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I'm serious.. the devs subtract damage for secondary effects like -end or -acc, whether you like it or not.

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Then it should actually DRAIN A NOTICEABLE AMOUNT OF END.

It does significantly less damage than fireball even if you ignore fireball's DoT. And the DoT is fireball's secondary effect.

~20 endurance cost on a 32 second timer for a power that does 10 damage and 4 ticks of 6 damage to an orange minion at lvl 44 is GARBAGE. That's 34 points of damage over 6 seconds. LAME.

Um........

Ball Lightning (brute, 3rd tier) needs a massive damage boost.

For 19 endurance, on a 30 second recharge, it has a BI of about 2.1

That's absolute garbage.

The tanker fireball has the same recharge and end cost, and has a BI of 3.8

These PPPs are supposed to be BETTER and EPPs, right? Well, then why is ball lightning close to HALF the damage of fireball?

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Most importantly CoH has been around for 1.5 years before CoV. The heroes earned all thier toys by committing that time to CoH. They SHOULD have a starting advantage. People who just started playing with CoV have to realize there is a whole 'nother world in this game thats far more established. There is no fairness to it. If anything the devs should be compensating the hero side more for thier continued patronage, but even with I7 this update was aimed primarily at the villains. You guys are getting a bit spoiled on your side of the game

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There is no two sides to the game. Everyone has the same access (assuming you bought the expansion).

The problem is balance. It is just that simple.

PvP sucks when the heroes have grossly superior EPPs and tons of HOs, whereas villains have sucky, unrespeccable PPPs and a trickly of SHOs.

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Not being able to pick your sHO is definitely a problem. No one got a lyso but imagine how mad we would be if we did. They should allow us a choice considering how difficult this is for just 8 people. I can understand a Hami raid since that has no limit of people, but in a SF of this magnitude we should be able to choose.


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Definitely.

This is especially true since with only 8 people, trading is not nearly as easy.

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Brutes have a single target taunt effect in their Primary.

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Brutes have a 5-target AoE taunt in their primary.

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Is this confirmed by a redname anywhere?

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The Hamidon has been increased in difficulty. It is now capable of using one of its attack powers even when Held, Slept, or Stunned.



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This is a terrible change. It makes the entire encounter SUPER cheezy.

It reminds me of a couple of kids having a fight on a playground:

(Kid1 pretends to shoot Kid2)

Kid2: Haha, you can't shoot me, I have a force field.
Kid1: Oh yeah? Well if you have a force field, you can't shoot out.
Kid2: Well... I have a special force field that lets me shoot out.

So now Hamidon is special and can shoot even when held/slept/stunned.

That's just dorky and cheap.

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Multiple empowerment stations will stack the buffs that are offered (by design). If we made the buffs as good as players "expect" right out the gate, they'd be WAY too good when stacked.

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How about make them not stack, but also not so incredibly crappy that they are a joke.

The durations are incredibly short. The effect is minimal at best. The costs are astronomical.

Also, why aren't there craftable things like jet packs, rocket boots, etc?

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Yes, it was Positron that said:

" MMORPG.com: In terms of balance, is there an equivalent power set available to the heroes in CoH, or is this a villainous advantage?

Matt Miller: The Patron Powers are stronger and more powerful than the “equivalent” powers in City of Heroes (the Ancillary Power Pools), because there is less diversification and the fact that Patron choices are permanent alterations to your character."

CoV - Patron Power Q&A

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If they are stronger, then how about letting us choose to be weaker by picking up hero EPPs instead (that we can also respec out of).

* The fact that the patron choice is permanent is an extremely BAD design choice. Why should my villain be permanently tethered to some henchman?

* The fact that there is so little variety is very disappointing. I mean, take brutes for example. Every set is:

1st power: single target ranged dmg
2nd power: AoE immobilize
3rd power: AoE dmg
4th power: pet

Wow. How interesting.

Heroes are going to be running around with Focused Accuracy not worrying about hitting other players, and villains will counter with what... a low damage crappy ranged attack? (and in 2 sets, the ranged dmg is delivered as a DoT of all things! BLECH!)

It would be difficult for these PPPs to be any more disappointing.

Any buff that has a short duration from the time you make it is very un-fun. This means you cannot plan ahead for a big raid. You cannot spend time between raids "gearing up" or "crafting" for it.

Honestly, these empowerment stations are a gigantic let down. The powers themselves are not even cool.

This is an absolutely brilliant idea.

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Calibre2 wrote:

With all due respect, I don't think you've chosen wisely. Taken together with your recent announcements in various interviews: power customization=no, new powers/ATs=no, new costumes=no, Skills=no, et al, the decision to exclude CoH content in I7 pretty much kills my remaining interest in your games.

How much, exactly, of the features you personally promised us back in CoH Beta are going to happen? Right now, I count zero.

Coincidentally, that corresponds exactly with my continued interest and soon, my subscription figures.

thanks
Cal2

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QFT

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Statesman wrote:

For those who have speculated that Newspaper missions are coming to City of Heroes, they aren’t…yet. That’s coming a little later in the year. I’d like to add something different to the CoH system…

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You have got to be joking.

That is absolutely absurd.

CoV is an expansion pack that cost as much as a full priced game, but added LESS than a typical MMO expansion pack. As bad as that is, it also has major game features that are not even useable throughout the game.

It is bad enough that for 3+ months you couldn't use the costume options in CoH. But now its "later this year" for the newspaper missions?

The newspaper missions are what make CoV missions less craptacular than CoH ones. The horrible CoH contacts send you all over hell's half acre wasting your time on boring travel, randomly sending you to Perez Park to battle through "magic impenetrable trees" to find the right path, pop up timed mission, surprise cave missions that are so cramped you can't see a darn thing, etc.

CoH Contact Missions = High % chance of something horrible and not fun.

CoV Newspaper Missions = Puts the choice of what style missions you enjoy into the hands of the player. That's a good thing.

It is truly ridiculous that it is taking so long to make this feature enjoyable by the entire game.

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Any i6 ice/* guides?

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I'd like to know that as well.

Especially ice/ss.

Thanks.

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GadgetDon wrote:

Why?

(1) Those who spent hours testing I4 and I5, carefully seeing what the problems were, where things got cut too far, etc. wouldn't feel slapped in the face as they are told "Guess what? What you were testing wasn't really what we were looking at."

(2) Some of the changes like recharge rates that were hard to swallow even without ED could have been argued for what they did to the real game going forward

(3) There would have been more than a couple weeks of testing the concept of ED and would have been more time to address things like powers that only take one type of enhancement (by, say, adding extra effects) or whose secondary effects are so minimal it's not worth slotting (by, say, making knockback or disorient enhancements increase the chance of the effect instead of "should this effect happen once per blue moon it happens longer")

(4) It would have been honest. We wouldn't have been told, for example, that Instant Healing can be active almost half the time with six-slotted recharge and permahasten.

As I've said elsewhere, I approve of ED conceptually. But ED on top of the nerfs in I4 and I5 make harsh nerfs even worse, and ED needs some tweaking to actually give us a reason to diversify instead of just punishing us for using the only effective enhancements.

With this stealth issue, I think it's clear that as players from our perspective, we see things that the devs don't see from their perspective. Same with the AV to elite boss for small teams (not just solo). It's there game, they have to make the tough decisions. But by talking about things with us, we can provide them with another perspective that sometimes can help them make better ones.

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This is one of the best and most rational post-ED posts I have read.

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Ericose wrote:

a few comments...

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...except for earlier in the thread, where you complain that you can't tank without healing. If you could tank group-sized spawns without healing, we'd be right back to the Bad Old Days.


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if by bad old days you mean when the server was chock full of people and teams were easy to find and the game was really fun to play- I say bring me back the "bad old days"
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Pwned.

Also, smoke needs to *NOT* suppress stealth.

What has made this useless in the /devices secondary is the fact that:

1) It suppresses stealth, which often results in getting attacked. Even when you don't get attacked, it is a crap shoot to try and figure out when stealth is back in place. It isn't like you get a nice "Hidden" message like stalkers get. Plus, its just plain annoying to have this unnecessary wait.

2) The acc debuff is not noticeable.

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Hover: We might buff it some, at some point. However, it should never be an effective travel power.


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3 flight speed SOs should make it faster than unslotted sprint + swift.

Or perhaps let swift affect hover speed so 3 flight speed SOs + swift is faster than sprint + swift.

Two questions:

1) How do you UNLOCK these contacts?

2) What are those coordinates? Is that some kind of map mod?

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Jonyu wrote:

A Tankers job is do soak up damage so they get a bonus to their resistances. Scrappers and Brutes make up for this by dealing more damage.

How can you complain that Brutes have to wait 8 more levels to get an inferior version of Unyielding when they're getting powers like Knockout Blow at level 8 compared to a Tanker at level 20?

Powers are balanced by the grand scheme of the archetype, not via individual powers so it's not fair to compare power for power versus the various archetypes. Brutes are more than fine as they are.

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I think you missed a very important point.

Devs say 1% DEF = 2% RES.

That means that the -5% DEF of this ability results in a net NEGATIVE to resistance.

If this doesn't prove once and for all that it is time for the -5% DEF to go, then I don't know what will.

By the way, I do not have a SINGLE inv/ or /inv character. I just look at this objectively and boggle at how absurd it is.

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Sounds nice, geko. Now how about a base Flight and Hover speed buff update post ED?

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Good idea. Their speed is crazy painful slow.

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Wow, Burn got better? They removed the fear!

Oh, they didn't? Carry on.

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Heh, no kidding. When will they realize that is the core problem with burn.

Would anything here change with I6 and beyond?

I assume many things would.

Any updated guides?

Anyone have links to some good energy/ guides post-ED ?

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Last, I would point out that everything in the Dark set (and probably ALL sets) causes sword redrawing. Dark Melee and MA can just throw these attacks into the chain, but everyone else. .. not so much.

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I believe spines does not have to redraw either. Spines are not a weapon per-se as far as any drawing animation.

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ED still sucks.


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Yup.

ED changes how you play your character quite profoundly, and it certainly affects some of these abilities quite significantly. For example, not being able to perma-hasten and 6 slot conserve power changes that ability significantly.

Also, I was hoping that perhaps someone had worked up a guide that was a bit more organized, more neatly formatted, and had some more serious analysis of how well the abilities work in actual practice, rather than just describing what the abilities are (most of that information is already built into a good character builder now anyway).

The first post was a good start, please don't think I am criticising it. But it was made MANY months ago, and there have been major changes to the game as well as a lot of time for people's real experiences with the abilities to be applied.