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Someone had to break in the new board with a post about how the AE is ruining CoH, so here it is!

Cool, thanks man. Ive really always thought that spines was a pretty cool set, but I couldnt get past the banannas of death.

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Fire/TA and Dark/TA.

Fire/TA for stacked Slows with Glue and Rain of Fire, a nice little hellish maelstrom that's about half as deadly as OSA, but usable three times as frequently.

Dark/TA for cone spam with five damage procs and absolutely disgusting amounts of -ToHit stacked with Ranged defense.

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Great, I was hoping for a metallic looking set. Where was this stated?

Im not really sure if the devs will answer this question this early, but I had a question about power customization and spines for scrappers and stalkers.

The question, is can we do more than change the color of the spines? Perhaps entirely different spines? Because, to tell you the truth, Im pretty sure hero spines are going to look stupid if their tan/yellow like they are now, or purple red or blue or green or anything else. I suppose thats just my opinion though.

Im thinking something military themed for natural, or knight themed. For mutants however, im not sure, I guess I would have to go with the previous suggestions of beastial costume options or more monstrous, inhuman, things.

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Account wide inf/enh/recipe storage that can be expanded via the NcSoft store



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Fix'd

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You sure like Princess Bride dont ya dark?

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I'd be really stoked if they added Luminous Blast, Luminous Aura, Umbral Blast, and Umbral Aura to the list of customizable powersets.

How cool would it be to have a colored Nova/Dwarf???

Also, I saw that Stone Armor will be customizable... Do you think that includes the color of Granite Armor for sure?


[/ QUOTE ] Qouted for truth on that first part, thats my only complaint so far, that my character in black and gold power armor cant turn into a golden dwarf. That would be so epic, too.

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So I was out with some hero allies attempting to get a fix on planned attack routes for the imminent invasions, but what we found was far more disturbing. This message was sent via the Rikti assault ship's main broadcasting system. I fear they are attempting to strike a new, more vulnerable point in we heroes...
Please heed my warning: This is not a read for those who are weak willed.

<font class="small">Code:[/color]<hr /><pre>
Knowledge acquainted: Love
Rules: Mutually acknowledged
Requirement: commitment
Other officers: Insufficient

Information: Transferring
Information Transfer Priority: High

Objective: Do not: Give up subject
Objective: Do not: Allow subject distress: General
Objective: Do not: Leave subject, Do not: Abandon subject
Objective: Do not: Allow subject distress: Emotional
Objective: Do not: state phrase: "Goodbye"
Objective: Do not: Mislead subject, Do not: Allow harm: General

Current Log history: Long time
Subject Status: Heart aching
Subject: Rendered unable to Communicate: status
Status: Mutually acknowledged
Game: joined: Current Officer and Subject. Game action: Play. Priority: High

Awaiting: Self status inquiry
Subject: Self status answers known

(REPEAT: Log: Whole. Times: 3 )
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This is merely here to inform all who have not been crushed by the effort on us all by these vile inter-dimensional beings! We must form our counter attack quickly, before they can perfect this weapon. I fear we have not much time

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You win. For not only this awesomeness I have quoted, but for an avaar that features apes dancing to thriller.

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I agree that the quickest fix is to yank out the AE all together.

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Yeah, there was no farming before AE!



Oh, wait.

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Your argument is weak, because before we didnt have farming in Mercy Island and Atlas Park, and the noobies actualy LEARNED TO PLAY THE GAME.

[/ QUOTE ]You mean the noobies walked to Peregrine Island/Grandville. And we'd have 3-4 of each on Freedom, instead of 1-2 Atlas Park/Cap Au Diable.

[/ QUOTE ] No, because anyone who truly just bought the game wouldnt know how to get to Grandville/ PI. Those are people who have at least played somewhat.

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I agree that the quickest fix is to yank out the AE all together.

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Yeah, there was no farming before AE!



Oh, wait.

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Your argument is weak, because before we didnt have farming in Mercy Island and Atlas Park, and the noobies actualy LEARNED TO PLAY THE GAME.

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49% of the players LOVE the AE cause it lets you get to 50 w/out really playing the game

and 49% of the players HATE the AE cause it lets you get to 50 w/out really playing the game

and 2% of the players like pie?

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Put me in the 49 percent who dislikes the getting to 50 without playing part. Dont hate the AE though. Also, because someone had to say it and I hope I'm the first. The pie is a fake.

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AE buildings out of Atlas, Galaxy and King's Row, yesterday.

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A better solution: make the level of the AE mission dependent on the level of the zone, the same way that radio missions are. That is, if you're in Atlas, you can only play AE missions that are up to level 10. If you're in KR, you can run AE missions up to level 15. In PI and GV you can get any level mission.

That means that newbies have to go to PI or GV to run those auto-SK-to-46 farming missions.

It'll hearken back to the "good old days" of PLing at Portal Corp, and reduce the double whammy of AE and costume contests in Atlas.

[/ QUOTE ] You really should send this to a dev.

They let micheal Bay be a dev for a day.

Never heard of him, some of the stuff in this article about the guy is pretty stupid, but still, what some people did to him was TOTALY uncalled for. He actualy PvPed in a PvP zone. ZOMG NO WAI!!! I gotta agree, teleporting them infront of the malta bots is pretty cheap, but hey, the goal is to defeat the enemy no matter the cost, so I really cant fault him there.

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With those nifty pictures that were posted, i started to wonder which toons i would want to change power colors on and why. So i'm asking outa good old fashioned curiosity...

What toons are you planning to change colors on, why, and which color?

My first is Warren Kane, a proud member of the Cerulean Legion. As a human only PB i love the look of the powers but I've always wished they were blue to match the SG back story more.

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what pictures? Am I missing something?

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ppl are getting confused between cross dressing and transgenders. If you have 5 COSTUME slots and 3 are 2 and 2 female thats cross dressing not transgender but if they made it so if you change your gender and all slots are gender changed . that is transgender. there is a difference. i never once said i had prob with it. I said that allowing cross dressing in a game that kids play is a bit concerning.

To thous that are getting upset about lack of tolerance. i could say the same to how they have acted in my believe. Also its not just me but society has a whole shuns cross dressing. like it or not but im not the minority but the majority in society. Case in point why do they have drag on jerry springer and muary show? For are entertainment. they are both laughed at and made fun of. why? cause its not socially acceptable. Just cause you dont share my believe doesnt mean the majority of society dont.

So again i ask for a dev to chim in and clerfy things or change it so that you cant change each costume to be a male female but to change all your slots to male female.

[/ QUOTE ] Well, when those three male costums are large and muscular, and then a flash of magic smoke your chest got a lot larger and the rest got a lot less muscular, Id say you did more than put on the opposite sexes clothes.

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personally i have no 'feeling' i need to work out about transgenders as you put it but i dont think cross dressing is appropriate for a game that my children or any1s child might and do play. Like i said. whats wrong with making it so if you do change from a male to female or visa versa it applies to all character slots not just one. Thous saying its acceptable to cross dress to young teens.

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I just have to ask...

In a game where you have half-dressed catgirls, girls who run around in thongs and bras, shapeshifting aliens, girls who look 13 except for the fact that they're smuggling watermelons under their shirt, people being tortured, maimed, even outright murdered...

THIS is what is unacceptable to you? The idea that a character could shift from male to female, or female to male?

THAT'S what crosses the line?

If you're this hung up on it, don't let your kids play the game. Problem solved.

Take a step back, take a few deep breaths, and try to, as they say, 'get a grip'.

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It's not crossdressing. Female costume options are not being ported to males, nor vice versa.

IBTD.

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But it is cross dressing. When ppl do drag they do there clothes and makeup to match. most men that cross dress actually look like females. They dont look like hairy men in a women's dress. Take the muary show, on numerous times they have brought ppl on the show that do drag and most the ppl in the audaince cant tell if they are really a male or female. Same thing you have here.

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You sound like maybe, you have some issues to work through about your feelings towards transgender stuff, that is perhaps best not explored on a public board.

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personally i have no 'feeling' i need to work out about transgenders as you put it but i dont think cross dressing is appropriate for a game that my children or any1s child might and do play. Like i said. whats wrong with making it so if you do change from a male to female or visa versa it applies to all character slots not just one. Thous saying its acceptable to cross dress to young teens.

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You see, theres that phrase again, its not cross dressing. They are actualy changing genders via science. Weird? Yes. Sexual? No. I'm not sure how its saying its "Acceptable" to crossdress if there isnt any crossdressing.

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Dressing in clothing of the "opposite sex" is not "mature". Little kids do it all the time.

And a dude wearing a skirt has nothing to do with sex, just ask the Scots.



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Kids doing that isnt "mature" its why they are kids and is looked at as just innocece. they dont know better yet. But if growns do it its not looked at in the same light.

Scotts dont wear skits there kilts. there i a differance. though they seam the same they are not

[/ QUOTE ] You do realize the scot thing was a joke, right? Sorry, but its not crossdressing, they are actualy changing gender, and while it could be used as so, theres nothing technicaly sexual about that at all, so the thread is pretty much pointless.

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I've run a real CC one time.

[/ QUOTE ] Diddo, I enjoy holding CC's.

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I'm always surprised when people put elec above spines for AoE damage output. Do jacob's ladder and thunderstrike's pbaoe really make up for the slow recharge on LR?

I just always figured that at perma-hasten levels, LR will recharge in about ~24.8 seconds, while throw spines is up in 3.25.

Does having the extra burst damage (and awesome animation) on a stalker really outweigh being able to use that ranged cone every few seconds? Because I just can't see how LR would do more damage over time than throw spines, especially when you can buildup+TS+placate&lt;gap&gt;TS.

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Also, I have to say this, I love your avatar. Puppy in an imperial legion helmet for the win! I wonder when/if we are getting another Elder Scrolls...

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pve wise elec has no equal, seriously yo try a hidden thunderstrike and AS and entire group of ppl all at once, its sick.

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Then you try and kill a boss, and just stand there spamming AS because you don't have any REAL single target damage...

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Im an elec nin, and am loving it because I dont have that problem quite as bad thanks to sands of mu and nemi staff.

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Must... resist.... primal... urges....

Ah heck with it..

During personal grooming one of Blue Steel's toe nail clippings flew wide of his foot.. but they're making good progress on repairing Faultline now.

NCSoft once suggested to Marvel and DC a cross-over comic where Blue Steel squared off against the Hulk and Superman... The reply emails were verbatim of one another: "That's okay... we're good."

Captain America only used the U.S.A. schtick so he wouldn't be thought of as a Blue Steel knock-off.

Blue Steel once stood at the center of a nuclear explosion; after news reports announced he was radioactive Peter Parker begged Steel for a week straight to bite him.

Blue Steel thinks of Wolverine as the "wimp who cried after chipping a nail off his shield."

For some unknown reason the smog levels in LA are tied directly to the intensity of Blue Steel's morning breath.

Most girls have to put up with their boyfriends always talking about an ex girlfriend. Penelope has to put up with hers always talking about Blue Steel.

Last year Sister Psyche was sent into a deep depression when, despite her pleading, Blue Steel refused to "perform" at her Bachelorette party.

Manticore holds a deep resentment to this day.. not over his wife's desire to hire Blue Steel for the party.. but at Steel's gift.. a book titled "Blue Steel's Guide To Endurance and Stamina"... it had nothing to do with his blue bar.

Synapse is constantly making trips to King's Row in attempts to get Steel to autograph his copy of "Blue Steel's Guide to Endurance and Stamina."

The minimum level requirement for the Blue Steel Task Force is 62.

Blue Steel considered being a Broad Sword/Shield scrapper for a while, but Excalibur wasn't available.

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Steel... I love you. Lol, these are great.