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Quote:I agree. While I still prefere Scrappers, the change to Brutes was an improvement imo.Originally Posted by JayLeonHart_EU
"There were nerfs" != "There were nerfs to the way Fury is generated which for some people lead to less overall DPS and burst damage, therefore there was less of a reason for someone to play a Brute over a Scrapper when GR launched, which is why Scrappers were not made obsolete when it did"
Some forum folks assume everyone else reads every patch note. This is what I was driving at - you shouldn't assume specific knowledge like this, despite how "common" you think it should be. (Also, I found the Fury changes to be an overall buff for all of my brutes.) -
Quote:I like Hibernate >_>Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Ice Armor will be coming to Scrappers, but not in Power Proliferation 3.0.
I'm really happy with the change to the Tier 9. I'd rather have that than the one Tanks (and possibly Brutes) get. Argh! I can't wait to play a Spines/Ice Scrapper! -
Wait a minute...CAK accepts the the -Resist Proc now?
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Quote:Just curious, but did you ask them in team or league what exactly they meant by Team A Grenades, Team B Acids?Originally Posted by Mandu
This is why I will never cancel my subscription to CoH. And also why I am an Altaholic. Because at lower levels you can always find teams of people who are in it for fun. No worries if the team wipes. No kicking a team mate just because they are a complete noob.
It's also why I won't do the trials. People screaming orders (ok, typing orders) without stopping to explain.
"Team A Grenades! Team B Acids"
Hmmmm... is he calling me a grenade? Where is everybody running to? Nobody has said anything about what we need to do.
Ever seen that WoW magic marker video with the guy screaming "MORE DOTS!" Thats what a trial feels like. I'm not going to link to it directly because it contains very nsfw language. But if you want to find it just search onyxia wipe on youtube and it will be the first result. Now not all trials involve somebody as psycho as that but they pretty much do involve people who spout out acronyms and abbreviations and expect everybody to know what they are supposed to do and expect the whole thing to be done in the minimum possible time.
Don't like end game in any game because it always involves a large percentage of people who are not interested in playing the game, only in "beating" the game by becoming the most powerful or fastest or what have you.
I've had to ask on Keyes a few times, what exactly is going on. They told me and I'd go "Oh!" and then move on.
With the Lamda they're basically short handing, because they figure everyone knows it by now. -
Quote:Is it to much to hope it's Incinerate level?Originally Posted by StratoNexus
I wonder how much damage it does. Bitter Freeze Ray level? Cosmic Burst level? Stunning Shot level?
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Quote:Yeah I can agree with that. With the book I envisioned a bigger battle between the mother and Bella.Originally Posted by Local_Man
Overall, I thought it was good, but I must admit I was a little disappointed with the one big scene I was looking forward to . . . the "get away from my daughter, you <you know the word>!" scene. The book had a lot more build-up, leading to an epic fight between a truly crazy evil witch and a fierce mother protecting her kids pulling out all the stops. When reading the book, I exected a different end for Bella (at the hands of Nevel). When I read that moment in the book, I envisioned something a lot, well, MORE. Instead, it was pretty minor.
I was also sad that Kreacher's redemption was left out of the movies. No leagion of house elves coming to help defend Hogwarts. No Grawp showing great heroics. No Centaurs coming to help Hogwarts.
Also was wondering why they couldnt at least show Kreacher's turn to liking Potter. I always envision him living with the Potters 19 years later. -
Quote:Yup. Since Scrappers have Hibernate in their Patron Pool as well.Originally Posted by BL00DBATH
So now that we know that Hibernate for Stalkers has been replaced with Icy Bastion, do you think they would do the same thing with Scrapper Ice Armor?
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Quote:You can't replace Midnight Grasp with Siphon Life! Midnight Grasp is more tentacles!Originally Posted by Eldagore
Barf. I was really, really hoping against odds for a non blap centered set. At least shadow maul is there instead of having shadow punch. When the teaser mentioned dark armor and dark miasma, i was hoping for more of those and less dark melee though, anything besides a dmg aura and blaps would have made for a more outside the box set. Heres a few powers i would sub in for almost anything here....
Siphon life- a blap, but a blap with a purpose besides damage. a blaster with a self heal outside of the medicine pool would be nice. I am looking forward to life drain because of this. In the case of this "beta" I would drop it in instead of midnight grasp.
Howling twilight.... possibly modified for self only. how awsome would it be to have a self rez besides rise of the pheonix? Would free up choices for the pooles in the end game.
Soul transfer....same as above
opressive gloom, cloak of fear.... I actually thought these had a good chance, like world of confusion but fear or stun instead of confuse.
And of course cloak of darkness. i thought this had a good chance too.
Oh well. At least the "beta" of dark blast looks fun. Dark/energy it is! Man I wish they had put one of the rez powers in. Blasters would get so much use out of them.
They probably don't want to give Blasters access to two self rezs.
Though I still think something needs to be taken out for Cloak of Darkness! Or a Stealth Power of some sort! Dark/Dark combos should have access to a stealth power! -
Quote:I loved the glasses!Originally Posted by Father Xmas
While Part 1 sort of dragged in parts, Part 2 felt way to quick IMO.
And the giggle of girls sitting in front of me felt the movie catered to the boys because of the front and center Hermione cleavage shot but didn't have a naked Harry, if only for a moment, during the afterlife scene.
Oh and who else thought the HP inspired 3D glasses were a cute touch? Glad I decided to go to the 7.1 viewing just to get them. Had no idea what they were going to be...I figured normal glasses with Harry Potter written on them...and was glad I went to both showings for them.
I dont require them really getting into Fred's death (or was it George...I forgot) in the books to much, other than his family mourning him and they saying who did it. -
All those comments on the new Harley costume...but it just dawned on me.
Who can blame them? That Harley costume looks like half the costumes you see in use in CoH. -
Quote:Funny thing is, I've yet to see a toon that actually looked 8. I wouldn't guess 8 and wouldn't even think 8, if it wasn't for bios saying as such.Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad
Sadly, yes. Got one guy banned for a day or three, I guess, but when he came back the only thing he added to his minimum height minimum all sliders young girl was a line stating that while she appeared to be 8 she came from a long lived magical race that mentally matured faster than their bodies did and was actually more than a hundred years old. Which I guess is better than playing her as a promiscuous actual 8 year old... but... not really.
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Quote:Yeah, but the text still has you thinking to stop it, just in a different way. And Cole still sends you off to get youout of the way.Originally Posted by Scythus
Actually, the Powers Loyalist arc leads to no such realization. In fact, if you choose Loyalist in that final morality choice, you actually rat out Praetor Berry to Emperor Cole and you have a nice little chat with him where he's grateful for your loyalty and Neuron will be dealt with, blah blah blah.
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Quote:Their writing is based on there not being 5000 thousand players either.Originally Posted by Venture
It's bad writing. Good writing would not have tried to shoehorn every character in the game into a one-size-fits-none pseudo-explanation. This is the kind of thing I used to see in late 1970's GMing.
It is literally the case that no explanation at all would have been better than the one we were given.
As previously noted, this is just sticking your fingers in your ears and humming real loud, or as I've said in the past, treating all text in the game as "click here to fight mobs".
Things like the TFs are perfect examples of this. One team of 8 would of fought Hero One once...not 100 different teams all at once.
So in their writing, in the paragon universe, the writing can say "this is how it is" obviously people don't care for it. But then those same people create other concepts that really don't fit in with the established storyline to begin with.
Let's take some storylines that work...the praetorian storylines...they all lead the player into realizing that, yes in fact, Cole needs to be stopped. Yet there are still people saying, no my character would work with Tyrant, even though it's obvious Tyrant really wouldn't work with them for one reason or another, and Tyrant REALLY doesn't consider any of the player characters equals.
Did I agree with how the incarnates were handled? Naaa. I would of prefered the "increase in power through whatever means works for the character" as just a OH YAY NEW POWER type of deal, than tying it to the storyline of "hero goes and actively searches it out"...
Was it a bad idea to do it that way? Probably. Did I ignore it? Yes. I recall it being more that way untill people complained about there being no storyline for it. I can be remembering it wrong, but I recall in beta everyone saying "I want a storyline made by the devs for these abilities, and not have to figure out my own for my own character"
You mgiht say the other ways of gaining the abilities are just putting your fingers in your ears and ignoring the storyline, I think it's more of a way to cater to those who would rather have another explanation for gaining these abilities outside of "I'm actively seeking to become more powerful/an incarnate" -
Quote:You know, I've always agreed with this. Personally it wouldnt bother me. Can a zip liner zip line over large bodies of water? No.Originally Posted by Stealth_Bomber
Ok, then I want a zipline like Bats or Spidey. I don't care if it doesn't attach to anything in half the zones, I still want it!
So what?
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Quote:Though looking at some of those links, while things happened before Statesman and Recluses adventure...the patheon for instance seemed to be more of a cult that might of had at most little magic ability back int he 1860's, if none at all, but knew of things that had a significance to magic.Originally Posted by Scythus
Isn't Nemesis more of a Tech Origin since he's largely steampunk?
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Okay, I have a new purely concept choosen powers (but I'll use IOs to the best of their abilities for the character) that I just don't see her using a bunch of fire swords.
As of now her ST chain looks to be...Incinerate - Scorch - Cremate - Scorch - Repeat.
Roughly 170 DPS with just that chain, enough for me to live with at any rate.
The concept was basically me wanting to make a Supergirl/Power Girl/Superman style hero...you know...bullets bouncing off of her type...but I prefere Scrappers over Brutes and Tankers, and the only thing that I really wish I could have in my concept is Hurl (lousy attack it may be, but I love it )
So, instead of MA/INV...I got to thinking what other combos could I use, then I thought of Firestar and my FM/ELA was made. Good Resists, a self heal clickie power to use and basically what's been a fun scrapper so far was made!
But I'm tryong to figure out if I should put Fire Blast into the chain. MiDS is really wrong on the damage for the Fire Epic it seems, so is Fire Blast equal, better or worse DPS than Scorch?
Next, there is little I can do to increase the resists (though I'd love to get the S/L up even more, to the point I'm seriously considering working towards getting the +3% Resist IO), so my question is...
How much defense do I need to build for to make the self heal and resists be enough to stand up to AVs without inspiration use?
Also don't want to take any Incarnate slots into account except for the Alpha (I was thinking Cardiac for the increased Resists) and Interface (basically the passive incarnate abilities). -
Quote:If they improve Life Drain to be akin to Dark Melee's Siphon Life, a more useful attack that also gives a heal, I think I may just have a new blaster.Originally Posted by Winterminal
From the Freedom Fridays Q&A yesterday on Facebook:
That's just a list, there is no published order yet. Based on most of the other blaster primaries, it will probably look something like this:
-Dark Blast
-Gloom
-Tenebrous Tentacles
-Aim
-Moonbeam
-Abyssal Gaze
-Umbral Torrent
-Life Drain
-Blackstar
That said, I want to see more tentacles and useful ones at that! A wider cone on TT for sure.
Not sure if UT has tentacles, but I hope so! And AG I hope has people held in tentacles!
Basically I want to see the shadowy tentacles flying everywhere! -
I've lost my mouser pointer on more than one occaission.
At that point I just start moving the mouse around really quickly and that tends to have me find it.
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Quote:True. But even then it was still rather hush-hush, stories thought to be myth, or just little dark secrets people kept hidden.Originally Posted by TheDeepBlue
Magic and such never really died out, per se, but they were nowhere near as prominent until Cole and Richter cracked open the Well on Praxidae. Before then, the Oranbegans were still trapped in their city under the east coast, really raunchy, city-wide raves were being held in western Europe, mystical priests wandered the world, banishing evil, some wierd fish cult popped up from time to time in various parts of the world, Union soldiers were fighting mad cultists and some nutty Prussian royal fought General Sherman for kicks.
Man, now you can't swing a dead catgirl around without smacking some fallen deity from another plane or a wizard who's a living conduit to the thaumaverse or something. -
Quote:Well the OP asked not to have it named as such, and was just curious if there was a thing going on, so I was trying to give the post that didn't tell the OP the exact thing going on.Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Assuming you mean the various Fire farms I'm pretty sure that isn't considered an exploit simply because the mods have not been nuking the many, many threads talking about it.
As for the what the devs think, I'm not a dev, so I have no idea their thoughts on it. I do know some players think it's an exploit and others don't...unlike the monkey farm which was an exploit, I don't consider the new farm map an exploit, but it really does make some people just farm farm farm to 50 instead of doing other content. -
Quote:Well to be fair, I expect it's suppossed to be a given.Originally Posted by Venture
Our characters have no reason to believe this is true. The idea that "a little won't hurt" is the basic principle behind corruption.
Which text is this? Saying it's not and needs to be made clearer is being nit picky, as anyone should be smart enough to know, the devs aren't going to surprise you with "HAHA! Your character is now an NPC sucker!"
I mean really, come on. It should just be a given that the character knows this is true OR has done the leg work to know it to be true.
That said, I know my main wouldn't go about this path to incarnate status (not saying she couldn't gain the powers...but she wouldn't seek it out as the storyline suggests).
Luckily, the seeking it out is actually a non point now imo, as you can gain the incarnate abilities without actually seeking it out now, with the ability to open the alpha slot through a voucher or through just joining the iTrials. -
Well for the PvP aspect, I think if people only have fun when they win, they should expect not to have fun then.
Win or Lose, I have fun in PvP Zones. If you only have fun in PvP if you win, then don't PvP.
Of course there's the retort, "I don't mind losing, I just want to win most of the time" to which it's usually, still the same advice "then dont pvp"
Also, if you can't handle idiots talking smack, best to not PvP either. Best bet if you can handle the losing and still have fun, just ignore the comments.
As for the ITFs type deal of teams splitting up...my suggestion is always make sure before the TF starts, what the plan is. If the plan was to rush it/stealth it from the start, and you want to kill all, don't join it.
And lastly...on an unrelated note to no one in particular...if you're going to duel, take it the arena Dueling in open zone is going to get you killed and whining about it is lame
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Quote:Well there is and there isn't. I'm not convinced it's an exploit myself, rather more of a finding the right type of enemy to fight against for maximum carnage/reward.Originally Posted by Feycat
I'm not asking what it is, I do not want to know.
I'm just wondering if there's a new one out, or what? I haven't seen this many people on Virtue crying for AE groups and PLing since the Incarnate system first was announced and the monkey sploit was active so people were shooting to 50 in a hurry to take part in that. (Haha, I say unto them! You got to 50 to just grind THAT instead of AE! Haha!)
But when 95% of people know of it (making up a number there) and making the right character for it is easy enough...it's getting used...A LOT!
At least, I wouldn't call it an exploit as compared to the past exploits. It be more akin to a Dark Melee/Electric Armor Type going out and hunting Rikti...Rikti are weak to Negative Energy and use damage types Electric Armor have good resistances to. -
While I'd love to have the background detailed more. For instance, the Tsoo being Korean based (at least mostly) would be nice to get that info out there, instead of people thinking it's the Chinese Mafia.
Never had a problem with orgin of power arc. Mutants didn't come about untill 1963 (or whenever) doesn't bother me, but yeah, people want to play those 1000 year old mutants.
Of course, hasn't it always been known that powers/magic has been dead for quite awhile/non exisistent untill Statesman and Recluse came about? Not that it never existed, just that it was dormat for a very very long time.
So seeing people say "Oh, I'm a dragon and have been around active for 1000 years" has always made me go... o.O
Or other such D&D style creatures that have been walking about and living in the world.
Now there is some content I'd rather they leave as a OOC style thing. Enhancements? Inspirations? Power Proliferation? Badges? Please...just keep those OOC.
A little better heads up on the Kheldian history would be nice too. I don't mind people using the AT for other concepts (would be nice to see a few more use them as a Kheldian themself though) like Light Based Mutant using a PB or a Dark Power Mutant using a WS (as maybe they just like those powers better, but knowing that a Kheldian is the merging of two personalities into one new one, and not I have multiple personalities or I'm still the person and can communicate with this alien inside of me type of deal (whether people choose to go with it is one thing, but a lot of people just don't know about that part of Kheldians).
As for the aging of the signature heroes, I'm not so sure that's a matter. I never got the impression Manticore (using a reference from an earlier post, I believe by Johny Butane) was THAT old, deffinently wouldn't be in his 50's, as it's only been 7 years.
But he also fails to see that their old avatars take place at the earlier time in the storylines history, so making them older wouldn't work for those arcs either.
Also, some of the signature heroes/villains age slower. BABs and Manti likely age at a normal pace, but Ms Liberty, Statesman and Recluse (for sure), and the other superpowered types could age at a much slower pace, that they wouldn't seem to have aged at all in 7 years. -
Quote:real world physics matter not to super hero costumes!Originally Posted by Dark One
Boobs do not work that way!
