Daikon

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I saw a mention of this as a pending vampiric powerset? Can anyone shed some light (or shadow) on this?

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Yes, this is the new AT for villains and heroes.

-it will be based off of bram stoker's dracula
-it will have amazing necromantic powers

I blame TheFrog for not blaming Flea, for not saying, "Daikon says 'grats Mini and Dream. Don't spend it all in one place. Hurr hurr hurr.'"

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daikon killed my entire family with a radish

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Dream Crusher is responsible for all of the bugs in AOC. Way to go you bastidge.

Macskill made an ar/dev guide, thereby encouraging new players to play a horrible combo, and also indicating that there is anything worth knowing about AR or Dev. (There is not.)

He also messed up the flow of this thread, by not blaming the poster above him, but instead skipping over me like an over eager hop skotch.... hop skotcher.

I blame Koralith for a horrible ITF the other day. Dual blades... pfffft.

President Roosevelt's Ghost! I hate healing.

The devs have painted themselves into a corner, as far as pvp balance goes.

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At the same time, I'm a little irritated. I seem to recall being told over and over that no resources were being taken away from CoH to develop CoV, and that no resources were being taken away from CoX to develop MUO. I don't remember the exact quotes, but I can't help but feel that I was lied to.

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It's a good reason to not believe anything statesman says. It's unfortunate he's involved w/ champions online, but it may be possible that the game will turn out good DESPITE him.

How were you lied to, exactly? The team was 60 (or so) strong when they were developing CoV, and we don't know how the work was split then. Shortly after CoV launched, the team was gutted to the skeleton crew of 15. It sounds like anyone who was moved off the project to work on something else in Cryptic was replaced with someone else. They maintained the 15 strong team until the NCNC buyout.

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Whether there were actual lies or not, I can't say. But we were led to believe that a much larger team was working on the game. Seeing how much the team was cut down (and we don't know if it was at NCSoft's direction or Cryptic's decision), I'm amazed at all that has been accomplished.

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Ask these ones:

@zGreen
@Mini Princess Doll1
@Dream Crusher
@Mini Corruptor

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Official Roster

@Weak - Leader
@Serial Girl - Leader
@Infamous - Leader
@Start Running
@Tekishi
@Mini Corruptor
@Dream Crusher
@Gun
@Mini Princess Doll1
@Ownage's Dad
@Mystical Healer
@DT
@Sand
@Smoke Signal
@Smokesignal
@Sonic
@Pink Poms
@B1unt
@zGreen
@No HoldsBar Eligible to Play April 9th.

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Good luck guys.

Maybe the devs can tell us why they hate COV?

or..

Maybe they don't hate it, but are incompetent nincompoops?

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lolerz.... hold on a second.

Your trying to make fun of Justice PvP yet you have the title "Freedom Zone PvP" in your sig?

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I'm not trying...I'm doing it. And freedom zone PvP is like the NBA, where justice is high school basketball. And yes, I have toons on justice, so I know from personal experience.

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i have toons on freedom, its like justice but with less wait finding people to fight. if the devs gave out free server transfers i'd probably move over though honestly, simply to get more decent matches in.

its funny how people put down other servers like its not the same game. hopefully the new owners come up with a way to do live cross server pvp before the game dies.

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I agree w/ supermax here. Tend to see better pvpers in the zones on Freedom. I wouldn't say that it = the NBA though.

Let me tell you, the levels of mobs and trying to team in TR is retarded. You outlevel some content, and then there are huge gaps where you have no content, because you leveled too damn fast, and didn't squeeze enough missions in.

This is before I even get to broken powers/classes/missions/instances, etc. I'll check it out again in a few months.. but seriously, that's all unneccessary Bullsht that doesn't need to be in a game anymore.

On the Age of Conan forums, I remember people would constantly complain about something being in or not in the game, and others saying that it's impossible to make an MMO any other way. I would often think, what the heck are they talking about? COH already solved this problem a long time ago.

It's piss poor to see new MMO's come out that haven't learned the lessons that this game was built on.

PS: If you are street sweeping too much in TR, check out motor assist tier 4. Once I started using that, I was leveling about 2x as fast, due to saved travel time, and not having to engage mobs pointlessly.

"the time has come"

or

"LOL at Justice fight club.. part II"

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I'd love to have the COP as a TF. I would, however, destroy any IOP we get as long as our base was at stake. Too much time went into getting all that stuff. We gave up on the mock base raids ages ago: all too clearly those who've been around longest and/or have farmed the most, automatically win. Combined with the bugs, that sucks out all the fun.

Linna

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For once I disagree with you Linna.

There are a lot of ways to take ridiculous bases down. The most potent defense is a team of excellent players (imho).

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Yeah? What's your build? If it is an EM/ then you fit into the catagory that I am speaking of.

Sorry man, but Spines damage output is not enough to kill any regen or anything that has a heal that is slotted with I.O.'s.

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1st of all thats a lie, ive beaten two spines/regen scrapper on infinity in rv, lay caltrops after web nading them keeps em at bay not to mention using blinding powder to lower their perception, but maybe its harder because you are a spines/dark

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If caltrops and webnade stopped a spines/regen, then all i can say is that he was built like a noob, and stalkers are great at destroying noobs... but that's not the point of any of this.

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Ah, yes, I have 2 EM stalkers and a spiner. It is indeed harder to play a spiner and if they have more HP, it is A LOT harder. I've seen a spiner beat a Fire/EM tank before though. Just gotta come up with the right startegy.

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Your opponent must also be pretty incompetent. Of coarse, in open zones, there are all kinds of opportunities for stalkers to work with other villains to finish stuff.. but that's not the point =p.

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Scenario......

-Hero_ *bouncy....bouncy....bouncy.....bouncy.....

-villain- "darn, can't get in an AS because the bouncy hero wont hold still....I know, I'll Impale him immob him" *BU+Impale*

-Hero- *Crittical Impale brings jumping to a halt and is Immobed as health drops down to 3/4. Searches for the target who Impaled him. Target found*

-Villain- *runs up to hero and placates as he prepares an AS*

-Hero- *Simply retargets the villain because he is suffering from a status effect. BU+Aim+Strongest attack------Dead Stalker*

-Villain- "Hate the placate bug!*

Doesnt sound very nice, does it?

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The devs like it when stuff like that happens. Or perhaps they are incompetent/ineffective.

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Ok just something interesting to note. I don't think PVP is as important as you say, because as several people here mentioned... The pvp areas are almost always empty... Now heres the interesting part... I tried pvp, but I personally find it annoying in the idea that in coX you find out that there are only so many powersets and setups that are really at all good for pvp. I have experimented with all sorts of at's and powersets, and well, lets just say only some of those excel at pvp, and the rest are mostly pve. And some of the pvp excelling powersets also excel at pve... so the game is way more balanced for pve, as it has been since the arena opened. If it gets a little more balanced, I might just join in on all this pvp fun, but until then... I"m pve all the way.

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Don't confuse a low popualation in a PVP zone for anything other than those folks are grinding up there next PVP toon. We have to lvl too. Further many PVP minded folks play on several servers and go from server to server PVP zone to PVP zone to find the fight that intrests them most.

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Yep, been spending most of the last week and a half working on a pvp toon. I actually enjoy pve too - so keep in mind that pve takes WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY longer than pvp. I can pop in to pvp, kill everyone in the zone, and feel done. I don't feel done in pve till the character is all set up with the best enhancements, accolades, and is lvl 50. Also, I don't like to pvp too much until that lvl 50 is made.

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When we sat down to design CoH, we wrote on the white board: "fun." Seems obvious, but many games seemed to miss the mark. That's OK; some games don't need to be fun in order to be successful (I won't name them, but they're out there). We wanted to make a game that had fun moment to moment gameplay. Hard to quantify, but easy to identify when you find it.

Cool posts, BTW.

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And thank you for that. The design descisions which stemmed from that is what made this the first mmo that stuck for me.

None of what you say matters, because the zones, which pve'ers never go into are dead.

On the other hand, they can't get thier badges or run thier missions, because every time they pop into a pvp zone, there is someone chasing them down within 5 seconds of thier timer expiring.

Also, pvp is not part of keeping this game in business, because it just frustrates pve'ers who never enter the zones anyway. They then leave the game because of the existence of zones which they never enter, and that are never used "dead", but which contain badges that they cannot get because in fact they are not dead.

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I am gettin really frustrated at these posts saying PvP is unbalenced. First off any build can be good in PvP depending how u build it and play it. Now im not sure in CoV but in CoH where always worried about stalkers. Most of us building ANTI stalker builds. Anyone can kill anyone in PvP and i dont see unbalenced. Stalkers are crazy. Brutes are great to and so on. I dont really no why people are creating problems for the devs. If u dont like the system then dont PvP

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HAHAHA! Very funny!

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Only once I9 hits live and it becomes apparent that no one is giving up their rare recipes will any other solution be implemented.
/Cynicism

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As best as I can tell, I think this will happen too. The economy is going to be getting flooded with influence, yet no one is going to be selling. I think the devs are going to need to stock wentworths with some rares as an influence sink.

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Sting of the Manticore, for example, only works in Snipe or Assassin Strike powers (which I believe makes Stalkers the only AT that can slot it TWICE ).

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I hate to disappoint Stalkers out there, but Sting of the Manticore can only be slotted into Sniper powers, not Assassin Strikes. I don't know where that rumor started.

Assassin Strikes can slot in sets that are made for Single Target Melee powers.

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Shouldn't there be an IO set for AS? People are slotting it fairly similar to snipes (when they get ho's and open up slots). Using mele IO's for AS ignores the need for interrupt redux in this interruptable power (i believe).

AS is pretty much a mele snipe (good oxymoron?).

But Rizac, there are people who could play pinball for hours on a quarter, therefore pinball companies raised the cost to 20$ per play... oh wait no they didn't.

Obviously some TF's are going to have to have thier reward adjusted. I've done TF's in 15 minutes. This should likely be determined by data mining. If im the only one on my server doing tf's in 15 minutes, then it's probably not neccessary to do anything. If 10% of the population are farming stuff in that way, then something needs to change.

If the RSF isn't hard enough for you, go do some team pvp on test.

PvE is meant for everyone, not just the elite. The RSF should have roughly the same level of effort as hami. Considering that people put thier stuff on auto for hami, and go afk, or brawl him and go afk, the RSF shouldnt be any harder or time consuming.