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I got a question. Im now level 35 and I have barrage but not Whirling Hands. Next attack I get is Total Focus and I really want it but I also like Whirling hands. Should I swap Barrage with Whirling hands with respec? If so reasons would be appreciated.

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Barrage has to be taken, you can't respec out of it.

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My Brute didn't take it till lvl 26.

2 kids under 2 years... You know, through advances in medical science... they figured out what causes that!
Play the game more... and make sure you are sitting down facing the computer!
And dont watch any of those movies they've been talking about!

You're just fun to reply too.

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That doesn't have to be because of 'new' people. Although, if they're really new and can type, that's quite amazing, my almost 2 year old isn't taking to the whole 'potty' concept... But I digress. It may not be 'new' people, but rather forum regulars you've scared the heck out of by making sense occaissionally.

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I reject your "potty concept" and everything it stands for! All through out history tyrants like you have tried to force their "potty concept" on the oppressed masses. !!!
oh wait a minute, i thought you said 'party concept'.
Never mind.

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And Energy Aura is one of the weakest sets in the game.

Oh and i think Scrappers MUST get the Shield Armor set (i say this because states noted he was still thinking if they would have it or not, they MUST have it)

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My brute likes EA fine.

Shield set would be very cool, if they did all the animations for it.

Great post. I still think they did right to get the 40-50 CoV update with all it's new missions first. I hope you are wrong about them thinking we will PvP in between the updates.
More details about what they are working on would be good.

And maybe Trenchcoats...

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scrappers are teh suxxor becus they do not get any new sets and i dunno about u but i am SICK and TIRED of all their current sets. I PLAYED EM ALL and am now bored.

Fortunately I have CoV and so get plenty of more content. But what about those who didn't buy it? or worse, don't like it? They're just screwed, it seems.

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I guess several of you cant tell I've been a bit facetious.

Sure it would be great to see more power sets, especially for those that haven't changed since the game came out.
But seriously, if that doesn't happen and your are bored with your current AT, rather than throw a hissy fit and get your twine all tangled up, why not try something different that does exist.

And for those who didn't get CoV and/or dont like it, you're right for now Archon. Eventually they will get more content and features in CoH but for now CoV is getting it.

If you haven't played all 4 to lvl 50 then you shouldn't complain.

Scrappers already have a lot of "fun stuff" and already have the best melee powers in the game. I think you just haven't had your nap!

Scrapper defense powers are fine as is.
Furthermore, they are 4 of the most diverse secondary powers sets that there are. If you haven't played all 4 to 50, I dont think you should complain.

Sure! ... Um, i dont know. But here 's mine!

1) blasters too squishy!
2) defiance needs to be more like domination. heck even more like fury. Heck lets just try something else.
3) how about more damage from AOEs, for the ones it can still hit?

CoV 1-40, CoH 1-50.

It makes sense to even them up before working on them evenly. I have no doubt that future updates will be more or less even, the next may even be a bit CoH weighted

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Some people need to remember this is just an update, not a new game.

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Sorry but that sounds nuts to me. Are you actually suggesting that we have Tanks with Illusion Control powers or Controllers with Stone Armor. How about an Empathy Defender with Super Strength?
IMHO we need more specific powers not less. Sure everyone wants to be the vaunted "Tank/Mage" with great armor, melee attacks and powerful ranged attacks plus lots of support spells... but if you allow that everyone would be 95% identical to everyone else.

And clean out your litter box!

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Yea this is pretty bad. The people that have just COH are pretty much getting walked over. While those with COV get everything new. Sure the games aren't equal and this will make them be, but the patches before were to get ready for villians and after to finish it off?

The people with COH have waited for something new for months and month and have got nothing. You don't alienate one group to improve another.

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CoH? I remember that game. I used to play that years ago. Wasn't it the fore-runner of CoV?

You mean people still play it?

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Of course, if pohsyb wants to join in the Haiku Flamewar again, he is free to.

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pohsyb does not flame (*_*)
job is for friggen_taser (;>O&lt/
now get back to work (-_^)

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LOL, i /ignored friggen taser last year, still remember him as a trouble maker.

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Then we repeal the hated stealth nerf. The reason why: many well reasoned posts. It's that simple. You guys pointed out the problems.

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How much more?

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States, I think the biggest issue that tankers seem to have is that scrappers appear to be able to find defenders to assist, and make the need of a tanker secondary. If you have a scrapper, defender and controller in a group, and you have an AV, why get a tanker when you can get a defender who can buff everyone's damage/debuff mobs, along with adding enough to make the scrapper be able to tank the AV?

Likewise, with the reductions in i5, scrappers got a 12.5% damage buff. Tankers got a taunt cap and agro cap in i6. Tankers are feeling neglected, and the climate here is bad. Offering us something, anything, that will buff our defenses comparable to scrapper offenses would be lovely. As it stands, many tankers feel they must have a defender to tank AV's. That's an inversion of what the climate was like in i4, when defenders felt that they were not needed. Likewise, with defenders and controllers both being able to buff, there is more than enough options to helping a scrapper do what a tanker could. While tankers do have an edge, some scrappers can have higher resistance/defense to some attacks and more HP than tankers (see Fire tankers opposed to Invuln scrappers against a S/L/Cold mob). And that's without any buffs.

We're trying to tank, States. Give us something to let us do our job better, and we'll be happy.

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No please dont bother. I deleted my 43 invuln tank, a friend of mine deleted his 42 fire tank. And at this point I see no reason to go back to CoH to play a tank. Please dont confuse me by giving tanks back something.
Then again I see no reason to go back to CoH for anything, no new content and it just reminds me of all the nerfs. Better to just stay in CoV.

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If you get raided at some point ALOT of that work can be thrown out the window when your gens, control, defeneses get destroyed.

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Not everything blown up during a raid stays blown up afterwards. A percentage of the items are automatically fixed. This percentage can be improved by building certain aux items for the workshop.

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I know this violates the "keep the players in the dark" policy...but what is that percentage?

If there's a 75% chance of a destroyed object surviving, that's still going to hurt, but it's worth considering. If there's a 5% chance of a destroyed object surviving--I'll never contribute my prestige to a SG that will waste it by being raidable.

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I haven't thought about base raids much except that I'd like to experience one and was wondering why there werent more. You pretty much summed that up. Sounds like bases/items/raids needs some balance.

I think putting in some fighting AI into the heros around town would be cool, but might lead to excessive pulling of mobs to them.

Agreed, not knowing the characters makes this odd from an outsiders view. We didn't really have making this in mind but when we started I started with the screen shots and got the idea to put um together afterwards. Maybe on the next one we'll orgnaize it.

We did a first attemp at RP a few nights ago. I'ts a spoiler so if you are in the FRONT and might be doing this then dont look at this. Download this slideshow and rename to exe and run (on windows systems).
Most of the group had no idea what was going on. And they aren't really into RP. But I think it came out interesting.
I made this very late at night and didn't spell check it, so please ignore misspellings.

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I think people misunderstand why developers interfere and make changes. I could care less how fast someone earns influence. But I am concerned when someone is doing somethingg "unfun" in order to gain levels quickly and thereby bypassing other, more interesting content. Admittedly, "fun" and "unfun" are completely subjective, so people can disagree.

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Well put. But how to explain it to the people who want to do these things and any attemp to "reel them in" is seen as taking away thier rights and limiting thier freedom!!!
That's why I talk about the extrem of these sutuations. Like a "insta-level-up button". Why not put one in CoH? For some, clicking on a level up button might be more fun than actaully really playing the game, at least for the few hours (or minutes) you are in the game trying it. And if this were not a massive multiplayer game I'd say sure try "god mode" and try the insta-level-up button. But please dont let them do it in the game that I'm shareing.
You have a right.. yes a FREEDOM ... to say anything you want to. But then again you dont have a right to shout fire in a crowded theater. When I ask the devs to limit your freedom to farm, heard and PL it's not because I want you to have less fun; it's becuase your PLed characters adversly affect everyone in the game. When you play CoH, you affect everyone on your server.

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When States said the player should have the choice and "make their own decision" he wasn't talking about exploits or PLing and I'm sure he never intended playing one single missions over and over as part of that choice.

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I sure am glad we have all these people around to tell us what other people's thoughts really are.

BTW, doing a mission more than once is NOT an exploit, and for about the 3rd time, you'll NEVER stop power leveling.

All i can say is, don't let me join a team and see one of you whiners from the forums here running missions that belong to a higher level character in your group.

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Perhaps what you really mean is that you're a PL loving noob who would rather stand around soaking up other peoples xp than doing any real work; and then complain about lack of content for your lvl 50 noob who's never done anything but PL. And when someone has a good point for improving the game you have a fit because they are 'taking away your fun'.
You're like a street beggar who turns down a job offer because he has a right to stand on the street begging. Sure maybe you do have that right and maybe you feel that's what you want to do - so you should be able to do it. But in reality it's not good for anyone so if the city councel (or devs) make an ordnance that limits how much time you can spend begging instead of taking a job that was offered to you then great; good job devs.
I will say there are some exceptions the devs should consider. If someone is disabled or retarded they should be able to send in proof and then be allowed to PL and Farm to their hearts content. Maybe they should setup a group of Gimp servers. Instead of Justice, Triumph, etc... your servers could be called Wimpy, Gimpy, Softy.... and on those servers you can PL and farm all you like. No time limits, no mobs to fight before you pick your kora, no worries!

I agree, the obvious massive PLing done with the wolf and kora missions was disgusting. I'm glad the devs fixed it and only wish they did so quicker. Doing one mission over and over dozens or hundred of times is not good for the game.
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Sorry Statesman, but it doesn't make sense... If someone is doing this over and over, how does this make it unfun or more fun for someone else?

If someone chooses to miss content it should be their perogative. It you want to stop it then put more rewards in the 40's and maybe the heroes won't want to skip the content... (this is just a thought and not a solution in and of itself)

The timer is a bad idea, and it's obvious from the flooding the posts from people that are frowning this rather than praising this decision.

SHAME ON YOU for not allowing players to make their own decisions!!!!!

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I disagree. When States said the player should have the choice and "make their own decision" he wasn't talking about exploits or PLing and I'm sure he never intended playing one single missions over and over as part of that choice.
If it was suddenly found that you could insta-level youself by pressing ctrl-alt-F5 while standing at the top of the atlas statue, people would do it all the time. That would be a choice but it would be bad for the game and bad for the players and it, like all forms of PLing, should be quickly stopped whenever it is found.