Amy_Amp

This was vastly the conversion I had with a long time CoH game friend recently. We would totally quit CoX and move on, but there isn't anything out there that is done as well. We take our breaks, but always come back. Give me another year of marking things off of my ever growing list of things to do and have TOR come out and then we'll talk. Until then, I don't see me really seriously playing anything else.

Hell, I was on a level 3 this morning and I was doing AE missions and later got on a sewer/KR team and ended up being level 10 when I logged and I'm still scratching my head how somebody goes 1-20 in under 3 hours purely solo even if they only used AE so no, to little need for travel. Let's say a mission take 10 minutes to run. That means you get under 18 missions in that time frame in order to hit 20.

+1000 for the article in question. New maps has been one of my biggest request for ages. One of the nice side aspects of using the AE is that people will use unique maps far more than what the devs will.

Also depends if you want to solo AVs without using inspirs.

And I still say blue side is messed just because there are common drops that go for way more than what I common should among other things. One example since this is the controller forum. One could craft common IOs and resell them for a profit by default. There might be some that were difficult to do, or you would lose out and certainly in certain price ranges. Most people don't craft common sleep IOs in mass to sell on the market for profit. There's just not enough market for it. But common hold IOs being way under valued? I know I have seen common hold IOs for 1K and we are talking level 35+. When I IOed out my Earth/storm with commons, I made sure to buy them at a proper price just to encourage people to sell and buy them for more.

Again, yes, red side is messed up to where it makes blue side seem like a dream. There was a time where my sig had the following...

How to fix the red side market.
Step 1. Play red side.
Step 2. Repeat step one.

Simply put, not enough people play red side and the market won't get better until more people do.

Vibe I get from the forum is the opposite and there was a thread asking people if they play the hero, or villain in games and the vast majority said hero. I know I have zero desire to role a hero and have them go red side. I'll be happy to be wrong because like I mention in response to the previous quote, red side needs people playing there.

I have seen some people make some bad choices with it, but there are some out there that have really done a good job with it to the point I want to roll that power set even if I can't stand it. I'll probably steal some ideas instead. I still need to tweak some of my characters now that I have more options.

So you are both going for the Captain Obvious awards?

<--- will be playing GR with a graphics card that is 5+ years old.

I thought that was the AE. No wait, it's was power customization. No wait...

I used to do the IO thing fairly early and put in level 25s until a later time, but the buying and crafting aspect just slowed me down too much. I can earn enough to just sub in new SOs as I go and then add in IOs much closer to when I'm 50.

It's insanely easy to be able to afford DOs.

Once you hit level 38+.

I don't disagree. I'm just saying I popped a Kat/wp on Test that was auto leveled there. All I had were SOs and I think they were yellow at that. I still have very little to no issue with end and that's again with no slotting of end in my attacks. My /regen uses .6825 end and that's not factoring in Sprint pretty much being on as well. I just don't see how a set which has a power that is better than Stamina having end issues to the point you delete it twice.

By mid 30s you would have QR and able to add in Stamina if need be. Again, I don't get how you had end issues.

2.67, so it's over a half of a second slower than CB.

AVs. That's one big reason to keep Siphon Power in the build even later on.

How for the love of god can you have end issues on a /regen? I went to 50 without IOs helping me out, or having end reduc slotting into my attacks. Unless there was something that specifically drained my end, then end wasn't an issue at all. I ran multiple toggles as well.

Neutrino Bolt = 1.5 sec.
X-Ray Beam = 1.67 sec.
Irradiate = 1.07 sec.
Electron Haze = 2.37 sec.
Cosmic Burst = 2.07 sec.
Neutron Bomb = 1.67 sec.

EH is faster than other AoEs. There are faster 3rd ST attacks, but CB is also one of the best compared to something like Shout. Long animations isn't something you can claim and actually back up.

Forums != in game. To be honest, /sd is by far the most talked about secondary here and I don't have one. Of the three you listed as being on Freedom, I only have two of them and those are on other servers. When I get the chance I'm putting a Spines/elec on Freedom. I also have a new DB/elec on a different server and yet that is hardly talked about as well. Yes, certain builds get talked about here that you might not see them a ton in game, but then there are a lot of number crunchers here and builds that cost let's say 1 billion aren't not common in game, but it's easy to make one up using a build planner. Heck, even the /sd backers will admit it gets good "with a 'little' investment." I've got my 51 month badge and of the thee 3 50's I have, two of them where made before I was even on the forum, so I had no clue if they were good, or not. Even if the 3rd was a way classic combo, it was rolled due to concept. Fun in your head > what's talked about on the forum.

Which is great for you. I wouldn't consider it the best and it's rare I take it as my secondary.

Technical reasons? It already exist in the other 3 support sets.

Balance reasons? It's already been "nerfed." How would /traps be overpowered compared to what controllers already get? I don't exactly see a bunch of Traps defenders running around these days. Again, it's in the three other sets and it's not even considered "the best" in any of them.

Manpower? Name me another support set that controllers don't have that would be easier to port? DM? No. "Poison?" No.

Preference? Using traps to help control something. Hmmm. It fits thematically as well.

You really have to go out of your way to think of why controllers wouldn't get /traps. Again, look at the reason certain sets that we know of that aren't getting ported are deemed that way. Ice/cold brutes? Fury issues. /shield for stalkers, Emp, and Poison? Due to theme even though there will be modified versions of the last two to fit within the theme. /traps suffers from none of that.

And yes, I really do need to roll a Garv/storm and just let the chaos happen.