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I'lll give you ten jillion
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NPC dogs need squirrels.
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What can you do to insure that I acquire the names and not some random schlub?
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I was hoping this ws some sort of a job offer.
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Quote:It was something that made the set "work" in a nice way.Originally Posted by Spiritchaser
If ST control is going to be EM's "Thing" then I'd give it back the capacity to one touch mez a boss.
If neither Aoe control, nor ST nor AoE dps were increased, I really don't think it would be way out of line to give both TF and stun mag 4 stuns.
Hands down something EM could do that nothing else could.
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Quote:That same question arrived at my house just now as I read your post.Originally Posted by SlackTech
This thread pointed out that I was wrong (thanks, Z!!), and I'm fine with being wrong (I've let the CS person know I was wrong, and provided them a link to this thread). Why are CS staff referring customers to paragonwiki and not official forum posts that educate the customer in the first post (by a Paragon Studios staff member, no less)??
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Quote:Sorry, but...rflmfaoOriginally Posted by DumpleBerry
Baby steps.
The last ticket I had on this, CS apologized and tried to close my account. -
Quote:You forgot "accurately".Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
What I want is:
1. for someone at Customer Service to clearly and concisely explain to me how my account works with regard to points, tokens, transfers, and rewards; and for these things to work on a schedule that makes some kind of sense. -
Too bad there's not an equivalent channel for global friends.
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Quote:The timing doesn't support that as well. It's an adaptation to the limits of the set rather than some sort of personal preference.Originally Posted by Wassabi
I can appreciate that line of thinking, however, don't you think it's wiser to eliminate targets completely to take one source of incoming damage out of the picture as the encounter allows instead of allowing it to persist until you're ready to PBAE?
One certainly could defeat a minion with ET, and then another one with TF and plink on the boss with the lower dam attacks.
Or one could focus on the stunned boss while the other members of the spawn work you over.
Or some number of other combinations.
Or one could stun the boss and then take out a Lt and work on the minions until the heavy hitters recharge to use again on the boss. That's what I found works for me.
You may have found a different solution.
How do you work your EM brute? -
Quote:Awesome! tyOriginally Posted by Hopeling
Great! You can play CoV to your heart's content.
I'll try to keep that in mind should it ever come up.Quote:Originally Posted by Hopeling
If you just want to lock people in there even though they'd rather play blue, you might find less support. -
I didn't buy CoH. Every game in the world lets you play the hero.
I bought CoV. -
Mr. Ken Dove
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EM just needs something, some useful area, where it shines. The devs did a great job of normalizing it. They normalized the heck out of it.
Iirc, it's not the set with the top ST chain. It certainly isn't in contention for the AoE king either.
The control it offers isn't that useful either. It's primarily ST control. But at the same time you're walloping that single target so hard that a significant chunk of the control time, the target is dead. Unless the target is of a rank/level such that the stun is well resisted.
WH doesn't offer the level of control of other AoE powers available from other sets.
So, perhaps increasing the ST chain's damage, increasing the control of the AoE, [or the lower tier ST powers even?] seem to be the ways to go. There're multiple options on how to accomplish these things.
Another option would be to give the set some additional AoE, but I am not sure that really helps EM have a niche.
Personally, I think I would like to see the utility of the ST chain increased.
I play the set by quickly rotating through targets in a spawn and then using WH as finishing move on the multiple mobs who're hanging on by a sliver of HP. Seems like the way to go afaict. But the whole quickly rotating through targets bit is harder since the animation times have increased.
Stun a boss, smack a minion or two, defeat a Lt, smack the boss, WH the lot, repeat. -
Quote:That would be nice. I still like my main EM toon--retired the other ones to unused servers or deleted them. He's just waiting to come back to relevance.Originally Posted by JayboH
Ah, here it is:
If they could revamp one powerset:
Synapse: Energy Melee if it's minor, totally tearing apart and starting over, he has to pass.
Posi: Energy Blast, as it was one of the first sets they did. They have a lot more tools in the toolbox now to make a cooler set.
BS: Power pools "I'd revamp presence, medicine, possibly even fighting." -
Quote:Yeah, but it's not the most in stuns in particular.Originally Posted by Spiritchaser
I'd argue that stone, with it's mag 4, yup, boss smiting 4 hold is just plain better. You want to knock the toggles off something mean? Done. And quickly at that.
Stone brings a lot more to the table as well.
It also has the most pink pom-poms.
As I said, "There's nothing that encourages an informed player to choose EM over some other set." -
EM's not actually bad per se--it's just totally average.
There's nothing that encourages an informed player to choose EM over some other set. It's meh, but not actually bad.
ETA I thought from the thread title that this was about some intent on the part of the devs to revisit EM. so disappointed. -
Quote:I wonder if it's related to the Ouroboros mish selection bugOriginally Posted by StarGeek
It's still there, at least on my display, but only barely selectable. It's only half visible. Zealous, on the other hand, isn't available at all, as it seams to have dropped below the selectable range on the window and there isn't a scroll bar for me to get to it, nor is the window resizable
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I know that sometimes my stacks will fill one whole stack at a time and other times I'll get a few filled off of each stack.
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Holy IP issues, Batman!
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A few millions of inf one way or another isn't worth the time it takes to figure out how to conserve it.
I all but stopped actively playing the market because I got tired of e-mailing crap around. I only have some very long term, slow moving things going on at the moment. Of course that'll be different once candy season arrives, but that's only once a year. -
I just tested it again as the experience I was discussing before was quite some time ago.
Running only SS and Sprint w/ a Stealth IO in it and with the empowerment station grant invis power AND just entering a mission so there was some doubling up of those buffs, the mobs saw me.
Don't grey mobs fail to aggro if you're too many levels above them anyway? -
Quote:Yeah I have had experience with it.Originally Posted by Codewalker
Has anyone tested that by standing next to some gray mobs for > 10 seconds?
It's set to notify, but all of the effects are on Self, so it may not affect the targets at all.
I have had a brute w/ SS, a stealth IO, the empowerment station grant invisibility power and group invisibility all at once and was still "seen" by mobs.
That was in missions.
I haven't tried it on grey mobs. What difference would that make? -
Quote:Yeah except when I am trying to be sneaky.Originally Posted by Vauluur
Is anyone else amused by this?
It doesn't seem to cause stealthiness to actually drop as in go from 90ft or w/e to 0 even though it notifies mobs. At least there's that. -
I'd be just fine if all awards were on the 1st of each month, or the end of the month, or the 15th of the month, or on the 7th of the month, or the 21st of the month.
Of course, we'd lose all of many benefits we get from having the rewards awarded at various intervals throughout the month. But you have to take the good with the bad sometimes.