BrandX

Originally Posted by Oathbound

(Emphasis mine)

I would actually argue the opposite. That all other Defender secondaries give up too much damage for their debuffing component.

Sonic blast provides debuffing to benefit the team, and increases it's own damage at the same time. All other sets provide debuffing to benefit the team, but are stuck dealing crap for damage. (Except sets like Archery (plus a couple others), which don't even provide any meaningful debuffing.)

Sadly the recent addition of a solo/duo/barely-there-on-a-trio damage buff to Vigilance means that it's highly unlikely this issue will ever get addressed. I can't even call it a "Small team" buff with a straight face. Small team is 3 or 4. You get nothing for 4 people. You get a whopping 10% for 3. Stop the presses.

Originally Posted by winterminal

i lol'd.

When you can show me a brute that can take as much punishment and hold as much aggro as a comparable tanker can (i.e. Similar/same power sets), come back. If anything, it would make more sense to get rid of the brute, since it could be considered the middle ground at between scrappers and tankers. But that notion is only slightly less crazy.

Originally Posted by Merope

Let's just say the future is constantly changing, especially when one knows what the future is to hold. So, to give you any more information than that could risk paradox, and I'm already in trouble for the whole Taco incident.

Originally Posted by Merope

Well, you really wouldn't have to time travel to know that, now would you?

Originally Posted by NuclearTwinkie

I don't really understand this post. It basically amounts to "We want our powers to be made better too! I don't know how, but we want stuff too!"

For Empathy, how about regen components added to the healing powers in exchange for some of the power. Target gets healed and increased regen for X seconds. Or maybe add a target component to the power, so it heals for X plus an additional X for each enemy in the area around the target it hits. Kind of like a healing Fulcrum Shift.

There are always ways to make a powerset better. But I guarantee that shield powersets spend much more time buffing people than empathy.

Originally Posted by Merope

Hey guys, I just got back from January and I wanted to let you know that you will love it - after the first patch...

Merope

Originally Posted by Durakken

As I was reading through Ultimate Spider-Man it struck me that Captain America used to be the face of Marvel at some point. He used to be their go to man and even now, in canon, he's still considered an authoritative figure to some degree, but for the most part he has taken a back seat because Spider-Man came into his own and was allowed to flourish...

On the other hand we have Superman and I seem to see many people saying he is stale and boring. And not only is he stale and boring DC continuously tries to right him into the present and tried to make him the center piece of their universe when he just isn't... and this has caused, in my opinion, the lose of allowing other younger creations to flourish and become big stars and get DC the money they want...

Do you think that DC should take a page from Marvel and have Superman take a more Captain America-esque role, and maybe even have Batman take a more Nick Fury role? and try to let those character that have potential shine?

Originally Posted by Winterminal

True enough, the number of blaster power set combinations (80) is on the higher end of the scale. Masterminds and Dominators fall at the bottom with 48 and 49, respectively, so they could use new power sets, and Masterminds are indeed getting that with Time Manipulation (though I would have preferred to see them get another primary, but technically they got one of those less than a year ago). However, so are Corruptors and Defenders, bringing their number of possible combinations up to 110 each. Tankers and Brutes will, most likely by the end of this year, gain access to Titan Weapons, bringing their combination totals up to 108 (Brutes) and 96 (Tankers).

I understand that buff/debuff sets and melee sets are the most wide-spread power set types across all the archetypes, and therefore making a set in either of those categories allows for the greatest amount of distribution, and appeals to the greatest number of players. That is the definition of smart business strategy, and I have no problem with that, so long as the more unique archetypes (Dominators, Masterminds, Blasters) get some more variety as well.

Originally Posted by Dreaming_Shadow

I personally have high expectations for this power set. I think that Time Manipulation will be the most unique power set to date...

Think about it, all the other powersets in the game are based off of concepts that we as people, not in game but in real life, understand. Things like Kinetics and Gravity are physics or even concepts like Empathy and being able to control thermal energy. It's all science and knowledge. However, the one things that the human race still has a lot of theories on is the ability to manipulate time. It's something that we as a race have not been able to accomplish.

So, as I said. This should be a very unique powerset that is not a bunch of copy/paste effects from other abilities in the game. I hope to see original thinking outside integrating current theories of time alterating and basic physics that are simple to understand.

Originally Posted by Emberly

Reiterating please god don't let it be mainly slows, and don't let it have a phase power.

Originally Posted by Laevateinn

We know that the dev team does not seem to like clicky buffs that can be made permanent. So, chances are that the really powerful buffs/debuffs in the set will be immune to recharge or gradually decay over time the way Destiny buffs do. Combined with the fact that you need to apply your basic buff/debuff power first to get the full effect (i.e. an animation time/endurance penalty), the set is very likely to be subpar.

Originally Posted by Lemur Lad

1) Missions are instances. You mean Task Forces, which are really just a string of missions, designed to do with a team. Apart from that, yes it is possible to level that way. You will spend more time getting teams than you will playing, at least in the long run, unless you get a reliable group of friends to run with consistently.

Aside- This game relies very little on healing and direct heals. Even the pools with multiple healing powers devote more of their design to buffs and/or debuffs. You won't find a dedicated healing Class or Power pool in this game (even Empathy). If you team with people as a focused healer, you will accomplish more than you would trying to solo with such a build, but you will also be putting more burden on them for your progress than you would with a more balanced outlook.

2) As I said, missions are instances. Most of the game's population is in those instances at a given time, thus you don't see them. If you seek out some global chat channels on your server, you will be in touch with more people, regardless of where you are and they are, and the game will rapidly feel more alive to you.

3) As far as I know, there are no Auction Houses in Praetoria where you are. I think there are banks, but I'm not sure. I do know there are vendors (not Merit Vendors) marked on your map that you can sell to. To sell Salvage and recipes to them, use the slider on to move the left side of your window down to see them.

4) there is something you can do. Stop thinking of yourself as weak. Unfortunately there isn't any way to change your difficulty settings in Praetoria, but you can start a character as a hero or villain and get some more control over the settings in missions (and get some overall easier missions). But really, you're not weak unless you ignore parts of the character pools available to you (overfocusing on heals early on). Another good way to handle over hard missions is to kill things on the streets that are easy for you until you get a level or two above the missions you have trouble with.

My last advice to you is to find a friend. Someone who likes to do the combat thing more than you do and doesn't mind letting you focus on support as long as you do a good job supporting them.

Originally Posted by Deacon_NA

I confess I haven't digested the details, but I guess a new melee set is going to incorporate the ability to speed up animation times. Would be a very cool, unique buff for a time control set, I must say.

Originally Posted by Oathbound

Honestly, every time I see a trailer I can't help but think they went too far making him short and scrawny for the Before version. It just doesn't look right. Like they're just photoshopping Chris Evans' full sized adult head head onto a 12 year old's body.

Yes, I get that he was supposed to be puny and weak before the super soldier stuff, but it just jumps past scrawny and into eyeroll territory for me.

Originally Posted by Winterminal

Plain and simple: I want some more secondaries for blasters. When I saw Time MANIPULATION, I got very excited... and then that was dashed away when I saw it was yet ANOTHER buff/debuff power set. I mean, I understand that Blaster secondaries are completely unique power sets: no other AT has access to them (same goes for Mastermind primaries and Dominator secondaries). Thus, making them caters to a smaller number of players. However, given that Blasters still have the lowest number of secondaries in the game, I think it is high time that another was released.

Originally Posted by justanothername

I've played CoX for more than a few years and was initially very excited when I heard the rumor that there might be a F2P version coming out, and that I would be able to get a lot of my friends to come over from other F2P and PS games, but as I read the http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/fre...es.html#tabs-4 tables I see a few things that will more than likely end up as deal breakers for them

1. The lack or whispers/tells is going to be a big one. I never send a team invite without first sending a tell asking if they would like to join first. its just common courtesy.

2. the inability to join a sg.

3. only 2 slots, this should be at least 4 slots.

4.No In-Game Mail?

I understand that some of this is because of a worry that there will be an influx of spam, but from what I've seen from other F2Ps that I have played it is normally not the case.

What I see CoX ending up with, if anything, is the non gamers, there are other games out there that allow for a lot more freedom for their F2P players, and the potential CoX customer base is just gonna stay where they're at or find another game that allows for greater freedom, and not with us.

Originally Posted by rsclark

So, since we know there are the two base powers for the set - one buff and one debuff - that will enhance the other powers, how will those likely work? I really only see 3 possibilities, one of which I think is unlikely.

#1 bubble style - formerly would be kept up on everyone by recasting, but soon to be area. I don't see this as likely for several reasons. Why bother with the new mechanics if the usual person you cast it on will only be getting one set of the modifiers? If they are bothering to make two sets of effects, then they likely expect a good mix of people who do and don't have the base, enhancing effect on them.

#2 forge/fortitude style - long recharge short duration buffs. This way, you can build for recharge to get it on as many people as possible. Still, for most of the game, you have to decide who in the group is getting the enhanced effects.

#3 toggle - simple enough, pick one champion/main target, and they get the best and worst of your buffs/debuffs, everyone else gets the second best effects.

I see 2 or 3 being more likely. That even allows the other effects to tend more towards area abilities, as they can offer significant boosts to one other character without being overpowered when applied to a whole group.

Originally Posted by GavinRuneblade

Like the new avatar BrandX. =)

Does anyone know the math though? Like How much averaged per attack is done by Mako and how much by Touch of Death and then assuming xresistance to lethal and y resistance to negative across the enemies, one has a (presumably insignificant) advantage?

It's so much easier on a tank too, they can run 30% chance to fire psi damage procs thanks to taunt in everything. Nearly anything that resists Psi takes bonus damage from lethal so it's a perfect pairing. Heh. I think robots are the exception. buggers.

Originally Posted by Cheetatron

I like the titanic weapon models, I do not like the idea of a whole set worth of dev time being devoted to creating that set and I don't like that those models will most likely be exclusive to that set. I've never cared for the Siegfried/Nightmare I'm struggling to use my weapon dynamic and it seems that's where they want to go here

*thumbs down unless they give all the other sword sets(even db) access to those models