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  1. Amy_Amp
    Can you be a bad defender by attacking too much? Yes. Play a blaster instead since you don't really care for your role as support.

    Can you be a bad defender by focusing too much on support? Yes. Play a controller instead since you ultimately are about support versus damage.

    An /emp controller will run circles around any Emp defender who sacrifices their offense. An Emp defender who sacrifices their offense is a glorified leech. Glorified in how teammates keep giving them the empty praise of "Thanks for the heals" even when they aren't needed. Leech because they are offering so little of a contribution to killing part of the mobs size they helped create thus forcing teammates to do their dirty work for them while still getting the benefit of the kills. The difference between a door sitter and support only Emp is small. Really small.

    The OP's build gets beaten badly by an Ill/emp controller. Grant Invisibility and Invisibility Ill already takes cover. Team Teleport is near useless these days with the Assemble the Team vet power. I can think of one mission where Team Fly would be useful. Maybe two. Maybe.
  2. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by all_hell View Post
    F2P sounds like it sucks.
    Who would pay for that kind o....

    Oh, wait.
    It's an upgraded trial account. Even the new F2P account I find to be rather limited compared to other F2P accounts I have played elsewhere.

    I have been calling them freebies.
  3. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gilfred View Post
    Look I was giving an example, I was trying to say if a player had the extra cash and could buy a power, enhancement set. That could make them like gods throughout all levels. There are those that are competitive and like to compete with others. How can two players that are playing on a free account compete if one has more money to buy said powers, enhancement sets.

    Also you have to remember that some do PvP in this game as well. Things like that could break the balance in this game. So that the devs would have to tune the game for those god powers. Making it harder for those that cannot get them.

    I am not talking about just those things that affect incarnates. I am talking across the leveling portion of the game.
    There is no power, or enhancement that would make somebody a god throughout all levels. Again, there is a difference between players and their builds already in game. Going F2P isn't going to suddenly create the issue.
  4. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Our F2P restrictions are no more or less limiting than the restrictions other MMO's that have gone F2P have and they have plenty of free players and their games suck compared to CoH.
    I can start teams and send tells perfectly fine in two of the F2P games I have played. Both have VIP options as well.
  5. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chaos Creator View Post
    You had it for a full year before anyone got it free. That's what you paid for.
    They did the same thing with City of Villains actually.

    You should have expected this to happen.

    TLDR; you get nothing.
    It's the whole entitlement issue since people think they are somehow a special little snowflake.
  6. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Seril View Post
    Actually, since you're capped at 1, /dark and /ele have an almost an equal advantage (only lower by one point of damage off the damage auras). These maps give great xp all the way to 50 due to how fast stuff dies, so any combination of claws or db with an armor set that has a damage aura will have an incredibly easy time getting to 50.
    You are stuck at +0x8 with bosses diff setting on the level 1 map, so it's only great exp for a period of time. Make a level 3 map and it fairly evens back out.
  7. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gilfred View Post
    I just hope that NCSoft has done it's homework on this hybrid model. Otherwise they could kill this game, if they were to put truly game changing items in the shop. Ones that would give players that have the extra cash, unfair advantages over the ones that do not have that kind of cash.
    You know you can get to 50 and get Incarnate stuff on SOs right? And really, one player having an advantage over another in a heavily based PvE game is? Oh right, meaningless. The wide differences of one build versus another already exist unless you have been blind to a level 50 slotted with SOs trying to compare to a level 50(+1) with a 10 billion influ/infamy build. Locking things like purples is F2P 101 type of stuff. It doesn't seem to be hurting DDO, or LotRO.
  8. Amy_Amp

    20.5?

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by blueruckus View Post
    In all fairness, the time between 19 and 20 was pretty standard. 19.5 came out only a month after 19 came out. I'd feel a bit bummed if 20.5 was treated (in terms of issue release times) as a full blown issue because that would mean 21 is going to be 4 months after that. So then we'd have about 7 months in between 20 and 21... not sure how much I like that.
    We've had dry spells like that before. If you toss in a issue around 5 months in there you are getting 3 in a year and that's rather typical.
  9. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by blueruckus View Post
    Yeah, that's exactly my point.

    So now we have these 3+ zones with all this content that's easily outleveled. Since we're drawing all these new players going F2P, they will play the new primal earth tutorials/zones and skip over Praetoria. The only way I could see this being a non-problem is to treat Loyalist/Resistance as their own independent alignments. This way, starting Praetoria isn't just a means to get to Primal Earth. This, of course, would conflict with the current end game content so I don't see this happening.
    Praet. in it's current form isn't a 1-50 area so it's difficult to treat it as such. I could easily see once you have content for 1-50 in Praet. that one could also get a-merits as well. Plus, hopefully they can continue to add more TFs so there really is three full fledged options.

    (looks at number of blue side TFs versus red side)

    I mean, eventually. In our lifetimes.
  10. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by That_Ninja View Post
    Also, the devs prefer Freedom server. It's not called City of Heroes: Virtue.
    All your servers belong are us.
  11. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Test_Rat View Post
    I wouldn't call them loyal.

    They are ditching thier home servers in some xenophobic exodus to get away from what they percieve as the "Undesirable" FTP community.

    Its the exact opposite of what loyalty means to me.
    That's a rather narrow view of somebody rolling an alt onto a VIP server.
  12. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Flowergnome View Post
    1) My three 'mains', each in their 30s, are scrappers: claws/regen, katana/SR, dual blade/WP. Are those still more or less regarded as sensible pairings or did changes in the past years totally ruin any of these?
    Granted I have IOed out and Incarnated the Kat/sr versus the Claws/regen that is just sitting at 50 with SO type slotting, but I would push the Kat/sr to 50 before the Claws/regen. /regen in it's current state is the loser of benefiting from IOs compared to other sets. Note the last part. It still gets better and is solid, but other sets benefit more from further investment. My Claws/regen solos fine for what I set it up against. It just requires more work than other sets. My DB/wp isn't high enough to say, but I can't say anything bad about it's potential either.

    Please note, above all else play what is fun. My Claws/regen is my most sentimental character I have and that includes my namesake. One of the first, or 2nd tanks I get to 50 will be an Ice tank and Ice is deemed the red headed stepchild of armor sets for tanks these days. It's also fun for me and one of the easiest to get to 50 on SO type slotting. It just loses out in benefiting from IOs.

    I soloed a Kin/nin stalker through Praet and I'm working on a Mind/fire. I don't recall either dying while solo. Praet. is quick and easy to solo through. The difficulties is being on teams and, or bumping the diff more than you should. Getting on a team and seeing one of those super zombie bosses at being purple to you will change your health bar in jaw dropping fashion with their double fisted attack.
  13. Amy_Amp
    I use three servers as my main servers. I use one for the hardcore SG. There's simply no way I could ever Incarnate all that I have. Do I delete something I have no desire to Incarnate? Nope. I just level it to 50 if it isn't already and basically retire it. It's always there if I need it. Do I delete characters? Oh, hell yes. Not as many these days since I'm on so many severs and I tend to go back to certain builds and rediscover why I rolled them in the first place even if it's been 1-2 years.

    How I weed through characters is based on how fun it is and what purpose does it serve. I deleted two Kins recently. Why? I still have 5 others so it's not like I'm lacking there. The Kin/rad really offered me nothing my Kin/sonic didn't already and the Kin/sonic is already 50. The Fire/kin was just because I felt like I was suppose to have one considering how many Kins I have rolled since starting out and then I found out I wasn't exactly fond of Fire. I rerolled both as /fire brutes to have my farmers for their respective servers. Even if the Fire/kin could farm, it's not nearly as fun as a SS/fire.

    I also roll, don't roll, or delete characters based on how often certain ATs, or power sets are used. I would love to roll a Plant/fire/ice dom, but I have a level 50 Plant/storm/ice so I see no real point in rolling the dom. I would just play the controller instead. I axed a Plant/ta for a Widow due to already using Plant and TA elsewhere and me not having a SoA. Same thing deleting a scrapper for a stalker. I think Elec Melee and War Mace are the last two sets on my to do list that look like fun.
  14. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Granite Agent View Post
    my Claws/SR Brute sadly does worse pylon times than the scrapper equivalents
    But are you using things to generate extra fury? To me the saving grace for Claws on a brute is Spin.
  15. Amy_Amp

    Time Manipulation

    POST-ACTION

    I'll have to wait and see. It takes a lot for me to roll something new these days. I had an Elec buff set in my head, but I can see a number of the powers working for Time Manipulation outside of the obvious resist shields. I do think think it will be a Kin like set. It's an obvious idea that just sitting there waiting to be done. Somebody mentioned it in the defender thread, but I think a -recharge/+recharge type of Fulcrum would be an interesting tier 9. It's the idea I had for an Elec buff set as well.
  16. Amy_Amp
    You know, a big red ball on the VIP server would be sweet.
  17. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nihilii View Post
    With 12 (?) slots per server and 15 (?) servers, we already have a lot of characters that can be created for market purposes. The biggest issue is time. I don't see free accounts changing that any, even if they had full access to the market.
    Default number of slots for a free account is 2.
  18. Amy_Amp
    Here's the build with data chunk.

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    Level 50 Mutation Scrapper
    Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
    Secondary Power Set: Willpower
    Power Pool: Flight
    Power Pool: Speed
    Power Pool: Fighting
    Power Pool: Leaping
    Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery

    Hero Profile:
    Level 1: Smite -- KntkC'bat-Knock%(A), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(3), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(5), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(15), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(23), Mako-Acc/Dmg(39)
    Level 1: High Pain Tolerance -- ImpArm-ResDam(A), ImpArm-ResDam/Rchg(46), Numna-Heal(46), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(46)
    Level 2: Shadow Maul -- Armgdn-Dam%(A), Armgdn-Dmg/EndRdx(3), Armgdn-Dmg(5), Armgdn-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(11), Armgdn-Acc/Rchg(23)
    Level 4: Fast Healing -- Numna-Heal(A), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(34), Numna-Heal/Rchg(34)
    Level 6: Air Superiority -- Mako-Dam%(A), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(7), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(7), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(19), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(37), Mako-Acc/Dmg(37)
    Level 8: Siphon Life -- Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(A), Mako-Dmg/EndRdx(9), Mako-Acc/Dmg(9), Theft-Acc/Heal(11), Theft-Heal(19), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(37)
    Level 10: Indomitable Will -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
    Level 12: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(13), RechRdx-I(17)
    Level 14: Fly -- Srng-Fly(A), Srng-EndRdx/Fly(15)
    Level 16: Rise to the Challenge -- Numna-Heal(A), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(36), Mrcl-Heal(36), Mrcl-Heal/EndRdx(36)
    Level 18: Mind Over Body -- Aegis-Psi/Status(A), Aegis-ResDam(40), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(40), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(40), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(43)
    Level 20: Quick Recovery -- P'Shift-Acc/Rchg(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(21), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(21), P'Shift-EndMod(25), P'Shift-End%(25), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(27)
    Level 22: Kick -- Empty(A)
    Level 24: Tough -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A), S'fstPrt-ResDam/EndRdx(50)
    Level 26: Soul Drain -- AdjTgt-ToHit/EndRdx/Rchg(A)
    Level 28: Heightened Senses -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(29), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(29)
    Level 30: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(39), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(39)
    Level 32: Midnight Grasp -- Hectmb-Dam%(A), Hectmb-Dmg/EndRdx(33), Hectmb-Dmg(33), Hectmb-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(33), Hectmb-Acc/Rchg(34)
    Level 35: Resurgence -- RechRdx-I(A)
    Level 38: Strength of Will -- ResDam-I(A)
    Level 41: Moonbeam -- ExtrmM-Dmg/ActRdx/Rchg(A), ExtrmM-Acc/ActRdx/Rng(42), ExtrmM-Dmg/EndRdx(42), ExtrmM-Acc/Rng/Rchg(42), ExtrmM-Acc/Dmg(43), ExtrmM-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(43)
    Level 44: Shadow Meld -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(45), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(45)
    Level 47: Summon Widow -- ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg(A), ExRmnt-Dmg/EndRdx(48), ExRmnt-Acc/Rchg(48), ExRmnt-+Res(Pets)(48), ExRmnt-EndRdx/Dmg/Rchg(50), ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(50)
    Level 49: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
    ------------
    Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
    Level 1: Critical Hit
    Level 1: Sprint -- Clrty-Stlth(A)
    Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx-I(A)
    Level 4: Ninja Run
    Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
    Level 2: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Mrcl-Rcvry+(27), RgnTis-Regen+(31), Numna-Heal(31), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(31)
    Level 2: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
    Level 2: Stamina -- P'Shift-End%(A), Efficacy-EndMod(13), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc(17), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(45)



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  19. Amy_Amp
    You'll get better numbers from WP on a brute. I still prefer the recharges for Claws on a scrapper even if the damage is adjusted for brutes. Spin is awesome on a brute though.
  20. Amy_Amp

    The Wow! Factor

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Super Flu View Post
    Lately I've been hitting forums I usually don't and see that Plant and Electic doms or trollers have been getting some good press.
    What press are you reading? Typically there is mass love of Plant builds on the controller forum. Certainly Plant/storm is one of the more loved builds there. I have a level 50 myself. If you want to go Plant, I say Plant/storm with either /ice, or /fire for epic. I went /ice since it has better powers. The dom version would be Plant/fire/ice, or Plant/fire/fire. Visually it is one of the best parings. Seeds you get early so it develops quickly and just builds from there. Credible control, damage, debuffs, and can be built to be rather defensive if you wish via epics and the Incarnate system.
  21. Amy_Amp
    I think it was level 25 were I got a comfortable amount of slots for inspirs.
  22. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by David_Yanakov View Post
    DOs that are about to expire at that. 20 and 21 are indeed a special kind of hell for a lot of toons.
    They would expire at 24, but they are definitely on the low side for helping. Part of the reason I slot common IOs if I take the time since level 15s can be used until 22.

    I got my SS/fire up to 33 after getting to 22 on lowbie maps and I got an invite for some runs on the cyborg mission. My Claws/fire is at 39. Based on the level 1 and level 3 lowbie maps I will easily give the edge to Claws and DB/fire for smoothest ride to 50. If a player wants a casual farmer that mostly just generates tickets and doesn't need to be a top end PLer, that would be my pick. If you want a top end farming workhorse, then by all means roll a SS/fire and just work your way to 28+ to at least get a second AoE going before taking on the more normal farm maps. For me, I would be more than ok with a Claws/fire being my main farmer.
  23. Amy_Amp

    Lifetime Sub?

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim View Post
    I remember the same speculation about Free2Play.
    How many lifetime subs are given out after 7 years? The general use for lifetime subs is when the game is coming out to get a quick influx of income and get people on the idea that it will be cheaper in the end if they do it that way.
  24. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood View Post
    Actually only LotrO kept the same name. CO renamed itself CO:Free For All and DDO re-branded itself as DDO: Eberron Unlimited when it went F2P (using Unlimited in place of Free). As another example, Global Agenda renamed itself Global Agenda: Free Agent.
    I guess because all of those games get referenced by the same acronym, it's hard for me to accept it as an actual named change. CoH Freedom to me is still CoH.
  25. Amy_Amp
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by GreenFIame View Post
    Stop Spreading Rumors and so me real Proof, I only see new Job Titles and I see Next Gen being anything, it does not mean it's going be COh 2, Where is your real proof.
    You are like over a month late on this issue.