Captain_Freak
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Quote:So your one time anecdotal evidence is PROOF that every pug takes it?Originally Posted by Ignatz
Gonna ignore your hatred issues, but the rest is a bit hyperbole. Just two days ago, I was on a Khan TF in which 6 players had at least Tactics and Maneuvers...as well as a Bubbler. On a PUG. Which was first come, first serve. Gotta say having a Defender running around with 117% Defense to all was funny as hell.
This hyperbole....i dont think it means what you think it means. -
One of the better ways of getting more items to market is merging all the Damn Mez into two categories Hard control/Soft control.
Balance the Drop rate. Balance is important!!! Slows should not be topping the list of things to get on a random Merit roll.
Actually diversify the bonuses. Everyone knows that Positrons blast set is great and the rest are crap or purple/pvp. Ranged and Melee Suffer from it too, two good sets and the rest are crap or purple/pvp. The Dev team loves to 'balance' everything they get thier paws on....its time to not halfway it. Balance it all or none of it.
more inf sinks. Bases are a great start...which means bases need some serious fixing.
Gives us Monkey fight club betting!!!! -
Quote:yes they are, BUT since few people take leadership (on a whole population basis) or stack to a ridiculous degree (since many teams NEED a Lamepathy/lolpaindom to function to any degree) its hardly an issue in any sense.Originally Posted by mauk2
What, no Controller numbers?
I have recently been seeing an influence farm team in PI, and it is...sobering.
Eight controllers, four fire/kin, four fire/shield. All with leadership and the fire epic for fireballs, holds, and of course, rise of the phoenix.
Yeah. Do the math on THAT.
Unlimited stacking buffs are....ridiculously broken.
What Im saying is the majority of people playing this game are dumb, and Despite my Hatred of RO network....Most of them do these things that are 'broken' on a daily basis. Outside of them and my 4 friends....I never see this kind of stacking so its hardly an "issue". Heck, theres more bubblers than smart pugs
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Quote:Originally Posted by mousedroid
Could it be the Devs no longer hate villains???
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Quote:as long as you howl some evil, shout some evil, and enervating field some evil....Originally Posted by Wiggz
Me and two friends are going to try to do that - as much content as humanly possibly - with three characters blueside: Hear No Evil. Speak No Evil and See No Evil. All are Rad/Sonic Defenders.
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Time bomb on a team.....roll into the next spawn....drop the time bomb then fade back to your team. Time it right and it should explode as your team is moving into the spawn....
Being a healbot is not what traps is about. By that i mean, waiting for someone else to pick up agro.... use your tools...dont be a tool like the rest of these posters. -
Learn to troll, kid. Id suggest reading /b/ for a month....
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Stealth traps.....its run in, lay down a poison trap, drop an acid mortar.....keep mashing gun buttons till everythings dead.....repeat. If youre bored, lay down a mine. Got something that looks potentially painful? Seeker drones. Wanna pull a second spawn? Time bomb them. 15 seconds is more than enough time to do something else.
Sonic resonance. Nuff said.
Rad. Easy buff. Dont get bogged down on Ri....use Ef. Blow up your friends then mutate them. Lingering Rad is great for just about every spawn and Tough nuts.
Dark Miasma Nuff said.
If youre feeling controllery, Ice blast or Dark Blast. Feeling Stylish, pistols. Feel like youre a little country? bows. -
this thread needz more h34lz
of course a bubbler would have prevented me from reading.....
Sadly, Im on Freedumb and theres 4 bubbles and 5 trappers The rest are lamepathy -
I have a gripe with the size of Rooms
Workshop: theres a 2x2 Room that holds 9 storage. Theres a 4x3 room that holds 9 storage. The small room is too small and the large room is too big. Can we get something in the middle? Can we get more sizes? different sizes?
Teleport: The progression is telporter rooms hold 1,2,3,4,4,8....the room sizes are 2, 2x2, 3x3, 4x3, 4x4, 5x5. The only rooms that work right as far as teleporters go is the 2 and 2x2 room. The rest of the rooms are too large and the progression is off. More sizes please. 8 tpers in a room is fine, but 25 squares is too much.
Medbay: 2x2 is too large for a single Rez ring. can we get a 2 square room like the Telporter room that only holds 1 teleporter?
Energy: 2 rooms, different costs, hold exactly the same amount of 'stuff'. -
sign me up for betting on monkey fights. Slots are easy to code but meh
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Corruptor=healbot, because freedumb runs like that yo
MM= healbot, see above
Brute=tank with more whining "why arent you taunting?"
Stalker= "what are you doing?"
Dom= controller with more whining "why arent you healing?" -
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no, this game needs more tech not less.....theres other mmo's that you could play to get bo staff skillz up
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Quote:Originally Posted by Biospark
The only thing about these two powers that I don't see as "balanced" (very subjective opinion by the way) is the fact that Tankers can get as much mileage out of CJ as opposed to taking Maneuvers. On my Defender, combining the 2 powers is a decent amount of "self-defense" AND the team benefit. On a Tanker, you would think the benefit would be about the same, but its not. This makes Maneuvers not very attractive for a Tanker (or scrapper for that matter).
Saying "unbalanced" is probably a mis-nomer, but its something that I find ODD.
Tankers and Scrappers are better off pursuing Weave if they want another defense toggle.
This leads to taking an unwanted Attack to get there, which is something I personally find annoying about the fighting pool powers.
Well any At with mez protection will get more mileage (and better self defense values) out of leadership pools since it never turns off ( for them). -
Ive found fun use as a pulling power......setup an acid mortar on one large, could take a few moments group.....run over drop time bomb on the second group......run back, around a corner......Traps is a puzzle with all the pieces.....just gotta hammer them sometimes.
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how about no?
I realize like maybe 10 or 20 people love arrows, maybe even upwards of 50....but thats too few for the devs to care about.
With the number of you [censored] people playing Lamepathy or Lolpaindom how could anyone take this seriously?
Last and certainly the worst.....its a bow. Theres plenty of other MMO's that have bows you can twang in.
now make it a grenade launcher and Im all for the change. Hell, the devs already have the animations for grenade launchers, they can just tuck those into customization..... -
whats this Tank you speak of?
Whats this Energy melee or Energy Aura?
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I play toons that get some sort of -def on the enemies (swords, acid mortars, friends with swords) and I love Plasmatic taser. Luckily people through the high level one for cheap, and finally theres a use for Thorns and Temp analyzers.
Yeah all that salvage that the Rewards team put in but never used in recipes finally gets a use. (over exaggerated but pretty darn close) -
Learn to Troll....i suggest 4chan they have it down to an art
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Quote:So basiclly you agree that the devs should make every TF, oro arc, arc, trial....worth one merit and keep the prices of of Io's the same. Its sheer brilliance on your part.Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
Methinks you misunderstand. See, if a Tasks' rewards are deemed "too low", people won't be as pressed to find ways to lower the amount of time or effort it takes to complete said task, or in other words, they won't be tempted to try and break the time/risk: reward metric.
For instance, the hamidon encounter is worth 52 merits. On virtue, we've found a way to make it so efficient that we can do THREE raids in just under 2 hours. I doubt we ever would have had the motivation to do so if the encounter were only worth, say, 25 merits. We certainly wouldn't have enough interested people to fill three raids when they could get better rewards doing something easier. This has only bolstered the popularity of Hami raids... not because we made it easy, but because we made it QUICK and totally screwed over the devs intended time:merit ratio.
For a more broad example, the ITF. It's already short and worth plenty of merits, yet people STILL insist on trying to get it done in under a half hour. Would they still do so if the merit rewards were chopped in half? ~21 merits is too low for a half hour of work?
Players seem to have the inclination that the Devs time:merit ratio is intrinsically too low, and they want to beat that metric by completing tasks faster. They don't want a merit for five minutes, they want five merits for a single minute. With the posi Tfs rewards being as low as they are, you'd have to complete both halves in like 10 minutes. Thoroughly impossible, and so now it's "now worth it".
Because it can't be gamed.
And THAT's the issue, it seems. The rewards aren't "too low". They're "too low to bother abusing the TF". And that's a player perception/entitlement issue.
Under your, ahem, idea of exploit this is the only logical action the devs can take to disabuse players from doing anything in an, ahem, exploitive manner.
So get out there and pitch that idea to the Devs....With players like you and Alt-o-holic Im sure we can clean up this game of filthy exploiters. Heck, you'll love FF11 you should give that a shot someday. -
Quote:Goat's a simple goat?Originally Posted by mintmiki
am i missing something? Aren't Goatrule #1 and Goatrule #2 the same? Are all the Goatrules the same?
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you have to build for solo play, because unlike other games that are actually tedious (Wow, FF11) you dont know what kind of team you will get.
In those other games, the holy trinity means youre playing 1 of 3 pre-concieved At's. youre one of those At's so you NEED the other 2 and have to wait around, possibly for hours trying to fill those slots.
In Cox you could get anything from try-tank stalkers to healbot defenders(mostly on Freedumb) to Av killer Controllers (not on Freedumb) to dead on the ground again Blaster.....You might see a bubbler that actually bubbles instead of standing around being a healtard....you might see a tank that is impressive....
Leadership pool is really impressive stacked, and you cant convince 5 freedumbites that heals arent neccesary to do a cape mission. Yeah, Freedumb is that dumb. Sadly the rest of the population is fairing almost slightly higher than that.
Unless you have a few friends and can static team a toon, you build solo, or you quit playing. Theres advice in the forums....just remember to use a hero builder. -
Quote:Originally Posted by SwellGuy
Maybe you should post smarter?
Many people can post from work but cannot play.
Yes, I will post smarter. Hey hows that job of yours gonna like the fact that instead of working your posting about something that doesnt concern them?
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Quote:and with the way the Pool c's are currently wieghted, it would be 7 slow recipes which might as well not exist....and 4 randoms that will not be what the player wants or could use.Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight
Repaired that typo, thanks for the catch, hit 2 and 1 instead of 1 and 1.
250 merits generates 12 recipes or it can be spent on a single one. 11 recipes therefore never exist.
The problem with the merit system is that Call of the sandman chance for heal is equal in merits to a numina or miracle unique. How many people can use a Sandman vs how everyone can use The other two? There was a Stun recipe that i wanted to merit, because it was pool C, but it costs exactaly as many merits as a Lotg 7.5 recipe.
Sadly the arrogance of the Devs regarding this matter is a dirty shame. The random chance was fun, Bmls runs were alot of fun. The Devs decided that Punishing redside because of Khtf was far better than just dropping Khtf from random rolls and putting in more Redside Tfs.
Maybe someday theyll listen to thier playerbase instead of Arcannaville (sp) half the time and rolling the keener players up with the dirty exploiters and ignoring both kinds of people.