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Originally Posted by magikwand

I think SB is one of the most powerful buffs in the game. So simple and rewarding, yet so very frustrating.

I admit, I am sometimes short fused. So if I am on a team and liberally applying SB to my team and it happens to drop for a moment, and one member finds the time to complain about not getting SB, I will probably snap back.

Even more effective is just discontinuing SB altogether for that person. There are a number of powers that a kin has that are fun and powerful, so if you just happen to spend some time using your other powers, I don't think you should be held to the fire for questioning.

Teammates that I will continually SB without them asking- buffers or stone armor users. Buffers get it because buffs up more often is helpful for the whole team. Stone armor users get it because most haven't overcome the runspeed curse they inherit, and it is just pitiful watching them try to get around without it.

All others get it when I am in the mood and area. I do my best to build all of my toons to be efficient with endurance, so don't get angry at me because your toon has ED (endurance dysfunction). If I see you low on gas, I will probably try to shoot you a boost or even fill you up with a transference. But just because you are having endurance problems doesn't mean you are entitled to a SB. SB is optional, not mandatory. Get over it.

Originally Posted by MaestroMavius

What would be the thematic reason for this?

My Necro/Dark can't make copies of himself. He can use his dark magic to bring the dead to life and control the forces of dark magic.

I guess I could RP it as he's just using the black arts to clone himself...
Then again, thats what the Lich is for.

Right now I just imagine it's pure evil thats been given limited intellect by me.


I'd rather have a new MM primary. Multiple-man
With each Tier being a different era 'you'

Originally Posted by Bocus_King

people say don't stand still cause of stalkers obvi you aint gonna survive a horde of villains you know unless you phase or something.

Originally Posted by Far_Realm

Why don't Brutes get Ice Armor?

Why don't Masterminds get Cold Domination, even though they get Thermal Radiation? Why don't they get Radiation Emission, for that matter?

Why don't Blasters get Dark Blast?

Why don't Defenders get Thermal Radiation and Fire Blast, even though they get Cold Domination and Ice Blast, and even Traps and Assault Rifle?

Why don't Corrupters get Force Field?

Why don't Tankers get Energy Aura?

Why don't Dominators get Illusion Control?

I'm not looking for the obvious answer, "The Devs haven't gotten around to it yet," or for bullies who answer me with thinly-disguised put-downs - I want to know if there's supposed to be any good reason for these particular absences.

Originally Posted by Warkupo

I don't see why it would be psychic, Kinetic Energy is predominately defined as energy involved in physical movement. No brains required.

I imagine it'll be smashing, with a chance of energy.

Originally Posted by Schismatrix

Something that i am still curious about is what damage type(s) will Kinetic Melee use? As i recall it was referred to as "Telekinetic Melee" at least once during the presentation. Also, one of the most popular sets a couple years back when the players were polled as to what new sets they'd like to see was a Psychic Melee/Psychic Blades set. It seems quite possible that Kinetic Melee will use a mix of Smashing and Psy damage.

Originally Posted by Spizzie

See what I bolded? Nothing before i13 really matters now. Powers, AT's as a whole, and entire game concepts (like mezzes) work differently in PvP than they do in PvE.

To the OP:

Fire/Rad, Emp/Psy, Earth/Thermal, and, to a lesser extent, Kin/Elec can all be viable PvP toons. If you want severe disruption and annoyance, go with Earth/Thermal but know you won't be able to kill much. If you want to be a support player, go with your Emp/Psy (which is actually a top-end Defender PvP build). The two most important things for you will be movement (you want AT LEAST Super Speed but having both SS and SJ is highly useful) and KB protection. I'd just buy some temporary KB protection if I were you.

Or you can create a 2nd build and dedicate it to PvP; that's what I've done on my Mind/Psi, Fire/EM, and Fire/Regen characters.

Originally Posted by UnSub

The NCsoft Q1 2010 financials are out and things don't look good for CoH/V. Q1 covers January to March 2010, which includes the start of the GoRo pre-order offer (March 2, I believe).

In that period of time, CoH/V earned 3 348 M Won, which roughly translates to about US$2.9m (I've used an end of period exchange rate than an average over the 3 month period, but I don't believe there is much difference between the two results). Sadly, this is the lowest quarterly revenue generated by CoH/V in its history. It's a 13% drop on the previous quarter's earnings, with Q4 2009 being the previous record holder for the lowest revenue generated. In Won terms, it is also about half the revenue generated compared with year-on-year figures.

It's a result that is probably explained by the lack of content releases in Q1 2010 and that players may have adopted a 'wait and see' approach about Going Rogue.

DOOOOM comments incoming in 5, 4, 3, 2, ...

Originally Posted by Clouded

What current trends? Oh, you mean DP?

Because Willpower, Shields and Demon Summoning all kick pretty hard ***, lol.

Originally Posted by nightowl317

Ah, I see. Thanks for the tip guys. I also have a fairly IO'd Elec/Shield scrapper, but I wasn't under the impression that it would be any good in PvP. Is this a correct assumption?

Originally Posted by Westley

This thread should now be all about the deliciousness of Magic Bars.

Originally Posted by minago

i'll try an explain it another way in reference to your post .

in the past it use too take planning on what contacts you wanted to get certain badges for accolades and most of the times multiple deaths getting exp loss so you didn't miss a certain contact .


the way contacts where set up you would miss some missions unless a friend had them ...which was a good thing.

social interaction,teaming,challenge,missed content.

issue 11 ruined that .

it made things easy

it made the content worthless because you could hit 50 and go threw all the arcs and get rewarded with "oreo badges".

no longer was there any planing on what contacts you would hit up ,or discussions with missions or challenge in any way it made badgering worthless ...now getting badges are just a number back then it was "oh wow how did they get that".

and this is just with "issue 11" i have had gripes all the other issues all the way up till issue 17 but with the other i don't have a deep a gripe because in all actually not much has been really added to the game far as content the one good thing though with issue 17 is they have excellent mission arcs .

"edit: i know task force's have been added ,but i don't consider that content same goes with AE i don't consider that content either the on going game lore didn't progress fan fiction doesn't count"

for the record

i'm just saying the quality of life couldn't be better ,in fact it maybe too good !

now if development would work issue's that revolve around something that resembles a comic book and do that for atleast 10-12 issues i would be happy.



^ fateweaver/hero corp worked just fine before the change



it helps high level solo farmers ,it has no use for a low level ...what's a level 10 gonna do solo versus a mission set for +8 ....i'll tell ya ,nothing but cuss



so hows the teaming going ?

was the game better before or after all these fancy changes?

i would go with before ,but that's just me



that's your prerogative and i respect that.

but i have an opinion and that was what this thread was about so i thought to contribute .

if you don't want to read my comments feel free not to read my run on sentences

Originally Posted by Madam_Enigma

I haven't tried it out yet. But what about slotting it for acc/damage so the imps it summons are stronger and can actually hit the broad side of a planet?

Originally Posted by Angelic_EU

Which one of the two, Demon/Thermal and Demon/Dark, fair better in PvE and TF runs?

I just can't decide. They are good in their own right; and certainly go with Demon as a primary.

Originally Posted by Athanatosis

I've been playing melee for a long time now, and have been unable to get into anything else. Lately I've been screwing around with low level controllers, dominators, corruptors, etc. and I'm starting to really enjoy them. I think that I'm getting to the point where I can enjoy one of these classes more than I'd ever enjoy a Brute, Scrapper, or Stalker. The thing is, I've researched melee classes for months, played many different types to level 30+, and I know all about what I do and don't find fun. For other classes, though, I'm at a loss.

The thing that really got my interest recently was my Ice/Psi dominator. He's only level 14, but he makes groups so easy with his AoE confuse and ice slick. It's like the ultimate defense, yet so squishy. I find the play style very unique and interesting, but I don't like the fact that I'm not going to be doing any damage until level 38.

I'm wondering what's FOTM lately for the non-melee classes, any of them. Even Kheldians, which I've never played before. I don't care about having the most DPS or any of that crap, as long as I feel like I'm kicking *** and having a fun time doing it, I'll be happy. As I've seen stated before, in a game like this DPS is really insignificant considering how quickly most everything drops in a group.

So I'm up for any suggestions, just give a brief explanation as to why you recommend what you do!

And for reference, this is what I like in terms of powersets:

Fun > Damage > Control > Support/Healing

Originally Posted by Hyperstrike

Yeah. Did that with my demonized catgirl during test.

Originally Posted by Clave_Dark_5

Any /Dark Miasma MM who doesn't open with those two (or even is afraid to 'start things rolling') deserves far worse than you're giving them.

Then again, perhaps the new set has attracted some players who normally don't run MMs and don't understand them too well yet.

Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy

You can never have TOO MANY Demon Summoners! LOL I joined the ranks of the FoTM and currently I have one at level 18. I team with a good friend that has created a DS as well and the combo is devastating.. Let's see playing as a duo we have already managed to get Impounder and Vandal Badges out of the way and I need a little over 100 more PPD for that Mayhem badge. We don't Do mayhem missions we demolish them and leave absolutely nothing to attack when we go (that includes cardboard boxes, metal crates, etc..) We took on Tsoo in a newspaper mission and it seemed like the whole thing was filled with Sorcerers. They went down so fast I was amazed.

I think its an extremely fun powerset and am enjoying it. And before anyone asks My minions are named

Grunt
Grumble
Growl
and Fickle

I am planning to name the next Fester and I haven't quite decided what to call my Demon Prince yet (How does BOB sound? No? Okay I'll work on it more ) LOL :-D

Originally Posted by minago

i remember back when issue 11 dropped and people said the same thing about how much "value the issue was" and back then i couldn't understand why people said that .

i'll break down ...both issue faults

issue 11
added absolutely nothing to the game in fact it took alot from the game itself previously you had to take certain routes to visit certain contacts if you wanted certain badges or you would miss out i remember visiting red tomax's site trying to do the best course of action to receive certain missions.

which made not all contacts available on one play threw on the path to 50 ...you needed either to shout in zones or talk too friends if they had certain missions which added some challenge to the game .

also note you didn't have access to all the contacts or missions you had actual variety plus hidden contacts..

when issue 11 dropped all that went away missions and contacts could easily be re done what made it worse is they actually gave you badges for doing the flashback missions

inadvertently doing all the content available in the game ...nothing was new anymore .


issue 16

adds nothing either far as content being able to change the colors too powers ....and that's it .

and the Enhanced Difficulty Options which itself just alienates teams more and is basically only good really for someone that's farming .


for real go back and check the issue's and you can see a trend in the quality of issue's

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Issue_10

issue 10 was awesome ..then it progressively got into the realms of more detail went into costume packs than actual issues.

but like i said i expect going rouge to pull people back into the game.