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MageX:
Stop telling people what their characters are supposed to do.
If you choose to ignore your blaster's melee ability, that's your business, but do NOT tell me I am wrong for embracing that ability.
Your assertation that blasters are intended to stay at range is highly flawed. Let's look at the powers in each set, shall we?
We'll start with your whipping boy, Energy Manipulation: 5 of 9 powers used in melee range.
Electric Manipulation: 7 of 9 used in melee range
Ice Manipulation: 5 of 9 used in melee range
Fire Manipulation: 7 of 9 used in melee range
Mental Manipulation: 5 of 9 used in melee range
Devices: 0 of 9 used in melee range
Out of 6 available secondaries for blasters, 5 are primarily composed of powers that are used in melee range. What that says to me is that your idea of what blasters are meant to do is seriously flawed. Blasters are meant to deal damage, THAT is their role. Where they happen to be located in relation to their target is not, and never has been, a consideration. Obviously the developers do not agree with your assertion that blasters shouldn't enter melee range, otherwise, why would there be so many melee based powers available to them?
I also like how you ignore the power Boost Range in Energy Manipulation. You would think (given your narrow-minded view of blasters) that you would like that power. Instead, you ignore it's existence because it contradicts your argument.
Tank/Healer/DPS is NOT mandatory, or even necessary, in this game. The sooner you realize and accept that, the better off you will be. The only "healers" in this game are defenders that gimp themselves by ignoring fully half of their powers. If their healing ability is not needed they are nothing more than dead weight on a team.
If you call my Rad/Sonic a healer, I will ignore you and then use your corpse as a bomb when your playstyle gets you shot to death while you are too far away for anyone to help you. I might be nice and rez you afterward, but if you give me crap for not dropping what I was doing and rushing back to use my pathetic heal on you I might let you lay there instead. I am valuable on teams for my offensive contribution, which is completely at odds with your view of what I'm supposed to do with that character. You would call him a "healer" because he has a blue shield next to his name.
I have a Fire/Fire blaster, and I can do something with him that I doubt you can do. I can adapt to different situations because I have a balanced mix of ranged and melee powers. If I am teamed with a Kineticist, it would benefit both me and the team more if I moved into melee range and used the damage dealing capability I have there. I will get a full Fulcrum Shift to deal more damage, I will be healed by Transfusion, and I will have my endurance replenished by Transference. If you stay at range all the time you will get none of these things.
Essentially what I am saying is: Build your character however you want, no one cares if you ignore your blaster's melee powers, or don't take any attacks on your "healer". But, do NOT, under any circumstances, try to tell us that your view of things is the only correct view. And, yes, you were saying exactly that when you started arguing with those who disagreed with you. -
Sonic Resonance/Sonic Attack/War Mace (guitar used for all 3) tank.
Sonic Resonance in this case being a personal defense set. Both shields would be toggle powers, the bubble would remain the same (with tanker numbers), Clarity would be the mez protection, similar to SR and Shield's. I could go into greater detail, but I'll just leave it at that. -
Welcome back VKhaun. I remember teaming with you a year or two back on Pinnacle.
AE is a great feature. Just be careful how crazy you go with the powerleveling in it.
Positron himself said that if they deem that you have exploited the system to a certain degree there is the potential of having characters deleted and your account suspended or banned. Not everyone is being punished like that (I don't personally know anyone who has been) but it does happen to the most egregious offenders. No one is sure exactly what the cutoff point is though, they are deliberately leaving it vague so people can't go right up to the limit they set and say they are doing nothing wrong.
Your teleport bind question: /bind z powexecname Teleport
That will bind Teleport to the "Z" key. Just replace "Z" with whatever key you want it attached to and you should be good. There is a way to bind it to your right mouse button as well, but I don't remember it offhand.
Sets to look into for a Fire/Electric: Devastation, Thunderstrike, Decimation (single target ranged) Positron's Blast (targeted AoE), Scirocco's Dervish, Obliteration (PBAoE)
Mako's Bite, Touch of Death, Crushing Impact (single target melee) Numina's Convalescence, Miracle (the uniques will increase your end recovery rate if put in Health) Performance Shifter (I 4 slot Stamina with it, EndMod, EndMod/Recharge, EndMod/Accuracy, Chance for +End, it will work nicely in Power Sink as well, just leave the Chance for +End out in that case.)
There are other sets that will work, the ones I listed here are just the most popular and/or commonly used ones.
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Unfortunately TeChameleon, the people who do the things that you're outlining there don't CARE that they're hurting the game. In fact you will probably get a couple responses to the effect of "They're still letting us do it, so we can't possibly be hurting anything"
They either don't care, don't think anything is being harmed, or just have their heads in the sand on the whole issue because all that's important is their xp/hour ratio.
I don't join PuGs anymore. Especially PuG TFs. I've seen a few level 50s quit the first mission of a TF because it's either too hard for them, or because "I'm not getting xp!" The swamping of the game with AE Babies has made something I used to enjoy doing distasteful to me.
They don't know what they're doing, they have no desire to learn what they're doing, and what's worse, they will tell you that you don't know what you're doing when you try to teach them. They have 12 level 50 characters, they are obviously better at the game than you are, didn't you know that? The fact that they got them all in 2 weeks cannot possibly be relevant though, can it? -
Quote:See, here I was thinking I was using a pretty narrow brush, to use your term.Originally Posted by Cuppa_LLX
a good point but what most of the pro-farmers in this thread take issue with is the wide brush the anti farmers paint AE with. They will demonise Mito farms, Boss maps, EB maps, and AV maps all in the same sentence but they never even try the mission to see the explot they just say "oh well its all X class or X type. IT has to be a explotive farm"
or use "Positron told us to report faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrmmmmmmmmms"
He did no such thing, he said EXploitive farms were agaisnt the rules, and they said they don't like farming in AE (and in general) but they never once said "all farming is a banable offense"
if Farming was against the rules the game would have died years ago after they baned 70% of the player base. I garentee you at some point Every single player has repatedthe same content over and over again for some reason, even if you just like the content. your Farming Fun.
How many people run multiple runs of the ITF despite deminishing mertit rewards becase Punching Romans in the Face is fun?
NEWS FLASH
YOU JUST FARMED THE ITF
I don't care about farming in the slightest. I am not an anti-farmer. I am anti-exploitation.
I, unlike many others I have seen, am aware that there is a difference between farming and exploiting.
If you are farming (the way the term is meant) you are maximizing the gain you can get out of one or two particular missions. The reward is generally only greater because it is run by an efficient team that is skilled at defeating foes quickly. Not everyone is capable of this, as it requires ATs that work well together, players that work well together, and most importantly, players that know what they're doing.
If you are exploiting, you are cheating, plain and simple. You have found a loophole in the game that allows you to gain out of proportion rewards for little or no risk, or even effort.
The all Boss, EB, or AV farms are just that, farms. Your average team will not fare well in these missions because the enemies are difficult enough one at a time, let alone in groups. It takes a skilled team to get any kind of decent reward rate out of these missions.
The healing mito farms, on the other hand, are an exploit. Any moron can enter these missions and level like mad, while never even being targeted by an enemy, let alone take enough damage to be in danger. You don't even need enhancements on your characters because there is no threat.
I once met a SR scrapper that leveled exclusively in a mito farm. He was level 50 and joined the STF I was on. He had exactly 3 powers from his secondary: Agile, Practiced Brawler, and Focused Fighting (that he never toggled on, I only know he had it because you HAVE to take it) He also had 3 travel powers, which boggled me because in AE you don't need to travel anywhere. The powers were started with Flurry, Jump Kick, and TP Foe. He had the Presence pool, and ALL of his primary (DM I think) including the taunt. His tactic was to run in every spawn before the tank could get there and fire off Dark Consumption (not even Soul Drain, because that might actually make sense) he was wondering why he kept dying, and never onec changed his strategy, instead blaming the rest of the team for his repeated deaths. In the course of conversation the team discovered that the first mission of the STF was the first time his character had ever been attacked. I checked myself, sure enough, no damage badges, which any SR would have at least the first one of by level 50. He asked us what the dark stuff on his xp bar was, he'd never been in debt before.
Any mission that would allow a character with that pathetic of a build to reach level 50 without ever dying is an obvious exploit. Most people would figure out that since they were dying so much, maybe there's something wrong with the way I built this character. But since he had never taken so much as a point of damage, he never knew there was anything wrong with it. -
The problem I have isn't with farmers, or farm missions in AE, or even people who rip off copyrighted characters.
My problem is with the attitude of "I pay my $15 a month, therefore, your rules don't apply to me."
No different than saying "I pay my taxes, so I shouldn't have to obey your laws"
The second statement is obviously ridiculous, and in any situation where you present that as a defense (in court, for example) you will probably be laughed at.
So why is the first statement so common? Why is it when people get caught breaking a rule and are punished for it they view it as some great injustice?
The game is a service that NCSoft provides it's players. You pay for this service. You agree to certain terms every single time you log into the game.
Outlined in those terms, among other things, is that exploiting anything in the game is not allowed. Every last person who was punished for exploiting was punished for violating something that they themselves agreed to.
"But Claws, who actually READS that crap?!"
Simple answer: Anyone who wants to know exactly what they're agreeing to.
Sorry, but if you sign a contract (which that essentially is) without reading it, you have NO right to complain that you were punished for violating it. It's not like they're hiding it, it's right there every time you log into the game.
Personally, I NEVER sign anything without reading it, I read the EULA the very first time I logged in becuse I wanted to know what I was agreeing to when I clicked "I agree" I read it again periodically just to make sure nothing has changed recently.
An AE exploit is loosely defined as "anything that breaks the risk/reward ratio"
I don't consider all boss farms to be such an exploit. Most of them are damned difficult. There is a lot of reward, but also plenty of risk.
On the other hand, the healing mito farms are/were such an exploit. You get xp for something that does not fight back. The reward is there, the risk is nonexistent. That is a good example of "breaking the risk/reward ratio"
I agreed to the terms where that was outlined as an offense. I am not committing that offense.
JoeSchmoe here also agreed to the same terms, only he IS committing an offense. In all likelyhood he will eventually be caught and somehow punished for it.
It doesn't matter how you get caught. Whether it is reported by another player or a GM stumbles across it on their own is completely irrelevant. You have no legitimate defense in that situation.
Ignorance of the terms of agreement does NOT excuse you, just ask any number of bands that signed a contract without reading it only to find out the record company owns everything they did. Just for grins, ask a lawyer if you can be excused from a signed contract because you didn't read it and didn't know what you were agreeing to. Depending on how polite the lawyer is, they may or may not laugh in your face.
"I pay my $15 a month!" isn't a defense either, because so does everyone else. If they didn't violate an agreement and you did, you will be punished and they won't. There's nothing unfair about it, no matter how much anyone claims otherwise.
The people who report such things are usually looking at it from the perspective that they are obeying the terms of agreement, and it is not right for someone else to ignore them and get away with it. The vast majority of those people, if they are caught violating it themselves, will accept their punishment without complaint, because it is fair.
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Quote:Where did I say it made you a saint? I didn't see that anywhere in my post.Originally Posted by FeroxRex
So the Dev's have asked pope to be snitches. Just doing somethign because the powers that be asked you to doesn't make you a saint. It just makes you an eager compliant stool pigeone when it comes to non-exploiting farms.
That is true enough, though. Reporting an offense doesn't make you a saint.
But....
It doesn't make you in the wrong, or a brown noser, either, like so many people keep suggesting.
I will never understand the stance that people have that because you're obeying the rules and doing something you're requested to do makes you a bad person somehow.
Yes, they ARE violations of the rules, no matter how much you say otherwise. The devs and GMs cannot possibly hope to police the entire game themselves, so, they requested that the players assist them.
Simply reporting something does not automatically mean that it will be banned, genericed, or otherwise punished in any way. It simply means you are bringing something to the attention of the people whose JOB it is to make determinations on whether something is a rule violation. If it is indeed a violation of the rules, it will be addressed. If it is NOT a violation of the rules, it will be allowed to stand.
I don't run around reporting everything I see that might be violating some rule or another, simply because that's all I would be doing if it were the case. My own fun is more important to me than wanting others to be punished for something that doesn't affect me. I don't report farms because I don't run them, which is a requirement in order to report them.
I DO report blatant copyright and trademark infringements if I see them. If it seems that the person in question is unaware of the rules against it I will (politely) inform them of the rule's existence. If it is obvious that they know they are violating a rule I just fire off a quick petition and go on about my business.
By no means do I ever hang out and LOOK for things to report, I have better things to do. I don't report anything out of smugness, or because I want to make myself look good. If I report anything it is in the interest of seeing the rules enforced that I, myself, obey.
I made ONE farm mission, when they cracked down on them originally I voluntarily removed it after recieving a message from a GM. No further enforcement was necessary.
I made exactly ONE character who was a copyright infringement. He was a MA/Shield scrapper who looked like Captain America. His name? EULA Violation
I got dozens of tells from people who were giving me advice on how to make the costume better. Not one of them recognized that, by naming my character what I did, I was making fun of them.
Sorry about the long post, but I have an issue with people who insist that there is nothing wrong with ignoring laws and rules, and instead state that the people trying to enforce them are the ones in the wrong. It's like the guy who says: "What are you arresting me for? All I was doing was selling crack, I didn't do anything wrong! Man, that lady is a snitch for calling the police on me while I'm standing outside this school!" -
Might be worth mentioning that my tank is Shield/DM. I don't have a second high damage AoE power to use, and Shield Charge isn't up to use on every spawn.
My Shield/SS isn't high enough to be worth much yet, so that might change my opinion on AAO when he gets higher. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Xemulas
Perhaps I chose my wording poorly. My intention was to convey that the main body of the team at times cannot afford their scrappers to go and let loose their inner soloer in the middle of a task force.
I'm one of the admittedly rare people that has teamed with Bill before, and I have to say that from what I saw with my own eyes, you have him pegged wrong.
If the team is having trouble with a mission he will stay nearby and assist with the spawns. On a mission I was on with him (Maria Jenkins's AV arc) he saved my defenders bacon a number of times because he was paying attention and noticed I was in trouble.
In the situation of the team rolling through mobs so fast he doesn't get a chance to attack anything, he will go find his own fight to pick.
I understand that perfectly well, being a scrapper player myself. If the spawns are dying so fast that your scrapper only gets one or two attacks in before they are all defeated, perhaps it would benefit the scrapper AND the team more for them to be on their own (but within xp range of the team). It is frustrating to be on a team that is shredding through missions so fast that enemies are dead just before you get within attacking range of them.
My claws/regen has been on teams that the only powers he got to use were Focus, Shockwave, Laser Beam Eyes, and Energy Torrent, because spawns were dying so fast that if I tried to get into melee to fight I wouldn't get to hit anything at all. On those teams I go off on my own too. It is much better (in my opinion) to be accused of "not being a team player" than to feel useless because your damage contribution just isn't necessary. I'd rather be kicked from a team for going off on my own than be a leech because I'm not killing anything.
Also, the OP did say that he forgot the tank said he wanted to tank Rom. If he only said so once at the beginning of the TF and never mentioned it again it is understandable to have forgotten it. If he had remembered and said "screw what the tank wants, I'm going to do it anyway" his kicking would have been justified. As it stands, the tank was apparently not leading the team, and rarely, if ever, said anything.
I mean, how much confidence would you have in your commanding officer in a battle if he said "yeah, go ahead and do whatever", and never gave any orders? A leader is supposed to LEAD. If they don't, react appropriately to the situation and use your best judgement. The tank in question here seems to have been expecting everyone to take notes at the beginning of the TF and refer to them for any questions they may have.
EDIT: Nevermind, Bill defended his position better than I did. Unsurprising, really. He's generally a better scrapper than me
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Quote:Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
From what I remember, half the powers in Ancillary pools are only there because Castle wasn't around when they were made.
There's a reason Patrons were seen as 'pre-nerfed' in comparison, and recently recieved buffs just to stop the whining.
Yup, from what I've read, if Castle had been in charge of the original APPs Defenders never would have gotten Power Build Up. A number of other powers probably wouldn't be there either. That's the only one I remember for sure that he dislikes. -
I may check it out in a free trial, just so I have an informed opinion of it. I have the feeling I will not like it, but there may be some things about it I enjoy.
So far, the only thing I can form an opinion on is that the graphics look like crap. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Justify your snitching however you like, kid.
A rat is a rat.
Let me guess. You also dislike police officers because they interfere with a person's right to engage in illegal activity? Your response here gives me the distinct impression that you would watch someone being viciously beaten without calling the police or attempting to intervene. I mean, if you did, that would make you a rat, right?
And of course, when you yourself are victimized, you will probably be the first to complain that no one said anything or tried to help.
I don't personally know you, so I can't say with any certainty that you are that type of person. I only say it because that has been the mentality of the vast majority of people I have met in my life that have said something like the above quote.
The devs have specifically ASKED the playerbase to report things that are known offenses. I fail to see how responding to that request makes you a bad person.
If you choose not to report such things, no one is forcing you to. But acting like people who do report things are the ones doing something wrong is ridiculous. -
I'm not playing them for a couple reasons:
1) From what I've seen one looks like garbage.
2) The other will purportedly feature open world PvP, which I am not interested in.
3) I have no desire for my game performance to be based on my ability to acquire the Uber Rare Morningstar of Ultra-Pwnage and the Ridiculously Colored Armor of Unbeatability (both of which will have to be replaced within 5-10 levels anyway)
4) I'm broke and can't affored another subscription fee, and the odds of my quitting CoH to pay for another game are about the same as the odds of being hit by a bus....while on a cruise ship. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Work_Ethic
Quick question- are they going to change the animations for Claws too?
I wouldn't count on it.
And they aren't changing animations, they're giving us options for alternate animations. Changing them would imply that we have no choice in the matter. -
I was basing my comment about AAO's taunt effectiveness on experience playing with it.
I've witnessed other tanks gather a spawn up and just stand there, and the spawn will keep wailing on the tank, even while being attacked. I tested it while teamed with an Invuln tank. Using JUST the taunt aura (no Taunt, no use of Gauntlet) the Invuln was pulling agro off of me, and I could not pull it back to me.
AAO also seems to have a lower damage threshold for losing agro. In other words, a teammate won't need to deal as much damage to peel agro off of a Shield tank as they would a Stone tank.
I dunno, maybe I'm not slotting enough taunt durations in AAO, or am somehow using it wrong. What I DO know is that, thus far I seem to have to taunt a little more actively than other tanks I have teamed with to maintain agro control. I don't know why that is, and the numbers don't give any indication why, especially compared to Invincibility, because the numbers say they are the same, and AAO debuffs the enemy, while Invincibility does not. I have had Willpower scrappers pull agro off of my Shield tank, which, from what I understand, shouldn't be happening.
Is one taunt duration enhancement not enough for AAO? That's the only thing I can think of that would lead to the issue I'm having with it. I admit that it is possible that the power is fine and I'm just having trouble with it for some reason. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Psyonico
except hide, that should stack with any other stealth power... except I Think that other stealth powers don't stack with hide... not sure though.
technically, phase shift can be used with other stealth powers.
Hide will stack with any one other stealth power. But you can only run one in addition to Hide. Since Hide is an inherent ability it doesn't count toward the stealth power max.
Hide, Stealth, and +Stealth IO will get you to the stealth cap I think. If not Stealth I KNOW Invisibility will.
All the defense from any power that grants it will stack. The stealth power situation isn't because of the defense portion, it is because you can only have one stealth power active on any given character. However, Cloaking Device WILL stack with an AoE stealth power that is being run by another character. -
Nope, it gets the 5% chance to fire when you activate it...that's it.
It doesn't matter whether you have one enemy in range, 10 enemies, or none.
I asked the same question a while back. Interestingly enough, Soul Drain doesn't have to hit anything at all for the proc to fire.
The Theft of Essence Chance for +End will check on multiple targets, the Chance for BU ony checks once.
My plan was to 5 slot Scirocco's Dervish and the BU proc, but it was made clear that the BU proc would be a waste of a slot in that particular power. -
I just use the English subsetting. It is set up exactly the same as the old forums.
The link Catwhoorg posted should get you there. -
I like Pinnacle. It's not as populated as some other servers, but the community is pretty friendly.
If you get the full game and decide to play on Pinnacle, check the Pinnacle forums for the global channels. You can't use them on a trial account, but when you have access to them it makes finding a team a little easier. -
Quote:A server transfer is $9.99, would be easier and cheaper just to reroll the character on the new server.Originally Posted by fool3916
Hi, so ive been a pretty long time in my trial, I foolishly picked virtue, I saw the server population. I have a 14 scrapper, and a 10 corrupter, and I like them both, but I sadly dont like the server so I have a few questions
How much is a server transfer?
Im looking to transfer to champions, is that server good for leveling a hero?
If I just made another scraper and change my style will my game play change?
whats a good solo/group arch
I was trying to make a defender, but he is so weak and I cant find a team, how do I level them and do they get more easy and soloable with down the road?
Champion is okay. I play on Pinnacle almost exclusively, so I can't tell you much about Champion.
If you roll a scrapper with different powersets your gameplay will change slightly, but not too drastically. A scrapper is still a scrapper.
Tanks, brutes, corruptors, blasters, scrappers, are all good soloing and teaming ATs.
Some defenders can solo, but they will never be as good at it as a scrapper or blaster. They are intended to be team support, so they really shine in that function.
Hope that helps you some. Have fun, and if you decide to buy the game remember to upgrade your account instead of starting a new one so you can keep your characters. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Goldbrick
With just SOs, I would recommend willpower or stone. If you plan to IO out your build, then invulnerability is the way to go.
An invuln tank well-built with IO sets is the strongest and most versatile tank out there. Without IOs, the invuln tank is in the middle of the pack, at best.
I don't know much about fire tanks, except that their health tends to yo-yo a lot. I once saw a good ice tank. And I haven't yet had the opportunity to see a good a DA or shield tank in action.
DA and Shield are at two opposite ends of the spectrum.
A DA can hold agro with the best of them, the only set I've seen that is better at it is a well-played Ice tank. The downside to that is you don't have the survivability of some of the other tank sets. You will still outlive any other AT, but other tanks will outlive you.
A Shield tank on the other hand, if built right, will outlive all but the most beastly of the other sets, Stone in granite and Invuln with fully saturate Invincibility are the only ones that I have seen outlive a well built Shield tank. Shield tanks have above average survivability and can put out more damage than just about any other, but they sacrifice agro control to achieve it. AAO, Shield's taunt aura is very possibly the worst one available to tanks. RttC would be a close second if they haven't buffed it.
With a tank, you give up damage for survivability. That even holds true between different powersets within the AT. NOTHING will outlive a Stone/Ice, but almost everything will outdamage it. A Fire/SS will out damage most others, but is one of the squishier tanks.
I have a couple Shield tanks myself, a Shield/DM, and a Shield/SS. I prefer to play the role of backup or "off-tank" if there is another tank on the team better suited to agro control. I tank best on teams with extremely high damage output. That is because with more damage being dealt I don't have to worry so much about my relatively lesser agro control ability. I only need to keep their attention long enough for the death to start raining down and everything is usually dead before it is a threat to the rest of the team. -
Quote:I would have declined that team as well. Not because there were MMs on it. My wife plays one, and between here and my stalker we murder whole maps rather quickly, so I have no problem with MMs.Originally Posted by Dispari
More recent example, over the exp weekend I was trying to level one of my older characters I haven't played in forever because my friend had resubbed. So we both get our Thugs/Trap/Mace MMs and start forming a team. We get a few extras, including another MM, a kin corruptor, and a couple Brutes. I see a broadcast by a high level Stone Brute and figure that'd be a great addition. I invite him, and he immediately says "Sorry, no MMs" and leaves team.
I shrug, invite someone else, and we go on to totally decimate all the enemies without effort because of all the buffs/debuffs, pets, and explosives. Whoever he was, he missed out. We also didn't need him. But undoubtedly, had he come along, he would've thought himself the most important player.
I would have declined because of the number of MMs on the team. If there are too many pets running around my FPS drops to less than 10 a second. If I'm playing a brute it's frustrating to attempt to attack something only to find out it was defeated before your system caught up to the action.
I've had the most important powerset on a team before (depending on the situation), but I've never felt I was the most important player on a team.
An example of a "most important powerset" situation would be times when my sonic blaster has the only debuffs on the team and we're taking on AVs. I'm sure it would have been possible without the debuffs, but the debuffs made it a little smoother and faster. And usually that situation doesn't last long because the leader (even if the leader is me) quickly acts to rectify that if able.
On other occasions I've found that a powerset I was playing was more of a liability than a help to the team, so it goes both ways.
I would be willing to bet that every single player in the game has found themselves in both situations at one time or another, so I'm not just trying to make myself sound awesome here. -
Also:
The Claws powerset is not known for extremely hard-hitting attacks, it is known for speed and endurance-friendliness. Eviscerate is the slowest attack in the set by a wide margin, the rest of the set, as I'm sure you're aware, is extremely fast and doesn't stop piling damage on. It is ALSO an AoE cone attack. If you have a few enemies clumped together you can hit up to 5 with it.
Total Focus: 197 to ONE target.
Eviscerate: 124 to FIVE (potential) targets.
A better comparison would be to look at Total Focus versus, say, Head Splitter from the Broadsword set. Both are Extreme damage attacks and come at the end of their respective sets.
Without Build Up, Total Focus will do the aforementioned 197 damage.
In the same situation Head Splitter will do in the neighborhood of 250.
In making your comparison here, you pitted the scrapper AT's weakest heavy hitter against the blaster AT's strongest heavy hitter. Eviscerate is weak in comparison largely because it is technically an AoE, as is Ripper from Spines. Golden Dragonfly and Head Splitter technically are too, but you have to be skilled or lucky to hit more than one with any consistency because their cone is so small. -
I have to put a good word in for Pinnacle.
Unofficially known as the "Drunk Server", originally because of it's tendancy to be the last server back up after maintenance. The population has since taken the title and run with it. This has a side effect of Pinnacle seeming to have the highest number of people per capita that play while inebriated. That can be highly amusing.
Drunken hijinks aside, Pinnacle's community is generally very friendly and welcoming of new people. There's jacktards on Pinn, but then again, there's jacktards everywhere so that's not really a downside. Pinnacle seems to have less than some though.
I second an above suggestion. Make a character on each server and play a little bit on each. That's a good way to find which server fits you best.
I like to solo and dislike huge throngs of people, so I stick with the lower population servers. That doesn't mean you can't find a team on them though, I generally have no trouble finding one when I feel like teaming. Also, if you're playing on a less than optimal system like I am, the more populated servers will cause some lag.
I dislike Freedom, but I'll admit that it's reputation isn't wholly deserved. Yes, there ARE more idiots on Freedom than elsewhere. But, that's because there are more PEOPLE on Freedom than elsewhere. There are idiots everywhere, Freedom is just more noticable because the population in general is higher. My dislike of it has little to do with that, and more to do with my dislike of the system crippling lag I experience when there is that much going on at once.
But, don't let my words sway you too much in any direction, if you find a server you like don't worry about the naysayers. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Dragons_Bane
I've always understood it to be the closest bid which always was weird because you'd think highest would make more sense. All I know for sure is when sell something low (1 or 5 infl) to sell it quickly it is always lower than the previous sells, where if it was taking the highest bid it would stay the same more often.
That is because all the people that were bidding that high got their item already, so you were left with only the bidders that were not meeting the seller's minimum price.
If there are sales for 20 million in the last 5 and 30 people bidding on 1 or 2 items, chances are if you list it low, you will not get much. The 1 or 2 items are probably listed for around that 20 million and none of the other people want to pay that much, so they put bids in that are much lower. Their bid remains until they pull it down or until an item is put up for less than they are bidding. In that case the highest bidder that did not meet the price of the 2 that are already there will get the item. If they are listed at 20 million and someone has a 10 million bid in as the current highest, they will get an item listed from 1 inf to 10 million, but they will NOT get either of the ones sitting there listed at 20 million.
The last 5 is an indicator of what people are willing to pay, NOT an indicator of what you will sell something for. You can buy things for much lower than the last 5 if you are patient enough, because someone will come along and see the last 5 sales and think "If I list this for 1 inf I will get 20 million from it", when in reality most of those bids are probably people waiting for someone to do exactly that. Then you see a recent sale of 5,000, because someone listed one low hoping to get a lot of money without spending any.
I list mine just slightly under the last 5. If I see 20, 22, 19, 21, 30, I will list it at 18. I'm likely to make my sale somewhat faster than the person listing for 30, and will get close to the going rate for it. I might even get 29 million out of it because people got greedy and listed it for the highest of the last 5.