Celestial_Fury

To be honest, i would quit playing. I am a gambler and the random drop rewards is a major thing that keeps me playing. That is why i could play Diablo 2 for years, i never get tired finding new unexpected trinkets.

Of course, there is more than that to the game but really, with no random rewards, i would leave very soon.

That is why also i am thankful that the Merit system did not turn out ot be just "choose your reward" thing. The opportunity to gamble Merits for Random Recipe rolls is really a blast for me.

Did i said that i loved gambling ?

Well fine then, forgive me to have been a doomsayer. Well, if everything is fine then that's cool, i certainly have alot of characters i can see take a total advantage of that IO once placed in the very specific power.

Hope we all will be having fun!

Well, i do use alot Shockwave when i solo or when i am sure i can pin all the enemies agaisnt a wall.

I like the power for what it is but i am not abusing it because it could be counter-productive because Knockback IS counter-productive at times.

However, would Shockwave be a Knockdown cone power, i know that i would be using it non-stop and abusing the hell out of it.

I am just wondering if the devs are ok with that, if they think it is unbalancing or that i am totally wrong and even with such a power it would still be judged "working as intended", nothing to be concerned about.

( Edited for typos )

Well, what i mean is that some powers in many AT were probably balanced in function of their secondary effect.

And i suspect the Knockback effect was seen by the devs like a "neutral" or at least a penalty of a sort while a Knockdown is probably always seen as a bonus with no downside whatsoever.

So turning powers that were "balanced" somewhat with the Knockback effect into powers that are now doing Knockdown may ( or may not ) become a problem.

There are already powers in the game that are meant to Knockdown enemies and they are balanced in function of it ( damage wise, recharge wise, aoe wise ).

Let's now look at a power like Shockwave which is a fairly fast reload power and was given the Knockback effect maybe for balancing reasons ( i am not sure, i am just assuming ) and let's see what happens when it becomes a Knockdown power used in a normal rotation within a team context. Now let's look at it activated by a recharge buffed player which would spam it non-stop.

I am just wondering if the devs are ok with that or feel it might be overpowered and if so, i just would not like players who do not slot that IO to get penalized if Shockwave gets a damage or recharge nerf.

That is my concern.

Personnaly i am more concerned about the game balance issues that might arise with these KB/KD converters enh.

For exemple, let's take a look at Bonfire, a power devised to provide a high rate of KB proc. Now it gets turned into a perma-KD power. So that means it could provide a lot of control with no downsides.

Now what is Bonfire power recharge time before being usable again? And let's comapre it to say Ice Slick.

Just want to make sure Devs know what they are doing. Some powers in certain set are meant to cause knockdown at area location. Now some powers that were meant to do knockback will do knockdown and be spammable like Shockwave. Look at the recharge rate of these powers, their damage and compare them to other powers who already are aoes or cones that do knockdown.

I beg to differ. Let's see more in detail what you get in these packs:

- Costume pieces ( the less useful thing to me because it has no gameplay value if none of my characters use them )

- Inspirations ( Very low value but not totally useless, i would not pay real money for these thought )

- Enhancement Boosters, Enhancement Unslotters ( this starts to look better, i really often use these since i have 45 characters and i tend to swap lot of stuff around. I never bought these as a stand alone product thought but as a side-prize, i like them )

- Windfall, Prestige and Patrol XP powers ( All useful stuff to me that i would not buy as a stand alone product but i am happy to get them in these packs )

- XP 1hour boost ( Good stuff again, nice side-gift i would not normally buy )

- The Archetype Enhancements and Catalysts ( Now you talk! Good stuff, high replay value, interesting procs. I might even pay real money just to buy these alone )

- MERITS , not hundreds, TOUSANDS of Merits points! ( And this really was the selling point for me )

In the end, the SuperPacks gave me 153x25 Merits ( 3825 Merits ). To me, that is priceless. I calculated how much Merits i can get per hour and how much time to get to 3825 and that represents LOT of time.

3825 Merits. That means 191 Rare recipe rolls or 191 TF completed before the Merit Vendor existed.

3825 Merits gained in 5 minutes for less than 60$. I only bought 3x24 Super PAcks so far.

Let's assume a TF duration is about 1 hour in the "best case" for a Reward of 20 Merits. Then i basically got 191 hours of playtime worth in 5 minutes.

Yes, Instagratification, that's what it is. But i am willing to pay for that when i feel it. That is my choice.

I do not feel robbed one second by the NCSoft. And the Merits are very Versatile. I can directly buy recipes i want ( Numina, Miracle, Kismet, whatever ) and use them or even sell them for millions of in-game money. Same goes for the Archetype Enh.

So there it is. My opinion is that these SuperPacks were GREAT value to me. I will probably buy more of them. The Wolf and Costume Options are what is the less important to me in these packs.



Edit: Now i also agree that Purple Recipes, A-Merits, Threads and other Incarnate stuff would be great prizes if they were inserted in random Super Packs. I would certainly buy such packs and try my luck at them. Great idea!

It is not like you do not have the choice.

Really, you do not need any of that stuff to play and enjoy the game.

I did not buy the Wolf Travel power, i was not interested in it. Some players were and they bought it.

I think SuperPacks are giving a big bang for my bucks so i bought many of them. I never felt compelled or forced to buy anything. Sure i like to flip cards and get random rewards but i would not pay real money if i felt it was not worth it ( to me ).

There really is nothing wrong with that system. The more money you spend, the more stuff you get. It is a universal model that pretty much every kind of stores in the world follows.

There will always have people who want stuff but do not have the money for it. Well, too bad for them. Stores ( CoH store or any other stores ) are no charity organizations. I can't buy the Ferrari and crying about it won't help. So i just forget it and move on or i try to earn enough money for it.

If CoH comes up with more stuff i want that i can afford, i am pretty sure that i will buy again. It is my choice.

It is the law you say? Change the law then because it is lame! Why no one will change it is beyond me. Anyway, any justice system that is expensive is right from the start not just. If you fair trials because of the fees charged for the procedure then where is the justice in that? See. It`s lame.

True that. It is thw whole "suing" system that is to blame. They should not have the right to sue happy like that. Or at least, suing should not be an expensive procedure so that any sued entity or person could with ease defend themselve at budget price.

Lame system... It is so american.. Tsk tsk...

For myself, all my characters on live pre-I16 were set on Heroic/Villainous difficulty ( i never touch that thing, i join team when i want harder stuff... ) and i changed nothing since then.

I have not created new characters since I16. And if drops stays like that, i doubt i will, game has become so zzz... Feels like CoH Issue2 but without enhancement drop haha

Starting to miss all my level 50 Training and DOs that were filling my tray before. At least i was getting something. Ok.. To be fair i am getting decent salvage drop but thats all, really. Thats not good enough.

I fail to see how it would give any useful results. As i said above, even playing alone on a map set for 1 single person is showing awful drop rate compared to what it was pre-I16.

My take is that if 1 playing at x1 is bad, odds are that 2 players playing at x2 will also be bad and etc.

Edit: I doubt the issue is that drops get generated and awarded to "ghost players" since one single player not on a team and killing stuff in the streets is definitely getting less drops than before I16. On test server, i was alone killing level 50 stuff in Portal Court in P.I. and i only got 1 level 50 common recipe. It was pathetic.

I concur here. I see no problem with salvage drop right now. It actually is the only thing with inspirations that seem to drop consistently on live. Recipe and Enhancement drop need to be looked at.