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  1. Bill Z Bubba
    SR is better on a brute than it is on a scrapper for two reasons:

    1: Higher base hitpoints mean that you get more leverage out of the passive scaling damage resistance.

    2: Evasion gets a taunt aura.

    Whether these two items make any difference in PvP, I don't know. Everyone tells me SR is gimped in PvP now, but I seem to be doing fine with my claws/sr scrapper. Granted, claws has KB and I'm IOed to the gills. I do not have elude or aid self.
  2. Bill Z Bubba
    I do agree that it *should* be done, but having a general idea of the workload involved throws it at the back of things I'd like to see fixed around here.

    It was very nice to have the baked in redraw times removed from the sets that have been worked on so far. Claws, DB (which never had the baked in redraw,) and mace I know have been done. Not sure about broadsword and axe.

    That's not to say I agree with Castle's claws damage tweak (I don't... at all) but the set certainly felt smoother after the rework.
  3. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    My suggestion is simple: Whatever techniques were used to make Brawl and the origin-temp compatible with weapons should have give an animations tweak to allow all relevant powersets to work harmoniously with a character's weapons
    Sounds easy doesn't it?

    Were you aware that a new animation would have to be created for each for each weapon set?

    Let's start with boxing. It will need a new animation for each weapon set in the game.

    Claws, dual blades, broadsword, ninja sword, katana, axe, mace, VEAT assault gun, VEAT mace, VEAT crab, VEAT claws, mastermind assault gun, archery, mastermind archery... think that's it.

    Call it 14 weapon sets.

    So that's 14 new animations just for boxing.

    Now let's add the rest of the power pool attacks. Boxing, kick, flurry, air superiority and jump kick.

    Up to 70 new animations.

    But you wanted grenades and the like as well. There's a whole hell of a lot of different "thrown" attacks in the game. Let's pick 10 randomly from our backside.

    15 attacks times 14 weapon sets: 210 new individual animations.

    How long do you think it would take a couple animators to pull that off, get it into an internal test build, QA the changes, etc?

    EDIT: I forgot body types, Aett. 630 animations.
  4. Bill Z Bubba
    1000 bucks or so. Another 2K on rig parts.

    3000/5/365.25 = buck fifty a day

    That's pretty cheap entertainment.
  5. Bill Z Bubba
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    My point is there is already presedence for a blast/armour set that can be balanced. It would simply be nice if there was an AT that could do this without needing unlocking, and being locked with fixed powers.
    I don't disagree with that point, but considering how ridiculously easy it is to hit 50 and unlock the EATs these days, (took me 100 hours to solo my last brute to 50 using normal content and paper missions) I rather doubt that the devs would add an AT that we can already mimic with existing powersets.
  6. Bill Z Bubba
    I'm not seeing how the EATs don't fit this description already. My SoA uses a hunstman build without any melee attacks. By the time she's done, she'll be 100% offensively ranged and sitting at the softcap to at least ranged with mez protection.

    How is that not a blast/mitigation AT?
  7. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Moderator 08 View Post
    TheOcho is Neutral Good.

    Mod08 is definitely Lawful Evil
    Do you need meds for that level of persistent cognitive dissonance or is it a straight split personality issue?
  8. Bill Z Bubba
    I'll be keeping an eye on you people.
  9. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    We don’t have numbers from the Radeon 58xx series yet. This would be able to run Ultra-mode with the quality maxed out (except we have no data on Anti-aliasing, so caveat emptor when it comes to that specific feature).
    ...

    Please tell me that I'm going to be able to request the unsticky of my ancient ATI thread in the tech forum come GR go live.
  10. Bill Z Bubba

    Scrapper or Brute

    POST-ACTION

    I'm still on the fence with my main scrapper. On the one hand, going evil is more than natural for him. And he'd keep all his badges. On the other hand, he'd be even better as a brute being claws/sr. Tough call, that.
  11. Bill Z Bubba
    As with Justaris, I take the axe on my dark using characters.
  12. Bill Z Bubba
    No, Bill, you got it wrong again. There's no space. Just Pinnbadges
  13. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Westley View Post
    So... Jack is only worth one half of one percent of our dev team? That makes me feel all warm and tingly inside for some reason.
    Don't forget Geko. So considering the size of the CHV team at that point, it's probably closer to NCSoft got 90% of the CHV team in the deal.

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    I'm hoping that we're just in a lull while folks wait for Going Rogue.
    I'm under this assumption, but also attribute the low pops to a lot of great games having just come out.

    I'm spending a lot of time with Left 4 Dead 2 and I'm having a VERY difficult time keeping myself from dropping 100 bucks on Dragon Age and Borderlands.

    But I'm one of those folks that has taken breaks in the past and comes back.

    Am I worried about the game? Nope. My first post should have given that away. Do I see the same low population problems many folks are griping about? Yup. But as a soloist, it doesn't affect me.

    Well... mostly. Part of the missing population consists of the few folks left in my SG/VGs. I can't get into my own groups without logging on my brother's account to do the invites.
  14. Bill Z Bubba
    I think "no signs of waning" is a bit overstated. For several months now, I've not seen Pinnacle's pop hit 1000. That's considering both sides. Granted, I have no idea what percentage of players run around hidden from searches like I always do.

    But I do know it's been damn quiet in every zone. All the time.

    I would hate to be a new player right now.

    EDIT: Just logged in. 89 matches found blueside. 2 to 1 ratio has been mostly true forever. That means ~45 redside.

    6PM on a night before many are off for 5 days. And Pinn's got less than 150 players not hidden.
  15. Bill Z Bubba
    No. Eventually they will shut the servers down. I give this game a decade. Tops.
  16. Bill Z Bubba
    I just heard something that caused me to wonder if anyone was actually quitting over not getting a badge for continuous payment during X amount of time because they didn't follow the rules for getting the badge.

    Now I know that it is happening.

    I am truly astounded by this fact even though I know I shouldn't be.
  17. Bill Z Bubba
    Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please, but I think it's "Pinn Badges" now and you don't need an invite, but you will need a channel mod to unsilence you once you've joined.
  18. Bill Z Bubba

    Guys...

    POST-ACTION

    Badger?
  19. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    AV soloing/rikti challenge ect, you need aid self, pvp you need it or elude.
    My SR doesn't use aid self and I've soloed all the Phalanx TFs, pylons and the RWZ challenge are part of my meditation routine, and PvP I seem to be doing just fine. (Odd, that last one. Everyone tells me SR is still gimp in PvP.)

    Only reason I failed to solo the ITF was due to the autohit fluffy in the last mission. (And I was told how to deal with that.)

    With MA's mitigation, I fail to see why MA/SR would be much different.

    Oh yea... I don't have elude either.
  20. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Desitre View Post
    Didn't know I had to clarify that it was only on villain side. Anyways that's just your opinion, usually when a level cap is raised they do more to the content and fix problems while creating new problems.It's just your opinion about them being false or true, no way to prove that unless someone who actually knows what's going on behind the scenes talks about the level cap dealeo. I'm all for a level cap increase if they did one, they have plenty of time to prep for the increase by fixing some of the problems.

    After that totally off topic post. I think the majority of the players tried Champions online, there were some like me who thought the game was just a craptastic game and there were others who liked it, and left to it.

    I honestly think CoH is one of the more popular mmos out there. Yeah theres LOTRO and WoW, but I don't know many people that have left to those games and stayed over there. They all usually come back. We will probably see a lot more people when the new update comes out, level cap or not.
    It's not just an opinion. The devs have laid out all the problems that would occur with raising the level cap. It's not going to happen.

    To the OP, Pinn redside is dead. Fine for me because I solo most of the time, but I always feel bad when I see broadcasts for folks looking for teams and never getting a reply.
  21. Bill Z Bubba

    Scrapper or Brute

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Atomic_Funk View Post
    Thank you for all the advice.

    I decided to go with a Claws/Willpower Brute and so far he is a blast. I am level 8 and have Swipe, Strike, Spin, High Pain Tolerance, Fast Healing, and Swift.

    Fury+Multiple Mobs+Spin=Gravy!

    While I feel I like Blueside more than Redside, I came up with a good concept and character which has allowed me to enjoy Redside more!

    Thank you!

    Atomic Funk
    And the truth shall set you free.

    Good choice.
  22. Bill Z Bubba
    Nice.
  23. Bill Z Bubba
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Radmind View Post
    My Maine Coon likes to use my leg as a scratching post. Not bare skin, but he seems to like blue jeans. Or if he climbs up on my shoulders he'll do it on my back and shoulders.
    Holy hell... those buggers aren't small either. I want one, by the by.
  24. Bill Z Bubba

    Pylon soloing.

    POST-ACTION

    Takes my claws/sr scrapper about 9 minutes.

    You can find various times listed throughout this thread:
    http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=130754

    Noticed an MM time of 4:10. A 5:02 on a DM/SD.
  25. Bill Z Bubba
    No reason another AT down the road won't allow for ranged damage/mitigation powersets.

    Yank the mez protection, lower the scale below scrapper/brute, call it a day.