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My Keanu Reeves / Neo / Cyberpunk tribute character : Johnny Moronic (Thugs / Traps)
Complete with inane grin, leather trenchcoat and an unlikely supporting cast of buff, cool-looking sidekicks who tend to get killed off a lot. -
Quote:Well no, it's unlikely to get worse. We've had a unified downtimes ever since the EU offices shut down, more or less and this sort of thing is a rarity. This isn't something new happening due to the server farm merge or the upcoming list merge, it's been a reality for a couple of years now.Originally Posted by Slazenger
I made a sarcastic comment on the last thread where fixes/issues resulted in EU losing their primetime.
The comment was maybe we in the EU should get used to having our primetime taken away from us.
Is this going to be the case from now on and maybe could be worse when we merge servers?
Would just like to know, as obviously if this is the case then I will not be-able to continue subscribing due to work commitments.
Isn't any good paying for a service that is only available whilst I am at work.
It's still a mighty pain in the nads mind, and whomever decided to post an Announcement about no downtime for maintenance yesterday is looking slightly silly today.
Hopefully the next issue won't be so bug ridden that it requires developers to do silly things like patch a server just before the time period when they aren't in the office for 2 days and there are the most people playing the game (ie on a Friday afternoon). -
Quote:Yes, yes they do. They're kinda like scrappers, in that they aren't power multipliers in the same way as Defenders or even SoA are, but they bring decent damage, protection via control and/or taking alphas and off-tanking and are pretty self-sufficent.Originally Posted by Angelic_EU
I have started playing again since i20 was out. I don't play nearly as much as before but still want to try out a few things. Kheldian is the only AT I hardly have any experience with although I do have a lv42 WB, which I have not played for years. And I might be tempted to level a PB.
So far I have done a few BAFs. But I don't remember I have seen any Kheldian at all. In fact, I don't think I have seen that many Kheldians in recent years.
That prompted me to ask: what do Kheldians bring to a team in terms of, say, TFs and Trials? Do they make any noticeable different in a team?
Warshades are one of my Plant/Emps top Fort and AB targets since I know how nice recharge and damage buffs are for them. -
Quote:Ah, they enjoy that sort of roughhousing.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
But it's okay to slap the Aussie players in the face.
It does render yesterdays "No downtime for maintenance, aren't we great" thread a bit of a joke. If you're going to labour the point that you've saved some middle-of-the-day downtime it's best not to then force prime time downtime the day after. -
My poor 4 year old.
Oh well, back behind the couch with us. -
Quote:You cannot spawn ambushes in Atlas, there's code in place which prevents it happening.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Gonna have to say no on this. Some of those Radio/Paper missions spawn ambushes and you know darn well there will be idiots that think it's funny to spawn level 50 ambushes in Atlas Park and other low level zones.
And before anyone suggests it another "No" on getting rid of the ambushes from those missions.
But yes to the "Not now" button.
I've never come across a Radio/Paper mish with an out-of-instance ambush in it either. -
Oh hello 5 year old zombie thread. You finally got yourself outta that grave eh? Well good for you...
EAT BOOMSTICK EVIL UNDEAD THREAD
*boom*
*walks off whistling*
(edit : Hey look, me from 5 years ago and a different Login commented on this thread too. Now I know how the Doctor feels when he bumps into a previous incarnation) -
Quote:Originally Posted by Liz Bathory
Agreeying on this. It seems the best solution. 75% crash instead of 100%
Given that nukes cost 15-20 End to cast anyway a 75% crash would be pretty much the same thing as a 100% crash for them even if you had full End when firing it. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
It's not just a silly limitation nowadays. It's always been a silly limitation, and it used to be even sillier when your own nukes would super-stun you for 5-10 seconds. Happy happy joy joy happy happy joy!
I've rarely argued for the removal of the crash from nukes, mostly because I didn't think anyone would agree with me, what with the strong status quo we have here, but I still firmly believe that these powers are unduly hamstrung by irritating limitations.
Here's what bugs me about nukes so much - they're good powers in some circumstances, but frikkin' let me use 'em! There's nothing quite as frustrating as having a good power on your roster and being unable to use it, even when it's right there, recharged and taunting you.
I'm all for removing the 100 end crash from nukes, yes. Can we kill the interruptibility on snipes while we're at it?
I'd possibly keep the -recovery in nukes, so they act like EMP or EMP Arrow where there is still a bit of a penalty for using them but drop the crash.
As for snipes I've detailed before what I'd do with them, they really need to become more useful by removing the interrupt and also adding a secondary effect to each (stun, fear etc) as a small AOE. -
Ill/Rad will be still be excellent in the rest of the phases though so I don't really see too much of an issue here.
Whereas on my Plant/Emp the opposite happens. She's great in the Escaping phase, since Plant is basically the king of AOE Immob, but Creepers isn't a hell of a lot of use vs the AVs, nor are Seeds much use against Boss level mobs (unless there's a second Planty on your team).
Spectral Terror on the other hand has that 15-30% ToHit debuff on it, perfect for stacking against those reinforcement spawns of 9CUs and Vikkies while you stick all your debuffs on an AV of choice and let PAs distract them. -
Regardless of the existance of Judgement slots or not Nukes need to be redone to remove the crash. It's just a silly limitation of those powers nowadays.
Let their Recharge, Damage etc being the balancers for nukes, this imposed crash is silly. Forts have had access to proper crashless nukes for 8 issues now and they're fine. Nice powers, suitable for a tier 9 power but not overpowered really. -
Quote:This. I ran the BAF trial itself twice last night and it was kinda fun. Suffered from all the issues all of these mass character thingies do, lagging powers and rubber banding, so I won't be hurrying back to it. Maybe if there were two more 4 to 8 people ones. I did enjoy it though and the 20-30 minute duration is perfect for me.Originally Posted by Valgrisk
All the components and crap to keep track of feels like enchanting/gemming my gear in WoW again...
...Just with a much uglier UI that makes it harder to track crap.
The incarnate system is a shambolic mess though, stupid new salvages which are hard to track and follow. A confusing menu system with Yet More Salvage. What were you thinking.
The UI additions are chronically bad. The league and team menus are most unpleasant on my 1024 screen. -
Quote:Speaking personally if I'm not logging into the game much before a new issue, then the new issue comes along and doesn't bring anything really I want to do much then not renewing for a few months and letting the heart grow fonder is a logical thing to do.Originally Posted by EvilGeko
When 99% of the content hasn't changed, I don't understand what's motivated you to not renew.
When the Jam Tomorrow turns out to be gooseberry you're probably better off taking a break for a bit to, erm ...[warning : AnalogyParseError: Redo from start] -
Quote:Originally Posted by JoeKent
Now if I just get into a trial without map serving ever single time....
Well that's a whole different kettle of fish. I've taken your approach in that regard (although replace Red Dead Redemption with Assassins Creed 2), until they fix the issue. -
Quote:Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
Do you go often go back to wipe out greys in Perez Park when you're level 50?
If not, why would anyone go back to wipe out the equivalent of greys at level 50+X?
The whole point of the incarnate system is to become more powerful (while having fun).
Increasing the difficulty of pre-incarnate content defeats this purpose.
Because, unlike the Perez greys, the level 50 "greys" you're wiping out at level 50+ with your new shiny powers will drop Inf, IOs, Shards and Purples for you?
Agree with your last point though, upping old content like TFs or Radios would defeat the purpose of becoming Incarnate anyway (unless you allowed the Difficulty Level Slider to go up I suppose). -
Quote:Originally Posted by Warlocc
The keybind is as follows: petcom_name zom "follow defensive"
Hmmm. I remember that does take a second or two to kick in but it's been a while since I played my Necro MM.
If they take damage on the way back they'll re-aggro but I can't see how that would happen if they're chasing a runner.
Only thing I can advise is a "Heel" bind as well, issue with that is that it'll take the pet(s) involved out of BG mode which can be very dangerous for you. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
We used Cimerora, probably because most people on Champion seem to use pocket D and we were forming a league by invite. Some guy was forming an ITF while we were waiting, I hate to think we got his hopes up.
There are Incarnates without the Midnight Club unlocked? Really?
My Plant/Emp controller for one. Just never got around to it. -
Quote:^This. The current system reeks of Positron. What ever happened to "Keep it simple, stupid"? A sprawling tree with a myriad of different salvages feeding into it is just baffling and pretty unnecessary. Things like Weekly Strike Tasks can be accommodated simply by providing iXP bonusesOriginally Posted by FloatingFatMan
Easy. Dump ALL the new currencies and salvage garbage brought in for the Incarnate system, and convert everything over to "Incarnate XP" that you earn to gradually unlock your next slot (you get to nominate which slot you want to earn it for).
Simplify the entire stupidly over complicated system that's taken a pick up and play MMO, and turned it into a number crunching borefest that's almost as interesting to play as EVE.
I'd also do another round of proliferation, finally finish off Power Customization (I seem to remember Posi saying things like different types of Superspeed were coming, what ever happened to that?) and introduce a Level 20-35 zone along the lines of the RWZ, probably a magical based one set in a revamped Dark Astoria (I'd add a few new enemy types to the Banished in doing so). I'd be sure to keep the fog though. I like the fog (maybe allow player actions to affect it though) -
Are you doing Follow or Follow Defensive?
If they're in Aggressive mode just Follow mightn't be enough, you might need to issue a Follow Defensive or even a "Heel" (Follow Passive) to make him behave.
He is a mouldering corpse after all. Cut him some slack. -
Quote:Me and SinergyX are not talking about "at this given time" though, we're talking post merger.Originally Posted by TheSin
Because it was already said by the devs, US-EU transfers are not possible at this given time, US and EU servers physical are still at different locations.
... stupid login system.
Physically the EU and US servers are now hosted in the same place in the US. This was done about 6-8 months ago.
Come August the Merge is happening and there will be one unified Server List for EU and US servers. At that point there should be no reason you cannot transfer one of your US characters to an EU server. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Nihilii
Hmm... I haven't seen Siege heal in the iTrials, and I've done 4-5 BAFs already. What gives?
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Quote:In this case you're not being "nerfed" in any way. Siege is simply built in a way which your powers aren't suited to dealing with very well, regardless of how awesome that combination of powers is against some other things.Originally Posted by JoeKent
Well I am downgrading him to a level 49 EB, but as Muon_Neutrino I don't get why this AV has to have an auto heal that fires every single time. Even Baphomet's and Sunstorm's heal only fires a few times.
Keep in mind he can't KILL me (unless I drop out of BG mode and stop focusing on debuffing his damage), but even with the Hero damage buff, feeding my *** bot red meat and using envenomed dagger and other temp powers I still can't kill him.
I can't rage quit (my wife and RLFs play), but between this, the Event disconnecting me every time I've tried to play it, noticing my vet powers that I have EARNED through several years of play are nerfed during the Events, and the insane amount of new currency for the new Incarnate slots, well I have a feeling I'll finally be finishing Red Dead Redemption.
It really sucks to have built up a toon for over a year, investing time into the Alpha slot and the infamy for purple sets, that can handle AVs and GMs , to have that toon nerfed to the point where Siege is unkillable to him.
I can solo Jurassik but not Siege. Really?
There's one of the Incarnate powers which has an option of adding a -special to all of your attacks. That might be enough to weaken his heal enough for you to beat him.
I'm not sure if AVs resist the Interface debuffs though, if they don't that may be your best option as the other thing it offers is -recharge I think, further slowing his ability to self-heal.
Edit : Gravitic Radial Interface: 25% -rech, 25% -secondary effect should be the one to go for. The 25% chance isn't much but with all your pets blasting away it should quickly stack 4 times and stay there. -
Quote:Originally Posted by SinergyX_NA
But to what level they want to keep this as a serious weakness? Majority of mobs in the trial have pretty heavy AoE damage, quite some more that i've seen in other TF's or sortlike.
True, would be nice that AI would be a bit better, but i think they pretty ran into the limit of what they can do to the AI of pets (alike melee heroes in GW).
But the Pet AI used to be better for Ranged pets. Then they broke it (because they wanted their new shiney Demoo pets to work all spiffingly). So they do have the ability to improve (or just reset it if you like) if they wanted to.
However so far the Castle-less Powers Team haven't shown much of a commitment towards fixing broken things or revamping powersets, other than the AOE heal for Dark Masterminds (which I suppose thinking about it could have been in order to throw Dark MMs a bone on these trials). -
Quote:Why can't you? Your EU accounts should be able to move their characters to an NA server of their choice, NA accounts should be able to move their characters from an NA server to an EU one.Originally Posted by SinergyX_NA
Even after the merge, sadly you still cant transfer from EU servers to US servers, dispite on the same list/account
You can't transfer characters between accounts (so I can't move a character from my Carnifax_EU account to my Carnifax_NA one for example) but that's a different kettle of fish. -
Quote:"And when they *do* notice it ignore all the shouting and do it anyway"Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
Ah, an IP based whitelist and security questions; it's almost like they asked the work experience lad to devise a secure, 2-factor authentication system for their account management and if he could have it done by the end of the day that would be great. And I agree that not having any obvious way to remove IPs from the whitelist is a Bad Thing - even moreso if I access my account on my phone because that IP is far more dynamic (and widely assigned) than that of my home connection.
Even [a certain wintry game company] do it right by having tokens/phone apps that give proper 2-factor authentication. As the old saying goes: If you're not going to do it properly, just half-*** it and hope nobody notices
It's an absolutely moronic system. What makes it sadder is that they already did inane things with IP Addresses on the store and people like me have been saying "Please stop doing that, tis idiotic" which just seems to encourage them to do more silly things with IP Addresses.
Maybe some reverse psychology is required :
"Hey, NCSoft Web Developers. I think you should expand this reliance on IP Addresses in some way because they are a totally reliable and unique way to decide what machine someone is using and what content you should always show them. Also, your forum software is awesome. Keep using it. And your Credit Card payment system is above reproach"