BrandX

Originally Posted by Durakken

Actually that's wrong... The license isn't about how the heroes deal with the villains, but rather that they can handle themselves. It's for the "heroes" safety, not the villains.

Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake

still, even a batman level incompetant court system wouldnt be releasing the guys back on the streets as fast as we could clean them up, and after being pounded by an 8 foot tall robot who launched your butt into orbit with a ko blow, or some psycho woman in a leotard who set you on fire, would you really be inclined to go back an risk that again to spraypaint some walls and do petty purse thefts? I suspect some fellows may retire after the first beating based on simple self preservation.

Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake

it is? not calling you out but could you point me to some links? outside of arachnos guys like arbiter sands and the blood widow, who else mentions teleporting? usually when there is text, ti indicates we have arrested the named enemies, and it seems unlikely that the fodder have escape teleporters versus the guys in charge, so i had always assumed it was presented that you arrested all the enemies in the mission(blueside at least).

as for your number of people consider how many enemies you drop in a single mission if you are running with a full group. with a few hous every day, you and your friends could totally clean out 200,000 enemies, in a few weeks and you arent the only hero on the street. Also, on a good night you could drop a good percentage of them, including bosses and lieutenants , I don't see street gangs having the internal structure to redistribute jobs within the gamgs that fast to make up for that kind of attrition, unless gangers in paragon are a lot brighter than gangers in real life are, usually internal fighting happens when gangs lose key organizational figures. often leading to splintering and inter factional warring for old territory.

like i said, it is a game mechanic, hellions and skulls are effectively giant rats and spiders, that is why i avoid looking too deeply at the gameworld, because it has to conform to the gameplay, and that leads to some very odd situations.

Originally Posted by Durakken

you do realize that teleporting people is a new development in CoH world... licensed hereos have been around for 40+ years so yeah... you're wrong.

Originally Posted by DMystic

And what about characters that don't run the tutorial?
Or how about SoA's that have never stepped foot in Paragon(Mayhem's are not required to be completed for advancement)

Originally Posted by Durakken

Supposedly...

There are 3 things that can happen in the lore.

I shoot you with tags...somehow... and they malfunction and you die
I shoot you with tags...somehow... and they teleport you to the Zig or a Hospital
I shoot you with tags...somehow... and they malfunction, but your teleporter doesn't and you get teleported to somewhere else.

Supposedly only the upper tiers have good teleporters though so it's best not to rely on them...so apparently I shoot you till your subdued and then somewhere in that if I'm nice and don't mess up I tag you which sends you off through some method to a hospital or the zig... Unfortunately the lower tier villains have to rely on me not being a screw up and nice to be saved >.> and me having and adequate supply of tags. Otherwise they're dead.

Originally Posted by BlackArachnia

Just because you are a villain does not mean you are from the Rogue Isles. That nut job Recluse just steals you away and they have no extradition treaty with the US.

Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails

That is what you are supposed to do per canon. Nothing ensures that that is what you (RP-wise) actually do, by design.

Originally Posted by Duncan_Frost

Canon-wise, you actually just "defeated" them, the same way that villains do - so you could be doing anything from arresting them to feeding them their own organs to letting them off with a stern warning

Originally Posted by Dr_Darkspeed

I pre-bought because they told me there would be no bonuses for pre-ordering, and since I was definately goign to buy it anyway, why not?

If they had said at the time: We might have some bonuses for pre-ordering, I'd probably have waited to see. But they didn't, so I didn't.

If a significant amount of people did that, then thats a significant amount of working capital they got up front to help develop GR that they would not have otherrwise got if they had been more straightforward in their dealings (or had just simply been more organised).

I, as a consumer who gave them some money, feel that they haven't been particular forthright with me, and my feedback is that I'll now question their future marketing afforts in the future.

What would I think would fix this?

a) give everyone who pre-purchased before this announcement the pre-order bonus too, thus making their original statement correct
Or
b) offer refunds for anyone who pre-purchased so that they can choose to pre-order instead, thus removing the percieved damage done by the incorrect information
Or
c) make it so that if someone applys a pre-order code to an account that has GR pre-purchased, some bonus is given (like say, 2 free months gametime) to make up for people having bought it twice.
Or
d) somethigng else that indicates they know that some people are unhappy about this and that they want to make it up to them

If they do any of those then I'll be happy. If they don't then I will be unhappy.

Originally Posted by macskull

If that's the case, there's really not much point in bothering with them...

Originally Posted by Psycho Jas

How much money are you willing to spend?

I'd probably go with a fully decked out ELM/Regen.

Originally Posted by Quantumizer

As has been said before, there's no incendiary DoT for Pistols. But the other part of your question -- does Swap Ammo increase overall damage -- is one I've thought a lot about. I have a Dark/DP defender that I solo a lot. Having soloed with scrappers before, my defender was sloooooooow in leveling, primarily because he dealt so little damage. I took Swap Ammo to try to increase that damage.

I was underwhelmed.

But, as my character developed, I began to appreciate Swap Ammo more for a few reasons. First, it allows you to be much more effective versus lethal-resistant foes. Being able to switch damage types does allow you to deal more damage to those types of foes. If you're really on top of things and you know which foes are vulnerable to toxic or fire or cold, you can further maximize your damage.

Second, toxic rounds give you much better odds against foes like Freak tanks who can easily hit you for half your hit points. Switch to toxic ammo and all your DP attacks (except Pistols) carry a 12.5% damage debuff with an 8 second duration. So you can usually keep that double-stacked, meaning you essentially have 25% resistance against everything (for one foe) and that 300 hit point Freak tank smackdown becomes a 225 pointer. Still smarts, but...

Third, that unimpressive DoT starts to get more significant once you can relly slot up the damage on your attacks, and once you're playing over x3 or higher. Ball those bad guys up, then cut loose with Bullet Rain followed by Empty Clips, Piercing Rounds, and (if you're the nuke type) Hail of Bullets, and your heart will overflow with joy as you see an explosion of little yellow numbers burst overhead. Because the DoT has stacked, and it's being applied to a dozen guys at once, you are witnessing a virtual conflagration of villainy.

So, in the end I give Swap Ammo a thumbs up, but I think it's best taken late in one's career... certainly after Bullet Rain, and probably not until into the 20's or 30's when one has had time to slot up the damage.

Originally Posted by macskull

It's WAI and has been that way for quite a long time, mostly because Stalker players wanted some parity to the constant damage/tohit buff Clawls Scrappers get.

Originally Posted by MunkiLord

I agree they don't have to, I'm not even saying they should explain the reasoning. In fact, I wasn't commenting about the devs in the post you quoted at all. So I don't get how your reply to my post even makes sense.

I was commenting on the fact that posters reject these ideas simply because a dev has said no in the past, not because anybody is actually against the idea itself.

Before the email changes and and power customization were implemented, many posters rejected those ideas simply because of past dev comments. Both of those features eventually made it in the game.

Originally Posted by Muon_Neutrino

End usage? Maybe, that and the fact that they get turned off if someone sneezes on you.

Blazing aura also has a small radius and only does damage to things that you engage in *sustained* melee combat with. Blasters may melee things, but in *sustained* melee generally either you or the target end up dead pretty quick, and either way blazing aura won't do much. Hot feet has a much larger radius and some mitigation attached, so I would definitely use it myself even if I did have to retoggle it all the time, but blazing aura I don't really see any use for.

Originally Posted by Chrome_Family

Thanks BrandX looks good, I can tell it has a lot of end usage, I guess there is not much around that. Not sure why I slotted Muti-Strike in dark regen..I guess I wasn't thinking there.

I was wanting Sweep for the knockdown in the event I get overwhelmed, but Like I mentioned before I don't know much about Dual Blades so I am not sure which combos are the best to take and which aren't so I was hoping someone would fill me in.