Xilibrius

My name is Xilibrius and I approve of this thread.

Yes its an unstoppable style crash, crud! I was really hoping the crash wouldn't knock you out of it if you used it right before your time was up. Oh well, I can still use it with a blue to recoup.

I have a Ninja/Elec stalker thats sitting at 34 currently come I16 i'll probably give him alot more attention because of the addition of Energize. My question is as follows; If i activate hibernate just before Power Surge crashes does that interrupt hibernate?

If it doesn't I think it would be a great tactic to deal with the -hp -end crash.

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I'm curious to see if your AT name changes when you switch sides. Like MasterMinds become Commanders, Stalkers become Spec Ops, Scrappers become Warlords, Brutes become Brawlers..ect.

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that would be semi-neat for some reason devastator screams out to me for blasters

I might be reading the responds in this thread wrong but i never said anything about losing access to one of the AT's by switching sides i asked that if i made a brand new hero AT (and yes i know there's no answer to this question yet) and i've never had a 50 on either side i run say a blaster from 1-50 (or whatever the lowest level you can switch sides at) as a villain will i unlock the HEATs since i started as a hero AT or will it unlock the VEATs since my alignment was red when the blaster dings 50. I doubt the devs will program it that you'll lose access to one sides epics if you take your only 50 from that side and switch their alignment.

Yah i figured as much but its still nice to sepculate on whether it'll be alignment at 50 that decides what you unlock or if its at based regardless of alignment

i'm pretty sure this question has already been asked and i doubt a concrete answer has been reached but i thought i'd ask since i rarley cruise the forums.

For new users to the game or people who've never gotten a 50 of the opposite faction, what happens if i make a new blaster and i've never gotten a fifty blue or red and i take him villain side and ding fifty. what do i unlock? Veats since i'm evil? or do i unlock the Heats since i was originally a hero AT? or do the devs pull somethign tricky and give you a brad new Epic Archetype (A man can dream cant he?). Anywho i just wanted to see the forums ideas and speculations.

I'm typing this up on my iPhone my grammernis terrible enough as it is for me to try and punctuate propperly on this thing

I typed this in an iPhone punctuation can go to hell

Now I know this is gonna be shot down pretty quickly since what I'm suggestig is goofy but I like tossing out my ideas to see what people think of them

I think that when activated in arena or in a pvp zone instead of add a equal mag hold which in this post i15 world is now pointless since the damage buff is gone from Dom and the mag of your hold now means squat I think they should change the mechanic of it so it increase any mez effect duration to 1.5x-2x duration ie 2s to 4s and so on since on an unresisted toon that'd be at max slotting about 16s give or take now I know there would be varying issues with this because it would make a perma Dom crazy effective in this era of 2s stuns holds and sleeps but I'm sure with proper balancing it could be made workable another counter argument would be this is unfair to controllers whose containment is in worse shape when it comes to pvp sice doms at least get mez resistance out of domination beig activated the more signifcantly issue would be programing contaimet to having a similar effect on a random chance based system anyways I know there are gaping holes j. This suggestion mainly being it would unballnce any already shaky pvp system but im sure with the right ideas we could find to a fix to doms and trollers inhernt IN pvp

Cool I'll definately see I can give that a go I went wih leviathan mastery though since I wasn't sure which epic to pick the and I didn't have the best survival rate on my permadom side that had pff when I get home I'm gonna continue to try and get sown the timing on my mez and kb so I can maximize my effectiveness also since I have hibernoob is it possible to que up tp while in hibernoob so that when it ends u tp out of danger?

now when you say you use DP to break a persons hibernoob does the drain effect actually hit them while they're in that state or do you hit them before they activate it?

Thanks for your time in typing that out i'm definately gonna look into putting some of those into effect. thanks for your advice on powers and strategy

Hey, i'm pretty terrible on this guy and i dont know what powers to take or how to use him effectively. Help me out? I'm basically going to be in the zones (lol). Also, any general strategies would be helpful, thanks.

This is more then likely already been suggested but with stalkers getting access to Broad Sword in issue 16 I think that much like completing Naylor's arc you unlock the Rularuu weapons you should unlock her sword by finishing off her arc, now i know the blue-siders will call foul play if they dont get access to it (even though we technically have the same thing with the redcap daggers even if we have a chance of unlocking it once a year) so i think it should be unlocked in the STF be it for completing that mission in which you fight her or at the end of the TF that would be up to the devs. anywho thats my idea.

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What does any of this have to do with the changes to PvP drops?

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Dont know if that post was directed at me or not but i was refering to the fact that this patch was supposed to make pvp drops happen again

Is this patch ever going to hit live? i've really started pvping lately for some god forsaken reason and it'd be nice to earn some recipes again.

You know, the one drop every five thousand kills or whatever crazy ratio its on.

yah but only sirens call uses bounty to my knowlage. the other two zones dont.

i wouldn't be suprised if they just dropped off the map completely because they where made as a means to try and appease the pvp croud but then the devs remembered they hate pvpers so they took them out of the game when people set up farms to actually get htem since hte drop rate is so pathetic its the only way to get them. i like what Reiraku had suggested, double the drop rate and increase the downtime for the drops to 20 minutes.

I haven't been a dom player long so this is probably just whining on my part but i got my first perma dom Gravity Control/Psionic Assault and after playing him for a bit on test with the changes it pretty much crushed my desire to get him the rest of the way to fifty or play doms again.

This issue may have already been addressed but does anyone know why this power doesn't support accuracte to hit debuff io's?

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The Merit System sounds potentionally Game Breaking. It'll destroy the price structure of the BM and WW. If the dev's are smart they'll keep the Uniques and Ultra Rares out of the reward choices otherwise it'll take a lot of fun out of the game. Part of the reason for me doing Tf's is that i dont know if i'm gonna get something uber rare or not.

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potentially, yes, which they're obviously aware of. Posi already said that the token costs would be high enough to make you want to simply play the TF's anyway over and over.

by no means will they simply let you do 1 or 2 TFs and be able to choose a LotG for yourself. That's idiotic and they know it.

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good thats what i was worried about.

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The Merit System sounds potentionally Game Breaking. It'll destroy the price structure of the BM and WW. If the dev's are smart they'll keep the Uniques and Ultra Rares out of the reward choices otherwise it'll take a lot of fun out of the game. Part of the reason for me doing Tf's is that i dont know if i'm gonna get something uber rare or not.

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Might want to look at how Lighthouse clarified the announcement where he states:

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Though the twists of fate it may never drop for you (random numbers being what they are).

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The potential exists that you will never, ever get the recipe you are looking for as a drop regardless of how many TFs you run. Hence, the new merits.

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That's why the BM/WW is there, if you want something bad enough and just cant get it you can buy it. If you have the inf to back up that desire for it of course.

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The Merit System sounds potentionally Game Breaking. It'll destroy the price structure of the BM and WW. If the dev's are smart they'll keep the Uniques and Ultra Rares out of the reward choices otherwise it'll take a lot of fun out of the game. Part of the reason for me doing Tf's is that i dont know if i'm gonna get something uber rare or not.

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exactly this could make things like building a perma dom a joke to do.

I'm concerned with how they will be handling this as well, as this could have substantial repercussions for the player market. Do LoTGs automatically cost more merits than a sting of the manticore? If so, why? It has the same chance to drop, but its bonuses are considered better by players. Will the devs formulate costs based on their bonuses, or will they all cost a flat (high) rate?

hm...

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Exactly this has some bad vibes coming off of it. This could make difficult build's like a perma dom a joke to do. I hope the dev's think about this one carefully. i'd hate for issue 13 to be the expansion that killed city of heroes.

The Merit System sounds potentionally Game Breaking. It'll destroy the price structure of the BM and WW. If the dev's are smart they'll keep the Uniques and Ultra Rares out of the reward choices otherwise it'll take a lot of fun out of the game. Part of the reason for me doing Tf's is that i dont know if i'm gonna get something uber rare or not.