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and as US has no prob.. the US don't care

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Good, then they can move over here then.

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Sweet jebus, more GGs. Just what we need

Why on earth would they move from their nice fast servers over to laggy German ones?

It's the one log-in on the NC site to manage both. However in terms of entering Credit Card details for subscribing you enter them every time you start / restart paying for a game.

*Runs to the Black Market and buys up all the Acme giant magnets, catapults and TNT*

Now this is flipping I can enjoy.

Meep meep.

Does the icon not flash / change when there's just 10 seconds left on a timed power? It used to.

As for Dark Servant, use the Pets Window. You need to switch it on in the options and then there's a linky-button thing to display it at the top of the Team window.

Union? I had this too the last time I logged on (Monday I think). Little blips of yellow (no red) really close together and lots of lttle laggy jumps and skips.

TF2 was fine though

Weird. What database are they using which is limited to 1024 chars?

I thought Ravens objection was more down to the fact he doesn't like being able to know a characters backstory from just "looking" at them, that it was a roleplaying one.

As a total non-roleplayer and someone who gets bored easily I like reading bios, even the rip-off emo ones, whilest waiting for people to gather at mission entrances so I'm all for this.

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Most of my better moments were when I was a newbie:

- Trying to get into Hospital when my health was low, and I hadn't a proper defeat yet. Even tried to run into elevators when a player run out.
- Trying to get into train when doors were open. "Clicking with blue hand" not yet discovered by then. Maybe I needed a train ticket?

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Or the old "clicking on the Train door over and over again, trying to figure out why they wouldn't work". Before eventually realising that the Train entrance and train exit are two seperate little rooms.

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To be honest this isn't the same discussion (kind of any ways)

What Liz is suggesting is that they combine the server list and so throw open all the CoH servers for every one regardless of who they pay there subs to. At most this would require a global name change there would be no need for character name changes unless the player decided to hop server.

I'm all for this idea. it pretty much solves every ones problems, more potential people to team with, more slots to create alts on, it doesn't brake up groups of friends and even the legal issue may be some what muted if subs were still payed to the relevant territory.

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But as has been explained before, there are massive legal issues with this - due to sharing data across the Atlantic

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Actually that hasn't been mentioned as an issue since NCEU got merged with NC North America. Not saying it doesn't still stand or anything.

That being said even if it does still apply who says the US has to process the financial side? All the US servers would need to know is if someone has a valid account on them, they don't need to know anything about credit card details etc, just a small "Is Valid Account" check to an EU side machine which handles our payments.

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About force feedback i feel it works great since i hurricane tank avs and other stuff with repel resist , not gm's and that praetorian av on the wolf map though.

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Aye, but it works even better in Fissure. You can be sure of getting it almost every cast, since you're hitting 10 people with it every 10 seconds or so, its got a much better chance of going off (10*10% chance).

Earth for a Grav/Storm seems to match up well, the AOE has a chance to Stun which works well with Wormhole (and Thundercrap if you get it), although the short AOE is a drawback with Hurricane. Defense shields are always good in PvE and Earths Embrace would be handy for Hurricane-tanking.

Failing that Gale is a surprisingly good place for it too, stick in an Accuracy too and spam the thing (within reason). Especially since the OP is going Hover / Fly. Death from Above!

If you want as much recharge as possible take Hasten earlier and 3 slot it with Recharge IOs.

Much easier than worrying about Purples (which you can only get at 50 anyway). What are you going to do for the vast amount of time before you get to 50?

The Forced Feedback Recharge PROC doesn't work the best in Hurricane, unless you do a lot of wall-pinning with it. Stick it in Lift, Gale, or even better an AOE knockdown power like Fissure or Psi Tornado from the epics.

Wormhole & GDF are much, much better Frankenslotted with Acc/Mez/Recharge IOs, one from each set available, rather than slotted with a full slot. You want to max out Mez and Recharge on them, leave set bonuses to other powers. A PROC in GDF is a waste, the recharge is far, far too long.

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Best one I can remember was ghosting through the mobs to the TV reactor once we had the key while my team were mopping up the mobs along the way with a few AFK's thrown in for good measure. Little did I know at the time that clicking on the door to the entrance was the signal for the Freaks to start attacking the reactor. We just entered the 'shield' room only to be met by a bright white flash and mission failed! Oops!

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Yay! I'm not the only one who did this! Although it was the Sky Raiders in my case.

Assuming cares about flippers of course, which I don't particularly.

I throw most things up for 5 Inf. Oddball recipies go up for 1000, if I don't sell them to the shops instead.

Someone wants to spend time playing the Flipping game, fine, off you go.

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Its just as I see it from other games.. like AOC managed it. The tech wouldn't be any harder, its legal and VAT issues stopping them.

But if this cant be managed... why ever remove the posibility to transfer US > EU? If that keeps active all people who mistakenly started a trial on us (and there are a LOT) would be able to get to eu... while keeping their badges and veterans.

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EVE runs on a shardless system, eg everyone is on in effect a single server. But it proves nothing, because you can do something in one system does not mean it is possible in another.

I have no real idea about the legality of the system, it could just be an excuse. But equally it could a real and limiting constraint that they can't just get round that easily. AoC/EvE/etc may have done what you want but as they are separate legal entities there is no real comparison.

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Interestinly I've heard nothing about the legalities standing in the way since NCEU and NC North America merged together.

That doesn't mean they don't still exist but GR has commented that "there are no plans to merge" a few times since the merger but has failed to cite this reason, which used to be used every time by Bridger etc as a reason.

Not saying it doesn't still exist but it hasn't been clarified.

To be honest when the merger was announced of the two divisions it did occur to me that it could be paving the way towards a merger of server groups.

I'm pretty sure I teamed with The Fat Controller in the past as well

Cya Stase, have fun in RL and with whatever you do.

Given the dual-builds feature of i13 I thought I might make my Necro/Dark a Tankermind for his secondary build. This is more or less what I was going with. I haven't gone mad with IOs because Suckers is a bit buggy and out of date except for in certain cases like in Dark Servant & Lich, where I know ToHit/Recharge IOs are excellent as they boost not only how long the Summon power recharges in, but also how quickly some of the pets powers recharge.

Link to original build

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+ Built with SuckerPunch's Online Planner
+ http://www.cohplanner.com
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Name: Mr Reaver (Tank)
Level: 50
Archetype: Mastermind
Primary: Necromancy
Secondary: Dark Miasma
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01 => Twilight Grasp ==> 2xAcc,3xHeal,1xRech
01 => Zombie Horde ==> 3xAcc,3xDam
02 => Tar Patch ==> 3xRech,1xImpededSwiftness: %Smashing
04 => Darkest Night ==> 2xToHitDeBuff,1xDark Watchers: %Recharge Slow
06 => Enchant Undead ==> 1xRech
08 => Combat Jumping ==> 1xEmpty
10 => Hurdle ==> 1xJump
12 => Grave Knight ==> 2xAcc,3xDam,1xUndermined Def: Rech
14 => Super Jump ==> 1xJump
16 => Health ==> 1xHeal,1xEmpty
18 => Soul Extraction ==> 3xRech,1xAcc,1xSovereignRight: Resist Unique,1xEdictof the Master: Defense Unique
20 => Fearsome Stare ==> 1xNightmare: Acc/Rech/Fear, 1xNightmare: Fear/Range, 1xGlimpse: Acc/Rech/Fear, 1xGlimpse: Fear/Range, 1xGlimpse: Acc/Rech, 1x-ToHit
22 => Stamina ==> 3xEndMod
24 => Shadow Fall ==> 3xDamRes
26 => Lich ==> 1xAcc,1xDampened: ToHit/Rech,1xDampened: ToHit/Rech/End, 1xDark Watchers: ToHit/Rech, 1xDark Watchers: ToHit/Rech/End, 1xFear
28 => Provoke ==> 1xAcc,2xTaunt,2xRech
30 => Petrifying Gaze ==> 1xAcc,3xHold,2xRech
32 => Dark Empowerment ==> 1xRech,1xEndCost
35 => Acrobatics ==> 1xEndCost
38 => Dark Servant ==> 1xAcc,1xHeal,1xDampened: ToHit/Rech,1xDampened: ToHit/Rech/End, 1xDark Watchers: ToHit/Rech, 1xDark Watchers: ToHit/Rech/End
41 => Scorpion Shield ==> 3xDefBuff
44 => Howling Twilight ==> 3xRech,2xDisDur
47 => Life Drain ==> 1xAcc,2xDam,1xHeal
49 => Mace Beam Volley ==> 1xAcc,3xDam
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01 => Sprint ==> 1xEmpty
01 => Brawl ==> 1xEmpty

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What we should do is try to get our gripes off our chests all in one go, do the whole PL'ing is ruining me game, pvp ruining me game, farmers ruining me game, ED ruined me game, no teams ruining game, games dead ruining me game, knock ya self out, get them all out now so its done for the week.

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Or just derail the thread with an obscure reference to a Terry Prachett book and stand back and watch the resulting nerd-valanche sweep it away.

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That's right, guys and gals, my Crab Spider, AFK Man, reached lvl 50 last night during an ITF. Now my count in Defiant is balanced once again, 4 - 4, and adding my 2 50s in Union, that makes 10 in total.

Luckily, still got several lowbies to play with, both in Defiant and Union, so future is shining for me (metaphorically speaking ).

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Filthy Villain! Why would us heroes care about that!!

Seriously though, congrats!

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That's not my cow

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I ordered mine medium-rare!

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I believe the saying is: "quacks like a duck".



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The sound a duck makes is a quack, so I feel I was essentially correct.

(IBTL!)

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As a father to an 16 month old I can confirm this. Ducks certainly quack. If you need to know any other farmyard sounds let me know, I've become an expert (its bizarre really, we live in the middle of Dublin. The only sound the ducks/pigs/lambs/cows we meet make is a gentle sizzle as I fry them).

@Jawdropper, I don't think the barbaric one was referring to you, just using Quick Reply.

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1. Why do we have to get 700 mil or whatever to get a 'good' build? I feel this system is downright pants, why should I need to farm every spare time I get to get decent builds. I have nothing against farmers and I do occasinally farm. But I just feel the farmers who like to farm a lot have a edge over people who dont farm, espicially in PvP. Why?

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You don't.

You can get a good build on SO's. (remember those? those things you buy from shops/quartermasters after level 22/contacts)

I've got tanks that have tanked everything in the game barring Hamidon on nothing but SO's, blasters that still do silly amounts of damage, scrappers that are durable and kick out damn good damage, a MM that casually strolls through 99% of anything the game throws at him and so on and so forth. And even with Hami, IO's would make approximately zero difference.

To get an exceptional build, you may need x million inf, whatever the figure is these days. But a good, solid build requires only SO's.

Inventions are an optional part of the game, nothing about them is mandatory, even if you could easily get the opinion to the contrary from reading the boards.

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Yeah but I never really got into SO's IO's are pretty much better in terms of like Set Bonuses and stuff. OK lets put it specifically IO then.


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You still don't. Set bonuses aren't as important as people think (at least in PvE) and you can Frankenslot cheap IOs into powers to give yourself excellent enhancement values for fairly cheap prices.

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With PvP being under major changes, anything that might be good today may be the suck0rz when I13 lands.

I'd wait for Castle to release his PR piece on PvP changes first.

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^This

Wait and see what the nerf bat brings along on its next swing

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Nerf bat seems broken in that case, considering Controllers & meleers are getting damage buffs.

Still, Castle is a brave, brave man fiddling with PvP in this late stage of the games life.

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huh i always thought it was just -def. Thats awesome but is it working properly since i cant see it in the combat logs and theres no debuff icons swirling around unless the proc fires.

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Easiest way to check it is just to do a test on a suitable enemy. Hit them with your hold and check the damage. Drop FR on them and recheck it (discounting Containment obviously).


Haven't used it myself in a while but I'd be surprised if its broken and no-ones said anything.

On Enhancements for Creepers, the answer in the US seems to be "unknown".

Because of the way the creepers spawn no-one is really sure if the Enhancement values are passed down the chain to them properly. I'd just go with 3 recharge and leave em off

Link to the thread in the US about it

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^with achilles heel proc yes otherwise no -res

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What?

Are you saying Freezing Rain, without the PROC, doesn't do -resist? If so you're 100% wrong I'm afraid. FR has a huge -Resist in it, the same amount as Tar Patch, twice that of Disruption Arrow.

Red Tomax is ill at the moment but you can verify in Mids or Tal_Ns Illusion/Storm guide here

Freezing Rain is an absolute beast of a power for this reason.