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Quote:Too big to fail ?Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Every new Trial, Incarnate slot or Incarnate power means the system is getting bigger
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Quote:I'll see that and raise.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
I had an hour free this evening. Plenty of time to do a quick BAF, right?
I logged in, my toon of choice appeared at KR WW. I flew to Pocket D and broadcast '50+1 Blaster lf BAF.
10 mins later, I got an invite. Within a few minutes we were at 16. Queued.
15 mins later we were still queued and sb mentioned that it might be bugged so we swapped leaders around to see if that would help. It didn't so we all quit the league and the leader re-invited us, locked the League as private to avoid the wait, and queued again.
5 mins later, still no event, the leader decided to invite more to see if 24 would avoid a wait. 5 or so mins went by, and then we were 24 and queued.
10 mins later the damn BAF still hadn't started, and despite totally disbanding the league and joining up all over again, it wouldn't let us start.
I quit and logged out.
Total waste of time.
SOLO INCARNATE PATH, PLEASE!
Eco.
Keyes experience
1. Respond to advertisement in global chanell
2. After 30 minutes of recruiting the leader decides to queue
3. 1 st reactor goes well
4. 2nd reactor going well we have powercells but we can't find antimatter to unlock the terminals
5. Antimatter is stuck in the ramp back at reactor 1
6. The league is ready to write off the attempt but we petishun
7. A gm arrives when the reactor is down to 6 minutes
8. Spends three minutes getting antimatter unstuck
9. Wishes us well on finishing our trial -
Quote:Actually its getting smaller, and that's the game. If you want it to get bigger maybe you need to start figuring out how to buy out the store early and more often than you plannedOriginally Posted by Golden Girl
You'll need to get used to it - it ain't going away, and it's only going to get bigger
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Quote:Freasome stare is considerably more powerful than shiver, -tohit, and effectively a hold.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Yep, they combined Torrent and Nightfall into one power, and replaced one with Aim.
Doesn't say anything about Tenebrous Tentacles, but they've never let us double up powers in the past and Soul Tentacles in Soul Mastery is an identical clone of TT. I'm betting something will be changed there. Very possibly it will be replaced with Dark Obliteration.
I'm very surprised that Life Drain wasn't mentioned, I was pretty sure the devs would never give blasters a true self heal in a primary or secondary. Since they haven't released a power list or all the details yet, we'll have to wait and see about that one.
Curious as to what Dark Manipulation will contain as well. If Life Drain is left in the blast set, it's a safe bet that Siphon Life and Dark Regeneration will not appear in the Manipulation set.
My guess is as follows:
T1: Gravity Well or something similar, probably a single target version of Tenebrous Tentacles, or a ranged version of Midnight Grasp's immobilize.
T2: Shadow Punch or Smite
T3: Death Shroud (Electric Manipulation gets it's damage aura early, so there's precedent)
T4: Smite or Shadow Maul
T5: Build Up or possibly Soul Drain (I'd like to see Soul Drain here personally, it'd be unique among Blaster sets)
T6: Dark Consumption
T7: Fearsome Stare (I would not be surprised if this is ported as it is, it's no more powerful than Shiver)
T8: Cloak of Darkness
T9: Midnight Grasp
Cloak of darkness non suppressing defense at about the level of weave ? Enhanced this power would give 5 points to all positions and types ?
Soul drain + a damage aura ? Permanent build up levels of damage buff ?
Hope your right, it might get me to roll a new blaster -
Quote:Originally Posted by Rigel_Kent
It's official: Dark Blast, like Psychic Blast before it, will have powers removed to pad the secondary.
I was looking forward to another controllish primary (like Sonic) for blasters. Dark Pit's always been an underrated power, and got significantly better with IOs. Oh well. Dark Blast isn't doomed to bottom tier yet, but it will need for NightFallTorrent to not be as miserable as it sounds, and it will need the hold to be a high damage 3rd blast.
Synapse is the guy who did dual pistols, at least dark blast has aim this time. -
Quote:Originally Posted by BrandX
Stalkers will get Titans Weapons.
It ensures the devs get more money, since it will be a powerset one has to buy, to make it available to those who want to play just Stalkers.
Interesting concept.
F2P comes in likes the idea of a stalker, spends money to get a cool powerset, levels it up and finds out the whole at is a lol ?
Also applies to blasters, when the f2per starts out enjoying their toon and finds out they just die off after 20.
Edit: Well maybe zone PvP will be big in I21 -
Quote:For you maybe, after half an hour to get a league together another 5 minutes is over the top.Originally Posted by StratoNexus
Boo! 90 seconds is too short. Way to completely undermine the LFG system once again. Sigh. 5 minutes was fine. If you feel you must lower it... no, 5 minutes if good, any lower and we just may as well keep ignoring the dumb thing.
That would be a nice feature but the League Leader usually lets people know they are in the queueQuote:The real problem is we have no notice that we are queued and have a wait. People do not mind terribly waiting a little bit, but they do mind not knowing how long the wait is going to be.
You aren't going to have a swarm of people decide to join the queue in five minutes, after they have already missed broadcast advertisements and global channel requests,Quote:Rather than take 20 minutes to pre-form, you take 10 minutes, then enter the queue and wait 5 more minutes. If the system is allowed to function, it would often save time even with the 5 minute wait period. Giving the new system such a brief attempt at working before cutting its legs out from under it is a grave mistake, IMO. -
Quote:If you are going to convert to hero merits, buy the glad +def IO with 30 of the merits. You can sell that for between 2.5 and 3 billion. Giving you 1.5 to 2 billion profit, after paying for the conversion.Originally Posted by Fulmens
"Hero merits to random rolls" is what I'd do.
After that there are recipes you can buy directly with 1 or 2 merits that have the same average rate of return as the random roll but are guaranteed . You can mix those in with random rolls to taste, last I looked the kinetic combat set had some very profitable 1 merit items. -
Quote:I don't know the Itrials in general are horribly gimmicky. The escape phase of the BAF is one of the worst offenders. Nullifying 2 ATs primary power sets when it was completely unneeded why ?Originally Posted by Patient_V
Until the devs regularly inhibit our ability to trump mobs with numbers alone, a KB-heavy character is always going to run the risk of being less than helpful at times in high-end teaming. The escapee phase in the BAF is a step in the right direction, and I'd like to see that type of creative thinking applied more frequently to new content.
Anyway the BAF gives me a good example of how a team leader actually needs to understand how to use KB players and KB players need to help the team leader. The other day our League leader had put an energy blaster and a peacebringer on the reinforcement team. Needless to say the scatter made strong and pretty near impossible. -
Quote:With account only email who knows ?Originally Posted by Nericus
I wish we could do multiple attachments, for example an alt of mine needs 5 pangeaon soil for 5 recipies, instead of 5 emails with on Pangean each I'd like to just send one email with all 5.
Also things like Vanguard merits, AE tickets, reward merits, incarnate components I'd like to be able to email to my alts so that I can consolidate and remove them from retired alts.
With F2P expect it to be purchasable if it is available. -
Quote:lolOriginally Posted by majorprankster
now that's bitter!
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Quote:Originally Posted by Demobot
You got
in a
thread.
Thats not a cat laughing but snarling ready to attack. The dog may be laughing his head off for all I know they are much harder to read than cats. Comes in handy when they play poker
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Quote:Originally Posted by White Hot Flash
You're kidding, right? Being able to move your base from one server to another is way bigger than anything else they could do for bases right now. Go read the comments in COH: Freedom threads about the VIP server and count how many people mention being able to move their base with them if they transfer. They'd make the majority of people more than happy just by allowing SGs to transfer as well, even if they did nothing else for bases.
Whatever else they may do for bases on top of that either with I21 or in the future would be gravy.
Don't be daft, they said they are looking into it. That's somewhere below soon in terms of timeliness -
Cottage rule meh,
What we need is a tenth power in sets.
With the exception of devices there isn't a set that really needs a massive reworking, and even there an additional power choice would work wonders. -
Quote:F'em, My blasters want the kind of mez protection dominators get. Whats more its drop dead easy to make the case that blasters are the more appropriate AT to have it. They also wouldn't mind the self defense numbers that controllers get. Don't see that coming our way either.Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Did you not read the link above explaining why it's not that simple?
To summarize:
- You have to port Dark Blast to Blasters who will want a matching Dark Manipulation.
- Dark Manipulation would pretty much be copied over to Dark Assault for Dominators.
- Dominators and Controllers would want a Dark Control which can't repeat anything in Dark Assault or Dark Miasma which is going to be really difficult since Dark Miasma already is control-heavy.
- And none of the sets can repeat what are in the hero or villain Dark Epic Power Pools.
So, this would not be power *proliferation*. There would have to be three new powersets created around 'no doubles' powers tetris. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Atomic_Toy_Guy
Though on second glance it looks like we are locked in to not getting a proper dark blast primary due to the Soul Mastery Ancillary Pool. It has both Night Fall and Soul Tentacles.
Before we got mace there would have been very sage and self important folks on these boards arguing we couldn't have an aoe immob.
The double up isn't such a big thing if you look at it objectively. People can always not take that epic, or not take the power from the epic. -
Quote:This was a players sig in I18.
I hope I19 isn't:
1) Zone events: Terrible lag and unwelcome people can spoil the fun
2) Raids: Standing around for 45 minutes for 5 minutes of action isn't fun
-Kick some booty.
Not bad for a Cassandra. They quit the game btw.
When most people talk about doom they are talking about that the game will no longer have what makes it fun for them. I have no idea who paragon studios is trying to appeal to with the latest changes. It appears to be communities of epileptics that have synchronized seizures over keyboards in half hour intervals.
Will this doom the game ? Not likely it can probably run indefinitely on the people who can't figure out how to cancel monthly billing, and people who believe that the devs asking for a list issues means something will be done. Will it be a fun or good game ? That is a different question. -
Quote:You are sad ? here's your fix.Originally Posted by _eeek_
My Arch/nrg blaster almost never dies, mainly because she stays well out of normal weapon range. Yes, I put in ranged defense wherever that was an alternative, but honestly, I rarely died when I was level 30, too. I have a number of trollers and defenders who I worked really hard to get soft-capped defenses, but never considered it on Arch/nrg, because there was no need. Hover + range = robust health.
Took fire epic, so I have a hold if anyone gets silly, and bonfire if more of them get silly. Also, Rise of the Phoenix, which is so good I don't mind getting killed one bit - I think of it as a part of my offensive strategy. Sadly, I almost never die, and RotP is largely unused.
Went for recharge, incl spiritual alpha, as primary slotting goal. Next, ranged defense. RoA is up quickly, used once or twice a normal spawn, more if they are +4's or something stupid hard. And through it all, I'm still not dead. (darn it!)
Visit a hero corps analyst set your difficulty to x8
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Quote:A lesson in what not to do. I'd put it up there with "I'll adjust it a little in the way I think it should go because I have no idea where it will be" and other great Castleisms.Originally Posted by fur_nes
Castle justified i13 as the vast majority wanting these changes when the active pvpers were totally against it. He posted once "for every one of you saying you don't want it I have 100 emails saying they do." Proof of that was the anti gank code they tried to impliment in pvp, which was the biggest complaint of pvers "I walk into rv and 10 heroes/villians jump me."
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Quote:Originally Posted by Morgan Reed
If that were true, you would think the thread would have been moved by now, what with a whole week in this forum.
I guess the forum mods aren't as good at their jobs as you are.
Shouldn't have done that, the threshold for action is whining, and the fanbois are experts. -
Quote:Originally Posted by CaptSammy
As far I know you can not transfer Incarnate SALVAGE between characters, but you can 'purchase' threads for another character with Astral of Emp merits.
You can buy a certificate for 4 threads with an Astral merit. The certificate (and the threads) can then be claimed on another character on the same account.
I think on Emp merit will buy you 18 threads for another character.
This what you can do is convert the new merits into threads on a different character. -
Quote:If street sweeping to get to 50 is unfriendly its grumpy guy next door unfriendly.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
There's an option to level to 50 with only street sweeping too, but it's not as friendly as using missions
Trying not to use the trials to advance past 50 is Idi Amin or Papa Doc unfriendly -
Quote:Originally Posted by JayboH
You will quickly... VERY quickly find out that there are always people on this board that will attack you if you express anything negative towards this game.
Always the same few people.
Just looking above I see people that will go on endlessly about the complexity of making a small change in software but they don't know the meaning of the word bug, as applied to software.
Trials that drive people to insanity, because they are a chokepoint in the game ? Man that's not a feature its a bug. Its a giant logical bug.
Elimination of vast swaths of content as a road to advancement ? Not a feature !!
Solo path gone from the game ? Not a feature !!
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Quote:Not just microsoft. Nintendo now has a game for their DS system that requires you to save to a propietary flash card, that cant be erased. Their goal is to make the game playable only once so it can't be sold as a used game.Originally Posted by CodeJunkie
EDIT: PC Gamers are getting screwed over bad by MS right now with DirectX 10/11. You cannot use it unless you buy Windows 7 even though there is no technical reason why it cannot run in Windows XP. They have simply hard coded exceptions in the installers that prevent you from installing it. The same has been done with newer versions of their other software like SQL Server and its tools. Even though (if you still have them) you can use say the SQL 2000 tools on any version of the databases the newer tools are hard coded to not let you connect to certain versions of databases, forcing you to upgrade. They realized at some point that they could get away with this and did it.
Not just games, if you name a software type I can probably name a horrible scam or complete ripoff of the customer. -
If you aren't putting the purple set into world of confusion don't bother. Move the slots into complete thunderstrikes in fireblast, blaze, subdual. Your attack chain will love you and you will get 3 times the ranged defense.
If you are taking the leadership pool for the defense from maneuvers, don't. Take the fighting pool instead, weave gives you much better numbers for less endurance.