Doxis

I could not agree more... as you can see by my signature....

Disclamer - I can't spell... and I have not fact to backup these thoughts or opinions.

here is my random thought of what I think the top end EAT or incarnet should be. As stated it's a "highbrid". So you take your lvl 50 character... Do a SF that gets you in contact with a god or whatever godly type artifact that gives you your powers. Minimum lvl to do the strike force / task force is 50. The reward is Your character opens up 10 virtual levels, and you can choose a new power set of your choice. (NOT a power pool a power set)

For example. If you wanted a tanker that had some ranged attacks you could chose a blaster primary as your highbrid power. Since it's "like" statesmen he is a tanker... that has a blaster nova that takes not endurance... However I wouldn't expect the devs to give us unlimited endurance so I would settle for a tanker with a blaster nova that does take endurance.

Or have a blaster (like positron) that has teir 9 scrapper defensive powers... If you had a blaster and wanted some more defence you could pick up some scrapper defensive powers, or tank for that matter.

Woudn't it be cool as a villian to be a Assault Rifle / Traps / Thugs Mastermind EAT? Think of all the cool guns?

if issue 8 wasn't around the corner i'd be cancelling my subscription right now and waiting till CoP returns... rest assured once I8 get's boring to me (and it likely will very quickly as most of the update is probably geared toward CoH not CoV) I'll be canceling my account untill further notice of the CoP

i couldn't agree more, I for one am extreamly disapointed. This is something that should have been done 6 months ago if not sooner.. NOT 6 months from now if not later!!!

it is absolute CRAP, 75% of the reason i wanted to get CoV was because of bases... and base raids... which no one ever does because there's no reason to... ugh the whole thing just makes me sick to my stomach i have been paying for this game for 3 years now...

OK fine it's broken I wasn't mad they took it down... but to be told to have to wait untill issue 9... ISSUE 9??? that's another $80 in fees im paying before I get to try out content other people have already done, and will be getting bonuses for, and i dont even get a chance to see it for another 6 months at best.

I have never been so utterly upset with the developers in my 3 years of paying for this game...

as per
http://www.coh.com/community/cov_ann..._positron.html

When Positron was asked

Q: When can the players expect Cathedral of Pain to come back?

The answer is and I qoat

"If I were to use my crystal ball I would say Issue 9, but there is always the possibility of it getting in before then."

When is CoP comming back! our VG was planning on doing it the wednesday evening it was taken down

I'd like to add to the guide if I might...

Power pools of choice

Hover
3 slot - defence buffs
When stacked with Siphon Speed you can hover around about as fast as someone can walk. If you stack it with two Siphon Speeds, you can hover around about the speed as somone who can sprint. (you can get it stacked 3 times but it's rare and the speed buff is capped at just a tiny bit faster then sprint) This acomplished a defence bonus, as well as puts you out of melee range untill you NEED to zoom in, drop your Transference/Tranfusion - then zip back out of melee range.

Air superiority
With hover / speed boost / stealth combo you can sneek up on air-born enemies, drain their endurance so they are practically defenceless then smack them to the ground with this power. A nice trick.

Stealth
3 slots defence
Once again if you use siphon speed it will negate the -speed and give yet another power to defend yourself.

Grant invisability
3 slot defence buff
You can not only buff your allies dammage but there defence as well. It is a endurance heavy buff, however once you get Transfusion your endurance worries are practically nulified

Leadership
You can 5 slot Tactics and Menuvers with 2 endurance reduction, and 3 slots for their respective buffs
1 or 2 slots in to Assault for endurance reduction
3 or 4 slot Vengance. Once you hit lvl 50 and get a few HO's in this one it's a FINOMINAL buff, especailly for corrupters helping out in the RSF.

Hasten - Just because it's hasten. Stack it with siphon speed you are one of the only (if not the ONLY) power set in the game that can now have perminent hasten.

Overall Siphon Speed is the signature power in this build, 6 slot it with accuracy / recharge - and you will unlock the true power that is Kenetics.

why? not like you can get into a RSF with a dominator

Do the devs play on random servers or do you guys ever team up and play together on the same server?

is it a take your work home with you kind of feeling when you play? how about PuG's ever tell anyone yer a dev? lol I bet people get star struck and ask for you to make the boss at the end of the mission /e chickendance

I bet there's some UBER SECRET spot the devs use just to be cool... like you talk to a fire hidrent or type in a certian command or something... like go into a telephone booth and type /superman or something... and it gives you XP for lvl 50 I swear game developers do this all the time, I know I would if i was a game developer...

140k could go towards a couple of enhancement storage stations... we still need 3 more (one for each origon because the dev's thought it would be to much work to incorperate a "sort" feature for the storage bins LOL)

lol DAMMIT!

I booted a bunch of inactive people from the group LAST NIGHT because they were inactive or were pethetic prestige earners.... I just threw away 140k prestige easy...

You need to create or be in in a "workshop" room... then it's just a tab called arcane / tech empoerment or something...

To the dev's :::: Logically If I'm using PHYSICAL COMPNENTS to "build" my temporary power... then logically i shouls get a PHYSICAL COMPONENT back that I can ACTIVATE at my descretion for my "buff" ....

hence... make it a clicky buff instead of a near useless 10 minute time (5 minutes being for travel time)

also make the buffs more effective and not stackable... to much salvage otherwise.

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The empowerment stations are only good for refining salvage and the "temp powers" are to weak to use... EVEN IF THEY WERE FREE. Even if it cost nothing.. no prestige... not infamy and certianly not slavage...


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I dunno. I think the cost of placing the empowerment stations is about right... if the buffs they granted were free.

Spending the salvage from an entire night's play on what's effectively a ten-minute duration stage-1 inspiration buff, not so much.

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ok I flew off the handle a bit... maybe if they were FREE buffs that lasted 15 minutes then I suppose it might be worth trucking back to the base and gettting the buff between missions... But then we would all complain that 15 minutes isn't long enough and it would be annoying having to zone 4 times for a simple buff lol

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Yes. I am seeing a pattern develope at Cryptic.

Chatting with about 4 other active players and SG members, we were trying to recall the last Issue that actually made the game more fun.

Taking away a lot of the "well it made this more challenging" and the "that was too overpowered" we determined that issue 1 was the last update that made things funner.

Sure, there are more changes and challenges now, but is it more FUN ? We didn't think it was. Thankfully for Cryptic and NC Soft, they have no direct competitor... yet. (even though over 1/2 our SG moved to WoW a year after it's release...)

I suppose we'll just keep taking it and smile.

-FB

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PFT

I got to the 6th page on this post... and couldn't take it any more i have to put in my $0.02 worth...

I agree with everyone else and I just want to stick my name in here in the hopes the devs will take notice...

The empowerment stations are only good for refining salvage and the "temp powers" are to weak to use... EVEN IF THEY WERE FREE. Even if it cost nothing.. no prestige... not infamy and certianly not slavage...

15 minutes is to short a time even for a decent / good buff let along a crappy pethetic one...

I just dont understand why AVs/GMs get uber buffed and we get uber-mini buffes for the salvage we get when taking them down!

I wont reference anything from "real life" because this is a game.... but I will say that usually in pen-paper RPG's when you take down something large and significent you GET something large and significent. Not when you take down 4 significent things... put them together and get a weeny buff that lasts only long enough to get to your next large significent thing and runs out half way through...

It's extreamly underpowered and insulting to us your customers if this is not at least considered as a problem and is shluffed off as "working as intended"