Alpha_Zulu

/EA is getting a buff.

Go here and read.

http://boards.cityofvillains.com/showfla...=0#Post12104503

Holy living [censored] balls, awesome.


Edit: Particularly to /EA....why not give it end drain resistance like Electric armor? As it stands, EA has ghetto end drain resistance. If they can't hit you, they can't drain your end but if they *do* hit you, it's good bye endurance.

Not to be nit picking but there really wasn't much more you could do to help /EA ?

With these changes it's almost like you have to take every single power in /EA. While that's not the case with /SR, /Nin/ or /WP(stalker version).

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Villains have no access to ally grantable +perception in Sirens. Either switch the order of sonic repulsion and clarity or add it to thaw or the ice shields. Priority Issue – LIVE

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Ex,

are you referring to O2 boost from Storm summoning or /thermal /sonic secondaries that corruptors get. (I know it seems like a dumb question but I'm asking because you already mentioned storm summoning earlier in your post so I figure I'd ask anyways)

Last I checked, clarity isn't available by SC and Thaw doesn't give +perception.

Figure I'd post in here seeing as how your PM inbox must be jammed or you don't check them

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Brutes have axes and maces, two "meh" primaries. I don't think there is any proliferation in I13.

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Fixt

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One screen to rule them all, one screen to find them, one screen to bring them all, and in the loading bind them.

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Wow I can't possibly think of something to put here

down

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bah. Blueside :P
I was thinking controller, for some weird reason.

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Fair enough. I mean the only reason I know this is Mids. Not like I'd ever roll another hero to 50.

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Heroes are lame, they all want tanks and heal0rz for their teams.

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Please let selectable Arena maps be part of the PvP systems.

Please please please please.


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Yes and please for the love of god, add some sort of scoreboard or a personal Kill/Death Ratio.

Or BOTH

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QFT especially if it means all the pvp related nerfs can get overturned in pve.

Seriously though all these announcements you guys been doing are worthless. We havent heard one scrap of new issue 13 info. WE ARE GETTING VERY RESTLESS HERE!!!! If you are not going to post something new then just dont post those announcements at all since it just makes the whole thing worse for us. All I can say is the new marketing strategey of stringing us along like this sucks.

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OMG WE'RE GETTING RESTLESS HERE! DEVS, Did you hear that? The small percentage of players that browse the forums are getting restless! Watch out! Or else!!!!

Seriously, if you're getting all antsy and posting replies like that, I think you're taking the lack of i13 news a little TOO seriously.

It'll be released when it's released. I doubt Positron or any other dev is gonna read EvilRyu's post and says "OMY HE'S SRS! We better get on this on the double otherwise we're gonna have an angry mob of people ON THE INTERNETS!!! AND WE CAN'T HAVE THAT NOW CAN WE?"



Jeez, calm down when i13 comes out, all will be good, but for now I think we'll survive with what we've got currently. The game isn't going anywhere.


While it may not have contained any new info, at least CoV got an updated article on IGN's site and maybe we'll have some new people subscribing to the game. ANY form of advertisement for this game is a great thing seeing as how there's very little currently.

And how well is the defense debuff in this set?

CoV needs a complete overhaul. New engine, namely the Crytek engine.

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I think they should Remove Placate from the game, and then Re-Make it into a new version... y'now, being they obviously can't figure this one out

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Who says they tried to figure it out?

Pretty cool then I saw the price for this and my jaw dropped.


Sorry I'll keep my $$$ and buy me some blue ray movies, food, or something for my car.


But yeah pretty cool

Remove @Fractal please.

Thanks.

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They complain multiple Clearmind or Clarity type of buffs make dominator mezzes meaningless, and too easy to spot stalkers.. so the application of these buffs have been changed to unstackable from same caster..

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What the [censored] are you smoking? Are you serious? You can indeed stack the same Clear minds or Clarity or thaw from the same caster, in essence upping their mez protection.

Clarity is not available before SC level(for corruptors). CM for heroes grants + perception, yet villains get no +perception for any AT's except stalkers. Not balanced. Thaw should grant +perception and Clarity should also be be moved around the sonic powerset to be available by SC level.

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They complain blasters do way too much damage.. so the developers decide to cut down significant portion of blaster's unresisted damage done to player targets.

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Tell me, which villain AT is able to power boost their build up and AIM, basically nullifying any defense based set's tier 9?
Also tell me how it's fair to have lesser values for build up/Aim for stalkers and corruptors compared to Defenders and blasters?

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They complain some hero powersets are too powerful, so they give the same powersets, most notably Storm summoning, to villain ATs...

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Yet heroes, got thermal radiation, and villain got what? Storm summoning, yet it's not nearly as powerful as the defender version. Let's also not forget that a controller's melt armor can be power boosted and so can Forge ...which would boost the +to-hit Forge grants. Only cold domintors can powerboost, but the recharge on it is twice as long.

Villains got storm, but heroes also got cold dominatio for defenders. Even before it's powerboosted, it's got crazy stupid higher values than the corruptor veresion. Once it's PB'ed it's just [censored] overpowered.

Did I also mention the blatant imbalance between APP vs PPPs?

No, you're wrong. Villains are at a disadvantage.


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what more could you possibly want? A free "I.W.I.N. Button"?

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Balanced out PPPs compared to APPs and the re working of build up/aim values for corruptors/stalkers/brutes compared to defenders and blasters.

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@Alpha_Zulu:

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Ok, if a controller has hot feet down, you obviously can't AS.

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Yes you can >_>

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Not if you're WP, Regen, or Elec armor.

If you're nin or SR, yeah you can AS.

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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why don't the Devs just make a new addition to all stalker powers, when you click any attack you turn bright pink and start flashing, then after 2 seconds take 18000 damage. Since they apparently wont do anything to fix Placate. Why doesn't it work in PVP like it does in PVE?? it works fine there, both when we placate enemies and when we are placated by them. Why do they refuse to fix something that is obviously broken? Lets recap what we know... Stalkers have less health, defense, and damage as Scrappers. Our best defense is to stay hidden, and strike when the time is right. By stacking Stealth, Stealth IO, and Hide we have a Stealth range of 1143(around this) Now the perception cap is 5 less than max stealth, so 1138. However the catch is anytime we move into the range of some enemy's aura power, (ie hot feet, rise to the challenge, chilling embrace) it negates your Stealth and Stealth IO, now our stealth range is reduced to 500 (from hide) and yet everyones perception is still at 1138. So now if we have attacked already and left a mark on the enemy (ie.. -def etc) our placate is worthless. What part of THIS POWER IS BROKE DONT YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This seriously needs to be fixed.


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Wow...........just wow.

You must be doing something terribly wrong on your stalker.
Ok, if a controller has hot feet down, you obviously can't AS. Do the next best thing, total focus while hidden which crits and it'll stun them. While they're popping that BF, either placate + AS, or just straight up ET them and try to finish them off.

I agree that placate being bugged is annoying and should be fixed, but there's not need to come off like it's absolutely game breaking. It's annoying, but jeez calm down.

Ok I read it, good post.

He made some pretty good points.

I agree that EA should have either soft capped defense/resistance to energy (Personally I think it should be defense).

I still want a self heal

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Y so srs?

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I haven't heard that one before.

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this thread is soo funny lol!!

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It's serious business, son.

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And the debuffs are not that common to begin with.

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Those defense debuffs are just so incredibly common and insurmountable that, like my EA brute, no defense toon is worth playing ever.


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First you said, Defense debuffs were not that common, now you're saying they are? Which is it?

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The hole against psi is the hole against psi. If you are going to complain about it for EA then you need to complain about it for invuln, fire, and ice as well.

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Invul has dull pain, Fire has healing flames, Ice has hoarfrost. Ea has an expired jar of headache pills.

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Something no one has pointed out yet, is that Ninjitsu comes out on top (in my subjective opinion). Sha, your self heal, give toxic resistance. Rin (status protection), gives 29.14 resistance to psi (numbers taken from the combat attributes on my stalker). I'll also add, Rin can be double stacked with hasten and 2 recharge IOs. That's 58.28 resistance to Psi damage right there. Which I've managed to double stack it for about 45-48 seconds. Pretty good resistance to Psi if you ask me. (Not to mention you get mag 20 resistance to confuse, fear, etc while it's double stacked)

This is completely irrelevant, but if I team with a VEAT all they have to do is pop mind link and my Res to psi is capped out at 75%. The Psi hole is basically completely negated in my opinion.

According to what you said,
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I'd beg to differ. Nin seems to a pretty damn good defensive set.
Especially when you put it side by side with EA.


Nin is able to heal up lost HP, resistant against Psi, SR has the scalable resistance (which can be enhanced. Let's also not forget to mention it's a heck of a lot easier to soft cap an SR than it is a /EA imo), invul's got dull pain, Ice's got hoarfrost (res to toxic), Fire's got healing flames (which also has resistance toxic).


What does EA have to handle toxic or psi?

Jack [censored].

I'm well aware of overload granting extra HP, but before someone calls me out on that one, does that extra HP, really mitigate the incoming psi/toxic damage as well as other sets? The way I see it you were able to increase your max HP.......great. But unlike dull pain or hoarfrost, you didn't heal any of your current HP. The extra HP granted from overload is not good enough to use as a mitigating factor in the set, against Psi or toxic(in my opinion).

EA has a psi hole and a toxic hole.

Passives from another AT or ML doesn't count as fixing EA. I stopped reading your post after you said "The fix it the VEATs"

That's like saying, the fix for EA is purple inspirations.

I couldn't even read the rest of your post because it just was too hard to comprehend that you think the devs introduced VEATs to "fix" /EA. Using that logic, they should've done the same for SR. And instead of changing MoG, they should've added some passives or powers to another AT to help regen scrappers/stalkers right?

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Just because it gets sticky'd doesn't mean a damn thing.

Look at the placate is bugged thread. Broken for 2 years and still not fixed.

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It means the Devs noticed the thread, which is better than nothing. Look at all the changes they are making. I think there is a good chance they'll do something with EA. Jeesh, so many freakin pessimists on these forums.

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More like realists. Like I stated above, look at placate. Still not fixed. I'd rather accept the fact that they probably won't buff /EA anytime soon rather than hope they'll fix it next patch.