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Quote:Originally Posted by XFUNK
No, what i'm saying is Marauder can be taken down easily with a pug without being an AT/powerset nazi and without grenades.
Given how popular weapon sets are, either you are going to have salt your pug with a core group before it forms, or you will wind up being a powerset nazi for a good percentage of random teams. -
Funny thread.
And a really nice argument for having copyright expire in a more reasonable time frame so corporations can't permanently control parts of the culture. -
Seems to be common when leagues grow above two or three teams. Hopefully whatever was done with the last patch will be undone with the next.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Ironblade
Actually, I think the wording from Baryonyx in this post was pretty clear:
Once you qualify for a component, it is determined randomly.
Now, the system certainly might be BROKEN, but the intent was stated very plainly.
He also said "He wouldn't be giving away the keys to the castle" by telling us what the system is. That implies there is a castle. There was also talk about how group performance could raise and lower the quality of the table.
There is more than enough evidence that prior to the last patch it was very possible to influence the table you received. There is also virtually no way anyone could have done enough trials on enough variables to rule out the ability to influence the reward. Saying otherwise is either wishful thinking or an attempt to influence community opinion. -
Quote:Originally Posted by StrykerX
If you want lots of damage, on the other hand, you might try Archery. You get Blazing Arrow (one of the best Defender ST attacks) and Rain of Arrows (the best Defender AoE).
Blizzard ? Ice storm ? -
I'd go for more freeform character building than what we have now.
1. Make tiers 1-3 of both primary and secondary available at level 1
2. Instead of 4 pools and an epic just make it 5 power pools
2a. Epic power pool available around level 15
3. Loosen up on the requirements in picking powers from the pools maybe dividing into 2 tiers instead of 3 and allow picks from tier 2 after 1 from tier 1
4. More options in both primary and secondary choices.
5. Eliminate tieing inherents to particular powers. This was a rotten idea and is something that really needs to be fixed in the current game. Bruise should not be tied to something that is usually a poor choice, defiance shouldnt have gutted variety from blaster builds.
Change the way mez works from shutting down everything to just shutting down offense. There is no reason that mez should be the equivalent of a oneshot for anyone -
Quote:95% of all statistics are made up on the spot ?Originally Posted by Catwhoorg
Per the graphic on Kokatu celebrating the anniversary, that (56 Billion inf) is the amount of inf 'held by players' in 2011
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Love a puzzle not sure if this solves it
Code:Tried to keep as much of your original build as possible while cheaply making you less squishy. This build gets you close to the softcap on range, it also takes you up to nearly 50 percent s/l resists without turning on force of nature. Your pff is also much more available. With careful shopping you should be able to get this together for less than 200 million| Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1383;661;1322;HEX;| |78DA65945B53DA4014C737100A2AA068156F2008DE699469DFDB5AC53A23334EFD0| |04C0A6958A52113A353DFFA45EAAD8F1DEDE57BF5F2D499BE949E9CFFA274C8C0FE| |92B3E7F2DF9CDD54DF6DC58578FF546889172DF3F8B8B649A36F7991AA69CB7A6CC| |76C9D9A9ED9880A21A6D454ED95E9D856C3A848CF827BA13B7370E2BA6DCF37B61D| |CBB3CF6A55D391EE49CBF465DB49ED3A4DCBB31CDFE8DEC4F7DBED96B16799AE74E| |C417E38702DAB91E0DB8AB49B3E4DA4F869D73995C7F2B56C49FF6C74DB9575A3D2| |F6EA165508EA9E4D92BC05FA3F13DDAB1311D7842511BA249445E88A3178019C339| |21F186F7BA3DEB0E9A1CD9868325625E3D12170C4784EA3A6A23424D2CFB9A48E22| |49541E41E5916BC6268D6144E9E16F6C7AF015F8CC18BD016E21805E7C84AB74B44| |8964D45608BC6A84A1445A21812C5BE6009C837817C6D1A0794FBC0C75060CA5F01| |978CC20570CE70C971482D6E28782573226E034DC6A4040E19D3478C34094A204A2| |402717A586C138655E161249F45A95914CE424616A21C724CA9C229F4621ABDC8A1| |1739F422875EE4D18B792A3686A8D0D81A9BB24041811CC695B271A54C23A6952DA| |D6C95609FABF253686A117B65114D5D445317D1D42534354CD133E85278264D3719| |512C61E74CF2537982A1935F46F965FE88C0B4F41BF8CB3BA78CDE86A2C1DB84B2B| |91494F98479B513E6B1A81560476DFE40F30204AD5C72BAD205631D2B58C77ACA90| |FE8976E132A2B4E5FFF2DDD0CC1A2A85D620BCB4AA0533252CEA961C0C156AC0B40| |EBCA4714309DF50C267F5BBD3453FBA445EEF1E9D4E67B56F76A3CF52EEB33CEEB3| |3CE9B3ECDD57A123C79B6B5FBF3BB24263A78191BBE3D8F93E48B32A401B83F89FF| |7364D2BA2A5C08F5EEF24BC7FF57AE7F0B100FE0147CBDCE7| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
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Quote:I was talking about scoring on the rares/very rares table hadn't even considered Ixp.Originally Posted by Dispari
I don't know what you're talking about, because if you get people from each team on adds, every team (IE, every player) shares iXP.
You only have to "elect winners" if you're lazy and assign team 3 to do adds or something similar.
Edit: Thinking about it Ixp compounds the problem, especially if the leader is out to take advantage. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Dispari
No it doesn't. We've done it before by assigning 2 people from each team to do adds.
Six of one, three teams of two, of the other. The people handling the adds are going to get the bump.
The point being you are going to be electing the winners beforehand. At best you do it as a group, at worst you have a team leader that is aware of the scoring system and decides to sneak one past. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Virusman
Don't get me started on BAF - done MO runs with many 50 +0's on the team, many many many times in a row, with a complete PUG. Just takes people who can use some sense when monitoring reinforcement spawn times and AV health, capable of holding back when needed.
So I know in comparison how terrible the design for Lambda is.
Mo baf in a single run is a different problem. The combination of the requirements for the badge and the reward system means two of the teams have to be willing to take lesser rewards when getting the badge. -
The next round of incarnate slots should turn it into a joke, the same way the current set have turned MoSTF, MoITF, MoKhan, MoBarracuda, MoTinmage, MoApex into jokes, that people manage to "ACHIEVE" by accident.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades
Exactly proving my earlier point.
I am not saying that just following the Dev direction is wrong - I am saying I am not doing it - I don't find it fun and encouraging it leads to more of the same.
You said exactly what I pointed out - it isn't that fun but the reward is good and it only takes 30 minutes, so what is the harm? The harm is this will be what the game becomes if it is encouraged.
Give it a week maybe two, its going to become really hard finding 16-to 24 people to run these things. On smaller servers the multiple zone instances of people waiting to do them are already a thing of memory. -
Quote:Forcing people into the trials and that is what this is about isn't a great idea. It also strikes of completely disregarding all player feedback, and invalidating the changes that were made to appease players.Originally Posted by EvilGeko
The "they would be done on the first day" is only part of the reason. The fact is, and I recognize this bothers people, is that they wanted you to do the trials.
It's that simple. The trials are designed with a certain base level of difficulty and coordination required. For the time being the devs want to give this content a de facto exclusivity in earning rewards.
I19 shards are dropping only from level 50 people are concentrating in a few tfs and getting burned out on them.
I19.5 WST notice of the well and double merits BRILLIANT !!!!! You get rewards that help all your alts and advance your incarnates. The playerbase now has all kinds of options and it becomes incredibly FAST and easy to get teams going
I20 Someone visits paragon studios randomly hits the devs on the head with a hammer giving them brain damage and amnesia. Players are forced into very limited content that requires teams larger than ever before, long waits while they are being assembled and is in the category only bring your most uber uber toons. Just for a kicker there is a new reward system that will double hurt you for not being uber
What are the lessons from i20 ?
Players like to play the game at their own pace and style
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Quote:I laughed, then I thought about how he fixed shield charge vs Hail of bullets.Originally Posted by Rigel_Kent
Castle felt it was important to balance blasters by making all blaster sets perform equally in a useless state that should be avoided, that is, while mezzed.
While we're at it, we should also balance defenders by normalizing their primaries while in a useless state that should be avoided, that is, while AFK and autofollowing the tank. Replacing the tier 1 of each primary with a Healing Aura clone ought to do it.
Sleet with a tier 3+ radial reactive, If I am reading the patch notes rightQuote:Originally Posted by Obitus
For what little it's worth, one of the kind of silly reasons I prefer my Dom is that I just can't get over the fact that the Dom version of Blast is markedly superior to the Blaster's. The Blaster still does more damage overall (better Blaze, better recharge on Fireball, Defiance), but it's the principle of the thing, man. -
Quote:Psychic wail isn't in /mm its in psi, maybe psi shockwave ?Originally Posted by Silas
Except 2 of the best powers in /MM are PBAoEs, namely Drain Psyche and Psychic Wail.
Anyway, having pbaoes doesn't stop you from being effective at range, not having ranged attacks surely will -
If you want to stay at range, think /ment or /energy. /Ment is the only secondary with an extra cone attack and /energy has boost range.
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Quote:But its so much more fun to laugh at people that spent years building up their supergroup.Originally Posted by SoilentGreen
How dare you insult the "rich" people in this game by asking them to do something that might be useful with their influence? Then they wouldn't have something to gloat about like "see how much inf I burned"???
The "rich" people in this game are like Mr. Pewterschmidt and you're like Peter Griffin asking him for some help...not gonna happen. -
Quote:The scrapper/brute who got buffed by the kin before the small stuff died ?Originally Posted by Comicsluvr
Ok...so now an Emp Defender can have the same OMGDieDieDie power as anyone else, including a Blaster.
Defender fires his Judgement and then continues fighting as normal (talking solo here).
Blaster does the same thing.
Now for the next 89 seconds who's going to be doing more damage? If you said Blaster you get a cookie. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Arbegla
Ok, i found the post i was looking for. And i was wrong on archery being second.. BUT Single target damage wise, With SOs, archery is 3rd highest DPS, (at base) 4th highest with hasten factored in (or at 70% recharge from IOs) and 6th highest damage with IO (which i think in this case is 300+% recharge)
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...&postcount=233
Archery is not very weak at all, especially when you factor in its AoE abilities.
6th for me is kind of meh. But you illustrate a very good point, archery starts strong single target and drops behind as IOs come into play. Its the same type of problem that blasters have over all.
Just looking at that post its kind of dated as 300% recharge in the powers is very possible currently -
Quote:You just aren't serious here and I have to guess trying to be provocative.Originally Posted by Arbegla
Nope, I've ran my archer in leagues, and done both lambda and baf, and didn't have any problem using Rain of Arrows. you just have to be quick on the draw, and get to groups faster then other people. And Archery has the second highest single target DPS for blasters (fire being the first) No, really, look it up. Archery is literally the second best all around Blaster primary, even with the fact the it is mostly lethal damage (which a hint of fire) due to its quick animation times, and ability to build definance up quickly.
Archery st chain is blazing->aimed->snap shot
It takes 5 seconds to run and does roughly 290 damage base over that give 100% damage enhance in the powers 50% from defiance and another 60% from aim and buildup give you 180 dps Meh. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Supermax
I got the seers on my main, which is a tank. Now I'm working on my fire blaster, and I'd prefer to get something different this time. Any suggestions? If nobody convinces me otherwise, I suppose I'll go for the Victoria, since I hear it does the most damage.
The seers have the best buff pet. Nearly permanent fortitude for +5% def, +to hit and +dam. I went the non-targetable route so I don't have to worry about trying to keep it alive. The damage pet is problematic. As a blaster drawing its aggro to yourself is a no win and all you have to keep it going is your destiny buff and whatever leadership you have. -
Quote:You are arguing from lack of experience. Having rain of arrows on a league full of judgements is an exercise in frustration. Its even more annoying seeing as an archer has mediocre single target and almost all of it is smash/lethal. That is from experience.Originally Posted by Arbegla
You have to keep in mind that Judgements aren't going to make blasters fade away, or take any thunder away from them. My archer still has Rain of Arrow which does about as much damage at base (and is affected by +dam) as any non-Ion judgement power, and is on about 1/3 the recharge. Ion is broken, that much is true, but the other powers really don't step on any toes.
Fulcrum shift much ?Quote:If you really want to go there, Ageless makes kin's useless, especially at t4 boosts, where its perma, Rebirth makes healers useless (especially the +regen one), Barrier makes all +res and +def shields useless (again, at higher tiers once its perma) and clarity makes any mez protection useless (even toggles!)
Sorry last time I played this game you had bunches of small things to kill on your way to that one thing that really needed dps.Quote:Interface doesn't add enough to really affect anything, and while Lore is amazing, its just a DPS trinket you can use every 15 mins that lasts for 5 mins. If you don't kill your thingy within 5 mins, then you have to wait another 10 in order to try it again.
When you say so many you mean 2 available to blasters. Hail of bullets is on a longer base recharge.Quote:There are so many AoEs that do more damage then judgements on much faster recharges that it really won't affect blasters at all. Heck, the majority of those AoEs are available to blasters already. I think, aside from Shield Charge and Lighting Rod, the other powers that rank as high as Judgement powers (the 400-500 damage range) are ONLY available to blasters, due to AT scaling. A defender's Rain of Arrows isn't going to match a Judgements, and while a Corruptor's may get close, its only during Scourge.
In your opinion.Quote:Overall, blasters are performing just fine. They still do damage, they still make things melt, and they are still AoE kings. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Lucky666
Why? Incarnate is the path to godhood, if a god can't solo an stationany object with 1 attack I would have serious concerns about that person actually becoming a god.
Well for one thing part of that number is because emps are able to buff those pets and keep them alive and blasters really can't even with the new abilities. So you are left with the blaster as an AT that has a negligible dps advantage a survivability deficit to everything else in the game and is solidly in the same boat as melee ATs in buff/debuff capability.
The other big problem is that the game is ceasing to be game if you want to be a "GOD" and just bust stuff up, download a 3D environment, some scenery and go blow it away. -
Quote:That isn't a good thingOriginally Posted by Arbegla
with full f4 boosts.. Hell, empathy defenders can do pylons in under 2 unders now with t4 boosts.