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hey...how do you get into E3 anyway?

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Work in the industry or the industry news.

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Hmm didn't know the Rikti also tried to invade Praetorian Earth as well. Seems I'll have to rethink alot about Praetorian Earth then.

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My guess is that it was "praetorian rikti" not the rikit we know and "love".

CoH is fun. Games are about fun. I have the most fun playing CoH. CoH > the rest? IMHO, yes.

No need to change course to follow some Diablo II ripoff like GuildWars. Nothing to see here. Moving right along.

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The "roles" question is best addressed by Statesman - AFAIK scrappers dmg > Tanks. Tanks def/res > Scraps. Blasters = dmg via range. These are gross generalities.

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I started by PM'ing Statesman and his response was less than optimal. I know he's a busy guy, wife, job, company, comicbooks, the list goes on and on... I just wanted clairification. I know severl of my Tanker and Blaster friends do too.

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Scrapper - takes out the boss while the Tanker holds him down...

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While I love ya Jack (in that paltonic, you're very cool kinda way) this just didn't answer my question. I don't know any scrapper over 12 that needs a Tanker to help him/her with a boss. Over 22-ish 2-3 bosses can be handels via kiting (sometimes without). And, Blaster + Tanker will always take bosses down far faster than Scrappers.

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Or, in case you need another example:

Your being asked to conduct yourself like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks, not like Timothy McVeigh or Osama Bin Laden.

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I would never ask the devs to calmly accept being bombed. you've twisted my reasonable point into something preposterous. And no one should have to ever read anything in all caps. (see? I'm reasonable.)

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Actually, I wasn't trying to make it sound like you asked the Dev's to calmly accept being bombed. What I was trying to say, however, was that there are peacefull protests and revolutions (Like MLK or Rosa Parks did) and hatefull protests and revolutions (Like Timothy McVeigh or Osama Bin Laden).

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Basically he's say there's constuctive criticism and then there's [censored] and moaning.

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There's a flaw in your reasoning. 3 year olds don't post on the forums. Adults, however, do. And it's not an unfair request for people to *act* like adults instead of throwing temper tantrums like 3 year olds.

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You beat me to it. Case and point, thanks for saving me the typing.

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Then how in the world did you think HO's were a good idea in PVP.

You guys are great and all that.. but darn why didnt you see that coming?

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Yes, they did and they told us about it before I4 even made it to the Test Server. The Arena is optional and non-rewarding with no risk. Think of it a huge test for PvP before CoV comes out. I'm sure something will be done about Hami-Os before CoV make it out - but I'm also sure that they want more data from a larger audience than the small number of people who actually used the Test Server.

Thank you. My only concern is what is the diffentiation between the roles of Scrappers and Tanker, and Scrappers and Blaster. It's the one thing I never seem to get a clear answer to. Could we get an AT Roles Official thread? Maybe this is the wrong place to post this, but I don't know where else to put it.

And this "feedback" is great. Thank you Cuppa and Devs. It's always really nice to know that we're heard and that our opinions matter.

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3) If you are rezzed you have 50% less debt from that death, if you use an awaken you have 25% less debt from that death versus going to a hospital. It encourages players to actually stock up on supplies and bring healers on missions.

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This creates a situation where people lie face down for hours screaming over broadcast for a rez. Empathy (and other) Defenders start getting harassing /tells and get told that they suck (or worse) if they refuse to travel all the way across the map to rez who's just gonna be face down again in 10 minutes.

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I will never be playing it again. But you continue to Nerf PvE powers that have been established and in the game for nearly a YEAR for your glorious PvP balance.

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We endeavor NOT to change powers solely because of PvP. The powers we are changing are usually because of PvE or PvE AND PvP.

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Um... Do you have a leash on the guys making the power decisions. I'm sure you can't be doing all of it. I'm posative that you can't be making all the design, balance, and work-flow decisions. I mean you need to sleep, right? So, what happens when it's just easier to tweak a power over all rather than just for PvP? Do you even know that it happened?

Oh, and I wanna thank the animation guy Cryptic keeps chained in the basement. He's done some really awesome work, and did it all alone. Many thanks!

Thank you Positron (and all the Devs) for all the hard work, tough decisions, and great game. This year has had a whole new level of fun for me.

Thing I got to do to for the first time, thanks to City of Heroes:

1. Fly
2. Run faster than a speeding train
3. Laugh at bullets
4. Knock a space alien out
5. Fly (I always wanted to fly)
6. and many, many more...

Thank you.

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I see what you're talking about, but the Incarnates are a new epic archetype. That means they get an origin built right in.

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Right. Peacebringers are Natural and War Shades are Science.

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You all DO realize that Lord Recluse is an Incarnate as well, right?

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I said that already. I think most people have realized this.

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The Picture of Marcus Cole! How unspeakably hideous is it after his life of horrid deeds. Oh wait, he's a good guy, hows that work out?

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My point.

Who is Statesman really?

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Statesman's really old. Marcus Cole found his inner strength in the "far east" after WWI, and became the Statesman. He's not quite kung-fu, so I don't know what's up with the far east bit. Also, he's natural. No magic, no mutation, no etc...

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WHo says he's natural? Marcus simply said that he'd unlocked his inner will, abut it was clear that he was pretty vague about the whole thing, so who know what exactly that entangles.

He COULD be a mutant. Maybe his inner will is his born gift. It could be that he tasted eastern mysticism. We don't know.

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Jack Emmer did.

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Hasn't Statesman confirmed that he's an 'Incarnate' or something like that? States did a thread post about future Epic ATs and threw out a few names for Epic ATs they have planned internally. 'Incarnate' or something like that was mentioned, and somebody else (non-red name) followed up and said that they heard that that's what Statesman was.

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Statesman is an Incarnate, just like Lord Recluse. Statesman himself has said this. What an "Incarnate" is, is up to anyones guess.

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It is the same man, Statesman is immortal. Look for more details about his origin, his powers and how he is tied to Lord Recluse this fall in the upcoming novel: The Web of Arachnos.

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And now we know Statesman is immortal Dorian Grey anyone?!

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And as for the whole scrapper/regen thing: it is disheartening to blasters to see issue 2 be so scrapper-centric (criticals introduced, new katana set, etc), issue 3 be so scrapper/tanker-centric (punch-voke, changes/nerfs for good or bad), and now issue 4 continue to revolve around regen/DA scrappers. The fact is that Statesman himself said that he feels that elec blasters needed a little help since they dealt sub-par damage back before issue 3 hit live. Since then, we haven't heard anything about blasters until he flat out told us "Scrappers do more damage than you and have defenses" in the new Ask Statesman article.

"What can blasters do that scrappers can't?" Apparently they can be ignored better than scrappers.

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You are forgetting that throughout Beta (ok maybe you weren't in Beta) that Blasters reaped almost all the benefits. HP increase, damage increase, animation times reduced, END costs reduced, etc...

However, I do believe that if Blaster secondaries were made more useful, then Blasters would be on par with Scrappers and Tankers. Then on to Defenders and Controller. I still can't decide if Controllers are over or under powered though.

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<.< forgot about that part of the info...

I have a question though. I was watching the DVD content with the movie ad for CoH. It shows Statesman over the course of several generations. Is it the same statesman and he's Immortal? or is it a title thats passed on under certain circomstances?

>.> also, Archimedes's avatar reminds me... Does MegaTokyo's Dom ever post to these forums? I know who his ingame Chareacter is on Justice server but... <.< was kinda interested in what avatar he uses here

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Statesman's really old. Marcus Cole found his inner strength in the "far east" after WWI, and became the Statesman. He's not quite kung-fu, so I don't know what's up with the far east bit. Also, he's natural. No magic, no mutation, no etc...

Statesman is an odd-ball of a hero. No real past, no family left. Just one chick claiming to be his grand daughter (and she's a player). So, well... yeah, you figure it out. That face plate is just a costume option - nothing special. Apperantly has quite a few. About half my SG has one after rescuing him for the umpteenth time for Tyrant (who's a wuss I might add).

Also, in the CoV trailer Backalley Brawler clearly has /EM but Maruader is /SS. What's up with that? /SS is so gimp, BB should be /EM or at least a suped up version of SS. Meh... AV rants for another thread.

Thanks Manticore.

As a hard-core Scrapper I say give Blasters 500% damage cap, heck give them 600% damage cap!

Blasters have low HP, no DEF, no RES, and no Status Protection.

IMO, Blaster secondaries should be Control based powers. Everyone elses primary is copied by another AT's secondary. Giver control to Blasters.

Scrapper Body Mastery:

Energy Torrent: 0.83 smashing + 1.83 energy

I must smaked about 50 hellions around making sure. Always the same numbers:

Brawl = 112.95 smashing
Energy Torrent = 94.12 smashing + 207.08 energy

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I can't emotionally connect with a story if I can't connect the story with a legit place and a legit event. The random location and random map generation forces me to recall the map layout I've seen hundreds of times, across hundreds of stories. In effect, you're not allowing players to participate in a story

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You are a 100% correct. We need to find a way to communicate the story better to the players (not just the mission holder).

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We chatted about this at WonderCon, remember? What about my idea for long-term teams that share content and auto-join when they log in as long as they're teamed?

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Very cool. Statesman is a tank, eh? Great way to introduce us to the comic... and the art is very well done.

Lookin' forward to it.

And frankly, I'm glad Mark isn't Hopping down the bunny trail for this story. - It's a nasty slant on Paragon City - and I like it.

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Nope. Statesman is a "tank" not a Tanker. His Archetype is Incarnate - to be released with CoV (reserve your copy now!).

Um... btw, did I just see Statesman get killed? 'Cause that would suck.

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My guess here is that they are encouraging more people to do missions, as they did when they upped the XP rewards and added the difficulty slider. By making deaths cost only half as much in missions as they do outside, then the effective xp/hour becomes higher in missions for many players. It also makes players more likely to take risks when in those missions, so teams would be more likely to be willing to take on challenging situations which tend to be more fun than safe farming.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see what the actual effect of this is.

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I'll still fight mostly solo in the hazard zone. That's what I do. I like the challenge. It's tough, no doubt and die for sure. But it's hard and I like it that way. Same reason I like to duo AVs, it's hard. I wonder if it's people like me that they want to change the habits of?

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Couple of changes we're making in I5:

1) Instead of the first five levels being debt free, the first TEN levels will be debt free.

2) XP debt will be halved on mission maps (that includes outdoor mission maps, too).

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Um... baiting people to play missions? Why?

*sigh* ok, cool works for me. No XP range limit, 50% debt in missions - meaning AVs only hand out 50% debt because they don't appear out of missions.

Very odd choice here, but I think it's ok-ish.

Again, I like th direction you're thinking Jack and I know you only means what's best, and we thank you for caring. God knows there's many more lead devs that just don't give a crud.

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46 Fire Fire Tank?

Well I hate to tell you that I can't say. See long ago I made a promise not to discuss Fire Tanker balance (I was accused of causing the first Burn Nerf) so I've simply stayed away from them and make 0 comments about them if at all possible. You'll have to see if someone else can comment on them in detail.

Only things that I know is that no Fire Tank will match an Invul for pure Tanking capabilities but no Invul Tank can match Fire for kill rate.

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Lol, if you hadn't (as Havok) somebody else would have.

Now all of you imagine Burn doing about 40% more damage and without the "run out!" compenent and you can see why it got "adjusted". Yeah, Burn was that good.

BTW, good to see you back to your roots ThornKiller. Can we start calling you Havok again?

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If only there were in-game voice tracks.

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Localization would have become a LOT more expensive.

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Consistancy is tough too, as most voice actors don't speak six or seven languages fluently.

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