DeadlyLove

Any plans to change Recluses Victory to make it more PVP friendly/desiarable. If you werent aware, which many times devs are not, overworked etc, the zone is basically used for leveling now and when you try to pvp in it you are usually scolded for bothering the people and they eventually leave.

Also the Heavies, turrets, and huge mobs of NPCs make PvP down right annoying Posi. Its not "difficult" or "challenging", just annoying.

Punch Drunk Love EM/EA brute.

Depraved Love rad/kin corruptor.

MORE 50s! I need more! Im addicted to them!

It will hit. I play all my cov to 17 without enh at all. You will noitice a huge diff when you get to DO's and especially SO's. I have a 38 rad/kin corruptor and with tactics and one acc in each attack i run my own mishs on vicious. Have pateince and save your money, training enh are a sham and arent worth using for toilet paper.
Side note. Infamy gets better but not until 30

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So, with that said, let me give you my 10 Commandments of Geko:
*I will always listen to the community (that goes for the boards, in game, and thru mining data and statistics).


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Sorry Geko i really dont mean to call you out but you put it out there. Last time I counted there were over 2500 posts about ED in the first 36 hours. Someone ran the math saying it was one post every 1.5 minutes. I read through 2 hours worth when i couldnt sleep that night. I did not find any positive support for this. I am comfortable in my assumtion that there were few if any. I apologize to turn your statement against you but it doesnt appear to the playership that anyone is listening.

Please find another way.

I am so confused. My eyes hurt from my futile attempt to find a positive post on here about ED.

When its time to respec im just going to PM the devs and ask them to build my toon for me. Saves me the trouble.

Current count of friends, teammates, and sgmates that have left CoH since issue 4: 37. This number has never gone down. Only up.

Funny how they nerfed defense and resistance but didnt nerf defense or resistance debuffs. Even funnier is how they lowered the to hit buff of pve to a max of 75% but storm can debuff ToHit over 200%. Grrr the problem with enhancable debuffs.....but i guess thats why sonics isnt enhancable! Just something to think about.

Bottom line the pve section of the game is even more underpowered to these debuffs then Heros are in arena. Makes me ask why they are so powerful. A ToHit, Defense, or Resistance debuff(EF) is supposed to DECREASE an opponents ability to Hit, Defend, or Resist. Not ELIMINATE it altogether.
Wish i could enhance my fulcrum shift like you can EF. Reducing a foes damage output to base may keep me alive longer! :P

Once agian my point. This isnt a beta test. We shouldnt have to wonder and guess. And saying that i shouldnt see it coming is just rediculous. They spent all that time nerfing concealment and forgot khleds? Well if that is the case then they still owe me a respec. That is what these boards are for. I had thought that they had left those builds alone for a reason but as it turns out they probably forgot all about it and then when they realized sayed oh crap better do it quick. I dont accept your explination and we shouldnt have to guess or read the minds of the devs. How long should have i waited to respec her? 3 weeks? a month? 2 weeks before the next issue?

Ultimatly the complaint revolves around the devs ponying up and admiting they screwed up and fixing the problem.

Please direct me to the post where there was warning about nerfs to khleds forms and i will retract my statement.

Problem is i really liked this game and have met some really great friends. I dont want to go home, but i may have too. What happens if too many others take thier ball and go home? Then there wont be anyone left to play with.

Hey if they want to stop the whining then they need to conceed and finally put in a task force that will allow us to respec our toons to keep up with all the changes. Its that simple.
Idont care if its 40 missions requires a full team of 8 and the villains are all plus 4 and takes 2 days to finish. Risk vs. Reward!

Unfortuantly the biggest risk you can take in COH right now is respecing your toon since they dont even announce major power changes anymore they just do it.

What you call whining is actually the frustration of players who love the game and thier inability to get any customer support for it: if its a power change talk to the devs is the response you get from support. you post in the forums and it falls on deaf ears.

And i do have a problem with the changes because its not like COH was realeased last month. Its a year and a half old and if they want to keep reinventing the game they MUST give us the tools to adapt our high level toons that we have used all our respecs for............does anyone remember the day when someone would say, "would you like to help me run the ritki respec? im going to respec my toons final build." There was a time when the only changes were new content and bug fixs we never had to guess at weather or not we can respec our toons and be afraid to.

This is a very simple post. I feel that you, Statesman, owe me and everyone else effected by the september 20th stealth nerf our respecs back. I did what you said:

"We are automatically reducing every character’s Reputation to “Heroic” – the base setting. This change will allow players whose powers have been altered to become used to their abilities before tackling tougher foes."

I played on test since I5 was released there. I waited a week or in some cases 2 to see if there are anymore announcements on test for changes. I respeced 2 toons out of powers that you fixed and took Quantum Flight on my level 50 Kheld. Like many Peacbringers i used this power as my main travel power and put 5 slots into it. I heeded your warning. I waited a while and relearnt to play my toons under the new unbalanced "balanced vision" and now i have 2 toons with powers i want back and one which i cant play at all as i have useable travel power. (and dont say quauntum flight was never "intended" to work that way. its been months since they were introduced and no one is buying that excuse anymore).

So there it is. I followed the rules. I read the forums. I followed YOUR ADVICE IN YOUR ADDRESS.

You owe me and everyone else our respecs back.
I dont expect it to happen.
I dont even expect a response to this post.

Par for the course i guess.

To sum up- i deleted my level 50 peacbringer. Thats right! I deleted the second toon i ever really played. Too bad really, I was good at playing her.

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All jokes aside, Issue 5 is not a finished issue. At least you admit it's not finished. However, you are going to have to let me know when issue 6 is up, because I'm not going to play anymore. I gave it a chance, and find it lacking.

I'll play chess, the rules are already set. No one is going to change how the knight moves or that white goes first.

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READ THIS AND BELEIVE. CITY OF HEROS IS THIS:

A BETA TEST OF A GAME WE ARE ALL HOPING FOR BUT WILL NEVER BE. THE DEVELOPERS HAVE MADE SO MANY MISTAKES THAT WE MAY BE AT THE POINT WHERE THEY CANT FIX ANYTHING ANYMORE.

And since they wont give you respecs to fix THIER mistakes even though you heed all thier warnings and read the forums and take thier advice......

[quoteMost of your "balance" changes are poorly disguised attempts to derail powerleveling and to make things "fair" in PvP (a mainly useless aspect of this game.

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Funny thing is that PVP isnt fair! If you pvp you know what i mean. All there are for the most part are ice/energy blasters (*/nrg blasters actually. Funny side note, they added all the toggle droppers to help blasters vs tanks and all thier toggles, not an issue now is it?), Hovering spines scrappers who 6 slot all thier ranged attacks to be blasters, and controllers. PVP was more fair in I4! at least then tanks had a place. They lower everyones defense and damage resistance but they didnt address how overpowered radiation is. What is the use of having a 200% defense debuff in PVE? Funnier then that is storm! I mean really when you think about it with the lowered To Hit Buffs in pve it raises the question to me why arestorm debuffs so powerful when in reallity there is no need for them to be? Other then giving an unbealivable advantage to those who use it in arena, enhancable debuffs need to be addressed quickly. After all if I love playing a sonics defender or controller then i cannot enhance the dam resistance debuff can I?

I agree with everything you posted my friend and as an arena regular im going on the record as saying the following:

PVP is ruining PVE.
PVP is not balanced and thier attempts to do so have done more harm then good. It has spawned cookie cutter builds and allowed a few to rain supreme while the rest of us get frustrated pvping toons we love but are not the "chosen few" sets that the devs seem to keep on top. And of course i respedted my favourite toon after playing her on test for weeks and taking Statesmans advice and played her for a couple weeks before respecing......i respeced out of a power they addresses in the latest patch and when i sent in an email to support asking for my respec back they told me to go post in the forums. WOW THAT IS AWSOME CUSTOMER SERVICE!

I5 is a disaster and when you read through the posts you see one praise for it for every 20 complaints.

COH IS NOTHING MORE THEN A BETA TEST OF A GAME WE ARE ALL WAITING, HOPING, AND PRAYING FOR BUT WILL NEVER BE.

Hey NC do you miss Faction as much as I Do? He was funny as all hell and made playing more fun. He left after I5 because the game was no longer fun to play. Beyond that even teaming isnt as much fun anymore! Its weird but i team now just as much as i used to and its not as much fun. Playing without a tank all the time sucks. (I would like to say my healers are getting more play but with all the blasters wanting defiance to work healing can be annoying sometimes! Damn Nrg/Nrg Doorslamming Blasters!) Its pretty sad that a controller needs to go in now to take aggro in some mishs.

Not to worry though NC I solved that Peacebringer problem! I deleted a level 50 yesterday. She was my second 50 and mostly played the crap out of her....but with all the changes no one wants a crystal cyst in thier mishs so no one teamed with her anyway.....and since she didnt do enough damage or had no status protection and had all her resistances nerfed.... to bad my Peacebringer didnt have a power to get you out of trouble, like if it made you intangible for when you are in trouble.....OH WAIT, NEVERMIND.

I am actually guilty of not playing as much anymore myself. See I enjoy arena most of the time and my close freinds dont, since arena is so dead on Champion it forces me to play on test to get matches. So my freinds who dont like pvp dont play with me as much. Im not logged into live as much anymore and when i am im finding myself Exemping down my support toons to help my freinds get through thier mishs. Which is great for Cryptic cause I dont actually put any XP on my own toons which means i play the game longer! All about the green-backs baby!

I5 is not good for the game. Anyone who says so needs a slap in the face from thier mother!

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Im sick of not knowing when its "safe" to use my respec. Im sick of tweaking that comes down with only days of testing.
Im sick of having to re-examine everything I think I know about this game. Im sick of haveing to "adjust" to a unstable game enviorment.
Im sick of the whole "Its not for PVP/CoV we do this" spin doctoring.
Im sick of the now perpetual "Beta Test" feel of the game.
And quite frankly im sick of playing now.
Goodbye, Doom on you

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I agree 200%. If you want to keep changing the game after a year then you must conceed and allow us to respec our toons permanently. S*%T or get off the pot! Im sorry you left the game. I am also considering leaving as more and more of my friends do. Before I5 I was never bored playing the game because my friends and I always had fun teaming. Many of them arent on anymore. Such a unique game too bad really.

Well it is great you are addressing builds based on defense but what about the rest of us?

Ok well here is my problem. It referes to pvp. You reduced everyones defense and resistances and changes many powersetsin I5: what about my builds? I play controllers and defenders. When is the issue of overpowered debuffs in pvp going to be addressed? You have essentially made powersets such as radiation even more poweful then it already was by not reducing its base debuffs. Same applies for storm. I have to refuse matches against heavy debuff appoinents because those sets, unlike the new sets, have enhancable debuffs so you can essentially slot those powers to overcome any defense. Same applies to accuracy in the game:a storm controller can debuff accuracy over 200% i know that because my char has 6 Acc/Mez HO's and i have 6 slotted tactics and i still cant hit, and until you allow my builds to select Focussed accuracy or aimand build up there will be no balance. THere is a difference between learning to beat the weaknesses of debuffs and not being able in any way shape or form mount any kind of offense or defense. If it the intention of the developers to make this a staple for the game then let me know and ill stop complaining about it. Ive been waiting for changes to debuffs before I5! Ultimatly it is a huge imbalance when one or two powersets have an arsenal to negate most all other AT's ability to defend themselves or fight back. Running away is not a viable defense and makes the pvp experience no fun at all.

Btw i have a rad controller which i love playing and i still feel that the base debuff needs to be dramatically reduced. My controller is kninetic secondary(and no i do not use the kin bug in my matches) if you arent going to reduce other sets debuffs can you increase mine so that Syphon Power and Fulcrum SHift actualy have a chance of reduceing foe damage output like it does in pve? In PVP hero's are much more powerful then pve as they slot thier powers accordingly and if the information on the boards which ive read is correct i should be able to reduce a foes damage output to no less then 10% below base which is not only an unattainable number it doesnt even come close.
Just looking for that balance we were promised.

It is not enough. Unless they are adding an extremely high resistance then it will be worthless. Furthermore I did what Statesman recomended: i played on test with my toon at least once a day and just respeced her a few days ago. What if i dont have a power that resists it? I cant change now. Respec? Of course not im still waiting for the repec that should have come with the HO nerf. The only solution is to do to debuffs what was done to defense and dam resistance. Lower the base debuff so that way the power is brought into line with defense nerfs. Plain and simple.

Ok well here is my problem. It referes to pvp. You reduced everyones defense and resistances and changes many powersets: what about my builds? I play controllers and defenders. When is the issue of overpowered debuffs in pvp going to be addressed? You have essentially made powersets such as radiation even more poweful then it already was by not reducing its base debuffs. Same applies for storm. I have to refuse matches against heavy debuff appoinents because those sets, unlike the new sets, have enhancable debuffs so you can essentially slot those powers to overcome any defense or accuracy in the game save maybe focused accuarcy, and until you let my builds to select FA as a power something needs to be done. THere is a difference between learning to beat the weaknesses of debuffs and not being able in any way shape or form mount any kind of offense or defense. If it the intention of the developers to make this a staple for the game then let me know and ill stop complaining about it. Ultimatly it is a huge imbalance when one or two powersets have an arsenal to negate most all other AT's ability to defend themselves or fight back. Running away is not a viable defense and makes the pvp experience no fun at all.

Btw i have a rad controller which i love playing and i still feel that the base debuff needs to be dramatically reduced. My controller is kninetic secondary(and no i do not use the kin bug in my matches) if you arent going to reduce other sets debuffs can you increase mine so that Syphon Power and Fulcrum SHift actualy have a chance of reduceing foe damage output like it does in pve? In PVP hero's are much more powerful then pve as they slot thier powers accordingly and if the information on the boards which ive read is correct i should be able to reduce a foes damage output to no less then 10% below base which is not only an unattainable number it doesnt even come close.
Just looking for that balance we were promised.