Dysmal

I like my Ice Sword how it is thanks. I'd much rather replace Frozen Aura with Ice Sword Circle, or better, Greater Ice Sword.

You know, they just need to go ahead and lock all threads over a few months old. I'm sure the forum mods really love people making more work for them. Where's an eye-roll smiley when I need one?

Hey, Attila, noticed you're trying to link an image in your sig. We can't do that here. You can put the code in (as you have), but they've disabled the functionality of the image tag for the forums.

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Congrats, you can navigate to the last page of the forum and make a post in an ancient thread. You could just make a new thread explaining to the forum at large that you're a moron and save the mods the trouble of locking this thread.

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I don't need to create a new thread to explain I'm a moron. People have known that since day 1, bloke.

Also, this is a thread of congratulations, not a thread of name calling.

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Sure, in a two your old thread. Do you have a bridge you'd like to sell too?

This is thread bumping for the love of thread bumping. Nothing more.

Congrats, you can navigate to the last page of the forum and make a post in an ancient thread. You could just make a new thread explaining to the forum at large that you're a moron and save the mods the trouble of locking this thread.

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Please, if you disagree with someone - state your opinion and leave it at that. No need to bash people for their thoughts/ideas. Some people want X - others don't. Agree to disagree. Thanks.


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No kidding. The venom in this thread is really disturbing.

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Interesting. You have 10 players, none of which had ranged attacks, none of which bothered to pick up Stun Grenades. And, of course, this shows you had a balanced team. After all, some of them had Spines, some had pink pom-poms.

When did you use Phase Shift? Did you try teleport Foeing them into enemies - perferably ones with a mez or strong damage attack (Tsoo Swift Steels are FUNNNNN)?

No, you and ten stalkers decided to try running into a brick wall, and when it didn't work, you decided to call nerfs.

Very nice.

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Wow, must have been ten of the most incompentent PvP players around if they couldnt take out one Storm. If it really happened, which I doubt. He's probably just making crap up, since he doesnt have anything of real substance to back up his claims.

I think this sums up my opinion on thread necromancy.

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I think I can sum up his point like this

"Waaaa, Regen got nerfed in the past, I'm too lazy to tailor my build, team and tactics to counter something that presents me a challenge in PvP, and therefore I want that challenge nerfed"

I think Kid might be more comfortable playing an FPS with godmode on. That seems like about the level of thought and effort he wants to expend on facing challenges in PvP here.

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It's more like this..

Storm Controller: "Wahhh, Regen's are too strong! Nerf them so they can't get past Hurricane so easily with perma Mog!"
Regen Scrapper: "Learn how to play instead of whining, then you can beat me!"

(nerfs occur for the xth time to regen)

Storm Controller: "Yay, now I can beat you!"
Scrapper: ""Hey Devs, Hurricane is too strong now that you're nerfed melee powers to get passed it! Waahh, nerf Hurricane so it's not Perma!!"
Storm Controller: "Learn how to play instead of whining, then you can beat me!"

Hmm. Deja Vu?

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Pathetic.

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Pretty much. Oh well. Not much use trying to talk to someone like Kid on an issue like this. He's too personally tied to one powerset to have a reasonable perspective. The idea of equating an easily negated ability like Hurricane to something like the old versions of MoG or IH is so absurd I have no idea what kind of things you'd have to do to your head to think that way.

Hurricane just isnt that big a deal. When I PvP on my villains, a decent team knows who to focus fire on and eliminate quickly. Against people who know what their doing, Hurricane is about as threatening as your average kitten.

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I think I can sum up his point like this

"Waaaa, Regen got nerfed in the past, I'm too lazy to tailor my build, team and tactics to counter something that presents me a challenge in PvP, and therefore I want that challenge nerfed"

I think Kid might be more comfortable playing an FPS with godmode on. That seems like about the level of thought and effort he wants to expend on facing challenges in PvP here.

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Dys.. Sigh. No one likes to be nerfed. I've argued a point here with some rational people and others like yourself who will start name calling because you don't want to be nerfed.. Well. It happens. And when it does, you'll whine like I did with Regen and you'll think of every reason in the world you shouldn't have been nerfed that will make complete sense to you, complete nonsense to others, and in the end you'll be where I was and you'll have to deal with it like I did. IH and MoG are no longer perma. And because they're not, you live because of your now overpowered(like IH and MoG were overpowered). When you're nerfed and things aren't overpowered and we can fight equally with our wonderful clickie non perma uber powers, all will be good in the world.

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What rational arguement? I havent seen one from you.
All I see from you is whining about long ago regen nerfs and stubborn refusal to learn how to deal with something that challenges your favourite ATs.

You can either learn to adapt, or you can go play a game that doesnt present you with any challenges.

I think I can sum up his point like this

"Waaaa, Regen got nerfed in the past, I'm too lazy to tailor my build, team and tactics to counter something that presents me a challenge in PvP, and therefore I want that challenge nerfed"

I think Kid might be more comfortable playing an FPS with godmode on. That seems like about the level of thought and effort he wants to expend on facing challenges in PvP here.

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Have you tried Stun Grenading the Stormer, or using the EMP glove? I hate to actually interject logic to your nerffest, but last I checked, no solo stormer can get mez protection, and the only self-heal they can get is Life Drain or Aid Self.

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Yes. They don't seem to work for me. I can't range attack, control, or heal others either. I'm not a blaster, controller or defender.

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I think you need to realize that PvP isnt ever going to be balanced for one on one battles. You have two choices as I see it. Accept the fact that you need team mates to deal with certain obstacles, or avoid PvP. Coming into a forum of an AT you dont seem to have any experience playing and [censored] and moaning about one power isnt going to do you anygood, unless your goal is to have people think of you as a whiner without the ability to adapt to something that actually provides a challenge to melee in PvP.

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Everyone should be able to kill each other equally as much. At least that's what's balance is supposed to be like.

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No, its not, nor is PvP ever going to work that way. Everyone should be a threat to someone, but everyone just cant be a threat to a everyone else. PvP and PvE balance is increasingly being based on needing a team to get a well rounded amount of damage+damage mitigation.

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Seriously, I haven't pvp'd much at all with my storm, but I don't want my pve defenses to be destroyed because someone couldn't think of a sensible solution to a problem I'm not even sure is much of an issue.

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That was my same argument when they nerfed my Regen scrapper. Everyone cried how they couldn't do this or that to me because they had no strategy to take us out. They just wanted to be able to. Turning Hurricane into a clicky with a 2 1/2 minute run time and a long recharge would equal what they'be done to the bread and butter powers of other ATs. Storm people cried about perma MoG. I cry about perma hurricane.

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Given how easily I can solo Invinc level missions on my BS/Regen right now, I tend to think there were probably valid PvE reasons for reductions to Regen. I dont think its the primary doing all the work either.

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Hurricane by itself isn't an "I Win" power by ANY stretch of the imagination. You just have to use your imagination to come up with ways your character can overcome it.

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Please dwell on this more. How would say a */Regen, */DA, or a */SR scrapper be able to overcome it?

I know Blasters can, if they try. What about Stalkers? All but Energy Armor will have a hard to to overcome this problem.

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Team with people who can buff you to overcome Hurricane's effect or take out the stormy for you. Or if you're Spines or Claws use your ranged attacks. You could even *gasp* slot range in them. Joust into the hurricane and mez them, used ranged temp power attacks.

Christ on popsicle stick people. Do I need to carve "PvP is not balanced for one on one encounters and never will be" into people's monitors before this starts to get through?

As someone once said in a thread about Hurricane in the PvP forum, Hurricane isnt overpowered, the brains of those who want it nerfed are underpowered.

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If they nerfed Huricane, it would a direct response to something from PvP, which they've said previously that they won't do.

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Actually, the original quote was something along the lines or "we'll try not to."

Melee and Range are differentiated in terms of damage, and attack type, but the statements above that there is no 'melee range' is accurate.

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Given the nerfing that was given to Regen with IH and MoG along with Phase Shift and Kheldian's Quantum Flight, these were certainly PvP nerfs. I fully expect you to nerf hurricane which is needed. Also fix the toggle droppers. Hurricane and things like that should be made Clickies like IH was with long recharge times(to be fair). I'd leave Stalker's Hide alone though. They are pretty weak without Hide and since you can buy IR goggles in a zone if your side is doing well along with all the leadership powers tossed on, this should be adequate.

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Oh look, someone with nothing but melee ATs whining about Hurricane. Sorry, but you dont get an "I win" button against everyone in the game.

If you cant beat Hurricane, your tactics, team composition and abilty to adapt suck. There are many, many ways to beat Hurricane.

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Soooooo, Side-Switching in I7 maybe?

Release the speculating hounds!

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Something like that would definatly of made the I7 release page from a week or so ago.

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Not necessarily. In the past they've released multiple features updates every few weeks leading up to an issue, with each update listing different features. The I7 update that went up the other week seemed rushed. It seems like perhaps the press release was sent to MMORPG.com a little earlier than it should have been, since it hadnt yet appeared on the CoH/CoV site. I suspect there could be more to I7 than what that initial preview outlined.

Soooooo, Side-Switching in I7 maybe?

Release the speculating hounds!

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I'm amazed the power... debuffs defense.

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:cough:

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* Graphics: Oil Slick's description says that it provides a defense debuff, however, there is no enemy graphic to indicate this. (Concern)

[/ QUOTE ]The Defense Debuff was removed before the power went live. The referrence in the short help is a mistake.

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[/ QUOTE ]You know...I knew I had read that and I was hoping it was a dream. Alas.

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No happy dreams for trick arrow defenders.

It would be unbalanced.

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Well, they can have happy dreams, but they have to wait four months between them.

Man, this thread makes me sad. Somehow I always suspected defenders were getting shafted. I just never thought it was by design that we get shafted from two directions at once. I'll try to formulate something a little more constructive later. But for now, bleh.

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Pos,

Will Elite Boss versions of AVs count towards earning badges like their full-fledged AV versions do?

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Someone tested this already on the Test Server, they count.

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I have a short (very) wav file I want to turn into an avatar...any idea how to do that?

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Hmm. .Wav files are audio files. They dont contain video. At least, not as far as I know.

Castle is already looking at Defender issues in his spare time, and posted to say that its going to take longer than he expected to get through them. My guess is that they're all madly trying to get I7 finished, and Cryptic is probably understaffed. Understaffing would explain a lot of the stuff that occurs.

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I found a pic of him....I think he stole the Ghost Widow costume!!

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Great, now I have to wash my eyes out with bleech.

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...yet another unkept promise.

The Devs haven't said boo about getting Community Representatives for Archetypes other than Stalkers. Oh, and before you mention that _Castle_ picked up the Defender issues--he dumped them a few weeks later.

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Well, its not so much that Castle dumped them as its taking longer than he expected to get through them. If nothing else, you have to give him credit for attempting it on his spare time, and for at least letting us know that things are taking longer.