Battler

Just adding my vote to the

THIS IS A BAD BAD BAD IDEA AND SUX!!!

That is all.

* To be read as a joke* I think AT needs to wory less about people making replies and running rampant with the rumours of upcoming tanker changes. Who do they think they are, ?i mean, in a world of interwebz what the heck are we supposed to be, how would we feel fulfilled if we couldnt go on and on and on all day about a supposed rumour. Why is this person deliberatley spoiling our enjoyment of a main past time in down time or when we can't get on. I think we should ignore this damp squid spoiling our rumoured fun and get rumouring. I think The damage cap on tanks needs to go to 700% at least, along with and increade to 110% base and put its base defence to 50%, the same with its resistance, all its powers should be one shot AOE's ignoring the 1 shot rule. there, lets have fun and discuss. *end of fun bit*

On a lighter note, even pre brute nerf, tanker buff at joining I read I wouldn't have been fussed. I play what I like mainly. CoH has always been more of a concept type game to me but if they were going to do something I would think that incarnate slotted Tanks could do with an aggro cap increase. They seem like low damage scrappers and brutes in the end game with everyones defences maxed out these days, they like defenders have fallen back in the end game, thats all I see, both could do with something. But only at the end league style game, in the normal game I can't see any differance really.

Anyone else having problems with the updater and it not finding the update server and having to annoyingly force start the game?

I know CoH is a pita to run graphically and the updater has always been a weak part of the system and annoying as heck, but this is a real pain now. Ran fine last night and the past few weeks since I came back.

Having played since 2005 and on coming back after a 2 year sabatical taking in several other titles I have to say, it is good to be back. Even though I lost my global names on my US account, which has my old posting rights and my EU account which I made this forum account on as I VIP'd back with this one.

Having seen several other games and having played and unlocked everything but Hybrid so far (love the solo Incarnate content, if you had done this to start I wouldn't have left in the first place )...and really really resisting releasing more than the 2 characters I have with the unlock button, it is hard hehe, total altaholic with 200+ characters accross those accounts, I have noticed several QoL things that would be of great use to me, and maybe lots of others.

1. An in game Clock and calander.

I love this feature on almost every game I have played, all the guilds/groups etc I have played with used the calander and a clock was great to see right in front of me, just under something usually I moved to the top right hand corner and a calander as a drop down menu. Very useful and a bit of a QoL thing, not essential but great to have.

2. Cooldown Timers for Rewards

With the ammount of currencies and rewards, along with their associated missions to get...all with cooldown timers of 20hours, it gets really really annoying. A couple of games I played allowed mods to allow addons to show this or had in game timers showing it at one glance. Another way to change this would be to have a arbitary reset time rather than a timer, or an ammount of times you could claim the reward within a week, ie reset to reset.

3. LFG Indicators

All well and good queing up, but a small indication of how many others were queing as well would be good, also is this cross server or not. So at a glance you can see how many randoms you are waiting on.

4. A QoL bug fix update

Could we have someone please please go through the consolidated list of annoying bugs, like when you are on the Chantry outer lip you cannot use teleport powers or teleport attacks. This has been there for years and should have been fixed ages ago, especially as in the same arc you can use them on a ship up in the air hehe, but I knew about the chantry years ago.

5. Reward Salvage Indicators

With invention salvage you get all sorts of useful info when you have a pices of salvage that can be used in a recipie you have on you unless you disable it. When the reward window for Incarnate salvage pops up it would be really useful, if only for the currently equipped Ipowers, that if you had something that told you what was useful for the next tier rather than go through several pop up windows. I know this would only be useful for us returning or new players, but by the same token as the IO salvage, having a disable button to stop the established fully slotted T4s not be annoyed with it might be good to.

Thats 5 to get started with, happy to be back.

I have been playing since Oct 05, I have 2 accounts and 25 lvl 50s accross those accounts and probaly over 200 alts there to. It isn't hard to get to 50, they in fact reduced the requirement to lvl 20 well before Freedom.

By that argument you have therem they would have to give everyone a month for every lvl 50 they had, thats nice, 25 months free VIP time... I think not. Maybe something like a 30 day free IO access deal per 50, now that would be a nice subtle reward they could do for non VIP players.

Just a quick question in case anyone knows, but will we be able to merge a NA account with an EU account when we get access to all the servers on one account.

Many apologies if this has already been asked and answered, but a link if anyone has one would be great

Thanks in advance.

After mod 5 closed the last thread saying all the heated discussion was Flaming, well that got me thinking.

I know Positron doesn't like critisism really, bit like the boss in Clichequest haha...joke btw.

But these Trials for Incarnates are just masquerading as endgame content. Why do I come to this conclusion you may ask. Well to me, Trials, apart from the Villains Respec, have always been the weak cousin of the Task Force. In task Forces you progress accross a variety of Missions, facing progressively harder foes, till at the end you face your biggest challenge of all.

Why on earth are you doing them as two trials....an entire ENDGAME ISSUE OF TWO TRIALS.

They are not even progression raids. Worst of all heroes (and villains) can still progress for failing them.

Imagine it "It's ok Superdude, 9 out of the 10 bombs still went off, but you did manage to save 2 of the 100 people and apprehend one of the villains, here's your key to the City, you managed to perform like this the last 50 times in action so despite all the loss of life because we put our trust in you , You still win"

I don't mind the incidental random drops on any TF or Trial, its part of this games loot system, but before major rewards were only given out for success. Now you to can become omnipresent in failure.

Also, City of Heroes is taking an alarming direction change. Do you honestly think 90% of the playerbase is here for endgame and raids. Yes they all like a new TF evey issue or 2, a nice lvl 50 one pls, but all the ones inbetween 1 and 50 are great to, nice lore, nice new content...maybe a nice new shiney powerset or two to play about with and some new cossie pieces and the majority of your playerbase is fine.

I took a break last year due to financial constraints, moving and my irl friends fancied having a go at that game that no one likes to talk about, the fantasy one . It was just after you changed the graphics package on a 5 year old game and annoyed a few people as ther machines that were working fine one day stopped been good enough to give the same look the next.

City of Heroes will always probably be my favourite MMo to be honest.

But with these so called endgame raids, I don't know anymore.

If people don't already realise that many people are not happy with this issue because it has changed the main direction of thgis game since it was created.

It could have been implimented differantly. They could have mattered to normal gameplay, but they don't really. They appear only to work against TF's at 50 and these silly TF's that need you to grind and die...not grind or die.

It has added another level of currency, well done, not another one, in addition to the new Incarnate one in the last patch, again well done, which seems to be the yway thisz lot go. New issue, new currency to sit with the others.

City of Heroes, to me, was all about inclusion. The Super Side Kicking is, prehapse, the best feature of any game I have played, and before that the side kicking.

XP in TF's even when exemplared....brilliant.

IO's....excellent, not a loot system as such but still a loot system, nicely differant ans Superheroesvillany type.

AE...well, they were a bit nieve here, and Positron even had his mini breakdown there, and they had to announce Goin Rogue to distract everyone there, remeinded me a bit of some of the Clichequest there hehe. But they eventually nerfed...erm, rebalanced that to be correct. ( to me any change after release to reduce capability or rewards should be viewed as a nerf....alpha's and beta's are for balancing, if you release it ignoring feedback and allowing people to do stuff you just didn't thing they would use of for, it's a nerf )

Many other excellent features have been implimented to, but all had an "Inclusive" nature to it.

Now, they release something you cannot just jump into and function properly. "But don't worry in a few weeks time you can" This was never really seen in City of Heroes before. We have to actually get differnent tools to do this. We have to Grind the same 2 TFs time after time after time.

We have not had to do this before really.

Merits for IO's...all TF's, Story Arc's and when we got it, the Flashback System, all allowed even the solo player to benefit from this system.

The Alpha Slot mission was soloable or very easy to duo. That and you could get some drops to make the enhancement for your Alpha slot off any 50, but if you did TF's you got them faster.

This new direction is what is against the whole way CoX has operated in the past...apart from the seriously stupid hami.

People needed to LEARN TACTICS, NOT GET NEW POWERS AND ENHANCEMENTS BY BEEN FORCED TO RUN TASKFORCES TO GET THEM!!!!!

And not just one or 2 times, they can't run all the TF's in the game and collect a bucketload of merits. They cant go and do flashbacks solo for some merits to buy that IO recipie solo, differnat ones at that.

They now have to run the same 2 TF's time after time to unlock these till i21 and the next TF grind is wheeled out.

Sound Familiar now, well this game never had one way to get stuff really before.

Apparently they are balancing around IO's now, and appear to have balanced these 2 new TF's around that AND been decked out in the new Incarnate Abilities. Shame on them, they said they would only ever balance around SO's. This is a slippery slope. Common parts seem to be now massed to hit buffs, def debuffs, -regen and -res as part of the npc's package. It must just auto fill as they add encounters these days to any enemy.

That is what people are complaining about. End game raids are ok in most games, this game was always the haven for people to come and have fun. What they are changing this game into is not why most people who still do played this game or came back to it. If you are differantg then you must be in the wrong game as gear grinds are ----->