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Quote:Hmmm, not sure that's right:Originally Posted by Soulwind
One other thing to remember is that the game engine CANNOT determine who got hit with a power in order to re-calculate the endurance costs (as you suggested).
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Kinetics#Repel
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Shields#Against_All_Odds
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Shields#Phalanx_Fighting
All are PBAOE's that count the number of characters near you. Repel calculates end based of targets hit. AAO calculates damage off targets near you and PF calculates Defense off allies near you.
I'm not really in favour of this change as I think the Devs would nerf the recharge to the same time as the buff lasts at least. That means that if you die early in the buff duration you have to go without. As a ST buff you can have it straight away. I also can't see them allowing it to effect he caster. -
Quote:I use Corva's icon pack, which solves that issue. And I always put it in the same place on toon creation.Originally Posted by Tommy Troy
I never display the self-destruct button because, when I do, I accidently blow myself up by mistaking the self-destruct icon for apprentice charm or somesuch. But I can see how it could be useful to people who are not so challenged.
Mission Transporter is great, I use it occasionally, but the very slow recharge rate has prompted me to seek other transportation solutions, and most of my toons have a base with enough transporters to allow me to get anywhere pretty quick. But you're right, it is a good solid bonus-pack power that I overlooked.
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Quote:What level are you at? I found I was busy at lower levels but once I got to 30-35 ish I had more time on my hands and could start smacking a few people myself.Originally Posted by Hube02
This has not been my experience with most of the teams I've been on. Most of the time I am too busy healing to do anything else. Could be the teams or the players involved, but, when playing this character it is the type of team I want to be on.
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Quote:1: Absorb pain = Good. Situational, don't use it too much, but good. Huge Heal, will pull a tank up by his bootstraps if in trouble.Originally Posted by Hube02
The other night there was a discussion on broadcast that I took a slight exception to.
The main points that bothered me where:
1) Only a looser takes Absorb Pain
2) Only a looser puts Healing Aura on auto
I've only created one defender with empathy and I do both of these things. I did a bit of research and when I started this character I decided that she would focus on her primary. The only attack she has is the one that I had no choice in taking. She is completely useless except for her ability to keep everyone else alive and moving.
Healing Aura on auto: I'm usually quite busy with other things to want to worry about manually using this power. For example, I am busy cycling through each of my team mates and using Clear Mind on them. I can usually keep Clear Mind doubled up on every member of the team, the only one that ever gets mezzed is my character.
The same holds true for fortitude, which I usually reserve for scrappers. I have it now so that I can keep this on at least one team mate continuously and almost on two continuously.
Having Healing Aura on auto allows me to concentrate on those that need the extra healing and not just the buffing (Heal Other, Absorb Pain, Resurrect)
Absorb Pain: lets face it, sometimes a team mate will suddenly go from full heath to near face plant before you can react. Yes, I've taken this but I try not to use it except in emergencies.
The only thing I agreed with in the conversation was not running after team mates that separate from the group. I stay with the main group and place myself so that my auras cover as much of the group as possible. If someone decides to run off in a different direction I'm not going to leave the main group vulnerable to pull one characters bacon out of the fire.
So, am I doing this wrong? Am I really a looser because I take Absorb Pain and put Healing Aura on auto?
2: Healing Aura on Auto... I don't. I use it if peoples health needs topping up, otherwise it's wasted End really. I do spam it a bit, but if I'm low on End I can not use it if I have to.
3: Fort, you should be able to get that to 2.5-3 team members, depending on your slotting. My level 40 odd, SO slotted Emp can keep on 2 at all times, with a bit of overlap so I rotate through 3 damage dealers. Don't just reserve to Scrappers, the acc and damage buffs will help everyone even ranged.
4: Not taking attacks... of everything you said this is the biggest waste to me. A good running team shouldn't need too much help staying alive. CM and the RARA's plus fort and AB when they are available should make your life a cruise. Why not contribute with a little damage? -
Quote:I think that's what he's trying to avoid. They talk everytime you give them an order, with the bind leave petsayall blank I assume the OP is trying to stop that.Originally Posted by MechaCrash
Binding pets talking every time you give them an order is also a terrible idea, because it will get really spammy really fast, and it's incredibly annoying.
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Quote:Bahaha, good on you guys. Full credit to Dante too.Originally Posted by Tyger
Actually there is someone at the EU office now. Met him last month, nice chap, short on hair, forced Dante to do this because of it.
You do realise the EU are the only regional servers we have right? That players in South America, Oceania, Asia and Africa don't have their own servers?Quote:Originally Posted by Residentx10
Some problems we can't solve right now, that was the point of my post. Latency is a real issue. Going From one contintent to another over the internet creates a great distoration/delay. I keep seeing all of these people trying to get on NA servers but the EU and other countries have a better telecom infrastructure for gaming than the US. It's VANITY at work.
Plus, I'm not sure latency is a real issue, at least not for UK users playing on the NA servers, as evidenced above. Where is this information about the telecoms infrastructure coming from? Citations needed please. -
Quote:Seconded...Originally Posted by SwellGuy
I cannot express my appreciation enough for all the people responsible for making and upkeeping Paragonwiki, Vidiotmaps, Badge hunter, Mids, etc.
They're real heroes of the game.
without these great heroes my heroes wouldn't be such good.. uh... heroes... or something like that.
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Quote:Bah, you'll just say anyone is legendary...Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
SwellGuy is legendary.
I want to say Mids was started by Midnighter and he was an EU player, but I could be wrong. The about section has a list of the guys developing it and the copyright for it. -
Yeah, I'm a tad confused. People in Korea HAVE to play on the NA or EU servers, as to Kiwis and Aussies and anyone else in the world as they are the only 2 options. As for Latency, people who have both NA and EU accounts generally report BETTER connections to the NA servers than they do to the EU servers.
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Yeah, sure. But who is s/he talking too on that phone? No Cell towers, no other cell phones. Don't buy it.
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Quote:Originally Posted by SkarmoryThePG
Totally not what this suggestion is about.I took that to mean without the recipie. If you still need the recipie, then yes, I agree that you should be able to do this, although maybe only up to a max of 1.5 of a full charge maybe.Quote:Originally Posted by SkarmoryThePG
C: Let us craft temporary powers we already own. The new supply of uses gets added to the ones in the power we own, up to the maximum. This way, whenever I'm in the yellow, I can just nip off to the Uni for a quick craft-up to replenish my, say, Envenomed Daggers, and never have to worry about running out mid-mission, or wasting uses by deleting and recrafting.
On your second point, I'd be fine with some indicator on charges left too. -
Quote:I don't get this attitude... you don't want to run out half way through a mission... so you don't use it. So you may as well not have it anyway.Originally Posted by SkarmoryThePG
It's running out mid-mission, and the fear of it that stops me from using them as much as I'd like to.
I have too many of these recipies anyway so if they were going to allow us to recraft without the recipie then they have to reduce the drop rate to 10% or so.
Not really fussed either way. Don't see a need for it personally. -
Quote:I fail to see your point with this. If you go to the globe it's pretty much how it sounds. Still unintelligible for the most part really.Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
For those insist it must be the original, here's Shakespeare in its original pronunciation and wording.
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Even just the ability to target though another character, the same as we can do, would be a boon.
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Quote:If she saves the costume in the tailor it should appear in a costumes (maybe, can't check right now) folder in her CoH install folder. If she emails you that you should be able to put it into your costumes folder and load it.Originally Posted by MrCaptainMan
Hi,
I'm making an arc in the MA and i want to include one of my SG-mate's toons in it. I vaguely recall that there's a way she can save her toon's costume and then send the file to me via email, but i can't remember exactly how to do this. Can anyone advise?
Eco. -
Quote:Originally Posted by NinjaPirate
Bahaha, I hadn't seen that. Gold! -
Quote:Yup, it's under personal item. Caught me out too.Originally Posted by Chyll
It has been a while, and someone will probably jump in with a better answer, but I think you go back by the entrance and choose 'place item', or 'personal item' rather than the the 'edit base' option.
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Quote:I think I like these more than the OPs in most instances. Love the sound of the speed pool, however it sounds like a coding nightmare. Would also rather see a quick use combat teleport power than your last one.Originally Posted by Vel_Overload
Fun topic. Not sure why everyone's butthurt. fifth power to the pools is a good idea considering we're getting free-stamina soon, thus the majority of us will have 3 more slots to fill. While I don't like all of these powers, I like the feel of them.
Once again Bill is being very rude when he could simply say 'no, and heres why:'
All mine unlock at 30 with 3 powers chosen from the pool:
Stealth: Placate. Same as Stalkers although with a higher endurance cost and high recharge.
Fighting: Quivering Palm. Low Damage stun attack. Mag 3 for x seconds.
Flight: Bombardment. Strike an enemy causing AoE damage. High Smash damage. grounds flying targets.
Medicine: Stimpack. Boost an ally's damage, damage resistance and recharge by X% for y seconds. At the end your ally loses 10% of their endurance.
Leadership: Synergy. Very High endurance toggle that boosts all nearby ally's recharge by X%. Very High as in: over 1.5 before endurance reductions.
Presence: Poker Face. Toggle. Masks your feelings towards your enemies. Gives 1.0 mag protection against Holds, Immobs and Stuns.
Speed: Double Time. Instantly allow the use of a single power regardless of recharge (certain powers would be exempt of course.) That power costs twice the endurance and has it's recharge doubled after use.
Super Jump: Slam. Slam the ground causing a large AoE Knockdown and Stun. Long Cooldown and endurance cost.
Teleport: Spacial Tether. Instantly teleport to your target, who's within the same zone. Moderate Recharge. Accuracy counts towards enemies, based off of Ranged and Psionic Defense.
Maybe for the 'con' of combat teleport is a recharge time. Make it so you can't use it to pop in and then out of a fight. -
Quote:Yeah, that was what I was thinking too. It was clearly sarcastic.Originally Posted by Lurker Hunter
You don't mean you took my post seriously?
As to the OP, meh, your suggestion is over the top, but having the second secondary open I could deal with. Do I feel it's needed...? not really, but do I care enough to argue..? nope. -
Quote:Out of curiosity how much are the super boosters? I've got them at £5.99 on the EU site, which I put at about US$9.50. Meaning that, assuming the post saying BP said this will be US$9.99 is correct, the only difference between a Super booster and a normal booster is the name.Originally Posted by Bad_Influence
I think some are maybe forgetting the difference between a "booster" and a "SUPER booster." This pack is just a booster. I like super boosters too, but that's not what this is. It is also cheaper than a super booster.
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Quote:Yeah, sorry, thats the worst idea. The boosters generally provide NO substantial gameplay effect (ninja run is the reason generally is in there, it's overpowered) and are take them or leave them. If you don't like the costumes you don't have to pay more. Simple.Originally Posted by Invisobill
I couldn't agree more. At this point they're just ripping off players dumb enough to buy everything thrown at them. In my mind a booster pack should provide options and powers that go way beyond the bounds and needs of normal players. Costume change emotes: yes. Possible jetpack costume options: yes. Regular emotes, auras and regular not so special costume pieces: no. Those costume pieces and auras should be free for everyone. The microtransaction crap with this game is beginning to get out of hand.
You add serious powers to the mix and suddenly to get the full game play effect you HAVE to buy it. You think people are unhappy with the boosters now wait untill they feel forced to get them.
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Quote:Yeah, I figured they were permanent additions, but cool they are adding additional standard arcs too. They way you describe it, sure, I could be up for that.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
No that isn't how they do it. They still release story arcs with their regular issues, and once they release the weekies they are permanent additions to the game. The only thing they remove is the special reward for doing the complete story arc before the next one is released. Like how we only get Candy Canes during the winter event, or Costume Salvage during Halloween.
How it works is you get a message from a special contact that lets you know there is a special mission he needs your help with. Just like we get here about the Baby New Year, and the DJ Zero's Valentines Day Event. The difference here is that you can't do those mission all year long. -
Quote:Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Because VEATs get copies of the Brute PPPs, so it would be reasonable for them to get Brute APPs as well. Stupid logic
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The Natural one is... not right. It's not Natural.. it's Nature.
I like them all, and will buy it, but it's not quite right...
Love the sparks Aura and the Science (or tech, the shiny one) cape. -
Quick answer: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=240952
Longer Answer: Try checking the Announcements Forum.