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Originally Posted by Smersh

Ah, so you admit that I didn't say what you said I did, and that you are wrong. Glad to hear it.

Originally Posted by Kyriani

A global bonus like defense is very different from a +healing bonus

Allow me to explain. A global bonus like defense is just that a benefit that is on all the time that requires no input from the user, is not contingent on your AT or powersets. It does something regardless of what powers you have chosen. Now no matter how inconsequential or useless you think that defense bonus might be (whether cause you aren't stacking defense or your powersets arent really defense focused) is irrelevant. You are getting a defense bonus. You are getting something that does something however useless that something might be.

A healing bonus does nothing. For the healing bonus to do something it requires the player to activate a power that heals either themselves or another target. Let me clarify that HEALING and REGENERATION are two different animals. A +healing bonus does not benefit a regen power. A +healing bonus non functional if the player has no powers that grant healing.

You still don't seem to get it. Your point about how useless a s/l defense bonus is to this or that at/powerset is IRRELEVANT. Those bonuses DO SOMETHING whether you want to acknowledge that or not. A +healing bonus DOES NOTHING if you have no powers that heal. Now when you couple that with a set of IO's designed for a specific archetype and that archetype has primary and secondary powerset combinations that can result in no healing powers being available to choose you have a problem. This set bonus isn't bad for these powersets... its non functional. It doesn't work. It does NOTHING.

Now you have to understand there's a difference between a bonus that is inconsequential or not useful vs. a set bonus that relies on you having very specific powers to gain any use out of.

Originally Posted by Kyriani

Again... you still dont get it... seriously are you people being intentionally thick headed?

THIS IS NOT ABOUT WHETHER A SET BONUS IS GOOD OR BAD OR OPTIMAL.

THIS IS ABOUT AN IO SET DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR YOUR AT HAVING A SET BONUS THAT AFFECTS POWERS YOUR POWERSET DOES NOT HAVE.

How hard is it for you to understand?

Imagine as a scrapper that the 4pc set bonuses is +10% stun duration... thats a nice bonus... IF you have any powers that can stun

Now the defender set 4pc adds 8% healing... that's a great bonus... IF you have any powers that heal.

This is an archetype specific set.

All powersets should be able to get SOMETHING from each bonus. Even if it was something as "useless" as 4% immob resistance. An 8% healing set bonus does NOTHING if you have no healing powers. And since these sets are meant for a specific AT then ALL the powerset selections for that AT should get some benefit from each set bonus. Currently for defenders this is not the case.

AGAIN this is not about whether a set bonus is good or bad.

It is about a set bonus that DOES NOT FUNCTION for specific primaries of the AT intended to use the set.

Originally Posted by FloatingFatMan

I actually consider the slots thing a blatant rip off. You're meant to keep what you paid for, right? Well, the original CoH came with 10 slots, so why don't you keep those 10, huh?

Then CoV came with 2, GR with another 2, that means if you bought all three of those there should be 14 slots as a basic minimum when you drop to Premium.

So basically, they lied when they said you keep what you paid for.

Originally Posted by CactusBrawler

It's an example of a Woman in refrigerator trope when the death is soly to motivate another character (usually male), had she died for some other reason than to motivate Manticore or Statesman it wouldn't be a WIR.

Originally Posted by Zemblanity

Sorry, I mistyped, Euro player, it was 6 AM when I wrote this. I just meant she was retired, not active. It'd be like announcing the imminent murder of a basketball player and then going after some obscure guy who played in the sixties.



There's a difference between stepping into a burning building to rescue people and just watching it burn. If my hero's involved, I expect something to come out of it.



Why not? My hero should be the main character in the game once I log in.



The Signature Contact refers to the 7 episodes as Book.



My problem here is that my hero character was a spectator in an episode where villains are rigged to succeed. Why can't we have it both ways? Play a hero, save the girl. Play a villain, kill the girl. That's what was so great about Praetoria, you could either save or kill Aria and Zane depending on your ambition and bloodthirst. The game engine allows this.



I haven't done Redside yet, Manticore's poison arrow wasn't dissipating, meaning I couldn't kidnap Alex. Admittedly, I'd have the exact same problem if my villains did manage to murder her only to have a textbox cutscene undo my work.

Point is, whoever it is that logs in should be the main character in the game, not a sidekick or a witness, and story arcs that are rigged from the start to fail should be avoided. Heroes save the day. Villains get to rule the world. Everyone's happy.

Originally Posted by Kyriani

+healing does NOT benefit powers like health that provide REGEN. There is a fundamental difference to the bonus provided by a healing enhancement (which does enhance a HEALING power and a REGEN power) and a % gain for a HEALING power (Powers such as Reconstruction or Heal other benefit from +heal but powers like Regeneration Aura or Health do not).

And since every AT can get aid self and aid other why not replace the 4pc bonus for EVERY AT specific IO set to a +healing bonus? I am sure the other ATs will be quick to jump on the bandwagon for why a +heal bonus on an AT specific set when some primary powersets of that AT have no healing powers is not a good idea.

Originally Posted by Dispari

I more expect them to be items in the store than something you have to obtain in-game.


Health doesn't count.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

That's a pretty big fallacy you used up there.

"Villains" are not a monolithic whole with common goals, ideas and preferences. To present "kill people" as the villainous thing to do is, to me at least, a profound misunderstanding of what villains have needed since day one of City of Villains. Check out any FPS and you'll find good, unambiguous heroes killing people. Torture, murder and **** do make people evil and do make characters into villains. They just don't make them into villains I want to play as.

By contrast, what villains have needed since villains have existed in this game is independence. For all time, they have been lackeys and henchmen and fall guys for the various named characters, and regardless of what Darryn might say, this is still the case. A truly interesting, cool villain is independent, free to plot his own schemes and through his cunning, audacity or success is he a great villain. Murder doesn't have to enter into it, not intrinsically, at least.

Example: Let's look at the Teen Titans animated series and resident bad guy Slade, aka Deathstroke the Terminator from the comic books. I'm struggling to remember, but I'm pretty sure that at no point did he actually kill anyone. Excluding that one Zone Sama flash animation, he mostly just manipulated people and ran a sinister organisation which came close to success on multiple occasions. Granted, it's for kids, but it still manages to be very dark at times, very powerful at others, and still have a cool villain I'd play as in a heartbeat. And all of this without needing any "mature" themes.

Pushing your rating once is a sign of an edgy idea. Pushing your rating all the damn time is a sign of pretentious writing.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Here's the thing, though: People are already paranoid about starting tasks without the absolute maximum number of people you can shove in them. For instance:

You can start a DFB with as few as four people. I've run it with four and it was very easy. Yet time and again, I see people broadcast "DFB lf4m!" for half an hour, after having sat in Help for a while and know that this DFB team already has four members. They have enough people to start, but they're willing to waste another half hour looking for the remaining four.

I'm not sure people need much coercion to look for max size teams when said people are inclined to look for teams to begin with.

Originally Posted by PunkRolex

Task forces usually live and die by having a decent meat shield and some kind of buff/debuff types. Everyone wants a good tank on their team but not many people want to play them. In my experience, TFs seem to form up with lots of Blasters and melee types who are going to want all the help they can get from more support-oriented toons.

The first thing I thought when I read this post was a Plant/Cold corrupter. They get the signature power from their primary at level 8, in time to be fully slotted for a Posi run, and they bring a good mix of buffs and debuffs to the table at all levels. On down side is that they spend a lot of time just spamming their AoE immob and ST hold at low levels; there just isn't much else for them to choose from. Things get better as they mature, but they're very team friendly and useful at any level at all.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

To continue this thought... how does Miss Liberty's death affect the women in-game?

MS LIBERTY - See various entries above.

SISTER PSYCHE - Her husband has just failed to save the life of their group leader's wife. I hope their marriage is a stable one, because otherwise she'll never trust him to save HER when push comes to shove.

NUMINA - Reinforcing yet again that she can only bring someone back to life within a short time. (Time to level up, or slot that sucker with a few enhancements for range/duration.)

Next interesting question - with Alexis dead and Statesman potentially on the verge of deserting/losing it/whatever... what happens to the leadership of Freedom Corps? There goes the moderating influence on Longbow (and the likes of Ms Lib and Captain Dietrich)...

Waiting to see how this plays out.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU

The biggest problem that 3D has had this generation is that very few movies have a) Shot in 3D to start with and tacking it on afterwards always looks poor and b) Made 3D a gimmick (hurling things at the screen, etc) as opposed to a part of the environment.

The only movie I've seen with genuinely good 3D was Avatar, because it was shot with 3D in mind and was used has a backdrop to the rest of the film rather than shoved in your face every 30 seconds.

Originally Posted by Smersh

It's not about the gruesomeness of the death - Gwen Stacy counts as stuffed in a fridge.

It's about the author doing these things so that the hero has something to angst about and have character development over.

In general, it's about having horrible things happen to female characters so that male characters can react to it.

Originally Posted by Commando

I have seen our beloved tier 9 power be given out like cheap candy to most other ATs in the game. Seeing /regen scrappers with hibernate... I mean, how much more unkillable can you get? Now stalkers have Ice armor with an even better set of options, they get a neat Tier 9 power and Hibernate from Patron pool.

I think the Developers should reconsider granting Ice/ tankers an exception to the no Hibernate timer. I would ask the Developers to let Ice/ tankers hit hibernate as soon as they can recharge it, the way it was before.

I would also ask that Ice armor tanks not be allowed to use the exploit of phase+hibernate. So grant the Ice armor tanks a "no phase timer" but please remove the "no hibernate" condition on them.

This is OUR tier 9 power, and, as such, it should be entitled to some sort of exception from others who just have it available from a pool.

Please give us the Ice armor we had before, with Hibernate free of such restriction that everyone else has on it.

The other option, which I think is still far better than the current state, is to put Hibernate on a 45 seconds hard recharge and make it unaffected from recharge enhancements and such. But that is not what we had. I really would just like the Devs to give us our own Tier 9 the way we had it. Again, keep the "no phase" condition on us, but keep Hibernate unaffected by such condition for us Ice tankers.

Originally Posted by UberGuy

Once you buy them, you can only claim them once, on one character. If you want them for another character, you need to buy them again. "Account bound" means you can't trade them to a character off of your account. They can't go in storage bins, be sold, etc.