Aggelakis

Do you people not understand example? I don't really care what powers you take, when...it's not a real build. It's not like you can only do this if you're a Fire/Fire Blaster! That's what I used in the example, right? Don't build it this way if you don't want to! I was just throwing powers out there as I remembered their names. Can we talk about things that actually matter to the guide?

(Also, I don't like Fire Breath, or most cones, that much because of alignment issues. I am too impatient to line up enough dudes to cover the high endurance cost. I like to push buttons. Pushing buttons is fun!)

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How many lowbies do you see running around with Sprint or some variant on - or even a travel power - while in missions? Slot it, get some faster, non-END-using movement... and isn't the path to Stamina started specifically because of END issues?

[/ QUOTE ]I said near the end of the guide, "Heck, you can even substitute SWIFT in for one of the powers if you like the movement speed bonus".

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This also ignores that people may not *want* leaping. Teleport? Here's Recall Friend - still a staple among some support characters. Fly gets another attack in Air Superiority. And Speed gets Hasten. Yes, you mention "space to pick something else up" later in the guide anyway, but it needed saying.

[/ QUOTE ]I also said "in this example, we'll be using Super Jump" in the overview...which means, um, well, this is an example only, and you're not limited to doing it this way. @_@

And mentioning Hasten is silly in the context of this guide - Hasten causes bigger endurance drains since everything recharges faster, not to mention the 15 point endurance cost when it drops.

With the number of reports, this isn't something as dumb as "thousands of players simultaneously were charged with vastly-overdue rent this morning between server-down and server-up, and can no longer access their bases."

It's in ...basically "open" beta.

There are some music pieces that are not music, but sound fx. /emote boombox is one of these, as are some of the music bits you hear in, for instance, sewer maps.

Music slider works for world music, the stuff you hear as you change neighborhoods in a zone.

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I don't think he can I think he reupped for a year.

*snicker*

[/ QUOTE ]Just cos he paid for it doesn't mean he's gotta play it.

Or it's been around a very long time. Arcs will accumulate 1000 favorable ratings over time, even crappy ones. If they had your rating system, it would need to be "1000 favorable ratings during less than X amount of time", where "X amount of time" would be a reasonable timeframe, perhaps three months, maaaaaybe six months (but that's pushing it IMO). Which means the arc needs to continue to get favorable ratings in order to stay in HoF. Which is what the HoF is supposed to be doing anyway, and not reward old arcs that just got there by way of being really old.

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All I can say is we need the ability to choose powers we decide. Currently things are all over the place.

[/ QUOTE ]Did you forget about Sunstorm's Q&A???

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I do have some extremely good news though, we are setting up a custom power selection mode for Issue 15. Critters will start with the standard powers for their rank, and any other power in the set can be added individually.

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Because they don't want you to play the game the way you want to, they want you to play the game the way THEY want to...it's THEIR game.

Would you just leave already? Follow your friends to whatever other game they're playing. You hate it here, we get it.

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The "hear opposite faction messages" has defaulted to "yes, hear them" for ages now.

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Just restarted the game, logged in as a brand new hero and these are the settings I see:

[/ QUOTE ]Make sure you do not have options.txt in your install folder; new characters inherit those options.

I tested this back the last time this complaint came up. Utilizing a brand new trial account, after renaming all the optionsave/etc files (options.txt.oldfile, chat.txt.oldfile, etc) I logged in and looked at my settings, and everything was defaulted so that nothing was restricted.

Granted, it's been a while, so someone may have flipped the switch again.

Patch Notes were up hours ago, actually.... 10:21am PST and it's now 1:30pm PST.

OVERVIEW
I have seen so many people complain about having to skip over a bunch of powers in order to have Stamina and a travel power (in this example, we're using Super Jump) by level 20-22. I felt it was time to throw things at people. How could you guys have missed it?! I thought of this tactic immediately when announced...before we could even play with it!

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Multiple_Builds

This feature was added in Issue 13. This allows your character to have more than one build (currently it is limited to two, or "Dual Builds", but could be expanded in the future, though no dev comment says yea or nay).

EXAMPLE BUILDS
Let's pretend we have a Fire/Fire Blaster. First we'll build up the "normal way", taking Stamina and travel power prerequisites, then we will build up with the intention of switching over at level 20 or 22 to the second build.

The Stamina Crunch
We'll build this character up to level 22 the "normal" way first:

NORMAL: Fire Blast (Level 1), Ring of Fire (L1), Fire Sword (L2), Combustion (L4), SWIFT (L6), COMBAT JUMPING (L8), Fire Sword Circle (L10), Fire Ball (L12), SUPER JUMP (L14), HEALTH (L16), Blaze (L18), STAMINA (L20).

This means that a whole THREE POWERS are taken up by utility powers that don't really do very much for you, they're just lead-ups to TWO MORE powers that aren't available until 1/5 the way into your character's career! (Yes, level 20 is generally considered about 1/5 the way through progression...progression is heavily weighted toward the higher end levels...the halfway mark for XP is somewhere around level 40!!)

No Crunch Here
Well....Issue 13 introduced Multiple Builds! This means, since players have access to a fly and jump pack from Safeguards/Mayhems, and villains have access to the repurchasable fly pack in Grandville, you can skip your travel power for a little while. And since all Swift/Hurdle/Health do is lead up to Stamina, and that doesn't come until level 20, they're kinda just taking up space, right?

Let's build a character from 1-20 with the intention of switching over to the second build at level 22! We have up to FIVE! extra powers to play with!

BUILD ONE: Fire Blast (Level 1), Ring of Fire (L1), Fire Sword (L2), Fire Ball (L4), Combustion (L6), Rain of Fire (L8), Fire Sword Circle (L10), Aim (L12), Fire Breath (L14), Build Up (L16), Blaze (L18), Blazing Aura (L20)

Then at level 20-22, you can switch over to Build Two, which is a copy of the build above:

BUILD TWO: Fire Blast (Level 1), Ring of Fire (L1), Fire Sword (L2), Combustion (L4), SWIFT (L6), COMBAT JUMPING (L8), Fire Sword Circle (L10), Fire Ball (L12), SUPER JUMP (L14), HEALTH (L16), Blaze (L18), STAMINA (L20).

How much more fun would that list of powers be than the previous one? More things to do, faster killing speed, and you don't really lose a WHOLE lot. Heck, you can even substitute SWIFT in for one of the powers if you like the movement speed bonus, or play with random power pools...because it doesn't matter, at level 20 or 22, you're just going to switch over to your second build anyway, so who cares about taking weird options you wouldn't ever have at level 50?

PUSH IT BACK
REMEMBER YOUR "POTIONS"!
Three inspirations of the same flavor and level can be combined to create one of another flavor of the same level. Three small reds (or whatever) combine into a small blue, and small blues recover 25% of a character's endurance in one click! Medium blues recover 33%, and big blues recover 50%!

UTILIZE ALL YOUR OPTIONS!
Slot endurance reduction enhancements in your powers, especially low level when you're doing piddly damage, and therefore damage enhancements don't increase damage output by much. Invention Origin Enhancement Sets include set bonuses to boost recovery and boost maximum endurance. Remember, more endurance means the same percentage of recovery rate recovers more at a time! There are special IOs that boost recovery or have a chance to grant endurance to the target of the power. There are accolades that boost maximum endurance. There are Day Jobs that boost recovery and maximum endurance. There is an Empowerment that boosts recovery.

SWITCH WHEN YOU WANT TO!
Feel free to push back the switch by as many levels as you like! One of my characters (plant/rad controller) STILL hasn't picked up Stamina, and she's level 44! She may or may not spec into Stamina sometime down the road, but right now, she has no true need of it. Stamina is useful, it's not required!

THE END
MULTIPLE BUILDS...learn it, live it, love it!




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No.

If there's an option to auto-decline responsive emotes, sure.

If there's no option to auto-decline, this gets a resounding "&*@^ no."

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Your first level-up when you go to a new alt build is actually sub-level 1, think of it kind of like being still in the character creator. Your second power, you pick the other level 1 option, think of it as finalizing your character in the creator. THEN you pick the level 2 power.

[/ QUOTE ] will this have any implication upon reaching or nearing lvl 40 or 50? or will it pretty much say im lvl 51, 52?

[/ QUOTE ]Err...you don't actually get any extra powers. You're just selecting your powers one at a time, unlike character creation when you select two powers, then go into the game.

The "hear opposite faction messages" has defaulted to "yes, hear them" for ages now.

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You can have more Epics when villains get a full set of thematically appropriate choices.

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I'm far more interested in your interesting tattoos than the size of your schwartz.

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Someone mentioned a few pages back that they hoped that CoH/V wouldn't lose customers because of this. Well, i'm new and i'm relatively certain this has just happened to me. I started on Saturday and purchased the Magic Costume booster. No booster and now it's telling me that my time has expired on the log-in and yet my account management screen says that I am valid till June 2. Well, sorry to say that if this is indeed the case, I won't be coming back. Hopefully not cuz i've been enjoying it.

[/ QUOTE ]As this person has created two other threads with this information, I'll point out that it has since been resolved; the person mistakenly created a new account instead of upgrading their trial account, and applied the magic booster code to the new account.

Your first level-up when you go to a new alt build is actually sub-level 1, think of it kind of like being still in the character creator. Your second power, you pick the other level 1 option, think of it as finalizing your character in the creator. THEN you pick the level 2 power.

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Also, Liev Whatsisname was much better at Sabretooth than the X-Men movies guy. (Also: better looking!)

I'm saying this from the standpoint of not having read much of any Marvel stuff, so it's not like "he was better from a story point" but "he was more believable and looked more the part" from a "this is what I have gathered from friends, boyfriends, family, etc. along the way" standpoint.

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Heeheehee~!

[/ QUOTE ]omg omg omg I'm next!

also: cute-mantid is way too cute!!

I never read reviews, I have no idea what comic plots are supposed to be (like, in the actual comics)...so I am truly the comics-made-into-movies world prime target. I am there to see the eye-candy, and maybe get a little plot thrown in. Action? Check. Fighting? Check. Half-Naked Hugh Jackman? Check, check, check...oh, hey, that's Completely-Naked Hugh Jackman...check! Complete-Naked Hugh Jackman FRONT?...DOUBLE CHECK SIGN SIGN. Hearts and flowers and curlicues. (I am Hugh Jackman Fangirl.)

Translation: I highly approve!