch for dual pistols in either case I wouldn't expect to see patch notes. -
That's a fair point on OG. I left it out of the build I gave mostly due to my inexperience with Dark Blast so it didn't occur to me, but it's probably not a bad option. The one potential issue I can see is that it is draining your hit points so if you have to toss off an Absorb Pain there is some risk there. That being said most of the times when you'd really need AB you probably wouldn't be using OG.
The place where it would really excel I think is on a Traps/Dark Defender. Traps tends to encourage you to operate in melee range anyway so the extra mitigation wouldn't hurt. I'm almost tempted to try and work it into my Traps/Ar but honestly I like Elec Mastery for concept reasons (and I didn't take Beanbag). -
Quote:On the plus side as long as he only sits on it and doesn't spend it then the inf is effectively being destroyed.Originally Posted by Not_Epsilon
No. You couldn't. You would pile up the amassed riches gained from starving, poor, uneducated casual players, sit on it, while waving your sceptar indicating you want casual players to form a living transformer to kill deathsurge....for your amusement. -
Quote:Well first off if you exemplar down you lose quite a few of the accuracy bonuses. Secondly it's a To Hit bonus rather than an accuracy bonus so against higher con enemies it makes a LOT of difference. Finally it also provides a perception buff and resistance toboth perception and to hit debuffs which is handy against several of the more annoying enemy types (Malta, Arachnos, CoT ghosts). Also, it looks cool.Originally Posted by Ribic
3) With all the Acc bonuses from Posis and purples, why even bother with targetting drone? I would ditch it and replace it with taser so you have a second stun to stack with Stunning shot should you decide you want to stun a boss, then fill the 6 slots with Stupify. It's calssified as Melee, but does have a 20ft range. You'll actually gain .63% ranged def and 6.25% recharge this way while saving some end.
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Definitely no on the Global name thing for the same reasons others have stated.
However I would have no problem with re-introducing the program of freeing up names from inactive accounts. Personally I would say names on a Trial account that lapsed more than a few months ago should be freed up regardless of level (since they are extremely unlikely to come back). For non-Trial accounts make it scale with the length of time inactive, maybe for every 6 months increase it by 10 levels (so 6-months inactive level 10 or lower, 1 year level 20 or lower, 2.5years and all of your characters are at risk). -
Quote:Well if he uses it to buy stuff on the markets then 10% of it is being destroyed.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Hate to be a wet blanket (okay, actually I don't hate it at all....) but giving you money doesn't actually remove a single inf from the system....
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Quote:For what it's worth I preferred it with For Fun above Archetypes.Originally Posted by Niviene
Pics or it didn't happen!
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Ok, first off standard disclaimer since you may or may not know. That is a VERY expensive build. Most of those Purples will run between 150million and 300million per IO.
I don't have Mid's available right now but a few comments:
1. You don't need all 6 Apoc IOs in Snap Shot. Personally I'd drop the Dam/Rech given the 2 second recharge but YMMV. Actually I'd stick the Apoc set in Blazing Arrow (and drop the Dam/End maybe?) since the primary advantage of Purples is that they have high recharge and work better in more powerful abilities.
2. It's not really worth enhancing the defense of Hover and Cloaking Device. The LotG 7.5% is worth having but the others are really only giving you the regen and health set bonuses. That's not bad but I'll bet you can find a better use for them
3. I dislike the GSFC set in Targeting Drone but that's a personal preference, it's got some nice set bonuses so if it works for you then go for it. I'm also of the opinion that the Build Up Proc is horribly over-rated in targeting Drone, but I acknowledge that it's a minority opinion.
4. Personally I wouldn't bother with the Hold proc in Web 'Nade. The main place I use it is against Bosses and AVs and the Hold doesn't work against them. Consider more immob duration (to make it easier to stack) or Endurance reduction (it's a real end hog).
5. The procs in Caltrops are of limited utility. Caltrops has an "afraid" effect so enemies don't spend a whole lot of time in the patch. The Ragnarok proc in particulr is much better of in either RoA (replace the Dam/End) of Fistful of Arrows (adds a nice bit of mitigation). Personally I like a bit of slow reduction in Caltrops to increase the effect against higher level enemies.
6. For Stunning Shot I would consider Stupefy superior to Absolute Amazement. The Recharge bonus is only a little lower and you get more ranged defense. Remember, Purples are not always the best thing to slot.
7. In Fistful of Arrows you should probably put the Acc/Dam/End back in. I'd drop the Dam/Range since 6ft doesn't make a lot of difference in my experience. If you want to keep it then drop the Acc/Dam instead.
8. Personally I'd slot up Explosive Arrow before Repulsion Bomb. In either power the Dam/Range is the best IO to leave out of Positron's. Range helps a lot more for cones than other powers.
Just a few thoughts to get you started
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Personally when I do Field Crafter I keep all of the useful IOs (Damage, Accuracy, Recharge, Endurance, Defense, Resistance) in my base and use them for leveling up new characters. It doesn't supply all fo my needs but it means I have soem mid-level ones on hand.
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I use a mix. My first character leveled almost entirely on common IOs. I was a newb and kept replacing them every 5 levels so I didn't actually save any money but I did get a lot of credit for Field Crafter.
My characters since then have used a mix of SOs and IOs. I sometimes craft common IOs and slot them, particuarly if I have the salvage available but I take the lazy man's route and pay worktable prices for my recipes. A lot of the time I just use SOs anyway since I rarely bother to buy salvage for common IOs unless I'm working on Field Crafter.
With the addition of the non-mission related stores (Midnighter, Vanguard and Cimerora) and the removal of the limits on the RWZ it's very easy to get 35+ SOs and I don't even bother with the regular store contacts. -
I suspect StarGeek has the truth of it but also make sure that you have all of your toggles on in Mids'. Anyway double check and if you are certain it's wrong then you should let the Mids' team know:
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Quote:The thing is that Villain side stuff has always been more expensive. There have been four major changes to rewards in the last year all of which have caused major changes in the market. Those changes apply to both sides but are more noticeable on the villain side than hero side due to lower population (I suspect villain side also has a higher percentage of powergamers and farmers which would further shift supply and demand but I can't prove that).Originally Posted by CrazyJerseyan
If you say, but the vill side pop has always been lower and I don't remember the market being this crazy b4 ppl stayed in AE all day. Everyone running up 20x lv50s...20x lv50s need salvage/IOs/purps combined with most of the population hanging out in AE and not getting drops from running mishs. Seems to me like thats the real issue.
1. Merits killed the supply of mid level pool C and D recipes. It also caused a slight decrease in most high level ones but a more stable supply of the popular globals and proc120s
2. AE caused a drop in the supply of Purples and common/uncommon salvage. But it stabalized the costs of rare salvage and increased the supply of non-purple recipes (probably for Pool As more than the others though).
3. Double Inf for level 50s caused a lot of inflation overall for the market
4. Allowing players to play at higher difficulty also caused inflation since higher con enemies reward more inf but have the same recipe drop chance (not sure about tickets). -
Quote:My opinion pretty much goes like this:Originally Posted by BrandX
You know...not that it really matters to me...but what would all of you who think 25 is to low, think of lvl 25 as the EPIC AT unlock? The halfway point?
1. Level 20 unlocks means more people play EATs
2. More people playing EATs mean the devs are more likely to make new EATs
3. ???
4. Profit! -
Previously I would take it at level 14. Raptor Packs are ok but I find Fly in general annoying (most of my characters are SJ). Nowadays I use Ninja Run for the lower levels so I'm more comfortable without a travel power at low levels but I still tend to pick one up in the mid-20s.
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Quote:Or heck you could simply claim that sales being made cross-faction are stolen/recovered goods.Originally Posted by Tokyo
Yes, but merging the markets wouldn't work thematicly!
Even though you could just as easily merge markets and use the excuse that the Black Market and Wentworth's were always the same market. Wentworth simply denies any connection it has with the Rogue isles black market.
hell, the devs could create some pretty cool missions based off this premise.
c'mon devs...
Hero buying from Villain:
1. Blue Steel raids the Black Market warehouse and recovers some stolen goods
2. Since the original owners claimed against insurance the insurance companies recieve the stolen goods
3. The insurance companies either sell the goods to make up for the payout they made or donate them to heroes for the PR benefits
4. Black Market lies to the villain and says the items sold paying him from their own profits in order to save face
Villain buying from Hero:
1. A group of small time villains raid the Wentworth warehouse and steal a bunch of items selling them on the Black Market
2. Wentworth's claims the value against their insurance and use that to reimburse the Hero
3. Wentworth's insurance premiums go up
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Quote:Actually I17 is undoing some of the previous nerfs to AE. In any case AE isn't the problem. The problem is that the redside population is to small (additionally there may be differences in the population composition which enhance the problem). The simplest way to fix it is to merge the markets.Originally Posted by CrazyJerseyan
Same here lol.
Im not 1 to call for nerfs, but maybe i17 will introduce another AE XP nerf of some sort. If so, villside market should hopfully even out with ppl finding their way around the Rogue Islands again as opposed to being stuck in AE. -
When you export a build from Mids' you need to use the BBBcode formatting to have it work correctly on these forums.
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Quote:It's the same. Basically there are five different versions of the game in the NCSoft store. They all cost $20 and they all give you access to both CoH and CoV along with a month of gametime. The only difference is what perks you get with it. The base CoH and CoV games have nothing else but the GvE, Mac and AE versions all give a perk. Long term you may actually want to pick up all three versions since it basically amounts to paying $5 for the perks but for now you only need one of them. Personally I recommend the AE edition (and selecting the Magic Pack over the Cyborg pack) but the Mac and GvE editions both have some nice stuff.Originally Posted by darkraven
So getting the Architect Edition would be just the same as if I got the main game, just I get more? Or would I need to buy both game boxes?
That's all you need to get started, there are some other things you can get and a full expansion )called Going Rogue) coming in July but none are required to play the game they just add costumes and a couple of minor powers (ok Going Rogue adds more) -
Quote:I would say it's worth taking on Traps and Cold as well. They both provide pretty high Defense to teammates and the extra is useful even if they can't softcap.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Edit: Personally i would consider the most skippable/replaceable power in the builds i posted to be Maneuvers. In general i only take it on my Force Fielders and Soldiers.
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It is worth setting your LFT flag since team leaders will often use them as the first set of invites. However a lot of people don't bother setting them for pretty much the reason Necro said.
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Quote:Personally I'd have no problem whatsoever with that. Unfortunately I really doubt that the devs would ever do so simply because of the howling that would result on the forums. In the long run I think prices would stabilize at a lower relative level and would mean that non-farmers actually have a higher earning power relative to farmers than they do currently. But in the short term what people would see is that their earning power has been cut relative to the price of shiny things and that would just cause problems for the devs.Originally Posted by Werner
Anyway, if we're backing out changes, how about the level 50 earning power fix? I was fine with my old raw earning rate. I'd much rather just make less influence than be forced to spend it on basic quality of life things like being able to change my difficulty level.
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I'm leaningtowards making a DP/Storm myself.
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Quote:There is some truth in that. I think th reason it upsets people on the defender boards is that we've all encountered people for whom healing is the ONLY focus, often to the point of neglecting the buffs.Originally Posted by SkeetSkeet
Once one gets over the trauma of hearing the word heal, it really seems silly to get so riled up when someone says something as straightforward as their primary focus for a build is their primary power set and their secondary focus is their secondary power set.
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It will still proc once every 10 seconds. Procs in a click power have a chance to go off every time the power is used but procs in Passive, Toggle and "Patch" style powers only go off once every 10seconds.