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Also Cowdragon, most people HATE dominator's snipe powers. It doesn't pack nearly as much punch as your wife's corruptor's does. Just be forewarned!

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I checked the numbers of the corr's base damage for a snipe blast: 8.9168. Then I checked the dom's base for the same snipe power (blazing bolt): 8.9168.

Why is the dom's snipe inferior to the corr's? There's a different damage scale, yes?

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YES.

The numbers you found are a measure of Brawl Index.
Brawl index is how much damage that power does compared to that ATs Brawl Damage. Each AT does however do a different amount of Brawl damage at each level.

The Brawl index is an outdated form of measurement for damage, but it's the one everyone is most familiar with.

A few months back someone on the boards figured out a much more accurace system, I believe he called it Damage Index, but most people writing guides pull their numbers from hero planner programs that still use Brawl Index.

Esentially, blaster damage is the base damage and there is a modifier applied for each AT. Corrupters have a higher modifier than Dominators, so a power with indentical Brawl indexes in the hands of a Corrupter will do more damage than a Dominator. In COH defenders share powersets with blasters but do significantly less damage with the same powers.

I don't believe the Legends system has anything to do with incarnates.

It was mentioned back when Hammi'os were dropped down to SO values that NEW enhancements that provided 50% and possibly higher values were on their way.

My guess is that they will be available as the rewards for end game content. If they only trail off in effectiveness like enhancements should, you should be able get values up to 144% instead of the current 95%. This will allow you to make your charecters more powerfull, free up slots for different enhancement types, etc... all WITHOUT raising the level cap, which is something the DEVs dread having to do.

Also, my only silly rant here.
Nictus are evil energy beings.
Warshades are Nictus merged with willing human hosts.
Warshades were added as heroes quite simply because there was no COV at the time. While warshades trying to redeem themselves makes a cool hero concept there is absolutely NO reason that a Warshade who merged with an Evil human would not be a villain.

Simply put, Warshades make a no brainer villain AT.

They are still Warshades to boot, no reason to cook up some new Nictus name for them.

Great Guide !!

Thanks for all your hard work.

You do realize that as a guide you left out both the "how" and "why".

I understand the concept and the considerations you pointed out but you should really add two more sections to your "guide" explaining exactly how to do it and possible motivations for doing it. Including the details of the healing and damage taken badges would be a classy touch as well.

I look forward to your One Man Healing Farm VER 2.0 guide.

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This is simply Awesome !!!

I found about this a while back but lost the info before I could utilize it.

This will come in quite handy when I'm looking for frikken glowies while I have the music blasting

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Thewirs music in CoH? Oh right...no sound card.

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Actually, I tend to pop music CDs into my DVD drive while playing COH. I have the COH sounds turned down and media players volume cranked up.

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I dont' see any game breaking benefit to a MM being able to fade in and out of PFF the same way all of the other ATs in the game with the power can.

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Huh ? You don't see any problem with the one set that has multiple pets to fight for it being able to quickly duck in and out of indestructable mode ?

That's like a Phase shifted Controller pre-phase shift nerf.

MM's can sit and hide behind PFF, having their pets do the fighting for them, your just not allowed to pop in and out of PFF to respawn pets and get cheap shots in. That is some semblance of balance.

The more this game evolves the more I find that the sets we thought were going to be UBER in PVP are the ones that got whacked hard with the nerf stick to prevent them from achieving dominance.


Phase Shifted controllers = Phase shift nerf
Elec Blasters/defenders = Endurance drain nerfed to uselessness
Anything with PFF = Defenders in PVP yeah right ?
ED prevents blasters from ruling PVP.
FF MM's are nothing but their pets, and pets don't amount to much in PVP
Regen Scrappers = Okay Regens are still tough, but their not G0DLY anymore

MM's won't truly be good in PVP untill they get ice/cold Masterminds. Since I just made them up, that could be a long way off Ice critters would make b4d455 pets.

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Basically... it's like sitting a group of die-hard Red Sox fans and die-hard Yankees fans in a room, asking them to discuss which team is better and expecting a civil conversation. Ain't going to happen.

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This is classic.

Mostly of course because we all know the Red Sox Roxxors!!

I know that Isolator will not be available for villains, but I will take special joy smacking that lone Infected around EVERY chance I get with my villains.

I'm glad the Devs have provided me with this oppurtunity to feel truly villainous

I do wish he spawned every 15 minutes or so. Every 2 hours is a bit much.

This is simply Awesome !!!

I found about this a while back but lost the info before I could utilize it.

This will come in quite handy when I'm looking for frikken glowies while I have the music blasting

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PvP and the arena are good additions to this game. It brought more options for fun.

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Such as the "option" of the 30 second Phase Shift... oh wait, that's not an option, it's being forced on the rest of us. And it certainly isn't fun. Tramples on concepts, for sure, but fun?

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It's MORE fun than fighting perma-invincible controllers who let their pets do all the work.

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The problem I've always had with SR is that you don't get any AoE protection until lvl 28. Try playing against Council hand grenades in the Volcano TF at lvl 27 -- it's impossible. You'll be thrown into the air so many times your butt will never touch the ground until you're dead.
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I'm sorry, but I somehow managed this TF with both my Blaster and Defender, neither of which have knockback or status resists

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Still waiting to get an explanation as to why Blazing Arrow could miss the target 3 times in a row, with 2 Nucleolus and Tactics... this is directly violating the streakbreaker's supposed behavior.

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My understanding of StreakBreaker is that it will force a miss after 10 hits in a row. You will however be capable of missing all on your own 5% of the time still.

Over time it will all even out but I myself find that when I start to miss, I miss in groupings of 3 or more. Just the other day I missed a +2 minion 6 times in a row with 2 Acc SO's, Buildup, and a few insights all going.

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Destined One
Strike Breaker
Kill Skuls
Jail Bird
Ember Legacy of Flame


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I really can't see them requiring Jail Bird or Destined one as a requirement for anything.

Destined One is only available to COH DVD owners and Jail Bird is the Isolator of COV. Requiring EITHER of those badges for anything would exclude a good percentage of players/charecters from ever earning the accolade as you can't go back and get them after charecter creation.

Hi Inversion,

You evidently put alot of work into this, but I'm missing something here.

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This keybind system is optimized so that while in combat your left hand never leaves the left side of the keyboard, and your right hand never leaves the mouse.

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When does YOUR left hand leave the keyboard using the default configuration ?

The only real difference I use from the default setup is that I have the "z" Target_Enemy_Near and I never lift my left hand from the keyboard during combat.

Again, I mean to offence, I'm just not seeing where the "problem" exists that you've spent all this time perfecting a fix for.

I got to play one last night. My random observations in NO particular order.

Team of 4 all level 40, no idea what the difficulty was set on.

* The mastermind was screwed. His pets attacked everything, and wen he spawned in prison he was almost instakilled by longbow & Guards that mobed teh prison and attacked him the instant he spawned.

* All destructable objects were levels 6-10

* After robbing the bank Lumianry showed up and we couldn't even dent her. I don't know wether she was an AV or there was just something bugged, but MY EM Stalker popping reds, BU, and ASing here did nothing to her hp, and even overload couldn't keep me alive for more tha 30 seconds with her.

* Didn't find or unlock any sidequests

* It was all quite enjoyable except for the invincible Luminary at the end.

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I thought the Jacobs Ladder animation was underwhelming.

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I don't mind the animation, but it certainly isn't very "Jacob's Ladder"-ish. More like "Static Burst." I'd rather the animation start with the character holding two fists together out in front of him and then pull them apart with a large arc of electricity jumping from hand to hand that then flashes outward. Yanno - like the arc at the top of a Jacob's Ladder.


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EXACTLY.

They just recycled the ugliest animation from the Blaster APP.

I imagined Jacobs ladder exactly as you described it as well. I could have sworn that's how it was described in an interview somewhere.....

Hey Infoseeker, Great work !!

I printed up your villain check list and found a few badges I had that weren't on your list

ACHIEVMENT

DEMONSLAYER - Defeat Baphomet

HELL BANE - Defeat Caleb

GLADIATORS

BEHEMOTH OVERLORD - earn Demonslayer, defeat Baphomet
NIGHT WIDOW
LONG BOW WARDEN 1
LONGBOW SPEC OPS
KAOLIN LEAGACY OF EARTH - complete Silver Mantis SF

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Just a suggestion, but if someone is doing something boneheaded in your group, let them know.

I just started playing this game a couple months ago, and I'm on a learning curve. I'd rather someone go ahead and correct me then continue looking like an idiot.

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Hey Dude, I'm sure that's the case for most people BUT, and it's a BIG BUT, it just gets frusterating to explain it over and over every night for 2 years.

To make matters worse is when you have to explain it more that once to any given n00b.

Some people don't pay any attention to that little chat window

Some people are just cr4ppy players no matter how much you try to help them. Other times you get people who will openly defy you and just do whatever they want, just because (they are m0r0n5)

PULLING - WHY BOTHER ?

In the time it takes me to explain "pulling" to the newbs/n00bs I could have just used TP FOE to effectively accomplish the same thing.

Okay, scratch "could have".

I gave up on rellying on other people to pull.

I've seen people attempt to pull with AOEs, sniping the boss, attempting to pull someone from a mob they already aggored, face pulling with a squishy, etc....

It's just not the aggrivation.

I thought the Jacobs Ladder animation was underwhelming.

It looked like my brute was waving sparklers at the enemy.

It needs more electricity animation and sound. It's a high damage attack and it's the least imposing looking attack in the set.

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That said, it's silly to me that these tiny melee cones have such a small chance to crit.


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I agree.

What I think would be fair would be to give you 100% chance to crit the foe you target with a 50% chance of also critting anyone else in the AoE.

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Now THAT is a good idea.

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I'd like to third the motion !!

CHUM,CHUM,CHUM,CHUM....SPRAY!!!!!

Bile is no where near as cool sounding

Do I grow Shark fins when I use Shark Skin ?

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ManyBothans died to bring us this information.

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It was well worth it.

Maybe they should give us a badge for killing Bothans

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I really don't understand the 4 min lasting pets and the 15 min recharge time. Why so long to recharge it?

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I'm guessing with Recharge Reduction SOs you can proly get the recharge down to about 7-8 minutes. So your pets can be up about half the time.

Only Controllers and Masterminds are going to have perma pets, by design.

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I just have to say that the instant I turned my electric armor on I had a total joygasm

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LMAO...heh, i had a similar experience :P

I've been waiting since release to roll an Elec/Elec anything, since my first (and favorite 'toon ) was my elec/elec Blaster. Heck i would've been happy with an elec/elec Dominator (heh thankfully it's an AT with alittle more SMASH :P)

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I'm in the same boat. My first hero was an Elec/Elec/Elec Blaster and I really wanted to roll up an evil alternate Earth version of him for COV.

I'm guessing an Elec/Elec brute will be a opposite as I can get of an Elec/Elec blaster

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As Black Scorpion has the only defense based shield, I'd say this helps put his set head and shoulders above the others for MMs. Which is what I'd thought they'd tried to avoid....

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While I agree defense is better than resistance here, Black Scorpion Powers require you tote around a stupid mace you can't even bash anyone with.

THAT ALONE will discourage many players from taking Black Scorpion as a mentor.