Deathstroke33

I'm sorry, this wasn't meant to be a doom thread at all. In fact I like scrappers more than brutes in many ways, but before reading much of what has been posted here I was under the false impression that brutes were far superior in damage and def. Sorry if it came off that way.

I guess I'm wondering what does a scrapper offer that a brute doesn't? Once a brute gets rollin its damage is far higher then a scrapper even with the crit bonus. So I'm just wondering what place a scrapper has now. They seem obsolete.

So after playing for a pretty long time I've decided to try my first controlling type character. But since I haven't played one, I'm a bit lost in choosing what kind to play so I'm turning to all of you for some advice and guidance.

My play style sees me team with a friend quite often, but I do occasionally solo. I don't see myself being part of big teams if that makes a difference. I'm leaning towards a dom for its offensive abilities over a controller (correct?). As I said, when I team it will be with my friend who will be a blaster (which means lots of trips to the hospital I'm sure)

Thanks for any advice you can give me.

I usually use a Nostromo/mouse combo but recently my nostromo went out and I can't seem to get back to using a kb/mouse. I can hook my xbox 360 controller to my PC and I have mapped out all of the buttons but I can't seem to get the right analog stick to be used for looking around.

Is it possible to do this? I know using this controller isn't ideal, but my new nostromo won't be here until next week and I'd really like to play this weekend.

Thanks in advance for any help
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The one night this week I actually get to play and this happens? GRRRR This really sucks

Seems to have gone down about 10 minutes ago

Getting a team together to do a SF now days is pretty hard, much less keeping it together for the entire SF, so my friend and I were talking last night and trying to figure out if there are any SF's that just the 2 of us can do.

If not, give the state of the game, I would really love to see them either change existing SF's so they can be done with 2 or made some duo friendly SF's.

In the market, is there a way to minimize an item once you've clicked on it to expand it so you can see the price, what recipes it goes in, etc?

So my friend and I have been doing a lot of AE missions and we've noticed that there is a HUGE difference between the tickets we receive at the end of a mission. I understand that some mobs drop tickets randomly but shouldn't the end of mission bonus tickets be the same? We're the same level (we're in a leveling pact) so thats not an issue. For example the last map I received 205 tickets and he got 182 at mission completion. There have been other instances where I receive 180 and he got around 60. On occasion he does get more then I do, but its a safe bet I'll always get more.

Thanks

I will most likely be playing with another friend most of the time, but I'd like something that is able to solo when I want as well.

Thugs/SS huh? I know MMs are basically a team in themselves, but how does that mesh with others? And is there a class that fits best?

I'm looking to try something different and was wondering what people think of Bots/FF. It seems like a pretty good mix only missing a heal. is the survivability good? I looked through the guides but most were a bit old so I wasn't sure how accurate the information is anymore.

Any advice would be great.
Thanks!

Just wondering what people's opinion is about this. My buddy is going to be a brute and wants me to roll a corr. From reading everything it seems like the debuffs that comes with sonic makes a brute a killing machine, which leaves me with the secondary.

Therm with its shields and heals would be a great selection, but speed and damage buffs in Kin also seems to be huge.

I am open to suggestions of other secondaries as well, but these two just caught my eye.

Thanks!

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm thinking about going with a Fire/Therm. The shields just seem like they would help us a ton. Although Fire/Kin is also VERY appealing too.

I'm not really sure what type would make the best duo. I think he's going to be energy/electric (I think, not 100% sure) so I'd like to be something that gives him the support he is going to need to smash. We toyed with DP/Pain last night, which worked out ok, but DP doesn't feel like its a good primary with Pain, then again maybe it needs time to develop. But before I get that far, I'd like some other people's opinion on what support build would mesh best.

Thanks!

Its a pain, and needlessly so. Just because its easy for you to do, doesn't mean its easy for everyone to do.

FYI, I'm downloading the patch from the test server at a blistering pace of 19 k/sec WOW!

I assume the devs want people to actually play the test server, so why make it such a pain to actually get to? I've been around CoX since launch and have always stayed away from the test server for that very reason.

Well with such big changes coming, I decided to bite the bullet and actually try to get into the test server for the first time and test it out for myself. Well, come to find out, I was correct, its a pain in the ... to get into. I installed a 2nd copy of CoX, and patched it. Launched the test server only to find out it is downloading at a snail's pace, and will be finished in about 90 hours.

Why does it have to be this way? Why isn't the test server just a selectable server from the normal game? I'm pretty frustrated right now that this has to be THIS difficult to do.

The secondary effects really don't seem to do much at all. Last night I lit a guy on fire and did all of 6 damage to it. When I froze someone it only lasted a few seconds. I guess what I'm disappointed with is that the secondary effects are underwhelming at best.

I've just come back and stared playing a DP corruptor. I'm now level 12 after yesterday and having taken Swap Ammo I'm VERY disappointed with the secondary effects of it. So my question is, does it get better, is it worth keeping or should I respec out of it? Right now I'm really regretting taking it, so someone that has played to a higher level would most likely have a better more educated opinion on this.

Thanks in advance.

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I think it kind of sucks its on Father's Day weekend.....poor planning

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I agree with this 100%. I'm not going to be able to really play much since its Father's Day weekend.

I'm not trying to look a gift horse in the mouth. Thank you for the double XP weekend, but couldn't SOMEONE have looked at a calendar and said "hmm this is father's day guys. lets move it up or down 1 week."

Again, thank you very much for the Double XP weekend. I'm thankful what what I have. But in the future could we not have it on a holiday weekend when most guys are forced to spend time with family?

Did my first mayhem today and was VERY pleased with it. Seems to be pretty bug free and so much more fun than the heist. I only found a couple things annoying.

1. The flash bags are INSANE! My lvl 35 brute with 3 acc SO's in each attack, 2 To-Hit buffs in Rage and Inv and still I was hitting MAYBE 10%, not to mention the sticky arrows that slowed me down to an annoying crawl

2. As stated earlier, the number of people in the bank is a bit out of control it needs to be turned down.

Other than that I'm pretty pleased with the missions. I am afraid that the sticky and flash bangs are going to ruin the missions for me tho.

I appologize if this is a stupid question, but I'm pretty new to the whole blaster type. Mentioned in the 1st post is Cold Mastery, but when I look at my toon in game I dont see this anywhere. Does this open up later or something? or what??
Again sorry if this was a stupid question but I'm kinda lost.

if they raise the rates at all, I wont be getting CoV. 15 bucks a month to play a game already dents my tight wallet.