Dirt_bag_Don

Yeah i keep getting the DB disconnect message now on virtue. i was able to get on other servers but 5 times now i got the DB message on virtue.

Though it has prolly been pointed out, I was on a team with a mace tanker, a broadsword scrapper and an axe brute. talk about seeing the same animations a LOT that day... How bout we diversify the set animations a bit? When several sets look almost like duplicates in animation it is kind of a let down.

Other than that, off the top of my head, med pool powers (we don't all like tricorders)


Pretty much all the self buffing powers that use that"I have constipation" animation need help.


honestly even super speed could use a nice forward lean... oh wait that's ninja run... CURSE YOU!

Well the list is so long I'm just gonna stop there but yeah the axe/sword/mace sets that all look the same really NEED to look different.

Why am I posting this? I wish I knew or had a good reason. It just kind of made me do a double take in the game while playing. so here it is.

The last two nights in a row while playing I ran into team mates that were surprised about their own powers. One person attempted to "help" another player on the full team of 8 by casting fences on a full spawn. The two were off on their own and one had aggroed then realized he was alone so began running away to lose aggro. Things should have been fine. I jumped down to make sure things went okay and then suddenly the electric controller casts fences on the spawn, begins to run and uses the jolting chain (the knock down one I forget the name). while running in a circle around the spawn he is shot to hell as soon as they all stand up. He asked why the person aggroed then didn't fight the reply was that the team wasn't all there yet so he ran to shed aggro and wait. Someone said they were surprised the controller hadn't used Static field and that they obviously didn't take it.

The controller replied "A sleep on a team? are you serious!?" then it was explained to him that it was a pulsing sleep and not a normal one time only sleep effect. The controller said "oh. I might respec into it then". Someone else chimed in with "Read your powers man".

Now this got my attention because I have a troller with the power and honestly it comes in very handy even when there is so much aoe DOT that it never sleeps anything. I stack it with my aura and things go to zero endo fast. I don't believe that it is the end all power nore that everyone would or should like or take it but I thought it was rather funny that the person simply saw the word "sleep" in the power and passed it up as useless. Heck even in this situation a normal sleep would have saved himself and anyone else near by.


The second incident was two fold. Our team leader was a demons/pain MM and we were doing paper missions in cap. My brute dinged 20 and two people on the team said "gratz on 20 now you can finally leave the Isles." I was stunned for a moment then replied "Why would I want to do that?" the answer was "Easier to find a team, faster leveling and." I was on virtue with the brute. I explained the the night before at 1AM virtue was in the red while freedom was still yellow. I had gotten on a team after one broadcast and dinged 7 levels in 4 missions (from 12 to 19). Now of course this isn't always the case but honestly I have no problems getting villain teams nor with leveling speed, should I be looking to level fast.

Then I noticed that our leader, the mastermind, was doing missions on -1 diff. It dawned on me that this person just had very different experiences villain side than I had, which would be expected. However he had just assumed that his experiences and conclusions were the truth for the rest of the players on villain side. He kept trying to argue with me which was odd because I wasn't trying to convince him of anything in fact I told him I had plenty of heroes and that the real difference for me was not liking to zone hop and having to do half a TF before getting my contacts phone number etc. I explained that it was just a personal preference and that many people like hero side and that's fine. I just thought that expecting everyone would ditch red side to go blue, just because of his own experiences and opinions was rather odd.

To top it off when he exited the second mish he exclaimed, "Wow, suppress pain is a toggle? I thought it was just a copy of Recovery aura..."

Yet another case of "Read your powers".

Then there was the time I was on a team with a blaster, level 25, and the blaster told me "I don't ever take aim or build up because I don't like those temporary powers that don't last."

That's a whole other thread though.

Got my brute to level 20 and promptly fled utopia to head to Paragon City where crime runs rampant in the street during broad daylight with Heroes near by. It was glorious! I was shoulder to shoulder with those scrappers that I can't stand to play for some reason. I was standing in Atlas park schooling the have-nots on all the praetorian goodness they were asking me about.

suddenly, without warning... "Infinite Schmoe has invited you to a team. Do you accept"

I almost accepted but wanted to get back to Praetoria and finish off leveling my new troller so I politely declined but then the thought occurred to me.

"Did they want me to pound stuff or were they looking for a meat shield? I wonder..."

On any Cor I play and more so on trollers I have been asked many a time, "R U Healorz?" Now that brutes are allowed in Paragon city and tanks in the Rogue isles, I wonder if the general player base will begin to see that though a brute can be built to tank that many brutes are all about the SMASH!

Oh it just occurred to me that many hero teams will also be wondering what the hell my Tanker-mind is doing group teleporting ahead of the tanker too, Oh I can't wait to see this happen.

No I am not sick of the power, lol, in fact I love it and use it a lot.

Several teams I have been on have had players that complained that the flashing of the power animation was making them feel sick. On three occasions specifically I had players using melee power sets complain to me about it. I duo'd with one of those players and did some testing. It seems that the flashing that accompanies the vertical electric discharge is the culprit causing these issues. I tried darkening the power colors and using less eye bleeding colors as well and my fellow tester said it helped very little.

Typically I am looking at my targeting reticle and my powers tray more than what is animating on my screen but after watching it flash directly for a few moments i can see what these players might be experiencing. I wasn't getting sick but it did become quite intense after a few seconds of watching directly. Of course these melee players were right up close on the animation and facing it most of the time.

I am starting to wonder if we might have something similar to the issues of the old sonic shield animations. I certainly hope not. I am hoping a dev will notice this and a discussion will take place on the other side of the drawing board. I personally don't have a problem with the power animation but hate to think that I may be causing some kind of virtigo when I use it on a team.

Has anyone else noticed this or had it mentioned to them or do I just attract the visually sensitive players to my teams?

Just for the record powers have been completely replaced in the past but this was eons ago and before the cottage rule was even considered.

Oddly enough the one that stands out was also a gravity power. They added the singularity in place of the oh so common Team recall power.

Again like I said this was ages ago and I don't think there are any/many other examples at all esp after the cottage rule became the norm. There is slim to no chance that they might replace another power in Gravity but honestly I would love to get hold of a power like gravity sink but not deprive other players who want their dimension shift powers. In fact if it were possible I would probably take both powers.

It didn't look like death animations or earthquake to me...

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Pain domination. I have no problem with it and I am in no way complaining about it or suggesting it shouldn't happen etc. The following is in no way a fault of the game but I KNOW it will happen.

ME- "Okay time to get my SMASH on so I think I will log red side for now, kinda tired of the hero thing for a bit."

/e Logs from a controller over to a brute
/e sets team flag to LF missions Team
/e sends broadcast of "Level xx brute lft"

ME- "Hello new team! OMW to mish"
ME- /e stands at mish door doing the sleep emote
ME- "Hey guys? We waiting on somehting?"

Team leader- "Yeah I don't want to start the mish till we got Pain domination (Healzorz) on the team..."

ME- "OMG I thought I just left heroes!"
/e quits team and forms my own (which I should have done in the first place)

Oh trust me it WILL happen (Assuming the flavor changes aren't drastically different than current empathy) Again this is NOT a game or design problem for me, it's a player problem for me lol.

Cary on...

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My three slots on freedom and two on virtue are all gone to this day. I wanted to make a new character on freedom tonight but no dice. I ahd two freebes and three vet slots. please fix this... again...

P.S. just noticed my buttons for buying slots and the nc store are gone now too... sigh please get a handle on this.

(edited to add the P.S.)

mad MAD MAD PROPS!
I was rolling and had to explain it to my kids!

Did I say mad props?

MAD PROPS! This is a keeper!

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So, wait...in the picture with the gladiator armors, is that Statesman in there?

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That does look like the Statesman cape and Helmet. Do we get access to those???

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That helmet is SIMILAR to states helm but it isn't. look very closely at both of them. Not the same just very similar and I expect to see a few new states look a likes using that helm once the feature goes live.

When Jay said "No to the above" he meant the whole statement "Is that statesman helmet and cape? do we get access to them?"

Hence "No they aren't and no we won't get access to the states cape and face plate."

I may be wrong but personally I believe that the pics are accurate and we get all the good stuff we see there. Again look close to both states and the roman helm. Not the same just similar.

First I will answer the post two above mine. You can nearly run build up perma well with just three recharge SO greens in Rage it IS perma. Not just three or four attacks with build up but a couple minutes of rage then a few seconds of no attacking and endo drop. That's right only three recharges and I don't believe you can slot build up for +acc but you can for rage...I fight reds and purples a lot and constantly get comments about how I'm hitting and damaging them.

Now as to the OP. I will start with SS. You have allready said that SS is convincing you, thats good cause the leader of my SVG is energy invuln and I'm SS invuln and he is constantly two to three levels above me and I keep pace with him and with damage on his missions time... he is jelouse lol. My Damage is fine late game so far (level 36) no noticible drop off in my SMASHINESS at all. Only the freak tanks and a few other bosses make me wish I had something other than smashing damage at times but they all fall eventually so no complaints

Rage definately makes SS well on par with EM and boy I can't tell you the number of times a mob is at half hp and an EM player runs up and procedes to do that LONG SLOWMOTION over hand attack smashing them on the head and I just hit Knockout blow as they are winding up and the mob dies before they even land on them...serriousely KoB is so much faster and I get yelled at sometimes for kill stealing my own team mates sometimes...lmao.

As for stone melee... I just started one and man all I can say at level 16 is that its tooo fun! my SS brute does not have hasten but my stoner got it at level 6! lol good thing I wanted hasten and flight cause I also got flury and air superiority both do same damage one is yet another knock down and both do more damage than the other pool attacks like the ones in fighting. Stone will have you hooked with a single swing of the hammer! Early damage attacks that do SUPERIOR DAMAGE!? oh man its droolable I tell you. Its mostly style I'd say but stone is the SMASH of the SMASH attack sets. Slow recharging attacks but man you can make up for that easily with hasten and even some recharge enhancers if you want... I kill fast trust me. not to mention all the comments about how big my hammer is...

the AS and flurry allready fill in my attack chain and i have had other stone brutes freak out when they see I have flurry and especially AS but then they compliment me when I'm juggling a boss all day long and killing it in half the time they do with only SM attacks...of course thats outside of SM but I had to mention it cause I really do get strange looks shortly after followed by compliments. Hell with those two attacks I hardly use the hasten I got anymore lol but it comes in handy whan I need to up the DPS on a target for sure. Stone is not weak I assure you maybe the numbers and things are lower but that does not mean its weak on its own trust me.

Holy lock down Gravity man!

I been playing my grav/FF for just a little while now but have already sensed the things of which you speek concerning total control. I had one guy tell me that crush sucked especially because the target could fire ranged attacks back at me... When I took him out on a hunt and simply "Crushed" a few bosses then force bolted them far away he started shutting up about it! When I used my hold so he could still hit the target and then pumped it with lifts he started smiling...

When I started giving him def buffs he fell in love with my toon! I love this combo! I'm only like level 13 but I dig it very much! I liked being able to use my personal FF to protect myself at level 1 while running through steel canyon just to sell my training enhancements at the hero corps store for maximum price while the others in my team would cringe at going to stell canyon even at level 10!

I'm so glad you made this guide! I had only seen guides on FF or gravity alone or with other secondaries that didn't seem to quite cover all the grav/ff combination goodness that is my controller. Why should I heal when my team isn't taking damage!!!

Thanks again and I'll have the printed version of this on my desk when I play my Grav/FF controler again this week.

I now realize how I was able to catch up on reading this entire thread.... you all got off work and went home to play but I SARTED work at 4:00PM, thats PM central time!!! Midnight is my release but I am "supposed" to be back at 8:00 AM, yes that's AM in the morning!!! Sheesh! What's a super hero to do!? If only I had that new fitness pool power "Sleepless" then I'd be set!

I pray this is only a scouting party in advance of the "real" threat... or do I?

HOLD the line all! Sleet Devil and U S Eagle will stand and deliver at the witching hour!!!