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So you'll be rolling back:

- the Taunt limit?
- the AoE limit?
- all the DEF and RES changes?

Since they were all to stop herding...but you don't care right? You have fun and that's what matters right?

This latest stealth-nerf just screams exploit. Mobs just stand there while I aggro more mobs. Herding made safe, nice. Even Inv. and Ice "tankers" can herd again. This change was made up so fast nobody thought it out and bothered to add it to the patch notes. I guess you "forgot". Again.

Can I get another free respec btw? I still took Taunt under the misguided impression it could come in handy. Guess you fixed that huh. I won't need it anymore; hell people don't need tanks anymore anyway for just 17 mobs. Just be done with it and make 'em all Brutes or Scrappers. It's how you're forcing us to play them.

But it's ok; just throw another free respec at some point. People love respeccing every time you come up with an "fix". Oh you forgot to give us a free respec for those last minute "fixes" to Phase Shift and Quantum Flight. We'll get those soon I assume?

I like how even you're starting to put fix between quotes by the way. I never thought I'd see the day the allmighty States would realise this isn't even remotely a fix.

*takes deep breath*

Rant over. As you were.

Any word on the teleport-animation bug? I've never seen it even achknowledged as a bug. While annoying in normal use it's extremely painful for the combat-teleporting stone-tank (which pretty much means every stone-tank out thtere) because it actually holds/freezes you mid-combat.

About the Spyware-bit...just the MS-tool and HitmanPro should be enough. HitmanPro includes AdAware, Spyware S&D, Spywareblaster and some other scanners.

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You say that as if he cares what you think. I''m pretty sure he's made it abundantly obvious that he has no interest or concern for the playerbase, as long as he appeals to the PvP market. Aside from that, really nothing you or anyone posts on these forums really even matters anymore.

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This should be everyones signature.

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No, what I am saying is that I believe you got the PM and that Statesman said that herding wasn't on his mind. But then in the patch notes specific concerns about herding were made and were the reason given for some of the nerfs. If you read through the I5 patch notes you will see this. I'm not going to sift through them and pull up a quote anyone can look up for themselves though.

So what this shows is that Jack is telling you one thing but the patch notes plainly and clearly contradict his PM to you. Something smells fishy and casts doubts towards any other claims Statesman or any of the other developers may make. It makes me feel that all the devs are doing is trying to spin doctor the poor "balance" choices they have made and could care less about what their player base thinks. To me it really makes them, especially Statesman, look bad.

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Right. I misunderstood your first post then. It turns out we completely agree

I think States should take a good look at the way Positron posts. Posi posts clearly, to the point and above all honestly. He posts numbers (if needed), reasons and the way he feels about it. You'll notice most replies in that thread are actually positive while most replies in this thread are negative.

I'm sure we all saw Posi's recent posts on Phase Shift; if all responses in the dev response threads were like that the boards would be a lot less hostile towards the devs in general and Statesman in particular.

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This will probably earn me a spot on the do-not-invite-to-beta list...

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Proof States was at least misrepresenting when he sent you that PM...If you read the patch notes it states that changes were made to make "herding" to more realistic levels. It's right there for anyone to read. So, if Jack sent you a PM saying herding wasn't on his mind....Well the contradiction is pretty self explanatory to anyone with half a mind.

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Are you saying I should prove he actually sent this? Or am I misunderstanding you?

I'll edit my post so be a bit more subtle btw.

Let's put it this way: I had a lot of fun playing Dungeon Siege 2 the past 3 weeks.

2 quotes from a PM I received from States:

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Honestly, PLing and herding weren't a consideration in my mind.

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All of the changes are aimed at PvE - brining fun and risk back to the game!

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I took your word for it 5 weeks ago (when I received the PM) but if I look at the state of the game now....well....it's hard to believe.

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Just because the two games interact with each other, does not make CoV an add-on or expansion pack. IT will be entirely possible to buy only CoV, never have once in yoru life had a CoH account, and get all the CoV content your heart could desire.


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Presumably, since they are two seperate games, one should be able to have their Villian and Hero logged in at the same time (a potential boon to two player households).

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That depends on how you register them.

If you add CoV to your existing CoH account you'll get the discount but you can't log both of them at the same time.

However if you make a second account for just CoV you can log both but you'll pay 15$ a month for each.

At least that is my understanding.

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And I'm pretty sure it's been mentioned that you NEED CoV for bases in CoH. Not sure though.

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Im actually enjoying I5. I love it with my Grav/Kin controller, its more like playing a blaster with a few holds thrown in.

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And this is exactly what I don't like about I5. If I wanted to play a Blaster I would have chosen a Blaster...not a Controller.

They introduced Gauntlet so Tankers wouldn't be taunt-bots anymore. With I5 the changes made my Controller a single-target-hold-bot who works at a mere fraction of his previous power but now does damage...woohoo.

And all this because States' played a powerlevelled Controller for 2 weeks and thought it was fun. He never levelled a Controller from 1 to 50 the hard way and had 75% his power taken away.

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[I'm totally amazed by States' post; even a glance at the forums shows people are all but happy with I5. And does someone have a link to that "great feedback" he mentions?

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I think he meant "great" as in the amount of feedback as opposed to the "I5 is great!!" posts. Then again, he may think that all feedback on a topic is great (or wonderful) since it lets him know what the players that use the forums think, good or bad, about changes to the game.

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Could be; he has a funny way of showing his appreciation though. Totally ignoring all the major issues brought up in the dev response threads wasn't the way to go.

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I recall when in April of last year I first discovered CoH, and appreciated the simplicity, fun and addiction of it. Now it's developed into a nightmare where the voices of the masses remain unheard unless they are singing praises to something that was once great.

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Very well put. Totally agree.

I'm totally amazed by States' post; even a glance at the forums shows people are all but happy with I5. And does someone have a link to that "great feedback" he mentions? Has he even seen the dev response threads? There's a lot of feedback there but none of it is _for_ I5 in its current form.

I have no faith whatsoever in the devs and the direction they're taking this game. I left WoW because I wanted to have fun in CoH again....well I don't have fun anymore. Accounts are active till CoV hits, once the payment-details are clear I'll see if it's worth it to keep CoH. If it isn't the CoH accounts go and I won't miss em. I'll miss pre-I4 CoH though.

How about an real reply in the so called dev-response threads? These have proven to be totally useless; devs hardly responded and if they did it was to make some silly comment on a minor issue.

People have spent a lot of time testing and making intelligent posts about what they feel about I5. This has gone totally ignored. Just a (short) reply about the big issues would have been enough.

People have mentioned Phase Shift in this thread; just confess this change was 99% due to PvP issues and admit the PvE "issues" were pulled out of thin air (or somewhere else, where the sun don't shine).

When I "sold" this game to friends one of my arguments was "the devs actually actively post on the boards and discuss with the player-base!". This has been proven to be wrong. This is an argument I will never ever use again.

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No.

At least not as you have stated. I’ve never tried it, but you might be able to follow a person on your team by using the following binds.
numpad1 "+ $$unselect$$teamselect 1$$follow"
numpad2 "+ $$unselect$$teamselect 2$$follow"
numpad3 "+ $$unselect$$teamselect 3$$follow"
numpad4 "+ $$unselect$$teamselect 4$$follow"
numpad5 "+ $$unselect$$teamselect 5$$follow"
numpad6 "+ $$unselect$$teamselect 6$$follow"
numpad7 "+ $$unselect$$teamselect 7$$follow"
numpad8 "+ $$unselect$$teamselect 8$$follow"

Sorry best I can do.

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Thanks I'll try that. Not quite what I wanted but your solution still eliminates an extra keypress.

Is there a way to target specific characters and then follow?

For example; when I hit "g" I always want to target the hero "Captain Cliche" and then follow him.

Quick note about the teleporting bit: you'll see a lot of Stone/* Tankers taking teleport to offset the movement penalties of Granite Armor and/or Rooted.

If no speedbooster is around and you can't afford to turn off Rooted it is the only way to get around while wearing Granite.

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Posi, nice power design and all---but really, I won't be using this power on my 50 Fire/Fire blaster, ever. Well, not intentionally. The moment I'm in the yellow, I'm popping heals or if out, I'm running for the door. If a team-healer type plays around with me trying to boost up my damage by letting me hit low health, then I'll quit the team and run for the hills (never to group with said experimentor again).

Sorry, but I truly feel you should give this power to Scrappers. They like living on the edge like this. More power to em, so to speak.

Blasters, OTOH, need something much more logical and substantial. The HP buff and damage cap raise (we did get one, right?) are much more logical and 'blasterish'. Thanks indeed for those.

Nice try, tho

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Totally agree. Over lvl 25 or so a Blaster is either dead or happily blasting away. If the healthbar does drop they're either running, being chainheld, popping insps or dead in the next second.

Defiance is a scrapper power.

At higher levels blasters are either dead or happily blasting away. If health drops to < 40% it's probably gonna drop to 0 in the next few milliseconds anyway.

As mentioned this looks nice in theory but doesn't work out so well.

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Oh just noticed that Blaster Defiance is a Feature on the main-page. Looks like the decision is final and this entire thread is useless.

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This isn't going to happen. In the European version of City of Heroes, each server is dedicated to a specific language. If you want to play in English, you choose an English-language server. If you want to play in German, you choose a German-language server, and so on for French.

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Well experience teaches us that English servers _will_ be saturated by German players unwilling or unable to speak English. I've seen it in every (European) MMO I've played so far. And a lot of those games also had a dedicated German server.

I don't want to attack any German people reading this but this is my experience and that of a lot of other people.