Chad Gulzow-Man
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Can you enter the game if you choose to start the game in safe mode (using the check box on the EULA screen)?
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Quote:Fixed. Don't worry about my Scrapper, he's going to be Alpha Boost slotted like crazy ASAP.Originally Posted by VoodooCompany
Note to self: Don't team with Chad's Stalker on these until he gets the Leader badge.
... Not that you'd team with a Stalker on a TF anyway.
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Quote:I'm actually looking at this from the other direction... so, if you're at a -4 level debuff, do you earn that discrepancy in rewards? If so, this would really help to ease the grind for my final inf badge... $_$Originally Posted by Wicked_Wendy
I strongly recommend NOT trying an Apex or Tin Mage TF without your Alpha slotted. As mentioned you will basically be trying to battle with an 8 level disadvantage.
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I believe you intended to post this here: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/forumdisplay.php?f=603
And just so you don't think I'm ragging on you... I'd really like to see an Assault/Defense AT added to the game in the future. The best fit for my main characters, story-wise, would be a combination of Energy Assault and Willpower. -
Quote:It's not just sustained DPS... if you compare any power available in both a Scrapper and a Stalker set, the Scrapper one does more flat damage. If I recall correctly, the individual Stalker attacks only do between 70 and 80% of Scrapper damage.Originally Posted by docbuzzard
Somehow we're supposed to accept that stalkers which have both inferior survivability to scrappers and brutes as well as inferior sustained DPS are working just fine.
There's little reason to argue about sustained DPS when a Scrapper can completely outclass a Stalker in a single pass of an attack chain.
My personal thought on fixing Stalkers has been to boost their single-target damage attacks to 5-10% above those of Scrappers while leaving the AoE attacks where they lie currently (aka, intentionally sub-par).
But as has been pointed out, if you ask 10 people their opinions on Stalkers, you'll get 20 different potential fixes...
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I second... er, third Dechs' idea. That's one of the most interesting thoughts on increasing a Stalker's performance that I've heard. (And given what I've been seeing floating around the boards in regards to proposed Stalker buffs, it's also nice to hear an idea from someone who actually understands the AT, and doesn't just want to make them Scrappers.)
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I volunteer Golden Girl for a stay at the Behavior Adjustment Facility. She's obviously a Resistance sympathizer.
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I think that more people playing more 50s will help, but I think we're long past the days when you could pick up an entire set of Hecatomb for a quarter billion.
I do think the extra drops from all the 50s grinding away at the existing TFs for Incarnate loot is going to put a sizable dent in the current prices. We'll probably see things back down to around the prices they were when GR launched, or at least half way between the prices now and the prices then.
Then again:
A) We now have access to a third build, so who knows how many people are going to feel a need to slot that one full of purples as well.
B) Lesser-played or team-built alts (Stone Tanks, Empaths, Kins, and the other toons that everyone makes with the sole intent to help out their friends) are going to be in high demand for the new content, and as they get played, their owners will likely start focusing more on their builds.
C) I failed Intro to Economics in college (its the only class I ever failed), so I very likely have no idea what I'm talking about.
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It was also the other way around--only players who transferred from the North American servers to the European servers got Passport.
And on the topic of the thread... as much as I'd love there to be a guaranteed way to get Bug Hunter (it's pretty much the only thing I'm missing now, and several years of submitting various bugs still haven't seen fit to put it in my hands), there's really no way to do so without a sweeping change to how the badge is awarded, i.e. making it no longer require a developer granting it manually. But that would ruin the intent of the badge to begin with.
I think the absolute best thing they could do with both Bug Hunter and Passport would be to simply make them not count towards badge totals. They should still be there, available for all to see and for you to show off if you see fit, but they shouldn't count towards one's total badge collection. -
WE'VE GOT OPEN BETA SIGN!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
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I've been having a lot of fun with an Elec Control/Kinetics Controller, but I haven't gotten up high enough to throw Gremlins and Fulcrum Shift into the mix yet.
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Quote:I dunno, because it requires pre-requisites? I would understand an increased endurance cost for equal resistance--that happens a lot with similar powers--but increased endurance for half of a comparable power's function? Not reasonable, in my book.Originally Posted by blueruckus
Tough is a power pool ability available to all characters at level 14. Temp Invuln is a power available to one powerset and to only certain ATs at as an APP in their 40s.
Why would you expect them to be equal?
Why would you expect a Controller to have better resistance than my SR Scrapper?
I wouldn't have the slots necessary to beef Tough up enough on my planned build to make it worth taking.Quote:Originally Posted by Hallowed
Aren't you glad that you will have 3 more power slots now, so you can "waste" one on the attack?
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Quote:Others, like Super Speed, Stealth or Recall Friend, don't. There may be some powers from your primary or secondary power sets that don't require extra slots as well (for instance, in Super Reflexes, there's no real need to add slots to Practiced Brawler or Quickness... though everything else requires at least two or three extra slots to be truly effective).Originally Posted by SerialBeggar
Most powers require more than their default slot be be really good or useful.
As a personal example: in my i19 build, I stripped the extra slots that I'd put into Elude (I had it six-slotted with three defense, three recharge) and left it with a single common recharge IO. That's five freed-up slots that get to go to new powers, and I can still fire off Elude (in the increasingly less-frequent instances that I find it necessary) about every 5 minutes.
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Quote:Ahem?Originally Posted by galadiman
If only they still had Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Robots. Fun AND gratuitous violence, for everyone!
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Quote:A whopping 19% maximum resistance to only Smashing and Lethal damage which requires me to first take an under-powered attack that, if I use it at all, forces weapon redraw. You'll excuse me if I'm not overly thrilled with that as an option.Originally Posted by Hydrofoil_Zero
Isn't "tough" resistance.
Oh, and it costs ΒΌ more endurance than Invulnerability's "Temp Invulnerability" power while providing exactly half the resistance bonus. Yeah, that sounds fair.
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Quote:Um, that doesn't help you should you actually want to put slots in your new inherent Fitness powers.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Simple. I already went thru all my characters (80+) and used the freespecs they gave us when I18 went live in August. So we've had more than enough time since we learned about Fitness becoming inherent to get all our characters ready before I19 goes live. Procrastination isn't a viable justification for not being ready.
But I agree that procrastination isn't an excuse for not being ready--I've already created builds in Mids' for my main characters (with leftover slots saved for Health and Stamina), so it'll be a relatively simple matter to actually perform the respecs when Issue 19 goes live. They're the only characters I have who actually use dual builds right now, and I'm not worried about trying to "bank" extra freespecs for anyone--I rarely change my characters' builds once I get them the way I like. -
Quote:Unlock the Alpha Slot. Do any level 50 content. Get Incarnate Shard common salvage randomly as drops. Use Incarnate Shards to create uncommon salvage, which can in turn be used to craft the Alpha Boosts.Originally Posted by Lascher
That was my concern and gripe. For those who don't have time for tf's, the whole incarnate feature seems pretty out of reach and therefore a "meh" feature. Some said tf's are not the only way to get there, but I can't imagine the time it will take to aquire things not doing tf's. For someone that only plays a few hours a week, it SEEMS so far from what folks are saying, that you will not be getting to enjoy this new feature really.
So to us casual's....we'll still be left asking when end-game content, that we all can enjoy, will be added.
That's how things worked in the GR beta. It sounds pretty casual-friendly to me. (I got in after they pulled the Alpha Slot out of i18, though, so I don't have first-hand experience of how it worked.)
My question to you, though, is: why do you care about how long it will take you to get said Incarnate upgrades if you're not even planning to do the content (Task Forces) they were designed for?
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As of the launch of City of Villains in October 2005, adding more than 3 enhancements of a particular type to a power drastically reduces the benefit of those enhancement. This is called Enhancement Diversification.
As for needing to respec, don't worry about it too much this second. When Issue 19 launches (currently targetted at this coming Tuesday), you'll get a free respec for every character, which can be used by typing "/respec" in your chat bar. -
They don't stack. That's the whole point of them offering them a week apart.
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My neighbor's kids are getting a Wii for Christmas this year, and I'm planning to get the six year old daughter Babysitting Mama.
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Quote:Sorry, I don't have any other characters that could participate in the upper level strike forces. (I've only got 4 50s--a Scrapper, a Stalker and two Controllers, and I've only been playing the Scrapper and Stalker since GR launched... for badges!)Originally Posted by VoodooCompany
Can put you down as an alt as well if we don't get the "would be nice to haves"?
The stalker power is useless in general, and it's buggy on top of that; a few weeks back, my scrapper died while in the room and activating the power, by the power. For a Master run, I absolutely will not use it as a Scrapper and will not let a Stalker attempt it either. Hell, I won't even allow a Stalker on a master run
Furthermore, you are a terrible person for not letting Stalkers on your team, because they are awesome.
Actually, I honestly don't blame you for the "no Stalkers" rule; people in general keep trying to play them as Scrappers, and they just don't work that way. -
Quote:Pretty much everyone I know in-game agrees that this is a good superhero game...Originally Posted by Lascher
Pretty much everyone I know in game agrees, if a GOOD superhero game comes out, they will be outta here, and those are long time vets talkin.
I disagree. I'm on my second gaming machine that I built specifically to play CoH on.Quote:Let's be honest, the only reason any of us still play Coh (aside from having an older computer) is there Is no other good option. For this genre anyways.
Some of the "magic" of not knowing what's next is gone, yes, but I now understand the systems and how to build characters a helluva lot better than I did 6 years ago. I would beat your pants off in a debate about this game being better-designed now versus at launch, and I'd have no problems constructing an argument that the game is a lot more fun now too.Quote:No one that has played for years can tell me they are still as excited playing Coh as they were their 1st couple years???
I admit nothing. In a worst-case scenario (or, as you'd probably see it, a best-case scenario), I'd just end up subscribing to both.Quote:As soon as another real good game like this comes out, we are all outta here! Admit it! Lol. So make one nc soft! You did pretty good with this one! It's just gettin rusty now!
You may be bored off your butt with the direction the game is headed, but I've been thrilled with everything* they've done with City of Heroes. The game just keeps getting better and better, and I think I'm honestly more excited about Issue 19 than I was about Going Rogue.
*Except for Issues 13 and 15, which were total carp melee, and at least 15 had somewhat of an excuse and was followed up with a good issue a little over two months later... -
Quote:They only enhance powers that accept Resistance enhancements. It unfortunately doesn't just give every character resistance to damage.Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
anything non-Invul/Granite will be pleased with those +resistance abilities
I am REALLY hoping that one of the Incarnate abilities will allow us a resistance power, be it click, toggle or auto. My SR Scrapper is way too squishy when the hits connect, and while there's now a way for Scrappers to get a temporary defense bonus, there is no way to do the same for resistance. ;_; -
Quote:And I agree completely with what you're saying here.Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
While I get what you're saying, I hope that the Devs put in some options that allow a player's concept to take shape in some other ways that make them happier and fit their chosen concepts.
Why not, right?
Also... while you are building this stuff, CoH Team, try and make these things that have visuals built with Power Customization in mind.
You know that people will want it... So, if you're building something from the ground up, may as well include that aspect!
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Quote:Originally Posted by ChaosAngelGeno
Who's the guy in the front next to the logo?
That would be the example character they built to show off the Mutant pieces for the Origins pack.