ChaosExMachina
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It only buffs for a few seconds, so it's best just before they unleash a major AOE.
But it rarely starts except as a result of that big AOE due to its low chance.
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Quote:This. Absolutely. The chalet is enough alone for me to vote this event as long as possible.Originally Posted by DJ_Shecky
I'm going to be very straight forward about this: The Event Is Starting Too Late This Year!
I'm sorry but being a DJ for a CoH Community Radio Station, we have had Holiday events going on for the last couple of weeks already. Yearly Events that used to be held in the Chalet. Now outside of the year that the Winter Event lasted for 2 months, usually its gone for about 6 weeks. Considering that it has a zone that is only available for this event, the amount of new players/characters fro Going rogue that do not have the event badges, and the fact that it is over most schools winter breaks, where people go on vacation, I really think the devs messed this up. It should have started earlier.
Yes there was a little problem due to I19 having to be pushed back by 2 weeks, but last week on Thursday, they did a test of it on the test server or the beta server (can't remember which) which I heard went well. They should have released it this week, or this Tuesday at the latest.
I know I will enjoy the event, and the chance to be in the chalet again, I just really wish the devs had not messed up on time frames, so SGs, Radio Stations, and others could spread out Chalet events that they run instead of cramming it all into a 2 week time frame.
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I cleverly made 2 of my main alts staminaless through expensive HOs or powersets that could gain endurance themselves.
That just made the free stamina even more useful to them. -
What you have to realize is that the content is full of plotholes and retcons, and that's OK, unless it goes to ridiculous extremes (I15 TF...).
I only ask that it respect player origin and motivation choices.
I17 is hardly what you would call great writing in a movie, but it's excellent for a customization RPG and probably the most universally popular arcs in game. -
Quote:You mean any that is written well.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Except they don't really SEE themselves as evil. They think they are doing a good thing, just like any other evil organization.
That's among the reasons villain content is so terrible. They alternate randomly between trying to make a case they are the good guys, and being overt bad guys. You could find tons of examples of explicit public propaganda of BOTH. They also can't make up their minds if they are anarchists or fascists.
And sometimes they alternate in the same content! -
Reasons that I support the shadow shard as the coming storm:
There should be challenge, but avoid humanoid enemies stronger than the player at max
Since they are yet another extradimensional enemy they can endanger Praetorian earth and involve them
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Quote:As a proponent of open power systems, I must object. The only reason they became city of scrappers is that their system did nothing to encourage anything else, and support powers are underpowered.Originally Posted by Von Krieger
Champions Online tried that.
There are definitely ways to make an open power system work, but I won't get into them here at the moment.
What's being discussed here is open powersets, not open powers, anyway. That would actually be much easier to do than open powers, since you could add an archetype with an appropriate set of modifiers and banned powers for each combination. -
Can you add a macroslot command to a macro? That might make for some tricks.
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Quote:My stalker healer needs purples and PVP IOs to casually farm the AE more before the level cap raise and can't afford them because accuracy was nerfed, I can't buy a mount, and these jerk marketeers raise the prices! Forget not being able to PVP, I can't even kill skuls or learn2play! Obviously loyalists are the good guys because they would support price caps so that the prices would not be gone to the americans! What's a tram?Originally Posted by Chaos Creator
I too noticed that on my healer my accuracy seemed much lower after the last level cap raise. Especially when farming the AE.
^This is another example of things we don't talk about
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So which DID get emanation point options?
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Quote:That would make some of the TFs (imperious and 5th) make more sense, but I don't understand where you get that from the source which doesn't say anything about it.Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
[*]The 5th Column was once led by Requiem, but he was transferred into the ranks of the Council when they took over. Requiem's temporal shenanigans are still visible through the Imperious Task Force, but that version of Requiem was from a time earlier than his current Council allegiance [Source]. Instead, the 5th Column joined ranks with the inter-dimensional invaders Amerika Korps and now rally under the leadership of the Reichsman.
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Quote:Probably like those who read that shield charge's recharge was reduced in I18, but not that it was in fact reverted after being increased in beta, and insisted in public channels that shield charge was so much better now and it was recharging so much faster.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
After checking, Castle reported to the forums that in fact the change had not made it into the build, and in fact SR had not been buffed at all. Oops. I often wonder how all those people that reported the buff significantly improving the performance of the set in their testing felt after that revelation.
I still think that helped to reduce the shield charge nerf controversy. There was hardly a flame to be read. -
Quote:Yup, I must have been incorrect.Originally Posted by gameboy1234
99% sure this is incorrect. Pets of all types (mastermind and otherwise, including psudeo-pets like Rain of Fire) have been working just fine for a long time. Of course, MM pets still don't benefit from Recharge of any sort, but that's a different issue.
Honestly any boost could be of use to an MM. It's a more competitive choice than, say, a brute, who would take either spiritual or the res or def boosts. -
I considered the vigilantes bad people from the start, and rogues relatively good, so I rather like how these are set up. After encountering some of the deranged vigilante fantasies some people have posted, advertising obviously the vig implications in giant neon letters is kind of refreshing and is somewhat like Watchmen, but with lesser writing. Those who want to be a vigilante in the sense you said can easily do so as heroes.
I complain that they are considered heroes for base and oro while rogues are not, however. -
Quote:That's the point.Originally Posted by seebs
I think this would deprive mid-level recipes of even more value.
It's a dumb rule that makes lowbies compete with 50s and further isolates PVP builds thus making PVP even less popular. The zone with the best PVP rules favors those who buy a whole alternate build just for level 30. -
Quote:Yes, which is why I compare it to phantom army. It can be hard to:Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
I'm confused by this. Ranged powers pass straight through enemies between you and the target, phased or not. Enemies can't be "hidden behind invincible ones." Do you mean that they are hard to see and click?
Tell which of them are phased
Even if you can tell, to target them (clicking is hard, tab even harder)
This makes none of the dark miasma heals, tohit debuffs, or controls usable except fearsome stare. -
I'm against any further epic ATs. Powerets usable with any origin are preferable by far.
If you want a Rikti AT or whatever AT, I'd rather do it like this:
1. Add the ability to pick a 'backstory type' that unlocks a series of Rikti or whatever arcs.
2. Add tons of additional enemy group costume pieces.
3. Add tons of additional enemy group weapon or power customizations.
4. Possibly add some sort of VEAT style restricted costume to the backstory types, but honestly that's probably too much work and lots of them could be handled with normal costumes.
Build your own epic! This way you can have Rikti, Freakshow, or whatever epic AT you want and it is far less work intensive or cluttering than adding tons of epic ATs, while adding more customization options to every AT in the process. Seriously, there are 14, and if an epic can't work in a current AT, I'd rather implement it as a whole new general AT for more options. -
How does this work with anchors such as snow storm?
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Heals are easily the most overrated in game and most underrated at the boards.
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Quote:Can you elaborate 'how seriously they take your bug reports?'Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
Anyway, anyone who thinks every single account in this game doesn't have a comment log tied to it might want to open their eyes. You will never know what it says about you. And I can almost 100% assure you that if you've got numerous notes showing you to be a problem child that that factors into how support staff interact with you when you make a Petition, and how seriously the staff take your claims about bug reports, etc. If this game is anything like other games, that also controls how actively online GMs monitor your /tells and /chats. GMs may even have actual avatars they can use to go invisible, and mark our accounts with 1-star ratings!
I try to make accurate reports, but I've had a few that I later discovered were incorrect, and usually tried to update the report, but there aren't effective tools for that.
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Well, I can take either fighting pool (def cap) or provoke in i19. Undecided. I could take both if I skipped hasten, but I like hasten quite a lot.
Quote:If they don't AOE or mez or scatter, or the minions don't run into melee. Things like that are why I am considering provoke rather than soft cap.can actually be more durable than a Granite tank -
What does that have to do with anything?
I might as well just put Latin here for how much people inaccurately read between the lines things unrelated to what I said.
Note: I didn't even read most of this crazy topic. That was just a neutral statement. No need to go into rebut mode. -
From what I heard it is not the nature of the enemies, but an error in exp calculation.
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Or let GMs remove the farms, or add some sort of reward block if x people report until GMs can verify.
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Quote:This is just what I was saying, which you quoted, so I guess you misunderstood?
Their accuracy bonuses may well increase their final to-hit to 7.5% or even 10% or so, but that's still the absolute lowest chance to hit they can possibly have (since nothing can offset increased accuracy in PvE)
To clarify, again, there may be a misunderstanding here:Quote:Originally Posted by Arcanaville
In fairness to geko, there's nothing intrinsicly wrong with what he said.
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Granted, the mechanics of Black Hole were problematic, but geko's statement itself is not totally off the wall weird. The devs saw a thirty second break as being a defefnsive advantage; the players saw it as an offensive disadvantage.
The offensive mindset is not what I was getting at.
The thing that I read as remarkable in his statement is that it was pure theory. It sounded like he had never tried to use the power, because in practice, it does anything but remove enemies from action for 30 seconds. In a large mob it can make some dark miasma defensive powers unusable while a few enemies that were not phased attack you with impunity, hidden behind the invincible ones.
It reminded me of some other dev in some other game, who had a habit of explaining decisions with similarly simplistic theorycraft. His most recent power review had to be rolled back because it was so universally panned, and was reintroduced later by another dev, complete with most of the best requested ideas.